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out from cnn. the first presidential debate, which of course is right here on cnn, the two candidates gearing up to face off in atlanta for the first time in four years, president biden at camp david with a tight circle of advisers, donald trump, trying out a tank leinz with vp hopefuls and he's already slinging insults and some baseless claims against president biden ahead of the primetime showdown, anybody going is anybody going to watch the debate he's gonna be so pumped up. he's going to be pumped up. you know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the white house what happened? >> who who left his somebody left it there all right. >> that's firm biden's debate strategy. he says, it's simple. all he has to do is let trump do the talking what do you think you need to accomplish on that debate stage say what i

think of him saturday thanks. thanks. he said or off the wall? i want to be a dictator on day one. i wanted to move in a direction where it talks about suspending the constitution i won't have to share ready said remind people what he says and what i believe what he believed now, biden is dealing a little wind and his sales this morning, a new poll by fox shows him leading trump by two points among registered voters. >> that lead is still though within the margin of error. now, june 27 will be an historic night. the first time a sitting i'm present with debate. a former president. so joining me now to discuss all of this excess political reporter, steph night staff. good morning. thanks for being here in this early morning. >> so obviously this is prime time for debating at this moment. >> so cnn does have some new reporting which are reading this morning, but just how the two men are entering this phase it says how each man is preparing for the debate is ultimately a microcosm of their differences as candidates in

each will enter the cns studio with different object divergent objectives. it goes on to say that biden has been focused on ways to hold trump accountable, mirroring the mirroring the broader political strategy that has white ethnic campaign have been deploying. it says trump is aiming to sure voters. he can be a steadier and more effective leader than his successor, despite all the issues and windows legal ones throwing a long time, how do you see it by now? >> when think it's really interesting that both campaigns have clearly bet on the fact that when they're together face-to-face, they'll remind american voters why they deserve a second term. these are known no one's, we're going into this, both of them have baggage with them, have things that can point to from their own administration's and they both have one or ability is going toe-to-toe in front of a light, in front of live audiences watching at home, watching how they to aging men, who perform under the spotlight, right and in many ways, how they say what they're going to say on stage is going to matter more than what they say people are waiting to see

whether biden will come off as energize and in control, and whether trump will take a more measured approach than we've seen, for example, the first debate last time around when there was so much shouting that it was hard to really gain anything a perfect segue into the shouting match last time around from 2020 in that debate the question the question justice left. >> would you shut up? >> and who was on your list? joe, this is on you, right? >> gentlemen. i think pax6 court not going to give a look yes. so this time that'd be muting, the mice will be muted when they're not speaking. who does that actually benefit? you know, i've talked to some people say maybe this actually could benefit trump in some ways because troponin look particularly good the last time around when he trying to talk over biden the whole time. >> i mean, that's certainly something we hear from people well, in trump's circles that they think that rule could actually help trump and make

him seem kinda come prevent him from being his own worst enemy and jumping in and kinda bulldozing biden. they are, as cnn reported, there are hoping trump is hoping to come across as more measured at some of the american public can trust. he has a lot at stake here, and of course he, he loves to jump in. we know that he loves to speak off the cuff, but he has a lot of stake lot at stake here, especially given all of his legal troubles leading up to the election. and we can we've seen that his campaign and trump himself have been trying to be much more disciplined this time around just for biden axios is reporting about a democratic strategists in touch with the campaign, saying it's unclear to many of us watching from the outside, what are the president and his core team realize how dire the situation is right now and whether they have a plan to fix it that is scary. >> there. >> they're concerned about him, his hair. >> well, how are you going to deal with this in this situation right now? and just really this skate of his campaign does the biden campaign realize they hear all the democratic bed wedding for

lack of a better word, but oftentimes it discounted saying, we will the people voters will focus on the race when it gets closer to the election who's right? yeah. >> i mean, we certainly have heard from many democrats and people close to biden, people on the campaign who have been discounting some of these warning signs we have seen in the polls for the past several months. of course, this new foxhole does show that biden for the first time in a very long time is a little bit in front of trump when you look at general polling. but it's been a rough few months and there's, there's no way around the fact that biden's campaign is in danger and you just talked people around town and many people are expecting trump to win out in november at this point in time. and the reporting clearly shows that there are people close to biden who are concerned, who want him to take it more seriously, who want the campaign to take it more seriously? but we'll have to see whether we see another shift within the campaign or whether they just kind of stick to their guns. yeah, say let's keep touting the issues that we think matter. >> yeah. i know. >> you mentioned that fox poll. >> it is it's also notable.

there was a shift on independence still in that poll and 44 to 52 biden ahead, but there's still significant margin of hair. he jumped eight points, i should say, for between may and now in that fox news poll, among independent support. but there's the margin of error a lot will change with the debate. steph guide. thank you for waking up in joining me very early this morning and for your insight, really appreciate it. all right. and don't forget, you can watch the first presidential debate next thursday, right here on cnn in streaming on max jake tapper and dana bash, moderate live from atlanta, beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern up next one of the most direct and dire threat to american democracy today democrat's going after conservative supreme court justices plus will lead from fire crews in a form of rain hey but it could create an even bigger mass. and stuck in space. why two nasa astronauts will be stranded in orbit a little while the cnn

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their push for greater oversight and a new letter obtained first by cnn's annie grayer raskin in alexandria, ocasio-cortez are asking chief justice john roberts, to answer questions about what steps if any, he has taken to investigate ethics controversies involving conservative members on the court. justice alito and thomas have come under increased scrutiny in recent months. thomas for failing to disclose gifts and luxury travel. he received from a conservative billionaire and alito for flag flown outside his homes that seemed to indicate simply the for right-wing movements. now, republicans have pushed back on these democratic calls and here's what senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said. when i asked him earlier this month about alito's flags it seems to me they're just a nonstop attacks on the supreme court week after week after week, we need to leave the supreme court alone, protect them hi, i'm in joining me now

to discuss is that cnn or border any greer who wrote the story on this democratic effort this morning. good morning to you and thanks for being here. >> luck. democrats. we'll, of course, they don't live members of the minority. they'll send letters and they'll push for oversight. those are easily dismissed, but obviously this is an issue that is animating the left, right now, republicans of course, are going to ignore it of course, i mean this letter is really democrats putting roberts in the hotseat. they're saying, show us your work. what have you done as the chief justice of the supreme court to look into these ethics concerns and specifically, what is the recusal process look like because we've seen both justices alito and thomas say that they are not going to recuse themselves from two very high-profile cases in front of the supreme court right now that there are concerns about and both having to do with the 2020 presidential election and the january anywhere he six capitol attack those cases. so this letter is asking roberts to answer written questions because roberts has refused to

meet with democrats, senate democrats tried to schedule a meeting with him last month. so this is democrats continuing their push to try and pulled the supreme court accountable as they see this as a really important political issue for them. >> yeah, no question about it. and just on the question about recusal versus not, this is what the supreme court code of conduct for justices says about that question of justice should disqualify qualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge's impartially yeah, it might be reasonably be questioned now. >> it's also up essentially to the justice themselves and they have decided not to do this. >> how do you think people will view? i mean, the immunity case could be could decided today and that is such huge implications obviously, immediately for this election. and the two federal criminal cases that trump is facing, how are people going to view this case coming down? these numbers is going to meet when they eventually role democrats will immediately dismiss whatever alito roberts sign onto right?

>> i think democrats absolutely view this through a political lens and they are accusing the court of no longer being able to be impartial because of the accusations against an ethics concerns around justices alito and thomas. but this is i mean, we're dealing this is a long-standing issue, but we're dealing with separate branches of government here. and there really is not much that congress can do. i mean, that's what we're seeing, is this huge, this huge gap here where congress wants to act. there's not really much they can do. and roberts has made that clear. so democrats are trying to figure out how they can, how they can highlight what they view as these huge violations, especially coming up on november with these two justices sitting on the freedom corps with apparent violations. >> and obviously there's a key polowat but both for biden and for senate democrats running keep control of the senate on this issue. the question then bring it up. i do want to ask you about some of your reporting this week about congressman matt case the florida republican facing this ethics investigation. there is

there was an announcement that was made by the ethics committee this week about what they were looking into regarding allegations of sexual misconduct. they said about potential illicit drug use, has denied all of this. he said this is a witch hunt, that there have been investigations after him diamond. again, the challenge though for him is that yes, the justice department, they investigate some of the stuff they had declined to prosecute them. the ethics committees are much lower bar it's. just simply about whether or not a member of congress acted unbecoming of a member of congress. that is a much different standard and something that any member, particularly gates, has to be a word concerned about. >> it's a totally different ball game here. i mean, we're not looking at criminal charges is not what congress does doj's, as you mentioned, dismiss that, but there are serious ethics concerns that the committee continues to investigate. and this was a really rare statement for the committee to make, which is notoriously very private about its work and really only puts out the final product. so to

give us an update and tell us what they're investigating and what they're no longer pursuing really shows just how seriously they're taking this work and also just how profile it is. i mean, gates's continually attacking the ethics committee and making all sorts of claims about the investigation into him and totally undermining it in this, the ethics midi coming out and saying, we have a real investigation here. we've interviewed over half a dozen witnesses and we are continuing to pursue a number of leads. and this is investigation is not going away so some texts of all, this can you force led the charge to oust kevin mccarthy as speaker? he then blamed mccarthy for initiating this investigation. mccarthy himself has denied it. mccarthy mean tab, it wants to defeat gates in his primary later this summer, and we'll see this becomes an issue for error if there's a report issued before his primary, how does it affect things? very interesting development involving a member of congress who is denied those allegations. but we'll see what voters decide anywhere. thank you for coming in this morning. really appreciate it all right. >> i had tropical storm alberto

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are you saying? >> we've got still a tropical storm spinning there this morning? very close to making landfall this morning, landfall is just when that center point starts to work its way over land. but we have had the rain, the storm surge for an entire de now wins right now, 50 miles per hour, is it continues to move west, we also we'll still have a tornado watch and effect from corpus christi down towards brownsville, texas because there's some of these bands kinda spin on shore. you can get some brief and weak tornadoes to spin as these bands get on land, we've had some heavy rain that's why the flood watches continue. you can see all the flood alerts lining the coast there with some rain total old already, two to four, even upwards of six inches across parts of south texas we've had in rock port, texas more than five inches of rain just from alberto, which is more than the entire month of june average. so again, a month's worth of rain on top of this, we've also had storm surge up to about four feet in

spots and you can see some of that ocean water that has run inland. some of the observed storm surge has been about two to three, even upwards of four feet especially around places like galveston. so you can see the heavy rain starts to push into mexico as we go through or continuous, i should say it to mexico as we go through the day today, notice how far west these showers track there's new mexico will find some of these tropical downpours getting into there as we get into friday now, yesterday, we had a flash flood emergency because the problem is yes, we need rain there. but when you get too much too fast over burn scars, i mean, there's nowhere for that water to go. so this created some problems. yesterday's so we're hoping that they get the relief that they need with the rain. but it's not too heavy all at once because we still have some of these active fires with zero containment, they need the rain. you've got extreme and exceptional drought conditions still in new mexico, manu yeah, let's hope that relief comes fast and furious. elisa rafah. >> thank you for that. >> and it is 25 minutes past

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hardly anyone wanted to talk on record about it, even though it's been a common point of discussion among members, generally there's been a belief that president trump is endorsing a whole bunch of squishes across the country that's one person close to that freedom caucus that right wing group. >> what do you take away from it? it is interesting because trump has taken a different tactic when it comes to endorsements. this cycle he has indeed and from people i've talked to, it seems mostly because, i mean, if you remember last cycle, he was not really always in locke's, but leadership and that cost the senate republicans. that the senate, and that has some house members while they only barely took the majority. and so a lot of them now are trying to get trump on their side because they know it helps them win. but that's angering some freedom caucus members who like that one, them to endorse their conservative quote-unquote candidates. yeah. i mean, jama wires, i'm very conservative guy, but this is all about personal somewhat same petty politics for the former president simply because ron desantis back the other guy, some of its personality driven budget to that plane andrew, i

mean trump has also gotten behind like mike rogers in michigan. he's a senate republican candidate. he was critical of trump at one point. now he's endorsing them. larry hogan this is a much different strategy by the former president and that's why those folks on the right are upset. yeah. steve daines, the chair of the nrsc, has done quite the job of getting donald trump on board with the nrsc is preferred candidates in these primaries because you saw in 20202022, donald trump endorsed people that really had no chance seven, winning a general election and gave up these winnable seats to democrats. and so steve daines has really focused on trying to get trump on board. have him sort of joined at the hip with the nrsc so that he's not doing anything that undermines them. but at the same time, they all know that their fates are connected in this way. and that's what they keep emphasizing and that's what they emphasize the him during their private meeting with him, hero capitol hill last week, it for good. >> so much of the bob good's situation is about personality,

people's lot of folks in the conference, you know, they just don't like him, right. and he also was one of the eight republicans who voted to oust kevin mccarthy. but this conference since that a vote oust him has devolved inches constant in-fighting interim while and members talking to each other in their primaries that used to not be done. now what's been done with some regularity. >> yeah. >> exactly to your point, like bob good and made not only the mistake of making a lot of enemies the house amid the mistake of making an enemy of trump endorse against karam, miller and west virginia. >> he endorsed gets william timmons and south carolina. i mean, what does he expect these members have friends, have allies. does he expect them not to come after him and a lot of these people, i mean, to your point, the republican mainstreet partnership pack. while supporting john maguire. this is a usual fully, completely in line with leaderships pack. this is a group of more establishment republicans and they were supporting it candidate gets good and he's just made a lot of enemies. i think this is kind of his fate just coming to a fault. yeah. and andrew, meanwhile, you have some

reporting about mitch mcconnell, the outgoing senate republican liter, concerned about what may happen in the house. he is concerned about this push to put impose term limits on republican leaders in the senate. there are no term limits on republican leaders are lower down leadership ranks and his concern is about decentralizing this in is essentially giving the rank and file more power, like we're being in the house. >> yeah, it's all argument boils down to, hey, look at what's happening in the house right now. do you want that to happen in the senate? and so you've got these potential successors to mitch mcconnell, who are all in their own different ways and to varying degrees sort of severity proposing these changes to how the conference operates that would as you say, decentralized power from the leader and seed a lot of an authority to the rank and file. obviously that's what happened in the house of representatives. it's what kevin mccarthy had to do in order to win the speakership. and it's what led to a lot of the chaos. we've seeing with house republicans. and that is part of mcconnell's pitch as he is trying to shape the senate republican conference, even as

he's on his way out as the leader. >> yeah, so this is what john cornyn, who is looking to succeed mitch mcconnell, one of the three declared candidates in this race. he is pushing impose term limits on republican there's this one he said probably have term limits for every leadership role other than that, other than the majority or minority leader? and i think it's a legitimate question we held. >> i have concerns or we're not fully utilizing some of the great talent we have we have a lot of people very deep experience in a whole variety of areas i'd raise. >> i know you're a house guy but you know, you basically live in the capital also like the rest of us. so who's going to win this race? okay. cornyn john thune rick scott, right now. it's a secret ballot election which makes it impossible to handicap make you do it. so who's going to win? >> so i guess just jontay and clearly is obviously front runner right now. i mean, being

second and leadership right now and kind of mcconnell's look to be hit chosen successor right now and i mean he has some public support, whereas some of these other members don't have as much public support if any, if i recall correctly? and so i think dune is definitely the front runner and i mean, like you said, cigarette bowel. so trump could weigh in, but these people could just go vo whoever and they'd be like, oh, well, yeah, i voted for trump said, and even if even if trump says one day, senators may not listen well, also on the flip side of that, if trump wins the election on november 5th, he's going to have a lot more sway on the outcome, i think because senators will be more inclined to listen to him in terms of who he prefers to work with. >> a senate republican leader, especially on top of that, if republicans are in the majority, right? so yes, it is a secret you are about election and they can just easily defy trump without consequence. but in that sense trump will have a say in this process and he could really anoint a successor to mitch mcconnell, someone who we might not even be thinking about right now. >> so true and it was also interesting last week at the trump came to town, who is

standing behind him in that press conference, john thune yeah. who didn't know is add the best relationship would troubling suddenly he wants to be seen as well exactly, exactly. >> i'm more than happy to see all right, guys. thank you for joining joining me today. we'll see you in the capital a later today. >> all right. a bare handed battle with swords and see like something out of a pirate movie. but philippines and china blaming each other after a violent clash in the hotly contested south china sea. this week, cnn's ivan watson is live in hong kong. so i have a new witness path skirmishes firsthand, but this incident appears more aggressive. what do we know yeah, a minute. >> this is a definite escalation. you've got the head of the filipino armed forces saying he's claiming that philippine marines and sailors were fighting with their bare hands against chinese coast guard, who he says were behaving like pirates, attacking with axes and knives. and then the filipino armed forces put out this video where you can see small boats, a small filipino

boat surrounded by chinese boats. and you do see kind of some of these clubs and things being swung chinese officer waving an ax taking a bag from onboard the philippine ship at one point the chinese government is denying this. it's basically accusing, it's much smaller neighbor the philippines of starting all of this. take a listen trying to urge as the philippines to immediately stop it's infringing and provocative actions. >> china will continue to resolutely safeguard it sovereignty and rights in accordance with the law so let's take a look at where this is all happening. >> it's in the south china sea, china claims all of it almost for itself, even though there are a lot of other countries like the philippines that border this body of water and the areas where they are in confrontation patient are much closer to the philippines than

they are to mainland china. these confrontations have been escalating for months now, i've been on board a philippine coast guard vessel that was swarmed by much larger chinese coast guard ships. i've seen how they bully and harass the philippine vessels. and it a major issue for the philippine president who just a few weeks ago warned that if a filipino is killed, this would be crossing a red line. take a listen to what he said. >> if a filipino citizen is killed by a willful up, that is, i think very, very close to what we define as an act of war. and therefore, we will respond accordingly. >> there are big implications here. manu, the us is a mutual defense treaty ally of the philippines. if god forbid these two countries go to war the us is a obliged to come to manila's defense hi, hi, hi,

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round trip to the international space station and back starliner docked with the iss on june 6, but the vehicle experienced issues on the way raising questions about how the rest of the mission will play out. spaceflight veterans suni williams and butch wilmore works were initially expected to stay in orbit for about a week now, nasa says overturned note on there, then next wednesday, two weeks longer than initially anticipated, joining me now to discuss, keep counting, editor of gnats, nasa watchdog com that is great to see you. thanks for being here this morning explained to viewers what happened here. >> well to rewind back why we have a commercial spacecraft, we lost the shuttle. we had to rely on the russians not a good idea. let's go commercial. two companies bids spacex did its thing boeing took longer spend an extra billion dollars have had problems with their spacecraft first mission, a mess. second one better, third one. okay. but the thrusters, the things that steer the spacecraft working right? so

they got on the work white, they dock with the station now trying to figure out are we can we come back safely? that's sort of where we are right now. that's why they keep saying another week, another week yeah. and this is just so people can hear what nasa itself is saying about this issue. >> we wouldn't say starliner is safe to bring a crew home in an emergency if we didn't feel confident in the vehicles capability, we're taking a little bit of extra time to work through what we've seen and make sure we have all the plans in place. to bring the crew home in an a nominal situation for the admission. so we're just taking a little more extra time to review all the data. and also learn as much as we can while we have this service module one orbit. >> i mean, are they, are they putting a positive spin on this or is that the reality of the situation i used to work there. okay we want a little more time. yeah, the data, everything's nominal, don't worry, everything's okay. they're being prudent and this spacecraft was designed to stay

on the space station for like 68 keep months. so it's not a problem in that sense. but i think they just want to be certain that these little thrusters are going to work reliably so that the spacecraft can come in and land the way it's supposed to but you can sense a little bit of nervousness on the part interesting and listen to what the astronauts themselves, those one of them had suggested about some of the issues i had done i always find stuff and we are going to continue continually find stuff. >> everything's not going to be absolutely perfect as we fly the spacecraft, we feel very safe and comfortable with how this spacecraft flies. and we have backup procedures in case we need those everything's not going to be absolutely perfect. this is before they took off, is that generally i mean, for me as a layman, i'm just shouldn't be shouldn't be perfect. so there's not an issue in spades. >> i know sunny, i've done over 20 years, so she's these folks are kind of adept at dealing with the stops and they're super courageous and they're dealing with this. but if it's

not perfect, it's perfect. >> well again, i this is a small issue that the helium leaks. >> helium's and poisonous used to helium to pressurize the other rockets. it's not something that'll endanger the crew per say it's just can you steer this thing? can you get it to go? from point a to b to earth and i think they just want to be w. and triply certain that this is going to happen because it's like iga tire on your car is wobbling and you've got to drive across town like, can i make it? that's sort of the decision. what was it? what was the purpose of this mission to begin with? what are they trying to achieve? >> it was a test for the mission was to peel get in. they go into space that dr. the station, nothing breaks. they do their thing, they come home. it's a test flight is only two people on board. you can have five or six or seven people on this thing during a regular operational mission? this is part ten. any issues about going back to the moon this node spacecraft has nothing to do with going back to the moon. that's still, that's a different spacecraft that's, that's totally that's a whole different interesting mix of

can we do it in time sort of things. i'd say, right? well, we'll see if hopefully they come back safely and not delayed too much longer and we'll see you. maybe there they're just being cautious and prudent. let's hope that that is absolutely the case. all right. keep counting. thank you so much for joining me this morning. pleasure sheet darken all right. >> in sports, wnba star caitlin clark helps lead the indiana fever to the third winner row four straight at home. >> carolyn maddow has more in this morning's bleacher report good morning. >> monday, while the fever are giving the hometown fan something and share about finally this, the first time that the team has one for home games in a row since august of 2015. and amid all this criticism and an incredible amount of pressure, caitlin clark continues to prove the naysayers it's wrong. the 22-year-old rookie putting on a show last night, recording a double-double with 18 points to go with 12 rebounds check out this sequence in the second quarter, she scored five points and 14 second span when she hit a deep three, then she grabbed a seal and finish it off with a layup. just incredible indiana

role and onto an 88, 81 when and after a one and eight start, clark and company have now won five of their last seven games. james a two you can stack these wins, i guess everybody competence for young group. >> so i think we're starting to see are our potential and what we're able to do. and it's been fine, it's monday's men's team when's it hasn't been any individual that's been doing it all for us. and when we have that balance, i think it's really hard for the other teams to guard us yankees, a gerrit cole making a season debut for new york last night, and no one was happier than his young son k1, to see him back on mount else sui, the reigning cell young award winner, when four strong innings in his long awaited return from an elbow injury through five strikeouts, gave up to earned runs in new york, 76 x trainings lost to the orioles and afterwards already told reporters he was excited to be back in the rotation nice yeah it was just kinda special game for me a little bit she spent a long few

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