presidential election. and that is terrifying. damaging testimony against former president donald trump as officials inside the justice department detail how he tried to weaponize the department to steal the election. plus positive news for ukraine as the european council finally says okay to them becoming an official to join the eu. we re live this hour in brussels. and growing doubt over boris johnson s future as his party loses two high elections. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is friday, june 24th. 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington. the january 6 committee has held its last public hearing before the july 4th holiday break and there were plenty of fireworks. top officials in donald trump s justice department testified the former president was relentless in pushing election conspiracies and wanted them to overturn the 2020 vote. the witnesses said every time there were bogus fraud claims,
he gets elected again? presidential tried to call a witness in our investigation. we will take any effort to and fluids witness testimony very seriously. good morning, it s saturday. july 16th, i am sam stein in from my friend ali velshi. bringing us pressure hour on another week of bombshell revelations from the january 6th elect committee. as the public hearing, the seventh so far focused on far-right extremist groups that participated in the insurrection. and also the direct and then direct correlation between those groups and several of the former presidents minions. they also give us the first look at video testimony given just days before from former white house counsel, pat cipollone. now patrick long was one of the most sought after and vital witnesses today. a person who is not only in the room but was a part of the conversation. offering a critical firsthand account of the final days of the former presidents desperate attempts to stay in power. included and pats
relatives of the young men murdered by the serial killer, stephen port, welcome a decision by the police watchdog to begin a fresh investigation into the way detectives handled the inquiry. borisjohnson is in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth s heads of government. downing street says it is unlikely the uk s rwanda asylum policy will come up when he meets the prince of wales. good evening. taliban officials say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of afghanistan has ended. more than 1,000 people are thought to have been killed in the remote part of the country. doctors say many children may be among the victims. relief efforts have been hampered by heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication networks in paktika province the worst hit area. entire villages have been destroyed, with survivors saying they re finding it difficult to bury their dead. 0ur afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is there a
people are dead and 14 injured outside a night club. in arizona, two people were killed and two others injured were outside a bar. in lexington, kentucky, people were shot at a funeral. in summerton, south carolina, one woman was killed when someone opened fire on a graduation party. these are just the shootings that cnn has details on to share with you. let s go to the terrifying shooting in philadelphia. polo sandoval is there. polo, a chaotic scene in a very busy area. what are police saying today? reporter: it s sunday afternoon, fred, and there s a sense of normalcy restored here in philadelphia s south street district. very popular entertainment district. there are many questions about what transpired on these streets last night. investigators saying one of those patrol officers was only about 10 to 15 yards away from the gunman. he returned fire on the gunman and that prompted the gunman to drop the weapon. investigators are looking to see whether the suspect was wou
thursday is the first time that they re going to present their findings to the american people, and as you mentioned, they re going to do it in prime time. it shows you they re going to try to present the most compelling case possible around what they have collected. now, we know that they re going to present or they promised to present material that we haven t seen before. we know they re going to preview future hearings that haven t released a witness list yet. but we expect thursday s hearing to be really explosive and set the tone for the hearings that follow it. now, congressman, a democrat served as a house impeachment manager, he talked about his expectations for the hearings in a cnn interview yesterday. he said he expects the evidence to be disturbing. take a listen. thereby, i think, substantial evidence that demonstrates the coordination and planning and effort despite the fact that they understood the donald trump last the election, and even once the insurrectio