good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we re beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing roe that may have have doomed roberts efforts. and the abortion rights drama that testified in april that the draft opinion would soon be published. tensions over the fate of roe were heightened over the course of the leak that diminished whatever chance roberts had to disloch the five votes to overturn the rule. joining us, joan biscupic. joan, tell us how hard he was fighting to bring some folks over to his time. good morning, brianna
president trump. we ll have more on that speech and why he gave it just ahead. plus the january 6th committee releases more of what the former president wouldn t say the day after the insurrection. meanwhile, on capitol hill, covid is complicating crunch time for congress. democrats are running out of time to get things done before a month-long august break. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. there are new developments with the justice department s investigation into the january 6th attack. two top aides to former vice president mike pence have testified before a federal grand jury. mark short who was pence s chief of staff and greg jacob, pence s counsel at the white house was subpoenaed by the department of justice, short was with the former vice president during the insurrection. nbc news cameras set up for steve bannon s trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courth
the capitol police, d.c. metropolitan police, other law enforcement agencies were attacked and assaulted before our very eyes, spirit, sprained, stomped on, brutalized and lives were lost. for three hours, the defeated former president of the united states watched it all happen. he sat in the comfort of a private diner next to the office. while he was doing that, brave law enforcement officer subject to for three hours. they were dripping in blood and surrounded by carnage. face-to-face to believe the lives of the defeated president. the police were there that day. donald trump lacked the courage to act. the brave women and men in blue all across this nation should never forget that. you can t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop. you can t be pro-democracy. you can t be pro-insurrection and pro-american. president biden doesn t talk about january 6 often nor does he talk about his predecessor often. we ve heard him use the phrase defeated former president, but he used donald tr
is baking as fires rip through europe and temperatures soar across the u.s. we re live in rome and the cnn weather center for the latest. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where emergency crews are on the scene following a barrage of russian missile strikes. officials say 13 missiles struck a city north of mykolaiv this morning leaving a number of people injured or killed. the targets were reportedly a military airfield and railway city. meanwhile, the major says his city was also rocked by powerful explosions. meanwhile, four more high rocket launchers are part of a new batch of u.s. military aid announced friday. the european union is pledging more than half a billion dollars in new security assistance. and american weapons are already making a mark on the battlefield, according to a senior u.s. defense official. ukrainians have destroyed more than 100 high-valued targets in recent weeks partly due to u.s
president trump. we ll have more on that speech and why he gave it just ahead. plus the january 6th committee releases more of what the former president wouldn t say the day after the insurrection. meanwhile, on capitol hill, covid is complicating crunch time for congress. democrats are running out of time to get things done before a month-long august break. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. there are new developments with the justice department s investigation into the january 6th attack. two top aides to former vice president mike pence have testified before a federal grand jury. mark short who was pence s chief of staff and greg jacob, pence s counsel at the white house was subpoenaed by the department of justice, short was with the