After the biggest protest in decades. Good to have you with us. Voting rights in the u. S. Are Front And Center today with a major address from President Biden and an old fashioned Texas Standoff over new election restrictions. White House Press Secretary jen s psaki offered this preview. To lay out the moral case why it is a form of Suppression And Silencing and he will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental right of americans to vote against the onslaught of Voter Suppression laws based on a dangerous and discredited Conspiracy Theory that culminated in an assault on our capitol. And meanwhile democrats flew to washington late monday, and that are absence would deny republicans a quorum and keep them from voting on new restrictions. Dianne gallagher has more. Reporter there are two separate bills that were introduced in the Special Session, and both do contain a whole slew of restrictions to the Voting Processes and
Hi, willie, good to have you back. Weve missed you. Thanks, good to be back with you. I had an Eye Injury the last week, wish i could say i was on a beach but im here, not fully recovered but as close as i can get, its good to be back. We are glad to have you. Among the many stories were following, quote, theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. Thats what the republican partys top lawyers said in real time about the Election Fraud cases of trump. And this morning, michigan is calling the claims from Trump Ally lawyers fantastical. Well talk about the efforts to hold the former president and his backers accountable for spreading those lies about the election. Plus a dramatic escalation over the battle of Voting Rights in texas as Texas Democrats flee the state. Theyre now in washington to Lobby Congress. And the warning of the Johnson Johnson Vaccine amid a surge of covid cases. The Polar Bear does it again. Mets Slugger Pete Alonso wins his second straight Home Run Derby. He just complete
That matter, take charge in your own cities and communities. In just hours, entrepreneur Richard Branson hopes to become the first person to ride a selffunded rocket into suborbital space. I had to wait a lifetime to go into space. Hopefully we can speed that process up for many, many others. Im Pamela Brown in washington. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. You are in the Cnn Newsroom on this saturday. And it has been a week of conflicting data and confusion over covid. As you well know. Vaccine Maker Pfizer set off alarms when it released a Statement Saying immunity from its vaccine was waning and a Booster Shot may be needed, citing data from the israeli health ministry. Pfizer said Vaccine Effect Efficacy has declined. But hours later the cdc and the fda said, stand down, fully Vaccinated Americans dont need to worry about getting boosters right now. But sadly the u. S. Is moving in the Wrong Direction again when it comes to the number of covid cases.
then the doj would again be in charge of whether to indict meadows. and this committee is playing legal hardball, reaching over 200 witnesses for testimony, and pushing people to testify. and bottom line, tonight s news continues that approach. think about it like this. trump s top 2016 aid, steve bannon, indicted. then contempt votes coming. and congress really wants to know why they re going to these lengths. what are they hiding? let s get right to it. i m joined by anna, and maya wiley. welcome to you both. emily, what do you see in the splitting between many who have cooperated, and these special three? well, i see close trump allies and it s hard to know whether they have legal exposure reasons to decide not testify, or whether they re trying to demonstrate loyalty to performer president trump. either way, they re setting up a real showdown, not only with congress, but after congress presumably votes on these orders, then also with the justice department. and people
johnson is standing by. paying tribute to general colin powell. u.s. presidents from both parties and former secretary of state hillary clinton embracing alma powell. tonight, the deeply emotional words from powell s son, and the story of the disabled vet who stopped to help colin powell on the side of the road. the emotional scene from inside the courtroom in the ahmaud arbery case today, the trial of three white men charged with murdering arbery. the jogger shot and killed, pursued by a pickup truck. tonight prosecutors say he was chased for five minutes. tonight authorities say a high school spanish teacher was killed by two students at her own high school, found dead in a park. what the teacher s daughter is saying tonight. also, nfl star aaron rodgers breaking his silence. he has covid, after saying he was immunized. he s out of the big game this weekend. and what the quarterback is saying about his vaccination status, adding he thinks this is a witch hunt. bre