Good morning, welcome to cnn this morning. Great to be with you. So glad youre here. Thank you for being here. Im amara walker. Thank you for waking up with us at 7 00 this morning. We do begin with some very tragic news and the devastation in hawaii. Officials now say at least 80 people are dead. That number is expected to rise. The search teams continue to comb through the destruction. Now hawaiis Attorney General is ordering a review of the states response. And today more republican president ial contenders get ready to make their case to voters at the Iowa State Fair. Well have the latest as the candidates kick their campaigns into high gear. Plus lays down the law to President Trump during a contentious hearing. Shes putting the former president on notice about any fu future inflammatory language or intimidation of witnesses. We begin with the grim news from hawaii, where those devastating wildfires have now claimed at least 80 lives. Officials warn the death toll will likely rise
Hur defending his yearlong investigation and saying he did not exonerate the president. Democrats blasting hur for disparaging President Bidens memory in his report. Republicans demanding to know why he ultimately chose not to charge the president. Our team at the capitol. Also this evening, the massive explosion destroying a home in pennsylvania. Two people killed. What caused it. The whistleblower who raised Safety Concerns about boeing found dead. What authorities are saying. It comes as we learn new details about that boeing plane flying from australia that suddenly plunged in midair. The white house announcing 300 million in new weapons for ukraine despite the gridlock in congress. Where is the money coming from . Haiti in chaos. The Prime Minister saying hell resign after armed gangs overrun the capitol. So who is in charm charge now . Inside the crackdown on retail theft. The mansion police say is the headquarters of the ring Selling Stolen Goods on amazon. And months after i sp
gaffes and a special counsel report highlighting his cognitive struggles. but as per usual, the mob, m the media, they raceedia to defense. take a look. i thought it was a ihot waught s good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers. this is no, thist pollsters. this was joe biden. you knowsters, t, sort of lettia everybody know kind of where he s coming from and how he feels. nd hows. i think that makes hm more youthful, more engaged, more humanaged, more relatable. do you want to give the age thing? because this is let s call it o what it is. this is ageism. snuck into a report clearing the person of any wrongdoing. if someone says you re too far left, you can tack to the centerfa. 0 year there s not. the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. let me educate our friends in the mob, in the media, because this sea is very seri. according to the special counsel s reporto ,e bide biden presented was presented as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaningn esented eld
highlighting his cognitive struggles, but as per usual, the mob, the media, they raced to his defense. take a look. i thought it was good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers, this is not pollsters, this was joe biden, you know, sort of letting everybody know where he is coming from and how he feels. i think that that makes him seem more youthful and more engaged, more human, more relatable. if you want to get to the age thing, let s call it what it is, it s ages some clearing of any wrongdoing, if some of you says you are too far left, you contacted the center. there s the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. sean: let me educate our friends from the mob and the media, according to the special counsel report, joe biden was presented as a sympathetic well-meaning man with a poor memory who cannot even remember when he served as vice president. that s what they said in the report and asking on day one of the interview with the special counsel if it was 2
laura: all right. sean, awesome show i ll take it over i m laura ingraham this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. mother nature s laughing, that s the focus of tonight s angle. feeling hot hot hot lat moffett was the hottest june on record. that heat then carried through to july as a new global high average temperature was set on monday and then broken the very next day. triple digit heat index through the end of the week. laura: it s hot, hot, hot all right. after all we re in the middle of a season called summer. now, fast forward a few years and imagine that one morning you wake up, cook breakfast. you turn on the stove and the gas doesn t work. and your living room is kind of cold so you try to turn up the heat. but the thermostat won t goat past 64. then you re just so fed up, you jump in your car you drive to get gas because the tank s empty but every station you pull into is closed. then an emergency bulletin comes across your cell phone say