The president doesnt resolve the Voting Rights battle first. In the middle of all this comes another big push from the president. Minutes from now he will speak on a new gun Crime Prevention and Public Safety plan. But will politics get in the way of this too . Cnn chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. An Infrastructure Meeting is about to kick off with white house officials 30 minutes from now. Where do those talks stand . Reporter the white house meeting is with the Bipartisan Group of senators. Theyre trying to figure out exactly whether they can reach an agreement on how to finance this package. The democrats who were involved in these talks told me today that they believe it is essential today to try to figure out a way to get an agreement on how to pay for a 1. 2 trillion package over eight years. There are still disagreements about how to do that. At the same time there is pressure from the left, particularly from progressives like Elizabeth
23 people are dead, including three children. plus, a dead wife, a dead son, a botched hit, an alleged fraud scheme. murder charges have now been filed against a once prominent south carolina attorney in this case that has more twists than a country road. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. president biden s first trip to the middle east being overshadowed in a controversial sit-down that s not yet even happened. president biden stood side by side with israeli prime minister and promised iran will never get a nuclear weapon. how to go about that? that s where they public disagreed. i continue to believe that diploma city is the best way to achieve them. words will not stop them. diplomacy will not stop them. he was pressed by reporters as to whether or not he ll bring up the murder of the journalist with leaders in saudi arabia. the leaders responsible for his murder. at we report from jerusalem, president biden stopped way short of making any such commitment. r
rachel scott standing by with late reporting. the story that made national headlines taking a new turn tonight. the disgraced attorney now charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and son. what prosecutors are now saying. news on the pandemic tonight. covid deaths in the u.s. up 10% in just the last week. what they re now seeing in new york city. and the news coming in at this hour from los angeles. matt gutman standing by. the devastating flood emergency in virginia. news on the urgent search tonight. and at least 100 homes there damaged, many lifted right off their foundations. rescuers now marking cars that they ve searched with pink tape. the war in ukraine tonight. the horror revealed. surveillance video seen online showing that deadly missile strike. at least 23 people killed. the death toll rising tonight. russia targeting offices and apartment buildings southwest of kyiv. president biden s mideast trip tonight. the tensions on display in israel over how
that s what northern greenland is facing every day during this unprecedented global heatwave. the images are incredible, and we ll take you there live. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we begin outfront tonight with garland s clearest signal yet, the attorney general going further than he s ever gone when ask if he will try donald trump for trying to overturn the election. no person is above the law in this country. nothing stops us even a former president? let me say that again, no person is above the law in this country. i can t say it any more clearly than that. you can t say it any more clearly than that. it is a crucial statement, because garland is in charge of the big decision. it is his justice department that will ultimately decide whether to prosecute trump. and the case against the former president, so far laid out by the january 6th select committee, which is gearing up for tomorrow, highly anticipated primetime hearing, has focus
public and stop this. kevin mccarthy was not the only republican calling on donald trump to put an end to the violence on that day. in fact, we have learned that at least 11 other republican members of congress reach out to the white house, or at least made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something. to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don jr., texted then white house chief of staff, mark meadows saying, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. and he has to lead now. it is gone too far. it is gotten out of hand. three different fox news host, sean hannity, laura ingraham, john all of them texted meadows saying trump needed to make a statement telling people to leave. that is what we know is happening outside of the white house during the 187 minutes from trump s speech on the ellipse, urging supporters to fight like hell. and when he finally released a video telling the rioters quo