face mask during a once in a generation pandemic is an historical. it s nothing like the holocaust. republican congresswoman liz cheney referred to greene s remarks as evil lunacy. let s go straight to cnn s donne o sullivan. this is about more than one congresswoman s remarks. despite major pushback the congresswoman is standing by what she said and there s very little coming from republican workers to defend her. take a lessen when she was asked to qualify. i stand by all of my statements. i did nothing wrong and i think an average jewish person didn t like what happened in nazionaly germany and an average person doesn t like what s happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies. reporter: so there you have greene who in 2018 shared a conspiracy theory online blaming jewish space lasers for wild fires in california and now seemingly speaking for what she calls rational jewish people. jake? donne, we should note this is not just a sentiment t
on june 19th, 1865, union soldiers informed slaves in galveston, texas, that they were free. they were among the last ones to get the news. this was two months after the confederacy had surrendered and more than two years after the emancipation proclamation. juneteenth is a reminder that our history is full of both progress and pain, progress usually takes a long time but its time does come. i will have more to say about this later in the hour. on thursday president biden signed into law a new federal holiday recognizing juneteenth. he emphasized the importance of confronting the difficult moments in our history. great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. they don t ignore them, they embrace them. the house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill. 14 republican members voted against it. the senate bill passed by june unanimous consent, meaning if someone objects, it passes without having a formal vote.
been waiting for for months. do kids need to wear masks at summer camp? plus it s the first normal holiday weekend in more than a year, which means lots of planes, trains, and automobiles. but prepare for some stress as gas prices soar and masks remain a must on planes. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. even though it was almost guaranteed to fail, it was still stunning to watch almost every senate republican this afternoon block a bill which would have created a bipartisan commission to investigate what went wrong and what caused the capitol riot. only six republicans sided with democrats on today s vote. bill cassidy, susan collins, lisa murkowski, ben sasse, rob portman, and mitt romney, despite so many votes calling for an investigation in the aftermath of january 6, of course before donald trump made it clear he opposed any closer look on what may have caused the attack at the capitol. 11 senators, we should point out, could not
prepares to tell his party it s time to cut and run from trump. and missed signals? we re just learning the killer has previously been questioned by federal law enforcement about his hatred of the workplace in san jose. so what if anything was done about it? welcome to the lead. we start today with our politics lead and at any moment a key senate vote is all but guaranteed to fail. ending any hopes of a bipartisan commission to investigate the capitol insurrection to make sure such a dark day does repeat itself. senate republicans are very confident they will defeat the vote today despite many of those very same senators calling for this exact type of investigation in the days and weeks after the deadly riot. since then, of course, republicans have largely changed their tune in fear of angering trump who supports, they feel, they need to recapture control of the house and senate. they are in voting against the creation of the commission breaking with decades of precedent
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