good morning, everyone. happy fourth of july. happy 247th birthday the united states of america. there s a lot of news on this fourth of july. audie cornish is here with me. thank you for having me. thank you for being here. five things to know on this holiday tuesday. five people are dead, two children are injured, including a toddler after police say a man with a bullet proof vest and ar-15 style weapon carried out a mass shooting in the streets of philadelphia. this morning, a suspect is in custody and police are looking for a motive. also new this morning, russia claims ukraine attacked moscow with five drones. the russian defense ministry says it intercepted them, calling it a terrorist attack. kyiv has yet to respond. also, a new challenge over how harvard admits students. this time the university s legacy admissions program faces a civil rights complaint. lawyers complain the program overwhelmingly benefits white applicants days after supreme court gutted affir
of it, what happened in russia over the weekend, let s get started with five things to know for this monday, june 26th. the pig question, after the revolt in russia, what happens now? how strong is russian president vladimir putin s grasp on power and where is the leader of the wagner group who threatened to march his hearse nair army to moscow. he remains under investigation for inciting an armed rebellion. ukraine looking to take advantage of the chaos, gaining ground around bakhmut as it takes out air targets. severe weather across the country, 90 million people on the east coast under a threat of severe storms, 50 million people experiencing extreme heat. and this twister sending debris flying in indiana. the u.s. coast guard is conducting the highest level of investigation possible into that catastrophic loss of the titan submersible as questions mount over past red flags reportedly ignored by oceangate s ceo. what if you could just take a pill and lose 15% of yo
i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good tuesday morning, everyone. we are so glad you re with us. i m so thrilled to have my buddy all the way from atlanta, victor blackwell, good morning. good to be with you. back in the day we used to get to sit next to each other. we were young. i was wrinkle free. i m glad you re here. there s a lot of news to get to. five things to know this tuesday, june 20th. a rescue operation for tourist submersible carrying five people who paid to see wreckage of the titanic. the u.s. coast guard one of multiple teams scouring the atlantic ocean trying to locate the vessel thousands of feet below the surface. donald trump offers up a new defense of why he didn t turn over those classified documents. he said he was too busy. a tropical storm brewing over the atlantic is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by tomorrow. we are tracking where that s headed. the texas senate is expected to set the ground rules in t
extensive. the problem was this time the storm developed very rapidly. head injuries, collapsed lungs, broken legs, major lacerations. our community could use all of the prayers sent to us right now. a judge some feared might slow walk the trump case kick starts it instead. it comes just two days after the arraignment, and she s setting a pretty tight time line. this will be the case of a lifetime. it will be hard to find people who don t have an opinion. a federal grand jury has indicted that air national guardsman. six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information. bringing this case to trial could be embarrassing to the department of defense. the justice department has informed the pga tour it is going to investigate the surprise merger. a doj investigation could stop the merger and say it will violate antitrust laws. take the competitor off the board, exist as a partner. i don t think this will end anytime soon. they re
this is called election interference and it s a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. we will be fact-checking the long list of misleading and sometimes outright false claims the former president made during his speech last night after his arraignment. also the lead manager of trump s first impeachment adam schiff will weigh in on those charges. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. here is where we begin. former president trump quickly turning this historic arrest and arraignment on federal charges into a campaign fundraiser last night just hours after he turned himself in and pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts in miami. he delivered a defiant speech to a crowd of donors and supporters at his golf club in new jersey. it was full of misleading claims, false claims, including trump s doob yaus arguments that presidents are allowed to keep whatever documents they want when they leave office. prosecutors