detail the schemes to state legislators involved in overturning the election don s favor. here is what the committee s vice chair liz cheney said at the end of thursday s hearing. over the course of our next hearings, you will see information about president trump suffers john eastman s efforts, the trump legal team s efforts to apply pressure to republican state legislatures, state officials and others. and we will examine the trump team s determination to transmit materially false electoral slates for multiple states to officials of the executive and legislative branches of our government. now, tuesday s hearing will revisit one of the most infamous moments from the last days of donald trump s presidency. scheduled to appear as a witness is georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. now, on january 2nd, 2021, raffensperger received a call from trump during which the former president asked georgia s election administrator to simply find him some more votes in his fav
ipsos out just a short time ago shows that 58% told thinks that trump should be charged with a trump crime for his 16 involvement. well 30 60% of the poll think that the committee is doing a fair investigation. 38% says it is not. also, today the economy saying that inflation is a high, and that tackling it is the president s number one priority. . when you go to the pump and see the prices were today great some certainty, it creates real economic hardship. but at the same, time it is important as americans that we are recognize the unique strengths that we have in this economy. the strongest labor market since world war ii. unemployment at 3.6%. house in balance sheets that have occurred over the coals of the last year. so we now have the lowest mortgage delinquencies in years. lewis credit card colin delinquencies in 40 years. those are unique to the american economy, we have a stronger and by the better position to track all inflation than almost any other country in t
whose reporting did more than most to make it clear that watergate was for more than the simple break-in it first appeared to be. it s worth mentioning now because contrary to the impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. we ve had plenty of revelations almost since the capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to kmut tee member zoe lofgren today on cnn
peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
the war. we re live in kyiv. plus, dangerous heat waves across the u.s. and western europe. we ll go to the cnn weather center on when people can see relief. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the new york times is reporting that the u.s. justice department could begin receiving interview transcripts from the january 6th committee as early as next month. earlier, federal prosecutors believed they would not get them until september and delay some trials of capitol rioters. former u.s. president donald trump remains defiant despite growing mountain of testimony and other evidence against him. he spoke out on friday for the first time since the hearings began calling former vice president mike pence weak now for not blocking the 2020 certification. several former officials everyone around trump told him repeatedly he lost the election and a scheme to stay in office was illegal. cnn s jessica schneider has more on trump s reactio