Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world, i am rosemary church. We begin this hour here in the u. S. State of georgia where a grand jury has indicted donald trump for a historic fourth time for allegedly trying to overturn the States Election results in 2020. The grand jury approved every indictment presented by Fulton County district attorney, fani willis, on monday. The former u. S. President has been charged with 13 counts in the indictment, including a Racketeering Charge, 18 others have also been charged under the states racketeering laws for allegedly joining, quote, a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome in favor of donald trump. Now, those names include several highprofile individuals from trumps time in office including former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows, Former Trump Attorneys Drew Giuliani and john eastman, and Top Justice Department official jeffrey clark, among others. Here is what Fulton Countys dist
be sure to tune in who an episode of the whole story with anderson cooper, one whole story, one whole hour airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific only on cnn. the next hour of cnn this morning starts now. all right. good morning, everyone. it is 7:00 and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, june 18th. happy father s day, first of all, to my husband and my father and brother and everyone else who is spending time celebrating their fathers this morning. last hour i said to all the dads and daddies and pops and poppies, one of our producers said don t forget the zaddies. we will never forget. thank you for being with us. here is what we re watching for you this morning. secretary of state antony blinken is meeting with his chinese counterparts in beijing at this hour. this is being called a high-stakes, low expectations visit. the purpose of the trip and the issues that blinken plans to raise. president biden makes his pitch for four more years i
alert and new warning from beijing, and major escalation of rhetoric out of china. suggesting if house speaker pelosi flies to taiwan with a fighter jet escort, the chinese military could shoot her plane down. happy friday, i m john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. sandra: developing story. that is brand-new, i m sandra smith in new york. that stark warning just came from beijing, it happened moments ago. china state media saying a fighter jet escort for pelosi would constitute a invasion, but still no word whether pelosi will be visiting taiwan. yesterday chinese president xi warned president biden not to play with fire, meanwhile russia publicly standing with china on this matter. john: fox team coverage to kick off the hour. the rising red threat. begin with jacqui heinrich, live on the north lawn. jacqui, new information about how the chinese might respond to pelosi s visit? sure do, john, concerning suggestion from state media that the chinese could shoot down
Among the disaster relief groups helping with that effort. during a white house briefing, the head of fema spoke about the tremendous sense of loss of so many people are feeling right now. nothing can prepare you for what i saw during my time there. nothing can prepare them for the emotional toll of the impact that the severe event has taken. in the coming days and weeks, they are going to be tough. they are going to be difficult, as people process what they have lost and what the road ahead looks like. the wildfire recently became the united states deadliest in more than a century. hawaiian officials are under scrutiny for their disaster readiness and response, and the states main electricity provider is already facing legal action. cnn s nick watt explains. well, the local utility is coming under increased scrutiny. was it a downed power line downed by when or a falling
Can collect what belongings they can from their homes. we are doing things like we brought our big generators here that can power entire schools just to help out in the outages. we have people feeding, shower teams. they are helping. the heavy machinery that are coming and helping the large pieces of debris that you can t pick up by hand. and we have a lot of our chainsaw teams helping here just to help people go through their homes and to try to collect what they can and get back, you know, the things that they have lost. so tbm, your group, just trains disaster relief groups in all 50 states. you have the third largest network in the nation. tell us more about, you know, when your teams are assessing the damage on the ground, how does this compare to other disaster relief scenes you have responded to? this one is pretty bad. one of the main reasons is because of the number of