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Source: Talks In Switzerland To Start With Emergency Session On Lebanon; Iran Closes Strait Of Hormuz, Blames Israel Attacks On Lebanon; Soon: Voters In Colombia Vote In Presidential Runoff Election; U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Drives Call For Action Now. Iran Closes Strait Of Hormuz, Blames Israeli Attacks On Lebanon; Italy PM Meloni Says Pres. Trump Made Up a Story About Her; U.S.-Iran Talks Underway in Switzerland; Storms Bring Flooding From Midwest to Gulf Coast. Aired 7-8a ET

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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN HOST: Thanks for staying with CNN This Morning.

Talks are about to get started between the U.S. and Iran, with Vice President JD Vance leading the American delegation. We'll look at the hurdles still ahead. And New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker will join us live. We'll get his take on the latest efforts to end the war with Iran, and more personal conversation about family and fatherhood.

Also in Colombia, the nation is heading into a pivotal election today. President Trump has thrown his support behind a candidate promising a tougher approach to crime and drug cartels. We'll take you inside the country wrestling with how to end decades of violence.

Plus, it's Father's Day. Happy Father's Day. And if you haven't gotten dad a gift yet, don't panic. Good news. He probably doesn't want much. We'll talk about what people are really buying.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is CNN Breaking News.

BLACKWELL: All right, it's Sunday, June 21st. Thanks for joining me. I'm Victor Blackwell.

Beginning with that breaking news this morning, talks between the U.S. and Iran happening in Switzerland. Vice President JD Vance is leading the U.S. side. The Vice President, along with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are meeting with Iran's delegation, Iran's top negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf.

A diplomatic source tells CNN the discussions will begin with this emergency session on Lebanon. That's after Israel and Hezbollah traded fire just hours after reaching a ceasefire in that conflict.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, they say, yesterday. They blamed Israel's strikes on Lebanon for closing the critical waterway again. And an Iranian official says that Lebanon is the country's top priority in these talks.

CNN's International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson joins us now from Switzerland. The Vice President says he also wants to make some progress on the nuclear issues. What's possible today?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Lebanon has to be possible if things are to progress. That's the way the Iranians are framing it. Today is the first time in almost two and a half months that the Vice President will be able to look the Iranian counterparts, his Iranian counterparts in the eye.

Remember, this memorandum of understanding that has taken over two months to put in place has been done through mediators. Now you're getting the principal players in the same room in this next hour together to thrash this out. And the Iranians are saying, very simply, the first point in this 14-point memorandum of understanding that President Trump and the Iranian president signed just a few days ago, the first point includes a ceasefire in Lebanon.

So the Iranians are saying, if the President, President Trump, cannot enforce that, then what else, in essence, is the document worth? What else can he or can't he enforce? And for that point, they've taken a big diplomatic stick, if you will, into this meeting, and that is closing the Strait of Hormuz, remembering that one of the points on the memorandum of understanding was they agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Now they're taking that off the table, and it does appear as if they'll use that in part as leverage. Look, coming into the meeting, we know the Vice President spoke about Secretary of State Marco Rubio making good progress in Lebanon, trying to get the ceasefire there between Hezbollah and the Israeli government. Yesterday, my sources there are telling me that's been handled pretty well.

That is a good signal for these talks, but it's not clear what the Iranians are going to want in the shape of guarantees and how much they want the fighting in Lebanon diminished. That said, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is also in that mountaintop resort just behind me there, super secure around there, and the reason that he is there is, of course, the nuclear issues.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is in the memorandum of understanding as supervising, overseeing some of the expected steps Iran would have to take watering down its highly enriched uranium. So you can see that scene is set to get into those very difficult and thorny issues. The question is, what progress are they going to make over Lebanon? Can the Iranians lift their blockade of the Strait of Hormuz again and let the talks do what they're supposed to do in the next 58 days and get into the detail of the nuclear issue?

[07:05:10] BLACKWELL: Yes. Nic, we were just showing some video from a few moments ago of some warm handshakes and hugs there as the two delegations were meeting. We'll see how much they can achieve today.

Nic Robertson reporting for us this morning. Thanks so much.

Looking ahead this week, primary elections are set for Tuesday in several states. In Maryland, voters will choose candidates for governor, Congress, local races. In New York, the biggest battles are for open congressional seats, where progressive candidates are taking on establishment Democrats.

In Utah, several House seats are on the ballot. South Carolina voters are heading back to the polls for a runoff for the Republican gubernatorial candidate. On Wednesday, the Great American State Fair kicks off in Washington, D.C. That marks the start of America's 250th birthday celebration. President Trump is set to headline the opening event. Then on Thursday, the fair officially opens on the National Mall.

A hearing is scheduled for President Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Earlier this month, Bolton pleaded guilty to one felony count of retaining classified national security information. He's also agreed to pay a $2,250,000 fine.

Soon, voters in Colombia will head to the polls. They're casting ballots in a presidential runoff election. Colombia has, as you know, fought a decades-long drug war. Now, voters are being asked to pick a path towards ending the violence.

CNN's Stefano Pozzebon joins us now from Colombia. Stefano, last hour, we shared your story setting up the challenges of Colombia and introducing us to the candidates. They have very different directions than President Trump has weighed in.

STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, absolutely, Victor. Two very different visions for how this country can tackle the chronic and historic problems that have burdened it since independence. And much of those problems have to do, of course, with narcotrafficking and cocaine production, Colombia being the number one cocaine producer in the world.

But this election, Victor, is very closely watched up in Washington and in other capitals of the world, Washington in particular. And the reason is this man, Abelardo de la Espriella. He's standing from the right. He had an almost meteoric rise to the top of the Colombian political establishment, being almost unknown to most Colombians only a year ago.

And he really ran a MAGA-styled campaign, seeking the advice and the support of Donald Trump, but also other right-wing populist figures here in South America. Think, for example, of Javier Milei from Argentina, or Nayib Bukele, or the Bolsonaro family down in Brazil. Colombia could quickly and decisively swipe towards the right, towards the MAGA-style of the right-wing world revolution that we're seeing in so many countries around the globe. If these voters and the voters of Colombia will give de la Espriella a mandate. We are in Barranquilla, which is de la Espriella's hometown. It's also, by the way, Shakira's and Sofia Vergara's hometown. So a very -- a city that has really portrayed a lot of what it means to be Colombian all around the world. And we'll be here the whole day trying to speak with de la Espriella supporters and understand whether this person can be Colombia's next president.

He's been very closely watched in Washington. In fact, at least two senators in the last -- two Congress people in the last couple of days have shown their support for de la Espriella. Bernie Moreno, for example, who is here in Barranquilla from Ohio, and he's one of the international observers that is close to de la Espriella's campaign. But also Maria Elvira Salazar, who is from Miami and represents the Florida wing of the Republican Party that is closely invested in this election.

From the left instead is Ivan Cepeda, who is a protege of the current president, Gustavo Petro. Colombia has been Washington's strongest ally in the region for the last 50 years. Four years ago, they went to the left with Petro.

Petro clashed a lot with Donald Trump, and now we're heading to the ballot, Victor.

BLACKWELL: Yes. And that last element, the connection between the U.S. and Colombia is why it's getting so much attention from Washington.

POZZEBON: Exactly.

BLACKWELL: And the ramifications will have -- will be important beyond the borders of Colombia.

Stefano Pozzebon joining us this morning. Thank you so much.

So it is Father's Day. If you didn't know, rush out, get that card, whatever gift card, whatever you need. We have two voices on maternal health, why dads could be key to saving moms and babies. We'll get into it.

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BLACKWELL: So this morning we are taking a closer look at a crisis that does not get enough attention. The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and it's actually getting worse.

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Health experts say that most of these deaths are preventable, and that the impact is not the same for everyone. Black women are far more likely to die from complications. But this is not just a women's health issue, it is a family issue. And today we're talking about the role that fathers can play in keeping mothers and babies safe. So joining me now, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, and Charles Johnson, a father and advocate for the -- and the founder of 4Kira4Moms, whose wife died after a routine C-section with their second child. Thank you both for being with me.

Senator, I'm going to get to that in just a moment, but I want to ask you first about what's happening in Switzerland right now. The negotiations happening between the U.S. and Iran, this emergency session on Lebanon, and the Iranians want a guarantee from the U.S. delegation that Israel will not attack inside Lebanon in this fight with Hezbollah. Is that something you believe is even realistic, that the U.S. can guarantee that another sovereign state will not attack in, they say, their defense?

SEN. CORY BOOKER (D), NEW JERSEY: Well, this is another sign of the colossal failure of Donald Trump in this deal, in which already Iran is seeing the benefits, lifting sanctions, billions of more dollars, selling their oil. And we don't even have a chance to, frankly, get anything out of this deal whatsoever up front. And to your question, we know that this is a two horrible leaders, Netanyahu and Donald Trump, two criminal men, as Donald Trump has been convicted of felonies.

They are not on the same page. They're not coordinating. This is no way to go into a negotiation. And it is another sign of how Donald Trump is really failing this moment in history.

BLACKWELL: The Iranians announced Saturday that they have shut down the Strait of Hormuz again because of those strikes in Lebanon. The President posted this on social media, "There will be no tolls in the Hormuz Strait for 60 days during the ceasefire period. And there will be no tolls after the 60-day period has expired unless they are imposed by and for the United States of America, should the deal not be completed for services rendered as the guardian angel to the countries of the Middle East for purposes of both past, present, and future reimbursement of costs."

So the President says he would essentially do what the Iranians are doing. I want you to play -- I want everyone to hear what the Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. This is May 5th.

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MARCO RUBIO, SECRETARY OF STATE: We cannot live in a world -- there's a lot of time and energy been invested behind the idea that international waters are free for the free flow of goods. The stuff we make in this country and export has to go through international shipping lanes. And for us to live in a world where a country can decide now we own the international shipping lane and you have to pay us if you want to use it, that is a normal that we will never be able to accept.

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BLACKWELL: Both from the same administration, what's your reaction to what the President is threatening? BOOKER: Remember, everything the President has said about this war. He said he was going to get unconditional surrender. He used to send notes to the people that were being slaughtered, the protesters, help is on its way. He said he was going to get the nuclear fissile, highly enriched material out of that country. It is still there.

He said there's going to be a regime change. Well, the regime did change, but it became more extreme, not less. I don't believe anything this President is saying about it. I read the text of that deal. It is explicit. It opens the door to Iran having the chance to get money from the Strait of Hormuz, whether it's tolls or other kind of payments.

This is a cash windfall for Iran to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars for them to rebuild their country, to them to fund terrorist proxies, for them to invest in their ballistic missile program. And so, again, there has been few cases in our lifetime where a president started a foreign policy endeavor that has been such a colossal failure.

So this President has no credibility. He is a global embarrassment right now. And unfortunately, our enemy or adversary, Iran, is really having more power than they've ever had, especially more power than they did at the beginning of this war that should not have been launched in the first place.

BLACKWELL: All right. Now, let's talk about why the both of you are here today together, and that is maternal mortality. And Charles, April 12th, 2016, your wife goes in for a routine C-section, and it happened so quickly. I mean, on the website, you all lay out minute by minute what happened. Tell the story.

CHARLES JOHNSON IV, FOUNDER, 4KIRA4MOMS: Yes, so we went in for what we expected to be a routine scheduled C-section, Victor, with a woman that was in exceptional health, right? At our, very importantly, at our provider's recommendation. Our son was born perfectly healthy. And after that, they took us back to recovery. And that's when things took a turn for the worse.

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I noticed blood in Kira's Foley catheter. I brought to the attention of the doctors at Cedars-Sinai. And what took place over the next 10 hours, 10 years later, is still hard for me to wrap my mind around. She was allowed to suffer needlessly for more than 10 hours while myself and my family begged and pled for them to just see her and value her the same way they would the people that they care about most.

And unfortunately, those cries were -- fell on deaf ears. And so what I didn't understand, I'm always transparent, and I walked into the hospital that day, the thought that she wouldn't walk out to raise her boys, it never crossed my mind. But what we understand now is that this is happening not just to our family, but far too many mothers all across our country. BLACKWELL: Yes. Senator, I want you to talk to me about this Momnibus, it's a collection of legislation to try to eliminate the disparity not only in the United States as it relates to black women and other women, but the U.S. as a developed nation and other developed nations. It is just striking that the U.S. has the worst rate, and it's getting worse.

BOOKER: Yes, it's actually really tragic that we are one of the wealthiest in the country, but we have the worst outcomes for moms and worst -- most maternal deaths. And a lot of that has to be because we are failing to focus on this problem. And unfortunately, I want to say it's getting worse. It's getting worse because we're seeing these catastrophic Medicaid cuts.

And most children, nearly all -- nearly most children are born through Medicaid. We're seeing the disappearance of doctors that it's really hurting and hitting rural areas where they're just having to drive many, many more miles. So we put together a comprehensive 14-bill plan that could really address this.

A couple of them we've already been able to get passed, but these things would include expanding access to Medicaid coverage for postpartum women, expanding access to doulas and other community services. We even have a bill that Charles has been championing that is about trying to wrap comprehensive services around moms, give community information and support to dads as well during this process.

This is an achievable process. About 85 percent of these deaths, doctors say, are preventable. We can do this, America, if we focus on the problem. America should lead the world when it comes to healthy babies being born and healthy mothers.

And I just want to say to Charles, this is a guy that has turned his unimaginable pain into an indomitable purpose. He is somebody that is making a tremendous difference through his courage. This is Father's Day. He should be home. His daughter, his wife, should be doting on him and yet he's here with us today.

And behind every one of these statistics I've been saying are real dads, are real children, are real families who are going through suffering that is entirely preventable.

BLACKWELL: Can you tell me quickly about this AI tool that's been created? Because it is Father's Day. I'm talking about maternal mortality, but fathers can use this tool to protect their family.

JOHNSON: Absolutely. And so you're absolutely right. So I want to say, first and foremost, that all of those stories like Kira's are heartbreaking. We can fix this, Victor, right? And a huge part of our theory of change, in addition to all the clinical and non-clinical factors, is the role that fathers and non-birthing parents can play.

So we developed a tool, a free app that's available for everybody, called 4Kira4Dads, right? And in addition to tools that take fathers through the entire birth continuum, helping them understand everything they need to do to be able to advocate and support that mother, it also has a web, an AI coach built in.

So we don't have to go down the, you know, that black hole looking for information and disinformation. It's evidence backed. It's available for everybody. So when there is a situation, we need to know what you need to do. We have that support that's readily available 24/7, 365.

BLACKWELL: All right. Charles Johnson, Senator Booker, thank you both.

All right, the President's $14 million reflecting pool renovation is peeling up in pieces. Who is he blaming? Not nature taking its course. How criminal charges are involved, next.

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BLACKWELL: Well, just hours after signing that memorandum of understanding the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranians say is closed again. Not according to the U.S. though, who say it is open.

Joining me now for our morning roundup, Race and Culture Reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ernie Suggs, former journalist here in Atlanta, always a journalist --

JAQUITTA WILLIAMS, FORMER JOURNALIST: Always a journalist.

BLACKWELL: -- former anchor, but always a journalist --

WILLIAMS: Yes.

BLACKWELL: -- JaQuitta Williams, and Attorney Madeline Simmons. Welcome to you all.

ERNIE SUGGS, RACE AND CULTURE REPORTER, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION: Thank you.

BLACKWELL: The U.S. can say that the Strait is open, but when those insurance companies and the companies that own those ships hear the Iranians say it's shut down, it's essentially shut down.

SUGGS: It's basically shut down. We're -- it's almost like Groundhog's Day.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

SUGGS: We go through this every week. The Strait is closed by Iran, but we're saying that it's open. So 55 ships went through the Strait yesterday, I believe, on Saturday. And then Iran said, hey, we're going to close it down because we don't like the way the negotiations are going out.

So, 20 percent of all oil supplies go through the Strait of Hormuz. So every time there's a threat for it to close or even a threat, you know, that's going to affect gas prices, it's going to affect oil supplies, it's going to impact everything that goes through that. So I think that what we are seeing right now is kind of a reflection of stalled negotiations.

You know, we're going to be in Switzerland today talking about that, but we're just going to keep going on this circle of just kind of just this thing not being resolved.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

WILLIAMS: And bottom line, the consumer wants to know, what are they doing with these gas prices.

BLACKWELL: Right.

WILLIAMS: That's the most important part because we're already high as it is, so to know is it open, is it closed, it's just the consumer is just getting banged over the head one hit after another.

BLACKWELL: A month ago, gas at a regular gas on average was $4.56 a gallon. That's come down this morning, it is $3.94. Still nearly a dollar more than it was before this war started, but JaQuitta, to your point, if gas prices come down, penny by penny, maybe week by week, does this conflict become less of the important primary issue for the everyday American, do you think?

WILLIAMS: No, because who's to say it'll slow down?

BLACKWELL: Sure.

WILLIAMS: Bottom line, you know, there are certain families who I know have a certain way that they do their gas. When they're at half point, they already fill up. They never let it get all the way to E because you never know what the price point is going to be.

And I'm sorry, it's too many people who don't have jobs, who need every penny. And to say that, well, this -- $3.94 is still not good to me, Victor.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

WILLIAMS: So, you know, we need it to be in the two areas.

BLACKWELL: That's where it was --

WILLIAMS: In the one area.

BLACKWELL: Yes, well, the one area, I don't know what we're getting back there.

WILLIAMS: But at least $2.

BLACKWELL: Yes, $2.98 was where it was back on February 28th when this all started. Madeleine, for you, the vice president is there having these talks. The president joked, joked this week, that if this goes well, he's going to take credit for it. If it goes poorly, I'm going to blame J.D. Now, that was a joke. But if you consider that maybe he's a 2028 candidate, this is a very treacherous period for the vice president. MADELEINE SIMMONS, ATTORNEY: Yes. And, you know, we saw that with Trump and with Vice President Pence, right? You know, Trump used to try to play him like that, like he's making this joke about J.D. So, to your point, I think the vice president has a lot on the line with how this all shakes out for the voters if he's going to be a serious candidate in the future.

BLACKWELL: Yes. The president has been up on his social media platform and he's focused on a few things. We'll get to a couple of them. One of them is this spat, I guess I'll describe it, with the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, over whether she requested a photograph. He said that she begged for one. And then, which is unique here, she replied on social media. Here's what she said.

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GIORGIA MELONI, ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER (through translator): Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly astonished. I don't know why the president of the United States behaves like this toward his allies. There is one thing he should remember. Neither I nor Italy ever beg.

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BLACKWELL: The president posted again this weekend. He says now she wants to be friends now that the U.S. has defeated Iran and the Iranian military, she wants to get her numbers back up. Why is this an issue for the president considering all that's on his plate?

SUGGS: It's an issue for the president because first of all, she went against him and his criticism of the pope, obviously. So, he's upset about that because he's and all the European nations, all of our allies, our traditional allies since 1918, are not on board with this war. And he's upset with that. So, you know, he's picking on her.

And, you know, just the fact that he is going to, I don't know whether or not he said it or not, you know, she says, you know, he didn't say it, that she never begged for a photo. Even for him to bring that up as a talking point is just so childish and so juvenile that she begged for a selfie. I don't even know what that means.

WILLIAMS: He's the king of petty.

SIMMONS: Right.

WILLIAMS: Forget president, you know. And the other thing is too, he has a way of making things up in his mind and saying them over and over to make them be true. So, probably in his mind, she begged that woman probably didn't open her mouth.

SUGGS: Even if she did ask for a photo, why would he tell the world that?

WILLIAMS: Because he's the king of petty.

BLACKWELL: All right. Well, listen, we got a lot of things to get to, including the dads out there. Happy Father's Day to everybody.

WILLIAMS: Oh, Happy Father's Day.

BLACKWELL: Father's Day. See. We're going to talk about what people are buying. And if it's really worth spending the money, what does dad really want?

And if you're heading out, remember you can stream our show from anywhere in the U.S. right from the CNN app. You can also go to cnn.com/watch.

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BLACKWELL: All right. Back for the roundup now. Madeleine, JaQuitta, and Ernie are still with me. Let me start with you, Madeleine, on this. A $15 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Lots of green algae. The blue material is now tearing up. The president posted on social media that vandals, many of them have been arrested in connection with this.

And one person, a three-time U.S. Olympian, David Hearn, told CNN that police arrested him Friday after he said he just touched a flap of the blue material peeling up. He said that soon after U.S. National Park Service staffer instructed him not to reach into the water. He was arrested, charged with destruction and defacing government property, disobeying a government employee. He said he just touched it, right? We reached out to Park Police. No answer on this.

We've all seen the condition before. That man got there on Friday. And so, what would they have to prove? What's the legal case here?

SIMMONS: I mean, it's ridiculous. I think he's going to, you know, get that thrown out easily because there's absolutely no evidence that this man specifically did anything. And from the condition, it looks like that, you know, the administration probably awarded the contract to some of their buddies that put in subpar paint. Now, it's peeling and they're trying to save face because it's ridiculous to spend $14 plus million on a renovation and have it be, you know, peeling.

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BLACKWELL: And you know this is not the first administration to try to fix this it has been a chronic issue but the president made this an oval office issue by bringing up the investment and the price repeatedly.

WILLIAMS: How do we go from 1.8 million to 14.7 million for something that was already falling apart?

SUGGS: And it was a no big contract he brought in a guy who worked on his pool. So, the whole process from the beginning was fraught.

SIMMONS: The other point of this too is if there were really folks out there defacing this don't you think we'd have video of it? Come on.

BLACKWELL: Let's talk about Father's Day. National Retail Federation says folk are spending money on pops. Record spending this year $27.9 billion. Average 227, that's highest on record. Most people buying greeting cards, clothing and outing gift cards. You know what dad wants? He just wants the time. There's another poll out from YouGov that says the most popular gift received is just time with the kids.

SIMMONS: Well, and interesting about that poll is it says dad wants to spend time with the kids but it doesn't say solo. So, dad still wants mom there to help control these crazy children.

WILLIAMS: But I will say it's good to see now that Father's Day is finally getting some love compared to Mother's Day because they're night and day when it comes to celebratory things that your kids and what women want versus what men want. But I see a lot of men say they want to stay at home, they want to have a little something that they want to drink, they want to you know play cards or something and then that's it.

SUGGS: A day of rest. We don't want --

BLACKWELL: The ties.

SUGGS: The ties.

BLACKWELL: Listen, we're both sitting here, nobody has a tie on.

SUGGS: Post pandemic we're not wearing ties to work anymore, because the kids don't give them to us anymore.

BLACKWELL: Yes. Well, maybe that's it. All right. So, let's talk about this which I think is interesting. There is this new report out from Vice and a place called Oddity Central which I found about these what they're called dopamine sites which allow people to go online and they can click around and browse and put things in their cart and order them but they're not real. This is just to give them the feeling of shopping without spending the money. Courtesy of South Korea. What do you all think? Is it worth it?

WILLIAMS: This America, we have a problem. Who wants --

BLACKWELL: This is in South Korea.

WILLIAMS: Who wants to simulate looking for something, finding it, purchasing it, putting it in the cart but doesn't comes to the house? That's the joy of knowing like, I got something coming. I got something coming. No, I don't want a dopamine hit of that.

SUGGS: But how many times you come home and you see something on your porch, you don't even know what it is.

WILLIAMS: I know what it is. I know what it is.

SUGGS: You forgot what you ordered.

WILLIAMS: I know what it is. I know what it is. I look for it. I wanted it.

SIMMONS: You've been tracking it.

WILLIAMS: I've been tracking it. Yes.

BLACKWELL: But they also allow you to track, it just never arrives. This one we just showed is a food service site, which is different than shopping for clothes. Why go on to a site for food that is never coming?

WILLIAMS: I have -- again, there is something wrong. There is something wrong.

BLACKWELL: Let's talk about this the movies. The big movie out this weekend "Toy Story 5," big winner, $160 million estimated opening a weekend.

SIMMONS: Saw it last night.

BLACKWELL: That series, that is 30 years old now. First movie came out in 1995.

WILLIAMS: Yes.

BLACKWELL: It brought up the other issues about movies that are coming out. There's now reports of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" sequel is coming, which I don't know that we need. It was great when it came out. So, I asked everyone their movie, their sequel that we don't need. Madeleine, let me start with you.

SIMMONS: Yes. I said "The Dumb and Dumber 2," which they spelled with a T-O, to, you know go with the title. The original "Dumb and Dumber," you know, you go back and watch it and there are so many phrases that we say that we kind of forget are from that original movie that are just classic. It's gold. It's hilarious and it really missed the mark when they did "The Dumb and Dumber 2."

BLACKWELL: JaQuitta?

WILLIAMS: I say "Coming to America." That is such a classic and it really -- you didn't need to touch it. And then, I also think it watered down the first one. I just -- I didn't like anything about it.

BLACKWELL: Yes. I was --

WILLIAMS: And all the stars.

BLACKWELL: -- so excited to see and then when I saw it, I was like, this is what we waited for?

WILLIAMS: Yes. It was not worth it.

BLACKWELL: Ernie?

SUGGS: It pains me to say it but I'm going to have to say Graffiti Bridge by Prince. You know I'm a big Prince fan but "Graffiti Bridge" by Prince. You know, I'm a big Prince fan, but "Graffiti Bridge," a lot of people don't know was the sequel to "Purple Rain."

WILLIAMS: I did not know.

SUGGS: One of the greatest movies of all time. So, "Graffiti Bridge" comes out. It's created on the soundstage. It's got all this weird stuff and it's got this mysticism and, you know, I just -- Prince made four movies. This is the fourth, the worst -- or this is the worst. So, someone has to be the worst. So, --

BLACKWELL: Yes. I did not even know that "Graffiti Bridge" was the sequel.

WILLIAMS: Me either.

BLACKWELL: Mine is "Hangover 3." The first "Hangover" is a classic. The second when you're like, oh, OK, I see it. There's no way this happened three times. You all need to stop drinking or get new friends if this happens three times.

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But we'll see if, you know, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2" --

WILLIAMS: I don't mind that one though. Jim Carrey is great. I haven't seen him in a while. None of us have. He's an amazing actor.

BLACKWELL: Half billion-dollar Box Office. The highest grossing Christmas related movie ever. So, they will certainly make some money.

All right. Ernie, JaQuitta, Madeleine, thank you for all for coming in. Next in sports, we're talking World Cup and golf. A former winner of the U.S. Open goes into Championship Sunday with the lead. We'll take a next.

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BLACKWELL: All right. Breaking now, the talks between the U.S. and Iran are happening in private in Switzerland. We've got live pictures here from inside the hotel where the negotiations are taking place. Vice President J.D. Vance is meeting with the Iranian delegation alongside U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the President's son-in- law, Jared Kushner.

The talks are happening just a day after Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. They blame Israel's strikes in Lebanon. According to an Iranian official, Lebanon is Tehran's top priority in these talks, a primary focus on halting the ongoing exchanges of strikes between Israel and Hezbollah.

Let's talk about the storms here in the U.S. have been hitting all over the country for more than a week now. We're talking from the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast, more storms on the way. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar is with us now. What are we looking at? ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. We're looking at still continued warnings right now. You can see a few of them here just around the Kansas City greater area, the strong line of storms kind of making its way through the Midwest. We also have storms along the Gulf Coast, numerous flash flood warnings in effect through from Corpus Christi all the way up to Baton Rouge. And again, both of these areas are looking at the potential for flooding not just today, but even as we head into Monday.

So, the greatest risk for the excessive rainfall today really kind of focuses over this area of Illinois, Indiana portions of Missouri tomorrow. It's very elongated, but you also have a pretty wide swath. So, you're talking basically from Texas all the way over to Maine, the potential there for some flooding.

We also, in addition to that, if that wasn't enough, have the potential for strong to severe thunderstorms. You're talking damaging winds, some hail, maybe golf ball or baseball size, and even some isolated tornadoes into the mix, especially late this afternoon and into the evening. By lunchtime, the focus really starts to see where you start to see some of those showers picking up around Chicago. And then, by later on this evening, Indianapolis down through St. Louis, even into Detroit, you're going to start to see the shower frequency begin to pick back up. Keep in mind, you still have some of those across the southeast too.

So, you have both of these areas looking at the potential for those storms to bring not only heavy rainfall, but even some areas of the severe thunderstorms as well. And by Monday morning, you're looking at an extra round of showers, especially across portions of the northeast and even into the mid-Atlantic.

Now, overall, especially through the southeast, most of these areas are just going to get an extra inch, maybe two inches tops. But remember, this is on top of the 10 to 20 inches that some of these areas have picked up over the last five to seven days. That's why it's not going to take all that much, Victor, for there to trigger some additional flooding, not just today, but throughout the early portion of this week.

BLACKWELL: A lot of saturated places. Allison Chinchar, thanks so much. Germany riding high after an important comeback win over Ivory Coast. CNN Sports anchor Don Riddell with us now.

DON RIDDELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Thank you, Victor. You know, the FIFA World Cup continues to serve up a roller coaster of drama and emotion. Germany answered some of their critics with a thrilling comeback against Ivory Coast in Toronto. Substitute Deniz Undav equalizing within eight minutes of his introduction. And with the game heading for a draw, he pounced in the fourth minute of stoppage time to send his country into the knockout stage for the first time since they won the tournament in 2014.

13 goals across four games on Saturday, but the most remarkable game didn't feature any goals at all. The Minnows of Curacao, a country of barely 150,000 people, earned their first World Cup point in an incredible goalless draw with Ecuador. And their goalie, Eloy Room, became a national hero overnight with a record equaling 15 saves. Afterwards, he joked that he deserved a statue for his efforts.

Another Minnow, Cape Verde, play again today, and their goalie's mom has made it here to cheer him on. Virginia was the star of the show in their remarkable draw against Spain, but he said afterwards that visa issues meant she couldn't see the game in person. She will be his number one fan in Miami tonight for the game against Uruguay.

We are heading into the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills and it's Wyndham Clarks to lose. The former champion has played superbly so far. He'll tee off with a six-stroke lead. However, his playing partner, Scottie Scheffler, knows that he's just one round away from making history. It's his 30th birthday. It's Father's Day, and if he wins today, he'll become only the seventh player ever to complete the career Grand Slam.

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SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, WORLD NO. 1 RANKED GOLFER: Yes, Father's Day, my birthday, you know, I kind of lost a day there, you know, you only get one day to celebrate. I think it's appropriate to understand what's at stake, you know, I've worked really hard for a long time to have a chance to win golf tournaments and to win major championships, and yes, I think understanding the moment and giving it your best shot I think is all part of the process.

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RIDDELL: Six strokes back is a long way, but I think we've all learned by now you never write off Scottie Scheffler. If he could turn this around, it would be incredible for more reasons than one.

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BLACKWELL: Yes. You know what is fantastic is that Vozinha's mom gets to come and watch. I mean, I'm sure it's a fantastic experience to play in the World Cup. But with your mom in the stands, it hits different.

RIDDELL: Yes. I know, and he was emotional afterwards because she couldn't be there, and he kind of grew up with his grandparents, and they've passed away, and he really wanted his mom to be there, and she had visa problems, and she couldn't afford to get here, and they've made it happen. So, it's great.

BLACKWELL: Yes. And that Curacao player says that he deserves a statue.

RIDDELL: He was kind of joking --

BLACKWELL: But he just might get it.

RIDDELL: Yes.

BLACKWELL: He just might get it. Stay on track in this series, you just might get it. All right. Don Riddell, thank you very much.

And happy Father's Day to all, and thank you for joining us here on CNN This Morning Weekend. Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju is up next.

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