We have to be able to make sure that whenever we come across the situation, that everyone has situational awareness of this. In my time when i was operational on the president s detail, you know, we were given the explicit instruction hey, if you are going to pass it, if its relevant enough you feel like you need to pass that information, do it over the radio. That was the protocol that we had and i think over the years perhaps with the advent of technology and smartphones perhaps we have gotten away from that. We need to get people back on the Scope And Mission and what they need to be responsible for. The next question i will put in writing. Thank you very much. It is pointing out that weve seen this rise in threats against members of congress, which of course is relevant to this, 8,000 just last year, more than four times over the past seven years, i want to ask you in writing about the steps the Justice Department is taking to prioritize these cases. There have been some changes ma
Strategy. They ve removed over 7 million pounds of concrete and debris from the mound. They ve used sonar, cameras, dogs, heavy machinery. They ran into a building they were told could collapse. And they braved fire, smoke, torrential rain, and strong winds in the hopes of finding people alive. At this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us. To share this news with the families this evening who are still missing their loved ones was devastating. So the decision to transition from rescue to recovery is an extremely difficult one. A few hours ago, first responders joined officials on site to mark the transition with a moment of silence. The number of people killed stands at 54, with 87 unaccounted for. Every single victim uncovered is somebody s child, somebody s mother. Somebody s teacher, somebody s colleague. A classmate. A best friend. The mayor also noted that president biden, who visited surfside just last week, had called to offer more assistance. The presiden
Smerconish, in for chris on cuomo prime time. Thank you, john berman. I am michael smerconish, in for chris cuomo. Welcome to a specialholiday edition of prime time. Hope you had a great independence day weekend. Now, tonight, we have a central figure on the other end of that apparentpressure campaign by team trump to change the outcome of the 2020 election in the keybattleground state of arizona. I emphasize arizona, because similar pressure was, also, applied on election officials in georgia in the run up to january 6th. This just came to light on friday night. And we played you the voicemails that surfaced from a freedom of information request made by the arizona republic. These were calls left by arizona s gop chair and rudy giuliani, on behalf of donald trump, to those overseeing election results in the state s most populous county, maricopa. A county that president biden won, by about 45,000 votes. I want you to hear it, again. By the way, the music underneath. That was part of t
Gravity will compound an already horrific human tragedy. Officials in surfside make a fateful decision. With a tropical storm on the horizon, what remains of champ plain towers shouting must come down. John berman in for anderson with a special holiday edition of 360. The demolition began last night. This was necessary, officials say, because the remaining structure was being held up by little more than the rubble itself. When search crews returned to the pile around 1:00 a. M. They uncovered three more bodies and one more later today. In a moment, the very latest from the scene. First, though, tropical storm elsa. Surfside is already feeling the outer edge of it. The worst could be coming instead to the gulf coast of florida. Cnn meteorologist derek van dan has been following the storm and joins us from ft. Myers in florida. No so bad there yet, derek, but it will get worse. Reporter: 100%, john. You ve covered enough of these storms that you understand these outer bands that can chan
That it is telling facebook about social media posts it considers misinformation. Again, the biden administration is flagging posts that it thinks facebook should block. The reason? they say the misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine is the biggest cause of low vaccination rates in some areas and with some groups. We ll talk to missouri republican senator josh hawley about all of this in just a moment. All this occurs as vice president biden welcomes german chancellor angela merkel to the white house as the two countries seek to smooth over relations strained under the trump administration. White house correspondent peter doocy begins our coverage tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, peter. Peter: good evening and fresh out of that press conference with the president and the german chancellor where the president updated what we have been hearing from the administration about why, exactly they think people are taking to the streets chanting chant libenter tad. They were