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hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those stateme ....
good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 24th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with breaking news. vladimir putin is accusing a mercenary group of an armed rebellion and he warns those involved will be punished. yevgeny prigozhin says his forces have taken control of russian military facilities in the region of rostov-on-don. he threatens to move on to moscow if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet him. translator: again, we came here. we want to receive the chief of general s staff and shoigu until they aren t here. until they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city and will go to moscow. president putin calls the move a betrayal and a stab in the back to the russian people and he says those who follow him will pay the price. translator: all those who deliberately closed pa october of trechly, armed mutiny, blackma ....
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead u.s. secretary of state antony blinken wraps up his high stakes talks with china s top diplomat. we ll go live to hong kong to hear what each side is saying now. another holiday weekend marred by gun violence. we re following shootings all across the united states. and russian opposition figure alexi alexei navalny facing new charges expected to appear in a moscow video link this morning. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin this hour in beijing where top diplomats from the u.s. and china met for talks in efforts to attach down tensions between the world waste two largest economies. hours ago u.s. secretary of state antony blinken held closed-door discussions with china s top diplomat one day after meeting with china s foreign minister. ....
welcome to our viewers joining us here in the u.s. and around the world. just ahead on newsroom. lincoln on his final day during his high-stakes trip to china. we look at what is on the table. fatal gun violence is overshadowing a holiday weekend in the u.s. one attack claiming the life of a state trooper. a humanitarian crisis unfolding amid a civil war in sudan. we will take you to a refugee camp were many have fled the violence. live from cnn center. this is newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. the second and final day of talks is underway in beijing where america s top diplomat is hoping to steer the relationship between the u.s. and china back on course. anthony blank and held closed- door discussions with china s top diplomat. on sunday he held talks with china s foreign minister who accepted the invitation to washington. his visit is the first by a u.s. secretary of state to china in five years. both sides have the goal of improving th ....
yo your body, but this is the latest from here. i ll send it back to you, jake. bill, thank you so much. now to west new york, new jersey, that s the name of the city, west new york. maria, tell us what the air is like where you are. reporter: yeah, it has been very, very bad throughout the day. things have improved in the last hour, but like the governor of new jersey said in your show earlier, it gets really bad depending on where you are. i want to show you what it looks like. we are really west of new york. that is midtown manhattan across the hudson river right now. you can kind of make out the buildings at this point. earlier today, you couldn t see anything. it was so dense and thick with smoke that it was completely white. it also got very dark hours earlier, to the point where the street lights, as bill weir said, turned on here. the authorities in new jersey are recommending that people stay indoors, that they limit their outdoor active tis. and here in ....