good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, july 13 look, who s back? look at that big smile. i think you guys know, it is good to be back. thank you so much i m amara walker. here s what we re working on for you this morning. president biden meeting in a doozy asteroid crowd. he is charging forward with his embattled campaign and got a big show of support during a rally in the must-win state of michigan, the president s new message too leery voters and stepped up attacks on republicans looking rival donald trump. but did you hear about this in the alec baldwin case and new mexico judge abruptly throws out the actors in voluntary manslaughter trial for the rust movie set shooting. how this opens up the door for the convicted armor to be set free. that s coming up temperatures and frustrations are rising in houston hundreds of thousands of people are spending another day without power as potentially deadly heat sets in, we re going to talk to one expert about what
members of the president s own party are losing faith in the self-described healer in chief. since april democrats approval rating for the economic agenda plummeted 12 points in the same can be said for just about every other issue, approving for his handling of racial inequality, taxation, immigration, covid, gun violence have all dropped. it looks like they aren t buying biden s bag of excuses for why nearly everything in the country is falling apart. immigration, kamala is taking care of that. high taxes. everybody needs to just pay their fair share. crime? get ready, if the republicans fault. you know. those republican mayors and famously conservative cities like chicago, the g.o.p. stronghold of los angeles and of course deep red new york city. i m sure you remember last summer when thousands of trump supporter s marched to the streets chanting defund the police and black lives matter as the burned local businesses to the ground but it s not just republicans, it s gu
it was a texas lawmaker today who reminded us that while one battle for equality is finely finished, others are in limbo right now in congress. we steadfastly worked day after day for 12 years and it says that you voted for this holiday, now you can vote for the george floyd justice in policing act. you can fix the voting system to give us voting rights to protect against those voter suppression laws. but the sweeping voting rights bill s1, it s frozen. while moderate senator joe manchin waives the flag of bipartisanship, the fate of his counter proposal to federal democrats might be a foregone conclusion. minority leader mitch mcconnell seems more intent on acting like a blockade. equally unacceptable. totally inappropriate. all republicans i think will oppose that as well if that were to be surface on the floor. yet manchin s counter is gaining traction on the left with voting rights advocate stacey abrams. she s signaling possible openness to a voter i.d. require
there have been a lot of images from the rioters. along with the videos of rioters, one of them has been of police officer eugene goodman running up a staircase leading rioters away from members of congress. the men and women that he was sworn and assigned to protect. since then lawmakers have voted to award he and other officers medals for their service. and tonight officer goodman was given this honor as well. he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight s washington national baseball game against the new york mets. i hear it s really hard to do that. the news continues. let s hand it over to michael smerconish in for chris. how cool is that image? i am michael smerconish in for chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. and also the first official juneteenth federal holiday in our nation s history. complete with its own flag hoisted in places like wisconsin today. the single white star symbolizing texas where the last enslaved people in this country were told they