New poll shows Trump trailing top Democratic rivals Biden, Sanders, and Warren in Florida, Iran claims ability to strike U.S. aircraft carriers

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Trump says he only recently learned of Shanahan background issues and didn't ask him to withdraw, denies a vetting problem, Trump en route to Orlando for re-election launch after again claiming millions of deportations planned next week, Shanahan withdraws his nomination for Defense Secretary, resigns from Pentagon amid reports of bitter divorce, CNN: House Judiciary Democrats plan to question Hope Hicks about hush-money coverups of Trump's alleged affairs, Trump doubles down on claim of deportations next week, DHS officials surprised but Trump insists they already knew, Representative Kildee joins House Democrats calling for impeachment proceedings, CNN: White House will assert immunity for Hope Hicks during Congressional testimony, Trump: U.S. is "Very prepared" to deal with Iran as Iranian commander boasts about ability to strike American warships, Manafort avoids notorious jail after unusual intervention by Deputy Attorney GeneralTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's happening now breaking news countdown to launch.
0:04.4	President Trump is just hours from officially kicking off his 2020 presidential
0:08.7	campaign with a rally in Florida where supporters have lined up for hours and where a new poll shows
0:14.7	him trailing top Democratic rivals. Out of the running the president has
0:19.9	picked to lead the Pentagon withdraws his nomination and resigns his post as details
0:24.8	of the contentious divorce threaten to complicate confirmation, leaving the country
0:29.3	still without a permanent defense secretary amid growing international crises.
0:34.5	Iran's new warning.
0:36.0	Heeded rhetoric gets hotter.
0:37.8	As a top Iranian military leader claims Iran's ballistic missiles are capable of striking a U.S. aircraft carrier, one of which is in the region
0:46.1	right now amid increasing tension with Tehran.
0:50.0	And Manafort's prison move.
0:51.9	Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manifort's expected
0:54.4	transfer to a notorious New York jail is apparently scrapped after an unusual
0:59.7	intervention by the Justice Department, leaving him housed instead in the same facility with the
1:05.0	drug lord known as El Chappo.
1:08.1	I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room.
1:13.0	This is CNN breaking news.
1:17.0	This is CNN breaking news.
1:20.0	We're following breaking news.
1:21.0	The acting defense secretary Patrick
1:23.2	Shanahan withdrawing his nomination for the permanent post and
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