atlanta and hey, don t miss an all new episode of violent earth hurricanes tomorrow night at nine eastern emphasis right here on cnn. another hour of cnn this morning starts right now good morning welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 29. i m victor blackwell and i m isabel resolve this in for amara walker. thank you for joining us this morning. then just a little bit busy week around here. well, here, catching up on are red? all right, well, president biden is back on the campaign trail today. he is in new york for several campaign appearances this morning and will make stops in new jersey this afternoon. his team is scrambling to do damage control after a op-ed from the new york times editorial board, the board join the chorus of voices calling on biden to step aside after his performance in thursday s cnn presidential debate and the op-ed, the board said dropping out would be the greatest public service he could now perform but in a friday rally, the presid
i m just happy to be here. my good black job. we ll get into that in a bit from the debate, but think about this that for czar riff on black jobs and hispanic jobs 20 years ago, really might have been the consequential moment of the debate it wasn t this week. and we did expect former president trump to lie. that s what he does at every debated rally and interview by cnn s count, he said more than 30 things that are not true during that debate. president biden, nine false claims in lives. and even after facing a twice-impeached former president convicted felon, its president biden, who s having to make clear that he will stay in the race. our colleagues govern the white house and campaign report advisers have been calling democratic members of congress, donors, other key supporters to reassure them, post the bake, their message essentially, do not panic. the president can still do the job. there is still a long way to go until the election. the president biden s certainly has
official, phil montag, caught on tape as saying this about scalise. i m [ bleep ] glad he got shot. reporter: montag claims he was taken out of context, but was fired anyway by the state party chair. that, as another nebraska democrat, chelsey gentry-tipton, fighting calls for her resignation after mocking grieving republicans on facebook. the white house facing its own criticism today, after the president welcomed a former trump delegate who last year suggested that hillary clinton be executed. hillary clinton should be put on the firing line and shot. reporter: the white house tonight, david, is condemning both depp s comments and all calls to violence. and law enforcement officials we spoke with said, their concern is that even a joke by an actor here in hollywood could be taken seriously and trigr violence. david? matt gutman with us tonight. matt, thank you. there is still much more ahead on world ne tonight this friday. a teen s mysterious death under investigation.
winning by a lot. he got 65% of the vote. but then, john swallow was in office less than one week. john swallow was in office for six days, in fact, before he had to start fighting calls for his immediate resignation. from the very start of his time in office, he faced serious ethics allegations. one of the many, many allegations against him was that while he was a deputy attorney general, he allegedly acted as an intermediary for helping a utah business owner arrange a bribe. john swallow allegedly told this business owner that if he paid a $600,000 bribe to senate majority leader harry reid, a government investigation into his company could simply go away. so, the businessman took john swallow s advice, made a down payment on his bribe. he didn t pay it to senator reid, who said he had absolutely nothing to do with any of this. instead, he paid his down payment on his bribe to a middleman, a middleman who john swallow introduced him to. so, this guy pays the middleman,
attorney general. utah chose a republican named john swallow. there was never any doubt that he was going to win once he got the nomination, really. i mean, he was a republican in utah, he got the republican nomination, and so, he ended up winning by a lot. he got 65% of the vote. but then, john swallow was in office less than one week. john swallow was in office for six days, in fact, before he had to start fighting calls for his immediate resignation. from the very start of his time in office, he faced serious ethics allegations. one of the many, many allegations against him was that while he was a deputy attorney general, he allegedly acted as an intermediary for helping a utah business owner arrange a bribe. john swallow allegedly told this business owner that if he paid a $600,000 bribe to senate majority leader harry reid, a government investigation into his company could simply go away. so, the businessman took john swallow s advice, made a down payment on his bribe. he didn t p