Its monday, july 22, right now on cnn this morning. After weeks of will he or wont he, President Biden end his bid for reelection, sending his party into an unprecedented scramble to find a new nominee plus the Vice President s Kamala Harris, already attempting to earn and win her spot as the president s son plays but at the top of the democratic ticket and major players in the democratic Party Lineup to pledge their support for the Vice President. But a few big names still sitting silently on merit endorsements 5 00 a. M. Here in Washington A Live look at the Nations Capital on a momentous monday just a few Dozen Series of days before we get to november. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us for the first time in over half a century, a sitting president who can still run for reelection will not appear on the ballot. President Joe Biden, making the stunning announcement on sunday he said in part quote, this, i believe it is in the best interest of my
And 145 still missing. Promising state and local leaders the federal government will provide whatever they need in the days and weeks ahead for the rescue efforts and the individuals struggling through this tragedy. There could be a lot of pain and anxiety, suffering and the need for psychological help in the days and the months that follow, and so we re not going anywhere. Thank you, mr. President. For real. In new york city, trump organization chief financial officer and longtime confidant alan weisselberg surrendering in lower manhattan this morning following indictments handed out by a grand jury wednesday in cases brought by the manhattan district attorney and the attorney general. The court will unseal those charges against weisselberg and the trump organization this afternoon. While on capitol hill, speaker pelosi has chosen wyoming republican congresswoman liz cheney as one of her eight selections on the 13person select committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection. Wit
steve: this morning the first victims have been identified. more to come. rachel: that s right. and grady trim somebody live from highland park with the latest on this trealgd. grady? good morning, steve, rachel and brian. this is the police station where police say they brought the gunman after that 8 hour manhunt finally came to an end yesterday. police say that he opened fire from the roof of a downtown business with what they described as a high powered rifle just after 10:00 yesterday morning at highland park s fourth of july parade. families, including children and parents scrambled, ran for their lives as gunshots rang out. it was frightening. it was very frightening. we are okay. we are okay, right. how many shots did you hear? 40, fifth. i don t know. tons, and it went on for a minute or more. police say five adults died at the scene. one other person died at the hospital. the family of nicholas say the grandfather, who was visiting from mexico,
Interesting. it was a capstone on a week where we heard that they had sent envoys to venezuela to the marxist government to tell them to send more production to the united states to the e.p.a. which doesn t like fracking, using ozone requirements at the back door entree to really shut down operations in the basin to that late friday afternoon announcement of a five year leasing plan which may or may not have offshore leasing in it. so that tweet on saturday was a capstone on all of that. steve: we heard and year heard conversation with the president, mr. macron in europe that apparently saudi arabia, they don t have extra oil. so, don t know exactly why joe is going there. listen, you got some backup by one of the world s richest men geraldine ferraro bezos the guy at amazon wrote. this after the president sent out his tweet. ouch, inflation is far too important problem for the white house to keep making statements like this. it s either straight ahead misdirection or deep
Collapse vision. today, putin declared independence for two separatist regions in eastern ukraine. the conquering in the form of an invasion may be beginning at this hour. there are reports in the past two hours of russian tanks and military transport vehicles moving in to two areas minutes after putin ordered quote peace keeping troops to cross that border. if russia did not go in, president biden had agreed to meet putin face to face for talks, but now, after vladimir putin s afternoon announcement, the u.s. and the european union announcing new sanctions, world leaders are denouncing putin s move as a violation of international law. the top diplomats from the u.s. and russia were scheduled to talk later this week. but today s moves may have changed that equation. ukraine s top diplomat is in washington where he met today with secretary of state antony blinken. we were scheduled to have a live interview, exclusive interview with the foreign minister from