you are watching symone. president joe biden holding true to his words, the south declared union man spoke to labor groups and philadelphia today. for his first rally of the 2020 campaign is not on the campaign trail this weekend. but he still getting a lot of attention anyway, after being arraigned on a criminal indictments in a florida courtroom this week. some of the republicans vying for the nomination even saying they will pardon him if elected. what kind of strategy is that? plus, juneteenth, we are marking the third anniversary of the federal holiday with a special at the national museum of african american history and culture. i spoke to director kevin young, we unpacked the significant events, people, and places that led to june 19th, 1865 and what we now commemorate as a big federal holiday juneteenth. i m simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. another busy week to discuss. it started with the former president appearing in court for his second crimi
and everything it took to make it an official federal holiday. the person you hear talking, you may see her dancing later. i got the video. nischelle turner is here, cnn contributor and host of entertainment tonight. also sara joins us from the hollywood bowl as well. sara, i m going to get to nischelle. she was dancing the whole time on the show. i can t even watch. were you dancing in the crowd? how could you not move your body even if you didn t have rhythm? i don t think anyone in the crowd didn t have rhythm, but your body just moves. you couldn t not do it. it was powerful. it was powerful. the poem from jill scott hit me like a lightning bolt. it was incredible. there was a beautiful saying, you are somebody s ancestor, act accordingly from another poet. some of the things i m going to leave with, and i think the audience is going to leave with, we re going to stay with them, but the music, first of all, let me tell you who brought down the house, because as we men
we re going to have 80% of the staff we need. we re hopeful we ll get to 80% of the pools that were able to open. a shortage of workers is forcing some summer staples like community pools to stay closed. the concerns that could lead to a rise in violence. thank you for joining us this sunday, june 19th. juneteenth. happy father s day to all the dads out there. kristin, great to be with you as always. great to be with you, boris. they resisted pressure from donald trump to help overturn the 2020 election results. state officials will share their stories with the nation before the committee investigating the january 6 insurrection. zoe lofgren says these officials put the rule of law ahead of politics. these individuals are republicans. they voted for trump. they supported him. they wouldn t do illegal things that he asked them to do. we expect to hear in some detail the pressure placed on them and why they were true to the law instead of the pressure. election offi
debate in america begins june 20, seven-fifths, seven this is cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and we begin with this breaking news. the israeli military says an incident in rafah killed eight idf soldiers marking one of the deadliest incidents involving is really troops since the october 7 attacks, the militant wing of hamas claimed it carried out at complex ambush. the incident happened as the rafah civil defense says, israel launched which new airstrikes in the enclave. cnn s paula hancocks is in tel aviv for us, paula are officials giving you any more detail about what happened well for details, the idf of giving a limited at this point, but they do say that there has been that incident in western rafah this saturday, eight soldiers having been killed in that incident, they say that they are investigating this point in trying to ascertain the cause of what happened. now we have heard from hamas, they as
you always give us great information. thank you so much. another hour of cnn news central starts right now on unprecedented security deal for ukraine in a new plan to fund ukraine with russian money. we are standing by for an announcement vandals target the homes of jewish board members of a big museum. the mayor calls it overt unacceptable anti-semitism. and then a statement emergency and rain and rain and more rain. the floodwaters over south florida. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sarah sidner in this is cnn new central happening right now president biden meeting with other world leaders at the g7 summit in italy, while back at home, donald trump is about to meet with republicans on capitol hill. trump will be meeting with probably gins that our friend and even some foe in the house and senate for the first time since he told supporters to fight like hell on january 6, just before the insurrection the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, who is no fan