and live from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i m michael holmes. this is cnn newsroom. and our top story this hour, an influential covid-19 model warns americans not to put their masks away yet, as cases surge in michigan. let s have a look at that spike there. you can see it at the right of the graph. the state reporting nearly 7,000 new cases on saturday. the federal government sending 160 extra vags nayccinators to get shots into arms. some hospitals there are delaying nonemergency procedures on a case by case basis because they re getting full. officials calling it a last resort. medical experts say pandemic fatigue combined with the spread of coronavirus variants are behind the surge in michigan. cnn s evan mcmorris-santoro with more. reporter: even if vaccination rates rise in places like new york, where i m standing, there s still a concern that america is in the grip of this pandemic, especially in the state of michigan, where the viral numbers are risi
Acted to minimize the voting rights of its minority citizens. decade after decade, texas has enacted redistricting plans that violate the voting rights act. in enkt aing its 2021 congressional state house plans the state has again diluted the strength of minority voting texans. this comes two ooeks after d.o.j. signed texas over a separate law signed by the governor that would disenfranchise voters including older americans and people with disabilities by banning 24 hour and drivethrough voting measures and giving partisan pole watchers access. we really in knick. donna and mark are still here. nick, you have written some of the most comprehensive and
To the substance of that comment. white house officials, as you see there, are still framing this as a leak problem. and so that point, so is the president, hallie, president trump not one really known for subtlety is saying that some of the people who work for him who leaked to the press are in fact traitors. here s the tweet he put out. he says the so-called leaks coming out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration put out by the fake news media in order to make us look bad as possible. with that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards and we will find out who they are. hallie. so, geoff, thank you sir. i ll see you in a little bit. here s the thing, the president clearly has leaks on his mind this morning. he tweeted a couple minutes ago while we re in commercial break right during this segment about the fake news stories made up from these leaks about him. this sunday his skin. he s hated looeks leaks from the beginning. he s talking about what he zrieks as his best
Years saying he has these inspectors out in hawaii that have come up with fascinating stuff about how president obama is an illegal immigrant. all these unnamed sources he was using for those years about the information he was paying for to dig up, all malarkey as joe biden would say, all made up. there were no inspects, no unnamed source. there was nobody. and then he says the new york times uses unnamed sources out of white house. he loves ooeks leaks when it helps him. you know, he hated wikileaks and he thought snouden and assange were traitors until it helped him. because he has no principles. it s if you are on my side, say nice things about me i love you, if you criticize me i ll destroy you. i think people are overthinking donald trump. i think it s that simple. putin, putin said he was brilliant so he forever wants to be putin s best friend.
Again, i think those of us that were following this matter in real time always expected there could be some clamoring and some need for some entity, likely the inspector general us a office to do an after the fact review. as i mentioned craig it s not just the letter that was sent 11 days out but there was an incident two ooeks after the election where certain media publications were publishing details of rank and file agents in the new york field office wanting to launch get subpoenas issued over allegations from that notoriously debunked clinton cash book. they wanted to launch a full scale investigation into the clinton foundation over those baseless allegations and that leaked that was somehow allowed to leak out of the new york field office even though supervise at the fbi themselves judged it not worth looking into. the fact that the fbi is so arrive with leaks and the fact that the impact of those leaks