>> i'm looking to see what more seeps out about these attacks on iran, whether there is an honest assessment inside the administration of the intelligence. we're seeing outside indications, perhaps from the iaea and some other indicators that perhaps they weren't as successful as the president said. is the administration now going to make policy based on what actually they find out what happens? or is this going to be skewed because the president has so much invested in them being a massive success and the nuclear program being obliterated? >> yeah. it's funny. i'm going to be watching both trump and netanyahu and the supreme leader of this triptych who comes out. what do they say? i think there's more conversation there. thank you. to the group chat. we talked about a lot today. appreciate you guys. i'm audie cornish and cnn news starts right now.

>> breaking this morning a call for help turns into a deadly. >> ambush in idaho. >> two firefighters are killed. the suspect found dead overnight in the fire. the sheriff says was intentionally set as bait is still burning. so many questions this morning. >> a dramatic. >> split overnight. >> a republican senator breaks from the president on his huge tax and spending bill and seemingly breaks from the president politically, saying he won't run for reelection. is the signature legislation in jeopardy as soon as today? >> and it's full of alligators, pythons, and now protesters, the so-called alligator alcatraz detention center in florida is sparking outrage, as governor ron desantis says the first migrant detainees could arrive as soon as tomorrow. i'm sarah seiden with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central

the breaking news is suspected sniper found dead and now a massive investigation is really just getting underway after what the sheriff says started as an emergency response to a brush fire turned into an ambush on first responders in idaho. >> two firefighters were killed. the sheriff says a third firefighter was also shot and is still fighting for his life. calls into emergency dispatch in the midst of it paint a terrifying scene of the moments they realized that they were under attack. >> right now, there's an active shooter zone. there's not just beat three down, beat one, down. everybody shot up here. law enforcement code three up here. >> the ambush sparked a huge response from law enforcement. more than 300 officers from various agencies and neighboring counties were all called up to help. at one point, officers

exchanged gunfire with the suspect, but it was more than six hours after that first fire call that his body was found this morning. fire crews are still working to contain the fire that he allegedly started still burning on idaho's canfield mountain. cnn's julia vargas jones is live in coeur d'alene, idaho, with the very latest. what are you learning? >> good morning kate. well, the. >> plan today. >> from authorities. >> is to go back to that location where the body of the shooter was found for further investigations. what are they looking for? they're looking for more weapons and more ammunition that that gunman may or may not have had with him. now they had to remove the body from that location relatively quickly. they said last night in a press conference, because of the threat of that fire. so we have not learned any further details about who this gunman was or what were the weapons that he had with him. but we did

hear from the sheriff of kootenai county here in coeur d'alene, talking about the very nature of this attack and what that was like for the firefighters that were responding on the scene. >> this was a total ambush. these firefighters did not have a chance. when you have a an environment where you don't know where the bullets are coming from because of the the trees and the shrubbery and what have you. it's it is daunting for police officers, let alone firefighters who are there just to to put out the fire. >> unimaginable. what these firefighters went through. and now this community is also left with so many questions as the investigation continues in the coming days. now, i do want to share with you one interesting detail is that authorities did use his cell phone. the shooter's cell phone, to ping his location. and as you mentioned, they had exchanged fire with him. but that for

another 90 minutes is how they tried to triangulate him until he eventually was neutralized. we don't know how he died at this time, but that fire in that location continues to burn. it is now called the nettleton gulch fire, and authorities will be going up today as daylight breaks here much more to learn. >> julia, thank you so much for being there for us, sarah. >> all right. thank you, kate. joining us now is cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. there are a lot of questions. i'm curious from the perspective, from your perspective of law enforcement, what questions do you have as you hear this laid out where there was an ambush? according to authorities, there were shots going off constantly from the suspect as firefighters were trying to put out a fire that he allegedly caused. >> sure. >> sarah, there's, as you

reference. >> a million questions here and most of them right now for me are focused on the shooter himself. is not that person has not been identified, but one of the first things investigators who now are taking kind of the lead with this investigation since the tactical response has been resolved, the investigators are going to try to determine not just who this this person was, but what got him to this point, they're probably preparing to execute search warrants at his residence. maybe on to locate vehicles that are registered to him and search those as well. they want to identify family members, friends, work associates, whoever they can to share insights about this person and to shed light on the motive of how he got into this or provoked this deadly shootout with with firefighters and of course, hovering in the back of their mind is the question, was there anyone else who helped with this? could there have been another shooter present at that location and participating in

the attack, or could somebody have simply helped him prepare for it? arm himself, you know, that sort of thing. because you want to know, is there someone else out here who might be like minded and who might try to stage a similar attack in the future? >> yeah, i mean, that's always the big fear. or if there are people that see this and decide to be copycats, i am curious if you have ever in your history in law enforcement, seen something like this. one of the the investigators had said the sheriff actually had said, look, we have seen at times in urban settings, firefighters coming under fire during, you know, huge protests or huge riots. but had never seen something like this. do you recall anything like this ever happening before? >> no, not at all. i mean, i think i think those observations are accurate. i think in large metropolitan areas sometimes when there's a when there's a large fire response in an area that's experienced some sort of

disruption, protest activity, things like that, every once in a while you'll have someone takes an opportunistic shot at responding officers that might include firefighters. it's really exceedingly rare. and it's not. it doesn't it doesn't come off as a planned attack. it's just somebody who is angry and doing something stupid. essentially, this is the exact opposite of that. this person. if the if the facts are as they've been laid out by the sheriff, this person deliberately set a brush fire for the purpose of attracting firefighters, not police officers, but firefighters to that scene. and then laid in wait for them using some sort of a high powered rifle, hunting rifle, sporting rifle, something like that, to try to kill as many of those firefighters as he could. i mean, that is in my experience there. that's that's unprecedented in certainly in recent law enforcement history. >> yeah, that's a really good

way to put it. and there are two firefighters who have been killed, one injured in all of this. as police continue to figure out exactly what the motive was behind this, why this person ended up doing this horrible, horrible crime. andrew mccabe, thank you so much for your expertise. really appreciate it. john. >> all right. breaking overnight, a key senate republican announcing he will not seek reelection as he splits from the president on his signature legislation. and if you are one of the millions of people gearing up to hit the road for the 4th of july, you could be in for a surprise at the pump and a mid-air stunt goes wrong, leaving beyonce hovering high above the crowd in a flying cadillac. find out what happens next. >> i avoided. >> the mirror. >> i felt alone. >> for a long time. >> i remember going home and praying. >> for it to. >> go away, not thinking it was

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tillis said he could not stomach the hit to medicaid and issued a warning in a fiery speech on the senate floor overnight. >> now republicans. are about to make a mistake on health care and betraying a promise. it is inescapable that this bill, in its current form, will betray the very promise that donald j. trump made in the oval office or in the cabinet room when i was there with finance, where he said, we can go after waste, fraud and abuse on any programs sounds very much like a senator not running for reelection. >> let's get right to cnn's arlette saenz on capitol hill for what we're about to see. arlette. >> yeah. >> john. >> good morning. >> the senate. >> worked through the. weekend and they will be. >> back at it this morning. we anticipate that around 9 a.m. they will begin their so-called vote-a-rama. this is a process where senators can bring up amendments to the bill. and it

follows a weekend of dealmaking and cajoling to try to get republican senators on board. this bill cleared that key procedural hurdle over the weekend, with only two no votes, rand paul and thom tillis. and as you mentioned, thom tillis stunned many up here on capitol hill by announcing that he would not seek reelection. now, he told reporters yesterday that he respects president trump, but he believes that this bill, specifically the concerns about medicaid, are a mistake. take a listen to more of what he said in that fiery speech last night. >> i believe that we can make sure that we do not break the promise of donald j. trump that he's made to the people who are on medicaid today. mr. president, but what we're doing, because we've got a view on an artificial deadline on july 4th, that means nothing but another date and time. we could take the time to get this right. if we lay down the house mark of the medicaid bill and fix it.

>> now, this vote-a-rama that will kick off at 9 a.m. here in the senate could extend for several hours. we anticipate the democrats who have railed against the bill. they will present their own amendments. but then there are also a number of amendments that the republican side will present to try to keep some gop senators on board. one of those amendments comes from senator rick scott of florida, who is suggesting reducing the federal matching rate for medicaid for states that had expanded medicaid under president barack obama. senator susan collins of maine is also expected to present some amendments. and then there will be a lot of eyes on senator lisa murkowski of alaska. there were two provisions that would have benefited her state that had been introduced to try to win her over, and the senate parliamentarian ruled that those could not proceed. so there's still a lot of work that needs to be done in the senate. they can only afford to lose three republican votes. and then there's still all the work that would need to happen in the house, as that they would also need to clear a conservatives,

moderate republicans all across the spectrum to try to get this bill passed by that july 4th deadline that the president has set. >> all right. a lot of activity arlette saenz on capitol hill were you're about to see a lot of arm twisting. thank you very much, arlette. nothing more charming. and you've been there. nothing more charming than the senator is working on a little sleep. >> well, i was saying a vote-a-rama almost sounds fun, but that depends on your definition of fun. >> you know, as long as you haven't been there, which you have, and then you know the truth. >> but, i mean, it's just uncertainty about now what we're going to be seeing. it's all going to start playing out in the 9:00 hour. and then there's also this they call it alligator alcatraz, a small airstrip in the middle of the florida everglades turned into a migrant detention center. now, hundreds of protesters are showing up to try to put a stop to it. and raining cash in detroit, a helicopter dumps thousands of dollars from the sky after a man's funeral. his family says it was his way of giving back.

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effort to say that the everglades are not a backdrop for political theater. >> they're using sacred land for such a sinister and vile goal and goal, which is not okay in any sense of the word. and on top of that, it's just the environmental impact that this will have as well. >> and state officials have said that this alligator alcatraz will be, quote, efficient and low cost because mother nature will provide most of the security via pythons and alligators. and i want to quickly show you this post by dhs, and i picture that they posted on x showing an alligator with an ice hat right there in front of a jail facility. of cocourse kate, extremely offense to immigrants rights groups. >> isabel, thank you so much. let's see what happens with this. sarah. >> all right. breaking overnight. an ambush like law enforcement has not seen before. firefighters lured out to attack

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canfield mountain with a gun nearby. authorities said the suspect deliberately started a brush fire to lure fire crews to the mountain yesterday. then, as firefighters responded, he opened fire on them. two firefighters were killed. a third was wounded and underwent surgery and is now in stable condition, according to authorities. the sheriff says the loss of two firefighters gunned down while trying to simply do their jobs, and is extremely difficult tragedy to comprehend. >> it hasn't sunk in yet. i mean, this this is a situation where i don't think a lot of us in this room has processed this so yeah, i this community supports firefighters and law enforcement. >> members of the community lined the streets for a procession transporting the two firefighters killed in that attack. officials have not yet released their names. kate.

>> let's turn to this right now. so what is thom tillis going to do today? the republican senator says that his party is about to make a mistake. he voted no on the procedural vote for the president's massive tax and spending bill. over the weekend, he was attacked by the president, who promised to meet with primary challengers, then against senator tillis, to which tillis essentially responded with, i'm out announcing he's no longer going to seek reelection and taking to the senate floor to have his say. >> what do i tell 663,000 people and two years or three years when president trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid, because the funding is not there. >> now, the senate's gearing up for a marathon day of votes to move this bill forward. today. the president clearly is watching this closely. all the reporting is viewing this. what's playing out in the senate as a loyalty test. now,

cnn's betsy klein is at the white house for us to kick us off from the perspective from there this morning, which is an important one. how is the white house? how is the president viewing what happened over the weekend and what we're about to see start playing out come 9 a.m.? >> yeah. you can be sure the president. >> is tracking every. twist and turn in this process, especially on saturday night, making calls late from the oval office and even taking direct aim at senator thom tillis as that north carolina republican announced that he would be voting no on this bill. the president threatened to primary tillis even before the vote, had gaveled out. and he said in a post to social media on sunday that tillis has hurt the great people of north carolina and that he is a talker and a complainer, not a doer. and of course, after tillis announced his retirement on sunday, the president called that, quote, great news. but the reality is that this big, beautiful bill is

so sprawling, it has provisions for border security. it ends many of those green energy subsidies from the biden era. it raises the debt ceiling, reimagines medicare policy. it extends tax cuts that there are some serious and diverse concerns from within the republican party on the size and scope and the cost of this bill. the president appearing to address that yesterday as he wrote, quote, for all cost cutting republicans, of which i am one, remember, you still have to get reelected. don't go too crazy. we will make it all up times ten with growth more than ever before. now the president views this bill as key to unlocking his domestic agenda. it's really a question of loyalty for these republican lawmakers. and the white house says that voting no on this bill is an ultimate betrayal. but democrats, for their part, are starting to coalesce around their messaging. they say that this bill would lower taxes on the wealthy and hurt working americans. all of this setting up a major test for the 2026

midterm elections. kate. >> absolutely. a lot to happen today. it's good to see betsy starting us off this morning, john. >> all right. with us now, doug heye, a republican strategist who happens to hail from north carolina, and christine quinn, president and ceo of the group, win. she's also the executive committee chair of the new york state democratic committee. and, doug, i want to start with you, north carolina. man, on senator thom tillis, who announced dramatically over the weekend he's not going to run for reelection. he split with president trump on the tax and spending bill. what is the decision from tillis? tell you it tells me. >> that he found. himself in. >> an impossible position. >> and look. >> you know, history tells us that north carolina senate races are always close. there's not been a double digit senate win since 1974. in north carolina, tillis was going to have a tough primary, and he was going to have a tough general. but ultimately, i think you try and stick these things out. and john, last night, you know, as as i was trying to think about things, i was on the roof of my

building having a cigar, and i looked at the light that was shining on top of the capitol. and i thought about what i heard so many times from members of congress who said things like thom tillis saying, you know, i can't serve as the member that i want to be. and i thought of don corleone shaking, johnny fontane, saying, you can act like a man when you take that oath. you're taking an oath not to donald trump, not to barack obama or any other politician. you're taking an oath to the constitution and ultimately to your constituents. and when you make a deal with the devil, it comes with a cost. this is what thom tillis has learned time and time again. it's what every republican learns. and ultimately, it's why tillis has decided to step down. >> are you saying his decision came too late, or are you saying that he should have stayed in and fought against the things that he finds himself opposed to? >> look, i would say stay in and fight. for what? for what you believe in. but we've seen so many republican senators, members of congress, and this isn't necessarily a donald trump thing. this goes back to

2010, 2012, where we saw a lot of republican house members doing these same things. senators as well. you know, you're elected for a reason. it's to serve your constituents. and regardless of whether or not you're going to have a tough race. and by the way, if this ends up being lara trump versus roy cooper, north carolina is going to be wrestlemania three. andre the giant versus hulk hogan. the most targeted senate race in the country. but you're elected to do things for a reason. and ultimately, i think quite often we forget that in washington. >> so christine quinn, on the legislation itself, you're a democrat watching what's going on. you know, tillis making his dramatic stand there is this thing getting passed for all the drama that we're going to see today, tomorrow. do you think this thing is eventually getting through no matter what? >> i mean, i. >> hope not, but i think you probably will get through, and i think it will be devastating for americans across the country. we're going to see, by some accounts, 12 million. some accounts, 16 million people lose their insurance coverage, lose their medicaid. i work every day with homeless families. we're terrified about how much snap

food stamp benefits they might lose. and this is all to fuel massive tax cuts for the rich. i mean, the american public are very clear. they understand this bill. the vast majority of americans are opposed to this bill, think it is bad for them and not why they voted for donald trump. so i think it's going to happen, and i think it's going to have terrible results. and i think that will move into the midterms, and we're going to see americans stand up and say, no, this isn't what i thought i was buying. >> so we had doug high, north carolina man on the north carolina situation. we have christine quinn, new york city woman on what's going on here. and i think really the ripple effects and reverberations around the country, you have zohran mamdani, who by all accounts will win the new york democratic primary for mayor. i mean, they still have to count the second round and all whatnot. but he's being asked repeatedly about many of the things he said and where he stands. and over the weekend he was asked about billionaires in general. listen to what he said. >> do you think that billionaires have a right to

exist? >> i don't think. >> that we should have. >> billionaires because frankly, it is so much money. in a moment of such inequality. and ultimately what we need more of is equality across our. >> city and across. >> our state. >> and across our country. >> and i look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them i don't think we should have billionaires. >> so what do you think when you hear that? >> well, look, i think the real message there is we need less inequality. we need more affordability. it isn't right that such a huge amount of the country and new york's money is all in the hands of a very few. we need to be able to bring people up, create good jobs, which true living wages, so we can have greater equality. i don't think you can argue with the fact that we have a system that lacks equity, a system where not just low income people, but middle class people aren't able to make ends meet in this country. and then you

have people having $500 million or whatever it was weddings in venice. that's galling to people who are working so hard just to pay the bills. but look, every billionaire we have, we should tax them accordingly because that helps fuel all of our services and all the needs we have in this city. >> so, doug heye, when you hear that messaging from amdani, i don't think we should have billionaires. how does that play around the country? >> well, i think republicans feel that there's a real opportunity with this statement and obviously other things that mamdani has said. the republican governors association is going to use this in the new jersey governor's race. it's the same media market. the national republican congressional committee is going to use this in targeted races throughout the country. they look at what happened in new york city as an opportunity for them to highlight how far left the democratic party has gone. >> christine, and how will democrats counter that? >> you know what? they'll counter that with today's vote-a-rama. and every time senate republicans and republicans in washington vote against working people, these

are people who now own kicking 12 or 16 million people off of medicaid, putting people who need coverage without coverage, putting sick people without the care they need. that is what republicans will own. and that is what americans are going to reject in the midterms. that's what i believe. >> christine quinn doug heye, new york city, north carolina one place, one time. thank you both for being part of this, sarah. >> all right. new this morning, the washington post is reporting the u.s. intercepted communications between senior iranian officials who downplay the damage from recent american strikes. that's in direct contrast, of course, to president trump's claim that those strikes, quote, obliterated iran's nuclear sites. he's also insisting iran didn't have time to move its enriched uranium. meantime, a warning from the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog, iran, could resume uranium enrichment. it says in just months. cnn's nic robertson is live in jerusalem. for us, i am curious

about how this is being responded to by israel, by iran. what are you learning yeah, look, the iranians have been very, very clear from the get go that they think that they run the 12 day conflict with israel, that they believe that they struck military targets here, that they did landed a devastating blow on urban areas. >> we've heard that from the supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei. it's i think when we listen to iran discuss and declare how much of their uranium enrichment production facilities are still intact, it should be taken with a pinch of salt. why? because their assessment of what the damage they did to israel doesn't bear reality. we can't inspect the sites in iran ourselves. there isn't good accurate on the ground information, but what they are saying diplomatically, and this is what iran's ambassador to the united nations said just yesterday. he said no

one's going to stop iran's enrichment of uranium. it's an entitlement. they're going to do it. they believe in it's an international legal entitlement for them to be able to do that for for peaceful civilian power generating needs. the narrative that iran generates here is that it it intends to go back to producing uranium. the narrative is that they don't feel this is the right time for negotiations with the united states, because they feel that the united states joined israel in the strikes on iran. so i think the iranian position on this, the details of what happened on the ground may not be clear, but their intent does seem to be clear. >> yeah. i do want to sort of switch gears here. there is such extreme desperation, starvation, destruction in gaza. what are you learning about prime minister netanyahu's priorities

now in this war? and do you see a sense that there is a shift you do get that. >> yesterday, for the first time, prime minister netanyahu, using the 12 day conflict with iran, describing it as a success and therefore there were opportunities coming from that, he described getting the hostages out of gaza as his primary goal, then dealing with hamas. now, prior to this, his always said the way to get the hostages out was to defeat hamas. so his shifting the priorities. so that narrative is changing. we've heard the government described us yesterday that the security situation around gaza is no longer dangerous in those communities. the kibbutz right next to gaza, that hamas overrun on october 7th. that's a new narrative. the prime minister is creating a sense, and this has been welcomed by the hostage families, that the hostages are now the priority and again, his

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>> friday's landmark supreme court ruling limiting a federal judge's authority to issue nationwide injunctions to curb executive power. it was a big victory for president trump. the six three decision clears the way for the trump administration to expand its already broad view of presidential authority. but what it did not do was decide on the merits of the constitutional question. that was before the court of birthright citizenship. the main substance of the case. many democrats are furious with this outcome so far, saying it's unraveling the foundation of american democracy. >> by taking. >> away the power of courts to restrain the president when he is clearly acting in an unlawful manner, as he is when he says that children born in the united states are no longer citizens. you are assisting him in trying to undermine the rule of law and undermine our democracy. >> joining us now for a reality check of where things are right now with this, cnn's senior

legal analyst, elie honig is here. so, elie, the immediate result is the the plaintiffs, if you will, if you will, they go back to the trial level district court on this. so what exactly as they head there, what exactly has changed or has not changed with this supreme court decision? >> so today we begin the process of picking through the rubble. essentially. what is. >> not. >> changed is. >> that the. >> federal district court's trial level courts still do have the power to review a presidential action to find it unconstitutional, and to block it through what we call an injunction. what has. changed is the scope. >> of those injunctions. >> now, we know those injunctions. >> can only apply, really, with some narrow exceptions. to the actual. parties to the case. what district court judges cannot do anymore? again, with some narrow exceptions, is issue nationwide injunctions that sweep beyond just the parties there in the court. >> and to. >> the entire country. that's a major reduction. >> in. >> judicial power with respect to the presidency. >> are there still ways with this? are there still ways for a district court to block a president's actions in a way

that applies beyond maybe that one plaintiff? >> there are, there are. and the supreme court gave us a hint what some of these can be. i know you have a couple ags coming up later. so one of them is if there is a lawsuit brought by a state, state of new jersey. state of colorado, there's an argument that the ruling could apply to the entire state. another is what we call class actions. and watch for a lot of these cases to try to transfer into class actions. that's when a couple of named plaintiffs go into court. but they're really they're representing a very broad class of people, perhaps in this case, all children born to noncitizen parents. now, that's easier said than done, though. >> people sort of say so. >> yeah. people have been casually saying, well, everything will turn into a class action. it's really hard to get certified approved as a class action, but that's another way that plaintiffs can seek broader relief. >> and then on. so everyone thought, but wait a second, this was about birthright citizenship, right? so this this supreme court did not rule on the substance of that constitutional question that the president has raised on birthright citizenship. how do you see that legal fight now

playing. >> out chaotically? yes. they have not answered the birthright citizenship question. we could end up in a scenario where there are 22 states that have sued to challenge trump's effort to limit birthright. it could be that we have different laws in those 22 states or different judicial holds. >> 22 different rules on birthright citizenship in 22 different states. >> yes. well, we could have one set of rules in the 22 states that have sued another set of rules in the 28 states that have not that is wild. and that's why this is going to be so chaotic. ultimately, the supreme court is ultimately going to have to decide this hopefully sooner than later. i actually think they're going to strike down donald trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship. but until they do, we're going to be in this great unknown, and they're going to be picking through the rubble. the rubble here really piece by piece. but yeah, we could have a scenario where new jersey. a child born in new jersey is a citizen, a child born across the river in pennsylvania is not a citizen under the exact same circumstances. >> when it comes to the supreme court or it always involves what are the broader implications of.

and so what are the broader implications of what has already been decided? >> so this ruling sweeps way beyond birthright citizenship. this sweeps to everything. think about all. there's been about two dozen or so different trump initiatives that district courts have put on hold nationwide from his immigration enforcement to the firing of federal employees, withholding of federal funding, all of those cases now are in flux. and the question is, are those decisions going to be able to sweep nationwide? the answer as of right now is no. but that's why we're going to start seeing later this afternoon parties on all those cases filtering back into courts, trying to figure out what do we do now, these decisions that had been blocked nationwide. now they're only blocked as to the 2 or 3 or however many plaintiffs are in court. so what do we do? so it's going to be an uncertain period for sure. and it's way beyond birthright citizenship. it's to all the presidential initiatives. i should add, though, this is not a trump specific issue. the biden administration asked for the exact same thing. the trump administration just asked for and got. this is something that's 20 years old or so. this

idea of nationwide injunctions. and now that tool is gone and it decreases the power of the judiciary, increases the power of the executive, no matter who is sitting in the oval, no president. >> you one could venture to say, no president. no president enjoys a nationwide injunction of what they think is the right path. >> whoever's in the white house hates him. >> yeah. great to see you. thank you so much. a lot more to come on this. and as ellie was just noting, next hour we're going to speak to two attorneys general from both one from colorado and new jersey, who were leading this effort. the lead plaintiffs, if you will, in this case that went to the supreme court. big question is what now? we'll have that next hour, jon. >> all right. new this morning. it's a pretty good news for millions of drivers expecting to hit the road for the 4th of july weekend. cnn's matt egan is here. gas prices, they're pretty low. yeah. >> john, they're pretty low. >> and they're. >> trending lower. >> and this. >> is good. >> news. >> because it. >> should. >> be relatively.

>> cheap to fill up your tank this holiday weekend. so gasbuddy is projecting that the national average is going to be 310 to 315 a gallon. that is significantly cheaper than 349 a gallon. last 4th. >> of july. >> this translates to americans spending about half $1 billion less on gasoline this holiday weekend versus last. and when we look. >> at. >> the trend, you can see that gas prices they spiked three. >> years ago. >> this was we're looking at almost $5 a gallon on 4th of july. right. that was a nightmare. trending lower since then. in fact, this would be the lowest on 4th of july for gas since at least 2021, perhaps even since 2020 during covid. and of course, people are making more money on average than they did back then. so on an inflation adjusted basis, gasoline is swallowing up a smaller and smaller chunk of paychecks, and some drivers in some states are seeing even bigger drops in the price of gasoline, including in michigan, where it's about $0.42 cheaper to fill up than it was this time last year. pennsylvania.

illinois. nevada a number of other states seeing significant drops. and, you know, it's not like people are not expected to travel this weekend. they are. triple a is forecasting that almost 62 million people are going to travel by car. that is more than a million increase from last holiday weekend. and what's also notable here is we almost saw a very different story, right. it was just a couple of weeks ago that oil prices were spiking because of the iran israel crisis. look at this spike that we saw in june. and then they came all the way down, almost straight down, because thankfully, this ceasefire does appear to be holding. we're actually looking at a about $20 cheaper price for oil than it was at this point last year. so you put it all together and this is some positive news heading into the holiday weekend. >> for at least it is today. things have been moving so quickly, but it is great news for people hitting the roads. all right matt, appreciate it. sara.

>> all right. this morning canada backing down on its threat to tax digital services in the u.s. after president trump threatened to cancel trade talks altogether. president trump calling the tax on online companies a direct and blatant attack on our country. in a statement, the canadian government said it was stepping back from the tax to help bring the countries back to the negotiating table. president trump and canadian prime minister mark carney have said they hope to have a deal signed by july 21st. all right, houston, we have a problem. beyoncé's cowboy carter show in her hometown of houston hit a snag when look at that. her flying car prop malfunctioned. she's just sitting there stuck. the grammy winner stopped her performance as the car tilted in midair. fans were, of course, on edge, but encouraging her. but beyonce stayed cool and calm and collected, finishing the song after being lowered down. she then told the crowd, if i ever fall, i know y'all will catch

me. oh, she's probably right. it was dollar bills in detroit over the weekend during a celebration of of life honoring beloved community member darryl thomas. $5,000 were dropped by a helicopter. thomas's son said it was his father's wish and final expression of love to the community. that's what i call making it rain in the best possible way. john? absolutely. >> all right. new this morning, as the trump administration steps up ice raids and mass deportations, one tech developer is pushing back with an app designed to track ice activity in real time. it's called ice block, and it's controversial, to say the least. cnn's clare duffy is with us now. how does this work, clare? and what are the legal implications? >> yeah, john, i talked with joshua aaron, who is the longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said he really wants it to be an early warning system for people about the location of

immigrations and customs enforcement officers. so he says he does not want people interfering with those officers activity, but he does want people to be able to avoid them altogether if they want. so you open the app, it looks like a map, and users can tap the map to report an ice sighting in their area. and then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that sighting will get a push alert. this is a free iphone app. it is anonymous. aaron says he doesn't collect any user data. and what i think is really interesting about this in this moment is we've seen so many of the biggest leaders in tech supporting president trump, but aaron is sort of an example of the fact that there are people within the tech industry who are really resistant to trump's policies. i asked him what he would say to those tech leaders who, for example, were at the inauguration. here's what he told me. take a listen. >> i understand. >> that. >> you have shareholders to. >> report to. i understand that. >> you have employees that need their paychecks. but at what