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
i just can t believe we have a federal holiday finally recognizing the end of our enslavement. we ve come a long way, but we have a long way to go. if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love. and it s up to us to do it. good morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. we ll get to that and juneteenth. it s only been a federal holiday for two years now and what yesterday meant. and there was a big concert on cnn last night. that s right. a little bit of that throughout the show. listen, right now, though, the race is on to find a submersible that vanished while diving on the titanic shipwreck. five people were onboard. the u.s. and canadian coast guards have launched an all-out search with planes and ships and buoys equipped with sonar. it is about 13,000 feet deep in that area. as of yesterday afternoon officials estimated the passengers might have had somewhere between 70 and 96 hours worth of air left if the sub is still intact. now this w
show @thelead. you can listen to the lead once you get your podcasts, all two hours, just sitting there like a delicious tray of sushi. our coverage continues now with mr. alex marquardt who is in for wolf blitzer in a place i like to call the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, a desperate search and rescue mission. thousands of feet below the surface of the atlantic ocean. submersible operated by a company running expeditions to the wreck of the titanic is now missing. we have up-to-the-minute details on the mission to find the sub and the five people on board. also this hour, the high-stakes meeting of the super power secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. and china have made progress towards getting relations back on track, but there still is a ways to go. we ll have a report from beijing. and more than 50 million people across the southeast face the threat of severe weather including tornados this holiday weekend. we ll have the latest
Documents. it s just complete political spin on trump s part. i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. clearly doesn t have an answer for this. i would be very concerned if i were part of his legal team. reporter: republican officials in kansas are on alert after at least 100 letters containing a suspicious white powder were sent to state lawmakers and public officials. the message reads, it is important not to choke on your ambition. so far they found no biological agents of concern. it was quite terrifying. this is the stuff that you ultimately see in movies. russia is launching new air attacks across ukraine targeting the capital kyiv. this as russia has heavily mined the front lines and is sending more reservists into battle. underscoring just how difficult ukraine s counter offensive is proving to be. this is going to be a long fight. americans celebrating juneteenth all across the country.
Would be to say, please, please, could we have it back. and then he says i gave them some. please, please, can i have that back. that s exactly what the archives did, right? they made it clear that they needed these documents back, and it wasn t until after they weren t getting them back that they then went to the department of justice and it was escalated. they said please, pretty please repeatedly. they even sent down the doj s counteroffensive chief to ask. and then they still asked with a grand jury subpoena, and they still didn t get it back. it s political spin on trump s part. it s damaging to his legal defense because he s admitting he has them, maybe knows what s in them. so, legally it s a big problem. but even as evan was saying before, it s all political at this point. and that s what he s trying to do. there was the subpoena and then they didn t get them all back, and then there was the fbi search and they found even more. so there were multiple chances during which th