saying his symptoms are improving. meanwhile, the latest january 6 hearing is still sending shock waves to capitol hill. where donald trump refused to declare the election over or condemn the rioters. we ll take a look at how this could play into november s narratives and beyond. also, nearly one-third of americans are under heat advisories. 210 million people will face scorching temperatures over 90 today. the heat wave expected to last well into the weekend. we start at the white house. dealing with president biden s positive covid diagnosis on two fronts. medical and political. less than two hours ago, the white house physician said the president s symptoms have improved. the white house eager to show this is not a crisis and the president is continuing to keep a busy schedule while getting treatment. they just sent out this picture showing the president speaking by phone with his national security team. this picture also sent out in a tweet this morning showing the
another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didn t just refuse to participate in trump s campaign to, i don t know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didn t have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a rematch against biden, bowers had a change of heart and is now saying that he will never, ever vote for trump again. here s what he told abc news jon karl after being the subject of attacks from donald trump. i have thought at times someone born how he was and raised how he was and he has no idea what a hard life is, and what people have to go through in the real world. he has no idea what courage is. how do you explain the hold that he has, though, on republicans including a lot of repub
2017, former president obama, you might have forgotten this. the new york post remembered. they shipped 30 million pages of sensitive and possibly classified materials to chicago. all right. and now trump and his advisers have yet a new excuse for why trump kept classified documents. plus, arizona used to give us republicans like john mccain. well, now the fringe is firmly in control of the party there with election deniers and extremists rising to the top. also tonight, an important victory in sali berisha for reproductive rights, but across the country more young girls are being forced to give birth. and fresh off her defeat in the wyoming primary, liz cheney is blasting kevin mccarthy and had some thoughts on the possibility that he could potentially be the next speaker. good evening, everyone. i m tiffany cross in tonight for joy reid and we begin with the ever-evolving excuses from donald trump and his team over why classified documents, including some classi
conspiracy theories. that could have been mickey mouse. i m watching this is the craziest thing i ve ever seen, and then people just bought it. lawsuits. they tried to not have your votes counted. they did not want your vote to count. potentially illegal pressure campaigns. i just want to find 11,780 votes. what he was asking for wasn t supported by the facts, wasn t supported by the constitution. extraordinary scheming. let s talk about the memo. just breathtaking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. and all too many in the republican party do you believe this was a free and fair election? and maga media who followed along. unverifiable dumps of votes. stop the steal! and it all might have worked if not for a few people in key places. notably among them, brave republicans. in the moments of truth you need the right people to pass the most difficult tests. we had just enough peop