We begin with the new covid19 vaccine mandates. Our national correspondent athena jones is in new york. She has the late, breaking details for us. Athena, these are truly landmark moves by a state, a major city and now a federal agency. Reporter: hi, wolf. That s exactly right. With new daily covid cases now passing 50,000 for the first time since april, we re seeing more and more mandates, not just from states and health care providers but also individual cities. In san francisco, more than 300 bars across the city will be requiring patrons to provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid result in order to enter. Those who don t, will have to sit outside or in other spaces. We re going in the wrong direction. Reporter: america facing a crisis all over again. And more and more health care systems, states and localities are responding with mandates. New york mayor bill de blasio today announcing all city employees including public schoolteachers must either will vaccinated by septem
Welcome to a busy news room. Top of the hour. Listen, the hope of landing on a universally accepted set of facts over what led to the deadly capitol insurrection was diminished earlier but today it s out the window. House minority leader kevin mccarthy has pulled all five and says republicans will conduct their own investigation into the attack. That came came moments after speaker pelosi rejected jim jordan and jim banks. Speaker pelosi has denied the minority picks for the select committee on january 6th. This represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee. It s an egregious abuse of power. Pelosi has broken this institution. As you said a busy day in news room. It all happened so quickly. Walk us through how we got here. Reporter: well, it really started in the aftermath of the refusal of the senate republicans to allow an outside bipartisan commission to move forward. They blocked that in the senate. There were not ten republicans because of c
Are forged. I want you the keep that in mind tonight. Recall there was a bipartisan commission that investigated every aspect of the 9/11 attack, all the ways to prevent it from ever happening again. But today s republican party, in its maga form is politically opposed to that kind of fact finding right now, and that s revealing. Kevin mccarthy is now formally opposing any january 6th commission for such an investigation as, quote, duplicative and potentially counterproductive, drawing rebukes today from top democrats. I am very pleased that we have a bipartisan bill to come to the floor and disappointing but not surprising that the cowardice on the part of some of the republican side not to want to find the truth. It is hard to take kevin mccarthy seriously at this point. I don t know what kevin mccarthy is afraid of. If the republican leaders are just going to throw their lead negotiators under the bus, why did they even participate in negotiations at all? all fair points. And i want
calling an audit, which could overturn the results of the election. i fully support the audit in arizona. we want transparency and answers for the american people. what are the democrats so afraid of? the voters in arizona and the state senate in arizona pursued this audit. i fully support it. transparency is a good thing. we need to fix these election security issues going into the future. now, for the record, this really has nothing to do with election security. there were no widespread security issues, no widespread voter fraud, at least not according to the republicans. again, republicans who run the state s largest county where the audit in arizona is being held. and not according to the secretary of state katie hobbs who runs elections and told us last night that observers of the audit are concerned because, quote, there s not consistency in how they re putting things together and they re seeing, quote, procedures changed midstream. she s not the only one concerned.
there are brand-new reported signs that investigators are reaching a critical point with news that they re pressing for cooperation from two key witnesses. and one of them includes gaetz s ex-girlfriend who interned on capitol hill. a source with knowledge of the matter tells cnn she traveled with gaetz to that bahamas trip in 2018 and that she was involved in some financial transactions which the fbi has obtained. another source saying the feds are, quote, nearly finished collecting evidence. that goes to who they re learning from. investigators are waiting to hear from joel greenberg, who has until saturday to make a plea deal if he s to make one. i want to get right into this right now with dania perry. we have a lot more on another criminal case, rudy giuliani, of course coming up. what do you see here in this phase with evidence and reports that they re going towards something? yeah. it looks like as the reports suggest, they are nearing the end of the line here. they