and 247 years of independence. tonight, the largest fireworks show on television, with dazzling displays in cities from coast-to-coast, and amazing music to get the party going, including these talented performers. post malone, demi lovato, ludacris, shania twain, darius rucker, zac brown band, leon bridges, the all-american rejects. smashmouth, alanis morissette. clean white t s, duran duran and the united states air force band. now a cnn special event the fourth in america. what a way to kick things off. the united states air force band performing the stirring first of blue march live on cnn. welcome to washington, d.c., on this glorious independence day. crowds are gathering on the national mall and all across the nation s capital. we ll see the lincoln memorial and other monuments light up very soon in one of the biggest fireworks shows in the country. happy fourth of july, i m dana bash with morris sanchez. i m thrilled to be with you and also our viewers on this w
including alaska. victor blackwell, and carrie champion are standing by in san diego as our coverage continues into the night. bye guys. hey, you guys have had a great couple of hours. but there is a lot more to come. we ve got some good shows. including here from the san diego bay. yes, we do, and i think it s funny. because we were talking about some of these songs when you hear them they take you back. and i know not necessarily the counter because i feel like the fourth of july is a huge american concert. the all-american rejects, i love them. but here here for the fireworks. i love an old-fashioned fireworks. no shade with the drone show that some cities do. but i like the boom. and we re going to get that big baby boom here, one of the biggest fireworks shows in the country, and then we ve got chills across the country including, and i m excited about this, is this year for the first time in the fourth of america we re going to alaska. that s going to be amazing
former vice president mike pence says he does not recall donald trump putting any pressure on him to ask arizona s governor to find fraud in the 2020 election. he does recall making calls to the governor and he did pressure the governor to make changes to the election. more problems and growing holiday headaches as a recor record-breaking number of americans travel. and drones in the air, and other violence on the ground between palestinian and israel. this is cnn news central. this morning, former vice president mike pence is defending his former boss, and rival in the 2020 presidential candidate donald trump. pents say pence says he called ducey and he did asking him to look into the election, and we have kristen holmes looking into this. so we do know that there was a phone call with president trump, and representative due si. now, i did learn from a certain familiar with the conversations, that due si said that the allies pressured him to find fraud in the as as
can be done with this violence. one doctor said they deal with it on an every day basis, but what happened over the weekend was unusual in terms of the type of weapon that was used, the number of people killed and the wounds reverberating through the community. we hear from the nurse who was a part of the emergency team that worked with the victims. listen to what she said about how even health professionals who deal with trauma on a daily basis, they too are affected. take a listen. it s just really hard to comfort them, and it really takes a toll on my colleagues and to go through this, like dr. caspin said, very frequently, just doesn t get any easier. doesn t get easy for anyone, and in fact, they talked about how these families now not only dealing with their grief, but trying to figure out how do they buried their loved ones when this is something they were not expecting at all. lindsey. rehema ellis, thank you. let s go to the white house, where nbc s mike memo
june 28 through july 5. wayfair you ve got just what i need a source tells cnn that former president donald trump pressured arizona governor doug ducey to find fraud to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. and that he also pressured his vice president, mike pence. pence is now reacting. we re going to tell you what he says. in the meantime, florida governor ron desantis going after trump in a campaign video for saying he d protect lgbtq rights. it is getting a lot of backlash including from a group that represents gay republicans. we ll tell you why they are so upset. and a cnn exclusive interview. ukraine s president says that vladimir putin is weak, and his power is crumbling. how the russian revolt is also playing out on the battlefield. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin with the former vice president. m, responding to mike pence, responding to reports of efforts by