Visiting towns and neighborhoods that days ago looked pristine and now completely still flooded out all the while making the Hard Sell on his domestic agenda trying to offer his Infrastructure And Budget plans as solutions in preventing future death and devastation. We got to listen to the scientists and the economists and the Nasa Security experts. They all tell us this is Code Red. The nation and the world are in peril and thats not hyperbole, that a fact. Its a bipartisan plan to modernize our physical Ins Infras infrastructure, our roads. How many bridges i went tHrough in New Jersey that had been over flown by the river because the next time disaster strikes, the flood is contained, the fire doesnt spread as widely and power stays on. Not to mention those investments save lives, homes and create good paying union jobs. President biden making a hard pivot to his economic plan as you heard there trying to turn the page on crisis that have consumed his White House in recent weeks inc
We are thrilled to have you with us this saturday, august 14th. Still a little bit early, christi. The Coffee Hasnt completely kicked in yet. I give you credit. I dont drink coffee. You never know what youre going to get from me. Boris, so good to see you. We begin this hour with some pretty disturbing numbers. The surge in the u. S. Covid19 infections are overwhelming hospitals and communities and the u. S. Is now leading the world with the highest rate of new cases so far reporting more than 1. 5 million new infections just in august thus far. The cases are primarily in the south. In fact, heres dr. Peter hotez. This is starting to look really ominous in the south where i am. Were now if you look at the rates of transmission in florida and louisiana, theyre actually probably the highest in the world. Thats how badly things have gotten out of hands. The skeencenes at the hospit are reminiscent of the early days. Theyre quickly running out of hospital beds. One hospital in mississippi
wrap up their case by warning of the potential for future violence if former president trump is not convicted and barred from ever holding office again. prosecutors argued that the deadly capitol insurrection would not have happened had the mob not been invited and incited by trump. despite their compelling video evidence, most republican senators appear ready to acquit from trump. at one point our producer witnessed 15 empty seats on the gop side during the trial. let s begin with cnn s lauren fox live on capitol hill. reporter: the house managers used two days to make their case to this jury. these 100 senators. we expect trump s team is only going to spend a couple of hours today making their case, and that s because, like you said, many of these minds on capitol hill, they re made up. even though these are supposed to be impartial jurors, we know there are not likely to be 17 republicans ready to convict trump as early as tomorrow. former president donald trump s defens
a massive fire inside of an apartment building in the bronx. 19 dead, dozens hurt. i was scared, that s what really hit me. liright now, australia court considers whether to let tennis champion novak jdjokavich to defend his title. right now, wasn t clear about the responsibilities, what the expectations were. tonight, omicron surging rapidly across the country, hospitals struggling to deep up. large portion of the population unvaccinated, that sets up a large pool of people who as they get infected will end up straining the resources we have in the hospitals today. i m joe mattingly in washington in for pamela brown tonight, you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin this hour with breaking news out of new york city where at least 19 people were killed in what s called the city s worst fire in three decades, among the dead, nine children, started late this morning in a bronx apartment building and quickly spread throughout two apartments, firefighters on the scene
bombshell reporting from reuters. a kanye west publicist pressured a georgia election worker to confess to bogus election fraud two days before january 6th. i cannot say what specifically will take place. i just know that it will disrupt your freedom. tonight what this revelation means for the investigation of donald trump s coup attempt and what it means for the ongoing march to undermine democracy. then what we learned from the alarming supreme court decision on the texas abortion ban and why there s genuinely good news on the vaccination drive in a place you might not expect, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. they attempted a coup. we use that word a lot on this show to describe donald trump s attempts to stay in power following the 2020 election. we use coup. we use it in scripts and graphics and banners that you see on the bottom of your tv. when we first started calling it that, and we made a choice to do so. when we fi