and out of control, a wildfire in new york to more than 100 million people under heat alerts in the u.s.. where was donald trump, and what was he doing before 187 minutes as rioters stormed the u.s. capitol, forced the 2020 election certification to stop, and hunted for vice president mike pence? well, that was the question the january six committee took great pains to answer in thursday night s primetime hearing, according to sworn testimony by numerous insiders, trump had become irate when the secret service refused to and go to the capital. he then spent most of the next three hours as a private dining room watching the chaotic scenes on tv, and refusing pleas from everyone around him to end the violence. his closest advisers testified they never saw or heard trump summon help from any federal agency, listen to this. are you aware of any phone call by the president of united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any
peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
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to reach europe this year alone. we will go to sicily, which has been inundated with people fleeing conflicts in syria and nigeria, libya, and other countries. we will also go to geneva to speak with the international organization for migration. in new york, kenneth roth joins us. then weeks after giving shell final approval to drill in the arctic, president obama warns heads to the alaskan arctic, warning about the damage climate change is already causing in the region. is the president sending a mixed message? glaciers s are melting. if we do nothing, temperatures are projected to rise between six and 12 degrees by the end of the century. changing all sorts of industries forever. amy: into cairo for egypt has sentenced three al jazeera tv journalist to three years in prison. mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed have been taken back into custody. either journalist, peter greste, spoke out from australia. is, we did nothing wrong. there was no evidence of wrongdoing. are innoc
people fleeing the ravages of war sinks off the libyan coast, we look at what s best described as one of the worst refugee crisis since world war ii. some 2500 people are believed to have died or gone missing trying to reach europe this year alone. we will go to sicily, which has been inundated with people fleeing conflicts in syria and nigeria, libya, and other countries. we will also go to geneva to speak with the international organization for migration. in new york, kenneth roth joins us. then weeks after giving shell final approval to drill in the arctic, president obama warns heads to the alaskan arctic, warning about the damage climate change is already causing in the region. is the president sending a mixed message? glaciers s are melting. if we do nothing, temperatures are projected to rise between six and 12 degrees by the end of the century. changing all sorts of industries forever. amy: into cairo for egypt has sentenced three al jazeera tv journalist to three y