Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Were glad youre with us. Its been quite a week for this country. Quite a week. Its framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. Lets get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. Sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about Donald Trumps State Of Mind after he was indicted for the third time in four months. The former president proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Also new overnight, democratic lawmakers want to watch the trial. They want a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom. The July Jobs Report will come out. A key number for the fed. Also this morning a reenactment of the Parkland High School shooting. As part of a lawsuit against the officer who failed to enter the build whg a gunman killed 17 people. Two sailors under arrest and have been indicted for allegedly sending sensitive Military Information to chinese Intelligence Of
24, and how much power does the Presiding Judge have . The six coconspirators listed in the indictment, who among them is maybe most likely to face charges . Who among them may be most likely to flip . Sara is off today. Im john berman with kate baldwin. This is cnn news central. Former President Donald Trump is expected to arrive at a washington, d. C. , federal Court Tomorrow to face the criminal charges connected to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. All signs point to donald trump once again pleading not guilty, but new reporting also coming in suggests that his team of attorneys are looking to delay this case in this trial. Cnns evan perez has new details on the president s Court Appearance tomorrow. Hes joining us now. Evan, what are you learning . Well, kate, we expect that the former president is going to come to washington tomorrow. He had the option to do this first appearance via videolink. He can do this by zoom from his golf club in bed
harbors a dark history, we will take you to oasis villa, a painful reminder of the fragility of taiwan s democracy. announcer: live from the cnn center, it is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where for the second time in days the city of zaporizhzhia is taking a deadly pounding from russian rockets. have a look here, these are scenes of chaos after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday reportedly killing at least 17 people, while further south moscow is scrambling to get the bridge drinking crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now, russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed, but drivers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can still support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened, but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feeling sorry ab
unleashing a new wave of deadly drone attacks and ukraine has a new problem to the north. plus a deadly fire at a iranian prison as protesters across that country grow. the journalist who was wrong wrongfully imprisoned for a year and a half is our guest. and k pop bts putting musical careers on hold taking on a very different job. that is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. kyiv under attack this morning once again. russian forces started yet another week of strikes on civilians across ukraine. [ sound of gunfire ] explosions as you see could be heard in the capitol as russia launched a barrage of kamikaze drone attacks. four people were killed according to the city s mayor so far. rescue operations are still underway at this hour to try to pull people from the rubble. ukraine has accused iran of supplying russia with the drones but iran denies it and now a new concern at ukraine s northern border. russian troops are now in belar
the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn