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viewers in the united states and right around the world. i m isa soares. cnn newsroom begins right now. a very good morning to you. now, the u.s. house of representatives voted monday to increase covid stimulus checks to $2,000 for millions of americans. the democrat controlled house sei seized on president donald trump s demand for larger direct payments and that pushed republicans to decide between their loyalty to the president or their concern over the bill s cost. stimulus checks are expected to begin going out later this week. the house also voted to override the president s veto of a sweeping defense spending bill. both the stimulus and defense bills head to the republican led senate. that s putting the party in a tough spot with the president. phil mattingly explains from capitol hill. reporter: it was just two votes on the house floor but also two specific demonstrations of where donald trump sits right now in the republican party. you don t want to read ....
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it s obvious the department of homeland security and fbi wouldn t be issuing these alerts if they didn t have something concrete to worry about. well these are very real concerns. this goes back at least two or three weeks when intelligence was picked up in various ways indicating something could be happening over the fourth of july that was initiated by isis supporters. then it was realized that a significant number of isis operative s operatives were in new york. we already had five arrested in just the last week to ten days in new york. some extremely dangerous in addition to that in june there s been nine or ten arrested throughout the country. this is very real. the people in new york were being watched, being monitored and one arrest has led to another and there s still an on going effort here. great concerning going back to dealing with the fbi and homeland security over the last three weeks, i would say this is the most intense level of concern i ve seen, mayb ....
deal with a brutal dictator and a state sponsor of terror? not everyone thinks so. many cuban-americans, presidential hopefuls and others are not celebrating today. the national lead. thousands of movie theaters abandoning sony after hackers threaten to attack moviegoers who just want to check out the new seth rogan flick. now some in hollywood are saying if you skip that matinee you are letting the terrorists win. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll begin this afternoon think, with our world lead. an earthquake in american foreign policy and after 50 years of diplomatic back biting, human rights abuses, espionage and attempted invasion, even a crisis bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war, the united states and cuba may now be moving toward something resembling normal. president obama said today that things in havana will start to look a lot like things in every other capital around the globe. functional u.s. embassy and po ....
cuba. you are live in the cnn newsroom. hello and thanks for joining me. i m jim sciutto. fredricka whitfield is off today. thanks so much for joining us. we are following breaking news on a major political story. donald trump breaking his silence with a series of tweets for the first time since he failed to correct a supporter who called president obama a muslim and seemed to insult muslims in america in general. trump tweeting this morning, quote, am i morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? i don t think so! he is scheduled to speak tonight in iowa. cnn s sunlander serfaty is at conference on mackinac island. so trump sending out this series of tweets. what else is saying about those now very controversial comments on thursday? reporter: very controversial, jim, and for days, donald trump has really been deflecting questions from reporters about this. his campaign only offering up the explanatio ....