Cheney. Republican versus republican in an interview you will only see here. Drawing new battle lines over the gop s path forward. Her message, in our nbc news exclusive interview with savannah guthrie. It s an ongoing threat, so silence is not an option. How far are you willing to take this? would you run for president? this morning, the fallout and the fault lines. Mitch mcconnell siding with the wyoming congresswoman as the house gets ready to vote on cheney s replacement. We re live with the newest reporting including what kevin mccarthy just had to say and the road to leadership getting bumpy. The calls against elise stefanik coming from inside the house, quite literally. The possible challenge in the works just hours before a candidate forum. Plus, this morning, that key pipeline is back online. When the nation s fuel supply could get back to normal with a lot of gas stations still running on empty and the what the president is doing now on cyber defense. In the fight against the
In a minute i ll talk to congressman bennie thompson, architect of the january 6th commission as the same house republicans who cowered in fear of a violent mob are now calling it a school field trip, if they admit it happened at all. That s because the gop has channelled racism for political gain for so long that they cannot imagine winning without it. So every concern, including our national security comes second to either getting votes or suppressing them. And in just a few minutes, i ll talk to our nation s first latino senator, california democrat alex padilla about the sale mate over voting rights in the senate and the gop s fear of our demographic future. But first, the insurrection and litigating the big lie. My first guest to get us started, congressman bennie thompson, democratic of mississippi. He is the chair of the homeland security committee, and this week was put in charge of an independent commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection at the capitol. Congressma
Meghan and harry welcome a new baby. Her name ahead. Vaccine holdout, why some people in underserved communities still aren t getting shots. Hollywood is projecting a movie comeback on the big screen. Will audiences ever return? and later, gamechanger, a sneaker entrepreneur works to empower his community. This is the cbs weekend news, from new york, here s jericka duncan. Duncan: good evening. Spring is sizzling. From the midwest to the northeast millions of americans have spent the weekend trying to keep cool. Several temperature records have been broken. In the south severe storms have also swamped the gulf coast, while fire scorches parts of the west. Cbs tom hanson is in new york and has more on the nation s weather extremes. Tom, good evening. Reporter: good evening, jericka. As you can see behind me bryant park is very busy with new yorkers trying to beat the heat. Today temperatures hit 92 degrees and just to give context that is 40 degrees higher than just one week ago. Throu
For protecting voting rights and our democracy or you are against. The trump lies are not going away. If anything, they are cementing. One of the new claims out there is that donald trump will be reinstated as president by august. Charlie sykes writes, this should remind us that, quote, even though an idea is take, the consequences of a new big lie can be very real and even deadly. Delegitimizing our democracy is now central to trump s agenda and his hopes for a political comeback. There are consequences for republicans that don t fully support trump s effort to overturn the election. This weekend in georgia, governor kemp was met with boos at his party s convention. Republican backlash started growing against kemp after he followed state law by certifying biden s win in georgia. Once again, we ask how a country moves forward when nearly half of it can t accept simple facts? joining me ben collins and juanita tolliver and max boot. I want to start with manchin s opposition. Take a list
Years. That number could make things much more difficult for president biden as he gets ready to hold a highstakes meeting with congressional leaders at the white house this morning on his infrastructure plan. And in just two hours a cdc panel could give the official green light for kids ages 12 to 15 to get the pfizer vaccine, but some states, they are not even waiting. I have the best group of people here this morning to help us break this down. Darren hake, and my old and dear friend matthew dowd, founder of country over party. Garrett, i ve got to start with you. Set the stage, the gop house meeting is going on right now, what s happening? this has been a longawaited meeting and there s not going to be, we suspect, much drama to it. This meeting is behind closed doors and it is the weekly house republican meeting and today s will include a motion from some woman to recall the conference chairwoman liz cheney. There will be a vote, likely a secret ballot and it is not entirely clear