Mid-Morning News Briefing: Judge considering classified docs case, Trump campaign walks back proposal, Snopes denounces false claim about Trump, Chilling new 9/11 video, a bridge collapse, and much more…

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Below are important excerpts from some of the top stories in the news this morning:

1 – Prosecutors in classified files case to urge judge to restrict Trump from inflammatory comments about FBI

From the Associated Press: FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump is hearing arguments Monday on whether to bar the former president from public comments that prosecutors say could endanger the lives of FBI agents working on the case.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team says the restrictions are necessary in light of Trump’s false comments that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 for classified documents were out to kill him and his family. Trump’s lawyers say any gag order would improperly silence Trump in the heat of a presidential campaign in which he is the presumptive Republican nominee.

It was not immediately clear when U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee whose handling of the case has been closely scrutinized, might rule. Before turning her attention to the limited gag order sought by prosecutors, she is scheduled to hear additional arguments Monday morning related to the Justice Department’s appointment and funding of Smith, whose team brought the charges.

2 – Trump campaign walks back immigration idea after conservative backlash

From Fox News: Former President Trump’s campaign walked back a promise that the former president would “automatically” award green cards to migrants after they graduate from college.

“President Trump has made it clear that on day one of his new administration, he’s going to shut down the border and launch the largest mass deportation effort of illegal aliens in history,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last week, according to a New York Post report, noting that the former president would include an “aggressive vetting process” and “exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.”

The comments come after Trump’s appearance on the “All-in Podcast” last week, where the former president outlined an idea to give all foreign college graduates a green card with their diploma.

3 – Chilling new video captures suspected Saudi spy filming US Capitol, National Monument before 9/11

From the NY Post: Newly unsealed video reveals that a suspected Saudi spy was filming the US Capitol and National Monument just months before al Qaeda officials decided what targets to hit during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

Omar al-Bayoumi, an accused Saudi intelligence operative with close ties to two of the 9/11 hijackers, can be heard narrating the 1999-era video showing the US Capitol building and the Washington Monument, CBS’s “60 Minutes” reports.

While the US government has maintained that al Qaeda acted alone on Sept. 11, retired FBI Agent Richard Lambert says the video serves as evermore proof that the terror group had help.

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4 – Trump camp demands Biden end campaign ‘lie’ after fact-checker debunks ‘hoax’

From Fox News: The Trump campaign says a recent fact-check report debunking the claim that then-President Trump spoke favorably of neo-Nazis in 2017 shows President Biden and his campaign had promoted a “lie” and called on them to not promote the “hoax” again.

Left-leaning fact-checking website Snopes published a piece Saturday debunking claims promoted by President Biden and some members of the media that following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” Biden has repeatedly cited the false claim, even saying it was the impetus for his 2020 White House run against Trump.

Snopes detailed in its fact check that Trump was clear he was not calling neo-Nazis “fine people” when he made the comment at a press conference that year.

“While Trump did say that there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and White supremacists and said they should be ‘condemned totally.’ Therefore, we have rated this claim ‘False,'” Snopes wrote.

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5 – CNN abruptly takes Trump campaign spokeswoman off the air mid-interview as network is set to host first presidential debate

From the NY Post: CNN abruptly cut Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from the air Monday morning — just days before the network is set to host the first presidential debate between her boss and President Joe Biden.

Anchor Kasie Hunt pulled the plug just minutes after the interview got underway after asking Leavitt what former President Donald Trump’s strategy was for when he takes to the stage in Atlanta, Ga. on Thursday.

“President Trump is well prepared ahead of Thursday’s debates. Unlike Joe Biden, he doesn’t have to hide away and have his advisors tell him what to say. President Trump knows what he wants to say,” Leavitt started. The spokeswoman then noted the debate stage would likely be a “hostile environment” for her boss – and accused CNN’s debate moderators, co-hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, of biased coverage of him in the past.

6 – Hackers that crippled car dealerships demand tens of millions in ransom

From the Washington Examiner: The group responsible for hacking the system of CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom as the June 19 attack on the company’s systems continues.

CDK Global provides software to nearly 15,000 car dealerships in the United States, which they rely on for day-to-day processing. This includes stocking vehicles, ordering services or parts, and deliveries. The breach has brought activity at these auto dealers to a halt.

“It’s just mass chaos at this point,” Diana Lee, the chief executive officer of auto dealership marketing agency Constellation, said. “The dealer’s required to actually run a DMS for sales, service, parts, for every single functionality — even stocking a vehicle, you can’t do it without the DMS system. So it is a disaster.”

7 – NYC boasts taxpayer-funded card program for illegal immigrants is helping lead nation through ‘crisis’

From Fox News: New York City officials are boasting that a taxpayer-funded program that hands out $350 per week to migrant families is helping to set an example for the rest of the nation on how to manage the “national humanitarian crisis” created by mass illegal immigration. Although the program has drawn opposition from critics who question giving illegal immigrants no-strings handouts from the city’s strapped coffers, officials seem to think the program is a major success.

“New York City is leading the nation in managing this national humanitarian crisis, having cared for more than 203,900 migrants since the spring of 2022 and helping more than 65 percent move out of our care and take the next steps in their journeys,” a city hall spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

New York City officials began giving out prepaid debit cards to migrant families residing in the Big Apple earlier this year. The prepaid cards – the first of which were distributed in March as part of the city’s Immediate Response Cards (IRC) program – are meant to be used only to purchase essential items like food.

8 – Legendary College Football Coach Unleashes on Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports

From Breitbart: Lou Holtz, the legendary college football coach from the likes of Notre Dame and South Carolina, denounced men in women’s sports. Holtz knocked the idea of men competing against women in a Sunday post on X.

“I was happy when Title IX came out. But here we are, many years later, and now we can’t even ensure women competing against women. It’s crazy!” he said.

9 – California minimum wage hike delayed as budget problems persist

From the Washington Post: In an effort to close a budget deficit, California Democrats have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for healthcare workers.

The new minimum wage for healthcare workers, set to be $25 per hour, was expected to take effect in phases over the course of the next 10 years. Approximately 426,000 healthcare workers were expected to see their first pay bumps in July, but legislators concluded that they would not be able to balance the state’s budget with the wage increase, which would cost about $2 billion.

The minimum wage set in California for most workers is $16 per hour. While the state successfully passed a minimum wage increase for food service workers to $20 per hour, the problem with setting a minimum wage for healthcare workers is that it will come out of the state’s budget. The state employs some healthcare workers and also pays for health benefits through its Medicaid program.

10 – Rail bridge collapses during Midwest flooding as a heat wave persists across much of the U.S.

From CNBC: A railroad bridge collapsed during flooding in the Midwestern U.S. that has led to water rescues, evacuations and at least one death and has brought additional misery during a vast and stubborn heat wave.

The bridge connecting North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sioux City Iowa, collapsed into the Big Sioux River late Sunday, an emergency manager said. Images from local media showed a large span of the steel bridge partially underwater as floodwaters rushed over it.

Some of the trusses collapsed, Jason Westcott, an emergency manager in Union County, South Dakota, told KCAU-TV. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the collapse. The bridge is owned by BNSF Railway, whose officials did not immediately comment.

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