election lice whachlt did they learn? the chairman of the committee dick durbin, joins me next. plus millions of americans in danger of losing their homes can now breathe a sigh of relief because one democratic member of congress drove the most powerful person in washington to take action i ll speak to the leader of the protest, congresswoman cori bush, ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is in rewind. for the first time since february, the u.s. is averaging more than 100,000 new covid cases per day. hospitalizations and deaths are also once again on the rise. almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. president biden this week flash nud levels of frustration, rebuking republican governors for standing in the way of vaccine and mask requirements. some governors aren t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic and should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. i say to these govern
about to address troops very shortly. we ll bring that to you live when it happens. the president and first lady have just arrived moments ago. again, this is his first international trip since taking office. the next eight days will be packed with meetings with u.s. allies. many of them eager to move past the turmoil of the last administration. and cooperate on some of the most pressing problems. of course, we know the global vaccination efforts, climate change, cyber security, terrorism. he ll also meet with russian president vladimir putin. we ll have a team of reporters and analysts to put this trip into perspective. bringing back jeff zeleny in the uk, and cnn s clarissa ward is in london. and cnn s chief political analyst gloria borger and also with us aaron david miller. so, jeff, before touching down, the president made the news and you broke it here of vaccines, a half billion doses around the world. talk more about the timing is obvious, but we know this is some
queen elizabeth, nato summit, first face-to-face since taking office with vladimir putin of russia. that comes in the wake of several suspected russian cyber attacks. cnn white house correspondent phil mattingly is with us. what is the president s big-picture goal here, the big headline when it comes to diplomacy? reporter: i think there s an understanding these are priorities. i think these first four trips they are taking, the president and have the president, underscore what matters most right now. from president biden s point of view, he made clear at his speech at the state department on, re-establishing those transatlantic bonds, re-establishing bonds the white house feels were ruptured, to some degree, with the past administration, is critical to what they re trying to do going forward. i think that s what you re going to see in the first couple of stops on this trip. the g-7, nato summit, all leading into that very consequential meeting with russian president vladim
life has returned, right? thank god we have returned and it has been a challenge, this last year has been a killer. children going to work in north korean coal mines, and the state says they are volunteers and the human rights groups say they are victims. i m pamela brown in washington on this sunday. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom. it s great to have you along with us tonight. 389. that is how many bills with provisions that restrict voting have been introduced across the country just this year. that same tally by the leaning liberal center say they have enacted 22 new laws making it harder to vote, and in texas republican state lawmakers working to pass a law by the midnight deadline. this new law would ban drive-through voting and ballot drop boxes and sunday morning voting and give more partisan p poll watchers, and republican u.s. congressman of texas defended the new bill this morning on cnn.
watch this. let me just repeat that today s report of the unemployment rate down 4.8%, significant improvement from when i took office and assigned to a recovery is moving forward. even in the case of the speech when he says pandemic. jobs are up, wages up, unemployment down. that s progress. it s a tribute to the hard work and resiliency of the american people. today we see more evidence of the progress we are making. i know we can make a lot more in the days ahead. jason: per usual, joe biden took zero questions after his speech and jetted off to wilmington, delaware, for d another restful weekend away from the white house. said biden s job approval numbers are at an all-time low. the numbers are so bad that even cnn is saying there is a sense for alarm. but even jen psaki said there is a unvaccinated americans are to blame. watch this. what do you make of these pretty terrible polls? is he doing things that have to be done? look, i would say that this is a really