Good evening. It has been a long week. A 1500 Day Week to be precise. Since former President Trump declared infrastructure week. Tonight under a new president we are inching closer to an Infrastructure Deal on capitol hill, and with it a new generation of public works in america with Mended Bridges and decontaminated water and steadier wifi. Any moment now the senate is set to vote on a pair of key procedural motions. The first on an amendment that adds the final text of the bipartisan bill and the second vote is on cloture to end debate on the bill. If all that happens, we should expect to see a final vote on Tuesday Morning and if all 100 senators agree to move things faster, we could see a final vote even sooner, and well let you know if that happens and Coming Up ill ask Congressman Jamal Bowman about what happens next in the house. But, first, this was supposed to be our hot vaxxed summer. Instead, it has become a summer of chilling omens. Wildfire smoke wafted from Sea To Shining
Were live outside athens, greece, where flames are swallowing forests and villages whole and many are forced to flee for their lives. A disturbing milestone in Americas War with the coronavirus shows that the Delta Variant is winning the race right now. The u. S. Averaging more than A Hundred Thousand cases each day for the first time since back in february before vaccines were widely available. The worst of it is in florida where hospitalization records are being shattered both in adults and children. Florida also seeing its highest number of Weekly Covid cases ever. Still is states republican Governor Ron Desanta is rejecting Mask Mandates for schools. I have young kids. My wife and i are not going to do the mask with the kids. We never have. I want to see my kids smiling. I want them having fun. And in what might be the ultimate example of the glass being half full or half empty, the nations covid Vaccination Rate now stands at just over 50 , far short of the level experts say is ne
Plus, an entire School Board suspended for refusing to comply with State Coronavirus protocols. The man who made that decision joins us live. And golden girl. Olympic Track Star Allyson felix leaves tokyo as the most decorated american olympic Track Star ever. New day starts right now. Thank you so much for spending your Sunday Morning us with. It is august 8th. We appreciate you tuning in. Good morning, christi. Great to see you, as always. Good morning to you as well, boris. So despite, you know, its good to see you despite what we have to talk about this morning. This new data that shows a dramatic surge in the number of coronavirus cases across the country. The u. S. Now averaging more than 100,000 new daily covid19 cases each day. That is the highest rate in nearly six months. Yeah, in fact, the last time the sevenday average was that high was in february. Compare that to The End of june of the average just over 11,000 cases. Remember, roughly half the u. S. Population remains unv
On the justice Departments Pursuit of the January 6th perpetra perpetrators. Now you are seeing the other side of the picture what was actually going on in at the highest levels of the Justice Department that was sort of fuelling that fire of the Big Lie. There was an actual attempt to have states overturn their results . Thats correct. We started this reporting back in january. We found that there had been a lot of pressure from the White House to have the Acting Slate of officials including the acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen and the acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donahue to both investigate voter fraud, allegations that had already been vetted and found to be not credible. They were also being pushed to make some sort of public declaration that the election was in doubt, the kind of declaration that would seed the public mind with doubt. They were being asked to go before the Supreme Court and see if the Supreme Court would vacate the results of the Election Something the
Women. His lawyers attacking an investigation by the State Attorney General as flawed and biased just as one of governor cuomos accusers files a criminal complaint against him. Also tonight with the number of new covid19 cases surging to nearly 100,000 per day, hundreds of thousands of bikers gathering for the giant Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, which experts fear will be a Superspreader Event. Were going to hear from some of the bikers just ahead. And new Focus Tonight on a Trump Ally at the doj pushing the Big Lie and trying to overturn the election by claiming, without evidence, hacking by chinese intelligence. I want to bring in now cnns senior Justice Correspondent evan perez. Evan, good evening to you. So we are hearing more each day about what Trump Ally Jeffrey Clark was doing within the doj to overturn the election. This latest development may be the most wild of all of them. It involves listen to this a bogus claim about Special Thermometers from china. Take it aw