she can play doubles for another five, ten years, but also they need to bring that same energy for every mactch. i guess they expected last night would be the last one, they have to bring the we love serena signs every night moving forward. how could she walk away from something that brings her this much joy. it s the top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. any moment now in pennsylvania, president biden will give a speech on gun safety. he s promoting his safer america plan, which includes increased funding for police and public safety along with a renewed push for an assault weapons ban. this is the first of three trips to pennsylvania in the coming days. on thursday, president biden will deliver a prime time speech in philadelphia. he ll be back on labor day in pittsburgh to celebrate american workers. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling with the president in wilkes bury, pennsylvania, what can we expect from the presi
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
hot texas sun. and now word of children among the victims. plus, shocking new video of a powerful blast in the war that russia started, as the u.s. and allies rush to prevent any chance of a similar fate in two other countries. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and the paulout from the damning, stunning january 6th hearing yesterday. it is becoming more and more clear just how distressed trump and his allies seem to be in the wake of the testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. based on how relentlessly they re attacking her. nonetheless, the former top aide to the chief of staff, mark meadows, is standing by her comments. cassidy hutchinson s lawyers telling us in a statement, you re hearing about first on cnn, quote, ms. hutchinson stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday. under oath, to the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. unquote. now, one mig
told cnn, that a witness has no corroborated details of a story, first related by cassidy hutchinson about a confrontation between the former president and his security detail the day of the attack. here s how cassidy hutchinson retired recounted the details to the committee. the president said something to the effect of, i am the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel, mr. engel grabbed his arm and said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle and mr. grenada had recounted the story to me, he motioned towards his clavicle s. it was mr. engle in the room as mr. renato told you the story? he was. did mr. engle correct or disagree with any part of the story for mr.