americans believe donald trump should face criminal charges for his part in the capitol riot. on tuesday the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection will begin its third week of hearings. this time the panel plans to focus on former president trump s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials are expected to testify at tuesday s hearing along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. our justice and crime reporter is joining us. what can we expect from tuesday s hearings? reporter: we re going to see another aspect of donald trump trying to manipulate the laws to take the election in 2020. this tuesday the public hearing before the house select committee is going to focus on the states, specifically battle ground states like arizona and georgia where trump and the lawyers were trying to get people to change the outcome of the votes in the states. those were states that trump lost. so we kn
peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
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
the january 6th committee kicking off its next public hearing just hours from now, and we re told that they re going to focus on the former president s efforts to pressure mike pence to overturn the election and how it, quote, directly contributed to the insurrection. this coming as we re getting new video of a capitol tour led by a republican congressman right before the riot. cnn s ryan nobles has the latest now. reporter: there s no escape, pelosi, schumer. reporter: new video released by the january 6th select committee showing a man outside the capitol directing threats at democratic members of congress. pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you aoc, we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. reporter: that same man seen the day before on a tour of the capitol complex with republican congressman barry loudermilk, snapping pictures the committee believes are suspicious. chairman benny thompson righting to loudermilk, quote, individuals on the tour photog
guns in this country. we ll bring you all the breaking developments from the supreme court as they all happen this hour. that s right. also this morning, we follow several economic stories. hours from now, we could potentially see the biggest interest rate hike in decades. experts believe that the federal reserve is poised to hike rates as much as 0.75%. that may cool inflation, american consumers would feel the impact in many other ways. mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student borrowing would all become more expensive. also this morning, in an effort to drive down historically high gas prices, the biden administration is putting pressure on oil companies for, quote, concrete ideas, lower rising costs. we are following all of that. also, new details on mike pence to block the certification of the election. vice chair of the committee. congresswoman liz cheney teasing ahead to tomorrow s hearing releasing a portion of a taped deposition with former trump white hou