ahead on cnn newsroom, north carolina s republican controlled legislature overrides democratic governor roy cooper s veto banning most abortions in that state after 12 weeks. gaps reportedly remain after the latest negotiations between the white house and republicans trying to head off a possible default on the u.s. debt. and ukraine says it successfully shot down six hypersonic missiles launched by russia, a claim moscow refutes. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin in north carolina, where the republican-led assembly moved to ban most abortions after 12 weeks, overriding a veto from democratic governor roy cooper. the vote in the state senate on tuesday was 30-20 along party lines. just hours later, the state house also voted 72-48 to do the same. governor cooper slammed the vote in a tweet, saying republicans are unified in their assault on women s reproductive freedom and vowed to fight back. the sta
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
Freedom as Five Americans released by iran are now on their way home to the United States. Well discuss the terms of the deal that ended their wrongful imprisonment with the Top National Security adviser to President Biden, jonathan finer. Also tonight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now in the United States for critical meetings over at the United Nations and here in washington. Well preview his plea for more Global Support as ukraines Counter Offensive against russia drags on. And another trump codefendant attempts to move the Georgia Election interference case to Federal Court. This as the former president is taking credit for efforts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election declaring it was his decision. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We begin this hour with the release of Five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in iran, and the deal that made it possible. Cnns Becky Anderson is
Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just two weeks before on january 5th. At that meeting were president obama, Vice President joe biden, fbi director jim comey, deputy a. G. Sally yates and susan rice herself. According to rice in this email, obama instructed the officials in the room to consider Withholding National intelligence from the Incoming Trump administration in case they were compromised by russia. In other words, almost two months after the president ial election, barack obama viewed trump not as his democratically elected