Comedy. Well, maybe now they are. That was also, you pointed out the home minister, she was like the funniest part of all of that to me because she s watching she s watching it from the beginning like she knows what s coming, right? no, no. I m not being part of this at all. I have a future. I want a future in politics. This is amazing. All right. New day continues right now. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m brianna keilar alongside the always comedic john berman. It is friday, july 30th. We are not crying wolf. That is the message from the director of the cdc as alarming new data shows the delta variant is now one of the most transmissible viruses ever. And just as infectious as the chickenpox. In the words of cdc officials, the war has changed. The latest data also suggests the delta variant causes more severe disease. This disturbing internal cdc report explains why the cdc thinks mask mandates need to be reintroduced and why the trend map looks
Speak. Democrats packed 3. 5 trillion of help into what would be the single biggest and most expensive bill ever passed through congress if, and that s a big if, they can get it passed. Want to bring in experts on this. Mike memoli at the white house, lee and caldwell on capitol hill, and white house correspondent eugene daniels, coauthor of the politico play book. Lee ann, start with you. This is the kind of spending bill that could break records. It has the child tax credit, free prek, expanded medicare benefits. The barbie dream house of improvements to the human condition, we all want to live in that barbie dream house, but how are we going to pay for it. That is one of the $3. 5 trillion questions, how this is going to be paid for. Democrats insist it will be fully paid for. They say that because there s a lot of moderates with anxiety about the price tag, including senator joe manchin who told me yesterday that is something that he wants, is to be fully paid for. However, he did
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight caught in a lie. new video from the january 6th select committee, sworn testimony from trump s acting defense secretary chris miller contradicts a statement from president trump. he said he personally asked for 20,000 national guard troops to be at the ready ahead of january 6th. this is what the defense secretary told the committee exactly happened. to be crystal clear there was no direct order from president trump to put 20,000 troops on the ready for january 6th, correct? you re correct. there was no order from the president. that shutting down a statement from trump who on june 9th said the unselect committee learned that i as president offered up to 20,000 national guard troops be deployed in d.c. because it was felt the crowd was going to be very large. well, you heard the secretary of defense say he did no such thing. whether 10 or 20,000, he never ordered any. this blatant lie exposed as we learn more from attorney general me
In response to the Supreme Court s decision to reject the lawsuit Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA and preserve access to mifepristone, an abortifacient, Planned Parenthoods across the US have