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reopen a key stretch of the border prompting calls for president biden to seize control of the texas national guard. where is this going to go, huh? what will give? back live in new york city today im bill hemmer. hello at home and hello partner. its been a minute. >> dana: here we are back in business and glad to be here. im dana perino, this is "americas newsroom." the border stand-off is escalating. a sours tells fox news more than 96,000 this fiscal year, 800 per day. >> like a new...

vladimir putin in a surprisingly quick advance on moscow. the wagner group claimed to seize control of an important russian military facility in the city of rostov-on-don. [ applause ] >> the leader of the wagner group says they captured the facility, a key operations base, for the war on ukraine without firing a single shot. the cheers you just heard are locals showing their support ahead of wagner. yevgeny prigozhin also claimed to seize a military facility in another city about half...

the moments paul pelosi was viciously assaulted. "the lead" starts right now. were moments away from the first court appearance for the man accused of attacking speaker pelosis husband. new this hour, what cnn is learning about the call for help from paul pelosi and video captured by police. biden, obama, pence, and more. the big names making their pitches one week before the midterms. also this hour, polls closing in israels fifth election in only four years and netanyahu eyes a com...

much for the latest. >> its the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by americas latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. >> recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living h...

okay so there are big weeks and really big weeks and this week is as big as it comes. after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination. after a legal system has been tried, tested in ways that it has never been before. were now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments start tomorrow. those seven men and five women will deliberate and decide the fate of the former president. we dont know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. thats ...

defendant trump himself, by the way, after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination, after our legal system has been tried and tested in ways it has never before, were now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments in donald trumps criminal trial start after that judge juan merchan will deliver his instructions ti the jury. then those seven men and five women bill deliberate and give the result to former president. we dont know what the outc...

president. we dont know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. that is how our system works, as it should. i know it sounds sur role. it is all really happening, starting tomorrow morning. and if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now, it is clearly trump himself. who, surprise, surprise, lashed out at the judge and the district attorney on the case as a whole over memorial day weekend. trump is pretty clearly testing the bounds ever his gag order because he know...

its debate week so we have james here, too. 30 second spin room then well let you go. since i have you both here whats key for debate night, nicolle? >> i just think people need to understand this has never happened before. its a huge television event. its a huge political event. the conversations we have every day with our viewers and brilliant people like james are not things a lot of americans going to watch in the debate are going to be tracking day to day. its hugely important. hu...

Not just wagner group. there are other groups out there. some more like neighborhood bullies but you see a breakdown of society which is unparalleled. >> does this make putin more dangerous, do you think? >> the thing that is really dangerous, go the late ash carter, we saw break downs in russia before. the old soviet union. the loose nuke danger. i dont want to be alarmist on that but in a strange way, that many in the u.s. government almost like a unified command for russia so we dont have wor...

Here at robb elementary school. attorney general merrick garland was quick to make clear this is not a criminal investigation. it is an after action review, critical incident review, and he says theyre not going to be able to undo the pain that is already caused so much damage in this community but what they are going to try and do is get in there, find what went wrong, where there were break downs, and offer recommendations to how this couldnt happen again in the future. this was something the ...