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for detained americans brittney griner and paul whelan. >> the president expected to speak with his chinese counterpart this morning as tensions boil over taiwan and a potential trip by house speaker nancy pelosi. in ukraine the u.s. believes more than 75,000 russians have either been killed or wounded since the start of an invasion and 80% of their land forces are bogged down. and in north korea overnight a new warning from kim jong-un threatening to use nuclear weapons. let's get right to our reporters covering it all around the globe. >> reporter: i'm clare sebastian in lond...

fresh election results in this morning and some hints of democratic optimism. i'm john berman. brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here in morning. >> a lot to see in these races from last night. >> it really s when you look closely again, hints, which was, scents. >> everyone is wanting to pick up on those to know what to say come november. >> there were some big names on the ballots in several states but it's the special elections in new york that could point to national trends. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th distr...

>> andy scholes, thank you very much. "new day" continues right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. to our viewers in the united states and around the world it is wednesday july 27th, i'm john berman with brianna keilar. this morning a criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is moving closer to former president donald trump. cnn reports key witnesses subpoenaed by the justice department in recent days include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake electors scheme and the role of trump's lawyers. in addition "the ne...

what if the main goal of all of this was just to get that stuff out of mar-a-lago? >> well, i think that's a question that's on everybody's mind and certainly from where the justice department sits, this was -- these are -- these were top secret, classified documents, some of the nation's most, you know, privileged, sort of secrets about national security and military matters and the justice department's top priority in this case was just getting those back. and it's sort of an open question where the investigation heads now but we know that investigators are just beginning to sort o...

abortion rights still enact a decades old ban? what happens with abortion pills? where can they and can't they be mailed? what about the politics, can a republican congress with a republican president now move to restrict all abortions across the can country? what can democrats do to reverse this, if anything? at least ten states quickly moved to implement laws effectively banning abortions since friday, some happened with trigger laws, another five states expected to enact further laws limiting abortion and all 26 states have laws that indicate they could outlaw or set extreme limit...