Senate should simply debate the issue about voting rights. The crucial issue of voting rights in this country. We shouldn t have to debate the voting rights. We shouldn t have to debate voting rights on the floor of the united states senate. These rights should be sacrosanct, but the events of the last few months compel us to have this debate now. I challenge you, republican senators, come to the floor, defend these policies. Tell us hoi they secure the vote. Tell us how they prevent nearly nonexistent voter fraud. Mitch mcconnell has all but promised no republicans will vote to advance the bill. That means it will likely fall short of the threefifths of senators needed to overcome a filibuster. For senator democrats to enter june with an agenda that was designed to fail. The democratic leader planned votes on a host of the left s most radical priorities. In the end, one particular radical proposal took priority. S1 is the same bad bill its been since the house introduced its version b
The crucial issue of voting rights in this country. We shouldn t have to debate the voting rights. We shouldn t have to debate voting rights on the floor of the united states senate. These rights should be sacrosanct but the events of the last few months compel as to how this debate now. I challenge you, republican senators. Come to the floor, defend these policies. Tell us how they secure the vote. Tell us how they prevent nearly nonexistent voter fraud. Well minority leader mitch mcconnell has promised no republicans will vote to advance the bill. That means it will likely fail, falling short of the senators needed to overcome a filibuster. Senate democrats entered in agenda that was designed to fail. Democratic leader plan votes on a host of the lefts most radical priorities. The particular radical proposal took priority, as one has been the same bill since the house introduced its version back in 2019 with the same partisan voters. So tomorrow s vote is now basically a show of unit
Fully vaccinated. That means giving close to 100 million shots, some first shots, so others second shots over the next 60 days. This is not a democrat or republican issue. What we may not always agree on everything this is one thing that people across the political spectrum can agree on. One noted health expert praised biden s new target but at the same time noted that getting their will come with challenges. I think this is the most ambitious goal the president has set yet because this is now ground game. If we can get the 70% of adults vaccinated by july 4th, we re gonna have a terrific summer with very low levels of infection across the country. It s a tough goal but one that s worth achieving, one with striving for. This new phase includes clothes seeing many mass vaccination sites determine setup across the country in favor of smaller localized locations and those doses not ordered by states will go into a kind of federal bank to be sent where they are needed. Right now, about 56%
Of getting covid outside is nonexistent which contradicts the language which the cdc uses which seems to frankly wildly overstate the risk so is it time to ditch all masks outside? welcome to lead. I m jake tapper and we start with the national lead today. 18:40, 18:40, that s how much video footage the family of andrew brown jr. Is able to watch right now. Tomorrow will mark three weeks since sheriff s deputies shot and click, a 42yearold black man while trying to serve of him a warrant on drug charges. Up until now his family had seen roughly 20 seconds, 20 seconds of body cam video of the deadly encounter. A judge s order last week revealed almost two hours of footage exists, but the judge says the family could see only relevant portions. Fewer than 20 minutes worth. Cnn s brian todd joins me now from elizabeth city, north carolina, right near the border. Community there is anxiously awaiting to hear what this video shows. That s right, jake, and as we speak the family and their att
moment. we want to begin tonight with a history-making decision from the white house that is not without controversy. today the president announced the end of our nation s longest war. he announced that all u.s. troops, about 2,500 of them remain, will leave afghanistan by september 11th. leaving afghanistan was a goal of both of his two immediate predecessors, obama and trump, but a goal that was never realized. the two-decade-old war has taken the lives of over 2,000 american service members, left some 20,000 of them wounded and cost $2 trillion. i m now the fourth united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan. two republicans, two democrats. i will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. it s time to end america s longest war. it s time for american troops to come home. war in afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking. we were attacked. we went to war with clear goals. we achieved those objectives. bin laden is