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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Back From El Salvador To Face Charges; Legal Analyst Weighs In On Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case; Trump Issues Travel Ban For 12 Countries; Tornado Watch In Effect For More Than 5M Across Four States; Appeals Court Rules White House Ban On Associated Press Can Continue; Authorities Warn Residents To Be On Lookout For Decker; Mayor: Kharkiv Hit By Worst Attack Since War Began; Official: Trump Administration To Strip Navy Ship Of Harvey Milk Name; "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" Iconic Vest On Auction. Millions Face Severe Weather Threat Across The United States. Aired 7-8a ET
Aired June 07, 2025 - 07:00 ET
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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Glad you're up early. Thanks for being along. Welcome to CNN THIS MORNING. It's Saturday, June 7th. I'm Victor Blackwell, and here's what we're working on for you this morning.
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BLACKWELL: Police and protesters clashed outside of federal detention center in Los Angeles after ICE officials arrested dozens of people. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass says the raids were meant to sow terror in the community.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is back in the U.S. to face criminal charges. The Trump administration says that he was part of a criminal conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants. But a lot of what Attorney General Pam Bondi accused him of is not actually in the charging documents.
A manhunt is happening right now in Washington state for a man suspected of murder. They think that he's hiding somewhere in the woods, and people in nearby cabins have been told to be on high alert and to keep their lights on and then blinds open at night.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename a ship named for gay rights icon Harvey Milk. The Milk family says that they're heartbroken by the decision. We're joined live by the director of the Harvey Milk Foundation.
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And multiple tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings in effect right now -- we'll detail the timeline of where these storms are expected to go the rest of the day coming up.
BLACKWELL: Up first, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He is back in the U.S. to face federal criminal charges. He appeared in a Tennessee courtroom, Friday, on human trafficking charges. Now the indictment states that Abrego Garcia and others worked together to smuggle people throughout the U.S., a lot of them allegedly members of the MS-13 gang.
Abrego Garcia is a native of El Salvador, but a 2019 court order barred his deportation there due to a fear of persecution. The case has made headlines for months now, as you know, with a lot of Democratic lawmakers criticizing the Trump administration for deporting him in the first place, and that includes Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who met with Garcia, Abrego Garcia, in El Salvador earlier this year.
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SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-MD): I've said I'm not vouching for the man, Abrego Garcia. This is not about him. It is about his constitutional rights, and I think we all recognize that if the Trump administration can trample over his constitutional rights, it's a very short road to tyranny when they can essentially put all of our constitutional rights in jeopardy.
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BLACKWELL: CNN's Camila DeChalus joins me now. Camila, the president, the spokesperson there, the press secretary. They all said that Abrego Garcia is not coming back to the U.S. Well, he's in the U.S. now, what are they saying today?
CAMILA DECHALUS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. President Trump has really doubled down, saying that even though his administration has now complied with the Supreme Court and facilitating the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, that they are going to full go full steam ahead and press federal criminal charges against him.
Now, President Trump just made a comments just a day ago, really doubling down and saying that he wants his Justice Department to go forward with these charges. Take a listen to what he said.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: He should have been returned. He should have never had to be returned. You take a look at what's happened with him. You take a look at what they found in the grand jury and everywhere elese. I thought Pam Bondi did a great job today.
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DECHALUS: Now, it's pretty notable because even though his Trump administration has applied with bringing him back, Trump is saying, Hey, listen, I wouldn't have personally returned him, but now that he's back here, he is going to face these these alleged criminal charges that he's now been accused of, and his attorney general has really laid out in his indictment of what they're saying that he's done.
If this is notable of, Victor, first, they were saying before when he was mistakenly deported that he had ties to alleged tie to MS-13. And now they're saying they're charging him with a conspiracy to transport undocumented migrants to through cross state lines. Take a listen to what his attorney general said the other day.
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PAM BONDI, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. They found this was his full time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans, and children, and women. He made over 100 trips, the grand jury found, smuggling people throughout our country. MS-13 members, violent gang terrorist organization members throughout our country.
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DECHALUS: Now, Victor, this is going to be a long legal battle for Mr. Garcia, but what is pretty notable here is that it's caused a little bit of turmoil within its own Trump administration. Just the other day, CNN is reporting that the chief of the criminal division of the Justice Department in Nashville, that's the DOJ's criminal division in Nashville. The chief of it has resigned over this case.
BLACKWELL: Camila DeChalus reporting from Washington. Thank you very much. Last hour, I spoke with CNN's Legal Analyst, Joey Jackson, about the validity of this case against Abrego Garcia. Here's what he had to say.
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JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: A grand jury proceeding is simply what the prosecutors tell us. It's just when you peel back the onion, when you vet the allegations, when you vet what the attorney general said, when you evaluate whether there's underlying evidence that supports that, do you get to the ability to answer your question, which is an excellent one.
And that is, is this a substantive and will it ultimately carry the day with regard to the factual underpinnings? And the answer, quite frankly, is I don't know. I don't know whether this is just a cover that the administration has engaged in to justify this narrative that he shouldn't be here or whether this is substantive.
I will say and I'll end here that, listen, if someone resigns and it seems to be connected, the chief of the criminal division associated with that office right in light of this, presumably that's a problem to me. It's a red flag to me and it raises many concerns to me.
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BLACKWELL: Coming up on first of all, I'll be joined by a member of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team for their reaction to the charges. That's next hour, 8:00 a.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.
So, this morning, there is growing concern among Republicans on Capitol Hill that a prolonged fight between President Trump and Elon Musk could become a distraction from getting the president's legislation passed. Despite all that, Trump says that he has no interest in talking to Musk.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's your view on Elon Musk as of today? I mean, have you heard from him at all?
TRUMP: Obviously, I've been so busy working on China, working on Russia, working on Iran, working on so many -- I'm not thinking about Elon.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you have any plans to speak with Mr. Musk? This was one of your closest advisers.
TRUMP: No, I don't have any plans.
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BLACKWELL: CNN's Chief National Affairs Correspondent, Jeff Zeleny, has more for us.
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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: President Donald Trump on Friday headed off to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort for the weekend without one of his best companions in tow, that, of course, is Elon Musk. We have seen so many weekends throughout the first several months of this administration where Elon Musk, in fact, traveled with the President down to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Well, of course, now Elon Musk is no longer in the administration and he is no longer in the good graces of this president. We've seen an extraordinary break in their relationship that really escalated throughout the week, particularly on a Thursday and Friday. With Elon Musk calling into question the very heart of the Trump administration's agenda, really questioning the Trump policy bill, saying it's too expensive, it adds too much money to the national debt and deficit.
He questioned the administration's tariff policies and just also agreed with the fact that Donald Trump should be impeached. It was an extraordinary back and forth that the likes of which we've really never witnessed. But President Trump on Friday really tried to change the storyline, if you will. He called CNN's Dana Bash and said that he's not thinking about Elon Musk at all. He called him a poor guy. He said he's someone who has a real problem. So, clearly this is one of the biggest breaks with one of the president's closest supporters, obviously, but also advisers. So where this goes from here is very much an open question. But we do know that Elon Musk and the U.S. president have not spoken at all. The White House officials say that there's no immediate interest for the president to speak with him. We shall see.
But a question is, will Elon Musk turn his firepower on the president's agenda? Will he try and derail it or will he simply move on? It was an extraordinary week with a big break between Trump and Elon Musk. Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.
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BLACKWELL: With me now to talk is Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, a Democrat from New York. Congresswoman, thank you for joining me this morning.
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REP. YVETTE CLARKE (D-NY): It's great to be with you, Victor.
BLACKWELL: All right, let's pick up where Jeff left off. Jeff says that the reporting is of the president and he says himself he has no interest in talking with Elon Musk. But your colleague in the House, Congressman Ro Khanna, says that Democrats should be in dialogue with Musk.
He also says that through social media we can be the party of sanctimonious lectures or the party of FDR that knows how to win and build a progressive majority. Here's what he said on CNN since the feud.
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REP. RO KHANNA (D-CA): You're not going to go become his friend and have him support you. That's naive. Where he says things that you agree with, you should agree with them. And where he says things you disagree with, you should disagree with that. And you just call things as balls and strikes.
What I think is wrong, though, is just so obsessing about demonizing him that when he's saying things that are objectively correct, that this bill is going to explode deficits and that blanket tariffs are going to hurt the economy to hold a grudge.
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BLACKWELL: So, you and Musk are allied on wanting to stop the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. To what degree should Democrats be in dialogue with Elon Musk?
CLARKE: Well, I really just don't know what role Elon Musk will be playing going forward. I think it's important for the American people to make their voices known. The one big ugly bill is going to be devastating to our economy, to our health care, to our access to nutritional assistance, and we have sounded the alarm and must continue to do so.
Clearly, the implications for the ballooning of the deficit and debt of the United States is packed in, is baked into this bill. And so, you know, Elon Musk aside, this is a time for the American people to stand up and to let their representatives know that this cannot move forward.
BLACKWELL: You are on the Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee, and we learned from the president that the Treasury Secretary, the Commerce Secretary, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will be in London to talk with their Chinese counterparts on Monday. What are you hoping for?
There was some progress after the conversations in Geneva. What's plausibly accomplished within the reach of the administration next week?
CLARKE: Well, it's my hope that cooler heads will prevail and that the bone crushing tariffs that the American people are under will be relieved. At the end of the day, this was a solution in search of a problem. And you couple these, these horrible tariffs with what we're experiencing domestically and the American people need relief.
This is these are self-inflicted wounds. And my hope is that, again, the Commerce Secretary will bring a measure of common sense to what is taking place.
BLACKWELL: You're the intersection of a lot that's happening over the next several days, including co-chair of the Haiti Caucus, Haiti being one of the 12 countries now facing this travel ban that was announced by the White House. Your statement has to be one of the most scathing that I've read in a long time.
You called it an unambiguously xenophobic attack on the most vulnerable people in the world, undergirded by nothing but baseless accusation and one man's insatiable hate. No matter what sick justifications he gives or sadistic lies he spins, we see this vile, unlawful act for what it is. But the so-called Muslim ban of the last administration was upheld by the Supreme Court, conservative 5-4, then 6-3.
Now, is there any reason to believe that it'll be any different this time?
CLARKE: Well, listen, it's my hope that we will see the overreach here. This is unbelievable. These nations are not terrorist nations. Haiti, in particular, which is one of our closest neighbors, experiences like none other. And yet, here we are cutting off the lifeline to an allied country at the end of the day.
And the lifeline is not only the support that the United States has given in terms of humanitarian aid. It has been the ability of individuals to receive visas, to receive health care in the United States, to attend funerals and weddings, and to engage with their families. What we're saying here is that family reunification is no longer of value in the United States of America, and that just can't stand.
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BLACKWELL: Congresswoman Yvette Clark, I thank you for your time this morning. We'll be right back.
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BLACKWELL: Had a tornado watch across parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. About 5 million people impacted. Van Buren, Arkansas is already cleaning up after a confirmed tornado tore through yesterday. That storm sent two people to the hospital, damaged more than 50 buildings, displaced about 30 families from one apartment complex.
CNN's Allison Chinchar is here with me now. What's the latest?
CHINCHAR: Yes, so we've got three separate areas here dealing with the rain. Some in the northeast, some in the mid-Atlantic, and then the strongest storms are located here over the central plains. This is where we have that tornado watch in effect for just about another 40 to 50 minutes, but we could end up seeing some additional tornado watches get issued as we go later into the day and more of these storms continue to traverse east.
And that's because you still have several severe thunderstorm warnings, several tornado warnings in effect. They've been off and on throughout much of the day today and are expected to continue. This huge swath you see here is where we have the potential for those strong to severe thunderstorms.
So, we are talking tornadoes, damaging winds around 60 to 70 miles per hour, and even some hail potentially in a lot of these areas like Nashville, Birmingham, Dallas, Lubbock, even stretching over into Raleigh. Now, the timeline, you've got that first round of storms that's already rolling through this morning. That's going to continue to make its way across the southeast.
But then you're going to have a secondary one that begins to develop into the afternoon, especially on the backside of this across portions of Missouri, Mississippi, and even into Arkansas. So going into the overnight timeline, you're still looking at some of those very strong thunderstorms to hit places like Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson, Mississippi, and even over towards areas of Dallas, Texas.
Then, by late Sunday afternoon, that first round continues to spread eastward. But you now have another round of showers and thunderstorms in the backside of that. That's why you also have the potential for some strong thunderstorms on Sunday as well.
BLACKWELL: All right, Allison. Thank you. Headlines for you now. Crowds clashed with ICE agents after dozens of people were detained in raids across Los Angeles on Friday. Police issued a citywide tactical alert just hours after declaring
protests across the downtown L.A. area as unlawful assemblies. Police in riot gear.
Look at this. They used tear gas, flashbangs to try to break up the crowds. At least 44 people were detained in the ICE raids. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said that the raids were meant to sow terror in the community. Other videos show the detention center sprayed with graffiti, with some protesters blocking LAPD vehicles close by.
Arkansas authorities say that the former Gateway police chief who escaped from prison almost two weeks ago is now back in custody. The Isard County sheriff posted on Facebook that 56-year-old, Grant Hardin, was recaptured and it was just a mile and a half west of the prison yesterday afternoon.
The Arkansas Department of Corrections says that tracking dogs picked up Hardin's scent and state and federal officers caught him soon after. Hardin had been serving time for murder and rape.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the White House ban of the Associated Press can continue. That decision was based on a finding that some White House spaces are closed to the general public or large groups of press, so the White House has discretion to decide which journalists are allowed access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, Mar- a-Lago.
The AP was not excluded from the East Room. The AP argued its First Amendment rights were violated. That's after the AP refused to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America editorially as Trump had ordered.
There was an investigation happening after a Chicago police officer was unintentionally shot and killed by a fellow officer, according to the Chicago Police Department. The CNN affiliate WLS and WBBM, they report that it started when 36-year-old, Crystal Rivera, and other officers were chasing an armed suspect Thursday night.
Chicago's police superintendent told our affiliates that during the pursuit, a second person pointed a rifle at the officers and an officer discharged a weapon. Rivera was hit. Chicago police say that Rivera had been on the force for four years. They add that she was the mother of a 10-year-old.
New this morning, Washington state authorities say that they have received more than 500 tips as they continue searching for Travis Decker. He's the man accused of killing his three daughters and leaving their bodies at a Washington state campground. Court documents detail more about how the three children were discovered.
And CNN National Correspondent, Natasha Chen has that. Natasha.
NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Victor. The search continues for Travis Decker, a search that now requires closing a large recreational area in central Washington around Icicle River, popular with campers and hikers. Authorities are also still warning people in remote areas of central and western Washington state to lock their doors.
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Decker, they say, has extensive wilderness survival skills where he could last for days, if not weeks. Investigators found his abandoned truck on Monday about 40 miles from Wenatchee, where he picked up his daughters from their mother's house. The girls' zip-tied bodies were found nearby. Police believe they were asphyxiated.
Their mother, Whitney Decker, has said there were no warning signs that he would ever harm their children, though he had struggled deeply with his mental health after serving in the military with at least one tour in Afghanistan. Her attorney told CNN he wasn't able to get help through Veterans Affairs.
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ANNA COZART, WHITNEY DECKER'S ATTORNEY: The system failed Whitney's babies, and that's one of the quotes she gave us, is the system failed us all so much. And if it weren't for the system that failed her, those babies would be alive.
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CHEN: She also says the state's AMBER Alert system needs to be improved. There was never one sent out when Whitney Decker reported the situation to police. Washington State Patrol told CNN there was believed to be no imminent threat to the children's safety. An endangered persons alert was issued the next day. Victor, back to you.
BLACKWELL: Natasha Chen, thank you for that report.
Still to come, a deadly night in Ukraine, Russia launched attacks on the country's second largest city.
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BLACKWELL: President Trump says that China has agreed to restart selling rare earth minerals to the U.S., key material that's used in cars and smartphones and military equipment.
Trump says that the deal came after a phone call Thursday with Chinese leader Xi, but China's official statement made no mention of rare earths, and the White House has not released its promised readout of the call. For now, though, it's unclear what was actually agreed to or what happens next.
Ukraine says its air force took down a Russian military jet near Kurtz in what officials call a successful operation.
Now, while Moscow has not confirmed the strike, a Russian military blogger claims a plane crashed and the pilot survived.
Meanwhile, in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, it was hit hard overnight. The mayor says that it was the city's worst strike since the war began in Russia. Also launched more attacks yesterday was just hours after vowing to respond to hits on its air bases. Since Friday morning, at least seven people have been killed and more than 40 injured.
CNN Sebastian Shukla is joining us live. So, what's the latest?
SEBASTIAN SHUKLA, CNN FIELD PRODUCER: Yes, good morning, Victor. Before I come to Kharkiv, I want to bring you some breaking news that we're getting out of Ukraine, and a prisoner swap that is was supposed to have been agreed between the Russians and the Ukrainians at those Istanbul talks that happened a few days ago. And one of the outcomes of that was a prisoner swap.
What we are hearing now is that some 6,000 Ukrainian servicemen were due to be exchanged. Details are still a little thin at the moment.
But what the Russians are saying is that the Ukrainian side unexpectedly postponed the transfer of bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war for an indefinite period of time.
What we do know is that 1,000 of those bodies, roughly a thousand are dead bodies, their bodies that have appeared at this exchange point, refrigerated and frozen to be handed over. But what the Russians are saying here is that the Ukrainians appear to not be there.
We -- CNN has reached out to Ukrainian authorities, but they haven't commented on these claims. But going back to this huge attack that appears to have taken place on the city of Kharkiv overnight, Ukraine's second largest city, and one that is right pushed up, right up against the border with Russia, just 20 miles or so away from that border, is one of the biggest that this city has seen since the war began.
The mayor reported hearing some 40 explosions taking place in the city. Three people have died and 21 have subsequently been injured. And what we are seeing now is this concerted -- two days now, concerted, what appears to be reply from Moscow to those that audacious sabotage attack which took place insights -- inside the borders of the Russian Federation, lots of it far away from the fighting that was taking place -- is taking place inside Ukraine.
So, this is the response that President Trump appeared to be alluding to when he spoke to reporters on Air Force One earlier. Take a listen.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, they gave -- they gave Putin. There is (INAUDIBLE).
When I saw it, I said, here we go. Now it's going to be striking --
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SHUKLA: And so, what we see now is obviously the president there talking about almost reprisal attacks against one another, that appears to be going completely against the direction of any talks and ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by the United States to bring this fighting and this war to an end. Victor.
BLACKWELL: Sebastian Shukla, thank you.
Still to come, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is taking another step in his efforts to remake the military. Why he is stripping the name from a Navy ship just commissioned four years ago.
And the CNN original series, "MY HAPPY PLACE" takes viewers on journeys across the world where six celebrity hosts show us the places where they go to escape and feel most at peace.
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This week, award-winning actor Simu Liu takes viewers to Bangkok, Thailand. He goes on a spiritual, and cultural, and culinary trip throughout the city, and meets some exciting people along the way.
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SIMU LIU, AWARD-WINNING ACTOR: OK, here we go. I'm pinching it and I'm going --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Simu, how do you think about Bangkok? Did you like it?
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LIU: (INAUDIBLE) about Bangkok?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. How did you like it?
LIU: I love it. You know, there is something about Thailand. The culture and the food, as I understood it, that just seemed very welcoming to me. Like I always felt like the Thai people and the Thai society was very unpretentious. And, you know, what I imagine that trip was going to be 10 years ago.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh.
LIU: Was the exact same as what my trip ended up being. And I just thought that, that -- that's something that I really, really just appreciate about the country, and why I think I'll keep coming back time and time again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh.
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BLACKWELL: The new episode, "MY HAPPY PLACE" with Simu Liu, air Sunday at 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific only on CNN.
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[07:40:47] BLACKWELL: Just four years after its christening, a navy oiler ship will be renamed again. A U.S. official says Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to strip the USNS Harvey Milk of its name.
The ship was named after the gay rights activist, an icon who was forced to resign from the Navy in 1955 after he was outed. Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California in 1977. Just months later, he died, shot and killed over a job dispute.
While the name change is nearly unprecedented, it's not entirely unsurprising. The Trump administration is moving to eliminate what they call DEI efforts across the government.
Joining me now, Miriam Richter. She is the director of the Harvey Milk Foundation. Thanks for being with me. And I first want to just read for you and get your response to the explanation from the DOD spokesman, "Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the commander-in-chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior ethos." Your thoughts.
MIRIAM RICHTER, DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL, HARVEY MILK FOUNDATION: Well, first, let me say that if it were true -- we have not had confirmation yet. If it were true, it's truly sad, and it's a sad day for America.
But Harvey and his reputation have been through much worse, and will persevere.
BLACKWELL: And do you find some special significance that this happened at the start of Pride Month? No confirmation yet of whether that was intentional or coincidental.
RICHTER: Again, I think that if it's true, it would be deeply sad. I think that it reflects a culture that is not in keeping with, I think, current political -- public sentiment about DEI and it's -- it is sad.
BLACKWELL: Milk served stateside as a diving instructor during the Korean War, Navy supervisors caught him in a park popular for gay men, questioned him about his sexual orientation, as I said, was outed and then, forced to resign.
Gays obviously allowed to serve openly in the military today, since the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011. But does this send a message, from your view, to the LGBT service members?
RICHTER: Absolutely, absolutely, and not a message of hope. And Harvey's message has always been one of hope. He was always optimistic. But he also said we always need to be vigilant, and there will be backward steps, and this is if it in fact happens, we have not had confirmation. The only confirmation that we have had is that it is being discussed. So, we don't know that it's definitely happening.
If it were to happen, it would be a step backwards. I don't think there is any way to spin that.
BLACKWELL: Miriam Richter of the Harvey Milk Foundation, thank you for your time this morning.
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Still to come, the Florida Panthers pull off a double overtime win to keep their Stanley Cup dreams alive. And Andy Scholes has your highlights in sports.
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BLACKWELL: A piece of 80s pop culture can now be you -- yours 40 years after hitting the big screen. The iconic sweater vest worn by Matthew Broderick in the cult classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is now on the auction block. Vest is expected to fetch up to six -- what? $600,000?
Sorry, surprised by that.
At Sotheby's, a current bid of $130,000 has not hit the reserve price, so, there is still time to bid if you got an extra half million sitting around for Matthew Broderick sweater vest. The auction ends June 24th.
All right. Weather this morning, parts of the country are facing a threat of flooding. Storms could dump up to four inches of rain in some places. Allison Chinchar is back tracking it all. Allison?
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, that's right.
So, we take a look at the live radar. You can see, we've got several places that are dealing with rain. Some in the northeast, some in the mid-Atlantic, as well as this section of clusters of storms that are out here across portions of the Central Plains, and that's where we have the strongest severe thunderstorms right now.
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But it's going to be waves of rain that come through over the next 48 hours, and that's going to lead to the potential for some flooding. This is the area that has the greatest risk of flooding over the next 24 hours.
You can see that's Lexington, Cincinnati, down through Atlanta, Memphis, even back through Little Rock. But you also have this cluster up across portions of New England too, just because they've had several days of rain up there as well.
Here is a look at the system. Again, you've got that area up into the Northeast that's going to wrap up later on to the day today, but still giving the potential for some heavy rain. This cluster, the one that's already ongoing this morning, is going to gradually make its way across the southeast as we go into the evening, but then, overnight, you have that new development late into the day today that's going to continue to slide across portions of the southeast.
So, it's multiple rounds over the same areas, and that's what's likely going to cause some of those flooding concerns, even as we head into the late day on Saturday -- on Sunday.
Overall, most of these areas maybe about one to two inches, but you're going to have some of those isolated spots that could pick up three or even four inches of rain, and that's what's going to cause the flooding concerns.
If that wasn't enough, you also still have the potential for severe thunderstorms. So, this is the best chance for those areas. We're talking about damaging winds, of around 60 to 70 miles per hour, the potential for some hail, and yes, even some isolated tornadoes.
We've had isolated tornado and even severe thunderstorm warnings off and on throughout the morning. Those are expected to continue as we go through the afternoon and into the evening hours, places like Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, even stretching all the way back into Dallas, Texas.
BLACKWELL: Allison, thank you very much. Panther win in they went in overtime to even the Stanley Cup Finals at a game of peace. A thriller, Andy Scholes.
ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Yes. It certainly was, Victor.
You know, these two teams, they went to seven games last year. Well, so far in this series, they've gone to overtime in each one of them, first time that's happened since 2014, only the sixth time ever.
In Game Two last night, they actually needed double overtime. Pick it up in the third period, Florida up 4-3 in the closing seconds, Edmonton was desperately trying to find the equalizer, and Corey Perry would come through. He scores with 17 seconds left. This is the latest tying goal in Stanley Cup history. Oilers fans rejoicing. We go to overtime and then in double O.T.
Brad Marchand, the hero for Florida. He scores on this breakaway. Get a nice bounce through Stuart Skinner's legs.
Panthers win 5-4 to even this series. Here was Marchand afterwards when asked about his game winning goal.
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BRAD MARCHAND, LEFT WINGER, FLORIDA PANTHERS: You know, to be honest, I blacked out. I don't even know where it went. So, but I'm -- yes, it's just, obviously a fortuitous bounce, and we'll take it.
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SCHOLES: That series is now going to be Monday in Florida.
And Oklahoma City, meanwhile, it was a winner take all Game Three between Texas and Texas Tech in the College World Series, and the fourth game. The ESPN reported though that the first million-dollar player in softball history, tech pitcher NiJaree Canady is going to return to the Red Raiders next season on another seven-figure NIL deal. She pitched every single pitch for Tech at this World Series, but it did not go her way last night. The Longhorns getting to her for five runs. Texas, then, actually got a grand slam as well from Mia Scott to put the game away, Longhorns would win 10-4, to claim their first ever softball national title.
The men's final at the French Open, meanwhile, is now set. Yannik Sinner taken out 24-time grand slam winner Novak Djokovic and straight sets yesterday. Sinner has now beaten Djokovic last four times he's faced him the Roland Garros crowd, though, given the 38-year-old Djokovic a nice ovation as he left the court.
Carlos Alcaraz, meanwhile, he lost the first set to Italian Lorenzo Musetti, but then he won the next two before Musetti was then forced to retire in the fourth with a leg injury. So, it's going to be number one Sinner versus number two Alcaraz on the men's side.
It's also going to be one versus two in the women's final today. Top seed Aryna Sabalenka set to face off against two seed Coco Gauff. Coco looking to win her second Grand Slam of her career. Sabalenka, looking for her fourth. That starts at 9:00 a.m. Eastern this morning. You can watch that on TNT, streaming on Max, and be sure to tune in right here on CNN at 230 Eastern for a French Open special recapping, the championship.
And finally, last night, before game two, the Stanley Cup, there was Stanley Pup. All 32 teams in NHL, represented by an adorable dog that, in many cases, was available to be adopted from the -- a shelter or rescue group in the city that they were repping.
The pups, guys, look, showing off the skills in the ice, helping to stress the importance of animal adoption.
You know, Florida, one of the stars on their team is Matthew Tkachuk, while representing Florida in the Stanley Pup was Matthew Fketchuk.
BLACKWELL: Oh, I see, see what they did there. What I love about this one, though, is that there was an actual goal, right? Right?
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SCHOLES: Oh, you scored. Yes.
BLACKWELL: Sometimes, the puppy bowl, they are just going back and forth on the -- on the field. There is an actual score here.
How about the vest from Matthew Broderick? $600,000.
CHINCHAR: Really?
BLACKWELL: Are you surprised by that?
CHINCHAR: Yes, a little bit.
SCHOLES: Yes.
CHINCHAR: Because it's also old.
BLACKWELL: Yes.
CHINCHAR: I mean, look like artwork holds up clothing? I don't know.
BLACKWELL: I don't know, either. There it is.
SCHOLES: Look, some people love their memorabilia, and certain things are important to others. Right?
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BLACKWELL: Yes, yes. All right. Maybe, I thought it was just me.
All right. "FIRST OF ALL," coming up at the top of the hour.
Listen, there is been a lot going on this week. Right?
We talked about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the back and forth between the president and with Elon Musk. But I want to talk about what happened with Job Corps. It is so important lifeline for thousands of low-income students and young people. That's a bipartisan concern about a Trump administration effort to close that program.
We've got the leader of an organization that's going to court to keep that from happening. She is here.
Also joining me, an attorney on the legal team representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He'll respond to his return from El Salvador to face federal charges after a lengthy legal fight.
And later, this firestorm. Have you seen this over a high school track star whose state title was pulled because of celebration with a fire extinguisher? Was it clever? Was it unsportsmanlike?
And did race play any role in deciding this as her father alleges? That sprinter and her dad, they join us live. Those conversations are coming up after a quick break on "FIRST OF ALL."
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