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good morning, everyone. from washington, d.c., poppy is off this week, family brown back with me on this fine wednesday. let's get started with five things to know for july 12, 2023. president biden and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy set to make a major announcement about new efforts to bolster ukraine's long-term military prospects. later this morning the announcement coming. despite the agreement, however, nato has declined to offer a clear time line for ukraine to join the alliance. and severe weather from coast to coast, parts of new england are still suffering from devastating floods. while more than 50 million americans from california to texas to florida will face another round of extreme heat. and happening in just a couple of hours, fbi director christopher wray set to testify in what's expected to be, almost certain to be, a contentious hearing. wray will face questions from republicans who claim the fbi has become politicized. and new concerns after north

korea's latest missile test. the missile flew for more than an hour. warning north korea has the technology to strike this country with a nuclear weapon. will hollywood actors join writers on the picket line. sag-afra have until midnight tonight to reach a new deal or else a strike will go into effect. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning, everybody, and welcome. pamela, thanks for picking a very heavy news week. >> i was going to say, i really luck out on this week. >> live pictures, good events. >> yeah. >> really consequential moments. >> all because i'm here, obviously. >> bringing that to the table. you and the nato summit. that summit happening right now. it is the final day. ukrainian president volodymyr

zelenskyy is set to meet face-to-face with president biden and other world leaders in just a few moments as he pleads for more weapons to defeat russia and an invitation to join that 31-member alliance. zelenskyy will be meeting one-on-one with biden after the group meeting that will get under way in that room you see there that's currently empty. leaders are expected to be walking in shortly in just a few moments. >> zelenskyy has been criticizing nato leaders for not giving a time line when ukraine can join the alliance. here is what he said as he headed in this morning. >> we want to be on the same page with everybody, with all the understanding and for today what we hear and understand that we'll have this invitation when security measures will allow. >> and we are told president biden and nato leaders unanimously agreed to a substantial new aid package for ukraine, and there will be be a major announcement from biden and g7 leaders after the summit

wraps up. we have team coverage with correspondents at the summit in lithuania and on the ground in ukraine. we are following reactions in kyiv. melissa, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, if yesterday, pamela, was very much about what president zelenskyy will not be walking away with, today is much more about the deliverables and they are fairly substantial. you're looking at a series of bilateral meetings he's going through this morning, promising substantial military aid packages. there will be a bilateral meeting along with what the u.s. will be pledging as part of its next military aid package. those controversial cluster munitions. now that's been welcomed yesterday already but the ukrainian defense minister saying that he believes they

could be a game changer on the ground. but perhaps more importantly what we're going to hear today is something that's being dubbed nato light. the g7 countries are coming together and they're going to be announcing not just significant new aid packages in a military sense for kyiv but perhaps, more importantly, more efforts politically, economically to integration into the west of ukraine, and that may be in terms of the long term one of the most significant things that the president has backed kyiv with from this summit, pamela. >> i was stuck by our colleague betsy kleine in vilnius watching a question and answer public forum where jake sullivan was speaking. and one of the questions he took from a ukrainian anti-corruption activist criticized the decision not to immediately invite ukraine into nato in quite

costic terms. the return was trying a reality we might get a window when president zelenskyy and biden meet later today, tension with ukraine and this ongoing conflict. on the ground there do you hear signs of that? is there some frustration right now? >> reporter: phil, you know very well from covering the white house that jake sullivan is a very measured guy, and you could see in his response to this activist that he was bristling at this accusation that the u.s. is not doing enough. i think this exchange between the activist and jake sullivan is essentially redux of what we've seen between the u.s. and leadership, albeit more polite way with ukraine asking more than they are willing to give. what we saw sullivan responding what biden said earlier ukraine

is not ready to join nato yet because of the ongoing war in ukraine, and that could draw nato into a war with russia, but, also, very notably, a defensive sullivan saying that i think the american people deserve a certain level of gratitude for everything that the u.s. has offered ukraine so far, tens of billions of dollars in dozens of different military aid packages. so we have seen zelenskyy in the past asking more of the u.s. we have seen some of this defensiveness from the u.s. side. and i think melissa is absolutely right in framing the two days of this summit as yesterday was essentially ukraine being told what it's not going to get, and it is that big ticket item of not getting an imminent invitation to nato. there is immense frustration here on the ground, here in the ukrainian capital. and today is going to be about what ukraine is getting, both in

the short and the long term. so while ukraine is not going to be getting this immediate invitation to nato, we are expecting this major announcement from g7 countries, which white house official amanda sloet said earlier is essentially going to send messages, a warning to russia. this is about integrating ukraine further into the west in terms of politics, in terms of economics, and, of course, in terms of the military. we are seeing a number of countries offer huge new military aid packages to ukraine. so as president zelenskyy comes back to kyiv, he's certainly going to come back disappointed for not getting the biggest item on his wish list, but he will be able to say that he got significant deliverables both in the short and the long term. phil? pam? >> alex, melissa, thanks so much. and do stay tuned. we're going to be speaking with national security adviser jake

sullivan late they are morning in the show about that exchange and about what alex was detailing. there will be a significant announcement from the g7 leaders later today about long-term security assistance, what details that may include. we're going to ask when jake comes on. and, before that, we want to talk about the severe weather in this country. a perfect storm is unfolding across the globe, and that is what one person tells cnn. record heat and flooding seen daily all over the world. tens of millions of americans under heat advisories from california to florida this week. and south florida experiencing a heat dome bringing oppressive triple digit temperatures and dangerously warming the ocean. miami has seen 31 consecutive days. to meteorologist derek van dam live in miami. tell us, what can people in south florida expect today? they've had quite a week. >> reporter: yeah, pamela, it feels like you can literally drink the air here in miami. but i think what's most

impressive about this heat wave is the magnitude and the scope of it. it covers 12 southern u.s. stat states. it spans over 70 million americans. it's going to topple records from florida all the way to california. take miami, where i'm located here, today marks the 32nd consecutive day where heat indices, temperature and humidity, feels like over 100 degrees. phoenix, you're not sheltered from the heat as well. you've had 12 consecutive days of your actual air temperature above 110. that's your third longest streak. and in las vegas, you will likely see your all-time hottest temperature ever recorded later this week. it's just incredible. 70% of the u.s. will experience temperatures over 90 degrees in the coming week. 50 million americans will experience triple digit heat here in the next few days. now i'm in the thick of it, but this heat is dangerous. i spoke to an expert about it. have a listen to what he said. >> it's been record breaking,

and breaking records day after day after day. so it's above and beyond normal by a lot. it just goes on and on with the heat index. we've never had a string like this in recorded history. at the very least, it's uncomfortable. at the worst, it's actually deadly. >> reporter: the national weather service had an explicit statement. if you consider yourself in good, physical shape and do activity in peak heating days it could be dangerous. if you're looking to cool off in the atlantic ocean, we are way past bathtub water. pam, we are in hot tub territory right now. >> we are. the ocean, temperatures on land, you can't escape it. derek van dam, thank you. >> reporter: right. and now to the northeast where more rain is in the forecast for flood ravaged communities in vermont. first responders have already pulled dozens of people to safety from the high waters,

streets are washed out, dams nearing capacity. the ground beneath this rail line completely washed out. cnn's miguel marquez is live with more. miguel, where and what are the concerns for first responders this hour? >> reporter: well, right now this is the cleanup phase. the rivers have gone back into their banks. they do have capacity now to take more water on if it rains in the days ahead. we won't see the sort of record-breaking rain they saw earlier this week, which for here in montpelier it was the most rain they'd seen in a single day in the entire history. this is what they're dealing with now. lots of mud everywhere. the streets here will be closed to any traffic and to cars parking today so they can start cleaning up this mess and this is the main intersection in montpelier, and this is what it sounds like. the alarms keep going off.

it's a little eerie to hear. and all the businesses here, they look normal, but the water line came -- everything is destroyed from that level on. so every business along here, some businesses have started to pull out some of the stuff from inside trying to pump out basements and get back to normal. keep in mind, this is one of hundreds of towns across the green mountain state that now has to put everything back in order. back to you guys. >> a lot of work ahead. miguel marquez, thank you. just a couple hours from now fbi director christopher wray will face critics over claims law enforcement agencies are being weaponized against republicans. and donald trump's legal cases are colliding with his 2024 presidential campaign. how his court fights will impact his political run up next.

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threatened to hold the fbi director in contempt of congress. cnn's sarah murray joins us now. i'm a little reticent to ask you this question, but topics wise, we've seen public commentary and bluster from republicans on this panel specifically, what do we expect them to go after wray on? >> it's possible you'll see more bluster today. jim jordan -- >> congress? >> jim jordan, the chair of the judiciary committee has made it clear the fbi leadership is his number one punching bag and his chief criticism the fbi is too politicized particularly against conservatives, which is interesting, because a lot of the fbi frankly, is made up of conservatives. i think we're going to hear about some of the high-profile investigations. i think we'll see wray hammered over special council durham's report saying there never should have been a full investigation into the tries to russia. also likely to hear some of their other complaints, the notion that conservative parents

were scrutinized for complaints around school board meetings and that sort ofhing. as you would expect we hava salty statement from jerry nadler, the top democrat on the committee, saying for republicans this hearing is little more than performance ar it is an elaborate show designed with only two purposes in mind, to protect donald trump from the consequences of his actions and to return him to the white house in the next election. but there's another threat hanging out over here and it's phil's favorite, the appropriations process. >> appropriations. >> republicans are already threatening to cut back fbi funding. they want it to be cut back to what is absolutely essential. no politicized investigations and are saying, look, we don't want to give you money for a new fbi headquarters unless you move it to alabama. >> phil here and appropriations -- >> so do other people that are sitting with us right now, for the record. murray, stick around. >> yes. and those people will join us. cnn legal analyst elliot

williams, lauren fox and paul kaine. the fbi director testified on capitol hill, right? in any other universe this would be a big deal. we would expect substance. there are threats facing our nation every day that the fbi director can speak to. but as sara laid out there is every expectation this will devolume devolumeve into a food fight. >> a series of questions they might be interested in that might have local implications they might be able to get more interesting information about how an investigation is going. they might get more information about how a process is going. instead this is really all about politics. and there's a reason that republicans want to bring him in because they want to create those kinds of viral moments so they can show their conservative base back home that this is the moment they are defending former president donald trump, and that is really what this is about. this is about making that tie

back to the base, that we are doing everything we can up here in washington, up here in congress, to make sure we are protecting former president trump. >> having worked both for congress and in law enforcement, i can say, and i do believe, that congressional oversight is fundamentally a good thing for stamping out waste and fraud and abuse and helping the justice department or the fbi work better. the problem right now is that its not silent majority, which i testified in front of a couple months ago, that truly believes our government is run by a deep state cabol that will get in the way of having a productive hearing. what you're going to see today are a lot of fireworks and theatrics and not getting to the bottom of is the government's money spent well, is the fbi being run efficiently? it will all be about politics and not about making government work better.

>> i think fox and i have a similar perspective when it comes to watching these hearings. you know what members to watch for substance. the judiciary committee is a big panel, not necessarily always maybe the most substantive members are put, to some degree, on that panel because it's so large, but there are members there that are going to ask good questions, that are going to ask questions that elicit answers that we are all sometimes interested in. if you're watching this hearing today, who are you watching? what do you want to dig in on? >> i want to first of all see how jim jordan runs a big hearing like this. the best hearings usually would involve almost thinking like an old football coach where they would script the first 20 plays, where you would script the first few people asking questions, so that you're organized, so that you're not tripping over one another, you're not asking the mar-a-lago question after somebody else just asked the mar-a-lago question. and, second, there's another party here. it's not just the republicans.

the democrats get to ask almost as many questions. and i want to watch and see how they play the politics of this. they have spent so many years on the defensive with crime and law and order taking defund the police accusations, so i want to see how nadler and his side of the aisle, his side of the dias look like the law and order party which would be totally upside-down inverse world for those of us covering this stuff for a long time. >> all over this is donald trump, right? people like jim jordan trying to impress donald trump, trying to defend him. and donald trump, he has a lot of legal woes he's facing. you just had the georgia grand jury sworn in looking into donald trump and possible election interference in the 2020 election. we could see charges next month. you have to wonder how is trump going to navigate this?

it's uncharted territory. >> for him and his attorneys and his campaign, we saw it in a court filing just yesterday them raising concerns about the classified documents case saying we can't possibly go to trial when we're in the middle of an election because we need to focus on running for president. in the court document he points out all of his other legal responsibilities. the indictment that was going on in new york, the civil case involving e. jean carroll, and that's all before we get a potential indictment in georgia and wait to see what special counsel jack smith does on the january 6th probe. you can envision donald trump showing up in court and then just hopping on his plane and flying to a state and doing a rally. it's not ideal for a candidate. >> elliot, the question i had when the trump legal team filed in the documents case saying this needs to be delayed, he's in the middle of a campaign, this is politics, we can't do

this in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's not a lot of precedent for this. because of that, i think as opposed to, oh, that's absurd or that's a political move, the legal theory here, is there one, and what are they trying to flesh out? >> two things can be true. number one, he's actually trying to delay the trial and push it off into the future as far as possible. he's a criminal defendant who is entitled to a trial at a time that is legally appropriate and sound for him. and it's dangerous for prosecutors and the court to step in the way of that. prosecutors were quite clear in their filings th, look, this trial can be had in a couple of months or several months. number two, the fact there's a presidential campaign coming is irrelevant. number three, you can always pick a jury who can assess even a famous defendant fairly. so he's pushing his arguments very far, but you really don't want to run the risk of doing something that jeopardizes that fair trial question and getting the case tossed out on appeal if he gets convicted down the road.

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taking a live look here at the iowa state house in des moines where late last night the republican-led legislature passed a ban on most abortions. as early as six weeks into pregnancy. it was during a special session called by ken reynolds to address the issue specifically. demonstrators representing both sides of the abortion rights debate packed the state house. a reporter for the "des moines register" caught a tense moment between two of the demonstrators you see that had to be broken up by a state trooper. the bill excludes exceptions for miscarriages when the life of

the pregnant woman is threatened and fetal abnormalities that would result in death. there are also exceptions for rape reported within 45 days a incest reported 140 days. governor reynolds says she intends to sign the bill fda at which point the ban would immediately go into effect. this would put iowa with a growing list of states limiting or outright banning the procedure. >> this morning new overnight, north korea firing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile off its east coast days after pyongyang threatened to shoot down u.s. reconnaissance planes. it landed between the korean peninsula and japan. cnn's mark stewart joins us live from tokyo. mark, what do we know? >> reporter: hi, phil. good to see you. for a good part of the morning military forces here in japan and south korea were on alert monitoring this missile launch. this missile was in the air for 74 minutes. this time duration viewed by

experts as significant, seen as a big deal. we should also point out that this missile was launched at a very specific angle where it would have a very short flight. again, only 74 minutes. however, this is a missile that has the potential of crossing the ocean, landing in other continents, and that is why there is so much attention to what happened over the last 12 hours here in the pacific region at least. >> the time duration was what struck me and also when this actually happened. obviously we've been talking all week about the world leaders meeting at nato. we learned south korea's president will be holding an emergency meeting there over this latest launch. what are the expectations from that? >> reporter: right. well, let me just say this. as you well know from spending time in the region from the g7, north korea craves attention. and when you have a gathering such as the nato summit, something like this is ripe to

happen. as far as the south korean meeting, it is believed it has included defense ministers, other top officials. south korea has made comments today saying there will be consequences. as far as what happens next, that's still ambiguous. having spent time in the region, i wouldn't say that people are necessarily alarmed at this point, even though south korea saying there could be some consequences. i think at this point this is just a general awareness that north korea continues to move things step-by-step further. >> it's like an unsettling new normal to some degree. marc stewart, great reporting. thanks. new this morning chinese hackers have breached email accounts at two dozen u.s. organizations including government agencies, that's according to the white house and osoft. the national security council issuing a statement saying last month u.s. government safeguards identified an intrusion which affected unclassified systems.

officials immediately contacted microsoft to find the source. microsoft says the hacking began a month before the breach was detected and the hackers used a stolen sign-in key. the full scope of the hack is still being investigated. "the washington post" reports that accounts from the pentagon, intelligence community and military did not appear to be affected. on that note, that's good news, but it will be interesting to hear if wray is asked about this. >> we talked about what substantive questions could be asked. this is one of them. when you talk to intelligence officials, with all of the things going on in the world, cyber and hacking threats is always this pervasive issue they're keeping a close eye on and very concerned about. >> you ask them what keeps you up at night, it's this. senator tommy tuberville is changing his tune. it was quite a journey. he resigned yesterday. he said white nationalists are racing after refuse ting to denounce them.

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the kremlin warning against providing them saying it could lead to negative consequences. and, we also just learned, the head of russia's foreign intelligence service held a phone call with cia director william byrnes end of june according to russian state media. zelenskyy will meet face-to-face with president biden in a few hours. safe to say there is no shortage of news this morning. >> yes. >> we bring it. >> including the journey that we all went on with the senior senator from alabama yesterday, tommy tuberville. he's now changing his tune. >> i'm totally against racism. if the democrats want to say that white nationalists are racist, i'm totally against that, too. >> that's not a democratic definition. the definition -- >> that's your definition. my definition of racism -- >> to be clear this was a journey i don't think any of us wanted to be on.

>> correct. >> the senator did finally relent and say white nationalists are indeed racist. that was 180-degree turn from what he told cnn's kaitlan collins monday night. >> my opinion of a white nationalist, to me, is an american. it's an american. >> let's bring back elliot williams and lauren fox. striking to me yesterday it felt like the days we were in the halls together during the trump administration every day you would track down republicans and ask them about trump's latest tweet. they never wanted to talk about it. they were infuriated it was getting in the way of whatever the they wanted to talk about. this time it wasn't the former president, it was one of the members of their conference. >> right. and you can expect when there's a president that you are supposed to be supporting, it's one thing. when it's just a fellow rank and file member you sit with at lunch, it's a very different thing. i knew that this was starting to turn yesterday when i talked to senator john thune, the republican whip, who is usually very honest and candid, even

though he's very polite in his delivery about how he thought tommy tuberville was really going nowhere with this discussion and said repeatedly he had no idea what tommy tuberville was trying to say but he wanted to make it very explicit that there was no room for white nationalists in the republican party or in the military, which is where this all started from. i think that one of the things that became clear to me was that while republican leadership doesn't lean on members to change their stance, it was very clear that one after another republican yesterday in the halls was making it clear this was not a conversation they wanted to be having. this was not a conversation they thought helped the republican party and they wanted to quell it as quickly as possible. >> do you know, to follow up on that, if any spoke directly to tuberville and said, cut it out? >> i was told it did not come up in the republican lunch yesterday. that doesn't mean there weren't any private conversations that we don't know about, but it did not come up as a republican wide discussion in the lunch.

>> elliot, if we could step back to some degree, talking yesterday, you need to contextualize tuberville's comments because he has a history not just on this specific issue, which he's been talking about for some reason i can't quite figure out now for a couple of months but on the campaign trail last year, made some comments that were immediately kind of refuted by republicans who are uncomfortable with the racist tone. from a bigger picture perspective, this isn't happening in a vacuum. >> unlike someone's right to a fair trial, phil, this is not something i'm going to both sides. look, let's define what white nationalism is, and it's the belief in a white ethno state, the belief race mixing itself threatens the united states of america and there ought to be a white majority in america. now none of those views are actually illegal to have, and maybe that's the point senator

tube tuberville. that's are toxic views in civil society. if you notice late in the interview with kaitlan, if you're going to do away with most white people, then we're going to have problems. and i'm genuinely curious as to what audience he's speaking to there. if there is a silent majority of whites in america who truly are threatened by the idea of race mixing or a non-white majority. now he brought up all this stuff about identity politics and it's a slur and people are being called racist when they're not and you can have a debate or discussion about that, but he really did seem to be tapping in or thinking he was tapping into something and speaking for a constituency in america that's very frightening if it does exist. >> yeah, like tapping into that. >> pat buchanan, remember ran for president, back in 2000 wrote a book called "the death of the west."

and sort of prestaging this idea that whites were being replaced in america. to some extent it seemed senator tuberville was tapping into a little bit of that as well, this replacement and this idea. but, again, the most frightening thing, i think he felt he was speaking for all or most white people, and that's not good. >> fox, we have to go, but the dynamics within the republican conference, you saw the public comments from mccconnell, from thune, can someone pull him aside and say, dude, what are you doing right now? or is that not his relationship within that conference? >> it's not the leadership's style. but roger wicker on the arm services committee says he does think at some point the fever is going to break on this issue of these holds. but he told me yesterday he did sit by tommy tuberville at lunch. they are not there yet in terms of some kind of resolution. a few interesting things have happened this week including the fact wicker sat by him yesterday. he met with jack reed on the

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decades. new questions about the secret damning report called operation fouled anchor of substantiated sexual abuse including rapes at the coast guard academy. according to documents viewed exclusively by cnn. the assaults were treated as minor misconduct by coast guard command and were usually covered up. victims were often punished. the investigation ran from 2014 to 2019 but only reviewed sexual assault from the late '80s to 2006 leaving a major gap in its findings. >> the coast guard has failed the victims and the worst part is the culture and the environment they still have at the academy is allowing this behavior to continue. >> reporter: carwin wrote about the incident in her journal at the time saying a football player came to her room, quote, bit my neck and felt up my chest. >> luckily i got away and he

left, but he said he was going to come back and finish what he started. i was terrified. he was bigger than me, stronger than me. i didn't have roommates. >> reporter: she reported her attack at the time, but the coast guard academy only gave him demerits and assigned him to write an essay. that same cadet would be accused of multiple other assaults including rape according to records viewed by cnn. >> we are not being attacked by a complete stranger we never see again. you're repeatedly getting traumatized by this individual because you're stuck in the environment with them. >> reporter: karwan said she was hoping for change when the coast guard reopened her case and dozens of others but that didn't happen. >> there was no, you know, here is what the results were and this is what we're doing about it and this is the coast guard's way forward. >> reporter: instead, coast guard officials kept the problem secret for years. a source saying the report was centrally controlled similar to

how a classified report would be treated. the coast guard only briefed congress last month after cnn started asking questions. now senators are demanding answers. >> we are looking for accountability. we want to know what steps have been taken to make sure this never happens again. >> this episode is probably the most shameful and disgracement cover-up of sexual assault that i have seen in the united states military ever. >> of the dozens of sexual assault cases examined, only one person was ever prosecuted. the charge against him was dismissed when a court ruled the statute of limitations had run out. many of the alleged perpetrators graduated and went on to high-ranking positions in the coast guard or other branches of the military. the man kerry karwan ended up retiring from the coast guard with full benefits. >> the victims don't feel like the coast guard handled their situation well. their attackers have gone on to have careers, retired with benefits, and yet the victims

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