InsurrectiOn Attempt, was a real plan, how do we even translate that, how do we sit around and wait a year for Inspector Generals report about the fight that Donald Trump was calling up people and saying flip this election for me . Exactly. I appreciate the balance that shes talking about that when youre talking about people having committed crimes in the political context, in this case overthrowing the government, and keeping somebody in power, we dont criminalized politics. You can commit a crime in a political context, but it has to be approached so much that if you get voted out of office you end up in jail, that has to only happen if you are definitely a crook committing crimes while you are a politician. And so there is a balance that has to be found, but Merrick Garland has a Justice Department where all of these former high ranking officials may have participated in very serious crimes, and the Justice Department has to Self Police its own officials in a way to fix that faster
Tape, of course, everybody remembers the early years of Morning Joe when you and Mika At Times had to Duct Tape me to the chair. We did. On an occasion or two, everything worked out okay. It didnt interrupt you. While we were doing it, you were still going. Kept talking. We have the white House Reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire and we have Catty Kay. Something happened last night, like a haleys comet. The Red Sox won a game last night. I saw it. When Tampa Bay spotted us 19 runs going into the ninth inning it was hard not to blow it but we gave it the 617 chance. Didnt we . Blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while joe and we were able to get the win. We needed all 20 wins in the ninth we gave up more and more and more. We needed 20, they scored 7 or 8, i guess we missed the extra point. Lets be clear here, joe. These are dark times for the Boston Red sox. This is bad. The surging new York Yankees today playing in iowa, the field of Dreams Field where they will und
Resulting in hospitalization or death. Now, this data includes cases Up To august 2nd, after the Delta Variant took over the majority of u. S. Infections. That is the good news. Heres the troubling news. For the Third Day in a row, the u. S. Is averaging more than 100,000 new cases of covid a day. Weve not seen that level of transmission since february. Remember, thats when just 3 of the country was fully vaccinated. Now, as the cases add up, so do the hospitalizations and the deaths. Today more than 66,000 people are in hospitals sick with covid. The nations top Infectious Disease Experts are concerned that additional variants, more dangerous than delta could form. Lucy is following the latest developments including what the latest surge will do to children as they return to schools. Reporter as children across the Nation Head back to school, covid19 cases are surging. Hospitalizations and deaths have nearly doubled over the last two weeks. The u. S. Is now averaging more than 109,000
Once again running out of icu beds. Well bring you an indepth report out of the of texas. Plus, gymnastics superstar Simone Biles withdraws from two more olympic events. Well get the latest from tokyo. Live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. With robyn curnow. So, hospitals around the u. S. Are beginning to strain as the Delta Variant affects more and more people. An average of 77,000 new cases are turning up daily and trending higher. Most of these cases are among people who are unvaccinated. The centers for Disease Control says delta is as contagious as chickenpox and can cause severe illness. Up like earlier variance, a single case of delta has the potential to infect many more people. Health experts say the unvaccinated are at risk, and right now, thats about half of americans. And new revelations about the Delta Variant have prompted a shift in policy at the cdc and White House, and its Driving A Push to get even more americans vaccinated. F Phil Mattingly has more. Reporter
The house select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Congressman Adam Kinzinger says hes open to the idea of subpoenaing some of his gop colleagues. Would you support subpoenas to the republican leader in the house And Jim Jordan . I would support subpoenas to anybody that can shed light on that. If thats the leader, thats the leader. If its anybody who talked to the president that can provide us that information, i want to know what the president was doing every moment of that day after he said, im going to walk with you to the capitol. Were going to get a lot more on that in a little bit. Josh letterman joins us And Vaughn Hillyard from jacksonville, florida, covering the surge in covid19 there in the sunshine state. Guys, welcome to you both. Josh, lets get to the latest message on the covid19 sfront. What say you on this . Reporter the biden administration warning there are likely to be more restrictions coming down the pike that things are likely to get worse befor