Rains and tropical storm winds. We will have the latest. Welcome to all of those watching around the world. I m kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. It s now 1:30 afternoon in tehran. Iran s state media is reporting that ibrahim raisi has won by a landslide. An estimated 62% of the got he received with 90% of the ballots counted. Landslide victory for the handpicked favorite candidate. No surprise. Take us what this means for iran, first of all, in the direction of the country, frederik pleitgen. Reporter: if you look what has been going on on this morning is the iranians are starting a transition of power and quite interesting. A couple of minutes ago, the outgoing president rouhani met at the judiciary where raisi has been the head of that until he will take over the office of president. Rouhani graduated raisi and said important for the transition of power take place in a clear and also in a peaceful way as well. For iran, itself, of course, it means that much of society will move f
Good morning. Welcome to your new day. I m boris sanch. I m amara walker. Rising gun violence. As the country hits a vaccine milestone, there are worries out there that one variant could spark a new wave of cases. Thank you for starting your saturday, june 19th with us. The very first juneteenth national independence day. Now an official national holiday. Happy june tteenth, boris. I can t believe you eat that. I ll send you some of the good kind. We begin this hour with images that some lawmakers in congress are trying to downplay and distract you from. They are from january 6th. And they are a brutal reminder of the violence carried out by a mob that was stirred into a frenzy by the former president and his lies about the last election. Yeah. The latest clip shows a rioter taunting, stalking, and hitting law enforcement. It was disturbing enough it moved a judge to keep the man in jail pending trial. The judge saying, quote, if any crime establishes danger to the community and disreg
Even falsely blame the fbi. All this after 21 republicans voted against awarding congressional medals to the ives who defended their lives. Reporter: newly released footage somehow an upclose look at what officers went through during the january 6th attack. These new videos revealed after cnn and other media outlets sued for them in court, showing scott fairland, a gym owner from new jersey, taunting, then shoving an officer, and punching him in the face. Another video, taken from an officer s body cam, showing thomas webster, a former marine and retired nypd officer seen here, wearing a red coat, threatening police with a flagpole before tackling one officer to the ground. Both men have pleaded not guilty to all charges. It s a rude awakening for everyone, but hopefully it will also help people see the lies of the former president. It s shameful, but sadly there s an awful number of my republican colleagues who seem to not field shame. The videos come as some republican members of con
That legislation passing with overwhelming bipartisan support even as the republicans want to assess the nation as what they did wrong rather than what they did right. And also this as evidence of what america has done rarely right, this is finally getting recognize. We go to suzanne malveaux following the juneteenth celebrations, and i know exactly where you are in black lives matter plaza. Well, this is ground zero coming to activism in the nation s capitol. This is where many tears were shed and some of joy and much of anger and frustration, and the killing of breonna taylor and george floyd and of course expressions of elation as you can see the huge letters across here on 16th street black lives matter plaza in the shadow of the white house, and we are expecting hundreds of folks to show up in various groups and gogo bands, and gogo being here growing up on the music, and they will be celebrating, but also commemorating, jim, here a sense of what needs to be done, and this is a mo
Where things stand tonight. That s minutes away. And the phrase racist hunter after showing the president s son with racial comments. And they operation trojan shield, how the fbi managed to use a messaging app to trick organized crime gangs. We begin tonight with the latest from washington, at least in the eyes of progressives other democratic brethren leaning increasingly to the left, west virginia senator good evening, kevin. He s either the most principled man in washington or a political pariah who deserves to be drummed out of his own party. In a nutshell, that is the book on west virginia democratic senator joe manchin, at least for the time being here in washington s political climate. Refusing to back an overhaul to the filibuster, thus threatening the biden agenda. I m very honored we all got the chance to speak, listen to each other, and that s really what we have to do. To speak out joe manchin describing his hourlong virtual meeting with black civil rights leaders today ab