fights criminal contempt charges. and summer sand and shark infested waters. enhanced technology is on the hunt where sharks have been on the attack. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with breaking news in our politics lead. president biden s approval rating hitting a new low in cnn polling. take a look. only 38% of people approve of the way joe biden is handling his job as president. 62% disapprove. this dismal number comes as president biden returns from his middle east trip. the white house touting the trip a success, saying the president renewed support for the region and set expectations that gas prices could steady in the coming weeks. but those successes in some quarters being overshadowed by this moment, biden fist bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, who the u.s. says is to blame for the slaughter of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi in 2018. biden trying to brush it off from reporters upon his return to the white house.
investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. last week bannon made a last-minute attempt to delay this trial, suddenly offering to testify publicly before the panel. but the trump-appointed judge rejected that motion. cnn s sarah murray is outside the courthouse. what should we expect here? reporter: well, it s definitely slow going this morning so far before they take a lunch break, they had chosen eight jurors. they need to get to 22. they re asking them their awareness of bannon, their awareness of the committee hearings. there are a number of people who said they are aware of the hearings, they ve paid a little attention. it s clear the judge wants to be very careful that he s putting together a jury pool that doesn t have a preconceived motion about whether steve bannon is guilty or innocent in this case. look, there s a lot on the line for steve bannon. he s facing two criminal contempt of congress charges. if he s convicted, he could face anywhere from 30 d
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decision starting with a reversal a federal abortion rights have left america s political fault lines even deeper. on one side of the divide are blue states racing to codify abortion rights and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side are mostly red states that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortion with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishment for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. if not just an outright national ban. of course, rose reversal was just one ruling of the court s conservative majority. it has also issued a full slate of decisions on guns, the environment and voting rights. that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court usually is. by all accounts will be for sometime. is america being remade by the rulings? that is the big question on politicsnation. and another big question, just h
wind at their backs. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. a little. they re hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 but republicans felt very good heading into this special. they were hoping they could flip this. abortion rights became the central issue in this race, democrats made it so, much more on this in just a moment. also in new york congressman jerry nadler easily defeated he is a powerful committee chair he easily defeated powerful committee chair carolyn maloney in a bitter race that really got to the redirstrictin struggles the democrats had in new york. in florida democratic congr
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decisions, starting with the reversal of federal abortion rights, have left americas political fault lines even deeper. on the one side of the divide, our blue states, racing to codify the abortion rights. and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross the state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side is mostly red states, that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortions, with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishments for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. it s not just an outright national ban. of course roe v. wade s reversal was just one overruling of the by the court s conservative majority. guns, the environment, and voting rights, that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court truly is. by all accounts, will be for sometime. is america being remade by these rulings? that s the big question tonight on politicsnation. and another big question.