is what they re trying to do here. they re trying to show that they re strong, that they can stand up to the democracy our seas there s a real struggle going on. you mentioned the far right. yes. they ve made some advances in certain places, but they ve also had to retreat in places like poland. we forget that poland is now governed by a centrist government. and that has been a change and the latest development women s and brands also should be reassuring to some extent, but there s a real struggle here. so i think that those countries, china and russia are watching closely and they re trying to vie for influence with the united states i m farkas great to see you. thank you. i knew i ve seen a new central starts now breaking this morning, this morning hurricane beryl tearing through texas, hundreds of thousands of people without power as millions more on high alert for flooding and life-threatening storm surges anxiety and anesia. the white house, we have new reporting on t
one of two republicans on the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection slamming his fellow house gop members for threatening tech companies to not comply with the request for their records. right now all we ve said is we want these records preserved. there s a number of people, and then we ll decide what we need to see and what s in the american people s interest. i think to turn around and make ominous talk to these telecom companies that when we take over it s going to be different or we ll have payback, that s not, frankly, the republican party i remember and the republican party i ever joined. and new polling today from the washington post and abc news shows president biden s rating has dropped in the wake of the delta variant, down about 10 points since june. cedric richmond reacting to the numbers this morning. we re not worried about poll numbers. we re worried about the 1.2 million people in louisiana who didn t have electricity, the peopl
vaccination rates seen in some states have health experts warning it may not be time to ditch your masks altogether just yet. vaccines are not even as good as they are, nothing is 100%. if you put yourself in an environment in which you have a high level of viral dynamics and a low level of vaccine, you might want to go the extra step and say when i m in that area where there s a considerable degree of viral circulation, i might want to go the extra mile to be cautious enough to make sure that i get the extra added level of protection, even though the vaccines themselves are highly effective. we have team coverage of the holiday celebrations across the country. let s go first to articlette signs at the white house. arlette, what s the plan for tonight? some thousand people at the white house as invited guests. any concerns from the white house that the gathering could potentially look like the super spreader rose garden event? the white house is using this 4th of july h
watch the defense put george floyd on trial instead of the former police officer. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and pb add the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this easter sunday. as the race continues between lethal covid variants and life-saving vaccines, and the tsa screened more than 1.5 million people, and contrast those stats with what is going on in michigan right now. that state is now seeing its highest case count since december. some experts worry it s the leading edge of a fourth surge for the u.s. cnn s natasha chen is in atlanta where the holiday celebrations may prove to be a mixed blessing. reporter: there did seem to be a ring of more optimism compared to a year ago when a lot of churches were forced to go online for easter, and this church offering indoor socially distanced services with advanced reservations. people do feel like they are turning a corner with many people vaccinated, and they saw 4
a year ago this week? new insight this hour into what the january 6th committee is learning. and looks and sounds like a page from the old testament. we re going to find out why fish were literally falling from the s sky. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the health lead. major new announcements from the food and drug administration today about pfizer s covid vaccine. the fda today recommending the pfizer booster for teens ages 12 to 15. shortening, for everyone, the recommended time between your second pfizer shot and the booster and okaying a third dose for some immunocompromised children between 5 and 11. more than 115 million americans have been fully vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine and now the cdc is going to meet this week to decide whether to sign off on the fda recommendations as parents are stressing about sending their kids back to school given the recent spike in pediatric hospitalizations due to covid. though we should note almost all of t