Hegseth Seeks Nearly $88 Billion, France’s Social Media Ban, D4VD in Court and more

Hey there, from CNN, I'm Erin Mathieson with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, July 21st. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill this afternoon. He and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kayne, appeared together to ask the Senate Appropriations Committee for more money to fund the war with Iran. How much? The Pentagon is seeking an additional $88 billion in extra spending. This supplemental request serves two purposes. Sustained our military readiness to meet this year's new demands and accelerate critical capabilities to replace and augment those we have used in contingencies. Hegseth's testimony was briefly interrupted by several protests before he told Congress the war with Iran has cost the US $37.5 billion. This includes expenses like meals for troops through the end of the fiscal year. But experts have previously told CNN the bill is probably much higher. Earlier this year analysts estimated the war against Iran is costing American taxpayers more than $890 million a day. That number was based on known military operations and congressional cost estimates. Last month the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated the conflict has cost the Defense Department about $40 billion. Though according to a senior advisor at CSIS, that number does not include day-to-day operational costs. For more updates on the hearing, check out CNN.com An advisor to President Donald Trump suffered a legal setback today. A three-judge federal pills panel in Washington DC has rejected Peter Navarro's bid to overturn his felony conviction of contempt of Congress. That's in connection to the January 6th Capitol Hill attack. CNN's Caitlin Pollan says here, "Caitlin, how do we get here? And what is this mean for Navarro?" Aaron Peter Navarro is still fighting, even whenever there's a federal court saying he's in the wrong. So remember, Navarro, this longtime Trump advisor, he was convicted by a jury a few years ago and that was for blowing off Congress content when they were seeking his records and testimony in investigating the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Now, Navarro served his time and Trump hasn't pardoned him and he's continued to appeal and now we get this decision on Tuesday from the DC Circuit. So this federal court of appeals they're deciding Navarro does not have what it takes to overturn his conviction. He was claiming that Donald Trump wanted to protect him with executive privilege, but the judges they looked at that and they said it's been pretty thin he was making that claim on his own without actual backing from Trump. So his contempt conviction stands and yet Navarro's attorneys are saying that he wants to continue to argue in court his side that he's going to keep fighting on executive privilege and we should expect more appeals. France is now the first country in the European Union to ban social media for children under 15. French lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favor of the bill which was strongly backed by President Emmanuel Macron. It's expected to take effect in September before school starts and the law will require major social media platforms to block kids 15 and under for making accounts using age verification, which critics point out will be hard to ensure. And it's not yet clear how the social media sites will verify users ages. It also bans ads promoting social media to children. So France is following in the footsteps of Australia which bans social media for kids under 16 and the UK, Spain, Greece and Denmark are all considering similar measures. So will the kids be alright? CNN spoke to some impacted students at an international school in Paris to get their thoughts on the ban. So it's a little bit sad not to be able to like share my accomplishments or not to be able to like update, get updates as quickly as possible. With social media people often compare themselves with other people and that's just unhealthy and it's bad for people's mental health. Social media companies say they've already taken steps to protect children from the harms of social media. Coming up, what parents should know about teens using generative AI to make explicit content. Finding a source you can trust for weather forecast should be easy, right? This is CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam, thrilled to introduce the new CNN weather app. Check your daily forecast to plan your day, the weekly forecast to see what's on the way and prepare for any major storm with our robust real time video coverage. The app is stunning and if your weather nerd like me, you'll love our in depth stories and the photo of the day. Download the CNN weather app on iOS today. Today starts the day of the preliminary hearing of David Anthony Verne, the singer David spelled D4VD. That's Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hockman. He's outside of the preliminary hearing for fame singer D4VD. Prosecutors described in detail how they believe the 21 year old musician killed and dismembered a 14 year old girl. David has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder with special circumstances, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, and mutilating human remains in connection with the deaths of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Ten months ago, her severely decomposed remains were found in David's abandoned car. A judge is hearing evidence in the case and will decide whether there's enough to move forward with the trial. The hearing could last several days. New research from a leading media education nonprofit has found that more teens and we're talking 13 to 17 are seeing sexual content they believe to be AI generated. And some of them have even created that content as well. CNN's Avni Trivedi is here. Avni, what does this mean for teens? Hey Aaron, it's impacting teens in a lot of ways. Something interesting that Common Sense Media found in their recent report was that almost 70% of teens were worried about being a victim of AI generated sexual content without their consent. And it's showing through what they're deciding to post on social media and who they're allowing to see it. This type of AI generated content is also disordering their perceptions of sex, consent, and body image, which can impact foundational teen experiences like romantic relationships. That's all for now. Our next episode drops at 7 a.m. Eastern. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, host of the Chasing Life Podcast. We're going to talk to Dr. Jennifer McIntyre. She's a microbiologist and also founder of Food Safety Strategy, which consults with food companies about how to deal with food safety, including cyclospora. Also, perhaps most importantly, we'll tell you what you can realistically do to protect yourself beyond the standard guidance to wash your fruits and veggies. If we look at outbreaks that have happened in the past, we usually hypothesize that there was water that was contaminated with raw sewage, including from somebody or maybe a few people who were carrying cyclospora. Listen to Chasing Life, streaming now wherever you get your podcasts.