we re going to make america great again. i love you. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! and i m proud to be an american where at least i know i m free and i won t forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today yes, that actually did happen last night in tampa, florida. but unlike the lyrics to that lee greenwood song, trump did not gladly stand up to defend the country on january 6. he sat as the testimony was laid out watching television for 187 minutes while the insurrection unfolded and even last night he wasn t letting go of his big election lies. if i stayed home, if i announced i was not going to run for office, the persecution of donald trump would immediately stop. we know that. everybody knows that. but that s what they want me to do. and you know what, there s no chance i do that. there s just no chan
the war. we re live in kyiv. plus, dangerous heat waves across the u.s. and western europe. we ll go to the cnn weather center on when people can see relief. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the new york times is reporting that the u.s. justice department could begin receiving interview transcripts from the january 6th committee as early as next month. earlier, federal prosecutors believed they would not get them until september and delay some trials of capitol rioters. former u.s. president donald trump remains defiant despite growing mountain of testimony and other evidence against him. he spoke out on friday for the first time since the hearings began calling former vice president mike pence weak now for not blocking the 2020 certification. several former officials everyone around trump told him repeatedly he lost the election and a scheme to stay in office was illegal. cnn s jessica schneider has more on trump s reactio
is going to do a lot more for those children than just allowing them to not be vaccinated and rely on natural antibodies as it were. they are expecting in the next maybe, sounds like they have a lot of questions right now. maybe it s going to be a half hour to an hour before they wrap up. take that vote, and then move that recommendation on to the cdc director who is expected to accept their recommendation and then cities like new york will begin to deliver shots into arms as soon as next wednesday. these are two different vaccines, moderna and pfizer, slightly different regimes for both. the moderna is a two-shot regime, the pfizer is a three-shot regime. they are much smaller doses than those for kids or adults or older kids and adults, and they ve really gone through all of the process of how the vaccines will get from the manufacturers to the various places to put them into arms and they expect that they will start all next week. back to you. miguel marquez, thank you s
just as summer temperatures heat up, thousands of kids could be left high and dry. why thousands of pools and summer camps may not open. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the wife of a supreme court justice could be dragged to the forefront of the investigation into the january 6th insurrection. ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas says that she is willing to meet with the house select committee investigating the capitol attack. the request for her interview comes after the committee says they have emails between ginni thomas and former trump attorney john eastman. eastman, of course, the architect of the delusional, unconstitutional theory that vice president pence could single handlely have overturned the election. while the contents of the emails between the two have not been revealed, eastman in emails to a different trump lawyer, according to the new york times, seemed to have insight and knowledge that supreme court justices were i
with kim brunhuber. we begin in uvalde, texas, where frustration is growing as we learn more chilling details about the mass shooting at an elementary school. 19 young students and 2 teachers gunned down. we re getting more on 911 calls made from inside the classroom while the attack was under way and the pleas from a student as gunfire rang out. there s growing criticism of police actions and inactions and scrutiny of the company that made the murder weapon. and cnn is speaking with the attorney for a teacher s aide from robb elementary. she s sharing her side of the story after police falsely blamed her. omar jimenez begins our coverage. reporter: it was supposed to be an end of the year class party. before it became a nightmare. she saw everything from the time he recked to the time he was taken out of there. special education aide was meeting a co-worker with a food. she propped the door open, went back inside to get her phone and called 911. but to report the a