Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all Around The World. It is friday, may 28th, and the u. S. Senate up all night, not to get lucky in the words of deaf punk, but the deaf part might be applicable. Republicans are on the path to block apy bipartisan vote on th insurrection. That vote might not happen until this afternoon. Why not earlier . Theres a deploying of Stall Stack Ticks on another bill. You may recall ron johnson denying the work of the insurrection and calling it a protest. Many were elderly, overweight, plain tired or frail, traits not tippic cal to the riotprone. They would never do anything to break the law, and so i wasnt concerned. Had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. One of the reasons im being attacked is because i very honestly said i didnt feel threatened on january 6th. I didnt. There was much more violence on the house side. The fact of the matter is even calling it insurrection, it wasnt. I condemn the breach, the violence, but to say there were thousands of Armed Insurrectionists Breaching the capitol, intent on overthrowing the government is simply false narrative. By and large it was peaceful protests except for there were a number of people, basically ang taters with the crowd and breached the capitol, and, you know, thats really the truth of whats happening here. The senate is back in session here in just hours and sources are telling cnn that over the past 24 hours, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell has ramped up pressure on his colleagues to oppose the measure, asking wavering senators to support a filibuster as a personal favor. Joining us now chief domestic correspondent jim acosta. Sir, its very nice to see you on the new day set. Listen, Mitch Mcconnell making calls asking for a personal favor to vote on this bipartisan commission. This is after the shenanigans all night long just delaying the ultimate, which is a filibuster to block looking into what happened on january 6th. Your take. I mean, john, brianna, Mitch Mcconnell t rest of the Republican Party on the senate side and even in the house, theyre now likely to become the complicit caucus. Theyre going to drive the getaway car for donald trump for what happened on january 6th, and, you know, what is going to happen here obviously if they knock down this January 6th Commission is were going to see Democrats On The House Side and on the senate side, you know, set Committee Hearings to investigate. I talked to a couple of House Democrats last night who said, listen, of course, were going to do this. Theres no question were going to investigate this and theyre going to be subpoenaing witnesses, going to be investigating what happened. But it just boggles the mind that on the republican side and look the other way and not get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th, not get to the bottom of the intelligence breakdown, why was it that, you know, there were leads coming and tips coming into the Capitol Police to the fbi and they didnt follow up on it. What was donald trump doing that day . I talk fog a senior white house official who said he was loving the capitol mob that day. What was he up to . Were not going to get the bottom of those things unless we investigate and it seems like theyre going to do it on their own. The divide was on full display last night, jim. You saw matt gaetz and Marjorie Taylor greene having their own event, very much in contrast to former House Speaker paul ryan. Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads. Taking advice on Party Building from paul ryan would be like taking advice from how to interact with your inlaws from megan mark kl. If they appeal to one personality or imitations, were not going anywhere. This is Donald Trumps party and im a donald trump republican. It was dishonorable. Weve got clear something up. Who won the president ial race on november 3rd for georgia . Voting for Republican Leaders are looking for mettle. Would it not be better to move on and look forward to trump in 2024 instead of looking backward . No, because this is too great of a crime. Were not going to let it go. You know, nazis were the National Socialist party just like the democrats are now a National Socialist party. You dont need me to tell you, a lot of people dont like greene. Thats okay because, you know whatd . A lot of people didnt like jesus christ. Reporter sometimes theyre Outranked Pedders detached from reality and not worth anybodys time. Actually i dont know exactly what was said about the holocaust as to what she said. Yeah, she compared covid restrictions to the holocaust. Well, i can understand that with Meningly The Nazi who experimented with children and drugs. Youre talking about the vaccine. Yes. Wow. Its illuminating. Paul ryan, of course, hes speaking to republicans. Hes trying to make it okay to move away from trump, but you can see where the energy is here. Its with gaetz and greene. Yeah. Youd almost feel bad for paul ryan if he werent sitting on the board at fox news or when he was speaker and had the chance to head it off at the pass. He saw these extreme movements billing inside the Republican Party, he saw the rise of donald trump. I think it can be said pretty convincingly he didnt do enough to stop the rise of donald trump. What we see with matt gaetz and Marjorie Taylor greene, theyre the zombie party. Theyre roaming the countryside looking for brains to consume. There wasnt exactly a buffet of highminded people there available down in georgia last night. I mean one of the problems that i have with Marjorie Taylor greene, brianna, whats the deal with all the nazi talk . Why is she constantly making these holocaust and nazi references, never mind the fact that Political Science professors Around The World, their heads are exploding this morning with the way she throws around national socialism. She obviously doesnt know what shes talking about. This is a party paul ryan should have done more to stop a long time ago. My experience people who have a history of saying antisemitic things, things like jewish space lasers causing forest fires who then make comparisons between Health Measures and the holocaust and inspire, literally, im sick to my Stomach Hearing that woman bring up joseph men gala. It made my stomach turn, but you can see how she is affected by Marjorie Taylor greene. And if youre asking her greenes motivation, it gives you a sense of what is motivating them, jim. Paul ryan, what is he doing . He sent around the comments 12 hours before he gave the speech, like it was some dramatic line in the sand. Im sorry. Its done. Its done. Paul ryan is acting like theres a battle inside the Republican Party. Im like wheres the battle . Too late. Exactly. Hes too late. And, by the way, if he wants to stop extremism or do something about extremism in america, he sits on the board of fox news. He can do something about it right now. I described it as a Bullshit Factory at fox news. Its becoming a Dangerous Haven for extremist ideas, and the fact that they continue to paper over and whitewash what donald trump did on january 6th, half the clips you showed of ron johnson a few moments ago happened on fox news. Did those anchors step in and Say Something to ron johnson like, no, youre lying about what happened on january 6th . No. Its because of what they do over at that station that is just demolishing what was left of a civil discourse in this country. So if paul ryan wants to do something about it, enough with the speeches at the reagan library. Please give a speech on the avenues of america over in midtown manhattan. Thats where he could do some good. Breaking overnight, a stung escalation in russias cyber war against the United States, and this is something affecting all of this. Just weeks ahead of President Bidens summit with Vladimir Putin. The New York Times is reporting that microsoft has detected a new hack. Our Senior National security correspondent Alex Marquardt has more. Tell us about this attack, alex. Its a huge series of attacks that affected 3,000 email accounts across 150 organizations most across the United States. Most were humanitarian Rights Organizations this. Is according to microsoft who first detected and reported these attacks. The actor behind it is the same russian actor who is behind the russian Solar Winds Hack which the u. S. Government said just last month was carried out by russias main service which is called fvr. They have sanctioned russia for that as well as interfering with the election against joe biden. Democrats were kicked out from the embassy here in washington and that did not stop russia from carrying out more of these sinister cyber attacks. Now, the timing of this is critical. You mentioned it. It comes less than three weeks before President Biden and Vladimir Putin are set to meet facetoface in geneva. Theyve been a major factor. Of course, this is only going to make things worse. I did reach out to the white house this morning for a response. I have not heard back, but i have heard from the kremlin. They told cnn they dont know anything about these attacks, and putins spokesman said he doesnt believe its going affect anything when it comes to this upcoming summit. In terms of how the Russian Hackers caved out this wave of attacks, they used an Email Service that was used by the usaid. From there they sent out emails that look authentic. Take a look at this one from tuesday, earlier this week. It claims that donald trump has published new documents on election fraud. The link thats included in that email then installs a malicious file if you click on it, which allows the russian hack eers to get inside, steal data, and go on to infect other computers. Another remarkable part of this like with the solar wind breach, its yet again a private Company Announcing these attacks, not the u. S. Government. And, of course, it is clear the russian attacks have not slowed down. They have been stepped up despite the fact that the Biden Administration has carried out these recent actions and sanctions against russia, and President Bidens desire for what he calls a stable predictable relationship. Brianna. Many say this is predictable behavior from russia. It is. And at a critical time as you mentioned. Alex, great report. Thank you so much. Back with us is jim acosta, and also joining us in this is Cnn Counteranalyst and intelligence adviser phil mudd. Phil, i think were starting to see how these things affect us day to day. We saw that with the pipeline attack. How should we read this one . Well, i dont see this as a cyber attack. I know it looks like that to me. I see this as cyber espionage. Look, brianna. 30 years ago if putin wanted to acquire information from the u. S. Gocht which is clearly a priority for him, maybe more important than having a successful summit with President Biden, he may have had to steal documents. In this case you come through the back door. This looks like sish warfare. Its not. Its cyber espionage. Hes stealing information he would have had to get through documents from an informant years ago, brianna. To me this looks bs f brazend cheeky. Youre rubbing the administrations nose in this because it seems to me you know this is going to get out. You know this comes after the bienz administration exposed some sanctions expelled son diplomats. President biden said he didnt want to get into this cycle of escalation, and the russian are getting into i. What does the white house do about this . How does he meet with Vladimir Putin after being this cheeky . Putin is just putin. Brianna and i know after having covered him at the white house. The relationship between the United States and russia fundamentally changed when donald trump came into office. We saw him bow to him in helsinki. I think they feel they can be provocative and test the United States, flex their muscles in a region where they still have control over countries like bela r hes going to have to tell putin, if you dont knock this off, there are going to be consequences and it cant be minimal. Putin has not gotten the message no matter whos in the office. These provocations are going to keep on happening. I think you are right. Jim acosta, thank you so much. 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As we look at may 20th, its an 18 increase in cases at a time when the uk has done such a good job of controlling cases. It turns out that in the uk, 50 to 75 of the cases are an india variant. Thats quite a by. Thats a big chunk of their cases. Lets talk a little bit about the vaccine. We dont know exactly how effective the vaccine is against the india variant, but we know theres one study that looks at pfizer, for example, and says the vaccine is 80 effective against the variant first spotted in india. Thats not as good as 95 . But its a really, really good va