Phil, thanks. Appreciate you being here this morning. Thanks for having me. And new day continues right now. I m john berman with brianna keilar. It is thursday, august 5th. And this is where we are this morning. Nearly 59,000 people are hospitalized with covid. Those are numbers we haven t seen in almost six months. I. C. U. Beds are running out in louisiana, mississippi, and arkansas. Cases rising sharply among children. Now asa hutchinson the governor of arkansas says he regrets signing a law banning mask mandates. Our cases were at a low point. Everything has changed now. And, yes, in hindsight, i wish that had not become law. He signed it. This morning the biden administration is considering a vaccination requirement for most international passengers traveling to the united states. There is also a debate this morning after the world health organization declared there should be no booster shots for americans, third vaccine shots before the rest of the world gets its share of vaccin
Greg: welcome back. I hope you enjoyed your memorial day. Those who failed history call it the long weekend. [laughing]. I had a great time up at the lake. I went water skiing with caitlyn jenner. [laughing]. Greg: amazing dunk. Strength. Those quads. But she and her new husband spent the day in typical fashion. [laughing]. Greg: an embarrassment on memorial day. All right. That really happened. How can you it tell? according to cnn you can t. Last week they reported a study claiming americans exaggerate their ability to spot fake news and republicans are more likely to fall for fake news than democracy. Dems. People are consuming misinformation and things that are not true. Greg: coming from cnn, you dope. I have 2 words for you. [laughing]. Greg: a good call. Russian collusion. In the findings showed the reverse cnn would not have run the study. The study found that overconfident people are more likely to share false content. That sounds like a cnn afternoonor. Anchor. They put out m
where is the i hate trump fauci guy now? laura: he s too busy giving an interview to entertainment weekly, he s very booked up. you can t bother him. great show tonight. we ll see you tomorrow. i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle, so much going on i can t believe 24 hours has gone by, we are going to get right into it. a line in the sand, that s the focus of tonight s angle. one of our nation s most sacred and fundamental rights is the right to vote and protecting that right is going to require voters to follow reasonable rules when casting their ballots. that s exactly what georgia is doing with the election reforms that governor brian kemp signed into law last week. as we watched democrats try to undermine common sense voting rules, laws like this are long overdue but democrats somehow see this as a threat to their power, so they and their media lackeys are mischaracterizing these measures as, you guessed it, racist. what georgia has done in this bill is in
increasingly convinced vladimir putin may be ignoring those warnings. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. yes, the state department and the rest of the administration say they are ready for any eventuality whether that is for diplomacy or russian military escalation. everything we have seen and heard today suggest the latter is increasingly likely. russian troops ready, and the stage is set. all putin needs now is the excuse. he could have that very soon. russia is already working actively to create a pretext for potential invasion. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate russian operatives feigned urban war ferrari and using explosives are already in eastern ukraine ready to carry out acts of sabotage and may be planning operations against russia s own forces. we have information that they prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. russia is also p
business and i didn t really have a say in what everybody was doing. i was just there doing my first-aid stuff and then ryan said why don t you guys stay here and we ll go down to the car source number two. okay. so the people a group of people was going to stay at car source three and the people depicted in this praf were going to go where? car source two. is that what happened? yes. so at that point then sam and sal had coverage, for lack of a better word, at both of their businesses to protect the property, correct? yes. so you get down to car source two and did all the people go there? yes, besides sal the owner, he did not. during the night were sam and sal there? they were not. they left you guys there? i believe nick smith was in contact with them throughout the night. i m not certain, bust i believe they were. and you get down there, were you able to get in and out of the business? yes. how. sa l the owner gave nick smith a set of keys?