president donald trump as a it'll take for republicans to hold onto the house. >> and implement trump's agenda. if he wins in november and a heatwave, unlike anything americans have seen in decades, will send temperatures soaring for more than half the country. a reminder that when it comes to climate change, the worst is yet to come, unless something is done and is social media is dangerous as tobacco and alcohol, the surgeon general is now demanding congress take action and for social media companies to add a warning label for children were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in, right here to cnn news central right now a major strategy session going down in south florida, house speaker mike johnson is visiting former president donald trump, at his mar-a-lago resort, where the two republican leaders are hashing out their plans not only to win back the white house, but also hold onto the house of representatives this november, it comes just days chapter trump held meetings with republicans on capitol hill. >> the former president's first trip to the hills since the january 6 insurrection. cnn's alayna treene joins us now and elaina, this is a significant meeting for trump. and johnson. what are you hearing about it? >> well, that's right. well, when donald trump was in washington, dc last week, one of the promises he made need to lawmakers is not just to help the people in the room get re-elected this fall, but also many of the candidates that they're hoping we'll get elected and can help them expand their majority. remember, they have a very slim majority right now. it's very hard for mike johnson to get done a number of the priorities that republicans had hoped. they also don't have the senate. and so what donald trump wants out of this is he wants to make sure if he is elected in the fall, that he has the power within congress big enough majorities that they can help him implement that agenda. and also not push back on some of the big things that he's been planning and we've been hearing him talk about for the past year or so year or so now? now, the other thing i'm also told is after donald trump's conviction in the manhattan trial and 34 counts of falsifying business records days later, he called up mike johnson and he ranted to him about how he wants republicans in congress to do more to wage war on democrats. donald trump is still a very much caught up with this it's idea of retribution. it's something we heard some of his allies talk about this weekend in detroit at a conservative conference. and so that's the other part of this. it's very hard as well for mike johnson was such a slim majority to try and push back on democrats because he doesn't have that much power with such small numbers. and so a lot of this is planning out how donald trump can help then win in november. >> so obviously, the first presidential debate next week, right here on cnn, june 27th what are you hearing about what trump is planning on the schedule in the days leading up to the event, right. >> so tomorrow he has a rally in wisconsin, one of the states he's visited many times before. one of the key battlegrounds that he and his team think is absolutely necessary to winning in november later this week, he's traveling with j.d. vance, potential vp contender. they'll do a fundraiser in ohio. >> he also has a rally in philadelphia. >> this weekend, but luck when it comes to debate prep, when i taught his campaign, they repeatedly insist that he doesn't need to do debate prep, that he has no plans to do some of the mock debates that we know present it's an joe biden is engaged again, however he is still having these policy to discussions with his team gaming out how to respond to certain questions we know last week after he had met with house and senate republicans in washington, dc, he actually held a policy discussion meeting with senator marco rubio and senator eric schmitt. they talked about january six itself, thinking that that's probably something that will come up at the debate. and so they are of course, prepping even though they're trying to argue that he doesn't actually need it it's prep without the word prep attached to alayna treene. thank you so much. browner for the first time, a biden campaign ad is calling out former president trump is a convicted criminal, highlighting that a jury found him guilty on 34 felony counts last month. >> the biden campaign says voters in battleground states will be seeing this message starting today as part of a 50 $50,000,000 ad buy. here's a portion of the ad this election is between a convicted criminal who's only out for himself and a president who's fighting for your family let's talk about this now. a cnn chief national affairs correspondent, jeff zeleny. all right. and i should mention this cnn debate, which is going to be potentially critical, is ten days away. and perhaps this could preview something of it, but i wonder if you see this is a bit of a turning point for the biden campaign. >> without a doubt, i mean, they're investing 50 million this one ad, which is a lot of money even across seven battleground states and nationally in some respects, look, it shows that they are doubling down on this idea. we've heard president biden talk about it in fundraisers initially sort of tip toeing up to this point. but the bottom line is the biden campaign payne has struggled to break through this idea, sort of comparing the two and some call it trump amnesia that people have forgotten some of the exact things that trump did an office, some of the chaos. so they're trying to raise that point. but look, this has been the subject of much discussion among democrats, among operative it is an elected officials i've talked to. >> should they be spending so much time talking about donald trump, or should they be talking about the biden agenda, his accomplishments. >> we'll see, but they're making a very big decision here to try and use the summer months going into the debate to try and get people to focus on some of the negatives of trump and independent voters or who they're going after. because a lot of surveys after the trump trial showed that it barely moved the needle at all, except among independent voters, there was more of a concern. >> i think that's the real question. is this is the idea of does the character, character should matter? and traditionally, it has times, right? and it matters for us if we had to fill out a job application, this would be problematic for us if we have 34 felony convictions, we'd have to disclose that president obama was kinda lamenting this over the weekend. >> do you see this though, really motivating people? look certainly not trump's base and certainly not probably half of the country because a lot of this is baked in for trump. a lot of what's so interesting and unusual about this brand of both sides are using the exact same thing to make their arguments. the biden campaign is using the trump's conviction to make the argument that he is unacceptable. trump is using his own convictions to make the argument that he is the victim of this big persecution. so we will see which side wins, but on the margin, with independent voters perhaps it could move the needle somewhat likely not going to be a game changer though, because the election, after all, the economy is still listed as the number one issue in every survey, every voter conversation. so some people may just not be all that interested in this. >> i want to turn to a piece in the atlantic, which is looking at biden campaign officials and also democrats sort of party insiders close to the campaign, who had been taken their battles with the media, the press that normally they might reserve for more of a private venue. that this is kind of spilling out into the public and that it says these biden backers say that the media you're putting binds issues like questions about his acuity on the same level that trump wants to be a dictator when he takes office. a quote from the piece to candidates are not comparable, but they're being covered as if they were what do you think of this? >> sort of fad fight that we're seeing? >> look in every campaign that you and i have covered, the rules have changed a little bit. there's no doubt now in the era of donald trump, who is a mastermind in terms of using the media in some respects and promoting himself. the biden campaign is it's fighting back aggressively, more so than in any seven presidential campaigns i've covered, they are trying to game the refs here. they do it all the time, trying to point out that you're not being fair here so some of it is just the advent of social media. some of its it's in fighting just for the sake of sort of getting in people to think about the coverage little bit more. but the point is devotes care about this. my thought is no, the voters, i talk to and wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, other swing states and beyond. they don't necessarily are even online following how the candidates are being covered. so sure there can be disputes about how much time president biden gets on the air. are we covering trump too much? these things are always decisions every day. but the fighting that the biden campaign has been doing with the media, it's a bit unusual, but i don't know that voters care. yeah, it's a good board if they should care, they are living their lives get us a better economy, bring down inflation as opposed to tweeting out about something you said or i said on tv. >> yeah, maybe we care because obviously we're paying attention. >> it's a very interesting piece, hendrickson, a very smart writer at the atlantic, makes a very interesting set of facts he points, out yeah i thought it was a really interesting piece to read for even for people who may not be interested in this debate, i think they'll like the piece, jeff. thank you so much. appreciate it. bores a dangerous heat wave not seen in decades is scorching more than half the us population and over the next week, cities across the midwest and northeast are going to continue baking in record-breaking temperatures oversees the unforgiving heat is claimed even more lives, at least 14 jordanian citizens died during the hajj pilgrimage to mecca. >> as temperatures topped 115 degrees across the region. cnn chief climate correspondent bill, we're is in new york covering this for us where the temperature is also steadily climbing bill, these heat waves are also leading to deadly consequences across the world absolutely across the world here in the united states, as we look at this heat dome, as it settles in around the country, 260 million americans will have temperatures over 90 degrees. >> it is the silent killer heat. it preys on older folks, usually an older structures. so now's the time to check on folks from ohio domain way up in the northeast, not used to these temperatures. you're going to taste it right now. but as you mentioned, boris oversees the hajj were literally hundreds of thousands of people are packed together. they're in mecca, they reach temperatures near hundred and 25 degrees. it was deadly. of course, we expect hot temperatures like that and saudi arabia in places like the greek islands where, where people are missing, they're not used to it up in in concord, new hampshire and places up in the northeast, there won't get temperatures near that. what they're seeing in mecca right now. but again, a symptom of an overheat and planet these days, voice and bill, i think i know the answer to this, but i imagine that this is just going to continue to get worse absolutely. >> this is the result of sort of planet cooking pollution in the air ban 425 parts per million right now, way too much for the goldilocks planet. we grew up on. we've got this godzilla made the carbon. he gets bigger by about 40 billion tons a year and a lot more that happens. the more we're going to feel it here on earth. the good news is it seems like humanity is about to hit the peak of fossil fuel consumption maybe this year, it only went up about 1% last year electrification is kicking in. the big story is how fast and how much life can be saved between now and then. >> a godzilla made of carbon that is definitely a good way to look at it. bill, we're thanks so much for the update you still to come. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu disbanding his war cabinet after his main political opponent quits the latest on the political turmoil over the war in gaza meantime, the idf announcing a so-called tactical pause to allow aid into the region. but that doesn't mean a pause in fighting. we're going to explain and what unicef is now saying about the dire humanitarian crisis the way and later, maryland's governor just handed down a mass pardon for marijuana convictions. we're going to speak to the state's attorney general about that. you're watching cnn news central i voted buttons 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sunscreen. >> manu raju on capitol hill. >> this is sienna israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu making major changes in his country's fight against hamas. >> today, he disbanded his workout in israel's war cabinet, which was established right? after the october 7 attacks, netanyahu's decision happening just days after the idf announced daily tactical pauses in gaza. and ever that they see is to provide a safe route for humanitarian aid through the kerem shalom crossing. cnn's oren liebermann is joining us now from haifa, israel in the north or in what is netanyahu's motive? if behind dissolving the war cabinet house is expected to impact things briana, as with so many other things in israel, there is some politics behind this. >> first on the functionality of the war cabinet when former war cabinet minister benny guns resigned just a few days ago, it effectively made the war cabinet unnecessary. and that's because the only other two members with authority there were the prime minister himself, benjamin netanyahu, and his defense minister, yoav galant. they are from the same party, so they can work together that didn't need a war cabinet to do so, nor did they need any sort of unity government format to be able to make agreements on how to manage which the war. the other part of this is that one of netanyahu's far-right ministers, itamar ben gvir, had demanded to become a part of the war cabinet, and he has made extremist demands on how to run the war in gaza, saying gaza should be resettled by jewish settlements, urging the use of more force in gaza and in lebanon and more of these demands. one of netanyahu's ways of simply avoiding the demand to join the war cabinet was to not have a war cabinet. and so it was disbanded according to an israeli official, the war itself will now be managed in the security cabinet, which already exists as part of every government israeli official said netanyahu would conduct consultations, but it's not clear exactly with who netanyahu has been in charge of israel for years and knows how to manage the security cabinet. it puts him firmly back in the driver's seat, but briana, that comes with its own challenge and that's that the blame will be more squarely on him because there is no other party helping him to manage the war and frankly manage the country. it's also worth pointing out that the us envoy for israel and lebanon held meetings with not only netanyahu, but others senior israeli leaders to try to avoid or head off a large-scale confrontation between israel and hezbollah, as we have seen, more hostility on israel's northern border. >> now we're keeping a close eye on that oren liebermann. thank you so much for the report from haifa boris, for more on the aid crisis in gaza. let's bring in unicef spokesperson ricardo perez. ricardo, thanks so much for being with us when it comes to these tactical pauses are you seeing a difference in the amount of aid that's actually getting into gaza? >> thanks for having me bar is no for the time being, actually, we're not it's important for us to reinforce that even though any decision to drop last bombs and have less violence on the ground effected killing, injury children on a daily basis across the gaza strip is welcomed by unicef we need to be very aware that there's no evidence yet that these processes work. and from what we're hearing on hearing on the ground, nothing has really changed, so we're welcoming it. it's a small step, but it's certainly won't be the full solution to the problem, which is what we really need to address right now while these pauses are taking place, the idf has vowed that fighting generally will not stop have you been given assurances about the safety of unicef and other aid workers in those areas no, absolutely not. what we see actually, it's more and more fear spreading across the drug of gaza strip because for over eight months now, children, families have been displayed so, display so many times. and across 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