President Kamala Harris to speak together at a Labor Day Rally in the key Battleground State of Pennsylvania President stepping up his new role as a top Paris Campaign surrogate also this hour, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing hamas will pay a heavy we price after the bodies of six hostages were recovered In Gaza. And hes asking for forgiveness amid huge protests over his failure to secure a hostage release deal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the race for the White House we begin with the race for the White House as Labor Day, marks, the unofficial kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day. Were standing by for Kamala Harris to make her pitch to Working Class Voters in pittsburgh with a high profile assist from president Joe Biden, cnns kayla tausche. She is on the ground for us and joins us now, kayla, pennsylvania is a mustwin for K
What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting after Senate Republicans on a sweeping new Voting Rights action in laws in red states. Democratic governor joe manchin voted to debate, after receiving assurances that his compromise would be considered. At the end, the vote was split 50 50, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the republican filibuster. Heres what will we heard on the senate floor yesterday. Theres no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. And theres no design to hand states constitutional authorities over to
Might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . We all ready . Let me welcome all of you, and thank you for being here. This has been a group thats been in labor of intense effort and i know every one of us want to thank our staffs because theyve done yeomans work. As you can see, we have with us a bipartisan, Bicameral Group of people that have been working diligently for the last 30 days or more trying to get to a conclusion and a template, if you will, or a framework. This is covid emergency relief framework, its exactly what it is. Take your mask off. You cant hear me . Okay. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work that the staffs have been doing for quite some time and every senator, every congressperson here has put in an enormous amount of time on this in person and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. Weve worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, is g
Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs and was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, and that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity, nita lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women for chair of the appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, following in the footsteps of another new yorker, eliot engel. And the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to be the chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of the great leadership of collin peterson. Greg meeks is also africanamerican. Pretty historic. A woman and africanamerican. In contested races. Throughout our leadership, half of the leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. There are more chairs to be announced, but these ar
Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, footsteps of he the first woman to serve in that lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs ommittee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, footsteps of he another new yorker, eliot engel. Chair of the ag from tee, david scott georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of leadership of collin peterson. Africanamerican. Historic. Africanamerican. Contested races. Throughout our leadership, half leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. Here are more chairs to be announced, but these are the nes that related to rules and budget related to the steering and policy committees. Two of the speakers announcements that i made. Others will