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special coverage of this escalating trump probe in new york and tonight right now youre watching a special live edition of "the beat." were following the pressure donald trump which actually exploded from the arrest talk this weekend to todays blockbuster testimony before the grand jury? some out of court-statements that broke within the last hour. moments ago this trump-aligned witness speaking out. >> my only mission there today was to tell the truth about what michael cohen was sayi...

that recession is not inevitable. spreading in the usa, triple digit temperatures across the midwest. with record heat on the way. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. we begin in ukraine where president volodymyr zelenskyy is warning that russia will step up its attacks. your opinion unit is trying to figure out whether too bad -- bid ukraines bed. >> we should expect hostile reactions from russia. and not only against ukraine, but other european countr...

on ballots that had been mailed in this the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they werent. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be ...

in the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they werent. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be a very illegal thing to do, right? so...

they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change, i guess, the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in, in time, even though they werent. dun, dun, da! that is a dramatic claim. that would be an illegal thing to do, right? so, what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning ...

morning. a lot going on. >> yeah, there is. >> we have important new developments after the murder of eight people in georgia. six of them asian women. asian-americans on edge in the u.s. and you can understand why. authorities are noting the suspect claims the shootings were not racially motivated. but he says were the result of sexual addiction. a sheriffs deputy facing backlash for this description of the suspects frame of mind. >> he understood the gravity of it. and he was pretty ...

because as you know, ive been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple months. and i think its -- it is very, very troublesome. but "i" making no connection at this moment for the motivation of the killer. im waiting for an answer. >> police say the man arrested for the rampage has admitted to the shootings. eight people are dead in a ninth wounded in the atlanta area. but as you heard from the president its not clear if anti-asian racism was the motivat...

party. the report says the goal was also to undermine confidence in the u.s. election and to further divide the american people. lets go straight to our senior national security correspondent alex marquardt who is working the story for us. alex, this very detailed, lengthy, declassified report says proxies linked to russian intelligence and to putin directly pushed misleading, you be substantiated allegations against now president biden, pushed those allegations to american media organ...

american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. lets go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto whos been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russias election interference? >> reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, t...

on the administrations plan, chad pergram on capitol hill looks where immigration reform stands legislatively right now but we began with casey stegall in alamo, texas, tonight, good evening, casey. >> good evening, todays news from the pentagon will have an impact on every single one of more than 4,000 national guard e currently stationed here and working here along the border that dhs requests would extend the deployments for everyone through at least this fall. >> no sooner than the...