It s monday, july 22, right now on cnn this morning. After weeks of will he or won t he, president biden end his bid for reelection, sending his party into an unprecedented scramble to find a new nominee plus the vice president s kamala harris, already attempting to earn and win her spot as the president s son plays but at the top of the democratic ticket and major players in the democratic party lineup to pledge their support for the vice president. But a few big names still sitting silently on merit endorsements 5:00 a. M. Here in washington a live look at the nation s capital on a momentous monday just a few dozen series of days before we get to november. Good morning, everyone. I m kasie hunt. It s wonderful to have you with us for the first time in over half a century, a sitting president who can still run for reelection will not appear on the ballot. President joe biden, making the stunning announcement on sunday he said in part quote, this, i believe it is in the best interest o
In moments, top polling republican challenger to gavin newsome larry elder and the top democratic challenger join the story. But first, jonathan hunt with a look at how we got here. Please welcome the governor of the great state of california, gavin newsome. And gavin newsome is a politician on an upward rise in overwhelmingly democratic california. Ambitious and backed by billionaires. The golden veneer of the state and its governor has been tarnished as crisis has piled on crisis. We have rising crime, homelessness. And explosion of the number in the homeless, crime on the rise and illegal immigration increasing, taxes heading up, major companies heading out. The recall movement was just beginning to roll. Then the pandemic hit. The governor cracked down. A statewide order for people to stay at home. California complied for a while until the government went out for dinner telling his constituents to stay home. I made a bad mistake. I should have stood up instead of sitting down. Resi
Following the science or a soun policy, the number of infection as going down as we ve learned today, and vaccinations are going up there and after claiming 70 percent was the threshold for vaccinations, after claiming he d never issue a vaccine mandate, biden puppeteers pulled his strings again, and the opposite direction. If they cared about covid, they would have shut this other border down, they would have refused to resettle more than 1,000 migrants across america i they cured about covid, they would be promoting safe therapeutic that actually work. They would be talking about how ineffective these masks are at slowing viral spreads for the entire exercise yesterday was political bird the white house is not against covid, but against the inevitable collapse of biden s presidency. He is drowning in bad poll numbers, and democrats are bracing for a bloodbath and the midterms. Biden is angry with free speech was designed to do one thing, t fight pick a fight with republican governor
Patriotic spirit. This wasn t about covid, following the signs were plummeting sound policy, the number of infections is already going down and vaccinations are going up. After claiming 70% was the threshold for vaccination, claiming he would never issue a vaccine mandate biden s puppeteers pull his strings again in the opposite direction. If they cared about covid they would have shut the southern border down and refuse to resettle more than 1 million migrants, if they cared about covid they would be loading safe therapeutics that actually work, they wouldn t be banning them and if they cared about over they would be talking about natural immunity and how ineffective many of these masks are especially the cloth ones that slowing viral spread. The entire exercise yesterday was political. It is not against covid but against the inevitable collapse of biden s presidency. Use drowning in bad poll numbers and democrats are bracing for a bloodbath in the midterms. Biden s angry speech was d
For help as evacuation efforts in afghanistan increase and what the american military is now saying about the afghan government s collapse. There was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. All in starts now. Good evening from washington, d. C. I m medhy hassan in for chris hayes. We are never going to get through this pandemic if a significant chunk of the population continues to refuse to get vaccinated. This spring the united states was leading the world in vaccinations. No large country was even close. Now they ve all overtaken the u. S. Here s a list of just some of the countries with a higher percent of the population fully vaccinated. Chile, belgium, denmark, spain, portugal, ireland, canada, the united kingdom, france, netherlands, italy, germany, austria, hungry, and china which has a billion people more than the u. S. You know what category we are back near the top in? deaths. We re averaging nearly 700 deaths p