Memory be a blessing. Goodbye, wolf. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. This is special edition of the situation room. More and more americans newly infected with the coronavirus as the pandemic accelerates its spread in several states. Nationwide a horrific upturn in the number of people who passed away from the virus. Today marks four days in a row that more than a thousand americans have died from covid19 in a single day. In the epicenter of new cases in the east, florida. The number of people being hospitalized is up a staggering 79 since the july 4th holiday. But leading the nation in confirmed coronavirus cases california. And just yesterday 159 people died of the coronavirus in california, the most deaths there in a single day. One International Update this from brazil. That country has the most virus cases after the United States, and their figures are sharply rising every si
Kirk douglas who died after a long and illustrious life. The president s fate in the u. S. Senate was never in doubt. On wednesday, they acquitted donald trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress charges. The president plans to talk about what he calls the victory on the impeachment hoax in the day ahead. And he tweeted this familiar meme, which he uses to annoy democrats, implying he will run for reelection long beyond two terms. After wednesdays vote, Mitch Mcconnell refused to say if he thought the president s conduct was inappropriate. Weve completed it. We listened to the arguments. We voted. Its in the rearview mirror. It all began, the political impact on it. Theres a giant asterisk next to the president s acquittal. The asterisk says he was acquitted without facts. He was acquitted without a fair trial. His acquittal is valueless. We get more from phil mattingly. Reporter for now, this chapter has come to conclusion. President donald trump who went into this impeachme
Suspension in tact on President Trumps refugee and travel ban. The ban halted four days ago by u. S. District court judge james robart. That prompted angry twitter attacks by the president of the United States. Some republicans and democrats are blasting the president for his criticism of the judge. And the u. S. Has been just as bad an actor as russia and Vladimir Putin according to the president. We have more from suzanne malveaux. Reporter after just the first two weeks in office, President Trump preparing now for a judicial showdown over the travel ban by executive order can stand. To the dismay of democrats and republicans, President Trump disparaged the judge who suspended the ban through tweets who said the socalled judge made a ridiculous move. Cannot believe the socalled judge put our country in peril. This could become an issue for republicans trying to get the 60 votes necessary in the senate to confirm trumps pick for Supreme Court justice neil gorsuch. Also republicans pub
Guard over the weekend. But the big question is still unanswered. Will sessions testify in public . Or behind closed doors . Lawmakers have been clamoring for weeks to question him on everything from the firing of fbi director james comey to any undisclosed contacts that sessions might have had with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. While sessions recused himself from the broader fbi probe into russian interference in the 2016 election, members of the Intel Committee say they still want to hear from sessions and have him respond to some of comeys riffle lations from last week. The key things weve got to get obviously his side of the story related to jim comey, some of the conversations that jim commie had with the president , where Jeff Sessions was or was around to be able to get the rest of the story, comeys statement to him of getting time alone with the president , that interaction as well as accusations about conversations that he might or might not have had with russians prior t
Im christine romans, monday, june 12th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. This morning the Senate Intelligence committee has not confirmed whether or not Jeff Sessions will testify in a open or closed session or if the session will actually happen as sessions said in a letter, or whether it will happen at all since some senators believe this is a gambit for sessions to avoid testifying in public about Russian Election meddling. If it happens, it should be another pivotal day of testimony. Chuck schumer says sessions has four key questions to answer. First, did he interfere with the Russian Investigation before he recused himself . Second, what safeguards are there now so that he doesnt interfere . Third, he says he was involved in the firing of comey, and the president said comey was fired because of russia. How does that fit in with his recusal . It doesnt seem to stand up well for me. And four, hes been involved in the selection of the new fbi director. Did he talk about the russia investigati