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It is Friday, June 6th, and here's what's happening right now on CNN This Morning. He's an amazing person. He's also a caring person. I think President Trump is a good man.

President Trump and his former first buddy feud online in a war of words. It's a clash of titans, but with real stakes for all of us. Plus, Russia strikes back as it launches a deadly aerial assault on Ukraine. Is this the promised retaliation for Kyiv's daring drone attack? And tariff whiplash, high inflation and economic uncertainty. Has that put businesses in a holding pattern on hiring? We're about to get a better picture of the state of the economy.

6 a.m. here on the East Coast. Here is a live look at the White House. Good morning, everybody. I am Adi Cornish. I want to thank you for waking up with me. And we are going to start with a big story overnight. Elon Musk and Donald Trump, once two halves of one of the most powerful political alliances in presidential history, now find their relationship basically going nuclear in a very nasty public split.

So remember these scenes? This was exactly one week ago today. President Trump holding a grand send-off for Musk, giving him a key to the White House. Now the president might be calling a locksmith as the former head of Doge goes rogue against his big, beautiful bill. Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we'll anymore. I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill because the bill is incredible.

Okay, stay with me because there's a bit of a roller coaster here. Within minutes, the president got his wish. Musk hops on social media, his platform X. Things get really personal. Musk goes on this tirade, claiming that without him, Trump would have lost the election and Republicans would have lost the House, adding, quote, such ingratitude. Then Trump fires back, of course, on his own social media platform, claiming that Musk went crazy over the cuts to electric vehicle incentive cuts.

So then, Musk calls that a lie and then added, "Time to drop the really big bomb. Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT." We got a note here that there's no evidence of criminal wrongdoing when it comes to Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. In fact, several names have popped up in those files that do not have any criminal allegations.

Of course, that is not stopping Elon Musk from then going on to share videos of Trump partying with Epstein, complete with the obligatory eyebrow-raising emoji. The president's biggest political benefactor also posted, Trump has 3.5 years left as president, but I will be around for 40-plus years.

Okay, joining me now in the group chat, Isaac Dover, CNN senior reporter, Rob Bluey, president and executive editor at The Daily Signal, and Lulu Garcia Navarro, CNN contributor and New York Times journalist. Now, we have a few clips of Democrats just with popcorn, basically. We're going to play those in a minute.

Rob, I want to start with you because I remember once on this show with you and Lulu, you on X just did a post and it got like 17 million views because it was basically nice to Elon. And I'm bringing this up because his power and manipulation of that

platform means he has amplified these messages far and wide. What do you make of this moment? - Well, on the one hand, I'm wondering, is this all an elaborate ruse to get Elon Musk back in the good graces of Democrats? - No. - No, okay, Lulu dismissed that. So I will say this. - 3D chess, no. - You have a large number, yes, of very popular, massive followings on X individuals who have taken Elon's side in this, but

The elected Republicans in Congress, those who ultimately need to cast the vote for the one big beautiful bill, are all siding with Trump. And so this is probably going to play out over the next couple of days. And I don't know if it can get much nastier than it already is. Oh, it can, knowing the people involved. Lulu, I'm going to share your favorite headline of the day, because you said I got to give you the post. I hate my ex. It's not subtle, as always, but it is accurate, it seems, for today. Lulu, your reaction?

I have so many thoughts about this. So, you know, I think this is bad for Musk. I am... If you look at the history around the world of authoritarians breaking up with their oligarch buddies, those oligarch buddies don't end up in a good place. They either end up impoverished, imprisoned, or dead. I'm not saying that that's gonna happen to Elon Musk here, but the power is with the government.

you saw Donald Trump immediately say, "All right, we're going to take away your, you know, contracts. We're going to, you know, punish you and retaliate, and he has the power to do that." We've seen Donald Trump exercise that power. So, you know, I actually think this is a losing battle for Elon Musk. And the other thing I would say is that I think Elon Musk has realized that when he was given the golden key, it was like being

being given one of those bad watches when you retire early, when they want you out the door. Basically, he was taken advantage of. They wanted his money, they wanted his power, and now they're like, "You know what, my friend? You've caused a lot of problems. Here's the exit." And his response is, "Show me gratitude? Well, you know, money only buys you so much." Okay. Isaac?

I don't know if we had a couple tweens in place running their Twitter accounts, if it would look much different from this. I also think that it's sort of a stunning moment when you think about how often in politics we've thought about, well, what if a woman was in a position of power? Would they be too emotional? Look at what is going on here, right?

The girls are fighting. This is your pundit way of saying the girls are fighting. This is sexist. I don't like it. No, I think that if this were two women fighting, it would be like, oh, this is a cat fight. But it's not. It's two powerful people who are having a very emotional, childish back and forth. But what's really going on here is that we don't know what's going to happen with this bill.

that has major changes to the way government works, whether it's Medicaid and SNAP benefits or what it'll do to the debt. We also, in all this, what happened to getting to a solution of the Ukraine-Russia conflict?

conflict? What happened to figuring out what to do about what's happening in Gaza? All these things that we all sit in our seats and watch the stories on TV. And I mean stories like the soap opera way, but it's this. So there's going to be a lot of fallout from this, especially given all of the government contracts that Musk does have, not for his bottom line, but for us who maybe use those goods and services.

You guys stay with me. We've got a lot to talk about today. Coming up on CNN this morning, another Sean Combs accuser back on the stand, why the judge threatened to remove Diddy from the courtroom. Plus, Made in the USA, why some brands are rushing to change how they advertise their American-made products. And Russia launches a massive aerial strike on Ukraine and President Trump's new approach to the war he promised to end on day one. Yeah, you know how.

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Russia launched a barrage of deadly ballistic missile and drone attacks against Ukraine overnight. Authorities report severe damage in several regions, including the capital, Kyiv, with rescue workers responding to multiple locations. President Zelensky says almost all of Ukraine was targeted in one of the largest scale attacks

of the war. The strike comes just days after Ukraine's devastating drone attacks on Russian military targets. It's not clear whether this is the promised retaliatory attack that Russian President Vladimir Putin told to President Trump about earlier this week. Trump, who promised to end the war by Russia on Ukraine on day one of his presidency, at this point appears to be throwing in the towel.

But sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other and they're fighting in a park. And you try and pull them apart. They don't want to be pulled. Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while. We're bringing in CNN International diplomatic editor Nick Robertson. Nick, are we looking at the beginning of something, the end of something? Is this part of a larger offensive?

The Russian defense ministry is sort of indicating this is not the end of it, but this was their response for Ukraine's audacious strikes on Russian air bases last week. They're claiming that they hit all their targets.

goes against, of course, what the Ukrainians are saying. They are describing it as one of the biggest attacks so far, 450 different missiles, drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles fired into Ukraine. But the Ukrainian officials are saying that they were able to take down 406 of those. So they took down most of them. So again, that flies in the face of what Russia is saying. But look, even though this was one of the biggest rounds of strikes, and even though the Russians are saying this was in response,

Russia did almost the same thing last weekend and it did almost the same thing the weekend before. We're in a period now where Russia can launch huge numbers of strikes in one night. And this is the direction they seem to be moving in and a much greater use of these huge drones. We're not talking about tiny little, you know, commercial drones that drop small munitions on the battlefield. We're talking about massive drones, much bigger than me, packed with explosives flying through the sky and impacting Kiev and other cities.

I want to play something for you that the German chancellor actually said to President Trump during their meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday. It's good context for Trump sort of saying, let them fight it out. America is again in a very strong position to do something on this war and ending this war. So let's talk about what we can do jointly. I told the president before we came in that he is the key person in the world.

can really do that now by putting pressure on Russia. So he's saying it plainly there, what Ukraine's president is also saying. He's raised the idea that tougher sanctions could be on the way. What's your sense of how the White House is talking about this and whether we can see more intervention of any kind going forward?

I kind of saw a real dichotomy yesterday and what the German Chancellor Merz said there and what he also said when President Trump talked about all the battlefield, you know, the bodies on the battlefield being blown apart. Merz really kind of jumped in at that moment and said, yes, these are troops on the battlefield. Ukraine are the good guys. They only hit military targets. Russia hits civilians. And even on that, President Trump seemed to equivocate.

as if somehow Russia isn't the bad guy in this. The dichotomy here is while Trump was saying that, at NATO headquarters in Europe, Defense Secretary Hegseth, the U.S. ambassador to NATO,

both pushing them, were both pushing this very significant message that Russia is a huge danger, that NATO needs to spend so much more on defense spending so that it can be ahead of Russia that's building up its weapons and armaments. So who's right? President Trump's officials who are saying that Russia is a big danger?

or President Trump, who's playing it down. He seems to be the only one amongst other NATO leaders, and even in his own administration, who seems to think somehow Russia is a good guy compared to Ukraine. That's CNN's Nick Robertson in London. Thank you.

Coming up on CNN this morning, it's early, but good night and good luck. The new Broadway play taking center stage, sparking fresh conversations about the state of media and our democracy. Plus, we've got our eyes peeled for that May jobs report, what it could reveal about the state of the economy.

We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine. And remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend the causes that were for the moment unpopular.

This feeling of fear, walking on eggshells, this is what I want to talk about today in Offscript, okay? Because we're trying to have open debate in this country. And we are actually in this moment where there are a lot of concerns about this.

that. CNN is airing the first ever live Broadway play, "Good Night and Good Luck." Actor George Clooney plays legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow. And this is when Murrow took on Senator Joseph McCarthy, who led the Red Scare, that time when Americans were accused of being communist sympathizers or doing things they didn't do, often without evidence.

And some of that feels familiar in this time when universities, law firms, yes, even newsrooms have been targeted in very specific ways by the White House, right? Maybe through executive orders, through funding or defunding threats and lawsuits. So what resonance could a story like this, could this play have now? Well, joining me now to discuss Sarah Fisher, media correspondent at Axios. I'm bringing you on because I feel like you are always good at talking about the medium and the message. And "Good Night and Good Luck" is about both.

It's about the role of television and television news, and it's also about its message about, as you said, not dissent, but criticism in that role. Yeah, I mean, if you think about why this play is hitting such a chord right now, it's because we are in this moment where the White House is going after the AP, PBS, NPR. The FCC has issued investigations into Comcast, Paramount, which is the parent of CBS News. And I think the

The question that a lot of newsrooms are grappling with right now is to what extent do you defend your journalism when you face these types of attacks that could impact your funding, impact your ability to merge or buy other companies? I don't think that media companies have felt this level of pressure in a very long time, probably not since the Nixon or McCarthy eras. And so going back and feeling that reflection of how they handled it then

inform the ways that we should be thinking about the role we play, how we should be thinking about ethics today. You know, I want to play a little bit of George Clooney, of course, who famously brought this to the movies and all these years later has brought it back to Broadway. Here he is talking about kind of some of the themes we're discussing. What's fun about the play is, although McCarthyism was bad, it wasn't anywhere near as

pervasive as it is right now, the kind of fear that you see kind of stretching through law firms and universities. You think it's worse now than in McCarthy's time? I do think it is worse now. So there's ways he's saying that it's worse now, and I want to get your take on that, really. So the McCarthyism era was focused on finding commies. That was one specific thing. In this era, it's really focused on going after anyone who

pushes back against government who questions power. Whether you're a university and you're trying to protect foreign students, whether you're a media organization and you're asking critical questions of the government, a law firm that's defending groups that might not align with the policies

of the administration. It is more pervasive, Audie, and it is a little bit broader. And then the other thing I'd say that's different is we're in the digital era now. It's so much easier to bully and taunt people 24/7, especially because we do have people in power who are very good at using social media, who might even own their social media networks. In the McCarthy era, there was three broadcast networks, maybe a handful of newspapers that people listened to and read.

In this era, it is so much easier to target journalism because the institution of journalism is disaggregated, it's financially weaker, and it's just a much more convenient target. One more thing. This is also notable just as a Broadway business moment. Tonys are coming up, and it...

This is the first time this has happened, having a live show. It was always thought like this could cannibalize audiences. What trends are we seeing in the entertainment community that would even bring us to this moment? There's a huge marriage between Broadway and television right now. If you think about it, how many shows have been brought to streamers? You think about Hamilton coming to Disney and giving a huge boom to Disney Plus subscribers.

Also thinking about iconic plays that are being turned into movies. Look at NBC's success with Wicked. We've seen a lot of TV networks take recorded versions of live shows. I think about Fox doing Rent in 2019, for example. It is very- So it wasn't just a pandemic thing? No, but it is very, very prominent now post-pandemic because I think a lot of people crave live experiences coming out of the pandemic.

for so long we were cooped up in our homes and now we want to spend time and see things in real life and so the fact that cnn is broadcasting this live it just speaks to the success the boom of broadway post pandemic now audie i will caution and say most broadway shows are still not profitable yeah so this is more than the majority exactly so this marriage between television streaming and broadway could

could be an opportunity for Broadway to finally start to diversify its business model, maybe get some more shows to start being profitable. Okay. Sarah Fisher, as always, thank you for being here. I appreciate you. You can watch George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck, as we said, live on CNN in a first-of-its-kind broadcast. So that's going to be happening Saturday night at 7 right here on CNN and, of course, streaming on CNN.com.

Straight ahead on CNN this morning, the end of a beautiful bromance as Elon Musk's empire about to get dozed by Donald Trump. Plus, the White House allegedly using a lie detector test as a weapon to intimidate.

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Is this Twitter war a cheesy gordita crunch wrap supreme? Because it's dripping hot, messy filth and I'm eating up every sloppy bite. It's like an episode of The Real Housewives of the Oval Office, a full-blown feud between the president and Elon Musk blowing up on social media. Good morning, everybody. I'm Adi Kornish. Thank you for joining me on CNN this morning. It's half past the hour and here's what's happening right now.

A massive falling out between President Donald Trump and one of his biggest backers, Elon Musk. It all started after the president said he was disappointed in Musk for his criticisms of the big, beautiful bill. It blew up from there, with Musk saying Trump would have lost the election without him, and Trump threatening to pull Musk's government contracts.

And overnight, Russia launched a massive aerial strike on Ukraine. Drones and ballistic missiles hit multiple targets across the country, according to Ukrainian officials. At least four people are dead. It's unclear if this is a response to Ukraine's daring drone strike deep inside Russia from over the weekend.

And we'll get a new read this morning on how President Trump's back and forth tariffs are impacting the jobs market. The May jobs report is expected to show a softening when it comes to hiring, with 130,000 jobs added last month. That's down from April's 177,000 jobs.

Okay, so what happens when the world's richest man and one of the world's most powerful men get into a massive feud? The consequences could go well past hurt feelings and bruised egos for President Trump and Elon Musk as their relationship goes up in flames. Musk spent the first hundred days in the White House firing more than 120,000 federal workers while leading Doge.

During their collective meltdown on social media, Donald Trump suggested doing something to Musk that Musk did to dozens of deals while working for Doge, tearing up government contracts, specifically the subsidies to Musk's companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Musk replies, make my day. Things escalated from there with a threat ending to decommission his company's Dragon space capsule. He later walked back that threat.

But taking the ship offline would basically cut off the only way for NASA astronauts to get to the International Space Station from U.S. soil. The blowup could have real ramifications also for Musk's companies. Tesla stock, for example, tumbled 14 percent throughout Thursday's clash. Musk personally lost about $34 billion in personal net wealth, according to Forbes. And Trump's allies are calling for extreme action against Musk's perceived disloyalty.

The act that President Trump should be taking immediately, I think, when he threatens to take one of the big programs out of SpaceX, President Trump tonight should sign an executive order calling for the Defense Production Act to be called in SpaceX and seize SpaceX tonight before midnight. The U.S. government should seize it.

The group chat is back. Okay, this time we're talking about the rest of us. Musk has a wide array of companies that could face regulations by U.S. agencies. So Starlink needs FCC permissions. Neuralink is covered by the FDA. Tesla has been facing investigations from the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission. Musk himself, of course, has been under commission several times.

by the Security and Exchange Commission. So what do you hear in Bannon suggesting how to target him further? The Bannon-Musk relationship has been bad from the get-go, and Bannon clearly is delighting in having the upper hand here. The way that Musk is intervening

intertwine now in the government is not just in what you were talking about. A couple weeks ago, there was reporting about how in some of the tariff negotiations, there were requirements for using Starlink for the other countries to do that. All of these Doge employees that Musk had, they're still in the government. Those people, I think, are seen as more loyal to Elon Musk than to Donald Trump. We do not know.

not only what they've been doing but how much information they've been retaining what they've been doing with that information from all over the place it's it's a lot remember there are a couple of factors that led to this fight in the in the first place number one Elon Musk was not satisfied with Republicans stripping out some other subsidies for electric vehicles in the one big beautiful bill and so I think that he took personal offense to that's one of the reasons he's come out in opposition secondly

Trump polled the NASA administrator, who was a recommendation of Elon Musk. And that certainly caused even greater friction between the two. And so you're absolutely right, Adi, in that he has a stake here. And obviously, NASA and the EV credits were a big part of his business empire. Yeah, I mean, underlying all of this is the real problem of having...

an unelected billionaire, the richest man in the world, opening the government to him and allowing him to run wild and to profit from that opening of the federal government, which he did. Let us not forget,

Donald Trump himself had some sort of car sale in front of the White House for the Tesla cars. So, you know, at the crux of this is a very troubling development that we've seen in this country where you have the bonding of government and extreme wealth and corporate power. And the real question underlying this is, will this actually fray that union?

or is this just between two men? Right, and you heard Musk's threat online of Trump will only be there for three and a half years, I'll be around for 40. It's an interesting moment. Group chat, stay with us. We've got a lot more to discuss. The Labor Department drops the May jobs report. That's happening in about two hours. There are also now concerns about the accuracy of the department's inflation data.

Matt Grossman of The Wall Street Journal writes a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices. In last month's inflation report, government statisticians, they had to use less precise methods for guessing price changes. Joining me now from New York, the author of that full article, Matthew, welcome. Thanks for being here this morning. Thanks for having me.

So all this time people the first hundred days had been worried about government cuts that would lead to problems with data, the resources to collect and maintain data. What can you tell us about the Labor Department?

Yeah, so it's actually rather labor intensive, the process of getting together the statistics on inflation and unemployment every month. For inflation, the process involves sending hundreds of people out to businesses all across the country and literally checking how much prices have changed over the past month.

For the most part, as far as we can tell, that process is still working the way it's supposed to. But there are some places in the country where the Labor Department has found itself without enough staff to check as many businesses as it usually does. And so the full survey is not quite getting done at the level that it usually is. President Trump and his team have been pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates. Just listen to this.

The president did say that he believes the Fed chair is making a mistake by not lowering interest rates, which is putting us at an economic disadvantage to China and other countries. And the president's been very vocal about that, both publicly and now I can reveal privately as well.

Matt, the reason why I'm playing this is because we need to make policy decisions, right? People in this country actually need, rely on government data, objective analysis to make these decisions. What to you is significant about this moment?

- Yeah, absolutely. And you've talked about the Fed. I mean, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said that keeping these statistics accurate and well-informed is absolutely a priority in terms of being able to set policy well. It's important to say there's no suggestion or evidence that anyone in the government is intentionally moving the statistics in one way or the other. This is about the agency doing the best that it can with limited resources while there's a federal hiring freeze in place.

But these statistics are really important for setting how much the Social Security benefits go up every year or where the tax brackets are, not to mention policy questions like the Fed or the White House, like you were talking about. So getting these numbers right is very important. And that's why even when there's a small suggestion of more guesswork getting done, that that sort of starts to get people's attention. Matt Grossman, writer at The Wall Street Journal. Thank you so much.

Thanks for having me. Okay, so here's some more reporting that

took my eye i mean i'm just kind of obsessed with this cnn's zachary wolf writes that the trump administration revives an old intimidation tactic the polygraph machine previous administrations have used lie detector tests to weed out leakers but the current administration appears to be relying on them as a method of intimidation the polygraph has been weaponized and is frequently being used to identify not leaks of classified information but rather

unclassified conversations regarding policy or just embarrassing decisions that have made their way through the rumor mill. That's according to Mark Zeta, attorney who specializes in representing people who work in national security. The White House has not shied away from praising the virtues of polygraphs.

Anyone who is leaking information outside of how something is planned for the safety of those law enforcement officers needs to be held accountable for that. And you're going to continue these polygraphing of employees? Absolutely. The authorities that I have under the Department of Homeland Security are broad and extensive, and I plan to use every single one of them.

CNN senior politics writer Zachary Wolf is here. Thank you for being with us this morning on this reporting. - Thanks for having me. - So DHS, Pentagon, FBI are some of the departments in your reporting you found where this is being used as accelerated. What's the traditional use versus what makes this moment distinct? - So they've been used a lot by the government

basically to weed people out. You get one when you get a job in national security or law enforcement. And then if you're, say, working with sensitive information, you might get one every five to 10 years. But now they're being used almost punitively by people who-- against people who have never had polygraphs in their careers. So we think you might be a problem

come on in, we're gonna... Or to suss out, you know, we didn't like what appeared on CNN or in the New York Times, so we're gonna give you a polygraph machine. But what I found was interesting in researching the story is that back in the 80s, these were given to millions of Americans. Like, two million people were getting polygraph machines every year. And Congress said, this is not okay. This is coercive. It doesn't... They don't work. So they outlawed them for everybody but public service.

public servants so they basically change the you know atmosphere so they're still around for public servants but the rest was like you and I probably are gonna get a polygraph machine from CNN in your reporting when you reach out to the White House when you talk to them about this kind of what's the response how are they justifying it I mean they say that this is sensitive information that they have the power to do this and they need to be able to to go out and look for it essentially it's just kinda a new application above something that you know

hasn't been done before recently. - Kind of what are you looking forward to? What are you keeping an eye on going forward around this issue? Do you think there might be people who speak out more? Do you think that they're going to clamp down even harder as times get tougher?

I'm kind of interested in if you're a polygraph person at, say, the TSA, and now you're giving polygraph tests to random people in the agency. How do you feel about that? Are we going to see people in that industry sort of start to leave or get frustrated? All right, Zach, well, thank you so much. You can check out his reporting online. He's CNN's senior politics reporter.

And also his newsletter, I gotta mention that. What Matters, you can subscribe now on CNN.com and I am a subscriber, Zach. - Thank you. - So, appreciate it. Still ahead on CNN this morning, pop star Lizzo fighting back in court over allegations of sexual harassment. Is her right to free speech under attack? We'll lawyer up and talk about it with Elliott Williams. Plus, Tokyo, we have a problem. How a Japanese company's moon landing mission ended in failure. Plus, of course, more from the group chat after this.

In the divorce of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who gets custody of J.D. Vance? But this bromance is so messy, you guys. Like, this breakup is messy as all hell. I mean, it's definitely made for Bravo. I mean, this is like The Real Housewives of Foggy Bottom. I mean, it definitely is...

The reunion show. I mean, Andy, Andy Cohen, if you're listening, you got to produce this reunion show. I have the seating chart of this, like where Stephen Miller is going to be seated. Any quick reaction on what's going on with Elon Musk and President Trump on Twitter right now? Oh, man, the girls are fighting, aren't they? Democrats there talking about the very public Trump-Musk split. Breaking up is hard to do, as we saw with Brangelina, Bennifer, Mump.

Turns out it's actually peak season for divorces as couples tend to split up right around now into summer. What's driving those divorces? It's time to find out as we lawyer up with CNN legal analyst, Elliot Williams. Elliot, good morning. Good morning. So I thought there was something in the air and apparently that is billable hours. So explain to me this divorce season. It's fascinating. You know, what it,

All litigation is about human behavior, and even this most intimate form of litigation is subject to people's lives. And divorce lawyers talk about the fact there are two big spikes. One is March, April, and another one is at the end of the summer. Why? Because there are no major holidays there, and people apparently

do not want to upend their families Christmases or Thanksgivings or so on. - So they hold off until... - Yeah, and hoping that things will get better. - Speaking of human behavior, pop star Lizzo has been in this kind of long running lawsuit where some of her, I think, backup performers had all kinds of allegations against her. She's now counter suing. What's going on with that suit? - Right, so she's suing under California's SLAPP statute, strategic litigation against

participation like a First Amendment statute so someone whose music slaps is suing under the slap lawsuit you've been waiting all day not all day I know but she is she's claiming that her free speech rights are infringed by people suing her for sexual harassment that she had a right to take her dancers to a strip club in Amsterdam that she had a right to make comments about them or their bodies because her creative mission of

relies on that. So I don't know. Truth hurts, perhaps. Well, the court will find. All right. This is a serious news program. Okay. Okay. We're going to talk next about this law firm going after newsrooms for Made in America labeling that's on its products. Now, this is important, I think, because in this moment, everyone's trying to dodge the tariff laws in one way or another.

So help me understand this fight over made in America. Absolutely. So a number of major entities, and we're talking PepsiCo, Goya, French's Mustard, have put different forms of guarantees on their products, ranging from manufactured in America, assembled in America, or made in America.

Those are three different things. Three very different things, but they're trying to sort of massage the notion of when a certain portion of your products come from other countries, what can you get away with saying? Well, there is a law firm that since President Trump was elected has been bringing a number of these suits as class actions, trying to get people to be a little more above board about what they claim. What is actually made in America.

What does it actually mean in America? Now, it's interesting, and I didn't realize this, different states have different rules as to what it takes to be able to make that assertion. And for instance, in California, where a number of these are filed, if more than 10% of the items in the product come from elsewhere, you cannot make a Made in America assertion on the product. And so this is really as much, this is another speech thing, but it's also about the Federal Trade Commission or FTA.

honest advertising what you can actually say your product actually is. All right, Elliot, thank you. As always, you take me on a journey through the legal world. Elliot is CNN's legal analyst.

Alright, it's now 53 minutes past the hour. Here is your morning roundup. In just a matter of hours, a woman known as Jane will return to the stand in the Sean Combs trial. She's accused Diddy of pressuring her to have sex with other men. And yesterday, the judge rebuked Combs for his behavior in court, telling him that his vigorous nodding to the jury could lead to his removal from the courtroom.

And a crash landing brought a Japanese company's moon mission to an end. The resilience crashed Thursday evening. Executives at iSpace promise a thorough review of what happened, but are initially blaming a software error for causing the spacecraft to miscalculate its altitude.

And the Indiana Pacers notched its first NBA Finals win in 25 years. The Pacers launched a come-from-behind 15-point rally in the fourth quarter over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1. Game 2 is Sunday night in Oklahoma City. That's before heading to Indy next Wednesday.

Okay, so where do things go from here after this massive blow up between Elon Musk and Donald Trump? Could we see an actual political movement break away from all of this? Now, this poll, of course, is not scientific, but Musk did post a question asking his users, quote, is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle? And more than 80% of his fans said yes.

Again, that poll is not scientific in the slightest, but it does reflect some frustrations seen in even recent CNN polling. When asked which party can get things done, 44% said neither. The group chat is back. We should be clear, Elon Musk's popularity is at all-time lows, like 100%.

Low, low, low. I think negative 19 points. I don't think he'd win to be president at this point. Except among his Twitter followers. Well, OK, so let's get to that world of kind of libertarian tech bro maga. Like, I don't know if anyone goes with him, but who are you going to be watching that'll give you an indication that something's brewing behind this personal blowout?

Yeah, well, first of all, on the point of a third party, I'm just not optimistic about that emerging. I don't think that as frustrated as the American people seem to be with both the Republican and Democrat parties. But it was independence that swung it for Trump, right? That's what Musk is implying about his spending. That's true. And I think that Musk sees maybe an opportunity there to express frustration about the debt, but also carry forward some ideas that really don't necessarily fit neatly within the Republican Party structure either. Yeah.

- There's always an uneasy alliance. - Yeah, I'm curious to see if Musk actually ends up being like a lot of big donors, which is to say he will spread the largest more widely and try and influence not just one party, but two. Democrats are really trying to see if they can game this moment and if they can sort of lure big pocketed Musk to their side. I don't think that's going to happen.

but maybe his giving will be more intentional. Yeah, like there's a world of candidate out there who could benefit from the boost if he even sticks around. He's close to some Democrats, especially in California. So, you know, it remains to be seen. But yeah, I'm not sure that the Elon Musk party is necessarily going to be a thing. No, no Doge thinking dog? Okay, go on. I just say...

The bigger problem is this lack of confidence in either party. You see other polls that are shown where people are asked, which party has my best interests at heart? And people will say neither the Republicans or Democrats by large numbers. Those are deep problems for this democracy and for whatever the future of the country is going.

Yeah, yeah. To pick up on Isaac's point, I mean, you had a situation where a lot of people voted Republican because Donald Trump was on the ballot. And so if you think beyond Trump's term and where the Republican Party goes, will they have that same allegiance? I mean, you saw this in a new New York Times report that's out today looking at county-level data. It's just fascinating to see how the country has shifted in part because of that affection that they had for Trump the person.

Okay, I think a lot of people today might be keeping an eye out for more tweets and posts between these two. I want to talk about what else you are keeping an eye on today. I am keeping an eye on the fact that it is Gay Pride Month. And here in the District of Columbia, this is the big weekend where there are gay pride events.

because of the posture of this administration, which is where it lives in the District of Columbia. There has been a lot of back and forth about what is going to happen here in terms of those celebrations. What I will say about this, what is interesting to me is that this is civil society actually responding to this moment. And so it has a larger context that isn't just about Gay Pride Month or anything else, but what is civil society doing about some of the administration's policies, which they don't like?

Okay, Rob. Okay, I'm going to bring up a sports story and hold up the New York Post. That's a good one. It's a good one. It's a good one. 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers is headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, legendary quarterback. It says, is Pittsburgh's problem now?

You haters. Even Terry Bradshaw has cast some shade on this one. So we'll see how this ultimately works out. But practices start next week. Oh, my goodness. Isaac? We've been talking a lot about what's going on in the Republican Party. In New York City, there's a mayor's race going on. The primary is June 24th for the Democrats. There was the first debate just this past week. The next debate is this coming week.

what this says about where the Democratic Party is and whether the party is more with Andrew Cuomo's kind of politics, which seems where things are. Yeah, I mean, New York politics are pretty specific, but they're such big figures. They're national figures in some cases. Yeah, but look, I'm a born and bred New Yorker, started out covering New York politics. I've written about this race this week even, but...

What you see going on with the progressive wing of the party is not just a level of disagreement and chaos, but an inability to connect so far with voters on these kinds of ideas. Yeah. OK, for me, I definitely am looking forward to the jobs report. I have had more than one person tell me whatever is going on with the economy. That's where the rubber meets the road with employers. And then also, I am going to watch Good Night and Good Luck.

on Saturday night here on CNN. Not just because it's here on CNN, but because I was a young person when the movie came out and I think it's just going to be a neat moment. So you guys, thank you so much. We talked about a lot today as always. Thank you for waking up with us, for spending time with us this week. I'm Adi Cornish and CNN News Central starts right now.

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