ainsley: another historic moment in the 2024 election. joe biden announcing is he dropping out of the presidential race just 107 days before the election. brian: the move comes amid all new reporting this morning suggested biden hesitated to deron out because his team didn t think vice president kamala harris could handle taking on former president donald trump. endorsement shortly after dropping out. harris pulling in $49 million in less than 29 hours according to the campaign. steve: she has money to run on. news outlets reacting to this moment as we see the 50-plus political career of joe biden come to a less than ceremonial end. it says the end. joe is out. biden out. you get the message. it s all across the country. it is the biggest story of this week and we have had a bunch of really big stories. we have live team conch this morning. doug luzader is live in washington, d.c. how the democratic party is starting with the news. we start with jacqui mine rick who
the author, michael wolff, he s standing by, he will join us. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the latest on the surging coronavirus pandemic. cnn s erica hill is joining us from new york right now. erica, update our viewers. so we just learned from l.a. county where cases, by the way, are up 500% over the last month that all of the covid patients admitted now are unvaccinated. here in new york city, we learned today that from january to june, nearly all of the new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were also among people in the city who were unvaccinated. all of those headlines, all of those numbers just underscoring the boost in efforts to try to get more shots in arms. the white house calling in pop star olivia rodrigo in an effort to boost vaccinations, especially among teens and young adults, as misinformation and politics threaten to
but first, i have to be honest with you, this is a difficult topic for me for many reasons. i m a young black man in america who grew up wanting to be a cop. when i was a kid, my friends and i would play cops and robbers. and i was always the cop. i was a police explorer. i went on to major in college and criminal justice. i have nothing but respect for the profession. i know how hard their job is. i know the stakes. i understand the inherent danger that comes with being a cop. but sadly, i also know what it is like to have a negative experience with a police officer. i personally understand how experiences like that can lead to fear and distrust. and look, i m not alone feeling this way. we all have stories like senator tim scott. i recall walking into an office building just last year, after being here for five years, capital, and the officer looked at me, a little attitude, and said i don t know you. show me your i.d. i will tell you, i was speaking to myself, either he
tried to sell his covid relief plan, he said a short time ago that americans, quote, want everything in the $1.9 trillion package. at the same time the white house is trying to clarify some of the shifting messages of recent days including the president s stance on reopening schools and vaccinations for teachers. let s get straight to the white house right now and kaitlan collins. the president is strongly defending his pandemic stimulus package. update our viewers. reporter: he is. and what president biden said in the oval office tonight is that he doesn t understand how republicans can oppose this plan though we should note they did for the majority since no congressional republicans have actually embraced or signed on or said that they would vote for this bill. but president biden is touting it as integral to his pandemic response and how the next few months will look and how the plan could shape this. but this comes as there are new questions about the white house s emb
african region, the president acknowledging there s still a lot that needs to be learned about this variant, but for now he believes this is the right approach. take a listen. i decided we re going to be cautious. we don t know a lot about the variant except that it is a big concern. it spreads rapidly. i spent about a hoff hour this morning with my covid team let by dr. fauci. reporter: so that decision was made in consultation with dr. anthony fauci, and the rest of his coronavirus team. one things that officials are hoping is that issuing this restriction, these new travel restrictions will essentially give the administration more time to learn about this variant, and what it could potentially do if it were to make its way to the united states. these restrictions are set to go in place on monday. officials say they are acting as quickly as possible, but that that time is needed to issue directives to the tsa, and also work with airlines as they are trying to put these