behind the scenes between vice president kamala harris and the white house. the accounts come from nearly three dozen current and former harris aides administration officials, operatives, donors and advisers who spoke to cnn about the complex reality inside the white house. members of her inner circles believe she s being sidelined. one former high-level harris aide put it this way. they re consistently sending her out there on losing issues in the wrong situations for her skillset. has also learned harris has told confidants she feels constrained in what she s able to do. there was a satirical headline from the onion that goes, white house urges kamala harris to sit at computer all day in case emails come through. of course it s not that bad. but on the other side of things, you have west wing staffers who say they are completely exasperated, throwing up their hands at what they perceive as some of harris awkward mistakes, including some cringy answers on israel and the b
been trying to pass for months. yet, still not passing either one tonight. even though speaker pelosi said in a letter, they would hold a vote on the infrastructure bill, quote, now. they have yet to do that. the president s what s billed as the president s build back bill is hung up because moderates said at the last moment, they want to wait for more research on the budget impact. the roadblocks in front of the senate approved hard infrastructure bill because progressives apparently do not trust house speaker pelosi s maneuvering to get at least one bill passed today. they wanted to do both. the president started his day with some especially good you?s on job growth and who wanted to cap the day with two big legislative victories, instead has what is technical hi known as bupkis. he has been spending the evening twisting arms and phoning in to a meeting of progressive democrats and in touch with speaker pelosi. his earlier message? this one, now, seems almost quaint in it
surged toward the stage during a promise by travis scott. audience members had nowhere to go. the video shows the moment the performer pauses and looks out in confusion as an ambulance moves into the densely packed crowd of about 50,000 people. last hour, i spoke to a woman who was in that crowd. she s also an icu nurse. she actually passed out an was apparently crowd surfed to safety. listen to what she told me. right before i passed out, i tried to turn my head to tell my boyfriend, i couldn t turn my head, but i really was going to have him tell my son that i loved him because i didn t know if i was going to make it out of there. not trying to be dramatic. i thought i was going to die. never seen anything like it. never thought i was going to die. it was absurd. there was so little resources. i mean, the medics that were trying to help didn t look like a lot of them had been properly trained. not to take away from what they were doing. they were trying their best. they w
vaccine works in kids. that means children and kindergarten through sixth grade could be getting shots as soon as next week. plus, the fight over facebook. mark zuckerberg fires back after an insider leak, and congress is now trying to figure out how or if it should regulation what you see online. we begin the hour though with important new breaking news about the january 6th select committee and its investigation. cnn is now learning at least five former trump administration staffers voluntarily met with the panel. a big focus of those conversations, we are told, trying to gain insight into the former president s actions leading up to the insurrection. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us now and is breaking this news. kaitlan, what are you learning? yeah, john, this is significant in the fact that these are people who are going in voluntarily to speak with this committee that s investigating what happened that day, and this is because either the co
for parents today. pfizer says its covid vaccine for kids is safe and 90% effective against the vishs and a shouting match on the house floor. an ultimatum to republican consultants and more. in just one day several eye-popping episodes from house republicans. up first though, candor and certainty from the president of the united states at a cnn town hall last night. on stage in baltimore, president biden walking through the details, big details, on policy, on politics and on the personalities that are as yet unsettled in his big push to rewire how the government works for you. asked again and again if he would get a deal, the president projecting optimism. are you close to a deal? i think so. you know, look, i ve been dish was a senator for 370 years. [ laughter ] and i was never i was relatively good at putting together deals. do you think you ll have a deal by the time you get on air force one in eight days? it s like my asking you are you sure your next show is