Indictment for the first time were being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Meantime lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the breaking allegations on this matter. What do we know . Hydrates we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now, but they do read that donald trump and some of his associates, including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows, have been listed and charged in this indictment. Theres a long list of various charges, including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer. Were reading through this right now will be able to update you much more throughout the coming hour or two. Throughout the day. There was a lot of anticipation or questions. About who might be named in this indictment. If any of Donald Trumps associates would be listed, we now know that many of them are theres a long list, including some of his former attorneys, including jenna ellis.
americans believe donald trump should face criminal charges for his part in the capitol riot. on tuesday the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection will begin its third week of hearings. this time the panel plans to focus on former president trump s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials are expected to testify at tuesday s hearing along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. our justice and crime reporter is joining us. what can we expect from tuesday s hearings? reporter: we re going to see another aspect of donald trump trying to manipulate the laws to take the election in 2020. this tuesday the public hearing before the house select committee is going to focus on the states, specifically battle ground states like arizona and georgia where trump and the lawyers were trying to get people to change the outcome of the votes in the states. those were states that trump lost. so we kn
donald trump there doing what he can to flip the script in response to the recent january 6th hearings. we ll have more from his first public appearance since they began, and what we can expect next in the next round. and colombia is poised to lead latin america s green energy initiative. we ll tell you how politics are getting in the way of that. we begin in ukraine, which has just cleared the first hurdle on a path to join the european union. ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side after recommending they be given candidate status. vladimir putin is okay with that because the eu isn t a military alliance like nato. boris johnson made a surprise visit. he offered ukraine a major military training program he said would fundamentally change the equation of the war. and new videos of the wars appeared on pro-russian sites that appear to show two u.s. volunteers missing in ukraine. this is a photo posted earlier. cnn isn t showing the new videos because the men appear to
amid pilot shortages. the efforts under way now to keep travelers moving amid the summer travel spike. hopefully no alarm for you today because it is the weekend. it is saturday, june 18th. thank you for being with us. always great to be with you christi. we begin with new fears that the u.s. economy is headed towards a recession. yesterday marked the end of a rocky week for wall street after the federal reserve announced the largest interest rate hike in decades. the dow closed down yesterday, s&p 500 finished slightly up. still wound up with the worst week since 2020. let s look at the brighter side for a moment. we learned that wages in the u.s. are climbing at their fastest rate since the mid 80s. the push, the inflation has risen so fast that workers, it actually equates to being handed a pay cut because their pay is not matching up with the percentage of inflation that we re feeling and the things that we re buying. let s get a closer look at the political angle
acknowledging that americans are, quote, really, really down right now after this strain of the pandemic. and as they struggle with inflation and rising interest rates. we want to welcome our viewers here this the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the first public response by former president trump to the damning evidence and testimony presented by the january 6th select committee. cnn s jessica schneider is following all the new developments in the investigation. i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. but just like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike, and i say it sadly, because i like them, but mike did not have the courage to act. former president trump using his platform at a conservative political conference to deny the evidence against him and blast the january 6th committee. they con p