given myself a small raise, join me at trying.com cnn this morning with kasie hunt next is thursday, june 20 right now, i m cnn this morning. just seven days until president biden and donald trump face off on cnn s debate stage. and exclusive new reporting and how both camps are preparing. plus cleaning up the supreme court, the new post from democrats who question in the ethics of some of the justices. and the first tropical storm of this season could make landfill played fall anytime now. but mexico and texas there s are already feeling the effects i d 5:00 a.m. here in washington. here s a live look at new york. good morning, everyone. i m on a rod you in for kasie hunt. it s great to be with you this morning we re just one week 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
good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. we begin with decision 2024. president biden will return to washington tonight to begin extensive debate prep with this white house chief of staff. he is leaving california with a record-breaking $30 million in campaign cash. at last night s fundraiser, he also took the supporters about the supreme court. the next president is likely to have two new supreme court nominees. two more. two more. he has already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals. the idea that if he is re- elected he is going to appoint two more flying flags upside down is really the supreme court has never been as out of kilter as it is today. i mean, never. this is never been a court this far out of step. the biden 2024 chris murphy defended the president s remarks. i think it s a crisis on the court, in particular with justice alito and justice thomas. what justice thomas is engaged in is just
not just me who has to be concerned about what he intends to do, what he knows that he is capable of doing because the first run whether it will was the insurrection, the unconstitutional, what this is for him, this is a practice run, the second time around. he will make a more sophisticated game plan to achieve what he wants and that is total control. not just me, what do you mean by that? you, too, anyone who is critical. just a few weeks after, trump gave the keynote speech at seatac and proclaimed for the first time, quote, i am your retribution. that has become the guiding mantra of his bid to return to the white house. in june of last year, shortly after he was indicted for the second time, he took to social and vowed that he would, quote, appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the united states, joe biden, the entire biden crime family and all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders and co
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Government had informed state Election Officials that russians tried to target Election Systems in 21 states in the leadup to the 2016 election. Of course, the other thing we know the u. S. Deterrence campaign isnt working based on the reporting of the daily beast that russians trying to infiltrate the emails of staffers of senator claire mccaskill. They were sunsuccessful. Thats why they say there need tos to be a coheercherent strategy can i ask you, though, about the mood in that building behind you there, geoff. In terms of the headlines that involve former trump Attorney Michael Cohen and the Trump Tower Meeting and russia and his allegations that President Trump knew about that meeting in advance. Whats the mood there . Reporter well, a source close to the president described
that is a crime. And it also opens up all sorts of possibilities because, if the president knew that the russians were
the chief justice asking him to come in and discuss the supreme court ethics. justice alito issued his letter explaining things in advance of the chief justice himself, responding. and that was a telling signal. essentially saying, you don t need to talk to the chief justice. that guy has no power here. he cannot make me do anything. i am the one you need to talk to and i say i don t have to recuse. so this is tricky because for those of us seeing upside down sex, i am not familiar with this. i wasn t familiar with the whole thing but when you think about how you fix the supreme court if something needs to be fixed and it is reasonable in a democratic society you learn after 100 years or 50 years or 200 years that things need to be fixed, how we do it. a couple of weeks ago house democrats launched a task force with the intention of serious supreme court reform, mostly surrounding ethics concerns you re talking about. what is achievable? what should the average person watching this t