Are always important, but never more so important than the time that were living in. We heard former president bill clinton use the words total class. And we heard former president barack obama, a democrat, say a gentleman. And i think civility, his graciousness, the way he handled himself is a role model we all will miss. Jamie, dana, thank you. This is cnn breaking news. Im don lemon. It is the top of the hour. Here is our breaking news. The 41st president of the United States, george h. W. Bush has died at the age of 94. The flag at the white house flying at halfstaff right now as flowers pile up outside the bush home in houston, texas. Tributes are pouring in from President Trump and former president S Barack Obama and bill clinton. As well as former Vice President al gore and condoleezza rice, james baker, and so many more. The nation mourning the man who devoted his life to service to his country and to his family. Cnns john king now with the story of george h. W. Bush, the polit
take years for them to undo the damage they have done in such a short time. carley: if you look at the portland homicide rate, it smashed the annual record before. 80 people have been murdered in portland so far this year. the previous record was 66 in 1987. all this is happening after we saw videos of thousands of people marching in portland to defund the police and look what is happening as a result. do you think those people regret pushing the defund movement? a lot of people were part of that initially that really weren t on board with the defund movement. what they were really after is accountability and making sure people crossed the line of god across the line should be held accountable. i honestly struggle to believe people do believe in the true defunding the police unless they
even confederates recognized abraham lincoln s election. they tried to succeed because they knew that they had lost. the illegitimate-ing biden s victory was a strategic win for trump, then and now, because the big lie became the driving passion of the voters who controlled the fate of republican legislators and trump s fate was in the legislators hands. calm and then explains how the bizarre world theory that republicans and state legislators should just take over, nullify the actual votes in their states, and proclaim the winner that may prefer themselves. he goes through and explains how that crazy theory is now not just being propound it by crazy people like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, it s being fine-tuned by real lawyers. it s already circulating on places like fox news as a republican party talking point for the election in 2024. he explains point by point how republicans who weren t on board with those kinds of efforts to throw out the real
that this is something that republicans just weren t on board with. and be able to point to the democrats who are going to be able to go back to their districts and say, you know what, we took this issue before the people and prioritized it and we did our part regardless of what the outcome we wanted it to be. i guess one other thing, we may see and there was late news yesterday, perhaps senator roy blunt is one to watch on preclearance for voting rights act, that would be incremental to the people act, but still be something that perhaps we may see discussed in the future. washington post s eugene scott, thank you so much for getting up with us. we appreciate it. still ahead, the totally different reason why one nfl player s jersey is now a top seller. way too early, back in just a moment.
efforts. that s what we can do here. we can question our leaders. i do it on a regular basis. we re going to do it tonight. that s why i want to bring a better mind to assess the stakes on what has been on his watch, and what is to come on biden s watch. ambassador william taylor. he was a star witness at trump s impeachment trial. thank you for joining us on prime time, sir. thank you, chris. great to be here. first, an obvious question. why weren t you on the perfect phone call, did they box you out because you weren t on board with what they wanted? that phone call was listened to by a small number of people in washington, and a very small number of people in ukraine. no, i don t think that they had any idea of who would be on, or