. new house judiciary chairman jim jordan announcing he s launching an investigation into the doj s actions related to president biden s handling of classified documents, demanding the department turn over a variety of information communicating all communications relating to yesterday s special counsel, hard to believe this is happening one week ago but just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at another lawmaker and we still didn t know way back then because last year was a whole year last week a whole year didn t know if kevin mccarthy would actually become speaker. what a difference a week makes and of course we think about in washington, dc every minute seems to be a new well, crisis to avert or try to maintain i want to bring in michael should nel congressional report commentator ashley madison and leon donovan former committee aid. let me bring you in on this conversation, we re talking about what happened last wee
this week. brand new cnn reporting reveals donald trump wants his allies to try to drown out the damning evidence, but the top republican believes americans will tune in. we are not in a situation where former president trump has expressed any sense of remorse about what happened. we are, in fact, in a situation where he continues to use even more extreme language, frankly, than the language that caused the attack. and so people must pay attention. people must watch and must understand how easily our democratic system can unravel if we don t defend it. we begin the hour with an awful all too normal weekend in america. violence and gun deaths virtually from coast to coast. this is now routine, sadly. ten mass shootings. ten mass shootings since friday. you see them on the map here in philadelphia, multiple shooters turned south street, home to bars into a scramble for survival. three were killed. in tennessee two died and 14 wounded. in south carolina a gunman turned a gra
arrest. thank you so much. i want you to bring in cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan ryaner the director of the cardiac catheterization program at george washington hospital, i want to bring you here so many unanswered questions, a 54 your woman dying of cardiac arrest, the heart is stopping i m wondering when you look at a case like this or hearing about it how should people be thinking about this is the same as a heart attack or is the language distinct for reason. this is a tragedy, a 54 dying at home is unexpected and sad. it s important to understand that cardiac arrest which literally means heart stopping, is not the same as a heart attack. now, heart attack is when the heart muscle die, when the supply of blood to the muscle is
would remain to be seen. john. elizabeth cohen, thank you for the important updates. stay in touch throughout the week. that map you just showed. georgia would be red if they had the data and 50 states heading in the wrong direction. with me is dr. jonathan ryaner, professor of medicine at george washington university. elizabeth cohen goes through the numbers and shows the headlines. you re in the hospital most days, tell us the personal toll we re seeing. one in four hospitals withy is seer staffing and shortage issues. yeah. it s a dual problem. first of all hospitals throughout the mid-atlantic and northeast are filled with covid patients, not just covid patients but filled with patients. in maryland, just about every hospital in maryland is at capacity. we heard over the weekend 40 hospitals in new york have been
they are distributing that and we ll have them look at the study districts and we ll look at schools where they tried testing and they say that it really does work to keep down covid spikes, but it s not perfect. it needs to be paired with masking and social distancing and even then we will still see covid cases in schools. phil? there s never been a spike like this before as your great reporting shows. elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. i want to bring in dr. jonathan ryaner to share his expertise, professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. doctor i kind of want to start there with kids, particularly younger children. the president of the american academy of pediatrics told cnn this morning about half of the kids hospitalized at children s national here in washington round 5, and it s likely going to be several more months until vaccines will be available for that group. what s your message right now to parents, particularly those who are sending their kids b