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get us into even more trouble. the washington post reporting, quote, as daily covid-19 deaths climb to levels not seen since early in the pandemic, nine states have hit one more grim marker. more than one in every 1,000 people dead of coronavirus-related causes. on friday south dakota became the latest state to reach that unwanted marker, including new york, new jersey, and neighboring north dakota which currently has the highest covid mortality rate in the world. it s early morning here outside the badlands region of south dakota. we re traveling to key locations across the country, areas that have been hard hit by the coronavirus, even before the arrival of covid-19 native americans had the country s lowest life expectancy. now south dakota is reporting some of the highest deaths per capita. residents are fighting for their very lives. with a positivity rate of 24%, south dakota and neighboring north dakota have the highest incidence of covid-19 cases nationwide ove ....
contracts down on ac activists. rachel: agent people were detained in hong kong, acured of disrupting order in a public space. his year, a carnival has been held where those vigils used to take place. and that s the new hong kong for you. in 2020, they were protesting the ccp and there were, i mean, gazillions of american flags as our protesters in the summer of 2020 were burning flags, american flags in hong kong they were flying american flags and calling for freedom of course, that didn t come to them. now you see these fake pro beijing protests instead of the tradition of honoring those brave people who tried to fight against communism in tiananmen square. every inch of space you give over becomes a place where freedom does not exist. president trump said the provocations are because we look weak from what happened in afghanistan to the minor incursion in ukraine. rachel: to the falling on the stage. to the falling on the stage of beijing, may be unnoterly looki ....
ahead on cnn newsroom passing this budget agreement was critical. the stakes could not have been higher. as president biden touts bipartisanship, we ll look at whether the debt deal could be a boost to democrats in 2024. many republicans running for the white house will be in iowa this weekend for one of those uniquely american campaign events. one notable name isn t expected to show. plus, we ll bring you the details of this horrific train crash in india as the staggering death toll keeps rising. so u.s. president joe biden is expected to sign the debt limit bill today marking the end of a high-stakes political drama that has hung over washington for weeks now. just 48 hours ago, there were doubts, in fact, that the highly contentious bill would even survive in congress. but it did. last night the president spoke from the oval office for the first time ever to explain what it took to make this happen. listen. i want to commend speaker mccarthy. you know, ....
good morning to you. it is saturday, june 3rd. i m victor blackwell. and i m rahel solomon. you are in the cnn newsroom. first, he s heard on a recording discussing a classified document in his possession, but attorneys for former president trump say they have not found the document in question. as cnn first reported, trump a acknowledged on the recording that he held onto a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. the justice department issued a subpoena, but trump s lawyers have not located the document. so what does this mean for the justice department investigation? cnn politics reporter joins us now, live from washington. so update us on where things stand. reporter: that s right. so former president trump received the subpoena in march, both for the pentagon document and any other documents related to chairman of the joint chiefs general mark milley and iran. while trump s lawyers were able to locate some responsive documents, they co ....
wolf blitzer s on assignment. i m alex marquart, and you re in the situation room. and first up tonight, our exclusive report on a federal criminal investigation into former president donald trump. attorneys for the former president unable now to locate a classified document that he referenced on an audiotape now in possession of prosecutors. kaitlan collins is on the team that broke the story and has the latest. take us through what we know. reporter: what happened is mario martin, this press aide to former president trump who was in the white house and now has followed him to mar-a-lago, went and testified as many people who were in that orbit these days have gone before jack smith s investigators. she was in there in mid-march, we re told it was shortly after she left that grand jury that prosecutors sent a subpoena to the former president saying that they wanted any and all documents related to iran and general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs tha ....