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[05:30:00] RYAN NOBLES, CNN ANCHOR: In just hours, Donald Trump set to unleash a scathing new attack on Hillary Clinton, slamming her foreign policy and accusing her of corruption as secretary of state.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump dangerous for America, blasting his business bankruptcies, predicting an economy run by Wall Street if he's elected.

NOBLES: And new information on the Orlando club massacre. What the gunman was doing hours before the attack.

Welcome back to EARLY START, I'm Ryan Nobles.

ROMANS: Nice to see you today. I'm Christine Roman. It's about 31 minutes past the hour. In just hours, Donald Trump will deliver what is expected to be a scathing speech blasting Hillary Clinton's foreign policy. Overnight, a source telling CNN Trump will try to use his speech to retake control of the political narrative, something Republicans have been praying for.

Among other things, he will accuse Clinton of pay-for-play corruption while she was secretary of state. He'll attack Clinton's use of a private email server and slam her support for countries with shoddy human rights records for women and gay people.

On Tuesday, Trump leveled a new line of attack against Clinton speaking to evangelical leaders. He questioned her faith and also promised to appoint anti-abortion judges if elected. CNN's Jim Acosta has more.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Ryan, Donald Trump is trying to pivot away from some of the recent troubles hampering his campaign. He's got a speech set for tomorrow aimed at attacking Hillary Clinton here in New York City. And as Trump has been brushing off concerns about his poll numbers and recent fundraising totals, the presumptive GOP nominee has been attempting to turn up the heat on Hillary Clinton.

At a meeting with evangelical leaders here in New York, Trump questioned Clinton's faith. Here's what he had to say.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE: We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion and she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet, there's nothing out there. There's like nothing out there. It's going to be an extension of Obama but it's going to be worse because with Obama you had your guard up. With Hillary, you don't.

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ACOSTA: And, as part of the Trump campaign's full-on assault on Hillary Clinton, it has created a new website called LyingCrookedHillary.com, but the campaign says it's not ready yet and will be up and running in the coming days -- Ryan and Christine.

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NOBLES: Thank you, Jim. Today, Hillary Clinton moves into round two of her new attack on Donald Trump as a menace to the U.S. economy. On Tuesday, in Columbus, Ohio, Clinton gave her first general election campaign speech on the economy. Following the pattern of her foreign policy speech earlier this month, Clinton painted the billionaire real estate mogul as a danger to America.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny is with Clinton. He has more from Ohio.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Ryan, Hillary Clinton delivering the second part of her economic message today in Raleigh, North Carolina on the heels of a speech Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio.

This was a blistering takedown of Donald Trump's economic policies, going at the heart of his economic success, his financial success -- how he has, in fact, made his money. Hillary Clinton made clear that all Donald Trump's products are not made in America.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: And, interestingly, Trump's own products are made in a lot of countries that aren't named America. Trump ties are made in China. Trump suits in Mexico. Trump furniture in Turkey. Trump picture frames in India. Trump barware in Slovenia. And I could go on and on, but you get the idea. And I'd love for him to explain how all that fits with his talk about "America First".

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ZELENY: Now, politically speaking, that could be a problem for Donald Trump here in Ohio where the 18 electoral votes of this state are critical for the general election race with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. But moreover, Hillary Clinton gave a complete takedown of Donald Trump

on the economy but she used historical perspective, saying he would be a disaster here. And she also tied in this foreign policy speech she made some three weeks in San Diego. Another installment here of how she's trying to define Donald Trump before he can define himself. Today, she continues that in North Carolina -- Christine and Ryan.

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ROMANS: All right, also where the economy message really resonates. All right, Jeff, thanks for that. Let's breakdown the temper tone of the 2016 rhetoric with Zach Wolf, managing editor of CNN Politics Digital. Good morning.

You know, it's interesting -- this whole attack on Donald Trump as a businessman. He can argue, and has argued, that sure, he has made his stuff overseas before because the corrupt politicians -- they have set up this system in America where that's what business does. That's the best thing to do for business is he would change that. He would put America first for the first time, not business first.

[05:35:00] He also defended last night -- he defended her attacks against him on the bankruptcy question. Listen to what he said to ABC about bankruptcy.

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TRUMP: What I've done is I've used, brilliantly, the laws of the country. Not personally, just corporate. And if you look at people, like myself, that are at the highest levels of business, they use -- many of them have done it many, many times.

DAVID MUIR, ANCHOR, "ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT": But did any average Americans pay the price, though, for that?

TRUMP: Well, but I'm running a business, you have to understand. I'm running a business. I'm running a business for myself and my company for my employees and for my family. Hillary wouldn't have any idea how to do that. Don't forget, somebody has to understand debt. She doesn't understand debt.

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ROMANS: She calls him the king of debt. She calls him the king of debt because he has taken on debt so many times. And she pointed out all of these business bankruptcies going back to 1991 with the Taj Majal. Do you think that she is making inroads and taking what Donald Trump has painted as strengths and turning them into weaknesses?

ZACH WOLF, MANAGING EDITOR, CNN POLITICS DIGITAL: Well, I mean, it's going to be the big question going forward and she's not the only one who's called him the king of debt. He's called himself, I think, the king of debt because he's talked about how he's used to debt to make a lot of money.

If she comes in and says that he's disqualified because he's been through a lot of bankruptcies -- he talks about how bankruptcies make him brilliant. It's like a Rorschach test for 2016 right now. Do you believe that exploiting the rules is a good thing or do you believe that you should always be in the black? It's going to be a great question for the voters.

NOBLES: And speaking of money, Donald Trump, right now, doesn't have a lot of it, at least in terms of his campaign. And he's taking an interesting tact now, Zach, where he's threatening to, once again, self-fund his campaign. This is where the numbers are right now. You can see how far behind he is. But listen to what he told ABC yesterday about the potential for him to go the self-funding route once again.

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TRUMP: As far as I'm concernedI'd be very happy to continue to self- fund. You know, I have --

MUIR: Are you going to continue to self-fund?

TRUMP: I may, I may --

MUIR: How much?

TRUMP: -- but to me I think -- I don't know, I can do whatever want. She's going to spend $1.2 billion dollars on an election and I'm trying to say where do you spend that money? Remember this, I spent $50 million and I won. Other people that were running against me spent many times that amount and they lost. Not even close, I won in a landslide.

MUIR: Will you spend another $50 million in the general, or more?

TRUMP: I might, I might. I really might decide to do that.

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NOBLES: Obviously, Zach, there's a big difference between a primary election and a general election. Why is it so much more difficult for him to self-fund at this stage of the campaign?

WOLF: Well, he spent -- or lent himself $50 million or something for the primary. Hillary Clinton's going to spend more than $1 billion in the general election. There are a ton more states that are contested. There's a lot more places to buy advertising, assuming he's going to buy advertising. He hasn't reserved nearly as much as she has.

So it will kind of get to the point of is he going to be totally untraditional through this campaign going all the way through the general election or, as a lot of Republicans want him to do, is he going to start building up that infrastructure in swing states, buying advertising? Really, making the case in a more traditional way.It's hard to believe, even if he went his own way, that another $50 million is going to do the trick, though.

ROMANS: So, Zach, yesterday we heard Hillary Clinton in her speech on the economy painting Donald Trump as dangerous, disaster for the economy, drive the car off a cliff. Moody's Analytics has this report saying that if Donald Trump's policies were enacted three and one-half million jobs would be lost. Seven percent unemployment rate. A long recession -- longer than the great recession.

But today, Donald Trump is going to try to pivot and he's going to go on the attack against Hillary Clinton and he's going to attack her credibility. He's going to attack -- he's going to accuse her of pay- to-play between the Clinton Foundation and her job as secretary of state. He's going to say that she does business with regimes that are terrible for human rights, for women, and for gays. He is going to do what Republicans have been asking and begging him to do for weeks now.

WOLF: You know, the one interesting -- one of the many interesting things of this campaign is that these two candidates are so personally unpopular to such large portions of the electorate. So this election -- going forward it's going to be her going after him and him going after her. It's not going to be her going after Republicans so much. It's going to be her going after Donald Trump, and Donald Trump going after Hillary Clinton.

And you're going to find -- I think it's possible that at the end of the day in November people are going to be voting against the other person instead of for someone. And these two speeches -- these set of speeches, hers and his, kind of get at that point. They're getting under each other's skin right now.

NOBLES: Yes, amazing to think when you look at these polls right now most Americans are probably going to be in position, come November, where they're going to cast a ballot for someone that they don't necessarily approve of, and this is for president of the United States. It's amazing to see that this is where we are at this point in the campaign.

[05:40:00] WOLF: That's right, and it's just going to be carried forward with these kind of speeches. I mean, earlier we talked about him accusing her of taking blood money. He was justifying not having raised much money. He was saying she takes blood money. It's that kind of rhetoric, I think, that's going to just cement that state of things.

NOBLES: All right, Zach Wolf, thank you so much for your perspective.

ROMANS: Yes, and for getting up so early for us. I love that, thanks. Bright and early in D.C. All right, we're now learning what this gunman in the Orlando shooting was doing just hours before that massacre. We've got that for you next.

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[05:44:45] NOBLES: New details emerging about the Orlando gunman. A man who attended the same Florida mosque as Omar Mateen tells CNN he notified the FBI back in 2014 of his suspicions because of radical comments that Mateen had made. Mateen's father says his son received a proper Islamic burial in Florida but gave no other details. All of this as we learn Mateen was at the Pulse nightclub hours before the massacre.

More now from CNN's Ed Lavandera.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Ryan, investigators are trying to piece together the hours leading up to the deadly shooting at the Pulse nightclub here in Orlando. Investigators are focused on building a timeline in those hours leading up to it.

Law enforcement sources tell us that Omar Mateen had come to the Pulse nightclub several hours before the shooting. Had actually purchased a ticket to get in and had a wristband, and then left two hours before the shooting. Now, what he was doing during those two hours investigators aren't sure, we're told, but that's one of the things that they're looking at. But he then did return to the club and began the shooting spree.

Investigators suspect that perhaps Mateen had come here to the club to check out the security situation inside. All of this happening several hours after Mateen had abruptly left and stormed out of his house, which is about two hours away. According to our law enforcement sources they say that Mateen's wife has told investigators that he was angry, had packed a bag full of his guns, and then made the drive up here to Orlando.

So, that timeline of that day, Saturday into early Sunday morning, is something that investigators are taking a much closer look at -- Christine and Ryan.

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ROMANS: All right, thanks for that, Ed. Three suspects on an alleged vigilante mission arrested with an arsenal of weapons during a routine traffic stop at the Holland Tunnel between New York City and New Jersey.

Police say two men and a woman were stopped on the Jersey side in a brightly colored pick-up truck loaded with drugs, rifles, bulletproof vests, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Now, they told police they were heading to New York to rescue a girl being held against her will in a drug den. All three are facing weapons charges.

Two Anaheim, California men found guilty of conspiring to support ISIS. It took a federal jury just over one hour to convict them. During the two-week trial jurors heard a detailed account of the defendant's efforts to fight with the terror group in Iraq and Syria. One of them was arrested trying to board a plane to the Middle East. Both face decades behind bars when they are sentenced in September.

ROMANS: Former house speaker Dennis Hastert reports to prison this afternoon in Rochester, Minnesota. He was sentenced to 15 months behind bars in April for making illegal payoffs to cover up acts of sexual abuse. The 74-year-old Hastert has publicly admitted abusing several high school wrestlers when he was a coach decades ago.

NOBLES: All right, let's get a look at what's coming up next on "NEW DAY". Alisyn Camerota joins us now. Good morning, Alisyn.

ROMANS: Good morning.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR, "NEW DAY": Hey, guys, good morning. Great to see both of you. So today, Donald Trump getting set for a big speech in New York targeting Hillary Clinton, and his team suggests it will be scathing. So, we'll speak with a top Trump adviser about what to expect. This comes a day after Clinton attacked Trump's business record. We'll look at that, as well.

Also, did you know there is another person running for president? No, not Gary Johnson, someone else. We're talking about Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. What does she stand for and why do many people say that she is a spoiler in this race? We'll talk about that.

Also, it turns out that the gunman in the Orlando club massacre went to the Pulse nightclub hours before the shooting. What was that about? We will also talk to two Florida lawmakers about the latest gun control efforts in Congress. Maybe they are not over. So we'll see you guys in 12 minutes.

ROMANS: Sounds like a busy morning. Thanks, nice to see you, Alisyn.

NOBLES: Thanks, Alisyn.

ROMANS: An intense final day of campaigning before the U.K. votes whether it should leave the European Union, a vote with consequences that will be felt around the world. We are live, next.

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[05:52:50] ROMANS: Breaking overnight, North Korea firing two more missiles from its eastern coast. According to U.S. military officials both are believed to be intermediate-range missiles. The South Koreans calling the launches a clear provocation. They say one of the test missiles failed but the other traveled nearly 250 miles and that data still being analyzed.

I want to go to Seoul right now, live there. I want to bring in CNN's Paula Hancocks. She's been following this for us. Good morning, Paula.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Christine. Well, it's that second launch that everyone's looking at this point, as you say, 250 miles it flew. And also, according to the Japanese military, had an altitude of more than 600 miles. So this would appear as though it went a lot further than what we have previously seen, at least as far we know publicly. So, can we say that progress has been made? We certainly know from the Japanese military point of view. One official said that they are seriously concerned at what they have achieved during this launch. But from the South Korean point of view they are not calling it a failure.

Now, we did have swift condemnation from the state departments. We heard from the spokesperson, John Kirby, saying that they strongly condemn this and other launches of missiles from North Korea, saying that they do violate United Nations Security Council resolutions. Also saying that this will just serve to make sure that the international community is even more resolute in trying to push forward these sanctions. South Korea saying they may come up with more sanctions of their own -- Christine.

ROMANS: All right, interesting. Paula Hancocks for us in Seoul this morning. Thank you, Paula.

NOBLES: And today is the final day for advocates on both sides of the Brexit debate in the U.K. before tomorrow's referendum on whether Britain should exit the European Union or remain in the block. The passionate debate driven by the recent surge of migrants flooding into Europe from the Middle East and North Africa.Now today, the Brexit vote is the focus of leaders all across Europe. In just hours leaders of France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Poland will address the media.

CNN's Phil Black is live for us now in London. And, Phil, we know that the polls show that this race is too close to call, but are you getting a sense of momentum swinging in either direction?

[05:55:00] PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There has been a feeling in recent days, Ryan, that the momentum, for what it's worth, has swung towards the remain campaign -- those who want to stick with the European Union. But, it's unclear if that is enough to secure a win. In fact, there's still very much the feeling, really, that either side could pull through here depending upon how undecided voters cast their vote on the day, tomorrow.

Even the prime minister, David Cameron, the leader of the remain campaign, says he doesn't know which way this is going to go. And that matters to him because there are people who believe that in the event that Britain votes to leave the European Union his job will be on the line. He won't survive as the country's leader.

This matters to Europe because European countries believe that both Britain and the European Union will be weaker, will be diminished in the event of a Brexit vote. It matters to the international community more broadly because it is widely expected that in the event of a Brexit vote internationalmarkets would take a hit of some kind.

And the United States is very concerned about its key ally, Britain, maintaining its influence within the European Union, as well. So there is so much at stake here for Britain, in particular -- for the world, as well. But really Britain's economic geopolitical direction for decades to come is about to be decided by the handful of voters that have yet to make up their minds, Ryan.

NOBLES: All right, they only have one day left to decide. CNN's Phil Back in London, thank you.

ROMANS: Let's get an EARLY START on your money, where what happens in London is going to make all the difference to markets -- markets waiting to see what happens with the Brexit vote tomorrow in the U.K. Asian markets closed mostly higher. European stock markets mixed. U.S. stock futures down a bit right now, barely movingbasically, after a modest gain for the Dow yesterday, up 25 points. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also closed higher.

The big story on investors' minds, Brexit. Polls still too close to call. It's not only the U.K. worried about the effect a leave vote might have, there's global concern as well.

Fed chief Janet Yellen warning of significant consequences if the U.K. votes to leave the European Union.She added, though that barring a Brexit the chance of a recession in the U.S. is quite low. She expects the economy in the U.S. to continue to grow. We'll hear more from Yellen when she testifies before Congress again later this morning.

More Americans struggling to make rent or they're paying too much in rent. Eleven million people spend at least half of their income on rent. That's according to a new report by Harvard -- its housing institute. It's not just young people who are renting. Last year saw the biggest surge in new renters in history.

Forty percent of middle-aged renters between the ages of 30 to 49 make up the most of the new demand. Personal finance experts generally suggest budgeting around 30 percent of monthly income to cover housing costs. It's getting harder to do as rent prices are rising faster than wages. Really interesting data there.

NOBLES: Yes, definitely. Well, Donald Trump launching a new attack on Hillary Clinton in just hours. "NEW DAY" starts now.

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CLINTON: We can't let him bankrupt America like we are one of his failed casinos.

TRUMP: She has a bad temperament. She would do so badly with the economy.

CLINTON: The king of debt has no real plan.

TRUMP: She's crooked Hillary, she always has been and nothing's going to change.

CLINTON: Maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone whose most famous words are "you're fired".

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He went to the Pulse nightclub earlier Saturday night and then he left before returning to carry out his attack.

LORETTA LYNCH, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: We're working to identify anyone he had contact with that night.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were numerous avenues that the FBI heard about this young man.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was more than just me.

COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Rory McIlroy pulls of this summer's Olympic Games in Rio over fears of the Zika virus.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: He got some heat, Rory McIlroy, you know. They were teasing him about pulling out but I don't know, do you think it's funny?

CAMEROTA: Well, he's not a woman and he's not a pregnant woman.

CUOMO: Those are both true facts.

CAMEROTA: And he never will be, so --

CUOMO: He will never be.

CAMEROTA: Right. So, it's interesting that he, high-profiled male athlete, would pull out.

CUOMO: Well, he's afraid of getting sick. You can still get the virus as a man. It doesn't have that damning effect on any potential pregnancy.

CAMEROTA: Yes, consequences. Well, that's interesting. There's a lot to talk about this morning. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day. It is Wednesday, June 22nd, 6:00 in the east.

Up first, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton going after each other's economic prowess. Trump accuses Clinton of raising "blood money". Clinton blasts Trump over his casinos going bankrupt.

CUOMO: Trump saying working the debt laws made him a fortune so he has plenty of cash on hand to fund his general election fight. And today, he's going to respond to Clinton's damning appraisal of his business skills by tearing into Clinton's record in a speech this morning. We have the 2016 race covered the way only CNN can.

Let's begin with Sara Murray. Good morning.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Good morning, Chris, good to see you. So it's no doubt that Donald Trump has had a rough couple of weeks. He fired his campaign manager, seemingly out of nowhere. He's been struggling in the money race. But today, he's trying to move beyond all of that and turn up the heat on Hillary Clinton. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: And so many of the things she said were outright lies.