is exempt in the devastating rise in sea level thatat will never accompany the exhaustion article crisis of climate change but matter what, obama will be safe on martha s vineyard, even if you continue to eat steak and listen to didba his best to downsize the size and opulence of saturday s event. mentioned hundreds of servants who would be there. the party they assured us with nothing at all be like something king farouk might ve hosted in his later years, no resemblance. obama s gathering was an intimate gathering of family and friends and in the end, that s exactly what it was. as you can see from the photographs, barack obama has an awful lot of very close friends. what s interesting is who they are andnd who they are not. joe biden was i not at the party and that is we are considering that joe biden and barack obama are like brothers, as closest to go straight men can be as joe biden has told us himself many times. you may have noticed that barack obama has never made th
and in just a few minutes, the state lawmakers are set to discuss impeaching the governor. while behind closed doors, two top former justice department officials are answering lawmakers questions over the weekend about just how far former president trump went to overturn the election results. and those in the justice department that actively helped him. we re going to hear from grammy award-winning musician who is making major headlines after requiring vaccines at his concerts in austin, texas. a city with just six icu beds left open. the praise and the backlash he s now getting. we ve got to start, of course, this morning with covid. the good news right now is that half the country has officially been fully vaccinated. but at the very same time, the number of average cases are topping 100,000 a day for the first time since last february. the rate of hospitalizations and deaths nationwide have both jumped more than 90% over the last two weeks. of course, the biggest problem
little after 11:00. the next of the infrastructure bill has not yet finished being written and that has to be done before they introduce it. it will be read and then you will have the traditional slew of amendments offered by senators of both sides. we are in for perhaps a lengthy saturday session. c.d.c. director rochelle walensky walking back a mandate and indoor mask use. welcome, i m alicia acuna. griff: i m griff jenkins after the confusion over the biden administration. with the latest. the biden administration an urgently trying to get more americans to have a covid-19 vaccine. their questions how the government hopes to accomplish the goal. we have seen a number of companies mandate that their employees go ahead and get the vaccine and last night on special reports, the c.d.c. director was asked whether something like this, if the government was going to follow their lead. i want to start there, the are you for mandating on a level? i think that the administrati
the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbillies. green ac
as they thrashed ukraine, and moved onto the semi finals of the euros. ministers extend the period in which legal action can be taken against housing developers in light of the cladding crisis. from retail to real estate john lewis outlines plans to build hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are parliamentaryjournalist tony grew and journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. lovely to have you back. a quick look at some of the front pages. the mail leads on the government s plans forjuly 19th in england the paper says that tomorrow the prime minister will declare it s time to restore personal freedoms, and will argue that we need to learn to live with covid as we do with flu. you have to excuse the blank space at the top of the page because it the paper is leading with a story that has been embargoed. a good news story, though, which we will reveal after midnight. use yourjudgement on masks continues the telegr