I believe our leadership in the world, our vision for america s future, nominated for a second term, but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes ambition. I decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. Paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. That was president joe biden on wednesday addressing the nation following his abrupt departure from the 2024 presidential race saying it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of democrats. The oval office remarks capped an extraordinary three days in american politics with democrats quickly coalescing around kamala harris on sunday. Allowing the vice president to quickly sikora the support to become the presumptive nominee. I am joined by wall street journalist bill and him straw also. The party is coalescing behind kamala harris quickly. How is she able to get the delegate so fast. They wanted the chaos to stop they were very concerned about having a continued fight go o
That the senate s stalled police reform bill may finally start to move. The key player in all of these senate negotiations continuing to be west virginia senator joe manchin. Who along with senator amy klobuchar and other senate democrats is pushing what they hope is a voting rights bill that can attract republican support. Who at the very least, withstand their sabotage. All of that tonight on politics nation. Along with a special treat, as we take an intimate look at the greatest. Filmmaker ken burns joins us tonight to share his new film on the life, strife, and legacy of mohammad ali five years after the death of the people s champ. But first, politics. Joining me now, senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, and chair of the senate rules committee. Senator klobuchar, getting right to why we wanted you with us tonight, what is the status of negotiations on this compromised voting rights bill, the freedom to vote act. You know we ve rallied, marched, been involved on the front
The white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports, impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on planes. In terms of how it s going to work, what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through osha, the occupational safety and health administration, to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses, affecting tens of millions of workers. They re also counting on the fact that business itself wants to have the cover to impose some of these mandates. Business roundtable came out tonight saying we support what the administration is doing. We ve got to get aggressive in order to get on top of this. Finally they re counting on mobilizing the social political pressure of the threequarters of american adults who have gotten vaccinated against the h
Troops killed in kabul was vandalized. Doesn t matter if you are the right or the left. These are for the 13 slain u. S. Troops. And i think that s why it hits a cord. He is going to be remembered for a long time whether he makes this one or misses it. Win it. With the stars and stripes and the eagle flies. There s a lady that stands in a harbor. Brian: great shot of the freedom tower as we pan over to the left. You hear that song, not only appropriate because it was written and inspired by 9/11 and the attacks, aaron tippin wrote it, but little bit later on a. J. Hall came up with this great idea and i was able to do some standups and front the package. I don t deserve any of the credit. Toby keith, aaron tippin, bret michaels some of the artist on a package as they talk about songs that were written to inspire and reflect on 9/11. Later in the show. That s one of them. Steve: aaron tippin sang that song on this program and there has been a lot of music dedicated to what happened 20 y
President biden back at the white house after getting a firsthand look at the destruction from the remnants of hurricane ida in new york and new jersey and making clear the deadly disasters are a big reason that he ll turn up the heat on congress to pass his $3. 5 trillion plan to rebuild the nation s infrastructure and battle the climate crisis. And he ll address the nation on thursday on his administration s plan to battle the surging covid pandemic as hospitalizations and deaths are spiking. And the texas governor signing new voting restrictions into law. We ll see how opponents plan to fight back. I bring in now my cnn analysts. Thank you both for joining. Good evening. So president biden making the case today for his infrastructure bill and budget plan. With all the fallout from afghanistan, the afghanistan exit, he s trying to shift the focus back to domestic agenda. Is he trying to shift the focus or just doing his job as president? if he is trying to shift the focus, is it work