welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m bianna golodryga. nearly 12 million americans have already voted across 43 states in the midterm elections. inflation, crime and abortion were the topics that dominated fiery debates last night. in pennsylvania senate s race the most high profile of the midterms another factor came into play and that is the health of one of the candidates. the performance democrat john getter han who survived a stroke has put a new intensity into the matchup. some fetterman voters are saying after seeing him struggle they re now worried about on the fence people like independents and undecided voters. another cold cnn, this is the quote, it was tough to watch fetterman, it s kind of like looking at a car accident, you want to look but you don t want to look. however, the fetterman campaign says he raised more than a million dollars in the hours after that debate. fetterman s republican rival mehmet oz is getting negative feedback for his response to a qu
operatives who defected from the kremlin s secret service agency. plus, a veteran las vegas investigative reporter found stabbed to death outside his home. the move today that may put police one step closer to his killer. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead, and striking new details about what exactly donald trump took to mar-a-lago. one of the documents that fbi agents recovered during their search of the florida resort described a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. that s according to the washington post, which goes on to say, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them, unquote. donald trump s lawyers once again trying to deflect from any serious national security implications here. instead, decrying what they described as leaks about the investigation, which one might observe is a curious time to
they will present what they are calling recently obtained evidence. january 6 select committee is ready to hear publicly from a very important member of the trump white house. the fact that the committee has rushed to add a hearing that was not previously scheduled shows that hutchinson may have new information to reveal. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is tuesday, june 28, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re just hours away from a surprise hearing held by the house committee investigating the january 6 capitol riots. the key witness cassidy hutchinson is former aide to this man, trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. hutchinson s testimony is expected to be significant due to her close approximate imit i to trump s inner circle. ryan nobles has all the details. reporter: the january 6 select committee is ready to hear publicly from a very important member of the trump white house who has the potential to revea
24th. i am sam stein filling in for the one and only ali velshi. one month ago today the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. this immediately and radically reshaped abortion rights around the country. these are the 26 states that were considered certain or likely to ban abortion in the post roe era. more than a dozen of them have already taken action to do so. today, there is not a single provider offering abortion services in the united states. forcing residents to travel across state lines for basic and essential health care. seven other states banned abortion at a much earlier point. it was previously allowed when roe was the law of the land. in the coming weeks at least three more states, north dakota, wyoming, and indiana, are expected to enact total abortion bans. let the constitutional protections for abortion that were provided, access is quickly shrinking around the country. nowhere is that more evident than in the south, where abortion access is almost entirely a
the country has tried to stay neutral, and the war on ukraine has changed fin land s views of the kremlin, and their president said putin has himself to blame. take a listen. well, if that would be the case that we choose, my response would be that you caused this. look at the mirror. and neighboring sweden is also close to deciding whether it will also pursue nato membership cnn s nick robinson, good to see you nick, we spoke about people in the country questioning why it s happening so quickly and saying there was nothing to suggest russia would invade fin land, what is the leadership of the country saying about the speed of this decision and some of the criticism. the statement, along with the prime minister, is going to make a statement right around about this time. they are joining nato, it not the definitive joining. it will be in a key time in the parliament next week. it s going to set the direction and tone for the country. they have kept their thoughts and vie