i m laura jarrett. happy friday. happy friday. i m christine romans. nice to see you. march 12th. 5 a.m. exactly in new york. start the clock. president biden offering this hopeful path out of the pandemic and he s giving a time line by early summer. in the first primetime address he urged all-americans to do their part. if we do all of this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th there s a good chance you, family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard, neighborhood, have a cookout, barbecue, celebrate independence day. here the president urging all states to make all adults eligible for a vaccine available in two months. jasmine, we have dates here. vaccines on the way for everyone. lay out the president s goals. reporter: well, last night, laura, the president really did two things. he tapped into the empathizer in chief role that we are getting to know from him so well meeting with americans, as you said, to do their part. he
Media and politics these days and leads to real world violence and murder. Ill talk about it an author. Good evening. Im mehdi hassan. Since this show launched in october ive been warning about the crisis of democracy that has been engulfing this nation. And im sorry to have to report this to you. But the past week has brought even more confirmation that the crisis continues to get worse. In texas despite the slight reprieve republicans remain determined to pass a bill that would enact new and horrific restricts on voting. Governor greg abbot says the bill will be back in november. Its one of nine bills to restrict voting now in the lone star state. Texas republicans were fully prepared to sign the measure into law at the end of may had House Democrats not successfully staged an 11th hour walkout to block the measure. Republicans are being shamed to make the bill better. A provision to take away early voting on sunday to hinder church goers, absolutely not. One of the bills architects
the fbi and federal prosecutors say there was never any real threat to the public and they say the suspects were closely monitored and their would-be explosives were duds controlled by an undercover fbi employee. the feds say three of the five men are self-proclaimed anarchists and that s why they were busted. the fbi and department of justice are not conducting an investigation of any group and have not, will not conduct an investigation of any group. today s charges should not indicate anything different. this was an investigation of specific, five specific individuals based upon specific actions and predication. they re now charged with a specific crimes as alleged in the complaint. the fbi and the department of justice are not and do not investigate movements. we investigate crimes. all right, so, the five were arrested last night and are due in federal court some time today. we re following that. we re also hearing of new and urgent precautions against so-called body
the largest haul yet. the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear-cut front-runner. so if the polls are right, mitt romney could be coasting to an easy win. cnn s john zarella is at a polling place in tampa. john s, how s the turnout been? reporter: real good. this is actually the largest republican precinct in hillsboro county, the tampa area. about 3800 registered republicans here, and turnout has been very good this morning. a lot of people going before work. a lot of families coming before dropping off their kids at school. so quite a good turnout. there s 232,000 registered republicans in hillsboro county. i talked to the election supervisor a little while ago. he was telling me that they expected a very good turnout counting all of the early voting and the people that are likely to vote today could be 40 to 50%, he said, of that 232,000. so he expects quite a few people to vote today. here, kyra, is an example of the ballot we were talking about earl
100 countries at international organizations are meeting in bonn to talk about how to help afghanistan move forward. foreign combat troops are expected to withwithdraw from there. one country absent is pakistan. its officials are boycotting it in protest over an american air strike that killed 24 pakistani soldiers. state media report it was a death drone. nato says a reconnaissance aircraft was lost last week over western afghanistan which borders iran. iranian media say the drone was only slightly damaged. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. hello and welcome to world business today. i m andrew stevens in hong kong. i m charles hodson in london. thanks for joining us. top stories on monday, december 5th, it s make or break in europe. leaders have five days to save the single currency, it seems. beijing s fears about social unrest grow as more signs emerges that the economy is cooling. and a dozen supercars are smashed to smithereens in ja