Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
volodymyr zelenskyy is getting another multi-million dollar package as they meet at the summit and the fighting on the ground continues. there s nothing on this. solemn words from president zelenskyy. he says the city is in ruins. plus no breakthrough in the debt ceiling talks yet, but president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are expected to talk ahead. and voters are going to the polls in greece. we ll go live to athens for the latest. and we begin with a busy day in japan as the u.s. says it will provide ukraine with another $375 million in military aid ahead of that country s expected counteroffensive against russia. u.s. president joe biden made the announcement as he met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in the final hours of that g7 summit in hiroshima, japan. have a listen. today i m announcing the next package to ukraine, a pack thaj that includes more artillery and munitions. mr. president, what you ve achieved is a matter for the entir
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us this sunday. happening right now, more anti-immigration rhetoric from former president donald trump causing reverberation, the white house calling the comments fascist after the former president said this in new hampshire saturday. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mem institutions and not just? south america or three or four countries, but all over the world they re coming in from africa, from asia, all over the world pouring into our country. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in washington. this is a strong rebuke from the white house. what will is it appeared the president saying? reporter: that s right, fred. the white house saying it s similar to other authoritarian regimes, but the white house slamming the former president for his comments on immigration yesterday. in a statement this morning, a white house spokesperson saying echoing the grotesque rhetoric, and t
queen s platinum jubilee. we re live from buckingham palace on all pageantry for today. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. and we begin with america s gun violence epidemic only growing worse. in the last few hours we learned at least three people were killed and 11 more wounded in a mass shooting in philadelphia. police tell cnn wpvi, they believe there were multiple shooters firing into a crowd. two guns were recovered at the scene. a philadelphia police officer was within about 10 to 15 yards of one of the shooters at the time. the officer opened fire. it is not clear if the suspect was hit. the district where this happened has a number of popular bars and restaurants which draw large weekend crowds. police said there have been no arrests. in wisconsin an investigation is underway after a former judge was shot and killed inside his own home in what officials are calling a targeted attack. and now we are learning that the suspe
do something about it. i beg you. show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. ch it s memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings over the last two weeks. tomorrow, president biden will travel to uvalde, texas to mourn with the community heartbroken by tuesday s massacre. 19 children, mere 4th graders slaughtered along with their two teachers. today in buffalo, new york, vice president kamala harris attended the funeral of ruth wlhitfield. she s the last to be buried. i cannot even begin to express our collective ive pain nation for what you re feeling in such an extreme way. to not only lose someone that you love but throu