the war. we re live in kyiv. plus, dangerous heat waves across the u.s. and western europe. we ll go to the cnn weather center on when people can see relief. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the new york times is reporting that the u.s. justice department could begin receiving interview transcripts from the january 6th committee as early as next month. earlier, federal prosecutors believed they would not get them until september and delay some trials of capitol rioters. former u.s. president donald trump remains defiant despite growing mountain of testimony and other evidence against him. he spoke out on friday for the first time since the hearings began calling former vice president mike pence weak now for not blocking the 2020 certification. several former officials everyone around trump told him repeatedly he lost the election and a scheme to stay in office was illegal. cnn s jessica schneider has more on trump s reactio
of france? as the country prepares to elect a new president bears record levels of apathy and delusion among french voters, a spate of terror attacks has sown in security and has sparked debate. my guest todayis and has sparked debate. my guest today is a writer and public intellectual in the grand french tradition. is france living through an age of decline? pascal, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we are talking with a french presidential elections very close, does france feel right for the sort of political shock that we ve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the united states with the victory of donald trump in the presidential election? i hope not, with all my heart i hope we won t face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. so we re doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with marine le pen. but at the present time we have two opposite candidates, marcha nt, time we have two op