claiming that the west s sanctions are doing nothing to hurt his economy. donald trump fires back at the committee and his former vice president. and china is showing off its most advanced aircraft carrier in what appears to be a direct message to the west. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where russia is reportedly sending more firepower to eastern lines. russian artillery is pounding areas near sievierodonetsk, trying to cut it off from surrounding cities. ukraine says it intercepted two russian missiles near odesa and no one was killed. in kyiv, ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which would be years away, but president zelenskyy says it s still important. here he is. translator: ukraine deserves this positive. ukrainian values are european values. ukrainian institutions remain resilience, even in conditions of war. ukrainian democratic habits have not lost their pow
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
will: it s the 89 a.m. hour of fox & friends weekend start requesting this anti-israel protest taking over college campuses and at george washington university. genocide joe superimposed over the giant american flag. chelsea reablghts to bernie sanders says this could be s biden vietnam. taking on michael cohen. today is the kentucky derby 150 years of it and we re meeting the owner of honor mari this hour. the third hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. rachel: wow that s a beautiful shot. pete: looks like rhode island to me. what do you think will? will: water. rachel: he nailed it in every hour that we ve been doing will: i want to tell you a story so we were in the green room, and we were hanging without your daughter. who was how old? margherita, ten next weekend. will: she s nine. which one are you from tennessee. that s him and she turned to pete and goes well rue is from clarksville, tennessee and we had a conversation about fastest woman a
Thing happen to her that happened to him which is they end up with an unpopular impeachment and backlashing on the party and could help the president. how confident do you perceive democrats to be? you saw pelosi make that move today. we have seen a number of democrats in the last two days from marginal districts, democrats who have to worry any given election about losing to a republican. we have seen a number of them come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. is there a confidence level that numbers are going to change? i don t know if there is confidence that the numbers will change, but i think what we have seen between numbers that came out today which i think you said is more than 30 and the seven house democrats who wrote that op-ed that came out last night. all of those folks are from marginal districts, the ones who wrote the article last night and a lot of texas house democrats.
They would look foolish and they run the risk as they do this now, and they are going to bring him back on the 17th of december, they run the risk of this backlashing and growing up in their face because it gives comey an opportunity and the democrats to ask about obstruction of justice which comey saw firsthand under trump. it could really hurt donald trump in the long run if they keep doing this. great way to end this hour, curt, chris lou, mika eliang, we got you all choked up because this topic was so good. trump says he is very happy a about the latest developments in the russia investigation. why others believe he s in more legal trouble than before. we are expecting a transcript from james comey s testimony on capitol hill as we were just talking about. that will be revealing what he told house republicans. we opened our doors with 70-megawatts, 35 mules, and an ice plant. but we brought power to the people- redefining what that meant from one era to the next.