Trying to hold onto them still have but i cant do it alone. Good Morning And Welcome to cnn this morning, let us be the first to welcome you to a brand new week. It is sunday, july 7th. Im Victor Blackwell and im Veronica Miracle in for amara walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning. Under pressure, President Biden heads to pennsylvania today as hes facing more cold from within his own party to drop out of the 2024 president ial race were logged with how he plans to make his case to concern voters millions of people in texas are bracing for tropical Storm Beryl to regain strength and bring Life Storm Surge and hurricaneforce Winds Meteorologist Elisa raffa is here to track the Hurricane Warnings. Just posted this morning and happening now, voting in a second round of one of frances most consequential parliamentary elections in recent history will take you live to paris for the latest. And it is the ohtani factor how the Los Angeles dodgers 700,000,000 man is changing the
Welcome to all of viewers watching from around the world. Im Eleni Jocasta ahead on newsroom but lets go aids expressed optimism after President Bidens Primetime Interview. Even as another democratic Lawmaker Calls for him to end his Campaign Runoff parliamentary elections are underway in france as the farright works to build on its first page showing in the first round were live in paris with the latest and as israel marks nine months since the Davey Hamas Terror Attacks, there are signs of progress in negotiations to see more Hostages Release with his key Primetime Interview behind him, president Joe Biden, it said to make Campaign Stop in another key Battleground State later today. Now, mr. Biden is definetely staying in the president ial race, even as another democratic Lawmaker Calls for him to step aside, he has cnns Arlette Saenz and its Width Mole President biden is pushing forward with his Campaign Planning to hit the Battleground State of pennsylvania on sunday. But even as t
now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. so i m wondering is this more or less homework for you? because back when you couldn t get the cdc director you would still have to do stories about it, and you d have to try to figure out certain things that were not easily apparent. tonight you could actually go into that interview not knowing the answers to the questions because you re going to get actual answer tuesday the questions. well, the thing that i mean the thing that changes that you don t have to anticipate what the interviewee is going to say, what they think or what was their motivation because you can ask them directly. but you still need to know about the issues and you know how to follow up and press them on it. it is just being able to interview dr. fauci and dr. wolensky and, you know, you ve been talking to the white house chief of staff ron klain, and andy slavitt has been on chris show. being
the issues and you know how to follow up and press them on it. but it is just being able to interview dr. fauci and dr. wolensky and, you know, you ve been talking to the white house chief of staff ron klain, and andy slavitt has been on chris show. being able to talk to the people who are making decisions about the decisions they re making particularly when the decisions are causing consternation like this issue of teachers not having to be vaccinated before schools reopen. it s just night and day in terms of actually understanding the government s take and being able to press them where they need to be pressed. i think everyone knows that it was a trick question. that, of course, there s no way rachel is going to find a way to do less homework for her show. that s just not gonna happen. work is a force that gives life meaning. that s true. that s true. for you, for you. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. thank you. well, our first guest tonight was in the
live from washington, i m paula reid in for jim acosta. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with yet another consequential week for former president donald trump. on thursday as we waited for an indictment in the special counsel investigation into election interference, we learned of three new charges in the mar-a-lago documents case instead. the new charges include two counts of obstruction related to trump s alleged efforts to get his employees to destroy security video before it could be viewed by the justice department. cnn s zach cohen joins us now. explain these new allegations starting with the effort to try, though they were unsuccessful, to delete security video. reporter: yeah, paula, these new charges really center around allegations that trump employees not only attempted to destroy the surveillance video at mar-a-lago, but they did so because trump himself is the one who asked them to. and the reason trump wanted the footage destroyed according