activist. especially when a slew of republicans like john cornyn helped write it s! emphatically yes, said joe biden. lost her many lives? in the characteristically modest words of chris murphy what we are doing will save thousands of lives that makes sense. now that we will have laws to allow the government to by force, without bothering with due process, once we do that and are doing it this will never happen again. that is what they promised us, and the media assured us that it was true. what they never mentioned is that it was not only ridiculous, it was provably false, because gun control does not stop bad people. on the day this 18-year-old murdered ten people, the state of what he had this this was the person that told us that red flag balls would stop from committing mass murder. he wanted to murder large groups of people, a red flag, had artie been caught by his mother killing a cat. was so obviously crazy and threatening that at one point, new york state pol
they say he was trying to aid his escape by hiding his identity and trying to blend into the crowd. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news, new information just moments ago released about the suspect in the shooting attack on the fourth of july parade in highland park, illinois. tonight, a seventh victim has died. and we re learning more about the accused gunman s planning for the deadly attack. cnn security correspondent josh campbell is on the scene for us in highland park. update our viewers, josh. what are you learning? reporter: wolf, after each one of these tragedies one key question is whether it could have been prevented. whether a suspect had potential contact with law enforcement that may have prevented what actually transpired. we learned a moment ago from authorities hold ago press conference is that the
service are backing up the bombshell testimony from a former trump white house aide that an irate president trump demanded to go to the capitol on january 6th. since cassidy hutchinson went under oath, there has been an ongoing campaign by trump and his allies to discredit her testimony about what she saw and heard on january 6th. cnn has now spoken with two secret service employees who both say they also heard about a confrontation inside the presidential suv that day, a story they say spread widely around the agency in the weeks and months that followed january 6th. they say trump indeed demanded to be taken to the capitol and when the secret service said no to the trip, trump berated his security detail, saying something to the effect of, i m the effing president of the united states, you can t tell me what to do. the other concerning development is the new information about who may have been pressuring hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person
digits fahrenheit. new york city could soon see its longest streak of 90-degree days since 2013. officials there have shortened their triathalon course for tomorrow. and in boston their triathalon has postponed altogether. one woman describes how the unbearable heat feels. what s it like in your apartment? hell. it s like hell? horrible. it s horrible. i sat outside here from ten to 4:00 this morning. as europe s heat wave moves eastward, wildfires have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. you can see here parts of greece and slovenia are blanketed with flames and smoke. just terrifying scenes there. according to the w.h.o., the heat wave has caused more than 1,700 deaths in spain and in portugal. these heat waves are dangerous. we got a look at the impacts of this extreme heat here in the u.s. and of course overseas and how much longer it will last. let s begin now with polo sandoval in new york. hi there, polo. so we know new york is under a
so it should be interesting to see some of those players perhaps rejoin with some of their pga tour colleagues. yeah. but that will be tense, won t it? yes, indeed. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is friday, june 10th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. donald trump lit the flame with his election lies culminating in the deadly violence during an attempted coup at the u.s. capitol, that was the case made by the january 6th committee in its first public primetime hearing. they presented never before seen video of the violence as rioters breached the capitol. they had gripping testimony from a u.s. capitol police officer who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the attack. and the committee s vice chair, republican liz cheney, says trump had a seven-part plan to prevent the transition of presidential power that included pressuring vice president mike pence to refuse to count certified electoral v