peaked and how much you pay in your everyday life will soon go up. donald trump goes under oath and refuses to answer moments. a marquee moment into the investigation into the former president s finances. he faced questions from new york s attorney and lawyers in the new york attorney s office. we know trump did what he says only mobsters do, pleaded the fifth. trump saying, under the advice of my counsel and the above reasons i decline to answer is the questions under the rights and privileges to every citizen under the constitution of the united states of america. tell us more. reporter: trump around here at 9:00 a.m. he said he was going to assert his fifth amendment rights and not answer any questions. trump said what he said only mobsters do. today he is taking the fifth because the new york attorney general leading this investigation letitia james, he has called her racist and her investigation is politically motivated so he was not going to answer any questions.
conversations and his actions on or around january 6th. the doj s preemptive move is the clearest sign yet that federal investigators are closing in on trump s efforts to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. also, cnn has learned the january 6th committee plans to share 20 transcripts with justice department investigators. the committee also seems to be zeroing in on former trump cabinet officials, of particular interest conversations about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. washington post reports texts from ken cuccinelli and chad wolf, two top officials from the trump department of homeland security, are missing from the period leading up to january 6th. and also first on cnn, a former doj staffer who worked with jeffrey clark at the agency is now cooperating with the criminal probe. trump discussed installing clark as attorney general in the days before january 6th. joining us now is mick mulvaney, former acting chief of sta
on friday? as fighting rages in eastern ukraine, hundreds of thousands of ukrainian civilians are being urged to evacuate from the region to escape russia s brutal advance. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and arnold the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. disturbing new details of the deadly july fourth parade shooting in illinois. some coming from the gunman himself who has confessed to the mass killing and now we re learning it could have been only the beginning of his rampage. cnn security correspondent, josh campbell, is on the scene for us. reporter: the highland park gunman s first appearance in court wednesday. the shooter held without bond and charged with seven counts of first degree murder for shooting into a crowd of paradegoers on july fourth. the prosecutor naming each one of the victims and police saying the suspect admitted to the shootings. he went into details about what he had done. admitted to what he h
uvalde school massacre. it shows a quote overall lackadaisical approach by multiple law enforcement agencies on the scene. 19 children and two teachers were killed there that day, and it took 77 minutes to neutralize the gunman. nearly 400 officers responded. a new body cam footage is giving a closer look at how they responded at robb elementary school that day. sometimes frantic, sometimes just disturbingly slow. unlike the earlier pictures from the school, the new video includes closeups from just outside classrooms 111 and 112, and reveals conversations between officers in the moment, even desperate pleas with the shooter. we also see the moments some officers learned, and they did learn, they knew that children were among the victims on the other side of the door, and that one of them was calling 911 from inside a classroom. a child just called. they have victims in there. a child on the line. a child who was alive calling 911, and those officers heard that from the
police tackled the gunman, you can see there, described as a man in his 40s, state broadcaster nhk quotes police who say he used a homemade gun. we will be live in tokyo in just a moment. we are also keeping a close watch this hour on what s happening in washington. former white house counsel pat cipollone expected on capitol hill for closed door testimony today. he ll speak with the january 6th select committee. again, watching that closely as well as the latest jobs report, just out a short time ago, which shows the economy added 327,000 jobs in the month of june. the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.6%. a lot going on this morning as you can see. but we do want to begin with this breaking news out of japan, the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. blake essig is in tokyo this morning. what more do we know about this suspect and also what is the reaction throughout the country. reporter: hey, you know, jim, erica, i apologize, i cannot hear you righ