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00:00Republican revenge tour. Next stop, Ruby Red, Kentucky. The president targeting yet another
00:04critic from his own party. And in a highly unusual move, the Secretary of Defense is hitting the
00:10campaign trail. And TikTok. President Trump says time is of the essence if Iran wants to reach a
00:16deal to end the war. But are the repeated threats losing their effect? Bluegrass battle. Any moment
00:23we expect to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the campaign trail in Kentucky as President Trump
00:28is looking to unseat another Republican rival. Hegseth is there to campaign against Congressman
00:34Thomas Massey, who is locked in a tight primary fight with Trump-backed challenger Ed Gowrain.
00:40Massey has been a longtime thorn in President Trump's side. He's bucked him on a whole host
00:45of issues, including the release of the Epstein files and the Iran war. And he's one of several
00:50Republican incumbents who Trump is targeting this election cycle. On Saturday, Louisiana Senator
00:56Bill Cassidy lost his Republican primary. And that came roughly five years after Cassidy voted to
01:03convict Trump in his impeachment trial over the January 6th Capitol riot. Let's go to CNN's Jeff
01:08Zeleny, who is in Kentucky. Jeff, where does Massey's race stand right now?
01:16Well, Brianna, the month of May, as you said, features many competitive... We're following some
01:20significant developments in the upcoming state murder trial of Luigi Mangione, and that includes
01:26a potential setback for prosecutors. A judge just ruled on what evidence can and cannot be presented
01:33in the case. And the items at the center of the ruling were discovered, of course, in Mangione's
01:37backpack during his arrest for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. CNN's Kara
01:43Scannell has been following this case from the start. Such important evidence when it comes to this case
01:48and what the prosecution needs to do here. What stays and what goes, Kara?
01:55After Mangione had been in... Sorry, there was something happening here. The search was done
02:03pursuant to the Altoona Police Department's inventory, and they're allowed to go through items after...
02:10...the prosecutors can't use the cell phone's metadata or the search history that he may have on his
02:18computer. So the judge ruling didn't explicitly get it.
02:23Kara Scannell, live from New York for us. Thank you. And still ahead, a mid-air collision caught on
02:29camera. It is really amazing to see. And investigators are looking into what went wrong after two Navy
02:35fighter jets crashed in. Tomorrow marks 80 days since the U.S. and Israel launched the war with Iran.
02:41But today, how it ends is anything but clear. In what appears to be a first, a trial is underway
02:46for
02:47a former Virginia elementary school official who is facing criminal charges over a school shooting.
02:52Ebony Parker is accused of ignoring repeated warnings about a first grader possibly having a gun.
02:58The six-year-old boy ultimately shot his teacher in the chest and hand. Thankfully, she survived.
03:04Parker has pleaded not guilty to felony child abuse charges. CNN correspondent Brian Todd is with us now.
03:10Brian, you've been monitoring this. This is such an interesting case because, and I know hindsight's
03:162020, but there were many possible times where the school official maybe could have heeded a warning.
03:25And that's really what's at issue here. What have you heard so far in this?
03:28Brianna, that is at the crux of this case. This is going to be a compelling...
03:31Between the testimony of Susan White, this former teacher who, again, this incident according to
03:36prosecutors, she was strangled by this boy months and months before this shooting. This boy had a
03:41history of just horrible behavior. Between that testimony of Susan White and the testimony of
03:45Abby Zwerner, this is going to be a very dramatic trial. It's going to be unfolding throughout the
03:49course of the week.
03:50Yeah, and we've seen Abby Zwerner testify. It was incredibly moving in the civil case, so this is
03:55certainly one to watch. Brian, thank you so much for that. Still to come, some new details in the
04:00Jeffrey Epstein death investigation. House investigators interviewed one of the last
04:05people to see the late pedophile alive. More about President Trump's recent summit
04:11with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and today the White House is saying trade deals worth billions
04:16of dollars for American farmers were made in that trip, but China so far has not directly confirmed
04:21any agreement. CNN's David Gold. David, take us into the truth here. Are there agreements? What's going on?
04:31Well, they can't even agree on what they agree on, China. So the big question now is who has agreed
04:39to what, when, and how? As much as this meeting was important and as much as these are encouraging
04:46words, it's not necessarily the case that they'll actually make good on these promises.
04:52Okay. Well, that... Got it? No, I don't, David. There's not a whole lot of clarity there, but I'm sure
04:59that we'll get there
05:01eventually. David Goldman. Totally. Totally. No doubt. No doubt. Thank you, Boris.
05:07An asteroid about the size of a bus or two buses or a blue whale. Truthfully, we don't know the
05:14exact
05:15size and our team really wanted you to have options for your imagination. It is set to fly by the
05:21Earth
05:21later today. Astronomers have observed this object, which is called 2026 JH2, hurtling toward Earth.
05:29And according to the European... So let's talk to Adam Frank, professor of astrophysics at the
05:34University of Rochester and also the author of the Everyman's Universe newsletter. All right,
05:39let's talk about this very large space rock allegedly posing no danger, Adam. So we're told,
05:46how can we be so sure? Well, first of all, yeah, everybody should...
05:51Say that this thing, 2026 JH2, it needs a better name, seriously. We need a marketing team for this
05:58thing. It does. Bob's Asteroid. Yeah, something better, something better. All right, let's say it
06:02did hit Earth. How much damage are we talking about here? And really, at that point, would it even make
06:08a difference if it was one versus two school buses or one or two blue whales or whatnot?
06:15Yeah, well, at this size, probably what would happen is, you know, as it, you know,
06:19screams into the atmosphere at Mach 50, it would heat up so much that it would explode in the
06:24atmosphere. And this actually happened a few years ago, it was going to hit. And that's why NASA,
06:29we've been doing all of this work to find all of these dangerous asteroids so that maybe, you know,
06:35if we saw it early enough, we could deflect it so that they wouldn't hit us. And like you said,
06:41this thing is pretty far away, right, about the distance of the moon away. And we think of that
06:48as being pretty far. But I'm reminded just how big our solar system is, right, which is trillions
06:54and trillions of miles. So I guess in the scheme of things, relatively speaking, this is kind of
07:02close. Why do scientists think of this as kind of close, just because of the scale of the solar?
07:09My kids carry the one because then the asteroid could hit Earth and you might have messed it up.
07:15OK, so this is the thing I find alarming. I'm going to be honest, Adam. You say the scientists,
07:22they're keeping an eye on these big asteroids, especially the huge ones, the city killers.
07:29They didn't know about this one until just several days ago. And I just find that so strange. What's
07:35happening here? Yeah, well, no, you were right. That's essential. Adam Frank.
07:43We're working on it. We're working on it. All right, Adam Frank, thanks so much.
07:50A new hour of CNN News Central starts right now.
07:53Today, President Trump is ramping up his efforts to oust a Republican foe, Kentucky Congressman Thomas
08:00Massey. Defense Secretary Pete Egseth is stumping for Massey's primary challenger, former Navy SEAL
08:06Ed Galrain. Take a listen.
08:09Now to the Hill where Manu Raju is. Manu on Saturday, we saw Louisiana Senator Bill Cass lose his
08:17primary after he was targeted by President Trump. I wonder what lawmakers are saying up there.
08:23Are they surprised that he didn't even make it to the runoff?
08:26Well, some of them really thought that he would make the runoff, but we were seeing as these small
08:30to this district into this race on both sides, but a large part by Trump allies themselves. This
08:36could be the most expensive House primary ever in history, which shows you the length that the
08:42president is willing to go to try to knock off one of his critics here, someone who has voted with
08:47Donald Trump a majority of the time, but has broken with them on some key issues, namely leading the
08:51charge to force into law a bill calling for the release of the Epstein files over the president's
08:57objections. The question now is, is that effort and will that vote ultimately cost Thomas Massey
09:02his career here in the House? We'll be watching. Manu, thank you so much. Boris?
09:08The computers will not be allowed to use some key pieces of evidence in their murder case against
09:13Luigi Mangione, a judge blocking a number of items that were found in Mangione's backpack from being
09:19presented at his trial. The defense had argued local police illegally searched his belongings
09:24when he was arrested for the fatal shooting of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson. CNN's
09:30Kara Scannell has been in court tracking all of this. Kara, this was actually a mixed ruling,
09:35but the judge did agree with the defense on at least part of this.
09:43But not necessarily everything that they wanted because they're not going to be allowed to use
09:49some of the evidence that the judge said could not be used in the case. Brianna.
09:53All right, Kara Scannell, thank you for the latest there. Coming up in early