served as party leader. senator, i appreciate you joining us. ment i m prone to say thank you i mean say sorry for your loss but sorry for all of our loss. bob dole meant so much to the country. you say you would have gone over a cliff for that guy? what do you mean? i was in the military, too, in the infantry and he was obviously heavily decorated. i said to him when i became the assistant leader, i was the assistant leader for ten years and i said, you know, i know what leadership is. you don t have to worry about anything. there s no footsteps behind you. i m not interested in your job, and we made things work and he worked hard with the other side of the aisle. he worked well with bob dole, robert byrd and daschle and mitchell. i was the assistant when we had al cranston of california.
it s under investigation so no, we haven t ruled out charging anyone. right now we re focused on i m focused on making sure this community knows our first priority is keeping the community safe and holding the people accountable who could have prevented this and right now the crumbleys are those two people. none of this should have happened. a 15 1/2-year-old should not be sitting in jail facing life in prison. these children who were terrorized and killed and shot, none of it should have happened and it could have been prevented. karen, i really appreciate you joining us. obviously there s so many details we do not know. i know that is on purpose, but i appreciate you sharing with us what you can. karen mcdonald, thank you. thank you. back with us now, elie honig, senior legal analyst, former federal prosecutor.
this morning for the first time in two months, the u.s. is averaging more than 120,000 new covid-19 cases each day. the vast majority of new cases continue to be from the delta variant but u.s. health officials detected the new omicron variant in at least 17 states. meanwhile in south africa where omicron was first detected, coronavirus cases are spiking. however, south africa s president says hospitalizations from omicron are not increasing at an alarming rate. joining us now is an epidemiologist from south africa who has helped lead his country s covid response, salim abdool karim. thank you for joining us today. i want to start with two big questions. is this more transmissible and are you seeing it evade vaccines? very good day to you. when we look at the virus itself, it has several mutations that should confer on it the
elie honig, thank you very much. so new u.s. intelligence estimate russia could amass up to 175,000 troops along the border with ukraine, coming ahead of the high stakes talks tomorrow between joe biden and vladimir putin. joining us is jim sciutto. you helped break a lot of this news about russia, what russia is doing on the border and the plans to invade and now plans they have drafted for a possible invasion, i hope i m phrasing that correctly. bottom line is president biden will speak to vladimir putin tomorrow. what is this conversation going to be like? difficult one. not just plans. it s resources and u.s. intel assessments have been glaring red for weeks because of the weight of resources russia amassed on and along the ukraine border. could you see it here, it s in the photos. this was an empty deployment area june 16th, 2021, this is after it is filled with heavy
john avlon. we can agree that one is too many. to see anyone marching on white supremacists to the lincoln memorial is a sight none of us ever wants to see. there s something almost too on the nose about having a bunch of guys dressed up like they re ready to go to war, dressed up with battle armor and shields because in their minds the civil war never ended. right. what they re chanting is always so telling. reclaim america. when was america taken and who was it taken from and by whom? they feel like it s been taken from white folks. when are brown and black people we re applying logic to anx anxiety. there is something so remarkable about having self-avowed white nationalists, white supremacists walking, marching on a memorial for somebody who signed the