bell rings. bell rings. bell tolls. bells peal. bells peal. the bells tolling in memory of the dead. this is an incident which has deeply, deeply shocked this country. as well as those who died, people are thinking about the people who were injured, a number of those are still in hospital, some with serious injuries. we know that many of the casualties were cheque, three czech. czech. details have been emerging about the identities of some of the victims, one of them was the director of the institute of musicology at the university. she was 49 years old, she was the mother of two children. the institute put out a statement saying that this was an extremely cruel time for us all. meanwhile, the police investigations are continuing, people here continuing to ask themselves what it was that could have driven this 24 year old gunman to behave in this way. this is a very sad moment coming as it doesjust before is a very sad moment coming as it does just before christmas, a time
zelenskyy meet in front of the cameras at the g7 summit as the u.s. announces hundreds of millions of dollars in new aid. voters are going to polls in the parliamentary election in greece, but a clear winner may not emerge. president biden hopes to talk with house speaker kevin mccarthy this morning as the clock ticks down to extend the debt limit. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. g7 leaders meeting in hiroshima, japan, are wrapping up one of their most consequential summits in recent memory. the war in ukraine dominated much of this year s agenda, and ukraine s president was there to make his case in person. for the first time since the war began, an agreement was finally reached among the u.s. and its allies to begin supplying ukraine with advanced fighter jets. u.s. president joe biden soon returns to washington to deal with the debt ceiling crisis in congress, but he and ukraine s president did meet within the past couple of hours, t
still holds part of the burned out city of bakhmut. but how much of it and for how long? and senator tim scott getting into the race for president today with florida s ron desantis not far behind. good morning, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. this monday. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are set to meet again today as they try to strike a deal to lift the debt ceiling. only ten days in june 1st. that s the earliest estimated date the government might not be able to pay all of its bills. mccarthy spoke to the president sunday by phone from air force one as he flew home from japan. i believe it was a productive phone call. and so at the end of the phone call, what we agreed to do is we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together withese going to ask his team, get back together. so, we can walk them through literally what we ve been talking about. i think some of the challenges they may not comp
collins in washington. reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what exactly was taken down there and we re now told that despite that day when fbi agents showed up and they asked the trump team on the ground to turn off the surveillance cameras, they did not do so and they are now in control of several hours of footage of them actually being there conducting this search. and we re told that they are now considering releasing it, though there are some inside the form
president s own family. lauren fox is joining us live from capitol hill. good morning, lauren. what can we expect tonight? reporter: well, hundreds of hours of interviews behind closed doors and the public going to get a chance to see tonight what the january 6 committee has been working toward. we expect that the committee hearing will kick off tonight with opening statements from the chairman bennie thompson as well as the top republican liz cheney on the committee. committee aides telling us that we expect thompson will put this in a historical context, the violence that transpired that day, and the unprecedented nature of the attack on the u.s. capitol. and then we expect things will move forward in three different areas. one of them, the public will get a chance to see some previously unseen video footage of private interviews behind closed doors that the committee has done with white house officials, trump campaign officials, as well as members of trump s own feel. we