we begin with breaking news from the white house. president biden has tested positive for covid-19, again. after about the position to the president says we re four consecutive days of negative tests. president biden tweeted, quote, i have got no symptoms but i am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me. and the physicians update said, this development represents what he is calling rebound positivity. but for now, there is no reason to bring in a sheet treatment. we are going to bring you any updates as we get them. but first, let s get caught up on a busy week, y all. big moves by the january six committee, and the justice department. we are going to break those down in just a few minutes. but first, something you probably thought would never happen. i know i was skeptical. democrats finally agreed on legislation to curb climate change. and to get the economy a boost. the inflation protection act came about after intense negotiations with senator chuck schumer
well, you re welcome, we the travel east point about taking the abstracting concretizing it, they re not thought experiments anymore, it s really humans lives and it s real peoples lives. i do think that public opinion is more on the side of common sense on these questions than the republican party s, and we ll see how that plays out. we will see, indeed, i m a sun studio, come back soon. i will. thanks for joining us this hour, tonight, as donald trump s former s vice president considers talking to the january 6th investigation, his former lawyer testifies before an atlanta grand jury, and his longtime cfo prepares to plead guilty in turn on the trump organization. despite the presidents considerable legal woes, he can t seem to find any qualified attorneys to represent him. oh speak to caroline, who joins us live. then we go down to florida, where republican governor ron desantis has given some new lessons for revisionist history, and christian nationalism. new y
right pause because of the power of this factual evidence. take the republican prosecutor we have cited before, andrew mccarthy. a fox-news favorite, who wrote a whole book defending trump in the mueller probe, and accusing others of pushing the real collusion, which is one reason he is on fox quite a bit and has a huge conservative legal following. he was also appointee in the southern district of york under rudy giuliani himself, so he is a reagan appointee and that doj. but he is also someone who and you see his face on the screen you may recognize him because he is on fox he is someone who says he also tries to deal with legal analysis. perhaps, it is a more confident variety. he clearly was in the reagan revolution but he is respond to the evidence. he says when you look at the evidence, as a criminal-legal matter, it is devastating against trump, and that the new evidence in that hearing makes a big difference. he is saying this in public and this week, he is now e
of covid isolation. the predominant symptom is a sore throat. this is a president who has at this moment a mild respiratory illness. this is really good news. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. dangerous heat and a state of emergency. the oak fire explodes near yosemite national park in california. in fact it has devoured more than 14,000 acres and is zero percent contained since it erupted friday. at least ten buildings are destroyed and thousands more are in danger tonight. the wildfire rages as much of the country deals with extreme heat including triple digits in part of california. more than 90 million people are under heat alerts. new york has registered at least one heat-related death. some cities such as boston and newark, new jersey, have seen the mercury exceed 100 degrees. we have reporters and meteorologists nationwide covering the heat wave and the changing climate. cnn s pole o sandoval is in new york. reporter: new yorker
killed. phoenix, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down and 8 others shot at a strip mall in south carolina, where bullets tore through a graduation party, leaving one dead and others injured, six children. in texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. add those numbers up with the other mass shootings over the first months of 2022, and you get 240 mass shootings. let me say that again. 240 mass shootings already this year, in a year that s not even half over. what will republican governors, legislators, and members of congress do to stop the continued killing of our children in schools, our teenagers at malls, our mothers at graduation parties, our families in church, our grandmothers in supermarkets, our friends at country music festivals? it looks like nothing. nothing to speak of. i just want to know, this so-called party of life, which is anything but, when will they ever respect the life of those who are actually drawing a breath? i don t know. it looks like never. but i will