trump s old cabinet. the west wing was broken. it was not functioning properly. the problem hesident has a l history with president xi. we re adversaries, we re competitors with china right now, no doubt about that . welcome, it is friday, july 29, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where flash flood warnings are up right now as more storms and heavy rains move through the region. that is after catastrophic flooding already claimed the lives of at least eight people and the governor warns the death toll will go higher. and he said that it could take years for residents to rebuild and called it the worst flooding disaster of his lifetime. overnight residents near a dam were ordered to evacuate due to the fast moving water and the area has gone through this before, but not quite like this. we ve seen water in the streets before, but we ve never seen water, you know, waist deep in the streets or chest deep in the streets. never seen this in all the year
few moments from now. it was here almost exactly 24 hours ago now that a gunman opened fire from the roof of a building about two blocks behind me, killing six people, you can hear the sounds of it right there, wounding 25. it caused hundreds of people to flee the scene. a real moment of sheer terror. you can see actually behind us now some of the chairs that they left behind still littering the scene here. police did find a gun on the roof of that building. ultimately about eight hours later they were able to apprehend someone there y re calling a person of interest, they used the phrase suspect, that person has been in custody overnight and several hours and investigators are going through his past trying to learn more about what might have led him to open fire on this celebration of the nation s independence. let s get the very latest on where the investigation stands this morning, i m joined by josh campbell who has been on the scene now for 20 hours at this point chasing
all the while, exposing widening cracks in american democracy. plus can win your after the fall of kabul. how the taliban takeover has received daily life in afghanistan. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks so much for being with us. we begin in ukraine, with the two largest nuclear facilities in europe, pumping an outcry from world leaders. 42 countries, along with the european union, now calling on russia to immediately withdraw its troops from these nuclear power plants. it comes after days of repeated shelling around the facility, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe. russia and ukraine have blamed each other for the attacks. to the south, ukraine says, an underground resistance movement blew up a railway bridge near the russian-held city of variable. ukrainian officials say, russian troops used the bridge to transport weapons and other climate from occupied crimea. meanwhile, a u.n.-charted ship carrying 23,000 tons of wheat
him and he deserves it. he put these people through hell. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 5, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re getting more revelations in the january 6 investigation including this cnn exclusive. donald trump s lawyers are now in direct talks with the justice department for the very first time. sources tell cnn that they are discussing the claims of executive privilege which he hopes will stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations. we know that the federal investigators have subpoenaed trump s white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy patrick philbin to answer questions about schemes to overturn the 2020 election and there is more, sources tell cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. the former president apparently skeptical grilling his legal team about whether they think that he will actually
white house officials zeroing in on efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and with us now, state attorney from palm beach county, dave air renburg. as we learn that the talks are happening, executive privilege featuring prominently here, remind us what would not be covered protected by executive privilege? executive privilege is designed to protect the republic, not the president. and so it should not apply to a former president, but there is it some ambiguity. but it is not to cover up a crime. especially a crime involving the attempted overthrow of the united states government. but you will see that some people in trump world will invoke it and trump will certainly invoke it because he wants to delay things. he can essentially win by losing in the courts if he can delay matters long enough. and so that is why the department of justice is being proactive and aggressive to try to get out front and try to limit the ability of trump world to claim this executive privilege.