Department. Bill barr was Donald Trumps loyal Attorney General for about two years, until December 1st of last year when Bill Barr had this shocking moment where he came out and publicly said, to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. That was pretty much the end of the longstanding trump barr relationship. Barr was gone a few weeks later. In came Jeffrey Rosen who had been number two at the justice department. He moves up and becomes the acting Attorney General and Richard Don owe hugh becomes number two. Donald trump wasted no time pressuring these two to try to get on board with his Election Fraud theme. He called them we know from Richard Donohues notes, what he told them to do was just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me, and the r republican congressman and as you just said with Ambassador Bolton, the chief of Staff Mark meadows got in on the act. He started emailing these two, giving them crazy theor
Changing with the delta variant. In some states, mostly the south, icus are overrun, medical staff pushed to the brink. But the governors in florida and texas wont let businesses, towns or School Boards address the crisis the way some of them want, even though florida is now seeing record hospitalizations. This morning, more covid patients are in the hospital in florida than any other state in the nation. Phil murphy the governor of New Jersey were Speaking Act and other elected officials are losing their patience with the unvaccinated. These folks back there have lost their mind youve lost your minds. You are the ultimate Knuckle Heads and because of what you are saying and standing for, people are losing their life. People are losing their life. Those of you who refuse to get vaccinated at this point are willfully and unnecessarily putting yourself and others at risk of hospitalization and death. You are the ones threatening the freedoms of all the rest of us. Please, just get the da
A thin veil of clouds out there, but nothing that i think is going to stop everything. 71 degrees, this doesnt have to take off at a certain time. Its not trying to catch up with the space station, its going to go up and come down. We could delay it if we have to. Haze, fog, Smoke And Sky in the northeast, heavy rainfall in the southeast, and still, that monsoonal moisture in the desert southwest. New day continues right now. Thats where i do the robot. With that music, im not going to Do It. Ill spare you, welcome to our viewers in the United States, and Around The World, its tuesday, july 20th. And its All Systems Go for Jeff Bezos as they prepare for their 11 Minute Journey to the edge of space and back. The new rocket was positioned on the Launch Pad overnight, and its now two hours and counting until Lift Off from west texas. Bezos will be joined by his Brother And 18yearold from the netherlands and 82yearold female aviation pioneer, Wally Funk from texas. His rocket will be launc
violence call. prompting a new focus on rising violent crime in america s largest cities. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. president joe biden talking with world leaders about the very real chance of russia in 58ing ukraine again. underscoring how it has escalated in reason days. the pentagon announcing this afternoon, as many as 8,500 u.s. service members are now on heightened alert and have been told to know ready to deploy at any moment. if necessary, they will join nato forces in eastern europe and the alliance s effort to deploy the troops near ukraine. we re covering this escalating tension, even a crisis on multiple fronts. let s start wat the white house. do we know about whether or not to send u.s. forces to eastern europe? it s a decision that could come as soon as this week. what we do know, as of today, president biden hasn t made a final decision about that. behind the scenes they are getting the specifics ready in case he makes call to bolster u.s. forc
experts over whether there is a safety cost. the trouble is for the unvaccinated, the data doesn t really back up that they become noninfectious at five days. reporter: the isolation guidance doesn t differentiate between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. it does say everyone should mask up for five days following isolation. and there s mounting pushback from union leaders from nurses this is when you should be tightening your controls, not lessening them. to flight attendants. the cdc should be loud and clear about impleltation here because no workers should be forced to come to work when they re still sick and that is what i believe we ll see here. we re very concerned about that. the wave of infections sweeping the country causing staffing shortages and forcing cancellations of thousands of flights during the busy holiday period. apple closing its new york city stores for browsing. maryland cutting back federal court operations. the cdc says the fast-movin