[applause] greg: it is tuesday, everyone. So look at these happy people. These are texas democratic lawmakers, and they fled the state like on the mike hunter biden running from a pregnant stripper. They left yesterday to deny republicans the corn needed to vote on strengthening election safeguards. Whereas the democrats like to call it, the worst thing since the civil war. To strip the right to vote as authoritarian and antiamerican, and he will highlight the work of the administration against this, necessity of passing for the people act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations to build as broad a turnout and voter education systems overcome the worst challenge to our democracy since the civil war. Greg: the worst challenge to our democracy the civil war. Hold on a second. I was told just days ago that the worst thing since the civil war was january 6th. You guys have to get your worst thing since the civil war
Push in congress to make a temporary policy from the president s american rescue plan permanent. To stop child hunger. That s the literal name of the act. Congresswoman hayes is part of that push. She will join me in a matter of minutes. Does her bill have a chance of passing? today, the big question is if congress can come together on another item, infrastructure. The president is meeting with republican lead negotiators in a matter of hours. The ball is in the white house s court after the gop released its infrastructure counterproposal. The difference in the price tag is gaping. The runway for getting this done is shrinking. It has the president sending new signals on the direction he sees his agenda heading. He is tapping vice president harris to tackle voting rights and drawing a line in the sand with his party over his agenda as time slips away. With two specific democratic senators to be exact. He is not naming names, but they are getting the message. A lot to talk about. First,
S suspects in a deadly miami area mass shooting. We want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. I m wolf blitzer in the situation room. Let s get straight to the white house right now. We re following the breaking news. Our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is working the story for us. The president was very forceful in his condemnation of republican efforts underway right now to restrict voting here in the united states. Reporter: he was forceful, wolf. He is saying they are vowing to ramp up efforts to protect voting rights and push back on those efforts to suppress them. The president announcing he is putting the vice president in charge of the administration s efforts on this. Wolf, all of this came on a day when you finally saw a sitting u. S. President acknowledge what happened in tulsa in 1921. Truly unprecedented assault on our democracy. Reporter: one day after warning democracy is in peril, tonight president biden is blasting effo
And marking a commemorative anniversary as biden proposes to close the racial wealth gap in this country. We ll bring that to you live and an activist in belarus stabs himself in the throat in a courtroom instead of giving false testimony. The latest horror spotlighting the brutal dictatorship there. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. We begin today with a health lead and a return to moralsy for millions of cases. Hospitalizations, deaths and cases all at their lowest points since about last year. For the first time since march 2020, 14 months ago, the sevenday average is below 20,000 cases. Just a month ago cases were around 50,000. Now this rapid drop is in large part due to vaccinations. Half of the total u. S. Population has received at least one dose. More than 40% are fully vaccinated, but a new study reported in journal of the american medical association finds vaccinations alone will not stop this pandemic even though they do reduce sickness and deaths considerably. Masks an
We begin this hour with a cross roads moment for senate republicans, donald trump demands a no vote on the question of creating a bipartisan january 6th commission. Right now the mother of a dead capitol hill police officer is on capitol hill trying to change republicans minds, asking them to defy the former president and choose truth and accountability. Do you think you can change minds today? i hope so, i hope so, brian had a work ethic like second to none and he was just there for our country and for these guys. And he just was doing his job. And he got caught up in it, and it s very sad. This is why i m here today. Usually i m staying in the background. I couldn t stay quiet anymore. There is power to a mother s grief, but gladys sicknick is unlikely to sway enough votes because mitch mcconnell is always methodical and rarely emotional. He is no fan of donald trump but he wants to be majority leader again and he believes keeping trump happy is his best path back to power. So mccon