hello, and a warm welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead here on cnn newsroom, millions of americans starting their weekend off under heat alerts. we ll tell you when people could see some relief. plus, donald trump saying it would be dangerous if he were sent to prison. this as a date is finally set for one of the trials he faces. and [ chants ] that pretty much sums it up. okay. defending champions team usa dominates its opening match at the women s world cup. we re live in sydney and new york with all the highlights. we begin this hour with the extreme weather situation that just will not quit. more than 80 million americans are still under some sort of heat alert at this hour with no major relief in sight. high temperatures of 114 to 120 degrees are expected in southern california and across into texas on saturday. el paso, texas, topped 100 degrees friday afternoon for the 36th straight day. the old
biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com
of tomorrow. chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous it certainly. doesn t it has for a long time it s partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question the fifth avenue school o accountability, it s one of th biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people inte witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness
on thursday, voters legislator passed a total abortion ba that will have dir consequences for people living across the south within hours of its passage, ron desantis quietly signed th bill into law. that would ban abortion afte six weeks of pregnancy that is before many women know that they re even pregnant law won t take into effect until they resolve a chanc 15-week abortion ban that is signed into law last year florida s one blast places where people can access care i the south. it has quickly become unde abortion desert. when the six-week ban goes int effect, abortion will be entirely banned throughout the southern united states meanwhile, the fight to keep a decades old drug legal and accessible throughout th country has now reached th supreme court. yesterday justice alito paused the court ruling that woul have restricted access t nationwide to the bill for stone. for now, at least until next week, access has bee preserved. the issue however is far fro resolved and fut
towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm