severe weather with heat and humidity just fuel along the boundary. and the yellow is severe thunderstorm watches from texas to oklahoma panhandle and handful of severe thunderstorm warnings yet this morning with winds over 60 miles per hour. holding on to the threat throughout the evening and evening and once again into tomorrow morning, the areas highlighted in yell with the wind and hail risk as well as isolated tornadoes that can't be ruled out as far north as fargo and back into the northeast. take a look at the time frame friday morning, here we are 11:00 with them dying down, but ramping back up between i'd say 8:00, 9:00. the threat across the central plains and texas panhandle and rolling in to tomorrow morning. >> okay. thank you. thank you for joining us. i'm rahel solomon. have a wonderful weekend. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning, everyone.

so glad you're with us this friday. there is a lot of news to get to. good morning, victor. >> good morning. >> glad to have you by my side. five things to know for this friday, july 7th. exclusive new cnn reporting on the investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. prosecutors focusing on a chaotic oval office meeting less than a month before the january 6th riots. the topics declaring martial law and seizing voting machines. and a first for the war in ukraine. the u.s. will send cluster munitions, banned by more than 100 countries. this is part of a greater new military package that is set to be announced today. perhaps a clearer sign that twitter is feeling the heat, the company is planning to sue meta as mark zuckerberg reports more than 30 million sign up for the twitter competitor threads on day one. the all important jobs report is out in just a few hours from now. wall street and the fed watching closely before it takes their next steps. britney spears gives her

side, and victor wembanyama gives his in a bizarre story that reportedly ends with the nba star's security slapping the singer. "cnn this morning" starts right now. here is where we begin this morning with the cnn exclusive report. we're learning the special counsel, jack smith's prosecutors, are zeroing in on a chaotic oval office meeting as they near a decision on charges in the alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election. it is a now famous meeting just 19 days before the january 6th insurrection, and that meeting devolved into a screaming match between white house lawyers and a group of outside advisers pushing extreme ideas to try to keep trump in power. prosecutors have asked specifically about those outsiders including michael flynn, attorney sidney powell,

and the former ceo of overstock. >> they floated ideas like having the military seize voting machines, invoking martial law and powell to investigate pre posed voter fraud. rudy giuliani was in the meeting as well. prosecutors asked him when he voluntarily met with him over two days last month. we know trump's white house lawyers pushed back hard on those ideas. >> what they were proposing i thought was nuts. >> i don't think they were providing the president with good advice. and i didn't understand how they had gotten in. >> there were people shouting at each other, shouting insults at each other. >> whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and

disdain of the president. >> i will categorically describe it as you guys are not tough enough or maybe i would put it another way a bunch of [ bleep ]. >> the night ended with trump sending out this twe calling on supporters to gather in d.c. january 6th for a big protest. he told them, be there. will be wild. let's bring in kaitlyn po polen. what are we learning? >> so this meeting had a level of drama that was really stuck out in a period of a lot of drama after the election, and it was because it was the moment where these people who had believed there was fraud in the election so desperately, michael flynn, sidney powell, patrick burn, get into the white house without having others around them who were white house

advisers to donald trump and they're trying to convince trump there's election fraud and he can use his powers of the presidency to do things like seize voting machines and then others come and intervene and it ends with the shouting. and trump ends up tweeting, will be wild. prosecutors have looked at quite a lot as they have prosecuted rioters in the january 6th insurrection. what others were bringing to him and what they were -- why they believed there was election fraud, wanted to convince him to do something about it, that is so important to prosecutors. it's a moment in time that gathers everyone in the room with donald trump pretty well after the election.

we know they asked rudy giuliani. he did an interview, and there are several other people. now they do have a renewed focus on this particular moment after the 2020 election. >> and to get inside what was going on in the meeting gets the things, katelyn, what other things were going on around trump. four days prior in december prosecutors are focusing on, what day and why? >> reporter: that's december 14th, and everything after december 14th, essentially comes after the electoral college voting is done. now it's not the certification by congress. that's when all of the states certified their own election results with their eheck torl college votes and it's when the fake electors for donald trump were submitting that trump won seven battleground states, that

he did not win, having a separate slate of fake electors on top of the rightful electors for joe biden in those states. so december 14th is where all of the paperwork is done. what happens after that is important because it's when prosecutors get to see who is still in disbelief. who does not want these electoral votes to go forward for joe biden to make him the president of the united states. december 14th is a crucial day for prosecutors and then, of course, that meeting happens four days later. >> katelyn polantz, thank you for the reporting. let's bring in political commentator and anchor at spectrum news. what does it suggest to you that not just this meeting but these three people, sidney powell, michael flynn, patrick burn are the focus now? >> this tells me prosecutors are looking at this very broadly.

all the things we learned from the january 6th committee last year are in play for prosecutors. it's not only fake electoral, the speech at the ellipse and the storming of the capitol, all this planning and scheming that went up to this and the lawyers you named are really going to be the fulcrum here because they're the ones who hatched this idea, who sold donald trump on it, and still pushed ahead on it. they're in a really interesting position here. they could find themselves as defendants, witnesses, or neither of the above. >> what about rudy giuliani? it's notable -- we played the sound from the people in the meeting and rudy giuliani explaining the tone or the overarching theme of the meeting. but i don't want to group him in with what those three people were allegedly pushing for.

he is an attorney, former mayor of new york city. you've covered him for years. do you think he could be cooperating here, because he's now sat voluntarily twice with prosecutors. >> it's interesting. i would be very surprised if that was the case. rudy is in a different category, as you suggest. i could see rudy cooperating in the sense of saying, yeah, i did it. yes, it's outside the lines, and, yes, it's bold. and i stand by every word of it. he's never backed down from anything that he's put forward in general in law and in politics and even in this case, even after being suspended from the practice of law in d.c. and new york. no regrets, no backing down. >> all worth it. >> to this day if you asked rudy, he would say this is a plausible case. you may not like it. it may not be successful. i wasn't polite about it.

i used a lot of vulgar language, but that's what my client wanted, and that's what i did, and it's not illegal. that's what we're going to determine. >> i think that's a great explanation of who rudy is and what he's likely to do. i cannot, for the life of me, figure out what doj is doing with rudy giuliani. here is what i mean. if you saw someone as a target, someone who is likely to be indicted, you would not just have them come in for a friendly proffer and he would never bring him in if he was told he was likely to be charged. on the flip side i don't see any prosecutor ever banking a piece of a case on rudy giuliani for exactly the reasons errol says. his credibility is zero. the guy has lied publicly about election fraud and other things for years. i cannot imagine prosecutors saying we're going to call to the stand in the trial of united states versus fill in the blank, our next witness is rudy giuliani. i cannot see that scenario. >> you talk about the breadth,

the scope of this investigation. as it relates to the classified documents, there were two alleged co-conspirators. the president and walt nauta. when you look at the potential illegalities across the january 6th case, are we talking dozens of potential defendants? >> it's sort of mind-boggling. prosecutors, i assure you, are wrestling with this right now, if we're going to charge this case. are we going to charge it as one overarching conspiracy, or are we going to break it down to two or three smaller conspiracies? and how wide do you cast the net? we all know the names and the cast. it's dozens and dozens of people. you can't bring -- you're allowed to but practically not a 50-person indictment. how wide do you want to cast your net? how deep do you want to go on the indictment and how strongly if they're going to charge him on donald trump or other people. >> final thought? >> i would hope that at the end of all of this -- and i understand prosecutors are not in the business of just policy

and hoping to make changes, i hope if nothing else is learned in this entire progress, congress buttons up and tightens up procedures and draw clear lines. it is unclear. if you're politically active in arizona and are just trying to do the right thing and you're getting conflicting advice about something that actually matters a lot, we need to give these people much stricter guidance about what is and is not allowable when the next group of crazy lawyers come forward for a future candidate. >> that's such a good point. >> let's seize election machines. >> don't think it can't happen again so how are we going to protect against it? stay with us. we're told the secret service investigation into how that bag of cocaine wound up in the west wing of the white house. that investigation should wrap up early next week. investigators have been reviewing security camera footage and waiting for the results of dna and fingerprint analysis. priscilla alvarez joins us from the white house. good morning to you.

jeremy diamond's reporting is it is going to end next week but they don't have a lot of the information, right, from the dna test, et cetera. >> reporter: that's right, poppy. this is on track to end whether or not a suspect is identified. so as of yesterday afternoon, secret service was still looking through security footage and visitor logs, and they still had not received the results of the dna test as well as the fingerprint analysis. so all that have is still under way. but what makes this very challenging is where this baggy of cocaine is found is a highly traveled part of the white house. this is on the ground floor of the west wing near the entrance in cubbies visitors go on staff-led tours and staff can use if they have to leave their cell phones behind to go into an area to review classified materials. now these tours happened over the weekend, led by staff. there is at least a time frame they can look at and, of course, this was also a finding that led to a temporary evacuation on

sunday evening. the investigation is under way, as we know. the time line could be flup i had fluid. it is on track to end next week. it may be very difficult to identify who brought this in and then how it got in to begin with, poppy. >> it might end without answers, right? >> reporter: that's right. >> in other news, president biden set to make an announcement about lowering health care costs for americans. what's going to change? >> reporter: so this is part of the biden-omics agenda to help the middle class and working class. here is what the announcement is going to look like. a crackdown on something the trump administration tried to do in expanding short-term health insurance plans. the change here is going to be that the biden administration is going to propose a three-month option with a one-month extension. how is that different? the trump administration in an attempt to chip away at the

affordable care act, made this a one-year plan that people could sign up for, with an even longer extension. and the reason the biden administration is going after this and cracking down on it they say it essential ly gives people or leaves people with big medical bills and it's not clear when they sign up with it what they will get with the benefits. this is to provide more clarity as they shop for health insurance. >> priscilla alvarez at the white house, thank you. russian fighter jets again harassed an american drone. this happened over syria. what the new encounter captured, and how a top air force commander responded. plus, the u.s. is expected to announce new military aid package for ukraine which we're told will include cluster munitions. what more we're learning about the controversial weapon live at the pentagon. eed. you could save $700 dollars just by switching. ooooh, let me put a remiminder on my phone. on the top of the pile! oh. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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calling on russia to stop what it called reckless behavior. a significant development in terms of u.s. aid to ukraine. we expect the biden administration to announce it will send controversial weapons to ukraine as they struggle to make gains. the white house is set to unveil a new military aid package for ukraine as it faces an ammunition shortage. officials say the package includes cluster munitions which scatter tiny bomblets when they drop. live from the pentagon this morning, it's controversial because it's banned by so many countries and it looks like biden has to waive a law to allow it to happen. explain why. people think of it as land minds. is it akin to that? >> reporter: there is a convention signed essentially banning them and the u.s. congress has placed some

statutory restrictions on cluster munitions that have a greater than 1% dud rate. that is where the danger to civilians come in here. if the bomblets land and they fail to explode, they can pose a long-term risk to civilians. the president can overrule that. what we are learning is according to patrick ryder, who spoke to reporters yesterday, the cluster munitions would have a lower than 2.5% dud rate and that is something that is important because it means that fewer of the bomblets as they scatter would fail to explode and pose a risk similar to land mines. they could pose that danger. the administration has been considering providing these munitions for quite some time. the ukrainians have been begging for them as they run low and say

munitions could provide a boost on the battlefield. the administration did not start shifting its tune until very recently when the ukrainian counter offensive did not appear to be making significant gains as the west had wanted. they might be able to help turn things around and could provide key ammunition to ukraine at a time they really need it. >> and will they get there quickly? >> >> reporter: the u.s. has them in their stockpile including some in europe. they could potentially be transferred quickly. >> natasha bertrand, thanks very much. janet yellen is attending a dinner with leading chinese economists in beijing working to calm tensions between the two nations. yellen expressed concerns over the latest export conditions on

raw materials used in the tech industry. cnn's mark stewart joins us live from tokyo. good morning to you. give us more on yell he's message in china. >> reporter: janet yellen has one task, one chore, and that's to cool things down, to lower the temperature in this tenuous relationship. we heard from one observer who pointed out dib plomatic relatis aren't so hot. the business economic relationship could serve as a portal to broader discussions about this united states/american/chinese relationship. secretary yellen met with a number of chinese counterparts on the economic front. she met with an official from the people's bank of china.

she met with a former official who served in a very similar capacity as hers. that meeting was described as informal but substantive. however, she also took time to meet with leaders of the business community, the american business community in china which has invested a lot over the years. this included invites to officials from boeing, from bank of america, from medtronic. a lot of concern about these punitive actions toward corporations, toward the tech sector because of policy disputes. take a listen to part of that conversation from earlier today. >> i've been particularly troubled by punitive action that is have been taken against u.s. firms in recent months and concerned about export controls recently announced by china on two critical minerals used in technologies like

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reunites with a woman he saved and the daughter she was pregnant with. the story and the invitation that brought them back together nearly two decades later. >> reporter: april 2005, the end of a long shift for mary. mary and her colleague were headed down the elevator of this traffic control tower when a noise stopped them cold. >> it was like the repeat of a bad movie where you just drop. >> reporter: the two were trapped and marry began to smell smoke. >> where there's smoke, there's fire. i knew a bad smell and nothing good comes out of that. >> reporter: firefighter sykes answered the call. >> we found out we had people trapped in the elevator.

>> reporter: he learned two lives were in peril. he freed them all. two months later malaeh beasley was born. as the years wendt by they never reconnected. >> an opportunity came and i took it. i need to realize people who made an impact on my life. >> reporter: malaeh's high school graduation, an opportunity to reunite. mary didn't even know the name of the man who helped rescue them. >> i called the number and talked to raymond. >> reporter: did you recognize the vote? >> he knew the whole story and he told me all about it. it was nice to hear his side because i never talked to him after that day. >> we talked 15, 20 minutes. >> reporter: you must have answered hundreds of calls. how did you remember all that? >> i think those type of events

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>> that is a call you remember. a good story. thanks so much. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene knows controversy, right? now a majority of her own colleagues have voted to remove her. what was the final straw that had them saying enough? ron desantis' pregs shaz campaign raking in $20 million but is still lagging behind donald trump. will this help make up the difference?

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greene was voted out just before the fourth of july holiday break andy harris said they decided to remove her for some of the things she's done. her profanity laced altercation with another member boebert was the straw that broke the camel's back. a spokesperson declined to say how she voted at the meeting. greene has broken ranks from her colleagues in the past, embracing extremist conspiracy theories, even upsetting more conservative members of the freedom caucus with her support of speaker mccarthy. greene has not confirmed whether she's in or out at this point. instead, she released a statement saying she will never change and she, quote, serves no group in washington. let's bring back our team. also joining us, scott jennings. he's a cnn political commentator and special former assistant to

former president george w. bush. it was this and not all of the other things apparently. if she is, indeed, out. >> i think the more noteworthy activity she's been engaged in is helping kevin mccarthy, one of his most reliable allies. she helped him become the speaker. helped him on the debt deal. she's become quite important to him when he's wrangling the votes. >> do you think they're using the boebert thing as cover? >> the house freedom caucus wasn't created to help govern and pass bills and help leadership get things done. that's what she's become for mccarthy. you wonder how that played into it. >> interesting. >> what does it mean really? >> it signals the unstable leadership of kevin mccarthy is forcing people to take sides. what she was trying to do, i think, was straddle both worlds, be part of the freedom caucus

and appeal to that political base nationally as well as support the speaker, the source of all of their power. if they lose effective control of the majority, the whole game is over. so she was doing what politicians do. trying to have it both ways. the freedom caucus might be against speculation and trying to invoke rules they put in place that could force him into a corner on really tough votes. >> she has gotten so much more known. how much more powerful? it wasn't that long ago kevin mccarthy was condemning her and look how things have changed. how powerful is she? >> many of the members are more powerful. her power before was more one of attention.

i can say crazy things, get attention, raise tons of money. >> she was profiled on "60 minutes." >> now it is more derived from the inside game. if you're one of her constituents, you could be forgiven for what good does the outrageous activity do me? you could say this might do us some good because she's now someone viewed as an important governing partner. >> your first question on it was this that broke the figurative camel's back. it was strong enough for the conspiracies, for chasing down parkland victims, but republicans ran in 2022 on three things. inflation, the border and crime. this seems like a huge distraction.

this doesn't help at all. >> the speaker has to have every -- he needs allies. >> he needs the gavel. >> he can't afford too many people to not be part of the team. there has been a sense there are more conservative members who want to create confrontation with him, make life more difficult. they're probably mad if one of their own doesn't want to come along for that ride. i mean, it would be important for republicans to remember that they will be far more effective together than splintered. if you're a conservative and wants to see a slim house majority do well, the whole net result, we shouldn't be fighting amongst ourselves. we should be fighting the democrats. >> her position in all of this reflects the difficulty republicans will have in trying to run on, say, the economy.

it's improving. there is a decrease in inflation. they will have to find hot button issues, start talking about critical race theory, go back to abortion and find a way to make it not work against some of their candidates. can she sort of be an important player in all of that? she will be. >> you that both. chief justice john roberts pulling off big wins for conservatives. his highs and lows as the supreme court ends. plus, it's billionaire versus billionaire. we love these fights. twitter threatening to sue meta over the new social media app threads. what musk is alleging zuckerberg did regarding his employees.

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there are condolences coming in for two new jersey firefighters tragically killed battling a fire on a massive cargo ship in the port of newark. they brought years of service to the job but became trapped b the intense heat. the mayor leased this statement. i saw newark's bravest struggling with every ounce of their strength and every measure of their training to rescue and save their brought who became trapped. the, you was getting enough water into and onto the fire. the hoses were too small. six others suffered burns, smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion. as of last night crews were still working to completely extinguish the fire. after the reversal of roe vs. wade john roberts faced intense backlash when he was unable to persuade his conservative colleagues to take

incremental steps against the right to abortion. now the chief justice is ending the supreme court term by delivering landmark victory for the right. we'll look back at what this meant for the roberts court. he was in the majority 95% of the time. walk us through what mattered most. >> good morning to you and victor. so many people were wanting to count john roberts out. never underestimate john roberts. and here are four cases i think our viewers are particularly interested in, at the center of his long-term agenda and the first is an end to race-based university admissions, something that has been important to him since the early 1980s serving in

the ronald reagan administration. he has felt even to take race into account as one factor of many is too much. he prevailed strongly there. in the student loan case, millions of people were wondering if their loans would be forgiven, and he rejected the biden administration's program but did it in a way that undercuts both congressional and executive branch power as in when congress pass as generally worded law and expects a federal agency to carry it out. the chief with the majority, of course, said there has to be really much more specificity in these laws that are going to have economic and political significance. and then two other cases rejecting a fringe theory that would give state legislatures much more authority in

elections, he rejected that with the majority. at the same time, poppy, gave federal judges enhanced authority. another important one he controlled. >> i was struck by what he wrote in the last opinion that came on quote, it's become the serving feature to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary. it's important the public not be misled. it would be harmful to the institution and the country. he's addressing the elephant in the room that is their extraordinarily low approval rating and how partisan people view the court. >> he's criticizing the judges

for criticizing the court. that's not a fair approach. but then he says for you in the public out there, don't take these disagreements as real disparagement. elena kagan wrote back, particularly in the student loan case, look, with this court rolling back so much precedent it's fair to invoke criticism and it's fair, she has written and said in other context, to question its legitimacy. i felt those statements of his were a little bit tone deaf. he's winning, just leave it at that. >> a very vocal justice jackson, ketanji brown jackson, with what she wrote in her dissent in the affirmative action case. what struck you about this term? >> first of all, she was out there from the beginning. a ry active question ding oral arguments writing separate

opinions more so than many other first justices but the comment that you have up there that is so tli with a let them eat cake obliviousness today, the majority pls the rip cord and announces colorblindness for all by legal fiat but deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. poppy, that's her dissenting opinion in the affirmative action case that will change campuses. she did it by data. she had so many data points. she made a very thorough argument and so tough in that dissent, she provoked justice clarence thomas to make a statement from the bench and then really tried to counter her argument very personally in his concurrence, poppy. >> we remember the late justice ginsburg didn't want to be the dissenter in chief. got so much attention. now this from ketanji brown jackson getting attention. appreciate it, joan, thank you.

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good morning, everyone. it's the top of the hour. glad you're with us this friday. there's a lot of news. >> there is a lot of news for a friday.

>> there is. the cnn exclusive now learning special counsel jack smith's prosecutors are zeroing in on a chaotic oval office meeting as they near a decision on a possible criminal charge or charges for the alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election. the meeting happened just 19 days before the january 6th insurrection and that meeting devolved into a screaming match between white house lawyers and a group of outside advisers who are pushing extreme ideas to keep donald trump in power. prosecutors have asked specifically about those outsiders. you see them on your screen. former national security adviser michael flynn, attorney sidney powell, and overstock ceo patrick byrne. >> they floated ideas like having the military seize voting machines in key states, the trump loss, invoking martial law, sidney powell to investigate voter fraud. rudy giuliani was in that meeting and prosecutors recently questioned him about it when he voluntarily sat down for a lengthy two-day interview with investigators. and we know trump's white house

lawyers pushed back hard on those wild ideas. >> what they were proposing i thought was nuts. >> i don't think any of these people are providing the president with good advice, and so i didn't understand how they had gotten in. >> there were people shouting at each other, throwing insults at each other. >> whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. >> i'm going to categorically describe it as you guys are no tough enough or maybe i would put it another way a bunch of [ bleep ]. >> so after the eting ended, trump sent out this tweet. you meer this, called on his supporters to gather in d.c. on january 6th for that big protest. he told them be there. will be wild. now another key date the special counsel is