you ve been waiting all week to get to the weekend, and now we have arrived. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it s saturday, july 15th. i m victor blackwell. and i m rahel solomon in for amara walker. victor, good to be with you, my friend, even if remotely. even if there s distance between us, it s good to have you on the show. coming up, scorching hot temperatures and dangerous conditions, now 45 million people are under heat alerts this weekend. we ll tell you who s going to see the worst of it. a pizza box and burner phones. a cold case gets cracked over after decades. how authorities track down a string of killings in new york that went unsolved for years. i worry that it s going to go on for a long time. i hope that it s not. right now we cannot make a liveable wave on what we re living. and hollywood grinds to a halt as actors join writers on the picket line. how long it could go on and what it could mean for your favorite shows. and the mega
meadows plans to argue that he was simply acting in his capacity as the top aide to the former president. fulton county district attorney fani willis s office says meadows violated the hatch act, a law that bars him from working on a political campaign while working in a government job. there will be a push for a speedy trial for many of the defendants. the case would be slated to start no later than this november. meanwhile donald trump has turned his georgia mugshot into a record-breaking fund-raising hall. according to politico, trump s campaign claims to have had its best day of fund-raising yet, pulling nearly 4.2 million dollars on friday, making it the single highest 24-hour period campaign to date.
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He tried to leave the country. here now with more is guy benson, the author of end of discussion out in paper back with a new chapter. jessica is the researchers at bustle .com. super fun. let me start with former speaker pelosi because i ve always admired her in many ways in that she can keep that caucus together. they vote as a group. i don t know if it s sort of talent. is that starting to wayne after the series of losses the democrats have seen? i think certainly you saw what ed pointed out with these new democrats coming in, being unsure of where they stand on this. if is going to be an issue, and you saw the challenge from tim ryan who i believe got 144 votes for a new minority leader. she did also come off our greatest fund raising hall, um, in the recent memory, 26 million-dollars she brought in. is that just democrats supporting the resistence?
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