The raptors capture the nba title in a nail biter of a game six. Devastating injury for golden state in that toronto win. We will have that for you later. Good morning and welcome to early start, im dave briggs. And im christine romans. It is friday. Say it again. Its friday, june 14th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. The straight of hormuz, the u. S. Military releasing video that says it shows an iranian navy crew removing an unexploded mine attached to one of two tanker ships attacked in the gulf of oman. The u. S. Officials believe the iranians were trying to recover evidence of their involvement in the attack. Senior International Correspondent ben wedeman joins us live from abu dhabi with the latest. This is an important global corridor for trade. Any kind of sabotage or shenanigans here have ramifications all around the world. What do we know . Thats right. About 30 of the worlds oil, christine, passes through the straits of hormuz where this incident happened early yesterday morning. Now, in this video that was released by the pentagon what we see is a boat coming up to the kokuka courageous which is this japanese owned tanker that was hit early yesterday morning. What we see is men seeming to remove an object from the side of the ship. Now, the pentagon says that is a limpet mine. The iranians are denying any involvement in this incident and of course the Japanese Company that owns that tanker is saying they believe that the damage caused to it was not from a mine or a torpedo, but rather from some sort of flying object, a shell or a missile. This coming from the company itself which is quoting a crew member of that ship. But whoever did it, whatever is behind this incident, it certainly has raised tensions to levels we have not seen in years. Christine . Ben, so glad that youre there to followup for us. Thank you. To politics now. Republicans have begun to respond to President Trumps comment that he would accept dirt on an opponent from a Foreign Government. A possible violation of u. S. Law. The president telling abc news that he might go to the fbi if he received such an offer and casting doubt on the idea that that would be election interference. Its not an interference. They have information. I think id take it. If i thought there was something wrong i would go maybe to the fbi. On thursday some republicans joined democrats in blasting the president. Many more offered no comment or even deflected with the dubious claim that Hillary Clintons campaign did the same thing. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty with more from capitol hill. Reporter good morning, christine and dave. Lawmakers up here on capitol hill are responding to that admission from President Trump, his willingness to take dirt from foreign adversaries potentially and much of the reaction rather predictably falling down party lines with democrats outraged and blasting President Trump for saying he would not immediately report that to the fbi. Here is speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Yesterday the president gave us once again evidence that he does not know right from wrong. Reporter and republicans as we have seen in the past have been very hesitant to wade into this. Here is republican senator lindsey graham. I think its a mistake. I think its a mistake of law. I dont want to send a signal to encourage this and i hope my democrat colleagues will be equally offended by the fact that this actually did happen in 2016 where a Foreign Agent was paid for by a Political Party to gather opposition research. All those things are wrong. Reporter and that is very similar to what we are hearing from many republicans up here on capitol hill. The ones that would take a question and answer this, they said that they personally would not take op from a foreign adversary but tried to steer from being critical of President Trumps comments himself and tried to quickly pivot to redirect attention to the democrats. Republicans very clearly walking a political tightrope in their response to this. All right. Sunlen, thank you for that. On capitol hill it seemed like there were almost as many different shades of reaction as there are republicans. Take utah senator mitt romney. That would be simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement, to encourage it, to participate with it in any way, shape or form. It would strike at the very heart of our democracy. Contrast that with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell immediately turning attention back on democrats. He gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it, but the fundamental point is they are trying to keep the 2016 election alive. I would ask the democrats in the house this, is there anything youre willing to do other than harass the president for the next two years . Anything at all . One last point from ellen weintraub, she issued a statement, quote, let me make something 100 clear to the American Public and anyone else running for Anyone Running for Public Office. It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept or receive anything of value from a Foreign National in connection with a u. S. Election. Case closed. The Trump Administration coming to the defense of white house counselor Kellyanne Conway, rejecting calls from a federal agency for her to be fired for criticizing political opponents while in her official government capacity. Conways violations center around tv interview in the run up to a special election in alabama in 2018 when she said this about democrat doug jones. Doug jones in alabama, folks, dont be fooled. He will be a vote against tax cuts. Hes weak on crime, weak on borders, hes strong on raising your taxes, hes terrible for Property Owners. So vote roy moore. Which is why hes not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him. So vote roy moore . Im telling you that we want the votes in the senate to get this tax this tax bill through. More now from abby phillip at the white house. Reporter a federal watchdog is recommending that President Trump fire counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, claiming that she repeatedly violated the hatch act, which prohibits Government Employees from using their official offices to do political work. Now, this office, the office of special counsel, which is not related to the Mueller Report office, is saying that Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly used her office to disparage political candidates, to promote other candidates, and even on one occasion she throughouted this in the face of that office and said essentially when does the jail time start . Listen to what she said a couple of weeks ago. The office of special counsel which says that you listen official government business blah blah listen. Special election. Are you talking about something from a year and a half ago . If you are trying to silence me through the hatch act its not going to work. The office of special counsel said you violated let me know when the jail sentence starts. But the white house is pushing back on this ruling, the Deputy Press Secretary steve groves said in a statement that the offices ruling is deeply flawed and violates Kellyanne Conways Constitutional Rights to free speech and due process. The white house is rejecting the notion that she did anything improper in her role as counselor to the president when she made these statements on social media and even on Television Appearances from the white house north lawn. But ultimately none of this might actually matter because the hatch act is one of those provisions that is rarely enforced and, in fact, President Trump himself is responsible for enforcing it. Sources say that the president is very unlikely to fire kelly an as a result of Something Like this, particularly when it comes to these sorts of ethical violations which multiple white house officials at this point have been dinged by this very same office over the last several months. Abby phillip, thank you for that. A new warning to President Trump about the damage a trade war with china could cause. More than 600 Companies Including walmart, costco, target issued a letter that said more tariffs will have a significant negative and long term impact on american businesses, farmers, families and the u. S. Economy. The Trump Administration, though, is devoted to its tariff strategy. Chief economic adviser larry kudlow said people dont have to buy goods from china so they dont have to pay the tariff and he is confident about the future of the strategy. The worlds trading system is broken and President Trump is the guy thats trying to fix it and its not easy, but he believes it will help, you know, americans in the long run. They are on the wrong side of history. We will win this battle. Kudlow says the pain will shift to china not American Consumers as Companies Move out of china and thats something that is slowly beginning to happen. Rh, formerly known as restoration hardware, says it is moving production out of china to avoid paying for tariffs. Nintendo and google are reportedly looking to move production out of china as well. The Toronto Raptors are nba champs for the first time in team history. Theres a new nba champion and its a team from toronto, canada. We the north are now we the champions. Toronto beating the twotime defending champion Golden State Warriors 114110 last night in a terrific game to inn with the series in six games. They are the First Canadian team to win an nba title. 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For the first time in their history the Toronto Raptors are nba champions. The raptors dethroning the warriors in game six last night who had a devastating loss in that loss. Andy scholes has more in the Bleacher Report. Good morning. The city of toronto probably still celebrating this morning. What a year its been for the raptors. Last summer they fired their coach and traded for superstar Kawhi Leonard and those moves certainly paying off big time. Game six was another thriller and kawhi solid again, gets the bucket plus the foul here in the third quarter. Moments later just another brutal injury for the warriors, Klay Thompson who was having a fantastic game goes down after getting fouled. Klay would have to leave the game with a knee injury, the warriors announcing he has tore his acl. The game was as intense as it gets late. When the raptors needed a big shot undrafted Fred Van Vleet coming through, steph curry had a chance to win this one in the final seconds but his shot would be no good. Raptors take game six 114110 could win the nba finals. The hockey crazed country of canada now has its first nba title. Kawhi, first player ever to win nba finals mvp in both conferences. I just kept working hard, working hard and had my mindset on this goal right here. I came to a team, a new coach, that mindset was the same as mine, trying to get that larry o. B. Over there. This is what i play basketball for, this is what i work out for all summer, during the season and im happy that my hard work paid off. Tens of thousands of fans taking to the streets of toronto to celebrate the teams first championship. People were setting off fireworks, others decided it was a good idea to climb up those light poles. This the citys first title in the four major pro sports leagues since the blue jays won it back in 1993. The u. S. Open teeing off yesterday at pebble beach. Tiger woods shooting a 1 under for the day. He had nice putts to save par, one of them here on 14. Tiger gives a little fist pump after that one. 1 under not fantastic, but tiger will take it. He hadnt had a first round under par at the u. S. Open in seven years. Tiger five shots off the lead heading into todays second round, justin rose is your leader at 6 under. Today tiger tease off a little before 11 00 eastern today so you get some lunchtime golf. Sounds good. Devastated for that warriors team, three superstars, now one in the foreseeable future, huh . The warriors, they might have to take a year off in terms of going to the nba finals. It doesnt look like they will have Klay Thompson or kevin durant next season. Just a really tough loss. Andy, thank you. Congrats to our friends in canada. Romans, whats coming up . The u. S. Military releasing Surveillance Video of a damaged oil tanker. Why the u. S. Says it points to iran next. 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We will win this battle. The president s economic adviser defiant as hundreds of Companies Take a stand against the trade war with china. Theres a new nba champion and its a team from toronto, canada. The raptors capture the nba title in a nail biter. Welcome back to early start, im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Congrats, canada, but golden state goes from three superstars to one more on that ahead. We start in iran. The u. S. Military releasing video last night that it says shows an iranian navy crew removing an unexploded mine attached to one of the two tanker ships attacked in the gulf of oman. The tank ers were attacked in International Waters near the strait of hormuz. U. S. Officials believe the iranians were trying to recover evidence of their involvement in the attack. Our senior International Correspondent ben wedeman joining us live from abu dhabi with the very latest. Ben, good morning. Good morning, dave. What this video, this black and white video released by the pentagon shows is a ship that we presume a iranian in which the men on board are removing whats called a limpet mine, thats a mine thats attached via magnets from that ship and the americans certainly are treating this video as fairly damning evidence of iranian involvement in these attacks, however, the japanese owners of this tanker, the kokuka courageous, are saying that as far as they know it was not mines that caused damage to that tanker yesterday early morning, but rather what theyre describing as a flying shell. They are denying that the damage was caused by either a mine or some sort of toof torpd dough. The iranians denying any involvement in the attacks. The foreign minister saying this is part of an American Campaign of diplomatic sabotage by what he is describing as team b. Of course, the attacks taking place when shinzo abe the japanese Prime Minister was on a visit to tehran, a visit that some had hoped would somehow diffuse the tensions that are now at their highest levels in many years. Soon to be spiking again. Directly tweeting shinzo abe in that b team sabotage diplomacy attempt. Republicans have begun to respond to President Trumps comment that he would accept dirt on an opponent from a Foreign Government, a possible violation of u. S. Law. The president telling abc news he might he might go to the fbi if he received such an offer and casting doubt on the idea that it would be election interference. Its not an interference. They have information. I think id take it. If i thought there was something wrong id go maybe to the fbi. On thursday some republicans joined democrats in opposing the president s comments. If a Foreign Government comes to you as a public official and offers to help your campaign, giving you anything of value, whether it be money or information on your opponent, the right answer is no. In circumstances where a Foreign Government attempts to be involved in an american election, that would be simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement, to encourage it, to participate with it in any way, shape or form. It would strike at the very hard of our democracy. Many more offered no comment or deflected with the dubious misleading claim that Hillary Clintons campaign did the same thing. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty has more from capitol hill. Reporter good morning, christine and dave. Lawmakers up here on capitol hill are responding to that admission from President Trump, his willingness to take dirt from foreign adversaries potentially. Much of the reaction rather predictably falling down party lines with democrats outraged and blasting President Trump for saying he would not immediately report that to the fbi. Here is speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Yesterday the president gave us once again evidence that he does not know right from wrong. Reporter and republicans as we have seen in the past have been very hesitant to wade into this. Here is republican senator lindsey graham. I think its a mistake. I think its a mistake of law. I dont want to send a signal to encourage this and i hope my democrat colleagues will be equally offended by the fact that this did happen in 2016 where a Foreign Agent was paid for by a Political Party to gather opposition research. All those things are wrong. Reporter that is very similar to what we are hearing from many republicans on capitol hill. The ones that would take a question and answer this, they said that they personally would not take oppo from a foreign add starry but tried to stay far away interest being critical of President Trumps comments himself and tried to quickly pivot to redirect attention to the democrats. Republicans, christine and dave, very clearly walking a political tightrope in their response to this. Indeed. Thanks. The Trump Administration coming to the defense of white house counselor Kellyanne Conway. They are rejecting the calls from a federal agency for her to be fired for criticizing political opponents while in her official government capacity. Conways violation centered around tv interviews in the run up to a special election in alabama in 2018 when she said this about democrat doug jones. Doug jones in alabama, folks, dont be fooled. He will be a vote against tax cuts. Hes weak on crime, weak on borders. Hes strong on raising your taxes. Hes terrible for Property Owners and he is a liberal which is why he is not saying anything and why the media are trying to boost him. So vote roy moore . Im telling you that we want the votes in the senate to get this tax this tax bill through. More now from abby phillip at the white house. Reporter a federal watchdog is recommending that President Trump fire counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, claiming that she repeatedly violated the hatch act which prohibits Government Employees from using their official offices to do political work. Now, this office, the office of special counsel, which is not related to the Mueller Report office, is saying that Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly used her office to disparage political candidates, to promote other candidates and even on one occasion she flouted this in the face of that office and said essentially when does the jail time start. Listen to what she said a couple weeks ago. The office of special counsel which says that you listen official government business blah, blah. Listen special election. Blah, blah. Im sorry, are you talking about something from a year and a half ago . If you are trying to silence me through the hatch act its not going to work. Im not trying to silence you. The office of special counsel said you violated it. Let me know when the jail sentence starts. Reporter the white house is pushing back on the ruling. Steve groves said in a statement that the offices ruling is deeply flawed and violates Kellyanne Conways Constitutional Rights to free speech and due process. The white house is rejecting the notion that she did anything improper in her role as counselor to the president when she made she is statements on social media and even on Television Appearances from the white house north lawn. But ultimately none of this might actually matter because the hatch act is one of those provisions that is rarely enforced and, in fact, President Trump himself is responsible for enforcing it. Sources say that the president is very unlikely to fire kelly ann as a result of Something Like this, particularly when it comes to these ethical violations which multiple white house officials at this point have been dinged by this very same office over the last several months. Abby, thank you for that. Lets bring in zach wolf live this morning in washington. Happy friday. Good morning. Lets stay here on this this outcry really since the president s interview with abc when George Stephanopoulos asked him about taking help from a Foreign Government. The president said its the same as going to london and having tea with the queen. Or the prince of wales, like a humpback whale. Here is what Mitch Mcconnell says, the senator, as he is defending the president. He gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it, but the fundamental point is they are trying to keep the 2016 election alive. I would ask the democrats in the house this, is there anything youre willing to do other than harass the president for the next two years . Anything at all . You know, he gets picked at about it every different aspect. Thats a doozy. There is a lot of aspects there that are just absolutely out of the fofof the norm for e of the United States. This is about looking forward and making sure that this white house does not accept help from a foreign president. What i got from the interview is, hey, guys, get me some more dirt. This was donald trump talking about this, it wasnt democrats. It was looking forward to the next thing to, well, if you guys do it again id love to get some dirt from you. That sort of was i think what was there. Whats a little bit lost in all of this, he was trying to defend his son and i think that that is like the one place that donald trump there are absolutely no rules for donald trump anyway, but when it comes to his children i think that they are extremely important to him and in the context of what he was saying, he was defending his son. That doesnt make what he said right and it doesnt mean that anybody should be taking information from Foreign Governments, but i think its important to remember that. Well, Mitch Mcconnell should probably read this statement from the head of the federal election commission. She was very clear, in fact, 100 clear in this statement to the American Public and Anyone Running for Public Office it is illegal for any person to solicit, accept or receive anything of value from a Foreign National in connection with a u. S. Election. She added on twitter, i would not have thought that i needed to say this, just to add clarity. You make a good point in your piece, though, zach, this isnt just being open to committing a felony, to win reelection, it also could leave the president open to blackmail. Yeah, open to blackmail. If you are sort of taking something secretly from a Foreign Government, you owe them something. Yeah. I mean, you are essentially at their they could come to you and say, well, you know, we could tell everybody that we are in cahoots. This is sort of, you know, espionage 101. You want to get something on someone. You dont want to have a Foreign Government with power over a president. That is like that would be horrible it seems to me. And for trump, however, he doesnt seem to think its a problem. Its a remarkable thing. In that interview he did drop the word maybe after talking about this for several minutes, maybe i would go to the fbi. So thats one thing that Kayleigh Mcenany who is the president s spokesperson for his Reelection Campaign saying he did say maybe he would go to the fbi on a case by case bases. Also what youre hearing from the president s staunchest supporters is they immediately switched it back to the steele dossier and clinton. The president s directive as he said a casebycase basis, he said he would likely do both, listen to what they have to say but also report it to the fbi. Thats what he ended on the sound bite and his directive right now is look at what the democrats have done. They are the ones who have done that. Its notable that theres media outi think a and no discussion of the steel dossier, written by a foreign spy, paid for by Hillary Clinton and that information being from russian sources given to a british spy perpetuated through the fbi. Zach, clear this record here on putting these two things together that somehow accepting foreign dirt from the president of the United States from a Foreign Government is the same as the steel dossier. The hypothetical was that a Foreign Government coming to you offering dirt oon your political opponent. What the steele dossier was was a u. S. Company hiring a former Foreign Agent to do their dirty work. Is that a good thing . No. No. Is it the same as russia or china coming to a u. S. Leader and saying here is this dirt we have on your political opponent . No, absolutely not. And i would point out what happened with the steele dossier when it was given to john mccain, he gave it to the fbi. I mean, you know, it just doesnt work in any sense there. 100 clarity. All different shades of shady in the american political system. Zach wolf, thank you, sir, enjoy the weekend. Summer travel getting more expensive. Find out which airlines are raising their fairs in cnn business next. 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Meanwhile President Trumps stunning assertion that he would again accept dirt on political rivals on foreign adversaries has ricochetted through washington. Even the head of the u. S. Election system felt the need to again explain the law. Republicans are trying to defend his comments, but the trump