Today . AmerIcan polItIcs enterIng a week of uncharted terrItory. PresIdent BIden DroppIng from the race at the 11th Hour and on ward we move. A ton to get through. Good mornIng. Hope you had a joyous summer weekend. Were back at It In New York. Good mornIng. Dana Im Dana PerIno and thIs Is amerIcas newsroom. I wIll say It was good to sleep In my own bed for one nIght. Lets get you to the news. It took PresIdent BIden 3 1 2 weeks sInce hIs Debate Performance to wIthdraw. He endorsed Kamala HarrIs for presIdent. There Is reportIng thIs mornIng that he hesItated to do so earlIer because he dId not thInk she was up to the task of beatIng Donald Trump. Democrats are lInIng up. They are hopIng for a quIck coronatIon of her. RepublIcans are demandIng accountabIlIty on how the democratIc party even got to thIs poInt. The democratIc elIte have to answer who Is makIng the decIsIons and callIng the shots. Those 15, 16 MIllIon democrat prImary voters dont matter. Who matters Is wall street, prIva
The most unpatriotic, and sadly not unprecedented. Time and again weve weathered threats to the right to vote in free and fair elections. Each time we founding a way to overcome. The 21st century jim Crow Assault is real. Its unrelenting. And were going to challenge it vigorously. Biden mirrored Lyndon Johnsons voting Rights Speech in 1965 invoking the civil Rights Anthem we shall overcome. In assailing what he called the greatest threat to democracy since the civil war. But biden didnt offer much in The Way of a plan. When President Johnson delivered his speech to a joint session of congress, he was urging passage of the voting Rights Act. A law thats now essentially dead. And today texas democrats continued their fight against republican Voter Suppression efforts in their state after more than 50 elected democrats left texas last night to block the passage of new Voter Suppression laws. The longest serving black woman in the Texas Legislature outlined exactly whats at stake for her c
signing the executive actions, there s a lot that unusual about today and a lot that is still very familiar. despite the masks, the social distancing, the unprecedented security measures, today s inaugural has managed to capture a lot of the tradition of years past. very true. one tradition that we didn t see tonight, the first time in over 100 years was the outgoing president at the inaugural. senator lindsey graham talking with the former president in his last days in office. and of course, they worked a lot together throughout the course of his presidency. he joins us now. senator graham, great to have you with us today. thanks for being here. your thoughts as you have watched all of this unfold this evening. well, i thought it was pretty flawless. roy blunt is her. he did a magnificent job. i nominate him to do this the rest of his life. amy and roy did a good job representing the senate. good speech by president biden. i wish president trump had been there. that was
let s get straight to cnn s natasha jen, natasha big story. the inmate& an accomplice were on the run for a de and-a-half. they were thought to be dangerous. how were they caught? and jacob, the police are still talking right now during a press conference. so the information is just coming in. but right around 02:00 p.m. local time and mountain time after a lengthy investigation, the two suspects were taken into custody police say there were short vehicle pursuits there were no shots fired or extensive use of force in this operation when they took them in. and that is from the police chief, there as a reminder, this all started wednesday morning at around 02:00 a.m. that s when the person on the left on your screen that s the alleged accomplice helped the escaped inmate. that s the person on the right there by apparently shooting at the emergency room entrance of the hospital where this inmate was being treated. and they escaped in a gray honda. the idaho state police, duri
this was not an accident. this was a deliberate act. they say this escape from the hospital. so the new information and besides the fact that they ve caught these two people now, is that they are investigating these two homicides that are possibly related. we do know that they were captured in the twin falls area in idaho that is southeast of boise, about 120 miles southeast so they have been on the run since about 02:00 a.m. wednesday morning. and just to go over how this even happened to begin with the boise police say the department of corrections rather say that skyler mean that s the person you re seeing on the right side of the screen? he was serving time since 2016. he was in a very secure part of the prison system i we need to confirm exactly which location, but he had apparently injured himself. they say which required medical attention and that s why they transferred him to the hospital. at around between 09:00 and 10:00 p.m. tuesday night and he was treated and the