To compete. Weekend drama over which house member could be next. At no time in the history of a select committee of america as to what had speaker pelosi done ever happened before. The idea that she s going to pick and choose? you re not going to get an outcome. More violence in d. C. This week after a shooting on one of the city s busiest strips, and as crime steadily rises across the country, tension is growing over how to curb the violence. It s happened where people can t sit down or walk down the street with their kids, that s when people start to speak up about the issue. I ve been talking to residents along the way, and people are mad as hell right now, and i don t blame them. I am too. And extreme weather taking over the country. Historic fires, heatwaves a md floods. More storms and heat set to come this weekend. Is the worst yet to come? all righting good morning, everybody. It s saturday, july 24th. The olympics are here? the olympics are here. It s like the lauryn hill olym
The summer. All of this as the agency maintains they have made big changes. Tonight roughly a dozen newly released videos show rioters vicious attacks on police. In one video rioters are heard chanting our house. In another, a man in a protrump hat fights with law enforcement. And this footage captures the moment a rioter stole a badge and video from a d. C. Police officer. Six months later, capitol police say the agency is changing to adapt to the threat landscape. They purchased new equipment, offer new training and share intelligence with officers, something absent before rioters attacked the capitol. But officers tell cnn day re worried the changes amount to marginal differences and feel they re no better prepared today than early january. Since the insurrection, at least 75 officers have resigned. Providing security is done by people. Those officers have to be rested, trained, sharp with good information and wellled. When moral is bad, that makes it more difficult. Terry gainer is
plus, agony and anger. doctors in india forced to hide from relatives of covid victims after a series of beatings. welcome to the lead, everyone. i m jake tapper. we start with the health lead. the united states is turning a corner in the battle against coronavirus. that s the declaration from a leading infectious disease expert today, the usually quite cautious epidemiologist michael olsterholm saying while there remains work to do, the u.s., he says, should be celebrating the progress made thus far with vaccinations. one of the reason for his optimism? record lows in the united states in the average of new daily cases, the lowest level since october. covid hospitalizations, a low we haven t seen consistently since last fall, and daily deaths from the virus, still tragically high, 776 deaths yesterday, but deaths have fallen to the lowest average since july of 2020. for context, there was a day just in january where we lost more than five times that number of americans to
cheney? let s get right to cnn s gary tuchman, live from cheyenne, in cheney s home state of wyoming. gary, what are voters there saying to you? reporter: jake, we talked to a lot of voters in cheyenne, wyoming. what surprises me a little bit, it s been very difficult to find a loyal republican who says i like cheney, i like trump. let s try to get it together. people are extremely dug in to their positions. what i can tell you at this point is that anyone we ve talked to who says that who lies and says the election was stolen or it may have been stolen, they are shedding no tears for liz cheney. this dispute, do you think liz cheney has the right to be angry with donald trump? no. reporter: why? because i don t think he s wrong. reporter: do you think the election was stolen? i think it s possible, yeah. reporter: whose side are you on? liz cheney s. tell me why. she doesn t divide her thoughts along political lines. she speaks her truth and i appreciat
been opposed and they don t appear to budge. we have manu raju who don t appear to budge, and so why is he planning to attend even though he knows they don t seem to budge? and it seems that moments ago, kirs sstin sinema went to senate floor saying that she would not vote for it, and that is what the democrats want to do to change the voting to simple majority to rewrite the voting laws, but sinema says this is going to worsen the divisions in the country, and she is not going to go along with that effort. while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. now she says that she supports underlying bills, but the underlying bills to overhaul voting laws need to support of the regular order of republicans in order to become a filibuster and the only way to pass is to change the rules, and one democratic defection is to undermine the effort, and sinema making it clear she is no