Allegations as she again sugges the president is beholden to russia. The white house today firing back. This is as bad as it gets, and yet the president will not confront the russians on this score, i dont know what the russians have on the president politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is, but he wants to ignore. Nancy pelosi is entirely off base. This president has been very tough on russia closing russian consulates, he is taking a report based on anonymous sourcing that was just dead wrong. The New York Times is wrong, believe it or not. And she is politicizing it. The only person playing politic here is the speaker of the hous and it is truly despicable. Kristin fisher is live at th white house with the very latest. Julie, a lot of questions fo the White House Press secretary when she stepped up to the podium. Mainly, why was President Trump not briefed and now that he doe know, what is he going to do an will he hold russian president Vladimir Putin responsible . M
Tonight, thousands pay tribute as george floyd comes home to houston. Joe biden among them. Also tonight, the new video just released from new mexico. A knee to the neck and tonight, charges of manslaughter. Here in houston, many walking in the stifling heat to line up for hours, then filing past George Floyds casket. Mourners wearing masks. George floyd was killed two weeks ago today, an officer with his knee on floyds neck for 8 minutes, 46 seconds. Former Vice President joe biden came to houston today. The image of him with George Floyds little girl. Paying his respects to the floyd family. And the family speaking just moments ago. Also tonight, the former officer now charged with Second Degree murder, Derek Chauvin, wearing an Orange Jumpsuit for his First Court Appearance today. Prosecutors saying he kept his
knee on floyds neck while he went limp and eventually lifeless. And the breaking headline as we come on the air tonight. The new video from new mexico now. The officer with h
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a hong kong lawmaker photographed near chinese president xi jinping fested positive for covid-19. president xi visited the city during the 25th anniversary of hong kong s hand over from britain to china. it was his first trip outside the mainland since the start of the pandemic. the person who tested positive says his test was negative on thursday when the photos were taken. cnn senior national correspondent will ripley joins me now live from taipei. what more are you learning about this covid scare for xi jinping. it shouldn t be unexpected for people handling xi jinping and enforcing this closed loop operation that hong kong spent weeks trying to prepare for to make sure nobody near him got covid. days ahead of the visit, two hong kong lawmakers tested positive for o vid. and then as you mentioned on
he did handily defeat the recall vote. republicans did not put any dent in his level of support. he may emerge from this ordeal even stronger politically. wait until you see the numbers. for democrats nationally it s not that newsom won in california, it s how he won. by focusing almost singularly on the pandemic as his closing message. he got an assist from president biden who rallied supporters saying newson was a critical part of his plan to beat the delta variant and how important the issue was in turning out democrats. a sizable result view the covid vaccine as a public health responsibility and not a choice. the margin on this question is virtually identical to the overall margin in the recall vote. take note to any republicans in bluish or purplish states running on the idea that it is a choice.