with king charles will focus on climates. biden is a bigger lift of both in london and again at the nato summit in lithuania it will be justifying his decision to provide cluster bombs to ukraine which are banned by more than 120 countries. we are not signatories of that agreement. but it took me a while to be convinced to do it. the main thing is they have weapons to stop the russians now to keep them from stopping the ukrainian offensive to these areas. or they don t. and i think they needed them progress a key factor in the decision russia has been using cluster bombs on ukrainian soil since the beginning of the invasion. the land will need to be de- mind anyway ukraine also committed to postwar cleanup and u.s. officials point out they have huge incentive to mitigate risk to their own people. the move drew opposition from nato allies canada, spain, germany, the uk as well as some congressional democrats because i have some qualms about it. there is an international prohib
growing chaos, confusion, and consequences for women and for health care providers. and russia unleashes a deadly strike on a crowded mall in ukraine. president zelenskyy is now condemning it as a reckless act of terror. this as president biden and g-7 allies are reaffirming their unity with ukraine and against vladimir putin s aggression. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, let s get straight to the capitol hill and melanie zanona. the january 6th select committee says newly obtained evidence is prompting tomorrow s hearing on very, very short notice. so what do we know? well, wolf, it is still a bit of a mystery here. the select committee has only promised new evidence and new witness testimony. but if we re reading between the lines, it is clear that the select committee feels like it s uncovered new evidence that is so urgent and so important that they decided to thro
police officer and was off duty has dropped out of the race. it is extremely disappointing. political violence like this is not something new, being a black feel candidate running for office. politicians from both political parties also weighed in over the weekend on the sunday morning talk shows. we have some ideas coming from senator warren, signed letter along with 25 other democratic senators asking president biden to explore opening health care clinics on federal lands in red states in order to help people access the health care and abortion services that they need. i anticipate there will be more debate and discussion. what was interesting about the supreme court decision is that it gave the authority back to the states to make these decisions. so now that this decision has been made, it is up to each of the states and the state legislators and people there to talk to their elected representatives about what their laws look like. all right. republican senator
mobile savings are calling. visit xfinitymobile.com to learn more. doc? at walmart it s thursday, june 13, right now on cnn this morning, attorney general merrick garland held in contempt of congress. will america s top prosecutor be prosecuted president biden in europe, meeting with world leaders, trying to shore up support for ukraine plus they re not making it. we ve seen over 50 cars this in the middle of the light, in the middle life-threatening flooding in roads submerged over a foot of rain already falling in florida. in the threat, not over yet all right. 5:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look capitol hill on this thursday morning. morning, everyone on kasie hunt, it s wonderful to have you with us tension between the doj and house republicans spilling over on capitol hill resolution recommending that the house of representatives fine, united states attorney general merrick garland, in contempt of congress on this vote. the yeas are 200 216. the net s are 207. t
democratic congressman jamie raskin and eric swalwell going after republicans for their efforts to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress. we ll have more from that partisan vote in the house in just a moment. it comes as donald trump will be on capitol hill today to meet republican lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face meeting with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from the g7 summit in italy where support for ukraine is a top priority for president biden and other world leaders. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 13th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning overseas where president biden is in italy for the first day of the g7 summit. he arrived last night around 11 p.m. local time and will now attend multiple working sessions throughout today. afterwards, he ll meet w