any of this? >> so he was on the view last week. and alyssa farah griffin, one of our commentators and also obviously a host there, asked him about our book specifically. she said to us later, it was about our book, about the fact that sources were saying these things about him behind closed doors and are they wrong? and the president said they were wrong, but he doesn't obviously know what's in the book as of now. his spokesman, who wouldn't go on the record, told axios. and the excerpt that alex and axios published this morning that nobody can point to any result of this alleged deterioration that meant a decision was bad or any impact on the country. to which i just say, stay tuned. we got a lot more coming out, including on the lead today at 5 p.m. eastern. we'll have more from original sin. >> and we'll be watching. jake tapper, thank you so much for getting up early for us this morning. original sin is out m 20th, one week from today. grab it anywhere you buy your favorite books. all right, a new

hour of cnn news starts right now. all right. next hour, testimony is set to resume in the criminal trial of sean combs. jurors have already heard graphic and explosive claims about combs private life. and today we expect to hear more from when a star witness takes the stand that witness his ex-girlfriend, cassie ventura. and right now, president trump in the middle east for the first leg of the first major international trip of his second term, he's meeting with key allies as he faces criticism and bipartisan backlash over his plan to accept a luxury jet from qatar as air force one. and we are live outside court in paris, kim kardashian arriving last hour and testifying as we speak against the man accused of holding her at gunpoint and robbing her of more than $10 million in cash and jewelry.

i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> some of the breaking news we're following this morning. president trump in saudi arabia, his first major overseas trip of his second term, the first stop on his three day swing through the middle east. the president receiving a royal and lavish welcome from the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, there at every stop with him so far, literally rolling out the red slash purple carpet this morning. also there today, a big group of ceos gathering for a saudi hosted investment forum. and among them, you see right there elon musk. but this time, elon musk and the role of ceo of tesla. also on trump's travel itinerary, a stop in qatar. the nation apparently offering to gift donald trump with perhaps the most expensive gift ever bestowed on a president. the

$400 million jet that the president wants his administration to use as air force one. the offer raising all sorts of ethical, legal and security concerns. let's narrow in on the security aspect of this right now. joining me right now is cnn's senior national security analyst, juliette kayyem. great to see you as always, juliette. some republicans are even speaking publicly with misgivings as one way to deal with security concerns over this gift. i mean, senator shelley moore capito told our colleagues on the hill that she'd be checking for bugs on that plane. i mean, you also think there are substantial security concerns here. what are they? >> well, i think the first is just obviously the sort of trojan horse fear with any country that donated something to the united states that had national security implications, would have to get a thorough review and an assessment to make sure it wasn't bugged. there weren't vulnerabilities. so it's going to be nuts to bolts

review of this airplane to make sure that it's that it doesn't have anything that that allies or enemies would want. this is not casting aspersions on a particular country. we would do this with, with, with any country because it is the think of air force one as the oval office in the air. we would not let a foreign contractor build the oval office, especially one that's funded by the government of that foreign country. more importantly, everyone needs to understand this is just a plane. and and donald trump put the words air force one on top of it. and we know this because this plane, as we understand the specifications, doesn't have encrypted comms and missile defense. emp shielding, a medical suite, and most importantly, a mid-air refueling. and why do we do mid-air refueling? because the plane is for continuity of operations and continuity of government. if something bad happens, this is just a plane. it was a gift. and they're just

saying it's air force one, because that's what donald trump does. but air force one is more than just a plane. it is to protect the constitutional order. and the president of the united states, regardless of who it is. >> i mean, that is some of the things that you're that you're bringing up, not things that have been raised so far, which i think are important for people to be considering. now, let's say that this they move forward with this. the defense department takes ownership. that's what the president says it would be given to gifted to the department of defense, one law enforcement source told cnn. kind of when this initial idea came up, as you're talking about, it would be a a security nightmare. the quote from the source was, the u.s. air force would have to tear it apart looking for surveillance equipment and inspect the integrity of the plane. i mean, you look at the size of that thing. how would the air force, secret service, adam, all together, whoever it's going to be, how do you go about making

sure it is actually safe? >> i mean, i've talked to folks from the air force as well as secret service. it is literally nuts to bolts. you are taking off the shelf of the airplane, reassessing the wiring, wiring, potentially replacing it, especially if it involves secure comms. so this so everyone. so in terms of trump's criticisms of delays, i want to get out of the legal issues and fraud and corruption because because the the legal issues are separate. this is just in terms of his claims that boeing is late in delivering air force one, the real air force one. the reason why is because we need it secure, right? it takes a while to do things like mid-air refueling, which to me, the lack of mid-air refueling is like is is like number one security issue. you need a president to be able to stay in the air without without having to land. so this is this is going to be delays anyways, right? this is going to be six months, a year, 18 months. in that case, i'd

rather keep it in the united states. >> great to see you, juliette. thank you very much for your perspective as always, john. >> all right. we are standing by for what could be the most critical testimony in the entire federal sex trafficking trial of sean combs, his ex-girlfriend, cassie ventura, is expected to take the stand. now, she is the woman he attacked in a hotel surveillance video from 2016, prosecutors said combs coerced her and another woman to participate in what he called freak offs. they said he called himself the king and expected to be treated like one. he expected his inner circle to cater to his every desire, including his sexual desire, and his inner circle made sure he got everything he wanted. now, prosecutors plan to show the jury video of these drug fueled, days long sexual performances. lawyers for combs say the videos will show consenting adults. they say the evidence is going to show you a very flawed individual, but it will not show you a racketeer, a sex trafficker or somebody transporting for prostitution.

with us now is trial attorney kelly hyman. counselor, thank you so much for being with us. a big day in this trial. cassie ventura, who many people have seen on this video, sean combs beating her. she will take the stand. what does the prosecution need to get from this testimony? >> the prosecution needs to prove their case. so let's discuss what this case is about. there are charges of racketeering enterprise, and what that means is that they allege that sean "diddy" combs had this enterprise and committed these crimes. arson, kidnaping and use those crimes to help benefit himself. he's also been charged with sex trafficking, using force, coercion and threats. and then lastly charged with prostitution, taking people across state lines. now we have to remember, miss ventura was

his ex-girlfriend and she has a lot of knowledge of what's going on. and she will help establish the fact of what happened and what transpired in regards to these freak offs and what happened at those freak offs and participating in them and being forced to commit these crimes. >> as we have heard, this is not a domestic violence case. it's not even a sexual assault case. so merely proving the fact of some of these acts, whether people approve of them or not, will not be enough. so what phrases should we expect to see? what are the buzz words or sentences that prosecutors will try to establish with miss ventura? >> they will try and establish that she was forced to do this, that she was coerced to do this, that she feared. those are going to be key themes for the prosecution, for the defense

side. the key thing is going to be consent. consent is definitely going to be key that she consented to this, that these acts were her choice. another buzzword you're going to see is choice. it was her decision. and that also that she benefited from this from financially. what were her motives from the defense standpoint? she was motive motivated by money. >> so that's what we are going to see today. what we have already seen on the stand is the security officer who was there at the hotel the night that video was taken of what happened in the hallway, and also testimony from a man who was paid to have sex with cassie ventura. he testified, while sean combs, sean combs watched. so what was your takeaway from the testimony of these two people? first, what did the prosecution get from them? and again, focusing on what they need to prove in this case.

>> usually from the prosecution when you have a witness, your first witness is usually your strongest witness or someone that's going to help with the timeline in this case. but from the prosecution standpoint, they had two witnesses that can help bolster the claims of the fact that there was coercion, that there was abuse. and that's really going to help when miss ventura takes the witness stand to help establish the fact that she is harmed and that she was coerced to do what she did. >> and in terms of the defense, how did they deal with these witnesses? >> they have an opportunity, and they had an opportunity to cross-examine, to poke holes. so in regards to the security officer, they were poking holes at the statements that he gave that he didn't give those prior in his incident report. and trying to show that he didn't say that before. but now all of

a sudden now he takes a witness stand, he's saying that. and then in regards to the second witness that was paid to have sex with miss ventura, they are trying to establish that she enjoyed it, that she was not being coerced to do it, that it was her decision that she had a pleasure of it, to show that this is not force, this is not coercion, this is consent. and that's going to be key to this case. >> and that's what people need to look for today. as cassie ventura is expected to take the stand. counselor kelly hyman, thank you so much for being with us. do appreciate it, sarah. >> all right. ahead, flights in and out of newark airport delayed again today. how much longer will the shortage of air traffic controllers affect flight traffic there? plus, deputies using a drone to help disarm two children who were playing with a loaded gun. the sheriff now sharing new details about the children's family and after spending decades in

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incoming and departing flights. as the faa continues to deal with the nationwide air traffic controller shortage, more delays are expected as we head into the very busy summer travel season. cnn's pete muntean joining us now. this is an issue that you have pointed out for years. and now here we are. things seem to be getting worse. what are you learning about all that's happening there at newark? and that could happen elsewhere at some point. >> the issues are becoming. >> chronic here, sarah. >> the faa says it will likely implement a ground. >> stop for newark flights sometime this morning. once again. >> because the air traffic. control approach facility at. >> the center of this saga. >> is short staffed. >> late last night. the faa confirmed to me. >> as few as. >> three controllers were working the evening shift, which caused the faa to implement an average of a two hour delay for flights bound to newark. they do that for your safety, but let's put it into context here. full staffing at newark approach control during the busiest times of the day is 14 controllers. >> the faa says.

>> that hasn't happened. >> in years. >> because of this nationwide controller shortage. the nationwide shortage is really the catalyst for all of these issues at newark. it's a microcosm. it's why the faa moved the newark approach control facility last year. but that move introduced these telecom problems, which are causing these repeat failures of radar and radio. the trump administration is trying to speed up controller hiring. and i want you to listen now to transportation secretary sean duffy reiterating yesterday that there's no quick staffing fix. >> we don't have. >> the ability. >> to just snap our. >> fingers and move. >> controllers around. >> it takes. >> time to train. >> up specifically. >> on the airspace. >> in which they. >> control. >> which is why the staffing becomes an issue. and you got to see over the horizon on how you make sure you have enough in training to deal with any shortfalls that may come in the out years. >> the faa said yesterday it takes at least a year to get a newark controller trained up. the agency says there are controllers in the pipeline.

also tomorrow, the department of transportation is holding a meeting with airlines. the goal is to get the number of flights in newark to something that's manageable. united airlines ceo scott kirby told me last week he wants the faa to impose a limit re-impose a limit, something known as slot rules. and last night, united sent an email to millions of customers to say once again that flying in and out of newark is safe, as so many people have doubts right now. sarah. >> they have doubts because learning that there were only three controllers that were there for incoming and outgoing flights, that does not seem safe to the general public. pete muntean, thank you for all of your reporting on this. really appreciate it, kate. >> coming up for us, president trump says he is moving ahead with plans to accept a luxury jet. he says qatar wants to gift him. members of congress on both sides of the aisle are raising concerns. is there anything they can do to stop it? and kim kardashian is inside a paris courtroom this morning. she is testifying right now in the trial against a group of people accused of holding her at

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them. a verdict is expected later this month. john. >> all right. >> breaking news this morning. president trump is getting an extravagant royal welcome in saudi arabia. and blurring the lines, critics say between his public office and private business, this is the first stop in his major middle east swing. he will also visit qatar and the uae, three countries that have done business with the trump organization and qatar is now offering to give the trump administration a $400 million luxury jet to possibly use as air force one. as gift goes, it's a pretty lavish one, and it raises all kinds of ethical and security questions. with us now is john bolton, president trump's former national security advisor and a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. ambassador, always great to see you. just very quickly, on the gift of this jet. what's your opinion on the optics of it? >> well, i don't think the. optics are good. when you have people in on in trump's camp like rand paul and laura loomer

both saying they think it's a bad idea, that ought to say something about the potential political blowback that he'll face, even from maga republicans. i think the major objection here is the security objection. we don't know what has happened to that plane. we don't know who's had access to it. and if they really wanted to bring it up to air force one standards it would require significant overhaul for all kinds of reasons. i mean, just start with aerial refueling, which obviously air force one can do. it has special fuel tanks. most normal. 747 don't have an aerial refueling capability, and that doesn't even deal with the question of communications, secure communications. the president needs air defense systems, it needs and all the other things that go for air force one. i think many people don't realize the current air force ones are flying offices. they're not flying palaces. it's it's it's designed to be a working space

for the president and his staff. and that, i don't think, is what this this particular flying palace he's looking at is. so it would be a complete redo of the airplane if he if he wanted it. >> the president meeting right now with saudi officials. and this is the beginning of this trip through the middle east. what do you think is the most important thing for the administration to get from this trip? >> well, what they should be talking about is how to deal with the common problem of iran. both its nuclear weapons program and its support for terrorism. the houthis in yemen. hamas, hezbollah, shia militia groups in iraq, and other threats. it doesn't appear from public reporting that that's going to be the focus. the focus is going to be economic deals between the u.s. and the three arab states. and that's not to say that's not important. but nuclear weapons seems to me to be more important than almost anything. and that's the real crisis we face and have faced for some time with iran. >> i want to ask you about china and the sudden reduction in u.s.

tariffs on china, down to 30% from 145%. what do you think xi jinping takes away from the machinations over the last six weeks? >> well, i think it shows in his case, and i think you can point to several other cases as well, that the chinese said you want to trade war, fine, we're ready for it. and basically, trump backed down. i thought the wall street journal this morning caught it perfectly. it said with respect to the tariffs generally that donald trump had declared war against adam smith and lost. and i think that's that's a pretty fair rendition of it. this is the wrong way to go about dealing with the problem. china is the worst actor in international trade, and it really requires a pretty strong response from the united states. but the way to do that is to go to all of our friends and allies who have suffered the same kind of theft of intellectual property, facing subsidies, subsidized chinese

companies never really opening its internal markets. here's an interesting thought get your allies together and go against china all as one group. don't go to war with your allies at the same time, you're going to war with china on trade. >> take on adam smith, take on the invisible hand. maybe you get slapped in the face, as they might say, very quickly, in istanbul this week. there may be some kind of negotiations over russia's invasion of ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy says he will be there. president trump says he may go by. and vladimir putin, they've said he should go. he hasn't said whether or not he'll go. what is your expectation of what will actually take place in turkey? okay. >> well all the balls are in the air. my guess is there won't be any negotiation. i think it's it's it's too risky for putin to do it because if he went and the talks broke up, the odds are fingers would point at russia for having tanked them. i think he wants to stay in a position of of continuing military progress, in his view, but not get blamed for eliminating the

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numbers here. so as you mentioned, the annual inflation rate unexpectedly ticking down to 2.3%, some context, that is the lowest level in four years since early 2021, just before the inflation crisis started on a monthly basis, 0.2% also better than expected. both of these numbers better than expected, although i would note on a monthly basis inflation did accelerate. we had seen a decline beforehand. now we're seeing a slight increase. but all in all, not bad. and when we look at the trend, we can see that of course inflation is in a much better place than it was four years ago. right? we had 9% inflation in america. that was just a nightmare. so it's come down significantly. but the question is what happens next? right. and the economist that i'm talking to say they do expect that the inflation rate is going to start to heat up because of all of these import taxes. now, it's not happening

yet. not in this report at least. but the expectation is that particularly for goods, for items that we're importing from china for stuff like appliances and electronics, also for other items like cars, the issue is that a lot of the stuff that's on the store shelves, a lot of the stuff that's being sold right now is at a pre tariff rate, right? we've all seen those commercials for cars that are being sold for pre tariff prices. well that's going to change. this is a look at the trend. and again you can see that we're miles away from that inflation crisis. in fact we are ticking lower. the question though kate is whether or not this is the calm before the storm. because economists do expect that these tariffs, if they stay in place, they're going to eventually lift the inflation rate by perhaps a full percentage point. so instead of 2% ish inflation, you could be looking at 3% inflation. >> and they talk about the administration. often when we talk about inflation they always want to talk about core inflation. >> yes yes. and look core inflation is also in a better place than it was. again though i think the question is how long does it stay there.

>> that's exactly right. all right matt, thank you so much for jumping on. there's a read for it right now sarah. >> all right. we are following the breaking news this morning. president trump is in saudi arabia right now on the first major overseas visit of his second term. riyadh is the first stop of his trip across the middle east. the president continues to defend his plan to accept a $400 million luxury jet from qatar to use as the new air force one, a decision that's being questioned by democrats and some republicans. joining me now, democratic congresswoman of colorado diana degette. thank you so much for being here. i want to start with the middle east. it is the news of the day. his first major international visit. he's in saudi now and will head to qatar and uae. here is how the new york times framed his trip. says president trump will tour the gulf this week in search of one thing above all else business deals, planes, nuclear power, artificial intelligence, investments, arms, anything that puts a signature on the bottom of a page. and the

countries seem to be responding, congresswoman, with glee. could this be good for america that he concentrates on making business deals instead of things like peace accords? >> well. >> i. >> mean, i think that that's what donald trump does. >> he tries. >> to make deals. before i signed those documents. >> if i were. >> those countries and those business. >> people, i'd read the fine print, though. but the. bottom line is we have. >> crises in this country. we have. >> a crisis in. >> in, of course. humanitarian crisis in gaza. >> we have war in ukraine. it would seem to me that would be a better. >> place for the president. >> to be placing. >> his efforts to try. >> to solve those conflicts. >> and of course, right here at home, we have. >> this massive. >> budget reconciliation. >> bill going. >> through. >> congress, which is going. >> to give. >> extend the tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and throw millions of people off of medicaid.

>> i do want to ask you about this, because donald trump calls it his big, beautiful bill, and he wants it to be passed. republicans seem to be, you know, puttering on behind him. however, there is a schism in within the republican. group. what is your biggest concern with the legislation republicans are putting forward right now? >> well, so, so so the republicans want to extend these tax cuts for billionaires, and it will cost them about $5 trillion added to the debt and the deficit. so they have told my committee, the energy and commerce committee, to find at least $880 billion to offset in that cut in cuts. and most of that money will come from, cuts to medicaid. medicaid. of course, is the health care program that helps millions of americans be able to get health care. so in order to give tax cuts for the very, very top 1% of people, donald trump is

willing to cut the most recent estimate now of the republicans plan is it would cut about 13.7 million people off of their health care. and so that's what we're going to be looking at today in my committee, the energy and commerce committee. >> one of the things that you're hearing from republicans is that, well, we're asking some people who can to work in order to get these benefits. what do you make of that line of argument? >> well, medicaid. of course, if you're disabled, if you have little kids, if you're in school, that's one thing. but this this narrative that people are sitting around on medicaid and not working is simply not true. over 95% of people who are eligible to work and on medicaid are working. so what this requirement will simply do is it

will add an incredible burden and paperwork to people who are already meeting the requirements. two states, georgia and alabama, tried to do this. not only did it throw eligible people off of medicaid so they couldn't get their health care, but also the the paperwork for the state was so wildly expensive it actually cost more money. >> i wonder if, in your estimation, do democrats have any power to change, revise, have major influence on this bill in congress, knowing that republicans are in power in both the house and the senate? >> well. >> republicans do control both the house and the senate by but by very, very narrow margins. and i think that when the millions of americans who hear this scheme that you're going to throw over 13 million people off of medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich, i think they're going to continue

to rise up. we've seen this already in states like my state of colorado. we've had rallies, we've had people calling congress people's offices. people are mad about this because the vast majority of americans support medicaid. millions of people are getting good health care because they have medicaid. and so so i think we do have a strong suit to play here, and we intend to do that. we intend to take this message out to america to let them know that you should not be diluting anybody. if you're going to try to save, a couple of trillion dollars, if you're going to try to save $880 million, you can't just cut medicaid and not throw anybody off insurance. >> congresswoman diana degette, thank you so much for coming on and talking us through these really important issues of the day. >> all right. she is very ready. she is confident. that is how the attorney for the ex-girlfriend of sean combs

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could transform modern medicine. as part of his reporting, sanjay goes inside a farm raising genetically modified pigs for transplant. >> you know, i got to tell. >> you, i did not know what to expect, but. >> it's. >> powerful just to be here with these pigs. after all, these pigs. >> are among the most. >> genetically modified mammals on the. >> planet. >> these piglets carry a total of 69 edits to their genome. >> all alterations. >> to their dna. >> we're trying to reduce the risk of disease transmission from the porcine donor to human. we're editing in a way that reduces or eliminates hyperacute rejection. and then we add human regulatory transgenes to control rejection. >> now, to do. >> that, scientists. >> take the unedited pig cells and use a gene editing tool called crispr. they add special crispr fluids to the cells,

which splices out certain genes and adds other genes. you can't really see anything with the naked eye, and it takes only seconds. but what is happening in this vial is truly remarkable. let me take a second and explain. first of all, remember this all dna is made up of four chemical bases a, c, g, and t. that's your genetic blueprint. now, this is a pig's dna. and over here, a human's dna. as you can see, they're actually not that different. but for example, take a look at this part of the sequence. it's known as the. one gene that's responsible for a carbohydrate that forms around a

>> shortage crisis is a real crisis. as you mentioned, 100,000 people on the list, 17 people dying every day you know, in large part for simple reasons. >> one is they are roughly the same size as humans, so the organs will roughly be the same size. the organs function very much like human organs, but also pigs. they have many pigs in a litter, so, you know you have a larger supply of organs potentially as well. one thing i'll mention that's a little counterintuitive is you actually want to find animals that are further away evolutionarily than humans, because you're less likely to swap viruses as well. so primates, for example, they're almost too close to humans and might swap viruses that could be problematic. >> that is counterintuitive. i would never have thought of

that. i would have thought, you want the most human like creature you can find. can the pigs donate to anybody? >> yeah, that's sort of the remarkable thing i was trying to. to demonstrate what that genetic editing is all about. but basically, human dna and pig dna is not that different. you make a few of these swaps, as i pointed out, and you can basically make the pig genome essentially a universal donor for humans. they're going to get to the point, john, where i think they could actually be highly specific donors. so there could be a john berman donor out there for which you would then not require any anti-rejection medications. you could get the donated organs if you ever needed one, and you wouldn't need to have the anti-rejection medications on top of that. >> some people might tell you there's already a john berman pig out there. doctor sanjay gupta, thank you for thihis. th really is important stuff. scan the qr code on your screen and head to cnn.com to send us your questions about the future of organ transplants. and sanjay will be back to answer them later this week. and do not forget to tune in to doctor

sanjay gupta reports animal farm. like how it's spelled there? i see what u did there. it airs sunday at 8 p.m. only on cnn. >> you know, i've met that john berman pig, and it does not consent to having its organs used by you. just fyi. all right. on our radar this morning, a sheriff in new mexico is speaking out about a viral video that shows two children. you see them there, ages seven and nine, holding a loaded gun. depues later disard them. the sheriff now says his department has been called to the home not once, but 56 times. >> these kids have faced trauma. they have witnessed and faced domestic violence. they've had firearms pointed at them and now they have learned behavior. we want to make sure that we get a case to give to the district attorney on charging either the mom or the father, so you have to prove, did the parents negligently know that this firearm was not secure? and we also know that the children knew where the ammunition to the firearm was located.

>> how terrifying and terribly sad the state's children's youth and families department declined to comment because of confidentiality laws. today, the menendez brothers returned to court for their long awaited resentencing hearing, and it could open the door to a possible release right now. lyle and erik menendez are serving life without parole for killing their parents in 1989. supporters of the brothers say they've shown remorse and point to claims of childhood abuse, but prosecutors argue the murders were premeditated and that the abuse claims are false. the parole board did a risk assessment and that will be shared with california's governor in june. at least ten people have gotten sick in a listeria outbreak that investigators linked to ready to eat foods. the fda says the products made by the company, fresh and ready foods, were shipped to california, nevada, arizona and washington. they were sold at airports, hospitals, hotels and corner stores. the company is voluntarily recalling several

items. you see them there, check your refrigerators. kate. >> also new this morning. the behind the scenes details of how president biden's closest aides privately discussed putting him into a wheelchair if he had won reelection. this new reporting out today in axios and coming from the new book by cnn's jake tapper and alex thompson of axios.s. the book is called original sin. president biden's decline, its cover up and his disastrous choice to run again. the authors writing this in part, biden's physical deterioration most apparent in his halting walk, had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair. joining me right now is cnn political analyst and axios national politics correspondent. one of the authors behind this big book, alex thompson. it's good to see you, alex. thanks for coming in. tell us more about what you learned around

this. i'll call it an episode and what the discussions were that you learned about inside his team. >> yes, they basically were terrified that biden was going to have to be in a wheelchair before the election. and that's why you saw, especially after he had that bad stumble in the summer of 2023, why you saw them take a lot of steps to make sure that he did not fall again. you saw him with, you know, the tennis shoes you saw the shorter stairs. privately. they wanted more handrails to make sure anytime he was on steps that he could do it. there were shorter walkways and shorter paths in order to get from where? from a to b, behind the scenes. this was something they were incredibly concerned about. and they also determined that he may even need a wheelchair anyway, even if he didn't have a bad fall. and that. but they were determined to make sure that it would only happen in the second term. >> i know that you've seen this, but for our viewers, in response to your reporting, a spokesperson for biden responded

in part, saying, yes, there were physical changes as he got older, but evidence of aging is not evidence of mental incapacity. what did you hear from the people you talked to? >> i'd say a lot of the people behind the scenes disagree with that statement, and you're going to see more reporting in this book today and tomorrow. and then when it comes out next week, that will be more about you know, sort of the mental decline. but in this case, this was about his physical, physical decline and how much the the toll the presidency was taking on him. you know, president biden's doctor would privately quip to people that biden's political aides were trying to kill him while he was trying to keep him alive. >> last week, president biden and jill biden, they were on the view and our colleague alyssa farah griffin, she asked about your book and about some of your reporting. let me let me play let me play this.

>> what is your response to these allegations? or are these sources wrong? >> they are wrong. there's nothing to sustain that. number one. >> well, and, alyssa, you know, one of the things i think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the white house with us, and they didn't see how hard joe worked every single day. >> but, alex, talk about what do you do with that? and also about how many people you and jake spoke with for your reporting to source this book? >> we spoke to over 200 people, almost all of them after the election, and almost all of them democrats as well, because i think members of the party, members of the administration, senior white house officials were sort of reckoning with with how trump won and what the role of joe biden running for reelection was in that. and i have no doubt that, the former president and the former first lady do truly believe what they

said in that clip. the fact is that a lot of people that worked in the white house with them just don't agree and told us so. and that's what this book is based on. and that's what the conclusions of this book are based on. >> yeah. and much more to come. as you're saying, alex, thank you so much. look forward to learning more and reading more about the book. your alex's book, along with jake tapper, is called original sin. it is out may 20th. we'll be learning much more in the coming days for sure. alex. thank you. a new hour of cnn news starts now. >> and breaking this morning, a royal welcome for president trump as he arrives in saudi arabia. as questions swirl about ethics and democrats hurl charges of corruption. we're standing by for what could be the most critical testimony in the federal sex trafficking case against sean combs. his former girlfriend takes the stand. she is in the horrific video we've all seen from a hotel hallway and qu