a warm welcome to our viewers watching from the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, republican candidates gatherer in iowa. see how one found out the hard way what happens when you target the former president. plus when it comes to u.s. weather, even the good news says there's little relief in sight for much of the country. we'll explain and have the latest on the heat alerts. and later, what it's like living in odesa and seeing historic places destroyed by russian attacks. we'll get a firsthand account of life in the war zone. so if donald trump or his supporters are bothered by the latest charges the front runner faces, no one is showing it. ♪ >> a little joke there, i guess. the former president received a stand og ovation friday night in iowa. in fact, it was a rare appearance where most of his republican rivals also spoke. trump mostly highlighted what he considers to be his administration's accomplishments, but he also went on the attack without specifically addressing those charges against him. listen. >> they want to weaponize the ira, just like they have weaponized the justice department. if i weren't running, i would have nobody coming after me. or if i was losing by a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. >> now while trump didn't directly address the new charges he faces in the iowa event rksz he has been commenting elsewhere since they were filed thursday. paula reid has our story. >> reporter: former president trump facing new legal peril. a florida grand jury returned a superseding indictment thursday add aing two charges against trump for an effort to alter, destroy, mutilate or conceal surveillance footage that is at the heart of the prosecutions's case. trump reacting in a new interview right after the charges dropped. >> it shouldn't even be a case. >> reporter: prosecutors also added mar-a-lago property manager to the case, charging him with obstruction and lying to the fbi during a january 2023 interview. the indictment describes how he told another mar-a-lago employee that, quote, the boss wanted the server with the surveillance footage to be deleted. prosecutors also added wasn't more one more count, willful retention of national defense information related to a classified document he he showed vuters in 2021. that meeting was recorded by one of his aids. >> this was done by the military given to me. this is classified. isn't that interesting? >> reporter: cnn has learned that document, a presentation concerning military activity in a foreign country, was actually returned to the archives in january 2022. prosecutors will have to prove that document was willfully retained, even though it was returned, even before trump received a subpoena. the former president firing back suggesting he would have smith fired if he's reelected. >> if you're elected president president begun, is he somebody he would fire. >> i wouldn't keep him. why would i keep him? >> and in a social media post, calling for smith to be thrown in jail. smith was appointed by attorney general merrick garland to oversee investigations into trump after the former president launched his latest bud for the white house. >> when i pointed mr. smith, i did so because it underscores the justice department's commitment to independence and accountability. >> can you tell us if we'll have an indictment this week? >> reporter: smith has said little. trump's lawyers met with the team thursday ahead of an expected indictment in that case. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> reporter: amid all the legal peril, concerns about security at the courts. in atlanta where trump may also face challenges in the coming weeks, barricades are going up around the courthouse. carlos is expected to make his first court appearance on monday, though it's unclear how his addition to the case will impact the timeline for a potential trial. >> our paula reid there. back in iowa, criticizing trump is a sure way to alienate a friendly crowd of conservative vo voters, as many politicians have learned the hard way. but in a high-stakes election season, the gloves have to come off sometime. listen to will herd barely get ten words out last night before the backlash erupted. listen. >> donald trump is running to stay out of prison. if we elect -- i know, i know, i know. listen, i know the truth. the truth is hard. >> now, it is a crowded field of gop contenders, all of them looking for an edge to chip away at trump's sizable lead ahead of next january's iowa caucuses. >> we want education in this country, not indoctrination in this country. we got it done in florida. we need to get it done nationally. and i got kamala harris coming down to florida trying to create a phoney narrative because she understands florida has stood up to the left's agenda. we have beat the left's agenda in the state of florida. >> then you go and look at the boarder. i know kamala is here in iowa, but i bet you she hasn't spent near as much time at the border as she spent in iowa talking about abortion. i have been to that border. the idea that those ranchers get up first thing in the morning and go see if anyone died crossing the fence. >> with us now is thomas gift, director of the center on u.s. politics at university college london. good to see you. mr. hurt there was certainly booed off the stage in a hurry. many predicted that this would happen, but the way that the republicans, the gop have rallied around trump after charge after charge, indictment after indictment, do you believe there's any secret sauce, secret formula to try to break a strangle hold on the party? >> i don't. i do think that the reaction to will hurd's comments are as predictable as you can get. there are two things you can't can lecture the leaders on in 2023 and that's donald trump and the truth. so doing both at once saying trump is only running to stay out of jail and the truth hurts, it seems like hurd was trying to elicit a negative response. he can stand up there and grand stand without much concern. the whole point of this campaign like asa hutchinson is to make a po point. but as you're suggesting for viable republican who is are trying to compete for the nomination, you can see why there's been such a reluctance to challenge trump head on. you're going to put through the ringer for doing it, which is one reason why chris christie didn't show up last nagt. he knew his critiques wouldn't go over and he was right. but if you can't attack trump and be nice to trump and still make end roads, it makes it impossible for any other alternative candidate to emerge as viable here. >> and that was my next question. as much as chris christie can read the room and know he shouldn't be in that room,en didn't they learn that in the 2016 primary race that somebody needs atab him more? he will become the nominee, period. >> yeah, and i think maybe there are a lot of candidates who are just vying for second place basically a vice presidential nod. i do think that you see some change in posture from ron desantis in particular. maybe that's just out of desperation. what he's been doing up until this point certainly hasn't been resinating with republican voters. he's been trying to make this argument about eligibility essentially saying, look, i understand your concerns and know you're upset. i realize some of you might prefer a second trump term, but i'm the candidate that can win. the problem with that is that the right wing base isn't much swayed by the eligibility argument. that's more something that resinates with party elites and donors. and ron desantis has gotten off to such a poor start, both with his slippage in the poll turmoil in his campaign. his argument about competence is hard to take to voters, which is one reason why we're starting to see a search for trump alternatives. i think some are looking to tim scott maybe as an antitrump candidate because he's a more effective foil. he's more positive, a lot more optimistic and doesn't drive in that same trump lane. it's going to be hard for any candidate to really compete here. >> hard is probably the understatement of this political season as well. we heard trump say in his address to iowa that he wouldn't be prosecuted at all if he weren't running for president. listen now to what he said in an interview about how he's going to handle the charges against him, the indictments and perhaps even guilty verdicts. take a listen. >> you get convicted and sentenced. does that stop your campaign for president, if you're sentenced? >> not at all. there's nothing in the constitution to say it could. even the radical left say it wouldn't stop me. >> it wouldn't stop him either. thomas, is there anything that you see in this race that will change it? i have to note a that when you go to the general against joe biden, if you watch or listen to conservative media, right now, they are going on about the hunter biden situation. as far as they are concerned, the scales are balanced in terms of political leaders facing justice, even though people mention it's not the president facing these legal troubles, it's his son. >> absolutely. the hunter biden scandal, if you want to call it that s a perfect rejoinder for republicans to muddy the water. there's no parallel here. any time you hear trump and indictment, all republicans want to do is talk about hunter biden. they really do think it's evening out the scale, even if there's no reality in which that's separate the case. but donald trump is not going to be deterred by any indictment or future indictment. he's really doubled down and he's used it to both fundraise and increase his position in the polls. so to your fundamental question, is anything going to change this race, it's always possible. there's still a long way to go. i do think that some of these indictments and potential charges could have some downstream implications for the general election if trump is the nominee, but in the short run, all this only helps him. he has such a strangle hold on the party, which we observed time and geb it's going to be difficult to topple. >> and while a reminder is that these elections and the general go state by state, when you look at the popular vote right now, biden and trump are tied. that gives you a preview of what maybe to come if trump does become the nominee. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. now in the state of georgia, officials have beefed up security outside an atlanta courthouse as they brace for another possible indictment of donald trump. he's being investigated in the state over election interference and charges could be handed down as soon as next week. sara murray has our report. >> reporter: barricades are going up around the courthouse in atlanta. and on monday we're in the window for when the district attorney may announce charges as to anyone who may face an indictment as part of her investigation into efforts but trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia. we're seeing a last-ditch attempt by donald trump's attorneys to have her disqualified from the case, try to have evidence from the case thrown out. a judge has set a hearing in that on august 10th, which is smack dab in the middle of that indictment window. we still i think we're probably weeks rather than days away from any potential indictment. and this has been a big investigation and one that some critics believe should have moved faster. take a lock at a preview of our deep dive into what happened in georgia coming this weekend. >> we are more than two years past the pressure campaigns, the harassment of public and private citizens, the coordinating of fake lek electors, the breach of equipment, and we still don't know. will trump and his a allies face charges here in georgia? and if so, will there be convictions. >> they rigged the presidential election in 2020, and we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election of 2024. >> did voters deserve an answer to this question before donald trump became an announced candidate again? >> i don't think there's i any question about that. from a national per sspective, question about it. from a local perspective, no question about it. >> we saw former president trump lie to the american people. you saw him gin up this outrage. is it a remedy if he's charged with a crime in georgia? >> if they indict him and can't convict him t will be an exoneration. is that better or worse? i don't know. >> this will give you an idea of how sprawling the investigation in georgia actually is. everything from trump attorney rudy giuliani's false statements in front of georgia lawmakers to try to persuade them to up end the election result to a former publicist for kanye west who tried to pressure a georgia election worker into admitting that she participated in an election fraud. all that and more is coming up sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on our deep dive with anderson cooper. >> our thanks there to sara murray. as they have done since january, protesters in israel are expected to be out in force again today to demand their government stop its overhaul of the judicial system. it's become an historic showdown over the past seven months with neither side backing down. a controversial new law came into force wednesday that will likely add more fuel to today's demonstrations. critics say it has weakened supreme court and undermines israeli democracy. benjamin netanyahu dismissed those concerns as silly. he claims the overhaul is needed to reset the balance of power in government. now in the u.s., more than 100 million people from southern california to new england are waking up to heat alerts in the hours ahead. in phoenix temperatures are expected to stay above 110 degrees right into the weekend. the scorching temperatures are easing in the midwest. but people on the northeast will have to wait until later sunday to get any kind of relief. miguel marquez looks at how people are coping. >> dead hi heat, more than 30 states under alert, temperatures record breaking. >> oh, my god. this is hell on earth. >> nowhere worse than phoenix, arizona. >> this is unreal. day, night, never seen anything like it. >> reporter: a city accustomed to heat now overwhelmed by it. a new record 15 days so far this year over 115 degrees. the morgue in maricopa county adding ten refrigerator containers prepping for a possible spike in heat-related deaths. already the morgue is over its normal capacity. >> if it started to tilt, that's fine. >> arizona's ultrahardy, some essentially suffocating from the heat. wildlife suffering too, a great horned owl cooling off in a sanctuary. a at the minneapolis zoo, ost ridges taking a shower. a polar bear in search of ice. the midwest, baking. construction workers taking extra precautions. conditions being pushed to the extreme. >> this isn't for the unseasoned worker. don't try to attempt to come out and start working in this heat until you have been fully acclimated. >> along the eastern sea board, the heat dex, the mix of temperatures and humidity, hitting upwards of 110 degrees in some areas. >> i'm sweating within -- i probably am sweating within 7 seconds of stepping outside. i'm not joking. and also as soon as i'm on the subway platform, it gets really ugly, really messy. >> reporter: public cooling stations set up. power companies urging customers to conserve energy. power grids everywhere under pressure. >> we recommend setting your air-coair conditioner to 78 degrees or the lowest of the cool settings. remembering that it's all about maintaining your comfort while also ensuring energy consumption for the entire city. >> reporter: while summer and heat go together, climate change service calculates july will be the world's hottest month on record ever. so the good news is in places like new york and much of the u.s., the temperatures are going to come down in the days ahead. the bad news is we're all going to have to live with more extreme weather in the days ahead. back to you. >> our thanks to miguel marquez there. much more to come here on cnn newsroom, including comments from a soon to be ex-wife of the beach murder suspect. plus a major ukrainian city caught in the cross hairs of russian missiles. it has derm-prl that targets vital cell turnover, evens skin tone, and smooths fine l lines. with visible r results in just one week. neutrogena® retinol. the morgan stanley client experience? listening more than talking, and a personalized plan ♪ to guide you through a changing world. ♪ the wife of the accused beach killer is asking for privacy for her family and neighbors. on friday news cameras caught her filing divorce this week as she returned home. she spoke about the condition of her house after police searches. she also released a statement asking the media to be mindful of her neighbors. they deserve to live peacefully. they should be able to walk their dogs and go to the grocery store without cameras shoved in their faces. i am pleading with you all to gives us some space. >> a school administrator and two students diabetesing coming face to face with the gunman. >> it was very quiet. there was no screaming. it was just the gunshots. >> because both students are minors, no cameras were allowed to show their face. one of them had a therapy dog during his testimony. saying he escaped after he shot and killed another student hide ing in the bathroom with him. >> why did you do that? >> because i think when i saw his body, i realized if i stayed, i was going to die. >> reporter: the shooting in november of 2021 at objexford h school killed four others. frud's hearing aiming to determine if the underage shooter can be >> what's going on? >> russian missiles taik aim at a new target. its cultural heritage. we go odesa to talk about the damage to its cultural sites. welcome back to our viewsers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. you're watg cnn newsroom. we're getting reports of a russian strike on ukraine's region. officials say artillery fire hit a residential area near a grain terminal leaving four people wounded. it happene d >> this village on thursday. video showed troops dodging explosions in front of their vehicles. ukraine is now expected to go after another settlement to the east, which russians officers believe is hard to hold on to. kyiv say it is has als o >> it's taking place right now. just a short time ago, president putin was meeting with the president of south africa, as th e the operation in ukraine, with us as you said the secretary of state antony blinken saying these are desperate attempts to hold on to friends. take a look. >> i strongly doubt he's there on holiday. we're seeing russia desperately looking for support, for weapons, wherever he can find them to continue its aggression against ukraine. we see that in north korea. we see that with iran, which has provided many drones t o. >> to russia, now the concern is that that continues. you also heard there the secretary of state mentioning iran. that's a country that's provided countless drones that have been used to target civilian areas across ukraine. and beijing, although it has promised not to provide material support to president putin, it remains a concern as nato allies, u.s. officials try to ensure that russia is unable to resupply its arsenal. >> thank you for staying on top of those developments. the ukrainian city of odesa is trying to get back on its feet after a barrage o f russian strikes that shook it to its core. russian missiles pounded odesa in recent days . >> senior fellow at the atlantic council. he's been living in odesa and has watched his cultural institutions tapped as never before. good to see you. it's good to see you safe. i want to get to the piece you wrote for cnn.com. first, just give us a sense of what it's been like. many failed to realize that life is fairly normal in odesa up until the last few weeks. >> sure, good to be with you again. thank any, we had a quiet night last nugt, although there were air raid sirens later in the evening. as i have written before, odesa has two industries. one is the port and the other is the tourism industry, the night life, restaurants, bars. both are suffering very, very badly. you can see it on the faces of neighbors walking down the street. you can especially see the pain on the a faces of the owners of small and medium-sized businesses. i have a lot of friends in that sector. some of them have left. some of them are saying we can only hang on a few months longer because the economy has been so battered by the threat of russian strikes. and then the port side from being a huge channel for ukrainian grain exports, the noises from the port, they provide comfort to people because it's such a big industry here. it's spread across educational institutions, people come here to learn how to work in the maritime sector. so it's had huge ramifications. >> yeah, and as you wrote in your opinion piece, you quoted an expert who said that such assaults on priceless cultural heritage should be seen in the simila r weaponization of grain. it reminds me of the soviet times where ukrainian language and religion, same thing is happening now but on a more physical scale. i just walked through that neighborhood yesterday. i'll give you a real tangible example. there's a music school that's been there forever. students board there. and it was very, very badly damaged. and music is a huge thing here in odesa. people are being denied access to that. many places you go in ukraine, the statutes are shrouded or taken away. that denies people access to the culture and history. and finally, no lack of stories of russian troops looting museums is and other cultural places on a scale of the nazis in the previous wars. so it is really damaging. these things are priceless and irreplaceable. >> and you also say that that lends its spirit to the city of odesa. i love this line. you say it's endless prom nad, joyful gyms, its miami-like flare and new york, and yet how much do you worry given the escalation here in this conflict is clear, just from what we covered in the last few minutes. >> i worry a lot. this is exactly as i described it in that piece. thank you for quoting it. there's no place like it on earth. there's no place like it in ukraine. normally during the summer months, people would come not only from neighboring countries, but from kyiv to rest on the beach. but now we can't even go into the black sea waters because of the threat of mines, but i just got a text yesterday from city officials saying entering into the waters is forbidden because they fear it's contaminated from when the dam was destroyed. so many factors working against odesa. i talk about the resilience here, but as i said, you can see it waring them down. some have left. those who are staying say they can't take much more. >> i only have 30 seconds left, but do you note a sense of abandonment from the west? i sense some fatigue from what i have been reading. >> yeah, people are saying here words of condemnation or words of support welcome, but what's really needed here are patriot missile systems. you can see how that has helped kyiv spring back to life. it has protective skies. that's what odesa needs for people to come back and feel protected. >> and we will leave it there for now. stay safe. we'll continue to check in with you. >> thank you, paula. now we want to talk more cultural heritage. we learned that ukraine is moving its official holiday to december 25th. that's the christmas holiday. now this is a break from the russian orthodox church, which celebrates in early january. the legislation was submitted to parliament and signed by volodymyr zelenskyy on friday. parliament's website says the idea is, quote, to abandon the russian heritage of imposing 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needs. >> the coup plotters announced the so-called national counsel for the preservation of the homeland with the council's president to serve as the new head of state. a spokesperson appeared on state television to give this warning to the world. >> translator: despite the measures taken by the cnsp for rapid return to normalcy, certain dignitaries held up in collaboration are pursuing a logic with the view to extract the authorities. this dangerous attitude will only result in a massacre of the population and chaos. therefore, they call on national and international opinion to bear witness to the consequences of any foreign military intervention. >> cnn has been following these developments from nairobi. the world has been reacting, but as we just heard, words of their own there as these new leaders try to take over. do you have any indication that anyone will have >> there has to be consequences for this unconstitutional takeover power. i want to read a statement for you. it says that in addition to the immediate decision to support all corporation actions in the security field are suspended with immediate effect. so this unacceptable attack on the integrity of the republican institutions will not remain without consequences. and this tracks along with something that america has threatened because the u.s. secretary of state is also speak ing to the support that it received from the u.s. >> we are united in condemning the actions that have taken place, calling for the immediate release of the president, calling for the immediate restoration of the democratic order. our economic and security partnership, which is significant, hundreds of millions of dollars depends on the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order that has been disrupted by the actions in the last few days. >> like we mentioned in th e. >> as we continue to follow the situation. larry, thank you so much. now world cup action resumes in new zealand and usa australi. ahead, 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