stolen, and a live stream captured the crime going down. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the january 6th committee releasing new evidence in its case against donald trump as it narrows its focus for the coming weeks. on the agenda, trying to compel testimony from ginni thomas, a conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, over her role in advocating to overturn the 2020 election. committee vice chair congresswoman liz cheney telling cnn they will consider a subpoena if thomas doesn t cooperate. we certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. committee is also pushing to get more documents from the u.s. secret service and answers about the agency s potentially missing text messages from on and around january 6th. one of the committee members, congresswoman elaine luria, released previously
our house and coming our way really quickly. forced to flee. thousands of acres burn outside yosemite park. firefighters try to beat back the flames. and deadly heat continues to punish the country. 90 million people are suffering in scorching temperatures. many areas hitting the triple digits. newsroom starts now. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with new developments in the january 6 investigation. today republican liz cheney, the vice chair for the committee, not only put ginni thomas, the wife of u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas, on notice that she could be subpoenaed to testify but cheney also accused former president trump of serious misconduct and dereliction of duty and says the committee is not ruling out recommending criminal charges against him. do you believe that your committee has successfully made the case that donald trump committed crimes and, if so, which ones? we
of covid isolation. the predominant symptom is a sore throat. this is a president who has at this moment a mild respiratory illness. this is really good news. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. dangerous heat and a state of emergency. the oak fire explodes near yosemite national park in california. in fact it has devoured more than 14,000 acres and is zero percent contained since it erupted friday. at least ten buildings are destroyed and thousands more are in danger tonight. the wildfire rages as much of the country deals with extreme heat including triple digits in part of california. more than 90 million people are under heat alerts. new york has registered at least one heat-related death. some cities such as boston and newark, new jersey, have seen the mercury exceed 100 degrees. we have reporters and meteorologists nationwide covering the heat wave and the changing climate. cnn s pole o sandoval is in new york. reporter: new yorker
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after the january 6 committee exposed a president whose actions were a disaster, there is little evidence that donald trump has lost his mojo with the far right of the republican party. in fact, he was greeted with a hero s welcome last night in florida. watch this, complete with video and pyrotechnics. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! and i m proud to be an american where at least i know i m free and i won t forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and remember still today but unlike the lyrics to that lee greenwood song, trump didn t gladly stand up to defend the country on january 6. he sat watching tv fo 187 minutes while the insurrection happened and even last night he wasn t letting go of his bogus election grievances. if i stayed home, if i announce that
Deal with the messaging on the ukraine, on all the scandals going on. Harris josh kraushaar, Political Editor for the national journal. Great to have you. Thank you very much. I am harris. Here is dana. Dana President Trump said to speak any moment as the fight over impeachment hits a new level. Hello, everyone. Im dana perino and this is the daily briefing. President trump is about to hold a joint News Conference with the president of finland but the big focus right now obviously, impeachment. The president attacking what hes calling the donothing democrats, accusing them of wasting time and not focusing on other issues. President trump also going after the whistleblower who reported on his july call with the ukrainian president. They come up with this impeachment nonsense and everyone knows. All based on one phone call that
i had. There was no quid pro quo. The whistleblower was so dishonest. The whistleblower said terrible things about the call, but i then found out he was secondhan