Meet with georgia s new democratic senators, congresswoman williams and voting rights advocates to discuss ways to combat the states gop voter suppression activities. One of the advocates in that meeting will join us in a moment but here is how the vice president described the meeting. The vice president s third event this week focused on protecting the right to vote in republican led states. On monday, vice president harris met with veterans activists in south carolina, and on wednesday, she met in washington with more than a dozen texas democrats who blocked gop backed butter instructions. One of those texas democrats will also join us in just a moment. The administration is serious about protecting the right to vote at the state level. Democrats in state houses believe that the best way to do that is to protect the right to vote at the federal level. Some of the same tech stomach a secure lastminute meeting with joe manchin in an effort to win his support for federal protections on
Already been vaccinated. World health organization says this delta variant is becoming the dominant covid strain across our world. The cdc says it will likely become the dominant strain here within a few months. Experts particularly worried about what it could mean come fall,. What it could mean in parts of the south where vaccination rates have lived way behind the rest of our country. We re going to see regional surges in places like the southeast of the united states. Little vaccine uptake rates. Once we hit the fall, we re going to get cold, dry air. That s what covid likes. It s really combatting this conception that back in 2020, young people thought well, it s my parents that are going to end up in intensive care. Now we re seeing this is a very different risk benefit calculation when it comes to taking a risk with the virus, versus getting the shot. Meanwhile, next week the senate expects to take up work on one of the presidents big list items. Majority leader schumer plans to
during the south carolina primary. and what did you have to say about the the likely nominee, donald trump? well, listen, essentially, she s making the case that americans deserve to have a choice at the polls. they deserve to have their voices heard. she said that they should have the chance to have a real choice, not a soviet style choice. a soviet style presidential election where one can eight and in the ten days after the south carolina primer, that will be 21 states and territories. they re going to vote. she didn t say which of those states she expect she s going to win, but she said she s been hearing from people who want her to stay in the race and she doubled down on on her commitment to continue battling it out with former president trump, essentially saying that she is not scared of him. listen to what she said. i feel no need to kiss the ring. i have no fear of trump s retribution. i m not looking for anything from him my own political future is of zero c
hometown rally last week for the bowl-winning kansas city chiefs, lyndell mays and dominic miller are the two man. this is separate from the two teens facing gun-related and resisting arrest charges. as you may know, lisa lopez-galvan, 43-year-old, mother of two, and a local dj and radio host was killed during the shootout. more than 20 others, including nearly a dozen children, were wounded investigators said the two men did not know each other and got into a verbal argument, which then escalated the news continues right here on cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper this hour, these skyrocketing number of people homeless in america up 12% last year in punk, the impacting some 650 people well, the sharpest rise, the biggest population of homeless since the us government started keeping records. so what s driving this? well, today we re launching a brand new series, looking into it and it starts in the homeless capital of the united states california, plus in the 2024 rac
murder suspect, a career criminal with at least two dozen prior arrests in just the past year. it really has shaken our entire city. bags and bags of food. hotel staffers are exposing the waste and potentially dangerous conditions at a once luxury hotel that is now housing illegal migrants. no safety in our job. the nfl safety who collapsed and suffered a cardiac arrest during the game has been released from the hospital. doctors said damar hamlin can continue his rehabilitation at home and with the team. brian: so weird, this was the song playing in the club when i left at 2:00 in the morning. happened to be the bump-in song unbelievable. ainsley: this was the song that was playing when i got into the club. brian: you went to the club amp i got there. ainsley: i must have. the song was starting when you left and when i walked in. brian: shirt halfway buttoned up. ainsley: i saw steve in a distance. steve: only club i have been in is price club.