Plus, how long can the former president scoff off the women that is calling his bluff. The president has a plan to keep the Supreme Court in line. Congresswoman Stansbury Tonight on how to implement it. Lets do it. Believe it or not it has only been one month since president Bidens Debate Performance and the democratic party spiraling into a panic. Today is just two weeks since he decided to drop out of the race. Party members admitted feeling relief for the first time in months. Some expressed a sense not just of Purpose But Organization which led to optimism that the campaign against Donald Trump is not actually lost. Kamala harris took the baton and started sprinting. Her campaign already raised 310 Million. Fueled by small dollar donations. That is more than double the amount of Donald Trumps campaign and allies brought in during the entire month of july. With harris at the top of the democratic president ial ticket, we are seeing a new wave of energy among democrats, political org
half million deaths. we were taken by today s cover of the new york times. each of the nearly 500,000 dots represents one lost life. it stretches chronologically down from the first reported to the current death toll. and those deaths come from every state. you ll see a breakdown for each state at the bottom of your screen. the washington post had another way to grasp it. transporting 500,000 people would require a caravan of more than 9,800 buses. the caravan would stretch almost 95 miles, roughly the distance from philadelphia to new york. all this began nearly one year ago when the u.s. recorded its first known death from covid-19. by may we had hit 100,000 fatalities. by december, 300,000. we hit 400,000 nearly a month ago. but these deaths need not be in vain. there is reason for hope. new covid cases are declining. the death rate is slowing, and vaccination rates are up. right now about 5.4% of americans are fully vaccinated. dr. anthony fauci says normalcy is in si
already in. meantime of course the president refusing to concede the election repeating his baseless claims that the election was a fraud. let s go to carol lee standing by for us in washington. welcome to you. what did the president say today if anything on this? he made a number of very familiar being aing could yaccud that won t sound new to you, but he continues to make them. he also vented a range of frustrations on everyone from his own justice department to the governor of georgia who is a republican and ale lie. t ally. the president said he was ashamed that he endorsed him. and he took aim at the judicial system making unfounded accusations of unfairness there. take a listen. they don t want to take the affidavits. then they say we don t have proof. i wanted to file one suit, donald j. trump president of the united states against, you know and put everything into one simple suit and they say sir, you don t have standing. i say i don t have standing. you mean
is that even though so much has been looked at, a steady drip of what we know might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ex-president s efforts to overturn the election result. the latest bombshell coming from conspiracy theorist, alex jones, who was at the capitol on january 6th. during his broadcast monday, he said he took the fifth more than 100 times in his interview with the select committee. politico reports on what jones referred to as the quote, unofficial testimony that he delivered on his show, quote, jones described the questions the committee asked him about his contacts with gop fund-raiser, carolyn wren. who he described as a liaison for logistics relating to trump s rally. quote, my contact for the fifth and sixth was carolyn wrenn, he said. all this comes as focus by the committee on recently revealed plans to get the u.s. military to seize voting machines. plans that resulted in an executive order being crafted. one that was not signed and ultimatel
democrats are aware that mcconnell is playing pure politics with this and have yet to signal whether his offer is feasible in their view. one democratic senator has already called it, quote, b.s. for the u.s. the stakes could not be higher. if republicans follow through on their obstruction effort in effect they would be responsible for the delay of benefit payments to tens of millions of retirees, medicare, and medicaid providers and numerous rouse others receiving checks from the u.s. treasury. it could lead to a catastrophic default on the nation s deb. the government has never defaulted on its obligations so how this all works is unclear. but its impact to be wide ranging. this morning, six former secretaries of defense who worked in republican and democratic administrations sent an urgent letter to congress warning them of the national security implications of a default writing, quote, if they default on the full faith and credit of the u.s. it will send a signal to our