presidential candidate, ron desantis, has refused to put stricter covid protocols in place so the numbers only likely to climb. for anyone who thinks the worst is behind us, i have an alarming visual that might make you think twice. louisiana s spike in new cases is rising to levels not seen since the winter surge. that s right. it now has the highest rate of new cases per capita in the nation. its hospitalizations have quadrupled, quadrupled in just the last three weeks. rising cases. rising hospitalizations. you know what s coming next, unfortunately rising numbers of dead. unlike the holiday surge, this time we have the vaccines. all of this is preventible. cnn national correspondent suzanne malveaux is in jefferson parish near new orleans. suzanne, how concerned are louisiana officials right now? it sounds like this is really getting out of control down there. reporter: jim, we re in crisis mode at this point. the governor, governor edwards, saying this is a perfect sto
terrible workmates. are you kidding? do these not bend the [ bleep ] back? no. everybody trying to get along. one problem with hiring women is that they re frail and breakable. is it possible you re thinking about light bulbs or your hip? hilarious. what do you say to that? whoa. ow! let s talk about earning a living. yeah. have you ever done it? no, but i could. ha! lucille ball with the chocolates, always funny. if one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped, you re fired. all the writers needed to say was louis you why at lucy at a conveyor belt. you re good. [ laughter ] some of the most memorable episodes of i love lucy are when she gets a job outside of the home but it always unravels. you re doing splendidly. speed it up! when sitcoms started, they were family sitcoms and for years, that s all there was. and then we move into the 1960s, we start to see more people working in an office than on a fact
happy free friday, everyone. almost the weekend, or what kat likes to call a two day blackout. speaking of, lisa boothe is back on the show. quite an achievement, given [applause] sure, why not. while go, somebody had a problem back there. i guess we should be grateful given her and kat s commute to the studio today. you think that is bad, you should see the park. chicks. a sexist would say that. so, you know what i love more than world peace, red wine, and light bondage? a poll on americans trust in the media is like injecting adorable puppies into my waiting veins, and lo and behold, we got one. new gallup poll shows 75% of the country has no faith in legacy media. it s funny people still use newspapers to get their news. a way to start the day before they spend the next 12 hours churning their own butter. but only 21% of respondents said they had a great deal of confidence in newspapers, which of course they get from reading [laughter] it was worse for tv news at 16%,
angle. today, vice president harris traveled to texas to check the border box and play a game of make-believe. it is important to be clear, working to build a fair and functional we feel very strongly about that and i do know we inherited a tough situation and in five months we have made progress but there is still much more work to be done but we ve made progress. laura: progress? lies and more lies. number one, she and biden were not handed a tough situation at the border. they created a disaster at the border, they did. thanks to trump s remain in mexico policy and aggressive interior enforcement, illegal immigration crossings were driven way down under trump and number two, by progress she means total abdication because most americans define progress at the border as a reduction in the number of illegal crossers. but for biden and harris, i guess progress means an increase in crossing regardless of the harm and cost to the american people. i like to call this open b
jeopardy. israel bombs gaza days after a new government takes shape. what led to this latest flare-up of violence. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we begin today with our world lead, and this historic high-stakes summit president president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin. the summit lasted roughly three hours with both leaders describing it as constructive and positive. they said there were no threats or ultimatums, and putin called biden balanced, professional and experienced. i did what i came to do. the tone of the entire meetings, i guess it was a total of four hours, was what was was good, positive. there wasn t any any strident action taken. where we disagreed, disagreed, stated where it was and where he disagreed it was stated but it was not done in a hyperbolic atmosphere. translator: the meeting was actually very efficient. it was substantive. it was specific. and it was aimed at achieving results. one of t