Voting rights was designed to move the needle in terms of public opinion on the urgent need for voting rights legislation. That s according to one senior white house official who told me the topic doesn t show up in most polls of americans concerns yet. Here is a part of the case the president made to the american people. The 21st century jim crow assault is real. It s unrelenting. We re going to challenge it vigorously. It s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It s about who gets to count the vote. Who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. Now notably texas democrats who were smack dab in the middle of the fight aren t calling for a sweeping and potentially polarizing piece of legislation. On this program in this hour yesterday, texas representative jasmine crockett said she would take anything that shielded voters from restrictions. What most people don t realize is that if we got just an inch, that would protect us
Normal. As we learned last night, wihat the doj did was nearly unprecedented in who it targeted. Nor, is this normal. As congressman schiff was being investigated, fruitlessly, it seems, the nation s chief executive was conducting a public vendetta against him, which continued straight through the end of his term. Little, pencilneck adam schiff. He s got the smallest, thinnest neck i have ever seen. I saw little shifty schiff, yesterday. You shifty schiff. How did you do it? shifty schiff. Okay. You know, the world s most dishonest politician. Adam schiff, the watermelon head, right? he is not a longball hitter. Call him shifty schiff. We don t call him shifty schiff for nothing. He is a shifty, dishonest guy. And when you see little adam schiff go out and lie and lie and stand at the mic. Smart guy, by the way. You, little pencil neck. Now, you can chock that up to a childish man behaving childishly but he was the president. And he is still is, right now, the unquestioned lead of of h
Fredricka whitfield. The second day of the g7 summit is in full swing in england. President biden is meeting with his foreign counterparts right now on the topic of health which comes at a critical time as the world tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Biden also held a bilateral meeting this morning with french president emmanuel macron. All of this as biden s first meeting as president with russia s vladimir putin is set to happen this coming wednesday. This morning, the white house says biden will hold a press conference after their meeting. Cnn s kaitlan collins is following all of this from england. So good to see you. So what are the big priorities today? reporter: well, i think the big priorities that they really want to talk about are the three cs, as the white house is referring to it privately, which is china, covid19 and climate. Those have really been the big three things they said president biden has wanted to push while he is here for the first time meeting wit
Pulse shooting fiveiers, citieser dealing with mass shootings every day. Passengers grapple with a man who is threatening to take the plane down. Joe biden is the 12th u. S. President to meet queen elizabeth ii during her reign. That special relationship means something. I m pamela brown in washington, you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. Great to have you along with us. Tonight we have more questions than answers about an explosive justice department probe under donald trump. The department seized megadata of information from lawmakers, staffers and family members. Adam schiff was one of the democrats caught up in the investigation. Congressman swalwell was another, but rod rosenstein and others are telling people close to them, they didn t know about swalwell and schiff being involved, according to a person i spoke with this evening. That raises more questions. The justice department inspector generality has launched a probably into the manner. Meantime senator chuck schumer
Kareem abduljabbar standing by to discuss this landmark ruling. Welcome. I m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. Let s begin with the biden agenda. Truly at a cross roads right now. Kaitlyn collins is covering it all for us. Some truly important negotiations are happening right now. Update our viewers. What can you tell us? yeah, wolf. This is between the group of bipartisan senators behind this latest infrastructure proposal that is circulating around capitol hill. They are meeting behind closed doors right now as we speak. And of course they are still in disagreement with the white house over one major aspect of this bill, which is how to pay for it. It is also a blueprint that is pinning the more moderate democrats in their party against the more liberal wing of the democratic party. It is the start of a kricritica week for president biden s agenda. The white house is facing a new hurdle tonight on infrastructure as a new bipartisan agreement is coming under fire from pr