vaccinated person that i ve still diagnosed with covid-19. plus who still hasn t gotten the vaccine and can they be convinced to get it? and the bipartisan infrastructure deal facing another hurdle this hour. progressives are not happy. some promise to tank a top biden priority if they don t see action on voting rights. a pathway to citizenship and police reform. up nfirst today, the war chz changed. the war has changed. that s the rethink everything take away from a brand new alarming cdc document that says delta covid variant is as infect x as chickenpox and new precautions are needed. days ago scientists put the delta variant on par with the common cold, believing each infected person transmit the virus to maybe two other people. the new analysis says each infected person on average is actually infecting eight or nine others. cnn national correspondent christen holmes with more on the alarming, alarming findings. christen? yeah. john, i mean, there s no doubt about i
hero s welcome after fleeing the state. bill: president biding giving a fiery speech in pennsylvania. important in pennsylvania not delaware. we ll explain. calling republican solution in search of a problem. president biden: 21st century jim crow assault is real, unrelenting. we are going to challenge it vigorously. while this broad assault against voting rights is not unprecedented, it is taking on a new norm. they are doing it in a fit they don t want signatures to be verified and basic integrity steps to be strengthened in the state of texas. there is no voter suppression. this is a lie being told over and over. they ll get arrested if they don t come back to the capitol when they hit ground in texas. dana: any hyperbole? president biden wants to double the amount of attorneys at the u.s. department of justice that spoke us on voting rights. doj official said the process is well underway. hiring is taking place there at the president s request. when he was in
president-elect before the official results were made public. let s go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen live in tehran, a landslide victory for the hand picked main candidate, no surprise, i guess, take us through what this means for iran and for relations with the u.s. well, i think there are several factors, first of all, kim, i do have to say this was really a very important and certainly most probably a pivotal election for iran and i think we will see, we will see iranian politics, move much further towards a conservative trajectory, and it has been the past eight years, and of course the past eight years, with the administration, a moderate government here in iran and foreign policy and western capital, with the foreign minister under the administration, it is a well known commodity. what you have in this election here is you have a victory, as you pointed out very much a landslide victory, he won 17.8 million of the votes counted so far. that s about 62%. that is a lo
that s a great question, bill. that s what is driving the tensions here in elizabeth city. under north carolina law, the release of body worn video publicly released to the press or to the public is pursuant to a court order. that means that the sheriff here, tommy wooten, will have to go to court. he may go to court as soon as today to try and get a court to release that video. that the video can be shared privately with individuals with a direct connection to the video and in that case it is the brown family along with their attorneys. we ll find out if the sheriff tries to get it publicly released today. we were waiting for the family and their attorneys to come see it. a lot of protestors are gathering in front of the sheriff s office here. one is the local county naacp president keith rivers. why are you here and what is going through your mind today? the video, the release of information. the transparency. the trust. you know, this could have been requested from the
is the pandemic and president biden spoke earlier today at a press conference and talked about the need to continuing to wear masks, social and physical distance, wash your hands and the important thing about getting a vaccine. meanwhile, we continue to learn new details from the justice department investigation into florida congressman matt gaetz for potential sex crimes. gaetz is reportedly accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. new york times reports that they are focused on gaetz and another florida politician, jeel greenberg indicted for sex trafficking a minor over alleged involvement with multiple women who were recruited online for sex and received cash payment as cording to people close to the investigation and text messages and payment receipts from the man that have been reviewed by the new york times. gaetz has denied the allegations that he paid for sex or had a relationship with a 17-year-old calling the allegation against him tot