we begin with disturbing news out of michigan. michigan is now experiencing a third surge in coronavirus cases. officials are pointing to a number of factors for this rise, from increased gatherings to reopenings to several outbreaks in schools and prisons. dr. wen what do you believe is the main driver behind this third surge in michigan. i think that s whapg in michigan could well be happening in other parts of the country. we are seeing upticks in massachusetts, in the new york area and other places too. i think what s happening is that we have three factors here. on the one hand we have vaccinations really picking up, which is great. we re at 2.5 million vaccinations a day. on the other hand we have restrictions that are being removed. we ve got mask mandates that are being lifted and more contagious variants that are occurring, that are becoming dominant. and that s really concerning. if we have something that s more transmissible, it means that all the activities we t
happening now, president biden is on his way back to the united states after a final round of talks with allies here in europe. he s touting the nato summit as a success and declaring that vladimir putin and i m quoting him now, already has lost the war in ukraine. also tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin tells me he has no doubt ukraine will join nato after the war ends. stand by for all of my exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin here in lithuania. the pentagon chief also telling me that gop senator tommy tuberville s hold on u.s. military promotions is a national security issue. and breaking news we re following right now. donald trump s son-in-law and former adviser jared kushner has testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. our correspondents are working the story. they re getting new information this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuani
fraud. you know, a lot of people are saying to me that they don t like the idea, i m prepared to forgive up to $20,000 if you got a pell grant, or $10,000 for anybody who has a student loan during the recession. guess what? we pay the so-called ppe program, we paid i think it s $900 billion. don t hold me to that number, for anybody who had a tough time with their business during the pandemic. so they could pay employees and do but guess what? you may remember, i was running for office at the time. you may remember that i had a big fight with the former president, and maybe future president, bless me, father. any way, here s the deal. what happened was, the folks are really going after me by the way, 90% of all the debt forgiveness for student loans will go to under my plan 90% will go to families making under $75,000 a year, okay? 90%. here s the deal. the ppp program forgave a lot more. i m not suggesting it should. but the big fight going on was, what happened was,
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. it is always good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. today the country honors the civil rights champion dr. martin luther king jr. at an event in the nation s capitol, president biden highlighted what his administration has done to try to bring americans together and ensure racial equality, but his call for unity comes as he faces growing questions about the classified documents that were found at his home and his washington office. this weekend, the white house announced five additional pages of classified material that were found at president biden s house in delaware. that brings the number of classified documents in total found at his home and private office to about 20. let s bring in cnn s legal affairs correspondent paula reid. let s talk more about these five pages, what the president s attorneys are saying. well, victor, these five pages were among previously disclosed material located at the president s wilmington residence. i
newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news in iran where large plumes of smoke can be seen rising from an infamous prison in tehran. officials there confirming a fire has been set by the inmates of that prison. let s go to cnn s jamana. what more are you learning? we re still trying to find out what really is happening or happened at the prison. that notorious facility in northern tehran. of course, that prison that where many political prisoners, human rights activists, journalists, foreigners are kept in tehran. now, an hour ago, we started seeing video on social media showing this large plume of smoke billowing over the prison and according to the social media videos we have received, you could hear gunfire. according to the activist group that put out this video, they say that special forces were heading to the prison. now, according to the government s account of what is going on, they say that this was a fire that was started by these rioters. thugs as they desc