everyone including vladimir putin to see. you re in the cnn newsroom. extreme heat roasting most of the united states this weekend, and get ready because next week you re going to see the heat really crank up. right now more than 15 million americans are under heat alerts stretching from the dakotas to the gulf coast. a heat dome as weather experts call it, is blanketing much of the country talking triple digit high temperatures in some places and all of this, of course, coming on the heels of a record-breaking heat wave just last week and it is not just hot, it is dangerous. heat is the number one cause of weather-related deaths in the united states. and with that i want to go to our meteorologist in the cnn weather center. what do folks need to know so they can prepare and can stay safe? pamela, what they really need to do is take these heat alerts seriously. don t just think, oh, it s just hot. remember, the combination of temperature and humidity is what can really
the war. we re live in kyiv. plus, dangerous heat waves across the u.s. and western europe. we ll go to the cnn weather center on when people can see relief. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the new york times is reporting that the u.s. justice department could begin receiving interview transcripts from the january 6th committee as early as next month. earlier, federal prosecutors believed they would not get them until september and delay some trials of capitol rioters. former u.s. president donald trump remains defiant despite growing mountain of testimony and other evidence against him. he spoke out on friday for the first time since the hearings began calling former vice president mike pence weak now for not blocking the 2020 certification. several former officials everyone around trump told him repeatedly he lost the election and a scheme to stay in office was illegal. cnn s jessica schneider has more on trump s reactio
the decision not to lie even though donald trump told them to, it s their turn next in front of the january 6th select committee. one of them set to testify in the coming days, the election s boss in the state of georgia, brad raffensperger. he was on the other end of that infamous phone call with the then president of the united states who was desperately scrambling to come up with votes that didn t exist. so look, 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. raffensperger is expected to appear with his deputy gabe sterling, and now we know that rusty bowers, the arizona house speaker who backed trump s re-election but also refused oto go along with his scheme will be joining them. earlier i spoke with the committee member of the january 6th committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. these individuals are republicans they voted for trump. they are, you know, supported him, but they wouldn t do illegal t
portion of an hour and a half speech today, making it clear he is spending a lot of time watching everything the committee says and does. there s no clearer example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and putting up five-second clips. that guy letig, whoever the hell letig is, a former judge, he was saying pence had no choice. not actually what he said at all. look, here s the thing. trump s day of having the world stop to listen to a 90-minute ranting, roving speech are over. not even fox news took his speech live. now, that didn t stop trump, who spent time denying he called mike pence a wimp. he spent time even though to make sure the record s clear on this, his special assistant said he did call pence a wimp and testified to this under
what was it? [ sighs ] i can t remember. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. we re starting this hour with the questions of potential legal jeopardy for former president donald trump and his attorney john eastman. the january 6th committee made its most forceful case yet that trump was responsible for the capitol insurrection. this was their third hearing and the committee revealed evidence that trump and eastman knew that their plot to push then vice president mike pence to delay the certification of the election results was not legal but kept unrelenting pressure on pence anyway, with trump berating and cursing at him on the phone. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with john eastman. i said are you out of your effing mind, and that was pretty blunt. i said, you re completely crazy. you re going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of there s been violence in