imprint.com imprint for certain. cnn this morning with kasie hunt next it s friday, june 24. right now on cnn this morning. the judge in donald trump s classified documents case, ready to hear a request? the former president to invalidate the appointment as special counsel, jack smith millions of americans facing life-threatening flooding and suffocating heat with no let up in sight and new concerns that israel s iron dome could be overwhelmed if a full-blown war breaks out against hezbollah 5:00 a.m. here in washington, here s a fly book in new york city. the morning, everyone. i m on a rod, you infer kasie hunt. it s great to be with you this morning later today, donald trump s lawyers will be in a florida courtroom taking aim at the prosecutor who brought criminal charges against the former president over his handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago federal judge, aileen cannon will hear arguments on a request by trump to declare jack smith s appointment as speci
house s last big push before parts of the patriot act are set to expire. we ve been hearing repeatedly from the white house calling this russian roulette with national security. now we re hearing from the president. it s not quite clear whether he s persuaded any senators who feel just as strongly about privacy. a last push in the office with the attorney general, president obama laid out what s at stake for national security. i don t want us to be in a situation in which for a certain period of time, those authorities go away. and suddenly, we re dark. and heaven forbid, we ve got a problem, where we could have prevented a terrorist attack. or apprehended someone who was engaged in dangerous activity. reporter: the president has made clear his displeasure over the senate leaving this down to the wire, going on break all week. to come back late this sunday, just as the nsa is having to start dismantling its servers from collecting americans phone
tech support to help. molly henneberg has more. reporter: the the wall street journal reports this is in response to the disastrous obamacare rollout at a time when president obama is trying to convince americans that the government can run health care and other big projects, and that obamacare can make health care more efficient and cheaper. but not everybody believes that a big tech agency is the way to go. i m not one to think that the way to fix the bureaucratic agency is to hire more bureaucracy. the government is having difficult attracting the best and brightest in the tech sector and therefore could be falling behind on what it can do with the technology. one spokesperson said we don t
that s been the real problem with the obama economy. this bad situation that people are in with incredibly high poverty rates. we ve got to turn that around. the minimum wage increase is popular with americans and abc news poll showing 66% support it. matt, i ask you, how do republicans explain and convince voters that effectively that raising the minimum wage is not a good idea? i think the best thing for my party is to quit always trying to take the side of the wealthy, millionaires. let s talk about this in terms of poverty and people looking for a job. the fact is that if i reference that ball state university study, there were half a million fewer jobs the last time we raised the minimum wage by 40%. higher unemployment does not help the poor, does not help people that are getting their first job. that s the kind of arguments we have to make. there will be a lot of people in my party who will say we re tired of making these arguments.
furthermore, bernie sanders has tough questions for the nsa chief, keith alexander, writing him, quote, is the nsa currently spying on members of congress or other american elected officials? these congressional calls for clarity and privacy are coming just ahead of president obama s announcement of possible reforms to the way the nsa does business. i m going to make a pretty definitive statement about all of this in january where i ll be able to say here are the recommendations that we think make sense. here are ones that we think are promising, but still need to be refined further. but the obama administration is still fighting to keep collecting americans phone records. on friday, a fisa court said they can continue with the bulk data collection and the doj appealed federal judge richard leon s december ruling which found that the nsa s practices likely do violate the constitution. gregg? peter doocy, thanks.