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on the justice department s 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? that s 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 ele ....
good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight the coup attempt. tonight s investigation into former president donald trump s attempts to overturn the election if his role of the january 6th insurrection is entering a whole new phase. the january 6th select committee is now taking over all aspects of the investigation and there are two crucial witnesses who could be calls to appear before the panel. the acting tomorrow jeffrey ro rosened a and his deputy richard donahue. now the house oversight committee was set to interview them this week. now we have learned the january 6th committee will take off where they left off. this will be one investigation. they re important. because rosen and donahue know first hand, trump s repeated attempts to use the justice department to overturn the 2020 election. today we get details how he tried to use the department of justice to pursue and to create basis claims of voter fraud, including what one official who went so far as to ....
substantial increase in coronavirus cases among children and teenagers. the american academy of pediatrics reporting that nearly 72,000 children caught coronavirus last week. that is an 84% increase over the week before. it is a five fold increase since the end of june. and the timing couldn t be worse. the delta variant is on a collision course with the reopening of school for millions of families. nationwide hospitalizations now topped 55,000. that s the highest number since february in a 27% increase since last week. president biden lashed out at republican governors who have banned businesses and universities from requiring vaccines and masks. states, florida and texas, account for one third of all new covid-19 cases in the entire country. just two states. look, we need leadership from everyone. some governors aren t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able t ....
down. and aiming for gold after a year long delay. the tokyo olympics are officially under way amid fan fare of games covid concerns remain with another 17 athletes testing positive today. plus the worst kind of match, yet another capital riot her turned in by someone he met on a dating app. now facing several felonies. cost of doing business how price increases on business owners are driving up the cost that we pay for everything from gas to food. thank you so much for waking up bright and early with us this saturday july 24th. we have a special guest this morning, katelyn collins. let s competent some southern hospitality as fine people in the south say roll tide, roll. wow that means something coming from you. i love that. i m happy. thank you for having me. i wish we had better news. we begin with more evidence that the united states is in the middle of a dangerous summer surge of covid-19 fueled by the spread of the delta variant. case rates are climbin ....
vaccination goal but nearly a month late. 100 million americans are still unvaccinated and health officials are warning that the situation will get worse. we re looking not, i believe to lock down, but we re looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we re seeing the cases go up which is why we keep saying over and over again the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening. to fight the delta variant crisis some areas are taking steps backward reimplements mask mandates but not vaccine requirements. there is some companies like walmart and disney that announced requirements for many employees. for it s part the white house seems a bit unsure of what to do. they re trying to walk a balance beam between reassuring the vaccinated that they re safe, but sounding the alarm of everyone because breakthrough infections may be contributing to the dangerous serve of the unvaccinated. this is the moment to step aside from all of the infor ....