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Marathon Voting on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Continues Throughout the Early Morning Hours; Suspect in the Idaho Deadly Ambush Has Identified; Wimbledon's Opening Day Breaks Hottest Temperature Record in 24 Years; Norway's State Lottery Chief Resigned Over Errors in Euro Jackpot Prizes. Aired 3-4a ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Just ahead on "CNN Newsroom."

U.S. Senators work late into the night slogging through a slew of amendments as Republicans try to pass President Trump's massive agenda bill.

We have a name but not a motive for the suspect behind that deadly attack on firefighters responding to a weekend call in Idaho.

And fires erupt across Europe as a heat dome sends temperatures skyrocketing.

UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Rosemary Church.

CHURCH: Thanks for joining us.

And we begin in Washington, D.C., where Senators are debating the contents of President Donald Trump's so-called Big, Beautiful Bill. For more than 18 hours now, the Vote-o-rama session has stretched on with wheeling and dealing. And at this hour, changes and proposals are still being floated to attract enough votes for approval.

Its intended purpose is to fund his domestic agenda, but neither Congress nor the Republican Party itself have seen eye-to-eye on what's inside. President Trump spent part of Monday on the phone with congressional leaders, pressuring them to get the bill to his desk by the Fourth of July holiday on Friday.

But some hurdles still remain. If the Senate approves the latest version, it will go back to the House, where there's no guarantee lawmakers will agree to the changes.

CNN's U.S. national politics correspondent Eva McKend joins me now from Washington with the latest. A very good early morning to you, Eva. So where do things stand right now on the Senate floor?

EVA MCKEND, CNN U.S. NATIONAL POLITICS CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, we are approaching nearly 20 hours here of senators debating, and President Trump's entire domestic policy agenda really hangs in the balance here. And Democrats, their theory of the case is that this is a good thing, because the longer that this drags out, the more problematic it becomes for Senate Republicans.

Democrats have the opportunity to sound the alarm here about the problems in this legislation as they see them, about the Medicaid cuts, about cuts to food assistance. And those are some concerns actually shared across the aisle by Republicans, you have Senators Lisa Murkowski, for instance, and Susan Collins, votes that Republicans cannot afford to lose, concerned as well. So what you see is them on the Senate floor huddling with their colleagues as the negotiations and the politicking continues.

And then on the extreme other side of the Republican Party, you have members that believe that the cuts don't go far enough, that they can chip further away at these social safety net programs. And actually blowing up the deficit would be really challenging for Republicans, especially under a Republican president.

And so that is why this is taking so long. Senator Chuck Schumer believes it is a good sign that ultimately this is a stalled effort, and that even if it ultimately does clear the upper chamber, it has to go to the lower chamber, to House Republicans, and they all have to agree as well. So it is going to continue to be a long few hours here, Rosemary, with no end in sight.

CHURCH: All right. Our thanks to Eva McKend joining us there with a live report from Washington. I appreciate it.

And earlier I spoke with CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein about the President's domestic agenda bill, and I asked him how might President Trump respond to the public unpopularity of the massive bill? Here's part of our conversation.

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RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST, AND OPINION COLUMNIST, BLOOMBERG: The bill is in many ways an anachronism. I mean, one Republican said to me a few weeks ago, this is a Paul Ryan era, Tea Party era Republican bill for a Donald Trump-era Republican coalition.

You know, under Donald Trump, the undisputed core of the Republican coalition, electoral coalition, are voters without a college degree, lower middle to middle income, many of them blue collar voters, whether white or increasingly nonwhite. Those are voters who often depend upon the social programs that this bill is cutting. You know, 85 percent of adults on Medicaid are people without a college degree.

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And, you know, now this bill would impose the biggest cuts ever on health care, health insurance for, you know, for Americans. And many of those are Trump voters, 64 House Republicans in districts where there are more Medicaid recipients than the national average, 11 Republican senators in the 15 states that have expanded Medicaid the most under the Affordable Care Act. So there's just no way around that they are cutting programs that help a lot of their own voters in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

As we've said before, there are individual elements of this bill that poll well, ending taxes on overtime, ending taxes on tips, even the Medicaid work requirement initially polls well. But the basic idea of cutting taxes for people who don't really need it at the expense of cutting health care programs for people who do is just simply unpopular with the public. And it's an enormous risk for Republicans to move forward with that kind of trade off.

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CHURCH: Well, Benjamin Radd is a political scientist and senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and he joins me now from Los Angeles. I appreciate you being with us.

BENJAMIN RADD, POLITICAL SCIENTIST AND SR. FELLOW, UCLA BURKLE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Sure thing. Thank you for having me.

CHURCH: So as the Marathon Senate debate continues on amendments to what President Trump calls his Big, Beautiful Bill, how likely is it, do you think, that his policy bill will get passed by Trump's self- imposed deadline of July 4th?

RADD: I appreciate that it's referred to as a self-imposed deadline because that's precisely what it is. And I think it underscores the sense of urgency that the president has put to making this work, despite there being considerable resistance within the Senate, at least enough resistance even from a few number of senators to make it a meaningful obstacle.

So it looks very difficult that this will pass. And assuming the Senate agrees and pushes the bill through, it still has to be reconciled with the House. And we know there that the Republicans have wanted a bill that looked different than the one we're seeing in the Senate now.

CHURCH: And President Trump is struggling to get his party to fall in line, isn't he? Frantically working the phones to get his agenda bill passed and to bring some of the holdouts on board. How likely is it that he can win over the likes of Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski or Thom Tillis, given his threats have already resulted in Tillis announcing he won't be standing again for re- election?

RADD: I think Tillis at this point has no reason to back down from his position, given that he did make the announcement he's not going to run in light of Trump's threat to primary him. And then with Murkowski and Collins, with Murkowski, the issue is being held up by the parliamentarian striking down the provision that enabled the Senate to get her vote. And then we have Ron Johnson, who is coming from the other end, who wants to see even more drastic cuts. I mean, there seems to be far from any kind of consensus on this.

And at this point, it seems unlikely that everyone can be satisfied in a way that would get the votes needed to really push this through in time. And again, the stress here is to do it by this July 4th deadline.

CHURCH: Right, and of course, cuts to Medicaid, as you mentioned, and food stamps proving to be perhaps the biggest hurdle, as well as the overall cost of this policy bill and its potential impact on the country's deficit. Many American voters are not happy with President Trump's policy bill. So how might all this impact the 2026 midterms, do you think?

RADD: Well, it's going to figure on these holdouts in Congress, whether in the House or the Senate, the ones who maintain their positions and argue that their constituents are the ones who are impacted by the cuts in this bill, the social benefit cuts in particular. They will be primarily benefited or rewarded from 2026.

But it will be interesting to see how the GOP hold on to this singular position on all these issues and try to win all these votes, especially in districts we've seen, like, you know, Tillis' seat in North Carolina, but also other districts in the House, where we saw Kamala Harris win 2024, but a Republican won the House seat. They're the ones that are in a much more difficult position to try to overcome the challenges that this bill presents.

CHURCH: And meantime, billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to form and fund a third party if this spending bill passes. He's calling it the America Party in a recent post. What will it likely stand for? And how viable is a threat like this in the current political climate, do you think?

RADD: Well, we'd have to go back to, what, the 18th and 19th century to find any viable threat from a third party. It's incredibly difficult. Even someone with the resources of Elon Musk, I believe, I think he did threaten in one of his posts on X to have every Republican primary who votes in favor of this bill.

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Nothing else, it's underscoring the divide and the lack of unity on this issue, and that this really is a one-size-fits-all bill proposed by the Republicans, especially in the Senate, that leaves many of their Republican colleagues in difficult positions and many constituents in red seats -- in red states, I should say, red districts, wanting something much more out of this bill than they're getting.

CHURCH: Benjamin Radd, many thanks for joining us. I appreciate it.

RADD: Thank you. CHURCH: The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in their apartment in 2022 has accepted a plea deal to avoid trial. With that deal, 30-year-old Brian Kohberger, who previously pleaded not guilty, will now plead guilty to four counts of murder, bringing an end to the years-long legal proceedings against him.

In exchange, prosecutors will not pursue the death penalty. In a Facebook post, one of the victim's families said they were furious at the state of Idaho and described the announcement of the plea deal as very unexpected. A hearing is now scheduled for Wednesday.

Authorities in Idaho have identified the suspect in the deadly ambush on firefighters who were responding to a brush fire in the city of Coeur d'Alene on Sunday. 20-year-old Wes Rowley is believed to have opened fire before turning the gun on himself.

CNN's Nick Watt has more details about the shooting and the firefighters killed in the attack.

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UNKNOWN: There's an active shooter zone.

They're shot. BC3s down, BC1s down. Everybody's shot up here.

NICK WATT, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On a routine brush fire call on a sunny afternoon.

UNKNOWN: We've got two unresponsive battalion chiefs, gunshot wounds, multiple gunshot wounds. It's clear to me that this fire was intentionally to draw us in.

WATT (voice-over): Lit, authorities say, by 20-year-old Wess Roley, who, we're told, talked to firefighters when they first arrived on scene.

SHERIFF BOB NORRIS, KOOTENAI COUNTY, IDAHO: Here's some of his social media postings that were recently removed.

WATT (voice-over): An Instagram story of the suspect, apparently armed and camouflaged, set to a song called "Hunter."

NORRIS: This was a total ambush. These firefighters did not have a chance. We did have reports that he was shooting at first responders via a tree.

WATT (voice-over): Two firefighters killed, a third injured, fighting for his life.

BEN HECTOR, FIREFIGHTER: We're friends and co-workers, and he's a great guy. We haven't lost a member in the line of duty for a very long time.

WATT (voice-over): For hours, around 300 law enforcement personnel hunted the gunman or gunmen. They didn't know which. Shots were fired. NORRIS: We had a cell phone activation. We honed in on that cell phone, and we saw that there was a male, appeared to be deceased, with a weapon nearby. We believe that there was only the one shooter.

WATT (voice-over): Authorities now believe the suspect died by suicide. His grandfather told CNN he wanted to be a fireman. He was doing tree work, and he wanted to be a fireman in the forest.

NORRIS: We don't know if there's a nexus to that desire and what happened.

WATT (voice-over): Coeur d'Alene now in mourning, paying tribute to two of their own, killed in what city leaders are calling a senseless tragedy.

WATT: And we now have the names of the men killed. Frank Harwood, 42 years old, married with a couple of kids. He was the fire and rescue chief for Kootenai County.

Also killed, John Morrison, who was a battalion chief with the Coeur d'Alene fire department.

Injured, an engineer with that same department, Dave Tisdale. Tisdale has undergone two surgeries and we're told is still in critical condition.

Now the suspect's family is now cooperating with officials. They send their heartfelt condolences to all impacted and say, quote, "we do not understand why this happened."

Nick Watt, CNN, Los Angeles.

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CHURCH: The Trump administration warns countries they could soon be facing sharply higher tariffs. When we come back, the White House ramps up the pressure on trading partners.

Also, how the White House plans to handle legal fights over birthright citizenship in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling. We'll have that and more after the break.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.

An update on our top story. The U.S. Senate is continuing its marathon Vote-o-rama with no end in sight.

Senators are right now proposing changes to Donald Trump's massive domestic policy bill and all of those amendments need to be voted on. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is accusing Republicans of making deals in secret as they negotiate changes. So far, Republicans have revealed new taxes on renewable energy and have authorized increased cuts to Medicaid, which would leave nearly 12 million more Americans without health insurance.

President Trump's 90-day pause on tariffs runs out next week. Since delaying massive tariff hikes on dozens of countries in April, his administration has held successful trade talks with the U.K. and China.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there will likely be a, quote, "flurry of trade deals leading up to the July 9th expiration date." And he had this word of warning for countries still negotiating with the U.S.

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SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: We have countries that are negotiating in good faith, but they should be aware that if we can't get across the line because they're being recalcitrant, then we could spring back to the April 2nd levels. U.S.-Canadian trade negotiations are back on track after a last-minute concession from Canada.

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CHURCH: Ottawa agreed on Sunday to drop a digital tax on tech firms that were set to begin this week. President Trump suspended trade talks on Friday because of the tax. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt characterized Canada's reversal this way.

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KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOU.S.E PRESS SECRETARY: It's very simple, Prime Minister Carney and Canada caved to President Trump and the United States of America. And President Trump knows how to negotiate, and he knows that he is governing the best country and the best economy in this world -- on this planet. And every country on the planet needs to have good trade relationships with the United States.

And it was a mistake for Canada to vow to implement that tax. That would have hurt our tech companies here in the United States. The President made his position quite clear to the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister called the President last night to let the President know that he would be dropping that tax, which is a big victory for our tech companies.

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CHURCH: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney framed his move not as a cave-in, but as part of the negotiations.

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MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: It is a question of timing in terms of the date for the final negotiations and when the tax was coming into effect. It doesn't make sense to collect tax from people and then remit them back.

So it provides some certainty. And as I just said, the negotiations have restarted. We're going to focus on getting the best deal for Canadians.

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CHURCH: Carney says the two sides still hope to reach a tariff deal before their July 21 deadline.

Drew Fagan is a professor at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He joins me now from Toronto. Good to have you with us.

DREW FAGAN, PROF., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO-MUNK SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC POLICY: Thank you, Rosemary.

CHURCH: So Canada's proposed digital tax very nearly derailed trade and security negotiations between the United States and Canada. But now that Canada has dumped the tax in response to threats from President Donald Trump, it appears those talks are back on track. Why did Canada propose this tax on big tech companies at such a fragile moment in negotiations between the two nations?

FAGAN: Canada started talking about the tax actually going back to 2020 with a whole bunch of European countries. A number of European countries have imposed this kind of tax as well.

It's not traditional in the sense that it's a tax on revenue as opposed to profit, which is a bit of a statement about the way services companies, big services companies, technology in particular, pay their tax on profits. Largely in the United States and many countries, including Canada, have been concerned about this.

The tax only came into effect last year, but it only started being paid or was to start being paid retroactively the last year today. So there was a big challenge with regard to timing, given that we're in the middle of an overarching trade and security negotiation with the United States.

And it had been a concern not just of the Trump administration, but the Biden administration previously. So all these things came together in the last few days.

And the new Prime Minister, Prime Minister Mark Carney, decided, as you said, to dump the tax because it was a smaller issue in the context of this big negotiation.

CHURCH: Right, and of course, about half of all European countries have a similar digital tax or have proposed one. And the U.S. has always opposed it, as you point out. How exactly does this unusual tax work and is it justified? Does it need to be in place, do you think?

FAGAN: Well, the United States doesn't think it's justified. And as you noted, both this administration and the previous administration thought the same. I think European countries, major industrialized countries other than the United States, think it's justified because although revenue is being earned from citizens of these countries, the profits and the taxes are overwhelmingly paid in the United States.

The Trump administration has alleged that essentially it's a tax on American companies operating overseas, including in Canada. Those countries, including Canada, are saying it's not aimed at American companies. It happens that technology companies, the big technology companies, the giants are overwhelmingly American.

So, this debate has gone on for a number of years, including an international forum, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, which is all the big industrialized countries have been debating it as well. Canada acted on its own because they couldn't, these 30 or so plus countries come to an agreement on this, as have other European countries.

CHURCH: So, Professor, where does all of this leave trade and tariff negotiations between the United States and Canada?

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FAGAN: Well, I guess it's fair to say that it's a bit of a climb down on the part of the Prime Minister. I'm not sure that Mark Carney was very supportive of this tax in the first place.

It was actually put into effect by the previous Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and I don't think people in Ottawa necessarily expected this tax to continue. It likely would have been an issue and taken off the table during the negotiations.

It's now been attacked by the President. The Prime Minister has responded. Negotiations are now about to get back on track towards an overarching trade agreement, hopefully either eliminating or reducing the ongoing tariffs that we've had for the last few months.

And actually, there's a big security element to it as well. So, if an agreement is made in the next few weeks, as some people are talking, it probably would bring a new era forward with regard to Canada-U.S. relations.

CHURCH: And Professor, as you point out, the digital tax was set to go into effect retroactively this week. So, it would have raised a lot of revenue for Canada, wouldn't it? Is this the end of the tech tax for the foreseeable future, at least?

FAGAN: So, it was going to raise a fair bit of revenue, about $7 billion over the next five years or so. I think if an agreement is signed between President Trump and Prime Minister Carney, we won't see this tax, at least for the foreseeable future. If an agreement is not signed and we can't reach an agreement, it's possible that Canada would take a shot at it again, making the argument, as Canada has, that other countries have it as well.

CHURCH: Professor Fagan, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it.

FAGAN: Thank you.

CHURCH: Optimism from the White House. President Trump and his team expect his domestic policy bill will pass despite a marathon voting session. The details, next.

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CHURCH: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom." I'm Rosemary Church. I want to check today's top stories for you.

U.S. Senators are more than 18 hours into discussions on amendments to President Trump's domestic agenda bill. And Republicans are still dealing with several holdouts in the party. They face a tight turnaround if they want to meet the President's Friday deadline.

Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and intensifying attacks against Chair Jerome Powell, who he accused of costing the U.S. a fortune. In a handwritten note sent to the Fed, the U.S. President also demanded Powell cut rates quote, by a lot.

More than 50,000 people in Turkey have evacuated to safety zones after 263 forest fires broke out over the weekend across the country. Four are still burning. A major heat wave has sent temperatures soaring across Europe.

Donald Trump is pressuring Republican lawmakers to pass a sweeping domestic policy bill in time for him to sign it by the 4th of July. But as the Senate continues to vote on amendments, it's not clear when a final vote will be in sight.

CNN's Kristen Holmes has more.

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KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Trump and his team say that they are still optimistic that this bill is going to get passed. I spoke to one White House official who said that they like their odds at this time.

Despite the fact that this is continuing to go on, we're not really quite sure where it's going to end up. The White House, they seem pretty confident.

And I spoke to a number of administration officials who say this has been a real full court press. You have had not only President Trump on the phone with various senators, congressional leadership, but you've also had members of the administration, allies of President Trump's. Anyone who has a relationship with any senator, they are calling them, they are pushing them. And that's really because this is such an important part of President

Trump's legacy. His team and he believe that this is going to be what really cements that legacy moving forward.

Now, we heard from the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, talking about this. Here's what she said.

LEAVITT: Republicans need to stay tough and unified during the home stretch. And we are counting on them to get the job done.

The President is very well aware that this bill needs to not only pass out of the Senate, but it needs to go back to the House. And we need the full weight of the Republican conference to get behind this bill. And we expect them to, and we are confident that they will.

HOLMES: Now, you can hear her expressing confidence there, but also saying that Republicans needed to stick together and really try to work this through, stay tough.

Now, perhaps part of the reason that the White House has confidence in this hour is because of what we have seen from President Trump. We saw him on social media, essentially kind of leveling some veiled threats at people who might try to stop this bill from being passed, saying senators who are cutting costs, you need to be careful. Don't go too crazy, you still have to be reelected.

Of course, we saw him over the weekend, essentially saying that he would primary North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis when he voted against the bill. Thom Tillis shortly afterwards saying that he was going to retire anyway.

But this is obviously going to be something that's on these senators' minds as they are working through this process. Again, we will be checking in with the White House as this vote progresses to see if anything changes. But right now, they are feeling confident that they still like their odds.

Kristen Holmes, CNN, the White House.

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CHURCH: After a recent Supreme Court ruling, the fight against President Trump's effort to ban birthright citizenship has entered a new stage. CNN's Paula Reid has the latest developments in a federal lawsuit.

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PAULA REID, CNN CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: The hearings on Monday were significant because this is the first time we've heard judges weighing in on that historic Supreme Court ruling Friday, limiting the power that judges have to block a policy for the entire country.

In many ways, that decision was a lawyerful employment act because it left open so many questions that now need to be decided by lower courts like, all right, what now becomes President Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship? Or who can challenge it?

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And, for example, the Supreme Court said that class action lawsuits may be one way to block these policies, with the Justice Department making it clear on Monday that they intend to oppose those kinds of legal maneuvers.

Now, in Maryland, we heard from lawyers representing clients and the sort of the anguish that they described that these clients are facing in the wake of all of this uncertainty. One lawyer described a client as quote, "being afraid of bringing more life into this world" and described the incredible stress, anxiety, and fear that their plaintiffs are experiencing as this question remains open of who exactly will be a citizen at the end of the month.

Now, the Supreme Court put a hold on its ruling for 30 days. That's why I say the end of the month. At that time, the Supreme Court appears in some form could be letting this executive order go forward.

So one of the questions that this judge really wanted to know was when will they start deporting babies once this goes into effect?

Now, the Justice Department gave an answer that wasn't very clear. A lawyer for the Justice Department saying, my understanding is that the executive order will not be operative for 30 days.

She asked the judge, is that your understanding or the position of the United States? The lawyer just said, it's my understanding. I can confirm that, but I have a high degree of confidence in that understanding.

So this is a really big question and the Justice Department could not give a clear answer. So the judge in Maryland demanding more clarification on that question, and it's just an example of how much more still needs to be worked out in and around this executive order.

All the confusion about who exactly will be a citizen at the end of this month, but this is the kind of confusion that the Supreme Court invited with this decision.

Paula Reid, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: And we have this just in to CNN. Thailand's constitutional court has suspended the country's Prime Minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra is accused of dishonesty and breaching ethical standards. The controversy centers around the leak of a phone conversation she had with Cambodia's former leader, Hun Sen.

She has since apologized and will remain in the cabinet as the culture minister. Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister will take over while the court decides the case.

The IDF says it's reorganizing access to Gaza aid sites to quote, "minimize friction with the population." The Palestinian Health Ministry says more than 500 people have been killed as they approached aid sites or trucks in the past month. On Friday, the U.N. Secretary- General demanded that the killing stop, saying the search for food must never be a death sentence.

CNN's Paula Hancocks joins us now from Abu Dhabi. So, Paula, what's the latest on Prime Minister Netanyahu's push for a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas? What are you hearing?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, we know that Benjamin Netanyahu has had two days of meetings now on Sunday and Monday with his top advisors and ministers. And according to a source familiar with those meetings, there still hasn't been a decision taken on exactly whether they will go for this ceasefire deal.

Now, the source says that Netanyahu is favoring a ceasefire-hostage deal, but there are far-right elements in his coalition, a couple of individuals who simply don't want the war to end. They believe that the Israeli military needs to continue what it is doing in Gaza at this point.

We understand as well that the Israeli Prime Minister will be heading to Washington shortly. There are reports of July 7th, for example, that he will go for his third meeting with President Trump. And he wants to have a decision made by that point.

Now, President Trump has been putting very open pressure on Israel to come up with this deal. We heard from the U.S. President last Friday, for example, saying he believes a deal will be done within a week. So that really does put a time crunch on the Israeli Prime Minister.

But he did say on Sunday, Netanyahu, that he was putting the return of the hostages still being held in Gaza, some 50, as his main priority. And that was a change of what he said before, which is destroying Hamas is his main priority. So we do appear to be veering towards the deal being done.

But of course, there are many pressures on Netanyahu. President Trump also saying on social media on Sunday morning, make the deal in Gaza, get the hostages back.

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Now to remind us of just how crucial this ceasefire deal is as well. There was an Israeli airstrike, where more than 40 people were killed at a cafe near Gaza port. Now this was a cafe that was well known for housing students, journalists, remote workers, it had internet and many people went there to work.

The director of the Al Shifa Hospital nearby said that many of those killed and wounded were women and children. Many of them were students as well. And we have asked the Israeli military about this incident and they say that it is under review, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Paula Hancocks, bring us that live report from Abu Dhabi. Many thanks. Wimbledon is off to its hottest start ever. And we're not talking

about the action on the court, the famed tennis tournament recorded its hottest opening day temperature as Europe swelters under a brutal heat wave. We'll have more on that after the break.

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CHURCH: Back to the breaking news.

We're following in the U.S. Capitol where Senate lawmakers are working into the early morning hours on amendments to President Trump's domestic policy bill. They've spent more than half a day discussing the massive piece of legislation.

Some lawmakers are ready for the prolonged session to end. Senate Democrat John Fetterman says party members who are dragging out the process are not helping. But Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says a lot of amendments are being proposed to make quote pieces of this bill better.

Airlines are getting ready for a busy holiday travel weekend across the United States. More than 18 million people are expected to fly during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. According to transportation officials, flights will likely be full with the busiest travel days expected on Thursday and Sunday, travel experts at the website Hopper believe Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport will handle the most passengers this week.

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Well, Europe's extreme heat wave is expected to peak in the days ahead. Players and fans alike are sweating at Wimbledon as the famed tennis tournament began on Monday with the hottest opening day ever.

In parts of France, Spain and Portugal, the temperature is topping 40 degrees Celsius, which is over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. One meteorologist says temperatures are soaring because the heat is trapped over the continent.

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KIRSTY MCCABE, SR. BROADCAST METEOROLOGIST, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY: We've already got high temperatures because it's time of year. But the longer the high pressure stays in place, the temperatures keep rising day by day because the heat dome is almost acting like the lid on a pot and it's trapping that hot air underneath it.

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CHURCH: And those hot, dry conditions have triggered wildfires. Fires have broken out in France and Italy and forest fires forced the evacuation of 50,000 people in Turkey, which straddles Europe and Asia. So let's get more now from CNN senior international correspondent

Melissa Bell, who joins us live from Paris. Good to see you again, Melissa. So what more are you learning about those fires in Turkey?

MELISSA BELL, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, these fires in Turkey, some 50,000 people already had to be relocated, but also wildfires in Greece near Athens. There have been some here in France.

The point is that year after year, we're covering the heat getting worse in Europe. This is the fastest, this is the -- I'm sorry, this is the continent that is getting hottest the quickest. The temperatures are changing more sharply in Europe than they are elsewhere and have been now for the last few years, Rosemary.

So that summer after summer, we're seeing new records broken. It was the case in 2023, the case in 2024, and it looks like 2025 is going to be another scorcher.

What's changed this year is that the extreme heat is actually starting lower Rosemary. And of course, that's extremely worrying because analysts, specialists, people who look at the weather and understand its functioning are linking it directly to climate change, explaining that this sadly is going to be the new normal in a part of the world that simply isn't used to these kind of temperatures. You're not going to have a lot of apartments with air conditioning and people find it very difficult to cope with these changing conditions.

This year, what we've seen is June see temperatures that we would normally see here in July or August. So for instance, Spain, we believe is about to clock up its hottest June on record. And of course, there are all of the consequences of that.

The wildfires that we've seen spread to parts of Europe where they seem we weren't used to seeing them these last few years. And of course, all the difficulties that tourists have milling around the cities and ordinary people as well.

It was in 2023 that the extreme weather conditions, the extreme heat of the summer, Rosemary, saw many tens of thousands of people lose their lives. So there is a direct impact on people when these conditions come about. And that's exactly what we're seeing just slightly earlier this year.

Here in Paris, people have been doing what they can to see cool. This is the Canal Saint-Martin. And a little later, we're likely to see exactly what we've seen these last few days, which is people jumping in just to try and keep as cool as they can.

The peaks here in Paris, likely today and tomorrow. And that's because, of course, of this heat dome with the heat trapped inside these cities and the temperatures getting worse and worse, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Unbelievable. Stay cool. Melissa Bell reporting live here from Paris, I appreciate it.

Well, as deliberations get underway in the Sean Diddy Combs case, some dedicated trial watchers are following every last detail.

Coming up, we'll meet some of the influencers live streaming their thoughts on this closely watched case. Back in just a moment.

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The jury in Sean Diddy Combs' sex trafficking trial will begin day two of their deliberations in the coming hours. On Monday, they sent several notes to the judge, including one raising concerns about one of the jurors.

The judge reminded all of them to follow his instructions on the law and to keep from revealing any specifics about their deliberations in future notes. Combs faces five counts and could get up to life in prison if found guilty of the most serious charges.

And this case has kept trial watchers riveted from day one with its salacious details and harrowing witness testimony. And social media influencers have taken notice as well, live streaming their thoughts on the proceedings alongside the more traditional media.

CNN's Brynn Gingras reports.

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MS. PLEASANT, LIVE STREAMER: We're down here at the Diddy trial.

BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Meet Ms. Pleasant, a.k.a. maker of "Da Pop-Off Show" on YouTube.

MS. PLEASANT: We're going to do a fit check.

GINGRAS (voice-over): She's one of nearly a dozen live streamers you'll find outside the federal courthouse in New York City. While inside, Sean Diddy Combs sits on trial, facing life behind bars.

MS. PLEASANT: Hey, what's up, what's up? It's your girl, Neek.

GINGRAS (voice-over): Rain or shine, here for the past eight weeks.

GINGRAS: What compels you to actually be here every day?

MS. PLEASANT: I'm nosy. It has celebrity, it has sex, it has crime, it has drugs.

UNKNOWN: Oh, you look nice today, Mama Combs. You steppin'.

GINGRAS: How many followers did you have at the start of this versus how many you have now?

UNKNOWN: I had about maybe like 5000 or so. Right now, I got about 16,000. So I gained about maybe like 11,000 or so. GINGRAS: That's pretty good.

GINGRAS (voice-over): Many have amassed a huge following.

GINGRAS: You just read these comments? What's going on?

UNKNOWN: I'm reading the comments. I'm interacting with the people.

GINGRAS (voice-over): By giving unedited access to the chaos surrounding the courthouse.

UNKNOWN: When you see more of these, just do one of these.

GINGRAS: Are you live streaming all that?

UNKNOWN: Yes, we're live, man. We're all live.

GINGRAS (voice-over): Some streamers read courtroom transcripts word for word.

UNKNOWN: He kept his money, he kept his wallet.

GINGRAS (voice-over): This man reads off his own handwritten notes. Others chase down witnesses and Combs' family members.

UNKNOWN: Just now, I just had to run when the girls came. So I'm also doing the journalism. We're doing that.

But then I'm doing the TMZ and I'm getting on happy feet, sliding in for the count to catch my little footage.

GINGRAS: So you're capturing everything?

UNKNOWN: I'm doing everything.

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NIQUE LACLAIRE, CONTENT CREATOR: There is a type of way that we can talk to them that legacy media probably can't really give an opinion.

They can't, you know, we can be like, I wasn't feeling that or I didn't like that. And they feel a relatability.

Oh, you're on live too. Oh, hi.

Multiple batteries, multiple chargers in case one breaks.

GINGRAS: Yes.

GINGRAS (voice-over): Kealoha Connor was in marketing before a friend convinced her to step in front of the phone and live stream.

KEALOHA CONNOR, LIVE STREAMER: Guys, P. Diddy trial update.

First day I was like, it's not going to be anything. And then boom, like that first day I peaked at 20,000 and some change on people. GINGRAS (voice-over): Now she's not looking back.

CONNOR: I want to go into journalism now because of all this.

GINGRAS: Are you able to monetize yet on this?

CONNOR: Yes, I was able to monetize on this one day one.

LACLAIRE: I do also get people who want to donate. They give cash apps.

And on YouTube, there's a thing called super chats. They want to support your journey in any way that they can.

GINGRAS (voice-over): The trial now in the hands of jurors with arguably more people tuned in for the verdict than ever before.

This is as big as the O.J. trial. We do want to get closure and understand what this case is going to be. You know what I mean? What is it going to wrap up to be?

GINGRAS (voice-over): Brynn Gingras, CNN, New York.

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CHURCH: Okay, how about this? Thousands of people in Norway thought they had won big money in a recent Euro Jackpot drawing, only to be told it was all a big mistake.

Well Norway's national lottery said there was a currency conversion error where winnings were multiplied by 100 rather than divided. The company has issued several apologies for notifying players of the incorrect inflated winnings and the lottery CEO has since resigned. Many unhappy people there.

Thanks so much for your company, I'm Rosemary Church. M.J. Lee is up next with "Early Start" after a short break, please stay with us.

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