Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
russia says it is suspending its participation in an internationally brokered deal to allow grain exports from ukraine. the announcement was in response to what the russian army called a massive ukrainian drone attack on russian ships in occupied crimea. ukraine has called that a false pretext for blocking the grain corridor. earlier, the un secretary general urged all parties to renew the deal on ukrainian grain exports, which was due to expire next month. before the deal was in place, blockages led to food supply issues globally. joining us from dnipro in central ukraine is our correspondent james waterhouse. james, what have the russians been saying? james, what have the russians been sa inc? ~ , james, what have the russians been sa in: ? ~ , ., ., james, what have the russians been sa in? ~ ,., ., ., saying? well, there is a lot going on here, saying? well, there is a lot going on here. but saying? well, there is a lot going on here, but they saying? well, there is
or call off the mob. the committee really driving home the point that he not only failed to act but chose not to. did you ever hear the president ask for the national guard? no. did you ask him ask for law enforcement response? no. so as somebody who works in the national security space, if there were going to be troops present or called up for a rally in washington, d.c. for example, is that something that you would have been aware of? yeah, i would. we also learned during the committee s eighth hearing that there will be a season two so to speak. ryan nobles has more on last night s revelations from the capitol. reporter: there is no doubt that the january 6 select committee had been building toward that hearing on thursday night. they viewed it as their most important hearing to indicate. en en date. and one of the reasons that they moved it to primetime and completely focused on that 187 minutes where donald trump in their mind did not do enough to stop
now it is time to do my time. just 30% say that they approve of president biden s handling of the economy. the president trying to salvage his domestic agenda or what is left of it. it is tuesday, july 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. and we begin with the u.n. chief warning that half of humanity is in the, quote, danger zone for extreme weather as heatwaves strike across the northern hemisphere. in the u.s., then tens of millions of people are under heat alerts. and highs above 90 degrees fahrenheit the next week, that is more than 32 degrees celsius. oklahoma and texas are getting the worst of it with excessive heat warnings in major cities like dallas where highs could reach a staggering 110 degrees fahrenheit. the organization in charge of the texas power grid has already recorded 30 days of record demanding since early may. and there are fires including this one in central texas which is forcing evacuations and consuming homes. the w
texas power grid operator to warn people to cut back on the ac or face possible blackouts. extreme heat also roasting southern europe with wildfires raging in france and spain and a worsening drought in italy and portugal. and in the uk, monday was the third hottest day on record and today promises to be even hotter. even china is experiencing a massive heatwave with dozens of cities announcing heat alerts. we have live reports from north america, asia and europe and our coverage begins with melissa bell in france. reporter: southern europe in flames. vast swathes of the mediterranean engulfed by wildfires driven by the sweltering temperatures of europe s second heatwave this summer. from portugal through spain, italy and france, where one of two massive fires near the city ten to rage and spread. down here on the ground, you get a real sense of what the firefighters are facing. these parched conditions, the earth already dry for so many months of high temperatures and hose