Guidance about parents wearing masks around their children. Good evening. I m erin burnett. Tonight the breaking news, resign. President biden telling andrew cuomo of new york a long time friend and ally to step down after an investigation by the state attorney general found cuomo engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment against 11 women violating state and federal law. Back in march you said if the investigation confirmed the allegations against governor cuomo he should resign so will you call on him to resign given the investigators said the 11 women were credible? i stand by that statement. Are you now calling on him to resign? yes. And if he doesn t resign, do you believe he should be impeached and removed from office? let s take one thing at a time here. I think he should resign. Making it clear, i think he should resign says president biden. His call adding major pressure on cuomo tonight. Cuomo facing pressure growing calls today from his fellow democrats to resign including ho
President trump met with the russian president, vladimir putin. This was in helsinki, finland. And as i m sure you remember, it did not go well. He said putin did not really attack our election, in 2016. He said the u. S. Showed stupidity for investigating it, in the first place. Trump made international headlines for how poorly he represented american democracy when he shared a stage with a notorious dictator. The one in german is my favorite. It says [ speaking foreign language ] that means summit of the autocrats. It was bad. So bad, that the new york times was throwing around the word treason on the front page. There were stories about how this was the final straw for republicans, who had reluctantly backed trump. That was the otherlead story on the front page of the times that day. About how trump s largelyunshakeable base had been rattled by his behavior with putin. It was a real, open question, whether a mistake this bad could have electoral implications for the president when h
This as a new study finds hospitalized covid patients are having longterm effects. Now, the danger is where shots are not going into arms. That s where we begin in florida where cases among unvaccinated and young people are raising alarm. And we have this just in. The white house now saying one in five u. S. Cases this week came from florida. For danielle chen and her three children, getting vaccinated against covid19 is a family affair. Relax. Just relax. That was not bad at all, guys. They all got the shot to protect the newest member of their family. Destiny. I have a brand new baby which is in the nicu, and i need to be safe for her. This mobile vaccination clinic run by the university of miami health system travels to schools and underserved communities where covid19 cases are rising again. And with back to school just weeks away, their efforts are ramping up. Miami jackson s health system are reporting a surge in unvaccinated and younger patients. The age group with the lowest va
As republicans in red states actively work to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. Here s the kicker. It s all but a foregone conclusion that this vote will fail. It s going to be doomed by an easy republican filibuster, because it appears democrats don t have the numbers or the unity right now to stop them. With the hours ticking down to today s vote, all eyes on west virginia s joe manchin, who has repeatedly said he does not support the bill as it stands, and arizona s kyrsten sinema. You spoke to president biden about this bill yesterday. What was his message to you about it? he and i had a very good conversation. Did you ask you to vote for this bill? we had a very good conversation. What do you say to democrats disappointed in your oped about the filibuster, feeling that you could still change your mind? the senator there chuckling and not giving a comment. Joining us is leeanne caldwell, vaughn hillyard and politico white house reporter eugene daniels. A big welcome to the t
Former president trump returning to the stage picking right back up where he left off pushing the big lie as his allies seem to be trying to stack the deck to overturn the next presidential election. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper and we begin today in our politics lead and president biden s first foreign trip as president. This week he s headed to the united kingdom, brussels and geneva, attending both the g7 and nato summit seeking to return to the more traditional role that the u. S. Has played with allies and also deal with a series of provocations from russia, but before biden leaves he s hoping to shore up an infrastructure deal with republicans talking again with top gop negotiator senator shelley moore capito of west virginia. The two sides are still around $700 billion apart with no agreement on how to pay for it with many democrats now arguing the time is running out. One centrist democrat who continues to push bipartisanship is west virginia s senator joe manchin, but