hit on the texas coast, knocking out power to nearly 3 million homes and businesses. beryl slamming ashore as a category 1 storm, with 80-mile-per-hour winds. at least four dead. homes destroyed. neighborhoods underwater. in houston nearly a foot of rain, flooding highways. the dramatic rescue. a man stranded on top of his truck pulled to safety. our team in the storm zone. and the dangerous heat wave. 136 million under alerts tonight. also this evening, president biden vowing i m not going anywhere as calls grow for him to drop out. mr. biden daring dissatisfied democrats to challenge him at the convention. it comes as white house logs reveal an expert on parkinson s visited the white house eight times in eight months, including a meeting with the president s personal physician. the white house saying it can t confirm why he was there. the united plane losing a tire during takeoff at l.a.x. what the airline says happened. boeing agreeing to plead guilty to a felony o
thinks he is the best candidate to defeat donald trump. the bottom line here is that we re not going anywhere. i am not going anywhere. i wouldn t be running if i didn t absolutely believe that i am the best candidate to beat donald trump in 2024. he s just a liar, and he hasn t done a damn thing since the debate. he s been riding around the golf cart at mar-a-lago talking with his wealthy friends. you know me well enough to know this, i ran because i never bought on to the trickle down economic theory. i never bought into the notion that we have to walk away from the rest of the world in a cave to putin or anybody else. i ve never believed any of, that and i m confident that s who the american people are. by the way, this morning the president also sent a two-page letter to his democratic allies writing among other things, quote, the question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now and it is time for it to end. we have one job and that is to beat d
running this race until the end despite new and growing calls from lawmakers within his party to step aside. but pressure could ratchet up exponentially with congress back in session today. the commander in chief calling in to morning joe today to make his position clear. the bottom line here is that we re not going anywhere. i am not going anywhere. i wouldn t be running if i didn t absolutely believe that i m the best candidate to beat donald trump in 2024. we had a democratic nominating process where the voters spoke clearly. also, we continue to track tropical storm beryl and its impact on southeast texas, including at least two deaths after making landfall in morning. a critical nato summit in washington in week ahead strikes in ukraine including on a children s hospital in kyiv. days after a landslide in britain s election, the left rallies for a surprising result in france s elections, preventing the far right wave predicted in the polls. good day, everyone
covid is surging today among the unvaccinated. this pandemic is spiraling out of control yet again. and it s spiraling out of control because we don t have enough people vaccinated. there is real harm to you. because guess what, more mitigation is coming, whether it s masking or closures or kids having to return to virtual learning. that is coming. the u.s. daily case count has more than doubled to 50,000. and people who need hospital care, a sign that they re in a bad covid situation, has surged 58% over the last two weeks alone. these are numbers you need to know. the hardest-hit places are often areas with misinformation problems and low vaccination. florida, alabama, hurting. about 1 out of 3 people are vaccinated in alabama, and the number of people going to the hospital has more than tripled this month. and there s a story of two pandemics in america during this period of an available vaccine. we have the places with higher vaccine rates that are doing better. and t
pandemic was obfuscated to no end by the insurrectionist former president who politicized the cdc and used it to try to cover up how unprepared and undisciplined he was. meanwhile, some big news first reported by the washington post . the trump justice department secretly obtained phone records of three washington post reporters for calls they made during three months in 2017 while reporting on russia s role in the 2016 presidential election. the subpoenas, which needed the former attorney general william barr s approval, sought records that would show who the reporters called and how long their conversations lasted. the revelation comes just days after a federal judge ruled that the doj must release a controversial justice department memo that barr claims helped guide his decision in declaring that the special counsel, robert mueller, and his investigation did not support a charge of obstruction. that is not what the mueller investigation concluded. joining me now is demo