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jon: donald trump drew a massive crowd in south carolina where he criticized president biden and his son hunters legal troubles his rivals trying media this weekend to react. senior correspondent steve harrigan live with details for us. steve. reporter: john pickens south carolina population just 3,000 more than 50,000 people came on saturday for independence day to hear that former president trump speak. many arrived before dawn and then midday sun and heat, they heard the former pres...

top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." good to have you along. im victor blackwell. >> the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. >> according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another ...

of california, the site of at least three deadly mass shootings in as many days. monterey park and on monday in oak land the coastal city of half moon bay. police in san man county say the suspected half moon bay attacked two different locations one of which is a mushroom farm. the farms owners say the event has left them shaken and they dont know the suspected shooter. police took 67-year-old can chow am i custody and found a handgun in his vehicle nearby, here with the san mon tao ou...

as thousands of flights have been canceled. sam bankman freed was now back at home. hes released on a $200 million bail. the biden administration had not yet released border immigrant numbers for november or even a plan for what theyll do if title 42 is lifted as we await a decision from the supreme court. we begin with the huge $1.6 trillion spending bill thats on its way to the house tonight after the senate approves the measure on thursday, despite many lawmakers blasting the bi...

Missing americans. >> bianna -- >> rosa flores for us there. thank you so much. now to ukraine where after months of fierce and bloody fighting russian forces may be on the verge of capturing the eastern city of bakhmut. even as russian fighters surround the city, ukrainian commanders are not withdrawing and calling on president zelenskyy to send in reinforcement. >> alex marquardt is in useaste ukraine. mercenary fighters were seen planting the flag. tell us about that. >> hi, there, victor a...

Community and it has been very peaceful all these years, so thats why it is even more shattering to have this happen. >> one dance administrator at the star ball room dance studio told cnn the facility was a popular spot not only for classes and private lessons but also for parties some of which would have as many as 300 people in attendance, brian todd cnn washington. still to come a russian mercenary force is raising alarm in ukraine, how the vogner group is overwhelming some ukrainian fight...

Delivered rockets and infantry missiles into russia. a russian military organization recruiting fighting in prison. >> we estimates that vogner currently have 40,000 convicts. >> reporter: its fighters are accused of human rights convicts in america and now are in ukraine. >> they burn down and destroy everything they see. they send convicts to the war. >> reporter: the white house says in some instances, the vogner group is leading over operations over military officials in the eastern city and...

Whether it was self-defense or not, and it has reignited these calls for him to resign. when you see this video, you can hear people taunting the council member in the background, saying that youre anti-black, youre anti-indigenous, you need to resign. and that comes from recordings that were released back in october, that showed kevin de leon, that we heard him and other council members making really racist comments. theres really no other way to describe them. derogatory comments about the ado...

Crimea. so hitting melotopol with disrupt the ability of russian forces to reinforce kce crimea? >> so why go after the vogner group? >> the vogner group has a sort of notorious cache already. theyre the ones that are continuing to pound away at ukrainian defenses around bakmut, so theres not only a operational benefit to knock out the headquarters of vogner, but also a symbolic, a symbolic way to hit back against forces that have caused a lot of damage. and have been particularly brutal. so to ...

Meeting again today to further this discussion and perhaps well get a more complete answer from them in the not too distnt future on how they want to move forward. >> carol, talk to me about what the doj might or might not want with this? would the doj be welcome to get these referrals? does this complicate things or make it easier? >> well, i think its complicated because and youre right to ask the question, katy. the january 6th committee, that investigative team has been a standout among cong...