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It is Friday, June 27th, and here's what's happening right now on CNN This Morning. Obliterated. It's been the word of the week, but how do lawmakers see it after their intelligence briefing on the bombing in Iran? Plus this. They're going to have to redraft all of it.

It's back to the drawing board in the Senate. A key provision on Medicaid violates the chamber's rule. Can they get it done by the president's July 4th deadline? And a rare fireball streaks across the sky in the southeast. A big question this morning. Could more be on the way?

It's 6 a.m. here on the East Coast, a live look at New York City. And good morning, everybody. I'm Adi Cornish. I want to thank you for waking up with me. And here's where we're going to start with that intelligence briefing that lawmakers finally got, the one they have been asking for about those U.S. strikes against Iran. Coming out of it, they're split on just how effective the strikes actually were.

I believe that this mission was a tremendous success and that we have effectively destroyed Iran's nuclear program today. I just do not think the president was telling the truth when he said this program was obliterated. I don't want people to think

that the site wasn't severely damaged or obliterated, it was. But having said that, I don't want people to think the problem is over because it's not. I think obliterated is much too strong a word. Certainly there was serious and perhaps severe damage done, but as to how much damage was done, we really need a final assessment.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the press corps and the Pentagon for a public briefing and scolding on the strikes, where he continued to insist the attack set back Iran's program for years. The reality is you want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated, choose your word. This was a historically successful attack.

Joining me now in the group chat, Jackie Kucinich, Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe, Rob Blewey, president and executive editor of The Daily Signal, and Maria Cardona, CNN political commentator and democratic strategist. Welcome, you guys. So I want to actually show you something. Israel Katz, who's the Israeli defense minister, said it was clear from the beginning that the strike would neutralize the surrounding infrastructure. It wouldn't eliminate the material itself.

And now they're talking about in the future what they want from Iran. So do the semantics matter about what happened, the obliterate versus severely damaged versus all of this, or are we now just looking at a political discussion? - I think it does matter what happened, but I think when you're talking about the language that's being used, yes, it matters very much to Donald Trump what the party is saying, which is why you're hearing that word obliterated.

That is that has been the adjective he's used. And you've heard that message coming consistently out of the Republican Party because it has everything to do with the audience of one. Yeah, I mean, I went into this week thinking it mattered because for further decision making, do you have to do more strikes? But like as time goes on, it feels like it's as you're saying, it's like the perception is the problem.

- Sure, and I think that it might take weeks. I mean, these initial assessments are often wrong. They don't contain all of the information. You heard that in some of the briefings that the senators gave. In terms of what Secretary Hagseth said, and as a member of the news media myself,

I want to say thank you to the servicemen and women who put their lives on the line and the sacrifices they've made to carry out this mission. I mean, it was extraordinarily complex, 15 years in the planning in terms of building this bomb and making the precision strike to take out as much as they could in that nuclear facility.

remains to be seen what Iran was able to move out beforehand and if they were able to get all of that nuclear material. Here was the focus. Hegg Seth at one point was lashing out at reporters, as you said, just about the very leaking of what is, and no one has said differently, a preliminary intelligence assessment. It was an early assessment. But the administration has been very upset at the amplification of that assessment. I think we have that. When someone leaks something, they do it with an agenda.

and when you leak a portion of an intelligence assessment, but just a little portion, just the little portion that makes it seem like maybe the strike wasn't effective, then you start a news cycle. - Maria, it does feel like Democrats are getting to enjoy this question and talking about this question and raising doubt.

Well, I think what Democrats are doing is what they should be doing, which is, like you said, raising questions. Questions about what exactly, not just what does the intelligence say, but what does the administration actually believe happened, to your point, to everyone's point. That's what really matters. And I think what the problem with the obsession with the word obliterate or obliteration, right? You can kind of equate it to when Bush said mission accomplished.

Because it all came back to, well, no, it wasn't. And in fact, we know that the mission wasn't accomplished. If the mission was to absolutely ascertain and say definitively that Iran is not going to obtain a nuclear weapon, that didn't happen.

And so it takes away, frankly, from what the administration's message should be, which is we did a lot to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And now let's figure out what more needs to be done. But that's not happening. Now we're focused on the word and we're obsessed with, okay, well, what now? Secondarily, it did bring an end to the 12-day war with Israel, which is a positive- I like that you're calling it the 12-day war. Like, you're on it. Is that the official- Sure, and I mean, look, and-

Donald Trump went to NATO. He obviously had a successful week there. There's, you know, a lot to be celebrated over the course of the last week in terms of hopefully a diplomatic solution. And, you know, talk again about giving Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, Adi. You heard it here. But I do want to caution against, you know, the conflation of it being a criticism of American service members to report about...

what may or may not happened there. One has nothing to do with the other. One has nothing to do with the other. And you're hearing the administration do that in order to exert shame on the news media. And that's not what's happening here. Both things can be true. You can think that American servicemen are serving honorably and that, you know,

Maybe the early assessments say X, Y, and Z. Well, we're going to leave it there for just a second. But as we go, I want you to hear one last piece of tape. And it's around the question of the stockpiles of enriched uranium that Iran already has. We don't know what's going on with them. I want people to hear it because this is part of the final questions. I think Senator Tom Cotton's here.

I don't know where the 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium exists, but it wasn't part of the target set. I will say it was not part of the mission to destroy all their enriched uranium or to seize it or anything else.

So going forward, we will be talking about where has this material gone. You guys stay with us coming up on CNN this morning, giving diplomacy another shot. What lengths the Trump administration might go to to get Iran back to the table. Plus, it's the end of an era at Vogue after nearly four decades at the helm. Why Anna Wintour is stepping down and families caught in the middle of a funding debate. Why one mother says Medicaid means keeping her daughter alive.

I do not have my daughter enrolled on Medicaid so that we can have fancy things. I have my daughter enrolled in Medicaid so that we can keep her alive.

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It's now 12 minutes past the hour and here are five things you need to know to get your day going this afternoon. The public will pay their respects to the Minnesota lawmaker killed in an ambush attack at her home. Former House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol Rotunda along with her husband Mark. Also their dog Gilbert. She is the first woman given that honor. Also today, the man charged with killing them and shooting another lawmaker and his wife is due in court.

Idaho State Police have issued an Amber Alert for two teens who they believe may be with a religious group in Utah. So their mother believes that an older sibling may have taken them to a fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints group, a group she used to be a part of. Law enforcement say they issued the Amber Alert after learning of alarming statements by the FLDS leader.

There are some revelations out that are really concerning from the FLDS Church that talk about becoming translated beings, but they must die first and they'll be risen like Jesus Christ in two and a half, three days.

The FBI is also assisting in the search. President Trump expected to announce a pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell very soon. Trump has been frustrated with the Fed chair for not lowering interest rates. Powell's term runs another 11 months. If the announcement happens, this would be a first in the 111-year history of the central bank.

And Anna Wintour is stepping down as the editor-in-chief of Vogue after four decades at the helm. Wintour is not leaving altogether. She's going to remain on as Vogue's global editorial director and global chief content officer at the media company Conde Nast.

Brad Pitt's L.A. home broken into this week. Law enforcement sources say that three suspects got into his home through a front window and ransacked the place. Pitt wasn't home. Nobody's been arrested.

And next on CNN This Morning, closing arguments continue today in the case against Sean Combs. What prosecutors told the jury. Plus, what was that in the sky? You know, a fireball plunging to the earth. We've got an expert in next to talk all about it. And we're going to take a live look now at Venice, where wedding festivities for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos take place this weekend. I want to go off script because what is this?

I've been told we are looking at dash cam footage of some kind of fireball that was seen by people in multiple states, including South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama. And in Georgia, there were reports of a piece of debris striking a home where it smashed through the roof.

the ceiling before it cracked the floor inside. The American Meteor Society received more than 150 reports about it. Mike Hanke is operations manager there. He joins us now. Thanks for being with us this morning, Mike. Hi, thank you. So I learned that this fireball, I was today years old when I learned this fireball is called a bolide. What is that? Did I pronounce it correctly? And what happened that would like allow all of us to see it?

So a bolide is a very special class of meteor, very small percentage of meteors are actually a bolide, but it's a type of meteor that's large enough that it will break apart and blow up in the sky, and then fragments from it oftentimes will fall to the Earth. And this is one of those times. It was a little piece of an asteroid that left the asteroid belt either through some crack

a push up from Jupiter or maybe another asteroid bumped into it, but journeyed towards Earth, collided with us and we see this light in the sky

whenever anything enters the atmosphere because there's tons of friction, the objects moving very fast, it compresses the air in front of it. That air heats up, glows and puts heat and pressure on that object and the object will either disappear, be evaporated or it will melt and what some of it will be left and make it to the ground. - NAS actually has some data on these going back to around 1988. Are they considered rare?

I mean, meteors have been, and bolides have been hitting the Earth as long as the dinosaurs, you know, the dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant bolide, a asteroid over, you know, a mile wide. The report that you just showed and the DOD's network of events is actually a very small percentage of the overall meteors and bolides that hit the Earth. They will only list ones that are over a meter wide.

But you could get meteorites in a nice show from something as big as a softball or even a baseball could produce a bolide. I understand that meteorite hunters are on the way en route, you said, to find out more. I don't even know what that involves. What are they looking for and what would they learn from it?

So this rock, imagine that it's the size of a shopping cart and 90% of it was obliterated, blown away. The remaining, which is probably 10 kilograms, which is 20 pounds or more, broke up into many different sized pieces and they got spread over an area called a strewn field, which is about a mile or two wide and five to 10 miles long. So if you go into that strewn field, you really just, you walk around

And you'll see black rocks on the ground and you pick them up, verify that they're actually meteorites. And then, you know, you have a piece of space. You have a rock that was literally in space yesterday in your hand. It's a very eccentric hobby. And, you know, there's some, you know, there's a few thousand people in the world that are into it. But I mean, that's kind of small overall.

But if people in the Atlanta area see these zombie-like people walking around with their heads down in parking lots, you know, I mean, that's what they're doing. - Is this like Christmas in almost July for the American Meteor Society? Are you guys stoked?

We're always happy when these events happen, especially when they're recorded and both on video, but also when they're found by people. It's special. It's happened, you know, like only six or seven times in the history of Georgia where we've had a meteor that was seen in the sky and then people recovered it. So every time it happens, it's great. Well, Mike Hanke, operations manager at the American Meteor Society, thank you for explaining it. My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

Straight ahead on CNN this morning, that so-called big beautiful bill facing a new setback in the Senate, while lawmakers are being forced to drop some key provisions, sending them scrambling this morning. Plus, it's a star-studded affair costing millions of dollars. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and their wedding festivities are taking over Venice.

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Today expected to be a blockbuster day at the Supreme Court. It's the last day of their term. The justices will hand down six opinions on some of their biggest cases of the year. Some decisions still outstanding include birthright citizenship and LGBTQ books in schools.

And in a couple of hours, closing arguments continue in the case against Sean Combs. And it's now the defense's turn. The prosecution ending their argument yesterday by saying Diddy was able to commit, quote, "crime after crime" because of his, quote, "money, power and influence." He's charged with racketeering, conspiracy and sex trafficking.

And Senate lawmakers have received a briefing about the state of Iran's nuclear program following the U.S. strikes on the nuclear facilities. Lawmakers seem split down party lines about how much damage was actually done. It still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months. We've caused catastrophic damage to Iran's nuclear program. Based on what I heard is Iran continues to be a threat.

"Obliterated" is a good word for me to use. In just a few hours, members of the House will receive their classified briefing about the attack in Iran. Following the strikes, CNN has learned the Trump administration is opening the door to restarting nuclear negotiations. Talks of easing sanctions and developing a multi-billion dollar civilian nuclear non-enrichment program all being discussed to get Iran back to the negotiating table.

Iran's foreign minister says there aren't any immediate plans to resume talks given Washington's history of betraying negotiations. All that as Iran's supreme leader in his first televised address since the Israel-Iran ceasefire promised to retaliate if the U.S. strikes again. Joining me now is CNN Global Affairs analyst Kim Dozier. Kim, good morning. Good morning.

So we've been hearing about back channels potentially opening up. We've heard also this rhetoric, though, out of Iran. So what would it even mean? What would those back channels be? Who would help facilitate that? Well, the Trump administration has been in contact with Iran through intermediaries

the day before the Saturday strikes and since what they've been trying to do all along is pressure Iran into accepting a stepped down civilian nuclear program where Iran would not enrich uranium but allow other countries to enrich it and then ship it in

even though Iran is a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty the U.S argument goes that because it had taken so many steps towards weaponization that it's lost its enrichment privileges should give them up and agree to this sort of supervised civilian nuclear program and so far Iran hasn't agreed to that

One thing I'm hearing you say, just want to underscore the idea that enriched uranium would come from outside the country and be brought in. Can you talk about the other things that might be on the table?

Well, Iran is facing a snapback of European sanctions come this fall when that original Obama era Iran nuclear deal expires. While the Trump administration pulled out of it, the European nation stayed in and those sanctions could be pretty crippling to Iran on top of lots of existing sanctions from the U.S.

So there is this carrot and stick opportunity where the US works with these European nations and says to Iran, if you say yes to this supervision, we will help you rebuild some of the sites that we helped destroy. We will give you all sorts of other reconstruction aid.

The problem is in Iran right now, the attitude is you just proved yourselves untrustworthy. Why should we negotiate with you?

You know, it seems that Trump does want another nuclear deal, right? That there's some plan. We actually heard former Secretary of State John Kerry slam the administration for pulling out of that Obama era deal, of course. I want you to listen to what he shared with our colleague Christiane Amanpour. I know this. You cannot bomb away

the memory of how to make a bomb. You can't bomb away the knowledge that they have developed. You can't bomb away, you know, the broad array of technicians who've been working on this for years, who will go back to work if that's the mission they're given by the leadership of the country. Is there a version of a deal that has more teeth than the one that was signed before, that meets the higher bar that I'm sure Israel would want as well?

well in a sense Israel has changed the game because it's crossed the Rubicon of striking Iran and will surely strike Iran again the moment it sees anything that looks like a weaponization program and so that serves as something that's in the background hovering as a threat over everything but I have to emphasize that within Iran there's always been this debate

and the Supreme Leader had ruled against it to build a weapon to protect itself.

Now the hardliners in the regime who've been arguing with the Supreme Leader to say, we've got to build at least one bomb so no one does this again, they're going to be empowered. And that's going to weigh heavily against any voices that say, hey, let's say yes to a deal with the Americans who just struck us and the Europeans who are powerless to stop Israel or the United States.

Kimberly Dozier is CNN's global affairs analyst. And later today on CNN, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog is in the Situation Room to discuss what his agency is learning about the state of Iran's nuclear facilities now following those U.S. strikes. You can watch that today at 11 a.m.

And Republicans in the Senate are scrambling because they were hoping to pass the president's spending and tax bill by this weekend, and they've hit a roadblock. The Senate parliamentarian struck down a key Medicaid change because it violated the chamber's strict budget rules. So they're going to have to redraft all of it. But this would be a chance to fix it. I mean, this would be a chance for leadership to fix it and actually do something right here that's not going to hurt rural hospitals.

So some lawmakers are now considering resurrecting the House's version of cuts to Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Offices have said that if the bill passes, more than 10.9 million more people would not have health care. CNN's Jeff Zeleny takes a look at the real-world implications of Medicaid cuts to Americans across the country. I know that they're saying that they're not planning to cut Medicaid, right? I reached out concerned

that if any changes are made, there will be this trickle-down effect that will impact families like mine. -The front lines of the Medicaid debate are right here in Courtney Leder's kitchen. What is the face of Medicaid, do you think? And is it different than you think some people may assume? -I mean, we are the face of Medicaid. -The Missouri mother of five wrote her Republican senator, Josh Hawley, to explain how slashing benefits would be devastating to her 9-year-old daughter, Serena,

who lives with brain damage and cerebral palsy. Our private insurance won't cover the formula, it doesn't cover the feeding tube pump. The hit on our budget, it would be over $1,500 a month.

just for the formula, just for the pump rental. And those are things that we have to have to keep my daughter alive. Oh, there's my beautiful smile. We came along for the ride, sitting behind Serena's nurse, who's funded by Medicaid, as they drove to weekly therapy sessions, also paid by Medicaid, which more than one in five Missourians rely on for health coverage. We cannot let

people like my daughter lose her benefits. And if anybody tells you that, oh, she's covered, she's protected, I would really encourage you to say how. What provisions have you made to make sure that those who meet eligibility requirements are covered?

We visited Ozarks Food Harvest, which distributes food across one-third of Missouri. What is the demand like for food? Unfortunately, Jeff, right now, the demand for food is quite a bit higher than it was even at the height of the COVID crisis. Congress is weighing billions in cuts to food assistance programs like SNAP, once known as food stamps.

That will increase demand at already crowded food pantries like this. How important is this food to you? Well, it really helps us get through the month and they have a good variety of things. Your husband got hurt in an accident? Yeah, he fell between 10 and 11 feet, man, on top of his head. But it kind of changed everything. We were in the process of getting all of our ducks in a row, so to speak, for retirement. And then he got hurt really bad and it just upside downed everything. And so food pantries do that, have helped us through the situation.

Another hotly contested piece of the spending bill is deep cuts to rural hospitals. Inside a maternity ward in Clinton, Missouri, Dr. Jennifer Blair worries for her patients. Missouri has the fourth largest number of maternity care deserts. We actually are surrounded by several maternity care deserts that's

defined as a county that has no or very limited access to obstetric services for their patients. If we were to lose that access, the birthing center here at Golden Valley, our patients would have to travel more than 60 miles. Four out of five babies that are delivered in our hospital are covered by Medicaid.

And that's not unique to us. Craig Thompson is CEO of Golden Valley Memorial. He said many rural hospitals in Missouri and across the country are at high risk for closure. What is your hope for what happens over the next couple weeks in Washington in this debate? Well, I think the thing that...

again, would be beneficial is for better understanding of who Medicaid serves and what the real Medicaid face looks like. Because again, I think that's been lost somewhere along the way. Courtney Leder shares that hope too. I do not have my daughter enrolled on Medicaid so that we can have fancy things. I have my daughter enrolled in Medicaid so that we can keep her alive. What do you worry about the most?

I'm worried that the red tape is going to affect our Medicaid because of just the oversight burdens and that as a result, I'm going to lose my daughter. CNN's Jeff Zeleny. Thank you. Now, the Senate, of course, hope to pass their bill by this Saturday and have it on the president's desk by July 4th. But with this new development, it could be back to the drawing board.

Everything is challenging, but they're all speed bumps. And we will we have contingency plans, plan B and plan C. The group chat is back. Rob, I just want to start with you because that piece out of Missouri, out of the state of the Republican who's kind of raising the loudest ruckus about this. And is can you mark the moment where you have this many Republicans basically defending a safety net program?

Sure, and I think those are the key words, a safety net program, Audie. And I think that we need to get to a point where hopefully those individuals are prospering and successful and have the economic means not to necessarily rely on Medicaid as their means of getting health care. There is concern among Republicans, as you've said, because they recognize that those are our voters. Increasingly, those are individuals who've left the Democrat Party and gone to the Republican Party.

There is a reason why you see this debate playing out the way it is. And the frustration is now with the Senate parliamentarian, an unelected bureaucrat in Washington, DC. And there's a move afoot by people like Senators Roger Marshall, Tommy Tuberville, and Marsha Blackburn to impose a term limit or fire that person.

because they've made other changes to Medicaid, specifically as it relates to illegal immigrants in this country and whether or not they can access those services. - Let me add to your point, just because Senator Mark Wayne Mullen also raising concerns about the Senate parliamentarian along those lines, here was their take.

It seems politically motivated and I have a problem with that. The parliamentarian is not supposed to be in politics and I'm not accusing her of that. I haven't heard her explanation of it. I want to see it. Before I just take this decision, I want to see how she got to the decision. When you're blaming the parliamentarian, Rob says term limits and throw the buns out.

I've also heard blaming the Congressional Budget Office. I mean, Washington is filled with unelected bureaucrats who are making decisions. This is just a decision that Republicans don't like. And before this, this July 4th deadline is something that the president has said.

It's not real. He just wants it done. The Senate's slow, and this is why the Senate is slow. They work on the details. They talk a lot, and things get hammered out. And the parliamentarian didn't make up these rules. These are the Senate rules, and she's just requiring that they follow them. It's my law.

Right. And so that's what's going on here. When you're attacking the process, it's because you've kind of run out of other arguments. No offense, Rob. I think what's really important here, Adi, is the piece that we just saw that Jeff did in talking to Serena and her mother. That is the face of the people who need Medicaid. It's not the undocumented immigrants that are getting Medicaid. It's not people who are

you know, abusing it or who are involved in fraud. It is Serena and her family. And so I love that we are putting a face to this because sometimes our arguments here can become so esoteric. Millions of people like Serena are going to lose that health care if this bill passes. And that's why you have three fourths of the American people

hate this bill. So the politics of this all around from coast to coast and up and down in this country, including in red states as we have seen with Senator Hawley,

awful and Republicans know it. Well, let's step back from the polling issue reference. And I just want to read something as we close out from Stephen Collinson, our columnist here at CNN. And he talks about the bill being barely recognizable from the one that the House passed. And that's trouble for Speaker Mike Johnson, who's under great pressure to get whatever the Senate produces back through the House.

And that is the question going forward. The House has done its work, and now this thing is taking a very different form. We're going to talk more about this group chat. Stick around. After the break on CNN this morning, the final day of the term for the Supreme Court, multiple opinions will be delivered today. The consequential case is still pending. Plus, the New York City Democratic primary still making waves. Days later, it has Democrats nationwide wondering if this situation

can be a new blueprint. More from the chat after this. It's the final day of the Supreme Court's term. We're watching closely as the justices prepare to release a flurry of rulings, decisions on birthright citizenship, LGBTQ books in schools, and how to keep minors from accessing porn websites. All that's on the table. Just yesterday,

the court issued a decision banning the use of federal Medicaid funds to support Planned Parenthood. Joining us now is CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic. Good morning, Joan. Thanks for coming in. Sure. So one of the things I found interesting about the ruling yesterday was there's this little kind of battle in the comments, so to speak, where you had Katonji Brown-Jackson kind of

talking with Justice Thomas. They were going back and forth over an issue that at first I didn't think was actually related to Medicaid. Can you explain? Okay. First of all, there has been so much drama in the writing between those two justices and Justice Jackson and others that I'm going to be watching to see how much it bursts forth

in actually the room orally today. But let me just explain what upset Justice Jackson, who dissented yesterday when the majority, with Clarence Thomas signing on, said,

effectively endorsed the fact that South Carolina had pulled Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood because it does abortions. And the question was, could recipients of Medicaid and Planned Parenthood sue South Carolina for being denied recipients' ability to have the physician of their choice? And they wanted to sue under civil rights law. And Justice Jackson dissent said, if they are

And you are undercutting this law not to let it be available for these women and Planned Parenthood to have a private right to sue. That was the actual issue, to sue. But Justice Jackson stepped back and said, you know, historically, look at how this law has been used. Look at how important it has been to vindicate civil rights claims, and you're denying it. And both...

Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion, and Clarence Thomas took issue with that dissent, both saying, you know, you're overreacting. This is not what's happening here. But this is exactly where the heat on this court has been joined, is that for Justice Jackson and her fellow liberals, this is not business as usual. It should not be business as usual.

And I think, Audie, we've seen that play out in other cases. She has been especially vocal. You'll remember she came on in 2022, succeeding Stephen Breyer. And has not been a shy freshman. No, not at all. And she's, some of her, Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor have actually separated themselves from her at times. But, yeah.

Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined all of it yesterday. And I think what we're gonna see with these remaining cases that you've mentioned is where will they find compromise, if at all? And will these liberals dig in more

essentially motivated by Justice Jackson saying, let's call it out. You know, we've we've tried to compromise. There is no middle really anymore. Let's call it out. What's one case everybody's going to be talking about? And what's one case you know as the expert is going to be interesting to hear? Everybody's interested in the showdown with Donald Trump over his election.

effort to lift birthright citizenship. That is the fact that children of anyone born here automatically become citizens and he doesn't think non-citizens or people here on temporary visas should be able to entitle their children that way.

But the real issue there is the power of an individual federal court judge at any place in the country to block parts of Donald Trump's agenda for nationwide. And that's happened not just on birthright citizenship, but many other programs. So what these justices are faced with is not just a question that has the backdrop of birthright citizenship, but the power of lower court judges to be a check

on the Trump administration. You know, you've heard all these complaints about the fact that he's issued so many executive orders and that they've been blocked. That's like the first line of defense. But the first line of support for the Trump administration has essentially been the Supreme Court. And will they now empower the Trump administration to surmount these district court injunctions? So I'll be watching for that. And then one that's a really human case is one for

from this area, Montgomery County, Maryland, where parents have want, parents for religious reasons would like their elementary age children to not have to have instructional materials that have LGBTQ themes.

And they're asking for an opt out from that based on their religious rights. And the school district has said no. So that's one that, you know, again, has that a real social policy backdrop, too. But as I said, what I'll be watching for is not just when individual justices read their majority opinions, but who descends from the bench and what kind of fireworks we see in the chamber. OK, fireworks. Joan Piskipic, CNN chief Supreme Court analyst. Thanks so much. It's now 54 minutes past the hour. Here's your morning roundup.

New this morning, China now signaling it will approve a deal to export rare earth minerals to the U.S. This comes just hours after the White House said the two sides reached an agreement. Rare earths have been the focus of the trade talks between the U.S. and China for weeks now. China controls around 90% of the globe's rare earth minerals.

The Trump administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego-Garcia to a third country. Abrego-Garcia is the Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year. He's now being held in Tennessee and could be released to DHS custody as soon as today.

and wedding bills ringing in Venice today. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are expected to tie the knot. Details about the star-studded event being kept mostly under wraps due to protests in the city. The entire weekend of the festivities is expected to cost

up to $55 million. And Democrats nationwide are wondering what the victory of the self-described democratic socialist in the New York City mayoral primary means for their party. Zoran Mamdani knocked off former governor Andrew Cuomo to clinch the nomination earlier this week. Mamdani says he ran focusing on a local problem for New Yorkers.

This entire race was about the question of affordability. And ultimately, I have run a campaign that speaks about the tools that city government actually has to deliver that affordability in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the world. And it's time that we have a mayoral administration that follows through and actually delivers that. Okay, for one of his major supporters, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, well, she believes his win is a wake-up call for her party nationwide.

We have a choice to listen to that message that people are sending us or not. This isn't just about Mr. Mamdani as an individual. This is about the message that the people of New York City are trying to send to our party.

Group chat is back. Maria, I want to start with you because every time there's like a Democrat who wins somewhere in the country, like a consultant gets their wings, right? It's like, guess what? This is the roadmap. But is this a New York story or is this a New York Democrat story? Like, is it applicable?

it is applicable in tactics and it is applicable in how you present yourself to voters and in how you run a campaign. There is no question that Mamdani

Hit a nerve. He was incredibly authentic. He used social media like a pro He talked to voters everywhere and anywhere He did not shy away from any kind of podcast interview in or you know a conversation with voter wherever it happened or question or questions he didn't shy away about the the difficult issues and

He focused like a laser on affordability. And I think that was brilliant. So I think the takeaway for Democrats is look at the tactics that he used. Use them in your own campaign. It doesn't mean that you have to embrace his policy position on every single issue. You have to look at what your politics are in your district and in your state. The way that a Democrat is going to run in Wisconsin is not going to be the same way policy-wise that he ran here, but they can adopt policies

the tactics that you use but let me listen to their voter ask rob something because a lot of republicans online res a kid say crashing out uh... and you know you actually have finally a muslim socialist that you can complain about and so how do you message against someone who is willing to do the trump model go anywhere take any question the retail oriented he certainly charismatic he carries a populist message which obviously resonated in new york i will say at the same time

Turnout was around 20%. And if you look at his coalition, it was highly educated white individuals. He didn't necessarily bring along the black community. So I think he still has some work to do. He won the Asian vote. He still has some work to do, is my point. And as it comes to Republicans and conservatives, yes, they will point to him and they will point to the policies that he, as a mayor, would implement because I think that that is a contrast that they would like to show the American people about where the Democrat Party's headed versus Republicans.

where they are. Let me give you the last word, Jackie. I think we'll see a lot of the same things we saw when Bernie Sanders ran for president because the ideological, their fellow travelers. So I think I don't think he is saying listen, but I don't but I don't think this in terms of how Republicans will potentially use this. I don't think this stops in New York City. I think this is going to be a nationwide conversation, particularly if he wins.

All right, you guys, thank you so much for waking up with me. We talked about a lot today, fireballs, diplomacy. You guys always manage to do it with a lot of joy. I appreciate it. I want to thank you for joining us today. You can stick around for the news headlines. They're going to start right now with CNN News Central. I'm Adi Cornish.

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