stephen breyer told cnn he s undecided. his former clerk joins us live to respond. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it s friday, july 16th. and the delta variant is tearing across the country. this morning, we re tracking a number of significant pandemic developments. officials in los angeles county are reinstating their indoor mask mandate even for the vaccinated starting saturday after recording more than 1,000 new cases a day for the past week. last night s yankees/red sox game was postponed after six yankee players tested positive. the status of tonight s game unclear at this point. tonight s team usa men s basketball exhibition game against australia, that has been cancelled. starting american guard bradley beal will miss the olympics due to covid, health and safety protocols. former e! news host and rich eisen announced they re battling covid despite both being vaccinated and cautioning that their condition could be a lot
protective equipment. i ve already asked the team, and we have identified the suppliers who are prepared to work with our teams, and we re going to work with their teams. not someday we re going to do this. when i say we re going to invoke the defense production act, go out, even though we don t have the authority, go out and identify those companies that are prepared and will be able to do what we re going to ask. as we made clear earlier this month, the trump administration s policy of holding back close to half the supply of the vaccines available did not make sense. our administration will release the vast majority of the vaccines when they re available so more people can get vaccinated quickly while still maintaining a small reserve for any unseen shortage or delays. but let me be clear. we are not changing the fda s recommendation and its recommended dosing schedules. we believe it s critical that everyone should get two doses within the fda-recommended time frame. so w
decision over the weekend. another hearing gets underway later today. we ll bring you the latest and get to the bottom of it in moments coming up here. first, however, you have faith and partisanship colliding. the biden white house marking transgender day of visibility on easter sunday, which has set off a bit of a firestorm you could say. good morning, everybody. easter monday in new york. bill hemmer. hope you had a blessed easter weekend: dana: i m dana perino. trans visibility day coincided with easter, one of the most holy day on the christian calendar. the trump campaign we call on joe biden s failing campaign and white house to issue an apology to the millions of catholics and christians around america who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only, the resurrection of jesus christ. bill: christianity also under siege at st. patrick s cathedral this weekend. pro-palestinian protestors interrupting mass on saturday night. going to get analysis from marc thiessen
kevin madden, you are still us with. a chance to respond? look, you know, if you are going it to make a campaign manager switch, do it in the summer because the real big full tilt of this campaign, which is going to be the fall and into the winter when get to the early primary contests in places like iowa and new hampshire, that s when your campaign has to be hitting its stride. make a campaign you know, get on sync with the campaign manager now. this is the last of the resets. the desantis campaign is not going to get any more opportunities to sort of change the leadership at the top. instead, it s going to have to be about making the case right now to voters and proving to donors and supporters they are in it to win it. kevin madden and nina turner as well, thank you both. cnn this morning continues right now. 1is. a busy hour ahead on cl cnn this morning. victor blackwell here. good morning. breaking news out of hawaii. evacuations underway. a hurricane is
somebody in power will say something true and is swiftly punished for it. can t have that. it s infuriating to watch, but it s also if you look at it right, fear him using. these are not sophisticated deceptions for this is not dwight eisenhower planning. this is your five -year-old telling you he never touch the birthday cake. if you re human, you will laugh cake? what cake. it s hilarious, the kid has no idea how he relates ticketless years. with that spirit in mind, we ar going to devote the next hour a a special presentation on lying in american politics for it we will stay are best to stay amused because that s much better than being angry. we re going to start with what could be the funniest lie of th year. vladimir putin blew up natural russia s natural gas line to europe. why would they do that? because he s evil pray t so evi he murdered his own country s economy for the thrill of doing it. that s evil, it takes a bad man to declare war against himself. next he will