The militant group in afghanistan. Happy monday, everyone. The tokyo summer olympics are in full swing despite the pandemic and with a tropical storm on the horizon. Organizers are now adjusting their mask policy on the o olympic podium allowing athletes to take them off for a photo. And the quest for gold is heating up, too. Let me show you where the medal count stands at the moment. It could change quickly of course with 21 medal events on monday. Meanwhile officials have confirmed at least 153 covid cases linked to the games so far. One of the new cases was a resident of the olympic village bringing the total number of cases from the village to 16. Now, japan as i mentions also bracing for a tropical storm that s expected to bring rain and strong winds this week. Cnn s world sport patrick snell in atlanta. Let s start with patrick. And patrick, let s start with the current medals table and reflect a bit more if we could on that particular win from the team usa perspective. Reporter:
Some of them have been open for 19 hours. That was much longer than planned and an effort to boost voter turnout. Now, besides dealing with domestic crises, iran s next president will help decide whether the 2015 nuclear deal can be revived. It is a position raisi is said to favor. The executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible statecraft and the author of losing an enemy: obama, iran, and the triumph diplomacy joins me now from fairfax, virginia. Good to see you. I m curious. What does the leadership s decision to basically, you know, rig the candidate list basically to push such a hard line, someone literally under u. S. Sanctions. What does it say about the direction you think the leadership wants to go in terms of relations with the west? well, i think primarily this has not been about the relationship with the west. It s about who controls iran for the next decades. The hardliners are now in control of the judiciary t. Through a rigged election they re in con
Presidentelect before the official results were made public. Let s go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen live in tehran, a landslide victory for the hand picked main candidate, no surprise, i guess, take us through what this means for iran and for relations with the u. S. Well, i think there are several factors, first of all, kim, i do have to say this was really a very important and certainly most probably a pivotal election for iran and i think we will see, we will see iranian politics, move much further towards a conservative trajectory, and it has been the past eight years, and of course the past eight years, with the administration, a moderate government here in iran and foreign policy and western capital, with the foreign minister under the administration, it is a well known commodity. What you have in this election here is you have a victory, as you pointed out very much a landslide victory, he won 17. 8 million of the votes counted so far. That s about 62%. That is a lot. And cert
to one another close, i d have my mask on and you d have yours on even though we ve both been vaccinated. it s a small precaution to take that has a profound impact. it s a patriotic responsibility for god s sake. well, apparently it s our patriotic duty to ignore the science. a vaccinated president explaining why he will wear a face mask outdoor and fuels more vaccine hesitance did among americans. get this. even an op-ed in the washington post thinks the mostly empty chamber set the wrong message about the power of vaccines. there was this bizarre 30 seconds. biden going into a panic after losing his mask. looking for my mask. anymore trouble. katie: all right. tucker, where do we start? do we start with the president basically saying if you don t continue to wear a mask regardless of your situation, you re a traitor or with them frantically trying to find the mask outdoors? jill going through the binder, biden going through everything on the lectern. come on.
to one another close, i d have my mask on and you d have yours on even though we ve both been vaccinated. it s a small precaution to take that has a profound impact. it s a patriotic responsibility for god s sake. well, apparently it s our patriotic duty to ignore the science. a vaccinated president explaining why he will wear a face mask outdoor and fuels more vaccine hesitance did among americans. get this. even an op-ed in the washington post thinks the mostly empty chamber set the wrong message about the power of vaccines. there was this bizarre 30 seconds. biden going into a panic after losing his mask. looking for my mask. anymore trouble. katie: all right. tucker, where do we start? do we start with the president basically saying if you don t continue to wear a mask regardless of your situation, you re a traitor or with them frantically trying to find the mask outdoors? jill going through the binder, biden going through everything on the lectern. come on.