violated our trust. two years of understaffing. we don t want to strike. there s too many patients and too little nurses. how a 6-year-old could obtain a firearm and let alone have the wherewithal to use it, the youngest of our students are involved with gun violence. we need to make sure we never see instances like this happen again. it s game day. everywhere you look you see the love for damar hamlin. no matter what team you re with we love each other. we do. the whole nfl just came together. i m pamela brown in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are watching chaos break out in brazil right now in the capital city. take a look right here. these are supporters of the former president jair bolsonaro. they are storming security barriers and breaking into the country s congressional buildings, the supreme court and the presidential palace and this is happening one week after the inauguration of president lula da silva. latin affairs editor r
republicans represent an extremism that threaten the very foundations of our republic. the speech featured some hopeful tones, but it made headlines for its dark warnings about what would happen if americans allowed the maga ideology to grow. with more appearances to come in pennsylvania and beyond the president is showing he s unafraid to draw sharp contract not just between himself and trump but between democrats and republicans. not every republican, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. the rnc rejected that distinction releasing a statement saying, quote, joe biden is the divider in chief and epitomizes the current state of the democratic party, one of divisiveness discussed and hostility towards half the country. as for trump he ll hold his own rally in penns
president biden was in normandy today commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day. while he was there he was asked about something totally unrelated. whether he would issue a pardon for his son hunter if he is convicted of felony gun vices. here is how he responded. as we sit here in normandy, your son hunter is on trial. let me ask you, will you accept the jury s outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? yes. and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? yes. pretty clear answer there. but again, this is a yes or no question. and to be honest, it shouldn t be that hard to answer. joe biden as president with the power to pardon anyone he wants at the federal level will let his son go to prison if he is found guilty by a jury of his peers because that is how the american justice system is supposed to work. now compare that answer to former president donald trump s answer. on trump s last day in office, january 20th, 2021, he issued more than 70 pardons and there
the supreme court had a handful of block busters each term. 10 years ago, maybe two, maybe three. it has only been since justice barrett joined the court they have escalated here taking on more and more of these huge cases suching them into the last week of june. dropping two or three major ones every day. dropping them a few days in a rosa that you really can t focus on it if you are a regular person. you have a life to live. the supreme court is dismantling say affirmative action. abolishing student loans. killing the administrative state. it is head spinning and difficult to follow and i do think it is a strategy. not a coincidence. the conservatives don t know how long they could have the super majority. it could end at any time. health could get in the way. a scandal could get in the way. the scandal has already gotten in the way. something could change the way the court is constituted and they want to get it all
11,000 writers are plotting their next move after negotiators with the writers guild of america and the alliance of motion picture and television producers failed to ink a last-minute deal. we would like to not work for free. all we want is to be able to support our families reporter: shutting down s some productions immediately. i love you! reporter: tonight s network late night talk shows and snl say they ll air reruns daytime tv will likely follow and if the strike stretches, there could be an impact on fall shows, even future block busters. i don t want to be out of a job in five to ten years. reporter: writers like carrie drake say their professions are at stake for weeks the union has been battling for streaming residuals, higher pay for services, and job protection, including from ai and writing programs like chatgpt. i think it s important to have humans telling stories about our human experience and not having stories generated by