But first right now, the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we are following two major breaking stories. I am right now inside the Spin Room at Cbs Studio goes in new York Hours away from tonights first and only 2024, Vice President ial debate. But the Worlds Attention might be elsewhere at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern youre in time. Iran launched a major attack on Israel Firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles according to us officials, cnns Jim Sciutto and his crew were live on an air in israel at the time as Air Raid sirens sounded and missiles began to rain down overhead okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are coming down right next to us here. Hes do jim, please do theyre coming down one just about. We got to go Inside Sciutto and his team are thankfully safe. We are waiting for reports as to the damage done by the iranian souls, the Israel Defense forces reports that most of irans missiles its were intercepted by Israels Air defen
this is american voices. as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, they re attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over government spending this fall. the new york times writes quote, mccarthy s to the right is a gambl
if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. the u.s. military becoming a political football for the house gop as they unleashed their anti-abortion rights, anti-trans, anti-woke agenda on a spending bill flooding americas fighting forces. instead of focusing on killing people employee stuff up, and having we are focused on dividing people up by race. i don t want someone who doesn t know if they are a man or a woman with their hand on a missile button. i couldn t help but pull out my pocket constitution, i couldn t seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in afghanistan. and one house republican in particular under fire for a shocking racial comment. we are going to dive into that this hour as well. plus, a defying president biden finding a new way to forgive the student loan debt for nearly 1 million people in this country. and as actors hit the picket line i m gonna be talking to thei
meteorologist on why it feels, quite literally and figuratively like a turning point on climate change. this is american voices. as the battle for control of congress heats up ahead of the 2024 election, republicans are showing up how they plan to govern if they win. case in point, they are attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon service policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over
collapsing and moving et cetera, et cetera, we had an incident that caused some confusion you might say, but the secretary blinken had a great trip to china. i expect to be meeting with president xi sometime in the future in the near term, and i don t think it s had any real consequence. what was your second question. as you raise broader issues of human rights and democracy, what s your message, including members of your own party who thinks your administration is overlooking a crack down on dissent in india. the prime minister and i had a good discussion about democratic values, and there s a that s the nature of our relationship. we re straightforward with each other, and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe the u.s./china relationship is not in the space it is, in the u.s. indian relationship is that there s an overwhelming respect for each other because we re both democracies, and it s a common democratic character of both of our cou