good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
country. and tonight, the news coming in from capitol hill on those bipartisan efforts on gun safety. rachel scott with late reporting. the war in ukraine tonight. and vladimir putin s new warning to the u.s. james longman in ukraine. tonight, just days now before the live prime time hearing on the january 6th attack. tonight, the leader of the proud boys and four top lieutenants charged by the justice department with seditious conspiracy for allegedly organizing and leading the attack on the capitol. pierre thomas is live. news on the retired judge killed in a targeted attack. authorities now say there was a hit list with several other public figures on that list. tonight, the results now in after that major vote on british prime minister boris johnson s future. news on the baby formula shortage here at home. a major development. movement now in the right direction. the world, of course, celebrating 70 years of the queen, and now the story behind the queen and pa
safety. rachel scott with late reporting. the war in ukraine tonight. and vladimir putin s new warning to the u.s. james longman in ukraine. tonight, just days now before the live prime time hearing on the january 6th attack. tonight, the leader of the proud boys and four top lieutenants charged by the justice department with seditious conspiracy for allegedly organizing and leading the news on the retired judge k killed. tonight, the results now in after that major vote on british prime minister boris johnson s future. news on the baby formula shortage here at home. a major development. movement now in the right direction. the worlding, of course, celebrating 70 years, of course, of the queen, and now the story behind the queen and paddington bear. bon jovi tonight remembering a key member of his band. and america strong. the brave veterans and what they told me as we mark the 78th anniversary of d-day. good evening and it s great to start another week with
shooting. and the platinum jubilee celebrations in the u.k. minus the guest of honor. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. welcome, everyone. the war in eastern ukraine now being described as a grinding slog with neither side appearing to make any significant gains in recent days. ukraine concedes russian troops have made some modest in roads in and around the key city of severodonetsk but were pushed back from nearby towns. britain s defense ministry says it expects russians will control all of the luhansk region within two weeks. the international red cross said the scale of destruction defies comprehension. but ukraine claims its forces have progressed into the southern kherson region. as the conflict surpassed 100 days ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, remained confident of the outcome. translator: we have been dedefending ukraine for 100 days. victory shall be ours. glory to ukraine. now, the human toll in ukraine
continues to press forward. and some of the harshest restrictions remain in china. why the brutal behavior of the workers enforcing it have many people concerned. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. the mass shooting at an elementary school in uvalde, texas, was an unthinkable tragedy. 19 young students, two teachers gunned down. but now we re hearing more chilling details about police failures on that terrible day. a state senator says the incident commander police chief pete arradondo did not have a police radio on him at the time of the shooting. we re also getting new information about a desperate 911 call made by a 10-year-old student while the shooter stalked the building. cnn s ed lavandera with the latest. reporter: new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. texas state senator says the school district police chief didn t have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have