morning. absolutely. thank you. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. we are learning more about the man in custody accused of attacking a staffer, intern for democratic congressman gerry connolly. he didn t have any particular motivation, he was on a tear. we have to assess the security we do or do not provide district offices. it s concerning and quite frankly scary. the clock is ticking closer to what would be the first debt deno-fault american history. we don t know what the economic impacts will really be. and that s the scariest part. the fact of the matter is they re now negotiating. they have to. you have to have something done by this weekend. we are nowhere near any of that. after four years and millions of taxpayer dollars, durham report is out. got his own information, which is this information plus plus plus. this report does nothing. it is absolutely a big zero. florida governor ron desantis is expected to launch
some of my favorite movies. a live look at philadelphia this morning where voters are heading to the polls in a mayoral primary races. nine democrats are running for their party s nomination. there s only one republican candidate. democrats outnumber republicans 7 to 1 in the city of philadelphia. whoever ultimately emerges as a winner will likely be a player in the 2024 presidential election. of course, that s not the only place where voters are going to the polls today. republicans in kentucky are also doing the same thing this morning. in a race that s going to test president trump s influence over the republican party against other potential 2024 rifles of his. voters are deciding who will take on the current democrat ic governor andy beshear this november. it s 12 republican candidates on the ballot today. three of them have made their way to the front of the pack and our cnn national politics reporter is louisville this morning tracking all of these
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the june numbers will look exactly like they did in may. maybe a little bit uptick more. again this crisis continues and mayorkas is ignoring the simple fact that we ve got to do something to control the border. griff: brandon judd, thank you. gillian. gillian: the white house has narrowly missed its goal to have 70% of adults partially vaccinated by yesterday july 4th. president biden struck an optimistic tone last night addressing the country s recovery from the pandemic. mark meredith is at the white house this morning tracking all of this. good morning to you. last night president biden hosted a huge crowd here at the white house for the fourth of july. it was one of the biggest events yet we have seen from this administration and it seemed to mark a new era for the administration. a post pandemic lifestyle but last night the president talked about the still ongoing battle
economic momentum. we have our reporters at the white house and on capitol hill this morning tracking where the negotiations stand. let s start at the white house with cnn s jasmine wright. jasmine, there was a chance for the bipartisan breakthrough president biden was looking for after meeting with senator shelly capato at the white house this week but he rejected her offer. where do things stand now? that s right. listen. it is a critical time for president biden as you said, the sides are very far apart and how president biden proceeds could dictate exactly what priorities he is able to pass by midterms because we know that is going to be a big battle over control of congress. so as you said, president biden rejected republicans latest proposal on that infrastructure and jobs plan. it came out to about 950 billion dollars with 300 billion in new