was legally appointed as special counsel, you heard that right. trump s lawyers argued that the attorney general s ability to appoint smith was comparable to the power of a shadow government, she questioned whether that was a realistic assessment but as we came to expect, she also displayed distress of the prosecutors. also the new york times reports that federal judges in south florida advised cannon to not take this case when it was assigned to her last year. cannon of course, refused. and here we are, we have to former federal prosecutors here to break it all down. legal analyst kristi greenberg, she s a former deputy chief for the southern district of new york and senior writer for political magazine, ankush khardori, welcome back to both. kristi you described the meeting as a meeting that could ve been and email. have you ever been to a meeting and you re sitting there wondering why are we here. this could have easily been resolved with an order, the question is basi
fast track a vote on banning bump stocks following the supreme court s controversial decision to make them legal again. and we ll have new reporting on just what donald trump is looking for in a possible running mate as we re now less than a month away from the republican national convention. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a lot of news to get to this morning. we ll begin here. president biden will take new executive action today that will remove the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people who are married to united states citizens. the program known as parole in place would apply to about a half a million undocumented immigrants. it would allow them to stay in the country while applying for green card status. the current law requires them to return to their home countries to start such a process, which can take years to complete. to qualify new applicants
mar-a-lago today with his most powerful ally in washington as president biden blasts the former president as a convicted criminal in a massive new ad buy. the maneuvers from both sides ahead of their first debate next week. a new phase in israel s operations in gaza, and netanyahu disbanding his war cabinet. what does it all mean for the war against hamas? scorching heat from detroit to boston as wildfires rage in california. the extreme weather that s turning this summer into a slow broil. good morning. thanks for being here. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin this morning with the intensifying race for the white house today donald trump hosts house speaker mike johnson and the head of the campaign committee working to elect house republicans at mar-a-lago to talk strategy, while president biden is seeing green coming off a record fund-raiser, raking in $30 million at a hollywood event with big-time stars in attendance. nbc s vaughn h
christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week. this is cnn breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield if breaking news from the middle east right now, the idf says eight israeli soldiers were killed during what they re calling an incident in rafah it marks one of the deadliest single incidents for israeli forces since october 7. cnn s paula hancocks is live for us in tel aviv. paula, what more can you tell us? well, fread, we understand this happened in the western area of refer. it s an area where there has been fighting over but recent days. now the idf saying eight soldiers have been killed in this particular incidents that they are looking into it, investigating, finding it the cause of what happened, as you say, it is one of the deadliest days from the israeli military side since october 7. now, what we re hearing is a statement as well. from hamas. they say that they carried o
you feel the wind i m going to surveil in paris and this is cnn cnn are welcome, everyone another hour in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington, big bucks and big bucks and big stars that president biden s campaign fundraiser tonight, the los angeles event has already broken a fundraising record for the democratic party, just two weeks before for the first debate between biden and trump, that debate will be right here on cnn. tickets for the hollywood fundraiser event went from $250 to half 1 $1 million so with the contest for small dollar donors to win tickets, which would let them meet president biden, former president obama julia roberts, george clooney, jimmy jimmy kimmel will also moderate a q&a with biden and obama tonight get then white house correspondent arlette saenz joins us now, or let big hall for the campaign even before the event starts, what else are we learning yeah, omar, the biden campaign says it says if this is the is the biggest democratic f