night sleep i m stephanie elam in los angeles and this is cnn this. is cnn special live coverage, republican national convention in milwaukee, donald trump in the building expected to enter the hall at any moment, i want to go to full mattingly. who s standing by? bill, what are you can you tell us well, all eyes have been on the stage for much of an eye right now. they re turning to the back of the room and the vip section where we have started to see trump family members start to walk in, including john junior, his girlfriend, kimberly guilfoyle. they have joined jd vance, who has already standing there with the speaker, mike johnson, mike johnson s wife, kelly, byron donalds, and other house member as well, tiffany trump has also walked in. eu cb family, friends, close advisers, including dance we know from the trump team and they know haba trump s lawyer is also here as well. there s eric trump sitting with his wife, bore trump, who s now heading these republican that s
expanding the nation s safety social net. it would be targeting climate change, education, health care and more. this latest win for the president comes hours after the senate also approved the long-negotiated bipartisan infrastructure bill. more on that in just a moment. there are also several new developments on the pandemic. texas governor greg abbott suffering a major legal setback after two judges ruled that school districts can require students to wear masks in class, at least temporarily. a new national study shows a majority of american parents support mask mandates in schools for the unvaccinated, but more than half of the parents polled say they are against schools mandating vaccines. let s get to it, starting with the overnight drama in washington. president biden s agenda getting a big boost today. cnn s manu raju is live on capitol hill. cnn s john harwood is live at the white house. manu, what is the path forward now after passing the infrastructure bill and t
petition by governor greg abbott and house speaker dave falan overturned an earlier ruling. that ruling had determined that the two officials, both republicans, did not have the authority to order the arrest of their fellow lawmakers. ted cruz, texas democrats and all democrats across the country say they so desperately need. senate majority leader chuck schumer promising action next month but without any movement on the filibuster, there is essentially no path for federal voting rights legislation. let me be clear. republicans refusing to support anything on voting rights is not an excuse for democrats to do nothing. voting rights, voting rights will be the first matter of legislative business when the senate returns to session in september. our democracy demands no less. in a tweet texas democrats summed up the situation like this. in the dead of the night, ted cruz blocked critical federal voting rights legislation in the senate. this morning, texas republicans are hun
this is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the afacts attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former president trump. our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. let s start on capitol hill. what more do we know about the opening statements? the opening statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four police officers, two capitol police officers, two d.c. police officers who defended the building that day throughout the day s testimony will be never-before-seen footage, body camera footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. pushed back on the conspiracies about we re hearing from a lot
if you get vaccinated now 100 million americans aren t vaccinated if they are, the mask won t be around that long, the delta variant won t win, the fall will be what we want it to be. it is all on us and the time is now. and now you re talking about actually real freedom and real liberty because then people don t have to walk around with masks on. we have the freedom of being with our loved ones safely. we have young people who can be free because not all of them can be vaccinated. free from covid, free from getting ill. so the message is right i think from dr. anthony fauci. get the vaccine. get the vaccine. yeah, as you said last night you have a right to not get it. but is it the right thing? i think that s the perfect question. look, we re the land of free, why? because we re the home of the brave? and i don t think it s brave leadership to say to people you don t have to get this, i think it s safe. i m probably not going to tell you that much i got it, but you