The raptors capture the nba title in a nail biter of a game six. Devastating injury for golden state in that toronto win. We will have that for you later. Good morning and welcome to early start, im dave briggs. And im christine romans. It is friday. Say it again. Its friday, june 14th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. The straight of hormuz, the u. S. Military releasing video that says it shows an iranian navy crew removing an unexploded mine attached to one of two tanker ships attacked in the gulf of oman. The u. S. Officials believe the iranians were trying to recover evidence of their involvement in the attack. Senior International Correspondent ben wedeman joins us live from abu dhabi with the latest. This is an important global corridor for trade. Any kind of sabotage or shenanigans here have ramifications all around the world. What do we know . Thats right. About 30 of the worlds oil, christine, passes through the straits of hormuz where this incident happened early yesterday morning. Now, in this video that was released by the pentagon what we see is a boat coming up to the kokuka courageous which is this japanese owned tanker that was hit early yesterday morning. What we see is men seeming to remove an object from the side of the ship. Now, the pentagon says that is a limpet mine. The iranians are denying any involvement in this incident and of course the Japanese Company that owns that tanker is saying they believe that the damage caused to it was not from a mine or a torpedo, but rather from some sort of flying object, a shell or a missile. This coming from the company itself which is quoting a crew member of that ship. But whoever did it, whatever is behind this incident, it certainly has raised tensions to levels we have not seen in years. Christine . Ben, so glad that youre there to followup for us. Thank you. To politics now. Republicans have begun to respond to President Trumps comment that he would accept dirt on an opponent from a Foreign Government. A possible violation of u. S. Law. The president telling abc news that he might go to the fbi if he received such an offer and casting doubt on the idea that that would be election interference. Its not an interference. They have information. I think id take it. If i thought there was something wrong i would go maybe to the fbi. On thursday some republicans joined democrats in blasting the president. Many more offered no comment or even deflected with the dubious claim that Hillary Clintons campaign did the same thing. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty with more from capitol hill. Reporter good morning, christine and dave. Lawmakers up here on capitol hill are responding to that admission from President Trump, his willingness to take dirt from foreign adversaries potentially and much of the reaction rather predictably falling down party lines with democrats outraged and blasting President Trump for saying he would not immediately report that to the fbi. Here is speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Yesterday the president gave us once again evidence that he does not know right from wrong. Reporter and republicans as we have seen in the past have been very hesitant to wade into this. Here is republican senator lindsey graham. I think its a mistake. I think its a mistake of law. I dont want to send a signal to encourage this and i hope my democrat colleagues will be equally offended by the fact that this actually did happen in 2016 where a Foreign Agent was paid for by a Political Party to gather opposition research. All those things are wrong. Reporter and that is very similar to what we are hearing from many republicans up here on capitol hill. The ones that would take a question and answer this, they said that they personally would not take op from a foreign adversary but tried to steer from being critical of President Trumps comments himself and tried to quickly pivot to redirect attention to the democrats. Republicans very clearly walking a political tightrope in their response to this. All right. Sunlen, thank you for that. On capitol hill it seemed like there were almost as many different shades of reaction as there are republicans. Take utah senator mitt romney. That would be simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement, to encourage it, to participate with it in any way, shape or form. It would strike at the very heart of our democracy. Contrast that with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell immediately turning attention back on democrats. He gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it, but the fundamental point is they are trying to keep the 2016 election alive. I would ask the democrats in the house this, is there anything youre willing to do other than harass the president for the next two years . Anything at all . One last point from ellen weintraub, she issued a statement, quote, let me make something 100 clear to the American Public and anyone else running for Anyone Running for Public Office. It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept or receive anything of value from a Foreign National in connection with a u. S. Election. Case closed. The Trump Administration coming to the defense of white house counselor Kellyanne Conway, rejecting calls from a federal agency for her to be fired for criticizing political opponents while in her official government capacity. Conways violations center around tv interview in the run up to a special election in alabama in 2018 when she said this about democrat doug jones. Doug jones in alabama, folks, dont be fooled. He will be a vote against tax cuts. Hes weak on crime, weak on borders, hes strong on raising your taxes, hes terrible for Property Owners. So vote roy moore. Which is why hes not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him. So vote roy moore . Im telling you that we want the votes in the senate to get this tax this tax bill through. More now from abby phillip at the white house. Reporter a federal watchdog is recommending that President Trump fire counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, claiming that she repeatedly violated the hatch act, which prohibits Government Employees from using their official offices to do political work. Now, this office, the office of special counsel, which is not related to the Mueller Report office, is saying that Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly used her office to disparage political candidates, to promote other candidates, and even on one occasion she throughouted this in the face of that office and said essentially when does the jail time start . Listen to what she said a couple of weeks ago. The office of special counsel which says that you listen official government business blah blah listen. Special election. Are you talking about something from a year and a half ago . If you are trying to silence me through the hatch act its not going to work. The office of special counsel said you violated let me know when the jail sentence starts. But the white house is pushing back on this ruling, the Deputy Press Secretary steve groves said in a statement that the offices ruling is deeply flawed and violates Kellyanne Conways Constitutional Rights to free speech and due process. The white house is rejecting the notion that she did anything improper in her role as counselor to the president when she made these statements on social media and even on Television Appearances from the white house north lawn. But ultimately none of this might actually matter because the hatch act is one of those provisions that is rarely enforced and, in fact, President Trump himself is responsible for enforcing it. Sources say that the president is very unlikely to fire kelly an as a result of Something Like this, particularly when it comes to these sorts of ethical violations which multiple white house officials at this point have been dinged by this very same office over the last several months. Abby phillip, thank you for that. A new warning to President Trump about the damage a trade war with china could cause. More than 600 Companies Including walmart, costco, target issued a letter that said more tariffs will have a significant negative and long term impact on american businesses, farmers, families and the u. S. Economy. The Trump Administration, though, is devoted to its tariff strategy. Chief economic adviser larry kudlow said people dont have to buy goods from china so they dont have to pay the tariff and he is confident about the future of the strategy. The worlds trading system is broken and President Trump is the guy thats trying to fix it and its not easy, but he believes it will help, you know, americans in the long run. They are on the wrong side of history. We will win this battle. Kudlow says the pain will shift to china not American Consumers as Companies Move out of china and thats something that is slowly beginning to happen. Rh, formerly known as restoration hardware, says it is moving production out of china to avoid paying for tariffs. Nintendo and google are reportedly looking to move production out of china as well. The Toronto Raptors are nba champs for the first time in team history. Theres a new nba champion and its a team from toronto, canada. We the north are now we the champions. Toronto beating the twotime defending champion Golden State Warriors 114110 last night in a terrific game to inn with the series in six games. They are the First Canadian team to win an nba title. 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