his criticism getting outrage from republicans who call it unacceptable. tonight the president showing no sign of backing down. i know you re all busy as i i am. meeting virtually with nine democratic governors today president biden urged his party to find new ways to ensure abortion remains legal. one week after the supreme court ruled states can decide if and when a pregnancy can be terminated. i share the public outrage at this extremist court. as i have said last week, this is not over. the president s growing war of words that the supreme court generating swift backlash from republicans who argue the presidents rhetoric including including comments made overseas thursday goes too far. president biden is unhinged and he should not have done that. this is the third branch of government, coequal branch of government. they did what they thought they had to do. the white house examining ways to work around the abortion decision. president calling on congress to le
good morning to all of you. welcome to way too early. on this friday, july 1st. i m alex witt in for jonathan lemire. there are new legal and ethical questions being raised about whether former president trump may be trying to influence witness testimony related to the house select committee s january 6th investigation. so according to the new york times, trump s save america pac and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen in to testify. financial disclosures show that in may alone, trump s save america pac paid about $200,000 to different law firm, the times notes that a dozen witnesses have received free legal advice and had attorney s fees paid for by the american conservative union s first amendment fund which consults with mr. trump s team about who s fees to cover. that is according to the organization chairman. the house select committee is known to ask witnesses whether anyone has tried to influence their testimony, it
had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didn t they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that he s been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to happen, and then we get word here late last night that, you know what, it did happen. they did not invite the media to witness any of this, it was supposed to be a public event, that did not happen, what they did was they had every new city council member come in, on their own, just so that they wouldn t have to call a public meeting for this swearing in, john. shows you their state of mind about maybe what they think of the visuals there. shimon, this door, the door that the killer used to
i m poppy harlow. hours from now, shooting victims will be laid to rest as the uvalde community remembers the young lives lost in last week s tragedy. visitation and rosary services will be held for teacher rosa garcia, jose emmanuel. focus tuesday is on families who lost loved ones. this as a special city council meeting supposed to be held today for uvalde school district police chief pedro arradondo was supposed to be sworn into a seat. he held off on breaching the classroom where all 21 victims were killed. plus, cnn got a crucial 911 call, appearing to be the voice of a child telling an officer they had been shot. it s not first time we ve heard of calls for help from inside the classroom while police waited outside. are you in there? i was shot. where? where? a kid got shot? let s begin with cnn correspondent nick valencia. he is near robb elementary school in uvalde. nick, tell us what more we know about the circumstances and, crucially, if we know, the tim
the scene. those serious questions amid the grief. we ll get to it. thank you all so much for being here. today, the president and his administration are making a major push to refocus on the economy and defend his handling of it. in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal, the president claims that the u.s. is in a better economic position than almost any country in the world. he credits his own policies can helping to achieve the strongest recovery in modern history. he s also facing public sentiment that s making clear americans don t feel that strength, not by a long shot. ga gallop s economic confidence reading is reporting this is likely the lowest public confidence has been in the economy since the tail end of the great recession in early 2009. biden s team is now outlining what they are calling a three-part plan to fight inflation and to turn this around. inflation will be number one, the number one agenda item when the president meets with the federal rese