Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Im lynda kinkade. Good to have you with us. Coming up on cnn newsroom, will they win or will they go home . The u. S. Womens soccer team playing their first match of the stage of the world cup. Were live at a new york watch party. Plus i consider it a great badge of honor, because im being indicted for you. I am being indicted for you. Despite the growing list of legal battles, donald trump is rallying his supporters with his latest indictment. Well look at what comes next for the former president. And decision time in niger as the deadline to reinstate the countrys ousted leader is set to expire today. Were live in the region with the latest. We begin this hour in melbourne, australia, where a clash of heavyweights is now underway at the womens world cup. Team usa, the twotime defending champions are taking on sweden, the thirdranked team in the world. And this is a do or die match for both countries, with a spot in the quarter finals on the line. Cnns Sports AnalystChristine Brennan joins us now, live. Good to have you with us, christine. This game just about to kick off or probably has just kicked off. It is a do or die game. And the last time the u. S. And sweden played, sweden won 3nil, back in 2021. What needs to happen today for the u. S. Team to win . Lynda, the United States has to be basically a whole different team. The team that we saw during group stage, it just wouldnt be good enough to beat sweden today. The question is, can the u. S. Raise its game. Can the u. S. Look more like the u. S. From the past, can they complete passes, can they work as one, as a team, as opposed to 11 individuals out there on the field. So lots of questions for the United States, lots of concerns, as i sit here, in the u. S. , among sports fans, but also, i think the sense that the u. S. Basically has to play better, because could they play much worse . And sweden, such a great opponent. The best Soccer Nation and womens soccer to never win a world cup or an Olympic Gold Medal. U. S. Has won four of each. So sweden has been knocking at that door, and so deserving. And will they be able to beat the u. S. In a knockout match, get rid of the u. S. Would be the worstever defeat for the u. S. In a world cup or olympics going out in the round of 16, never happened before. If that happens, sweden will be so joyful and of course, the u. S. Will be disconsulate, but of course, theres two hours to go before we know how that turns out. Yeah, exit poll. A. It could be a close game, but there have been plenty of surprises so far during the world cup. The u. S. Womens team won the last two world cups. Give us more of a sense of their overall performance so far this world cup. They really have just looked disjointed. Theyve looked out of sink, and everyones trying to figure out, is it the coaching . Is it a certain player, or is the fact that 14 of the 23, as you know, lynda, 14 of the 23 members of the u. S. Team, this is their first world cup. So that great tradition going all the way back to 91 in the first world cup, the u. S. Won 99, the rose bowl full to capacity, mia hamm, that tradition of the veterans, well, of course, theyre longsince retired. And even the people who played with them, Megan Rapinoe is basically is the last of that group. And even the just overlapped with a few. And now when you look at it, you say, moving forward, have the veterans stood up and alex morgan, people like that. And these young players, have they shown a little nerve or some nervous or some kind of sense that they arent quite settled. Thats question. Can the u. S. , those veterans like alex morgan and Megan Rapinoe and lindsay horan, the captain to me who is the key today, can they bring those young veterans up . And if the u. S. Were to score a goal first, which would be a Wonderful Development for the United States, i think that would then raise that Confidence Level that we have just not seen so far in this tournament. This has been one of those tourm tournaments with plenty of surprises. From your perspective, who has been the most surprising team for better or for worse so far . Certainly, morocco being able to get through into the Knockout Stage in their first time, and germany going out, germany the number two ranked. Right now in this match, its number one, u. S. , against number three, sweden, germany bng o out, all the upsets, those younger nations in the sense of it not being in world cups for as long as usa and sweden and others. And i think japan. They won the world cup in 2011, and they have looked just so technically efficient, as they usually are. They look like the team to beat. So i would say theres some surprises in the sense of teams that went home, another one, a perfect example of how the world has caught up, lynda. Canada won the Olympic Gold Medal just two years ago, literally, two years ago, right now in tokyo and the other day, they were eliminated by australia and sent home. So the Olympic Gold Medallists didnt even make it to the final 16 in this tournament. And i have to say, i dont feel sorry for canada. I am very much looking forward to the australian game on monday. I hope they do quite well. Finally, i wanted to ask you about overall the tournament, given so many surprises, is this tournament living up to the hype . Oh, i think so. I think so. Because you want the womens game to be evaluated to the point where wherever someone is playing someone else on the field, your australians are playing well and holding up their end of the bargain as the host nation, one of the two hosts, i think thats what we want to see. We want to see countries investing in womens sport. And when they do that, around the world, many of these misogynistic, sexist nations, in terms of womens football, when they start to invest in the womens game, look what happens. And the fact that there are 32 teams, which is to the mens for the First Time Ever in this world cup, 16 making it through, the idea that youve got equality and any day, one team can beat another, the upsets we have seen, extraordinary. And that is an incredible sign of success that even the u. S. Players, even if they were to lose today, would be so proud of, because theyve been the ones who have been leading the ways in many ways with equal pay and fighting for other nations to start to care about womens soccer, womens football. And look at what we now have. Exactly. There have been some absolutely extraordinary moments so far. Looking forward to see how this game plays out in the coming hours. Christine brennan, as always, thanks so much. Lynda, thank you. The new deadline and new back and forth in the latest indictment of donald trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has now responded to friday nights court filing from special counsel jack smith. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this earlier in the day. He said, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to muzzle trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence. The judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. The judge denied a request from trumps lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called that an unnecessary delay. Trump is taking haim at mike pence, unleashing his most blistering attack yesterday on his former vice president. On a social media post saturday, trump lashed out, in some of his sharpest language, referring to little mike pence, calling him delusional and not a very good person. Well, despite all of these legal battles, the former president is slamming the special counsel everywhere he goes. Most recently in the early primary state of South Carolina, where trump grossly understated the seriousness of the charges against him. The fake charges put forth by the biden sham, we call it a sham indictment. And the man whos doing it, i really believe hes mentally ill, but this is outrageous and it is an outrageous criminalization of political speech. Theyre trying to make it illegal to question the results of an election. Well, cnns Alayna Treene was at that South Carolina event and filed this report. Reporter the former president spent much his Saturday Night Speech Railing against the recent charges that he faces, as well as attacking special counsel jack smith directly. Donald trump called him, quote, mentally ill, as well as deranged. Now, the former president also made an appeal to republican lawmakers on capitol hill. He argued that they needed to step up and do something in order to help defend him against his recent legal matters. But one big thing that i find to be different from his speech on saturday is that it came less than 24 hours after jack smith wrote in a court filing, asking a judge to set limits on what trumps family can do with the evidence shared in the election subversion case. Now, the judge ultimately ruled on saturday that Donald Trumps team must respond to that proposal by monday afternoon. But there were a lot of questions going into saturday night. Whether Donald Trumps team would encourage him to change his rhetoric in light of that court filing. But clearly, he did not. Alayna treene, cnn, columbia, South Carolina. Well, a fourth Criminal Indictment against donald trump now seems likely, this time in the state of georgia. The case focuses on the former president s efforts to overturn the states 2020 election r result. Security around the courthouse in atlanta has already ramped up ahead of those potential charges. More details now from cnns brian todd. This was never supposed to happen in america. Reporter the alreadyenormous legal pressure on the former president is likely about to intensify. A grand jury in georgia expected to consider criminal charges against donald trump and his republican allies. In terms of the georgia case, its going to add a significant burden on him to defend yet another case. These cases will all have significant Trial Deadlines and preTrial Deadlines for hearings that hes going to have to be involved with and that will detract from his campaign. Reporter a decision on whether to seek charges against the former president in georgia will be made within the next few weeks, by a team led by Fulton County district attorney, fani willis. The work is accomplished. Weve been working for two and a half years. Were ready to go. Reporter the case focused on the multipronged effort trump launched in the wake of the 2020 election to overturn the results in georgia. It included pressure on georgias governor and Secretary Of State, both republicans, to find enough votes to flip joe bidens win in the state. So what are we going to do here, folks. I only need 11,000 votes. Fe fellas, i need 11,000 votes. Give me a break. When the governor and Secretary Of State refused to go along, trump urged State Lawmakers to convene a Special Session to reverse bidens victory. This election was a sham. Trump ally Rudy Giuliani went to the Georgia House and senate with bogus voter fraud claims. Rudy giuliani is considered to have a lot of exposure in georgia, because he spoke at those legislative hearings, and we know a lot of the information he shared was not true at the time. Reporter other trump allies who could Face Criminal Charges are republican activists the Trump Campaign recruited to serve as fake electors. They allegedly played key roles in a failed plot to block the election from being certified acertified. About half of them have received immunity deals, which means theyre working with the prosecution to tell them what they know. Reporter cnn has reported that fani willis is reporting bringing charges of conspiracy and racketeering in this case. Reporter Racketeering Charges are typically broader criminal schemes involving multiple individuals, and essentially, the maximum punishment for those types of charges are typically much higher than other charges that are mentioned here. Reporter testimony has also been sought in the georgia case from Former Trump GeorgiaChief Of Staff, mark meadows, and republican senate, lindsey graham. Fani willis has told local officials of threats shes received, many of them during a racist nature during the period shes been investigating this case. Ive probably been called the nword than most people combined. Throughout the georgia investigation, donald trump has vehemently denied wrongdoing, as have his allies. Trump has lashed out at fani willis, calling her racist, and quote, a lunatic marxist. Brian todd, cnn, washington. Well, more dangerous recordbreaking heat is expected in the coming days, from california to florida. Right now, more than 60 Million People are under heat alerts across the south and southwest. Heat indices could top 115 degrees in some parts of the country. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar breaks it down for us. More than a hundred records are expected to be broken, all the way through monday of the upcoming week. And this stretches from arizona all the way over into florida. Keep in mind, some of these cities could end up breaking records two, maybe even three days in a row. Looking at the actual temperatures for sunday, we will top out at 107 degrees in dallas, 105 in san antonio, 101 in jackson, mississippi. Even tallahassee topping out at 97 degrees. And that doesnt even take into account the humidity thats going to be factored in. The problem is in the longterm forecast, that heat stays in place across the Southern Tier of the u. S. , so theres not really much relief in sight for a lot of these cities. Including phoenix, which is expected to stay well above their average of 106 for at least the next seven days. The only cities that are likely to see some relief are the ones that are getting rain showers, and thats really going to be focused across the midwest, spreading into the midatlantic region over the next 24 to 48 hours. The problem is, its not just some summer rain showers. Youre also looking at the potential for some severe storms. The main concerns for a lot of these cities are going to be damaging winds, large hail, but flooding is also going to be a concern, especially for hardhit states like kentucky and tennessee, which have seen a tremendous amount of rain, just in the last 48 hours. Now were adding more rain on top of that. Areas like cincinnati, nashville, st. Louis, even stretching down to atlanta, all have the potential for those severe storms on sunday. The Forecast Rainfall for a lot of these areas, youre mostly looking at 2 to 4 inches, but remember, this is compounded on top of whatever any of these communities have had in the last two to three days. Now were going to be adding on top of that as well. Our thanks so much to Allison Chinchar. Russia has launched a barrage of strikes across ukraine. Among them, a Blood Transfusion Center, which went up in flames. Well have that story ahead. Plus, nigers coup leaders face pressure to cede power by today. Theyll tell you whats at stake if they refuse to reinstate the president. And later in the show, How Sw Swiftonomics is sweeping billions of dollars into t the economy right around the country. Has 24hour Renenewing Micro Moisture for continuous care. New dove body wash. Change is beautiful. I have Type 2 Diabetes, but i manage it well. Its a little pill with a big story to tell. Iake oncedaily jardiance, at each days staaart. Im lowering my a1c. 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