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despite chinas threats. and a pivotal week for president bidens agenda as democrats aim for senate passage of climate and health care legislation, mindful that the midterms are now just 99 days away. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." lets get straight to the flood disasters in eastern kentucky right now. the death toll as of now, 35. with hundreds, hundreds of people still missing. evan santoro is...

attorney rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. >> now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, its not really about taking the documents, its about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. >> right. >> its not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. >> taking classified documented, some marked clas...

mights ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. >> im standing right in front of the grizzly giant and weve got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. >> im pamela brown in washington. youre live in the cnn "newsroom." we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special tr...

retrieved from donald trumps florida home three weeks ago today. as sources say, trumps lawyers still want a neutral third party to go through those records, which included top secret files and information received from spies. today the justice department said its own filter team has done that job already. in a new filing, the justice department revealed its privilege review team as its called, separate from investigators, identified a limited set of material that may be subject to att...

to lure shooting victims out in houston. and on the streets of d.c., an nfl rookie shot in an attempted robbery. >> with a busy summer travel weekend just days away, customer complaints hit new highs. its not just airlines taking the calls. >> welcome to "the lead." im kasie hunt in today for jake tapper. we begin this hour with the national security legal and political shockwaves still reverberating from the fbis search of mar-a-lago three weeks ago. the director of national intellige...

the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. >> at least 23 people including three children are dead after a russian cruise middle attack in the city of vinnytsia. >> anymore people are still missing. officials believe the missiles were launched by russian submarines in the black sea. president zelenskyy calls this an act of russian terror. scott mclean is in vinnytsia. scott, i know it is dark now. tell us what is happening at this hour. >> reporter: president zelenskyy said earlier today tha...

23 people are dead, including three children. plus, a dead wife, a dead son, a botched hit, an alleged fraud scheme. murder charges have now been filed against a once prominent south carolina attorney in this case that has more twists than a country road. welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. president bidens first trip to the middle east being overshadowed in a controversial sit-down thats not yet even happened. president biden stood side by side with israeli prime minister and pro...

to the violence that occurred here that day. weve already seen this committee detail how donald trump pressured all aspects of the government to try to overturn the electoral results, the justice department, state officials, vice president mike pence. for tomorrow at the hearing they plan to show the oath keepers, and proud boys to take action and lead to the violence we saw in this building on january 6th. we will hear live testimony from one former member of the oath keepers, a forme...

teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrows hearing to dra...

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