All right 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, dc. A live look at the White House on this thursday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us the so far highflying Harris Campaign hitting the midwest and mid some of the first signs perhaps that honeymoon may be coming to a little bit of a close, or at least coming down a little bit because we believe in democracy, everyones voice matters. But i am speaking now and he intends to end the affordable Care Act you know what . If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that otherwise, im speaking Kamala Harris, there interrupted by what we believe were propalestinian protesters. A reminder, of course that harris has some work to do to win over voters who were unhappy with bidens policies . J. D vance, the republican side also swung through the midwest and he is trying to turn one of his Opponents Strength into a weakness when the united states marine corps, when the United States Of America asked me to go to i
Trying to be pushed out. Im Brianna Keilar alongside Boris Sanchez here in washington and today, a growing number of democrats are calling for President Biden in drop his reelection bid. The total is now over 30. It has gone up from the beginning of our show, in fact, and were learning that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Freeze and his team are not discouraging members from continuing to speak out against Joe Bidens Candidacy but it appears his campaign is not listening to doubters were told that Vice President Kamala Harris will join a call with donors this afternoon. This is actually video from a short time ago where she was visiting an Ice Cream Shop in washington, dc with her nieces. This all comes not long after President Biden released his own statement saying hes looking forward to getting back on the Campaign Trail next week. Once he recovers from covid lets bring in cnn senior White House correspondent, mj lee, because mj, you have some new reporting on how the Biden
Remains ongoing. Meaning president biden still hasn t convinced them he should remain in the race. And nancy pelosi who yesterday said president biden needs to make up his mind. Today she said she s concerned about the number of democrats who have come out against him, saying, quote, i would have hoped we would get through nato. On the senate side, the first complete defection that was senator peter welsh of vermont who told this show that the door was open for another candidate. That was just the other day. Well, he s made up his mind and he says biden needs to step aside. Then there s all the source reporting out there. Three people familiar tell axios that chuck schumer is, in their wos,quote, opening to jump joe biden. When asked him about that, and now new reporting from the new york times from three people briefed on the matter who say longtime biden aides and advisers are convinced, convinced that he has to step aside and that they have been taking the past few days to come up w
Hello, and welcome to the lead. I m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this monday. And we begin this hour with our health lead. Cdc data now shows more than 99. 99% of fully vaccinated people have avoided a severe breakthrough case of covid. But nearly a third of those eligible still haven t gotten the shot. Testing lines stretch for hours in orlando. Dr. Anthony fauci warning the unvaccinated are seeing a smoldering level of infection. One miami doctor says, quote, our children s hospitals are completely overwhelmed. Vaccination rates are increasing, we should note, but not fast enough to slow the spread of the delta variant. One virologist in texas telling the washington post, it s like jurassic park, the moment you realize the dinosaurs have all got loose again. And, yet, lies and misinformation are also running wild. A handful of republican governors fighting against public health measures, and some extremist lawmakers still spreading dangerous conspiracy theories about the vaccin
On the justice department s pursuit of the january 6th perpetra perpetrators. Now you are seeing the other side of the picture what was actually going on in at the highest levels of the justice department that was sort of fuelling that fire of the big lie. There was an actual attempt to have states overturn their results? that s correct. We started this reporting back in january. We found that there had been a lot of pressure from the white house to have the acting slate of officials including the acting attorney general jeff rosen and the acting deputy attorney general richard donahue to both investigate voter fraud, allegations that had already been vetted and found to be not credible. They were also being pushed to make some sort of public declaration that the election was in doubt, the kind of declaration that would seed the public mind with doubt. They were being asked to go before the supreme court and see if the supreme court would vacate the results of the election something th