Friends first. We get straight to a fox news alert, breaking right now covering the clash between afghan Special Forces and the telegram. Reuters says a senior afghan officer caught in Telegram Crossfire near the pakistani border. Embedded with Afghan Forces since earlier this week, the Reuters President and editorinchief releasing a statement saying he was an outstanding journalist, devoted Husband And Father and much loved colleague. Our thoughts are with his family of this terrible time. Carley Another Massive March in support of cuban amid the worsening crisis. Todd the White House is slow to react despite the president calling cuba a failed state and condemning communism. Carley good morning, lauren. Reporter protesters calling for us action in cuba by shutting down highways, speaking up for cubans who have been demonstrating in historic numbers against their government over food shortages, unstable economy, cubas handling of rone longrunning communist regime. President biden ackn
About whether to simply gut the filibuster all together, reduce that 60vote Threshold to 51. But there is no support, not enough support within the democratic caucus to do that, given the opposition from Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema of arizona, and others as well. So where does this leave everything, jake . This issue getting this bill passed into law almost certainly will not happen, nor will splitting this up into smaller pieces, a polarizing issue dividing the party, no sign this is going anywhere. And in a matter of minutes republicans will block it on the floor. So this is going to fail. So what comes next for democrats . Have they laid out what theyre going to do . Democrats, im learning, are plotting a series of hearings in order to provide a spotlight on this issue, draw attention to this issue, particularly in the State Of Georgia. Im told that the senate Rules Committee plans to have a Field Hearing in the State Of Georgia to talk about the republican efforts in that state to
underway. president biden sitting down with house democratic leaders, this is as congress pushes forward with his $1.9 trillion covid relief package. republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. they proposed less than a third of that value. but democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. we are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid-19 team holds a press conference as we get new warnings on coronavirus variants rapidly spreading across the country. let s begin with manu raju on the hill. john harwood joins us from the white house. manu, it is really interesting, jared bernstein said, no, we re still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. it is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any senate republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. they are pursuing this morning,
is day one of wimbledon. novak djokovic takes to centre court. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start in the occupied west bank where intense gun battles are continuing. hundreds of israeli soldiers are carrying out an assault on the city ofjenin. at least eight palestinians have been killed in gun battles have been continuing. it started with multiple drone strikes on the jenin started with multiple drone strikes on thejenin refugee camp. and israeli army vehicles, were seen moving in. israel claims, the camp contains a command centre for palestinian militants. across the jenin skyline, smoke has been rising for much of the day palestinian leaders say, it s an attempt to destroy a refugee camp and that innocent people inside the camp have been bombed. gun g u n battles gun battles have raged, with palestinians seen firing at israeli troops. vehicles have been firing tear gas
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta has the day off. and it wasn t just georgia. there is new evidence tonight that former president trump also tried to overturn the 2020 election results in arizona. trump lost arizona to joe biden by fewer than 11,000 votes. a source now tells cnn that after the contest trump called then-governor doug ducey hoping to pressure him into overturning those results. sources say trump also pushed his then-vice president mike pence to help him convince the governor to undo that defeat. cnn has more now. jeremy, we don t have any recordings of these calls, so where is this coming from? reporter: yeah, this we re learning new details here from sources about just how then-president trump pressured governor ducey after the 2020 election. we knew at the time that there was a phone call that governor ducey had with president trump, but the governor didn t give any details about what was said. now sources are tellin