just around the corner, republicans and democrats are raising the stakes as senate democrats celebrate the passage of their major spending legislation, republicans also gain an edge of sorts by forcing democrats to vote and show their cards on several key midterm issues. moderates appear to be left with a bad hand. republicans are preparing to up the ante with plans to target moderates in november and beyond in 2024. congressional correspondent asha has any is on capitol hill with our report. good evening, asha. good evening to you, mike. that s right, senators are headed back home for the august recess. handing the baton to the house which is expected to vote on this massive tax and spending plan on friday. republicans in the meantime promising democrats will pay the price in the midterms. [cheers] it was a feat some didn t think was possible. i put in one word persistence. even republican senator josh hawley tweeting tonight i will give the dems this with a 50/50 se
shooting now charged with seven counts of first degree murder. more charges coming police say. police say they had two calls about the gunman back in 2019, one in april was a report about him attempting suicide. that was ultimately handled by mental health professionals. and then in september, a family member called police saying he had threatened to, quote, kill everyone. in that case officers con confiscated a collection of knives and a sword. at this point they say there was who probable cause to arrest him, but a short time later he legally purchased five firearms including a pistol and the high powered rifle he used to kill innocent people. which raises questions about the earlier police visits and whether more could have been done to prevent this tragedy. investigators also revealing the suspect may have been planning this attack for weeks, several weeks. and they say that afterwards he wore women s clothing as you see here to conceal his identity and facial tattoos. th
geopolitically it s hard to keep it straight. everyone was stunned this week by the killing of al~qaeda s top leader al-zawahiri. he was hiding in plain sight under the de facto government s motor, the taliban. the war in ukraine needs to be the top challenge that needs to be confronted. we have an indomitable enemy, the answer is staring us straight in the face, it s china. retaliating for nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan. how would we do in a military maxup. if you are simply doing that, you are missing the point. if you want batteries to put in your gas guzzling car, china. or batteries for your new electric vehicle, think china. you want to upgrade your iphone, think china. you want a mask for the mandates that keep coming back and back. think china. if you have a fever or infection, think china. fresh new pair of sneakers, china. the list goes on and on. until we decide as a country that pay the tim means that patriotism means more than money. we have a military crisis
court nominee clarence thomas. televised hearings that featured blockbuster testimony from professor anita hill who detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment by judge thomas who was her supervisor at two government agencies. after approximately three months of working there, he asked me to go out socially with him. what happened next and tlling the world about it are the two most difficult experiences of my life. but when i was asked by a representative of this committee to report my experience, i felt that i had to tell the truth. the hearing sparked a national debate about sexual harassment and a time when such harassment went largely ignored and unpunished. it also brought attention to a troubling dynamic, the senate judiciary committee led by then senator joe biden was composed solely of old white guys. sharply and sometimes rudely questioning a black law professor about what happened to her. no women serve on that committee in 1991. well, that was about to
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. six people dead, several more wounded, and now one man arrested. those are the bare facts of another mass shooting in the us. this time in a well to do suburb just north of chicago, at the start of a fourth ofjuly day of celebration. hundreds of people, mums, dads and their children had embarked on a parade through highland park, when a gunman started firing from a rooftop, armed with a high powered rifle. nomia iqbal has this report. the independence day parade had just started. americans in this wealthy chicago suburb were out in the sunshine, celebrating the day their country became an independent nation. gunfire child: are you kidding me right now? - ten minutes in, shots rang out. there was confusion and panic. people moved quickly for safety. rapid gunfire i remember hearing shootings, going like. tsh tsh tsh. and then reloading and then again. and people screaming and running. i thought it was the navy| tha