It is wednesday, june 2nd. It is 5 00 a. M. In new york. Good morning, everyone. President biden starting to pull off the gloves, slowly but forcefully. He is beginning to push forward on several fronts where his restraint until now has frustrated his party, racial inequity, infrastructure, arctic drilling, the remain in it mexico policy. All in just the last few days. And, of course, Voting Rights. Sfwh at an event commemorating the 100th anniversary on a white mob Massacres Hundreds of residents in tulsa, biden said he is tapping Kamala Harris to lead the fight against republican efforts to make it harder to vote. The president vowed to fight like heck to protect voting from gop assault. This second right is under assault with incredible intensity even though i got started as a public defender and civil rights lawyer. With an Intensity And Aggressiveness that we have not seen in a long, long time. It simply unamerican. Democrats fear bidens low key approach on voting thus far puts fair elections and the Partys Future at us are being. Senate Minority Leader Chuck schumer promises to take up a bill in the next few weeks. A voting Rights Bill Cant go anywhere in congress. He addressed this head on tuesday specifically taking aim at two democratic senators for standing in the way of his agenda. Cnns Daniella Diaz is live on capitol hill. He seemed to reference the two democratic senators. Of course, he didnt name them. But president Joe Biden took a swipe at two moderate democratic senators, Joe Manchin for what he claims is them voting more with republicans than democrats. Thats absolutely not true. Take a listen. I hear the folks on Tv Saying why didnt biden get this done . Well, because biden only has a majority of four votes in it the house and a tie in the senate. With two mebsmbers of the senat voting more my republican friends. But were not giving up. You know, he doesnt say their names. He is clearly referencing the two senators who even though theyve always voted with the president on major issue passed through the senate, theyre linchpins on some issues with his agenda. Also they oppose nuking the filibuster. The 60 Vote Threshold needed for legislation to pass through the senate which means they need some republicans to sign on to legislation. Bidens growing nor frustrated. You referenced that there are major issues that he is tryight infrastructure and he is facing pressure to act on the issue which is why he is vocally voicing opposition towards the two democratic senators who tend to oppose hum on some of these issues. Bottom line, he is growing more frustrated. He is becoming vocal even though hes not naming them in showing his frustration to Joe Manchin and sometimes opposing parts of his agenda. Entering a in you tone for this administration as trying to move things forward. Another infrastructure Cyber Attack. This time a meat, the usda asked u. S. 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Andy shoals is here. Good morning. Naomi osaka withdrew from the fre French Open after they came together to release a statement threatening to ban her if she did not speak with the media. She further explained her bouts with depression and anxiety. The four tournaments releasing another Statement Offering Support but they did not apologize. The Statement Reading in part, Mental Health is a challenging issue which deserves our most attention. It is complex and personal. As what affection one individual does not necessarily affect another. We commend naomi for sharing in her own words the pressures and anxiety she is feeling and we empathize with unique Pressures Tennis players may face. Osaka said when the tomb is right, she wants to work with the tour to discuss ways they can make things better for the players, press, and fans. Chris evret telling Chris Cuomo Last Night that one Solution Throb take a hard look at who is asking questions at press conferences. Some of the press is not tennis press. Theyre tabloid press. Theyre bloggers or, you know, they have nothing to do with tennis. They want to talk about other things besides tennis. I think it should be primarily after a match should be about your tennis. I think somehow everybody has to talk about a solution to make this a healthy environment for the players to go into and a comfortable environment. Because were all in this together to promote the sport. All right, to the nba, blauzers tied at two games apiece coming into tuesday night. A record setting performance. Theyre way downtown. That sends the game into overtime. Then in overtime, down three again. This time lillard, the Spinning Turn around three sends the game to double overtime. He had an Nba Playoff Record 123. Also had a blazers Playoff Record 55 points. But portland would lose to the nuggets 147140 in double ot. Denver can now close out that series tomorrow night. Lebron and lakers now in the Bre Brink of elimination. Game five, it was over by a halftime. The lakers only scoring ten points against the suns in the second quarter. On the wau to one of the worst Postseason Losses in lebrons career. 11585. The blowout final. L. A. Now down 32 in the series. Game six tomorrow night. Lebron had had never lost a first Round Series in his career. He is 140. All right. One second Round Series is now set. The [ lyn nets finishing off the celtics. James harden leading the way. Nets winning 123109. Guess what, laura. We had had three games Last Night and all of the fans acted correctly. No one was behaving badly in the nba Last Night. Im glad people have finally got their act together. Just ridiculous. All right. Andy, thank you. Appreciate that. Still ahead, a historic day in israel. The clock is ticking toward a deadline for a coalition to oust Benjamin Netanyahu. Stay with us. Talk about a hangover. A 19yearold waking up in handcuffs in the wrong house. 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Prison beesident Biden Aimin preserve the right to vote. The president tasked Kamala Harris with leading that effort. The obstacle in the process to progress that have to be overcome are a constant challenge. We saw it in the 60s. The current assault is not just an echo of a distant History N 2020 we faced a tireless assault on the right to vote. Restrictive laws, lawsuits, threats of intimidation, voter purges and more. We are he solve to overcome it all and we d more americans voted in if the last election than any in the midst of a pandemic than any election in american history. Greg abbott says he is not bluffing on the threat to defund the State Legislature because democrats wouldnt get behind the gops sweeping bill to restrict voting rugts. The threat goes beyond lawmakers. It also affects thousands of nonpartisan staffers in in the texas State Government. All right. Its time for three questions and three minutes. Thats where we bring in Washington Correspondent John Harwood this wednesday morning. Good morning there. You know, last Year President Trump was in tulsa. Violating all Hose Covid19 protocols to start his campaign. Yesterday President Biden was in tulsa acknowledging a deadly massacre of 300 black residents of greenwood. He has been here taking on big Democrat Uk priorities, Voting Rights, wealth gap, border, oil drilling. More overseas what lit the spark for President Biden in the last few days, john . I think christine, these are priorities that President Biden expressed from the beginning. Time is running out on that early period in the administration. You have a burst of momentum and a an ability to get your program through. Of some things can you do by Executive Action. He has taken Executive Action in the last 24 hours, for example, suspending those newark Tick Oil and gas leases in the national wide Life Refuge there and also ending a Border Policy by the Trump Administration about making people wait in mexico while their Asylum Claims were being heard. But the steps he announced or discussed financially to try to remedy some of the racial wealth gap, theyre going to take action from congress. So will will protecting Voting Rights and increasingly its becoming clear that republicans across the country are launching an assault or a Kprens Af tempt to curb Voting Rights. Hes got to get moving if hes going to stop that. And so we saw some of that yesterday. Putting Vice President Hair Nis Charge of that effort to counter republicans on Voting Rights. And the real question is going to be not the priorities of the biden administration but whether or not he can galvanize all 50 democrats to act. Its pretty clear that on any big issues hes not going to get substantial republican support. So thats why he called out yesterday both Joe Manchin of West Virginia and cinema of The State Of Arizona who have been the most reluctant democratic members to join his priorities. Yeah, he called them out. People are getting so upset with him over Voting Rights in particular. He said, look, i dont this alone. John, at the same time, the former president telling people close to him that he expects to be reinstated as president this summer. Its all crazy. Its also just another lie. Its another lie capitalizing on support he knows he has from faithful base. But at some point, dont you have to say as a republican voter, youre making a fool out of me. I think, Laur Yashgs we long since passed the point that a rational person engaging in Critical Thinkinging would have reached that. But the president s a former president is galvanizing a part of the republican base that is desperate for someone to champion them, that feels like theyre america is under assault. And Donald Trump has been extraordinarily effective and extracting money from the people. Hes facing the risk of prosecution. He needs money. He is pressed in in financially in various ways including for his legal defense, including for the maintenance of his businesses. And he has continuing that effort to mobilize people. Among other things, he is trying in addition to the financial part of it, hes trying to convince a large segment of the population that if the District Attorney and the new York Attorney general bring a criminal case against him, then its politically motivated as owe ppposed to the legal mer of the case and telling people that hes the rightful president. Really won the election and maybe he can get back in office. That is a way to get those people to his side. Im not sure there is a lot of reasoning with those people. Cnn also reporting overnight that Republican National Committee is vowing they will advise them against future president ial debates unless they make big changes here. The commission no longer provides a fair and impartial forum. What do you make of all this . Its insane. Its related to the last dancer. Increasingly, the republican political base is motivated at a visceral level. By the sur vufal instirvegt, by the, you know, you hear from many especially the blue color rural white voters that see the country becoming less white, less christian, less rewarding to them financially. Within the american economy saying our way of American Life is under attack because of the way the american society is changing culturally, economically and demographically. And so the republican party doesnt have a lot of reasoned national policies to counter that. Its more a Will To Power and the belief they can somehow stop these changes from happening. Look, its not an accident that the republican party did not adopt a political platform in 2020. It was pure lets get behind Donald Trump and maybe he can protect us. So when you get policy, thats not where the strong suit s the strong suit is scaring people that theyre on the wrong side of stop the changes. You think you want to prove it. Its the same way theyre trying to stop people from voting. You think you would want to be really aggressive and convince people. But if its a cult of personality they know they dont have the better argument. That is a series of policies, then that becomes hard to sell. All right. Thank you so much John Harwood. Noose t nice to see you this morning. New mexicos first congressional District Victory gives the slim democratic majority in the house a butt more breathing room. Not much. Sandsbury is replacing deb holland. This race along with the grofrngr governors races in New Jersey is ahead of the mid terms. Ron desantis signing a new law banning Trans Gender athletes in high School And College from participating in womens sports. And he did it on the first day of pride month. Desantis denies that was a factor. Its important to have Integrity And Fairness in competitions. Florida is now the eighth state to enact an andy transgender athlete ban. President biden recognized june as pride month, pushing for Lgbtq Equality and calling out some states for targeting transyouth in discriminatory bills. More than 40 house democrats introduced legislation it to protect Family Members of Mult Personnel that are transgender. It limit gender affirming Health Care and treatments. All right. To the Job Market now. Is the big, big debate of the great reopening. Is there a Labor Shortage or a surplus of awful jobs . Restaurants are struggling to find workers as the economy reopens. One New Orleans chef told the Author And J au Author And Journalist, people are not returning because Restaurant Work sucks, is underpaid or provides no upward mobility or benefits. Now we know this are record 8. 1 million Job Openings in america. The Chaum Bmber of commerce saie Labor Shortage is getting worse by the day. They help employers fill the jobs. Now many pin the blame on enhanced jobless benefits. I mean why look for a job if youre making money out of work . Right . Maryland now the 25th Gop led State Revoking the checks for the residents. Maryland has one of the highest unemployment rates of states stopping benefits at 6. 2 . Look, there are two clear trends here. In education and Health Care, teachers and doctors are quitting and retiring after a year of vcovid19 In Helln hospitality, benefits allowed young workers the Breathing Space to retrain for jobs in tech and finance. Not going back to that industry. And as minneapolis federal Reserve President told many i had colleague poppy harlow, women here are key to the recovery. We have to find a way to bring them back to work. Its about fairness for those women and families. But its also about our economic potential as a nation. America down 8 Million jobs since february last year. Now to a Cnn Exclusive this morning. An American Impresideisoned in a calling decisive action. P Matthew Chance is live in moscow. What is wheeland saying . Paul wheeland, we got extraordinary access to him. Hes a u. S. Citizen in prison in Central Russia in the Labor Camp. There he was convicted a couple years ago for espionage charges. He denies they were valid in any way. Hes speaking out to us because its just about two weeks from now that President Biden will be meeting his russian counterpart, putin, in geneva, switzerland for a facetoface summit, the first one in Joe Bidens presidency. And he sees this as a good first step towards resolving what he says is outstanding case. Take a listen to what he told us. And if you forget a message to President Biden ahead of the meeting, what would it be . Decisive action is needed immediately. The abduction of American Citizens cannot stand anywhere in the world. This is not an issue of russia against me. Much its an issue of russia against the united states. And the united states needs to answer this Diplomacy Situation and resolve it as quickly as possible. I ask President Biden to progressively discuss and resolve this issue with his russian counterparts. Aggressively discuss this hostage Diplomacy Situation in the words of paul speaking from the Labor Camp in Central Russia. To be hobbest though, there are s. A list as long as your arm of the issues of president s Biden And Putt yun are talking about. This issue of americans in Prison Jails is another one as well. Trevor reid is high profile. And the situation in it ukraine. The situation with hacking, the situation of russian activity all of which is likely to be discussed as these two Countries Attempt to reset the relationship although neither side are framing it in those terms. Laura . It will be interesting to see how aggressive President Biden is when he meets with putin at that summit coming up later this month. All right, matthew, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Well be right back. That doesnt play games. No surprise fees, legit unlimited data for as little as 25 a month. And the best part, its powered by verizon. But it gets crazier. Bring a friend every month and get every month for 5. Which is why i brought them. Two 5amonths right here. Hey. Hey. Plus the players of my squad. Hey. Whats up . Then finally my whole livestream. Boom 12 months of 5 wireless. Visible, as little as 25 a month or 5 a month when you bring a friend. Powered by verizon. Wireless that gets better with friends. Youre strong. 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I have to warn you, christine, that even if if things even if they make the Announcement Tonight they reached an agreement, it is not over because the israeli knesset, the parliament still has to vote on this government. That could take Up To seven days before the new government is sworn in had. Seven days is an eternity in israeli politics. Netanyahu could still potentially try to convince some members of the coalition to pull out. Other outside events like a collapse of the ceasefire with hamas militants in gaza that, could cause things to change here. So even if these parties announce that tonight they have reached an agreement to form a new government, things are still not over. And until the new government is sworn in, Benjamin Netanyahu is still prime minister. And he is still making certain comments, for example, he spoke about iran at a Swearing In of the new chief and said that they would rather have friction with the united states than have to deal with the threat of a nuclear iran. I think, christine, its a sign of how people here think that Benjamin Netanyahu may be in his final few days and that those comments about the friendship with the united states versus iran would normally be incredibly incendiary. Now theyve been sort of people are barely noticing them. All right. Keep us posted. Thank you. Globally it is good news on the pandemic. The World Health Organization says covid19 cases have declined worldwide for a fifth straight week. But officials warn it will be a monumental error to treat the pandemic like its over, case noint, the president of brazil one of the hardest Hit Countries is defending the decision to host major Sporting Event there. Early start is covering the pandemic around the world. Im in boeinga that, colombia. They confirmed the intention to host the south american premier football tournament. Even though brazil is going to struggle to contain the covid19 pandemic. Brazil is the third country lined Up To host south america Premier Soccer Tournament after the south american confederation pulled it out of Colombia And Argentina last month. And the Copa America is scheduled to start in less than two weeks. Im David Mckenzie in johannesburg. Multiple Media Outlets are saying that the 31 members of the Parliament V. Died of covid19. A devastating impact. This in the country that has only distributed a very small amount of vaccines. The Suspicion And Lack of capacity. In account fa, they gave back more than A Million vaccines to the African Union recently despite the impact of the vie less. Im in paris. A digital Covid19 Certificate System goes live in seven European Countries this tuesday. The certificate will show whether someone has either been fully vaccinated, recently recovered from covid19, or proven negative to the virus in the previous 72 hours. The idea is that the system will be extended to the whole of the European Union by the first of july and even beyond long term what europeans are hoping is that American Citizens will be able to be given the certificate upon their landing in a european country. Im in jerusalem. The israeli government has removed all remaining coronavirus related restrictions. The socalled Green Pass which people had to show in order to show that theyve been vaccinated to, for example, dine indoors, attend Culture Events or Sporting Events, that has now been retired. In fact, the only restrictions remaining will be on people to wear masks indoors. And even that may not last much longer. So israel, the country that led the world in vaccinations looks to have put possibly the Coronavirus Pandemic completely behind it. All right. Thank you to all of our reporters for the updates. Now to Courtroom Drama in belaruse. A human Rights Activist stabs himself in the throat. Were live from berlin. Fred, who was the activist . Was was he in court . Why did he do this . His name is stefan, Laur Yachlt essentially did he this because he was on trial in minsk against the authorities. They were trying to put they have put him in jail in september for asking the id of a Police Officer and when his dad gave testimony inside that trial, he said he was pressured by the authorities. He said they threatened to go after him, go after also his family and his neighbors as well and then he took out a pen and stabbed himself in in the neck. Now you can see on that video, hes inside a cage. It was difficult for Court Workers to get to him. He was brought on a gurney and had to go into surgery. The issues are not life threatening. All this, of course, comes as we see increasing crackdown there in belaruse. 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