they re donating 15, 25, $100 because they believe in donald trump. they re not giving him that money so he can pay his personal legal fees, and let s remember something he s a billionaire, self-professed billionaire. why can t he use his own money to pay his personal legal fees and not use money coming from the public? it s disgrateful. some straight talk there as presidential candidate chris christie essentially calls donald trump a grifter there on cnn as he continues his anti-trump campaign in the early stages of the 2024 race. meanwhile a book from former trump s chief of staff seems to dispute the former president s latest claim he did not show-off u.s. attack plans to people at his new jersey golf club. and president joe biden hits the road to highlight how bidennomics is helping every day americans. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. let s get right to the headlines here.
i have no classified documents and by the way they become automatically declassified. they have an audiotape now of donald trump in a meeting where he talks about a classified proposal from the pentagon. it is as far as evidence goes very, very powerful. the house did it, it was a struggle to get there. this is the biggest cut in savings this congress has ever voted for. yeah, there is clearly something there because we have video of it. nasa has been looking for a life in the universe for decades. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, june 1, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the marathon of talks, negotiations and meetings have paid off for the u.s. president and house speaker. 314-117, the bill has passed. and it is not over just yet as it heads to the senate. more on that in a moment. but first sources tells us that federal prosecutors have audio recordings of donald trump
Of plotting an explosion and being in contact with the russian intelligence service. One of them had been photographing potential Military Targets in germany, including us Military Facilities which assist ukraine. The arrests came as ukraines Prime Minister warned the bbc there will be a third world war if ukraine loses its conflict with russia. G7 Foreign Ministers are meeting now on the italian island of capri to discuss ukraines urgent appeal for more air defence support and how to use frozen russian assets to assist kyiv. Lets cross live now to our security correspondent, gordon corera. Tells more about what the authorities are saying about the plot, the details, the target . Potentially a significant series of arrests by German Authorities yesterday. They are certainly suggesting that today, with prosecutors arresting two men, one of those it appears had been spending some time carrying out reconnaissance of Military Facilities. The second man is thought to have assisted him, and
officials telling you, how worried are they about what comes next? well, they ve been telling us all week at at how frightened they are at the prospects of what could come next if israel did decide to undertake this counter attack against iran, which which has now come i spoke with a senior us official earlier in the evening who made it clear that this response by israel was not endorsed by the united states the us did not give the green light for what we saw play out tonight. now, throughout the course of the week since that massive iranian strike against israel last week again, some 300 ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones being targeted at israel. the us has repeatedly said israel, of course, has the right to defend itself. it has the right to respond but they certainly did not want israel to the risk escalation. what we have heard from the biden administration is take the win. they told israel to take the win. recognize that you defended
we know that the westie saying, look, be very cautious about a direct attack on iranian soil because of the risk escalation. the israelis, rhetorically at least, have said thanks for your advice but we will make up our own minds. there is some discussion going on that suggests that the israelis might pause a bit, they might allow time to pass, maybe wait until the passover holiday is over before they respond, but that is just some speculation and some analysis, it is not a clear decision. at the same time, the iranians are doing everything they possibly can to try to deter attack by making it clear that if there is any strike against iran if they will respond firmly. and even today, one of their senior commanders from the iranian revolutionary guard saying that if israel was to attack iranian nuclear facilities, then potentially iran could change its nuclear strategy. in other words, openly saying that we are going to develop nuclear weapons. at the moment, that west bank that is what