teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow s hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy and people inside donald trump s orbit. we are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying in government circles to overturn the election. what we heard cassidy hutchinson testify along the lines of trump telling mark meadows, the chief of staff, to talk to roger stone and others, mike flynn, and stone and flynn ha
they are reporting that the white house aides are closely looking out for biden, with some staffers pointing out his verbal and physical stumbles that have become an uncomfortable issue. the times writing this: he often shuffles when he walks, and aids where he will trip on a wire. he he stumbles over words at events and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe. i think america holds a breath, too. his speeches can be flat and listless and he sometimes loses his train of thought, has trouble submitting names or appears momentarily confused. more than once he has promoted vice president kamala harris, calling her president harris. god help us. adding insult to injury, more than 60% of democrats do not want biden as a nominee in 2024. what is so troubling to me, brian, if you be the start of this piece, the questions about his age and acuity are actually affecting his official plans as president. he starts by saying, when he goes to the midd
memorial, takes pictures, and talks. i just want to confront this demon of carnage, if you want to call it that. and for me to do it i have to come here. reporter: he s lived in highland park for 26 years, and on july 4th went to the parade with his wife and grandchildren. we re 50 feet from the shooter and the easiest targets possible. and why we weren t shot i can t figure out. reporter: he heard the shots and ran, then saw the injuries and one of the dead. here he is on surveillance video. i just couldn t wrap my head around what had just happened. i kept trying to figure it out. and i guess i m still trying to figure out what makes somebody this evil. reporter: it s the question this entire community is trying to answer. for the first two days i would say am i still sleeping? is this a nightmare? wake me up because it cannot feel real. and you go through these waves where you re numb for a little bit and then you get angry and then you feel guilty and overwh
fragile democracy takes us to wisconsin, or a conservative majority supreme court just made it harder for its own citizens to vote, in a move that just happens to align quite nicely with the agenda of a certain twice impeached former president. and the velshi banned book club is in session, with a historical fiction title for younger adults, that has gotten parent so out of that it was the subject of a viral video, of an angry mom calling for its removal. velshi starts now. good morning, i am ali velshi. it is sunday, july 11th, 18 months and five days since a group of anti-american insurrectionists attacked the united states capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government and destroy american democracy in the name of a former president. mind you, that attempt is still ongoing in other ways. more on that later in the show. but luckily for america, the january 6th select committee continues its vital work in investigating that insurrection. and this morning, we are g
ex-con who assaulted him first. watch this horrifying video. you seed the career criminal austin simon storm behind the counter and violently shove the clerk jose alba, the grandfather to the floor. he gets up, grabs a gun, that s when he grabs a knife and stabs and kills simon. the bail is set at $250,000 and well violent criminals released without bail courtesy of far left manhattan dal the bread. the new york post calling it justice gone mad. the self-defense isn t a crime. writing in an op-ed, although brad has turned the city upside down and it s time for him to go. especially after soft on crime policies keep giving breaks to the repeat offenders that you see on the screen. he downgraded the charges for the armed robbery assault, caleigh, the list goes on. we have too many to literally name in this hour but they include things like a rap sheet of six felony arrests and 65 misdemeanors, 31 failures to appear in court and two parole violations. two women accused of a