Cnn interview. Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney goes on the record about her role on the Insurrection Committee and sends a message to Kevin Mccarthy. And new covid cases are up in 46 states. The young and the unvaccinated filling up hospital wings. Where the virus is spiking overlaps with where vaccinations are low. We begin here today, with the president and what you might call the Goldilocks Challenge that will define his first year. The president will visit Capitol Hill to celebrate a new agreement among senate democrats on a Budget Resolution with 3. 5 trillion in new spending. It keeps the core of the biden and the democratic agenda, but the 3. 5 trillion Price Tag is too big for some moderates, way too small for many liberals. So for a president whose party has no votes to spare in the senate and only a handful extra in the house, today begins the effort to sell 3. 5 trillion as just right. Lets get to Capitol And Manu raju. The president will be there momentarily . Reporter
exact opposite. it s an atrocity. the idea if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they pass a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they re waiting to vote? you don t need anything else to know this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. you can t provide water for people about to vote. give me a greek. > break. here s what the measure does. it limits the use of ballot drop boxes, putting them inside early voting location, only accessible during certain hours, so if you work two jobs or have to drop your ballot off the a odd hours, you have got. it imposes new voter i.d. requirements for absentee ballots, and as the president mentioned, it makes it a crime for anyone to approach voters in line to give them food or water, even if they ve been stand fog hours in the hot sun. we have reported on situations where voters have had to stand in lines for up to eight ho
it. stand by for our exclusive reporting. also tonight, the defense rested in the trial of kim potter, who took the stand to tell her side of the story about the moment she shot and daunte wright. did she help the case or make the prosecution s case easier? i m wolf blitzer. you re in officee the situation room. we begin our coverage this evening with a growing alarm right now over the omicron variant s rise here in the united states. let s get straight to cnn s senior national correspondent kyung lah t it s beginning to feel like the early days of the pandemic. reporter: yeah, it certainly is, with omicron spreading so rapidly, there is a new and urgent message from the top of the medical experts, dr. fauci saying if you said real protection from this rapidly spreading variant omicron, you have to get a booster. america s covid time warp, long testing and vaccination lines in miami. familiar fears of exposure. i m so scared, so i decided to make an appointment to get
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Prosecutors said a senior officer should have known the difference. potter, of course, has pleaded not guilty. her lawyers have said this entire episode has been a tragic mistakes. the jurors will be sequestered on monday and we ll see what happens. joining us is joey jackson, and cnn s senior legal analyst laura coates. she s got a brand-new book about to be released entitled just pursuit, a black prosecutor s fight for fairness. we ll talk about the books in the weeks ahead. did potter s testimony today help or hurt her case? it was extremely compelling to humanize her for the jurors, to have her be more than a robot, to demonstrate that this was something consistent frankly with what the prosecution and defense have already said, in terms of her attempt to pull one weapon and not the other. the distinction, though, however, is for the prosecution,