Scotfree is actually spelled with one two but two ts on that card. That one piece of evidence, an insight into the mans State Of Mind that he can get away with anything because of his skin color. His lawyer saying this to cnn. This was a guy simply following the advice and the commentary of the president of the United States. So tonight the acting chief of the Capitol Police proposing security fencing erected around the capitol in the wake of the deadly insurrection stay up permanently. Also police say a man arrested near the capitol was armed with a gun and 20 rounds of ammunition and a list of lawmakers names. The house speaker, nancy pelosi, responding to concerns about security by Members Of Congress, saying the enemy is within the house of representatives. With all this, President Biden pushing for bipartisan support to pass his massive nearly 2 trillion covid relief plan. Lets get right to it. Cnns White House Correspondent is john harwood, and our senior political analyst is joh
our house and coming our way really quickly. forced to flee. thousands of acres burn outside yosemite park. firefighters try to beat back the flames. and deadly heat continues to punish the country. 90 million people are suffering in scorching temperatures. many areas hitting the triple digits. newsroom starts now. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with new developments in the january 6 investigation. today republican liz cheney, the vice chair for the committee, not only put ginni thomas, the wife of u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas, on notice that she could be subpoenaed to testify but cheney also accused former president trump of serious misconduct and dereliction of duty and says the committee is not ruling out recommending criminal charges against him. do you believe that your committee has successfully made the case that donald trump committed crimes and, if so, which ones? we
claiming that the west s sanctions are doing nothing to hurt his economy. donald trump fires back at the committee and his former vice president. and china is showing off its most advanced aircraft carrier in what appears to be a direct message to the west. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where russia is reportedly sending more firepower to eastern lines. russian artillery is pounding areas near sievierodonetsk, trying to cut it off from surrounding cities. ukraine says it intercepted two russian missiles near odesa and no one was killed. in kyiv, ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which would be years away, but president zelenskyy says it s still important. here he is. translator: ukraine deserves this positive. ukrainian values are european values. ukrainian institutions remain resilience, even in conditions of war. ukrainian democratic habits have not lost their pow
ch cheney is asking pete buttigieg for money to make repairs. it is called a one in 500-year event, which has a one in 500 chance of happening any year. it forced 0,10,000 visitors outf the park. elsewhere, americans are sweltering in a heat wave. a new june record for electricity demand was set on thursday. in texas, they are determining whether a possible human smuggling event was behind the deaths of heat exposure. it is a serious problem for many people across the country. it s interesting that you brought up the tennessee situation. weig we are testing the limits of our electrical grid. especially when we have power outages from severe weather and
insurrection. the center accused d kinzingerd ch ch cheney accused them of engaging in legitimate political discourse. joining us now is adam kinzinger, a member of the january 6th committee. you are a freshry censured congressman now. it s my bakers dozen of censures from local parties and the national. it feels great. it makes me feel sad because it says a lot for the party and it says a lot to call january 6th legitimate political discourse. it has made me double down on my intensity to get to this. it s really different when half of the party is focused on complete denial of the truth. you says it says a lot about the party. what does it say? it says they are unmoored