dealing with two major unfolding crisis. any moment now pentagon press secretary john kirby will hold his second briefing of the day on the situation in afghanistan. we ll bring that you to live when it begins. this comes as the pace of evacuations picks up. the pentagon saying at least 16,000 people were taken out during a 24-hour period. but, there are new concerns about security outside the kabul airport after the german military said one afghan soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a gun fight that did involve u.s. troops. the president did get some good news on the coronavirus pandemic today. the food and drug administration gave fool approval to pfizer s vaccine. now he hopes this will change the minds of people who have been hesitant to get the shots until full approval. the moment you ve been waiting for is here. it s time for you to go get your vaccination. get it today. vaccination is free. it s easy. it s safe. and it s effective. on capitol hill,
election system. republicans call it enemy number one. that s where we start. good morning on tuesday. i m bill hemmer. dana: your friend number one. i m dana perino, this is america s newsroom. gas issue. is it necessary? if you can t get gas it s an emergency. right about that. it hasn t been resolved and a big story today. we ll be back in a moment. dana: the senate rules committee set to battle it out over one of the democrats top priorities an hour from now as republican-led state legislatures push their own bills. democrats say they are meant to restrict access to the polls. let s begin with chief washington correspondent mike emanuel. hi, mike. quite a fight ahead of this bill labeled s1. top priority. the hearing will feature chuck schumer and republican leader mitch mcconnell. quite rare. the two did it back on march 24th t. previous time was seven years ago in a fight over campaign finance. schumer and mcconnell will square off again today as senators pre
being shown the door earlier today. he didn t make the announcement, somebody else leaked his retirement plan. a short time later the white house probably confirm joe biden strategy to fill the spot. biden said he will make his pick based purely on race and gender. promised only an african american woman will be selected. at jonathan turley, a democrat, questions the constitutionality of this criteria. he brought this, precisely what the supreme court already declared to be unconstitutional, discrimination. we will have more of his article coming up and we will break biden s potentially break it all down. the unlawful and unconstitutional strategy. but first, another groundbreaking moment at the white house. joe biden action at a public event. that did not involve ice cream but unfortunately for joe, it didn t go particularly well. take a look. i m always talking about corvettes. i will point out, when i went to dearborn driving nuts, you know, i was up there. i don t kno
first look at william shatner weightless during his historic and deeply emotional flight to the edge of space. tonight, the actor who inspired americans to explore the cosmos is talking to cnn about his real-life star trek. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. we re beginning with the january 6th investigation and the select committee s new subpoena targeting a high level accomplice in donald trump s attempted coup. let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. ryan, truly a significant week in the investigation. what are you learning? yeah, that s right, wolf. jeffrey clark was one of the department of justice officials who was pushing the former president s big lie within the agency. attempting to use the department of justice to look into claims of fraud in the 2020 election, despite there being no evidence of such
ask yourself, who would you be more likely to trust? some guy selling discount time-shares in cabo, or a self-described epidemiologist appearing on msnbc, it s not even close. the time-share guy might be sleazy. obviously he is but is he the one that shut your kids school down for no reason? is he going to force you to take untested drugs you don t want? is he the one you demanding you stay-at-home and fear even as blm rioters torched cities in america? no. the time-share guy, whatever it is obvious faults, didn t do any of that. the people in lab coats did it and they were the exact people you re supposed to be able to trust but you couldn t because they lied to you a lot and they still are lying to you. here s tony fauci from yesterday. we are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase. namely, we don t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. we are at a low level right now,