he s still got. it we heard nelly, we heard chloe bringing the house down. this has been an incredible show of talent. so many inspirational remarks honoring this federal holiday. it is now a federal holiday, juneteenth. and it s all about freedom. we are back with juneteenth on cnn. i m sara sidner along with van jones. it just keeps getting better and better. there are moments from now where we will talk to some of the folks that you saw on the stage. some of the headliners, kurt franklin, big freedia the members of swv. we will hem it up with them. i m proud to be an american. i am proud of kurt. it s an unbelievable show. you have the young folks. i guarantee people who had never heard of chloe, they now know who she is. i ll tell you what, charlie. he has still got it. he brought the house down. i love seeing people who love their craft and can do it for their entire lives. it s beautiful. now, speaking of a little surprise, a little coolness, a little duet, we saw s
raped her about to testify in court. plus a bio lab full of deadly pathogens at risk right now in sudan s war zone. house speaker kevin mccarthy struggling to get his party in line as debt default looms closer for the u.s. good morning and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. we begin withdra dramatic testiy expected today. e. jean carroll says former president trump raped her in a department store in the 1990s. trump denies any wrongdoing. our randi kaye has more. i proceeded into the dressing room. the minute he closed that door i was banged up against the wall. reporter: author and columnist e. jean carroll sharing her story, now 79, she s suing trump seming from the attack she says took place in 1995 or early 1996 in the dressing room of department store bergdorf goodman. she s also suing him for defamation. last fall trump posted it is a hoax and a lie, just like all the other hoaxes that have been played on me
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
the united states has imposed new sanctions on iran to punish it for a recent ballistic missile test and what it calls tehran‘s continued support for terrorism. they will target 12 companies and 13 individuals in iran and elsewhere. let s hear from sean individuals in iran and elsewhere. let s hearfrom sean spicer. today s sanctions represent a strong stand against the iranian actions. the deal struck was not in the best interests of this country and president trump will do everything he can to make sure iran is stayed in check. these kind of sanctions don t happen quickly, but i think the timing of them was clearly in reaction to what we ve seen over the last couple of days. we knew we had these options available to us because they ve been worked through the process. white house spokesperson sean spicer there. in response iran has acknowledged it conducted a missile test but insists the test did not violate the 2015 nuclear accord, nor aun violate the 2015 nuclear accord,
to keep iran in check. today s sanctions really represent a very, very a strong stand against the actions iran s been. taking. let me make it very clear, the deal struck previously was not in the best interests of this country and president trump will do everything he can to make sure iran is stayed in check. these kind of sanctions don t happen quickly, but i think the timing of them was clearly in reaction to what we ve seen over the last couple of days. we knew we had these options available to us because they ve been worked through the process. in response, iran has acknowledged that it conducted a missile test, but insists the test didn t violate the 2015 nuclear accord nor a un security council resolution banning ballistic missiles for another eight years. its foreign ministry condemned the new sanctions, saying: us correspondent of bbc persian, bahman kalbasi explained how these actions from the trump administration are different from the handling of iran by obama admi