weekdays at seven eastern this is cnn breaking news breaking news, and it is historic president joe biden dropping out of the 2024 president so race tonight endorsing his vice president, kamala harris to replace him on the ticket. good evening to all i m erin burnett. i m wolf blitzer in washington three weeks after his poor debate showing today, president biden finally gave in to the growing calls for him to step aside. and in a statement, the president, the united states, writing this my fellow democrats, i have decided not to accept the domination and to focus all my energies on my duties as president for the remainder of my term. my very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick kamala harris as my vice president. and it s been the best decision i ve made today. i want to offer my full support and endorsement for camila to be the nominee of our party this year democrats, it s time to come together and beat trump. let s do it close, quote. erin and wo
first, at this hour, vice president kamala harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the united states. hello. i m john roberts in washington, this is america reports. good to be back with you again today. seems like we have a busy news day every day. today is. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. that s where you ll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this currents iteration of the border crisis. you can see border patrol footage from april. shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. the smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. john: critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. the white house says el paso was a perfect case
having longstanding known, serious domestic violence allegations against him by multiple previous wives, but nevertheless getting that job and holding onto it for a year, i mean, a scandal like that would be a marquis thing in any other presidency. it would be a defining scandal. that would be remembered forever by any other modern president. in the trump administration, that was like one blade of grass on a football field. how do you keep track? yeah, remember that scandal? again, it would be a massive overshadowing scandal for any other president, going back to nixon. for this president, it was like, literally one in a gazillion. that scandal-ridden disgraced had to resign staff secretary, his name was rob porter. that same rob porter today had a cameo role in the long awaited testimony of the star witness against president trump for the serious allegations of potentially criminal obstruction of justice that dog him even now as a former president. this is from the transcrip
and the indiscretion that was cited by donald trump. and by by rejecting the attack, mccarthy is also throwing under the bus john kadko, who mccarthy depend tied to negotiate the deal. he is sticking by the deal he negotiated. of previous proposals who sought speaker pelosi slammed rpg shortly after the announcement. watch. i m very pleased we have a bipartisan bill come to the oor, and disappointing, not surprising that the on the part of someone on the republican side so reps don t want a commission to, quote, find the truth it just might be because the truth contains devastating details. here s what liz cheney had to say along those lines to our colleague savannah guthrie last week. i ve been very public that commission needs to be bipartisan, only look at january 6th and he events leading up to it, now to the blm and antifa riots last summer. i think that intense focus threatens people in mire party who may have been playing a role they should not have been pl
well, two consent to searches of squad 320, correct? yes, sir. i want to be very clear about something. when you talk about the second search of the squad 320 yes. you prior to that second the defense request to view, right? yes. squad 320 had been in the bureau of apprehension secure storage from may effectively may 25th, 26th, all the way until january when that was done, right? yes. not outside our headquarters. at the secure storage location? y ekt. no one the defense would not have had access to that unless you or another representative, the bca was present, is that correct? that is correct. it is common, is it not, in your investigations for defense attorneys to ask to view pieces of evidence, right? yes, it is. and it s permissible? yes. and that was done in this particular case, right? yes, it was. and you weren t present at that. that was agent phil, i believe, present? correct. along with scott mueller? correct.