Capitol than my entire deployment to iraq. Rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, shouted that i, i, an army veteran and police officer, should be executed. I was grabbed, beaten, tased, while being called a traitor to my country. I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm, as i heard chants of kill him with his own gun. I can still hear it in my head today. They knocked me over, tried to steal my baton. One latched onto my face, got his thumb in my right eye. I cried out in pain, managed to shake him off. One woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, you hear that, guys, this nigger voted for joe biden. The crowd around 20 people joined in screaming boo [bleep]. Another black officer later told me he had been confronted by insurrectionists in the capitol who told him put your gun down, we ll show you what kind of [bleep] you are. Ahead of today s testimony, house republicans defended their decision not to participate in the committee s work and echoed talking points fr
Any time in history, still higher than any time in history. So that s not how i judge whether or not we have economic growth. Mr. President, on china and cyberattacking, your administration is naming and shaming china, but no sanctions. Why? they re still determining exactly what happened. The investigation is not finished. Thank you all very much. What is your understanding of the biggest difference between what they ve done versus what russia has done in terms of cyberhacking? that would take a longer explanation. We have all the time in the world. No, we don t. I have to go see king jordan. To the best of my knowledge, and i m getting a detailed report tomorrow morning, my understanding is that the chinese government, not unlike the russian government, is not doing this themselves, but is protecting those who are doing it and may even be accommodating them being able to do it. That may be the difference. Thank you. This is andrew mitchell reports in washington as the president takin
Laws are particularly egregious. In georgia their law disempowers the secretary of state removing him as chairman of the state election board and empowering the gopled legislature to suspend county election officials. In arizona, the state s secretary of state has been removed as a statewide official responsible for representing that state in disputed election results. In harris county, texas, the new voting restriction expected to pass but for the defiance of democratic state representatives, we ll get to that later, would ban drivethrough and 24hour voting and further tighten the rules for voting by mail, measures disproportionately used by democrat and minority voters in that state. So here we are today. President joe biden putting the full force of his office behind the moral case for protecting the right to vote in 2021 america. A speech he never should have had to give and would not have had to deliver if the gop hadn t lurched toward antidemocratic policies, something president
Are seeing a spike in new cases. Those are in the red. Let s bring in cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. What does president biden plan to say about all of this? reporter: he is walking a fine line where they re touting what you are showing there, the case rates are down, deaths are down, but they re dealing with these areas where they re worried about a potentially deadly combination, low vaccination rates and a high circulation of the highly contagious delta variant that everyone is now talking about. So what you have seen president biden try to do for the last few days is really mark the progress that s been made, celebrate the fact that life has returned to normal in a lot of the u. S. , but also warn about what s to come for those who are not yet vaccinated. That is this concern of those areas where the delta variant is high that people who aren t vaccinated are going to get potentially very, very sick, and even potentially die. That was that warning that you hea
Dana: the heat wave in the west right now there is no sign of it alleviating and it is actually causing huge problems. Get a load of this. Disturbing new photos from border patrol in texas. Human smugglers cramming migrants on top of each other in rental trucks in the middle of a heat wave that isn t going anywhere. Good morning. The administration is defending its border policy, secretary of homeland security testifying before the house homeland security committee saying it is his job to deal with the u. S. Southern border. Does it make sense for the leaders of the free world to go to talk and see what s going on at the border? i m the secretary of homeland security and it s my responsibility to manage the border at the direction of the president and the vice president, and i have visited the border on multiple occasions. The vice president served as the attorney general of a border state of california and she is quite familiar with the situation on the border. She has not been there.