President biden. And the first lady. Thank you. So as you can see, john on a lot of praise coming internationally for the president s decision and for his legacy, john yeah, more than boilerplate. I think in some cases here, Frederik Pleitgen in berlin. Thank you very much great to see you this morning. New hire of new central, a busy hour starts now when for in conservation to excite meant. But what happens now, President Biden has bowed out of the Race And Vice president Kamala Harris with his support is pushing to secure the democratic nomination, but could someone like Senator Joe Manchin, who is starting to talk about this, try to challenge her bid, will talk all about that as soon as biden announced he was out a Tidal Wave of money started coming in and its back to the Drawing Board for Donald Trumps campaign after Crafting A campaign to take on Joe Biden, hes now focusing attacks on Kamala Harris. Of course, im Sara Sidner with John Berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn Newsroom
All of this comes as russia a Russian Court Designates A Group run by navalny as an extremist network, banning it from future politics, raising the stakes for next Weeks Summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin. Here at home, the Fbi Director made his first appearance before the house since the January 6th insurrection, facing questions about what the bureau knew before the attack took place. Also, Defense Secretary Lloyd austin telling a Senate Committee that he supports taking Sexual Assault Investigations outside the chain of command. Some lawmakers say more needs to be done. We want to take all serious crimes out of the chain of command, carving out uniquely military crimes. Thats what the best legal minds who look at the military Justice System have recommended. Its what our allies have done. We begin this hour with day two of the president s first foreign trip. Joining us now, chief foreign Affairs Correspondent andrea mitchell. She is in england near the site of the g7
Way. President biden and former President Trump with starkly different messages to nato allies at each of their first nato summits as president. Good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. Were here in washington. It is tuesday, june 15th. All this space. I dont know. Come on in, really, honestly. Fear of open spaces, i got it. Its kind of exciting, actually, to see the camera. And look, Human Beings i was just telling her, you know yeah, he sits there in a closet with a camera and its talking to willie. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have former chairman of the republican national Committee And Msnbc political analyst, Michael Steele. Good to see you good to see you in person. Absolutely. And Columnist And Associate editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Weve missed you great to be here. And New York Times Washington Bureau chief, elizabeth b. Miller is with us. What a great group. Willie, its really frightening out here in the real world. Its not. I remember telling Phil Gr
you probably have questions about omicron. we, do, too, and we don t have all the answers. let s lay out what we know and do not know about this thing. let s start with what we know. the w.h.o. says it is a very high global risk and consequences may be severe. but the south african doctor say symptoms so far have been extremely mild. here s what we don t know about this variant. how infectious is it? how quickly can it be translated? how serious is it? meaning, are people getting sicker? if you re fully vaxxed up, how protected are you? kelly, it is against this backdrop, the question marks of what we don t know and what little we do know that the president really tried to strike this reassuring tone in his remarks today that his administration is on top of this. reporter: very much so. looking the american people in the eye saying what resources he will bring to bear, those that are available now like vaccines and booster shots, and those that could be available down the l
cross-examination and how explosively the judge react today that could be pivotal in the homicide case against rittenhouse. i want to first go to cnn s sara sidner in kenosha. sarah? yeah, there was both yelling and sobbing in this trial today. the sobbing coming from kyle rittenhouse. the yelling, coming from the judge in this case. reporter: kyle rittenhouse took the stand in his own defense for the killing of two men and wounding of another last summer during the unrest that exploded in kenosha, wisconsin. on the night of the 24th, were you aware of anything going on in kenosha? i i knew there was protests, demonstrations, and riots going on in the later evening. okay. and how were you aware of that? i saw videos on social media. reporter: the next day, his friend suggested they go to help protect businesses and they did, he testified. he said they went to the car source car dealership, and the owners accepted their help. did they give you permission to b