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Trump Riveted by Hearings; Farm Struck by Russian Rockets; NASA Unveils New Images; LeBron James Backtracks on Comments; Bad Bet on Jeopardy. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired July 13, 2022 - 06:30 ET
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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: New information this morning about how the former president is reacting to the January 6th hearings. Trump is always watching, we are told, riveted according to new CNN reporting. Trump was particularly angry, privately fuming, after hearing his former staffers and White House counsel.
Kristen Holmes joins us now live from Washington, D.C., with this reporting.
Kristen, what have you learned?
KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, John.
Well, we've heard he is always following these hearings. And this is much to the chagrin of those around him who would hope that he would focus on the November midterms, for example. But, behind closed doors, he is always talking about these hearings, asking those around him how they think that they're playing out.
In his speeches, in his rallies, he prattles on about the committee, attacking them. His social media page is a never-ending rant of social conscience. Essentially just attacking these leaders of the committee, but also even talking about more obscure members of the committee and interviews they do on cable news. So clearly here focusing very heavily on this.
One of his biggest gripes, being still that none of these witnesses are being cross-examined and he feel he doesn't have anyone up there defending him.
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And one thing I want to note, particularly after yesterday's hearing, was that he's not the only one who is focused on this. We also heard from a source close to Roger Stone who told us that Stone is watching these hearings very carefully because he believes, quote, the committee is trying to put him in peril.
And, remember, Stone and Trump, at one point, were thick as thieves. He was one of his closest allies. They spoke almost every single day. But we are told by this source that it's just not the same since January 6th. That the two are still in touch, but it's just not as regular communication, John.
BERMAN: All right, Kristen Holmes for us. Thank you so much for sharing your reporting.
Ukrainian forces on the offensive. New satellite images revealing a huge crater after a strike on a Russian ammunition depot. CNN is there live.
Plus --
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KEILAR: That's a little league game interrupted by gunfire. Terrifying moments captured by a mother on Facebook Live.
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KEILAR: This morning, new satellite images show a huge crater, the only thing left after a Ukrainian strike hit a Russian ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka.
CNN's Ivan Watson is live for us in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, with more.
Ivan.
IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Brianna.
I'm at a farm right now in southern Ukraine. And I just want to show you reality of our viewers. This is the farmer's deadly crop, part of it, this summer. Rockets, Russian rockets and nose cones that he's collected from his farm fields in the last couple of weeks. And that's the reality of life in this part of Ukraine. There is incredible, rich farmland here. This is one of the biggest grain exporting countries in the world. We're just in the kind of parking lot amid the tractors and columbines of this farm. But, right now, everywhere in southern Ukraine, you'll see people
harvesting wheat and grain, and they're doing it amid artillery and front-line combat that is very close by. We've been hearing the explosions of artillery coming to the south of here and actually we're driving through farm fields next to burned-out tanks and armored personnel carriers.
And the farmers are still working, even with the threat of Russian artillery that could land here. It's remarkable, the bravery of these people.
Part of the problem, though, is even though there is a crop of wheat out in these fields that needs to be harvested, the Ukrainians can't export it right now. There's a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine's ports. So, the food can't get out. And that's having an immediate impact, being felt around the world, with the inflation of global food prices.
So, the Ukrainian government, the farmers here, the World Food Program, the U.N., they're all asking for corridors so that the wheat that is harvested here can be exported so that you're not going to see starvation and social unrest in some of the poorer countries around the world.
But it's tuff. There are barns here, storage facilities that are full of grain from this farmer's last year's crop that he cannot take to market right now. And this is just one example of the consequences of this terrible war, what the Ukrainian government is accusing Russia of fighting hunger games, driving up food prices and shortages of food around the world.
One final thought. The city of Mykoliev (ph), which is not far from here, hit by at least 28 artillery strikes in the last 24 hours. At least five civilians killed. This is part of day-to-day life in this part of southern Ukraine.
Brianna.
KEILAR: Ivan, thank you for showing us what is happening there.
NASA is unveiling the first breathtaking images taken by the James Webb Telescope. These are real, all right. So, what these new cosmic pictures are revealing about our universe, next.
BERMAN: That looks like something you would have in Valore (ph) like in 1979 hanging on your wall.
KEILAR: I know.
BERMAN: Dr. Anthony Fauci on the new coronavirus variant. How easy is it to get reinfected? He will join us live.
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[06:47:23] KEILAR: NASA releasing some more startling, high resolution color images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists saying that these Webb telescope photos and those in the future will change the way that people see, and more importantly, understand space.
These photos are showing galaxies. They show a dying star, cosmic cliffs, even signs of water, and they're going to be deeply analyzed by scientists.
Joining us now is professor of physics at Columbia University, Brian Green. He's also the founder of the World Science Festival.
Thank you so much for coming on.
BRIAN GREEN, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: My pleasure.
KEILAR: We have so many photos to look at here. But just talk to us broadly about what this means, all of these pictures that we're seeing.
GREEN: Yes, these pictures are showing us that this incredible telescope works. And that's the amazing story here. Twenty-five years in the making, incredibly delicate instrumentation, launched from earth, a million miles out into space, freezing temperatures, near absolute zero, and it's all functioning exactly as the engineers and scientists hoped it would.
BERMAN: And just the potential. I can hear the awe -
GREEN: Yes.
BERMAN: The sense of awe in your voice. And we want to give people a sense of what we can see now, today, versus before this was available.
GREEN: Yes.
BERMAN: And we want to look at the carina nebula (ph), right?
GREEN: Yes.
BERMAN: From the Hubble, which was there before, and the Webb, which we're now getting images from. Same place we're looking at here. Explain how these images are different.
GREEN: Yes, I mean, you can see the level of detail in the Webb version is so sharp, so pristine, so clear. So, the fuzzy quality of the Hubble turns into this sparkling, sharp quality of the Webb. I mean this telescope, by some measures, is 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble, and you can see it in this image. This absolutely beautiful, stunning image.
KEILAR: I want to make wallpaper out of this, but that's just an aside. I feel like that could be --
GREEN: I'm sure that could be arranged.
KEILAR: I feel like you would buy my wallpaper if I made it.
OK, so let's look at this. This is - this is - and correct me if I'm not saying this right, the exoplanet WASP-96b.
GREEN: Yes.
KEILAR: So NASA says they've captured the distinct signature of water. What does that mean exactly?
GREEN: Yes, so what this telescope is able to do is not just take images, but measure the wavelength of light that's coming toward us and using that as a kind of chemical fingerprint for certain molecules out there in the cosmos. And so the water molecule has a particular signature that's measured in this graph, allowing us to confirm that in this planet that's like 1,000 light-years away there's water vapor in the atmosphere.
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BERMAN: And?
GREEN: Now, why does that matter? Well, where there's life, we believe there's water. Is the reverse true? Probably not on this planet. But in the future, this telescope is going to measure the atmospheres of many planets out there in space. Look for bio markers. Signatures that you would expect to be there if there's life on that world.
So, no, there aren't little green people waving at us just yet, but this is the potential of the telescope.
BERMAN: Not yet.
The Southern Ring Nebula. If we can put that up and have us take a look and have you explain what we're seeing there.
GREEN: Yes, so this is the death throws of a star, of a dying star. So as stars, much like our sun, as they die, they shed their outer layers of gas. And you see the gas coming off of this star and creating this cloud-like environment in the vicinity. And, in fact, if you look at the right most image, I don't know if you can go in close on it, but you recognize there are actually two little dots there. There are two stars there. One is the one that's dying, the other hasn't died yet, will probably emit its own gas cloud in the future.
BERMAN: RIP Southern Ring Nebula.
GREEN: Exactly.
BERMAN: Professor, thank you so much for helping us understand this. And I have to say, I am so signing up for this class as soon as I can.
KEILAR: I know. I will say you have job security, though, because I understand I feel like just a spec of this. It's so important to have you here to break it down for us, Brian. Thank you.
GREEN: My pleasure. KEILAR: Tiger Woods is set to compete in the British Open, but not before slamming players who left the tour to play for the new Saudi LIV golf league.
BERMAN: Plus, a bad bet costing a "Jeopardy!" contestant a win. I would say bad might be a giant understatement. Harry Enten, still screaming.
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KEILAR: So, LeBron James has backtracked on a critical comment that he made about the U.S. efforts to bring Brittney Griner home from Russia, and Carolyn Manno has more in this morning's "Bleacher Report."
What's he saying?
CAROLYN MANNO, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good morning.
Well, he's walking back his most recent remarks. You know, athletes have wanted to use their voices collectively to keep the focus on Brittney Griner. The letter she wrote to the president was heartbreaking. But these geopolitical tensions have made things exponentially more difficult and so now he's walking some comments back.
Brittney Griner is due in court tomorrow after pleading guilty to those drug charges. She faces up to ten years in prison. The U.S. State Department maintains that she is being wrongfully detained as part of this continued effort to negotiate her release.
Last week, Griner's WNBA coach said that if it was LeBron being held in Russia, he would be home by now. And in a trailer released yesterday for the upcoming episode of his series, "The Shot One Interrupted," LeBron reacted to the government's handling of Griner's case.
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LEBRON JAMES, PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER: Brittney Griner, she is in Russia. She's been there over 110 days. Now, how can she feel like America has her back? I would be feeling like, why you even want to go back to America?
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MANNO: So, James following up on Twitter last night saying, my comments on "The Shop" regarding Brittney Griner wasn't knocking our beautiful country. I was simply saying how she's probably feeling emotionally, along with so many other emotions, thoughts, et cetera, inside that cage she's been in for over 100 days. Long story short, hashtag, bring her home.
And, elsewhere, Tiger Woods getting some practice holes in before the British Open tees off tomorrow at historic St. Andrews. The 15-time major winner met the media in Scotland yesterday. And while doing so, offered his thoughts on the controversial Saudi-backed LIV series which has shaken up professional golf. Woods can't understand why some players would leave the PGA Tour for it.
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TIGER WOODS, 15-TIME MAJOR CHAMPION: I think that what they've done is, they've turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position. Some of these players may not ever get a chance to play in major championships. And that is a possibility. They'll never get a chance to experience this right here. I walked out on the fairways of Augusta National. I mean, that - that, to me, I just don't - I just - to me, I just don't understand it.
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MANNO: More than 20 LIV players are in the open field. That includes ten former major winners. But a lot of players on the PGA Tour feel the way that Tiger Woods does. It will be interesting to watch it this week.
KEILAR: Yes.
BERMAN: All right, Carolyn, thank you very much.
So, if you live in the New York area and heard a loud scream last night, do not be alarmed, it was Harry Enten watching a contestant on the brink of victory make a mind-boggling wager during "Final Jeopardy."
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MAYIM BIALIK, HOST, "JEOPARDY": The category is "Pairs in Astronomy." Here's the clue. Discovered in 1877, they were named for siblings of the Greek God of love.
Ben Coller, what did you write down?
What are Phobos and Deimos? That is correct. And how much are we going to add to your score? $3,000. That gives you $13,000.
Let's go over to our returning champ, Steve Clarke. Did you come up with Phobos and Deimos? No, what are Sagittarius? How much did you wager? $1. That leaves you with $19,999. Congratulations, you are our "Jeopardy!" champion.
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BERMAN: All right, our senior data reporter, Harry Enten, is here. And to be clear, it was that middle bet. And it wasn't - it was that not making a wager, which was the only way that person could have won. Explain.
HARRY ENTEN, NN SENIOR DATA REPORTER: Yes, the -- look, when you have exactly half as much as the person in first place and say you're in second place, you know that that person in first place is either going to bet zero to guarantee a tie and then a tie breaker, or $1 and try to go for the win. Therefore, if you're at $10,000, you must bet everything, you must bet $10,000 to get the $20,000 to have any chance of winning.
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And, sure enough, this guy in second place actually gets this answer right. I couldn't believe it.
