Kamala harris is honeymoon phase, or can the vice president? build on that clear burst of democratic momentum plus the presumptive democratic nominee, he needs a running mate and fast. I ll talk to the top pollster who says he knows who it will be. And who it should be an energy optimistic and nervous that s how some older voters in a crucial swing state are feeling about the change at the top the democratic ticket cnn s john king is getting the pulse of pennsylvania and is all over the map series i m phil mattingly in for dana bash. Let s go behind the headlines and inside politics first up 24 days until the democratic convention, 42 days until the first mail ballots go out in 100 two days until election day in boy, who knows how many more wild and unprecedented turns this campaign could take between now and then. But today for policy is front and center in this race as the former president meets with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu behind closed doors at mara lago that
Voting rights measure that they want to undertake in texas. Here s the problem. They don t have a quorum to do that. That s because the democrats have all left or most of them. We hope to be speaking to one of them inside the u. S. Capitol. They ve been meeting with democratic leaders that are praising their move here and saying it was brave and forceful and clear. We ll be speaking to democratic congressman james clyburn, what he makes of this. First to mike emanuel. What s going on in the capitol and how long it could go on. Mike? neil, good afternoon. Democrats from the texas legislature making their biggest stops so far in the past hour. Meeting with senate majority leader chuck schumer. A photo op was held a short time ago. He praised the texas democrats calling them courageous and saying they re fighting for every right for every texan that have the right to vote. These folks will be remembered on the right side of history. The republican and the legislators will be remembered on
Process. I think we had good progress over the weekend, i thought, and we can see the end of the tunnel. I think we re starting to see a frame. We made a lot of progress over the weekend. We still have a lot of work to do. I m going to be pulling long days all this week in the hopes by the time we come out of the weekend, we have more and more of this framework being put together. That goodfaith effort and progress from representatives of both parties is a response to president biden s call to action. In his address last month to a joint session of congress. It was nearly a year ago before her father s funeral when i spoke with gianna floyd, george floyd s young daughter. She s a little tyke. I was kneeling down to talk with her, so i can t look her in the eye. She looked at me and said, my daddy changed the world. Well, after the conviction of george floyd s murderer, we can see how right she was, if if we have the courage to act as a congress. We have to come together to rebuild trus
moscow insists peaceful motives. experts say otherwise. so, a public messaging tightrope for u.s. health authorities. they are celebrating of course those vaccination gains while emphasizing that we haven t gone back to normal just yet. now, new covid cases are holding steady or falling across much of the country as vaccination numbers rise. but a fourth coronavirus wave looms in the upper midwest, driven, in part, by increased movement. and we re now seeing more movement right across the country. this was the scene at atlanta s airport on easter sunday. i mean, take a look amid a record-setting travel weekend during the pandemic. the cdc updated its travel guidance friday, but it seems not everyone got the message. the cdc says if you have the vaccine it s safe to travel, but they re asking people not to travel that much if they don t have to. is that still factoring into the decisions when you think about making travel decisions? um, can i say not so much? [ laughte
prompts further offers of help from the international community. after a police community support officer is murdered, detectives search woodland in kent. and the noxious, neighbourhood dump, kicking up a stink for thousands in staffordshire. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has sought to play down concerns about how the refurbishment of his downing street flat was paid for saying he doesn t think there is anything to see or worry about. the prime minister has made clear the conservative party will comply with the outcome of an electoral commission investigation, but has refused to say whether he will abide by the recommendations of his newly appointed standards adviser. labour have said it s a ridiculous farce that mrjohnson has failed to say who paid the initial cost of the refit. with more, here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. now haunting downing street and the prime minister, the question that borisjohnson still has not answered