Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this morning with major developments unfolding on both sides of the president ial race. Pressure is mounting on President Biden this morning to exit the race for the White House in favor of a democratic candidate who can beat Donald Trump in november. A senior biden official told me things are looking bleak inside the campaign after reports surfaced that top democratic lawmakers are leaning on the president to step beside a separate Source Close to the president , told me biden is quote, listening that the source added, the president feels like he is legally the nominee of the party after winning the primaries. Still another top Dnc Official said it feels more and more like a change could happen on the ticket at this hour, the president is recovering at his Delaware Beach Home after Testing Positive for covid, this new Health Challenge forces the 81yearold President off the Campaign Trail at a critica
This is gps, the global public of you in the united states and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new York Todays show, of course, is on the Assassination Attempt on former President Donald Trump. We will bring you the latest from the investigation, will talk about the political implications of the shooting. And we will dig into the sad history of political violence In America. For now. Lets get started with the key facts about what happened shortly after 6 00 p. M. Last evening at a rally in butler, pennsylvania, trump had been on the podium just a few moments when loud bangs were heard coming from his right the former president ducked behind the lectern, was swarmed by Secret Service and when he reappeared, was bleeding from his year. The shooter was believed to have been stationed on a roof outside the Rally Security Perimeter he was shot dead by the Secret Service they assailant was 20yearsold. What we know of his politics are these facts. He was a register
But we start with david spunt on the story on afghanistan. Reporter: thousands want to get out of afghanistan not only from kabul but this comes as the mixed messages seem to thrive. One day it seems okay to go to the airport. Then people are told not to go to the airport. The united kingdom defense forces reported seven people killed outside of a kabul airport. We hear those are afghan civilians. Families are desperate to leave. The kabul airport officials are reporting that the american officials are not even to get to the airport. We know small number that we know of. We know of sporadic cases where they are not being allowed. Harrassment is going on and some physical violence has occurred. Reporter: add that to the new threat of isis branch in afghanistan. Afghanistan known to house al qaeda. Isis a rival terror organization has a footprint in the country. There are reports this morning that the biden administration is weighing airstrikes on some of our equipment that the taliban s
Over the capital city of kabul. The taliban has now seized the majority of the country as u. S. Troops rush to evacuate the embassy. Secretary of state antony blinken was on meet the press this morning and said this to chuck todd about the withdrawal. We have a massive withdrawal under under way to bring afghans at risk out of the country if that s what they desire. Ultimately, it is up to the afghans themselves to decide the way forward. Richard engle in kabul today showed this photo with us of a visa processing office in chaos as afghanis scramble to fill out forms as a fear to stay in the country sets in. We learned this morning the u. S. Will send an additional 1,000 to help with the security situation. That s in addition to the 5,000 president biden promised saturday. Meanwhile, the haiti, the death toll from the 7. 2 magnitude earthquake that rocked the region yesterday is now 724. Nearly 3,000 people are reported as injured with the number expected to climb as rescue missions ar
Of the road on a bipartisan infrastructure deal. Majority leader chuck schumer with a progress report. I repeat, that democrats are ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. Once again, that will require the cooperation of our republican colleagues. I hope they will cooperate so we could move for quickly. Other wise we ll proceed by the book. Next, comes a vote expected within the next hour or so on an amendment to finalize the bill s language. If that happens on our watch, we will let you know. And the other big story this sunday. New testimony by trump s former acting a. G. Revealing previously unknown efforts to subvert the 2020 election. The new york times first report that jeffrey rosen had a two hour meeting friday with the justice department s office of the inspector general. And then saturday gave closed door testimony to the senate judiciary committee in which he claimed one of his deputies, jeffrey clark, the acting head of