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
washington. republicans are not opposed to any substance. i think it s a political move, and i think it s disgusting. it really is an ongoing crisis here at a scale that is almost unimaginable. you can see some of the garbage that is still over here. and you can actually see how high the water has come. this is what we do not want to see a flood watch. with more rain coming, we expect the water to rise even higher. you re live in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with the passing of two legends who were both game-changers in their respective fields. basketball great bill russell led the boston celtics to 11 nba championships. his final two titles as the first black head coach in a major american sports league. and he was also a tireless champion for racial justice and civil rights, working alongside dr. martin luther king jr. and muhammed ali. in 2011, he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. and we re also remembering nichelle nichols, who playe
call xi told the president quote, those who play with fire will perish by it. speaker pelosi said to be heading to the region today. not clear if she will make a stop in taiwan. we expect to hear from her in the next hour. meanwhile, the u.s. and china agreed to plan an in-person meeting between the two leaders. this despite beijing s failure to stop the flow of fentanyl from china into the united states. not to mention its reported targeting of the federal reserve and buying up real estate near u.s. military basis. bill: team fox coverage. greg palkot, the latest on the trip to the region for speaker pelosi. let s begin on the north lawn today. good morning. the white house agreeing to a face-to-face between president biden and president xi after the two leaders talked their longest conversation yet, two hours and 17 minutes. critics say kind of an odd thing to do after a death warning according to chinese read-out. xi told biden those who play with fire will perish
taxation and rural medical facilities. bill: you went off on pat toomey the republican on pennsylvania. last term he is leaving after this vote. i spoke to him earlier today and he calls it a budget gimmick. he says there is $400 billion in totally unrelated matters and i told him i was going to have you on and he said you ask jon if he is really ticked off about this go after democrats and say to democrats get this provision out of the bill and it would pass today. that was his response. first of all, that s just not true. the provision was in the bill when it passed 84-14. ask pat toomey because he complained about it on june 16th when it originally passed. nothing has changed.