we re so grateful to have you this sunday, june 26th. thank you for starting your week with us. a bittersweet morning here at cnn. it is christi s last day for us. i didn t preread that. yeah, after nine years. thank you so much. i m so glad that you are here. i m thrilled to be here with you to send you off in the right way. we ll have more about that and give her a great farewell in the next couple of hours. i appreciate that. we want to get to what is on your mind, we want to begin with the war in ukraine, of course. there is some news there looming over this meeting of g-7 leaders in europe. the explosions rocked theital o morning. between four and six missiles were launched at kyiv using russian strategic bombers. president biden is going to try to keep u.s. allies united against russia, even as he faces anger and frustration back home over inflation. the rising cost of gas and food and fears of a recession. he and other world leaders are going to look for ways t
just it s a tense moment. we re on the outside of the main protest here. as you can see, there is a small group of people protesting who are in support of the supreme court decision. and what we re seeing is really a conversation, passionate conversations taking place. both sides arguing, and, in fact, there was a larger group out here getting in an argument a few minutes ago at one point someone swiped a megaphone from the other crowd and they were given a verbal warning from the d.c. metropolitan police who moved in some other police forces just to protect this area over here, but i want to give you a sense of the broader flavor certainly as these sorts of conversations are playing out not only here but deeper into this crowd. this is a crowd of a couple 100 strong. we do see some counter protesters, some protesters who are out here kneeling and praying over here. and certainly some other protesters talking to them, i think overall things have been respectful here. i did
we begin with sunlen who is outside the supreme court. what are you seeing? reporter: jim, it certainly is a very tense moment right here on the steps of the supreme court. i want to show you the scene playing out now at this moment. i ll take you to the crowd here in the last few minutes we ve seen really this conversation between both sides break out. the police have moved in some barricades, some police fences and they have separated the two sides. over here you have a side who is not in support of friday s supreme court decision and over here pro-life and we have seen them yelling back and forth. i want to just give you a flavor of the crowd at the moment out here on the steps of the supreme court. abort the court. abort the court. reporter: although they are vocal and loud and are certainly taking issue with each other we have seen these protests remain largely peaceful throughout the day, jim. we are seeing this crowd swell in size a couple hundred out here tod
i look over, i see people trying to push the truck back. and i just instantly got mad and ran over and tried to stop the truck. reporter: video of the incident shows the truck appearing to push through a group of protesters, with one person falling to the ground after making contact with the vehicle. in providence, rhode island, jennifer rourke was punched in the face by an off duty police officer and gop opponent at an abortion rights rally at the state house on friday night. rourke telling cnn in a statement, the incident, which was caught on video, shows what appears to be rourke stepping into an altercation at the protest, and almost immediately afterwards getting punched in the face by jeann lugo. lugo turning himself into the rhode island state police on saturday. cnn reaching out to the providence fraternal order of police to ask about possible legal representation for lugo, though we have not heard back as of saturday night.
ago. it s our turn to take the fight up again. it may take us 50 years. reporter: smaller gatherings celebrating the ruling are also taking place. millions of lives will be saved by the decision. reporter: a pedestrian was injured by a truck while trying to legal i cross the street in front of the federal courthouse during friday evening s protest according to cedar rapids police. i look over, i see people trying to push the truck back, and i instantly got mad and ran over and tried to stop the truck. reporter: video of the incident shows a truck appearing to push through a group of protesters with one person falling to the ground after making contact with the vehicle. in providence, rhode island, state democratic senate candidate was punched in the face by an off-duty police officer and gop opponent and an abortion rights rally at the state house on friday night. the incident, which was caught on video, shows what appears to be roarke stepping into an altercation and almost