mike, thanks so much for being with us. your testimony yesterday was so emotional, and i just wonder, what was that like for you? and did you feel that congress was listening? >> i mean, i felt like i had the attention of the members that were there in the committee room. whether or not other members of congress were paying attention or not, i've heard reports that many purported that they were not watching my testimony or that of my colleagues. i find that very telling. >> how so? >> well, i mean, if you have people like kevin mccarthy whose members of his party have been downplaying or denying the events of that day, i think it's, you know, not politically advantageous for him to continue to have to answer questions about the january 6th insurrection, which was at least in part incited by the leader at the time of his political party. so with that understanding, i do understand why they wouldn't want to watch that. >> i wonder, you know, lauren fox, who is one of our reporters who covers congress at cnn was talking about

cnn's whitney whield is joining us now. i know you're watching this very closely for any indications of other cases. >> this is the beginning of the end so to speak because we're now getting into the phase where people are starting to plead guilty, starting to get their sentences. 38 years old of florida pleaded guilty to one felony count. he admitted to taking selfies as we walked around the desks in the senate chamber and worn protective goggles and gloves. he originally faced five charged related to him entering the capitol and the justice department ended up dropping all of the charges against the most severe charge the obstruction charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison. he's most likely to serve a lot less than that, though. he's probably serving 15 to 21 months will be the likely sentence, although the judge, of course, has a lot of discretion here. he will likely get some leniency because he accepted responsibility for his crime. but this does mark the first felony sentencing and might serve as an indicator f

she used the word manipulation. that's a word that plenty of democratic senators would use. what they fear is that if justice breyer waits too long, the senate could flip and have a republican majority and, once again, we would have these maneuverings. justice breyer has heard this. and he has heard it before. and right now his head is in a different space. he is the senior liberal on the left now because of the death of ruth bader ginsburg and has more of a chance to influence the internal debate and i think he's feeling pretty good about where he's at. >> your interview was fascinating about is driving the conversation. but people are people. he's looking at this through a personal lens to some extent. how is that in and out outweighed in even his mind with the responsibilities to the court and balance given the recent reversals and situational ethics we've seen? how is the personal consideration not look small compared to the institution? >> theoretically, the senate should stay in democratic hands through next year, next spring, june and july, a year from now, which woul

can you give us a sense, just tell us what happened. tell us about when she became ill, as you were kind of awaiting a vaccine. >> yeah. well, thank you. good morning. we both had some symptoms. i would say her symptoms were first. tiredness, a little bit of soreness, loss of taste and then i had the same symptoms right after her. her case with a little bit more severe, tiredness. a week prior to us getting the test results. when we got the test results, the next day our primary doctor had us go into the hospital as an outpatient to do the antibody. and she was in there first and then shortly afterwards i went in to a separate room. and while i was getting my procedure and the nurse came in, told me that kathy's oxygen levels were just really, really bad. and i could tell. i mean, prior to us going to the hospital, walking to the car, she had to literally stop and sit on a park bench. so i could tell it was very laborious, her breathing. so the nurse told me they had to admit her. she couldn't complete the test. her oxygen levels were r

used car prices $26,000. are you kidding me? used car price $26,000. so you can see that actually the auto part is a big part of the inflation story. a third of this gain in inflation was just used cars. that's going to work itself out. >> we also have to remember that high inflation hurts low income americans the hardest. and those are, of course, are the same ones really hurt by the pandemic. >> got to keep our eye on the wage numbers. a lot of americans will be willing to take some inflation if it means their wages appreciably increase. >> some of the eating out numbers are higher because restaurants have to pay more to get their workers back. >> great to see you both. thank you. >>> coming up, we have brand new reporting emergency hot line the white house is considering setting up with china. >>> plus, a hacking gang that attacked u.s. companies mysteriously vanished from the internet. so where did they go? and who might have gotten rid of them? i've got big news! now, nurtec odt is the first and only medication proven to treat and prevent migraine

tell us about that. tell us why. >> well, it's obviously pretty easy for someone outside an organization to tell someone they should not tolerate what their organization is doing. but you just cited the figures. and it's staggering and so dishonest. it's just not honest. i mean, what's the rational for this? what's their reason for saying, oh, be skeptical about the vaccine? skeptical is one thing. if you mention that and then say, yeah, but 99% of the people dying are the people who aren't vaccinated, at least you're doing your job. you're giving honest information. but to not give honest information and save lives, i just don't understand how you can justify that. if you're a professional in the information business and you're giving out this disinformation all the time that could cost someone their life, i don't know how you can function as a responsible journalist that way. just doesn't make sense to me. >> it's not responsible journalism what we're seeing, right? this information taken to heart enda

he joins us now. jordan, what an extraordinary american story, from a cambodian orphanage to the tokyo olympics. tell us about what or who got you to where you are today. >> yeah, thank you for having me. and, you know, my dad adopted me at 18 months, and he pretty much got me in the sport of diving at the age of 7, and so, you know, from that point on he sacrificed so much. i've been diving for 15 years now, and the journey itself has been extraordinary. and, you know, i couldn't be more thankful for what he's done for me. >> jordan, he nursed you back to health? tell us about that. >> yeah, so when i was in the orphanage, i was very malnourished and i had a lot of parasites and i was very, very sick, you know. i was an infant. from that point on my dad took care of me and we went to many hospitals. i had to get a lot of shots and get seen by a lot of doctors just to get my health back to where it should be when i came into america. you know, he really did save me from that point on. >> and your dad

>> they doved us healthcare heros. it gave the public this really wrong impression that we were sacrificial lams and willing to die for them. we want to help people. i want to save lives. i want people to get better, but not at the expense of my family's lives either. then you have the public going, well, you signed up for this. no, i didn't. when i was 17 i enlisted in t army and knew i might die for my country and 22 and went to nursing school that wasn't on the agenda. i didn't volunteer to die for everybody. even with the vaccine now, it's still highly politicized thing for no good reason. >> reporter: last year, sunny started venting on tiktok. >> you're just trying to spread fear. if that's what it takes to get you to listen to me, sure. >> i had avoided posting about covid for a long time because of the negative reactions i got. it hurt my feeling. couple weeks ago i had people threatening to kill me, calling me a murderer, saying i helped kill those people. is my thing to respond to hate comments for just $10 i

thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i started with the pompeo book. from a 30,000 foot view, i think this is the thrust of what your book gets into, which is that so many people inside the white house and in trump world felt that the president was dangerous. >> yeah. >> felt that he was dangerous, yet didn't take it public. >> that's right. i think we are all pretty familiar with the story of the chaos of trump's four years, whether it's the administration or the president himself. what this book lays out pretty me tho methodically and for the first time how dangerous people cl closeest to trump thought he was dangerous for the country. you bring up a good one. secretary mike pompeo becomes concerned about the national security of the country, the domestic unrest and what that could mean internationally. privately he sets of a call, daily call with the chief of staff, and mark milley, the nation's top general in order to try to keep temperatures down. publicly what does he say? he says that there is goi

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thank you for joining us now. new cdc guidelines for mask wearing for individuals who are vaccinated. what should they do? >> i think the guidelines cannot come soon enough. we need to understand we tried the honor system and it failed. the cdc guidance said mask it or vax it. we know there are many more people out there going without a mask than the statistics suggest or vaccinated. that is number one. number two, the delta variant is 1,000 times more infectious. we are seeing breakthrough infections, not leading to death or hospitalizations, but it could cause the spread we are seeing. we have to take that into a account with masking. public health officials are left in a lurch. >> you like to see more mask wearing inside for vaccinated and unvaccinated people? >> absolutely. again, anytime you have mixing within crowds and you don't know if people are vaccinated or not, we absolutely need to protect people with these mitigation measures. >> part of that is unvaccinated people are not doing what they should. wea

and larry is with us now. larry, thank you so much for sharing your personal story and really putting a face, the face of your family on this disparity in vaccines. it is, you know -- it's unacceptable quite frankly. >> it is because i've kind of had this roller coaster of emotions, brianna, between obviously heart break for losing family members but also just anger, outrage because it was preventable. my uncle got covid just last month and died within a few days. he didn't get vaccinated. so, we can't help wondering if he did get a vaccine, maybe he would still be here. he was only in his 60s. he still had a whole life ahead of him. and the most heart breaking part for me is my grandmother who is 96 and also did not get a vaccine on time and has now been on a ventilator for five weeks struggling to breathe, battling for her life and she's a brave, brilliant woman who outlived her husband by 25 years. she has great sense of humor. and she's in this position where i'm constantly -- i'm just dreading when ever i

none of us can say things like that. so what is his administration doing to ensure that there are more people who are doing community research that are coming actually from these communities because i believe that that would instill so much more trust. >> stephanie, that's such an important point because you're right, it's who you know and the trust coming from that community and that kind of an initiative can make a huge difference. it's an important point. i want to stick with you, stephanie and then christian weigh in. but i want to understand specifically what's the kind of misinformation you hear from your families and friends about why they're vaccine hesitant or skeptical? >> a lot of them are relying a lot more on the internet and social media. some of the circles around them. so if you take an inner city black community where you have a grandfather or grandmother raising a lot of her younger children, that grandmother may have directly been part of that network that was used in the us the keegan experiments, som

sir, thank you for being with us. tell us your reaction which we have seen a little bit of on social media to massey's tweet here. >> it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. and it's just -- it's just stunning to me that someone in that position has such little knowledge of what the facts really are. you know, first of all, one does not quit the military. that's called desertion. secondly, vaccines can be made mandatory. there are a lot of mandatory vaccinations now. the only issue with the covid vaccine is that it's being used under emergency use authorization. however, the president has the power to waive that and make those vaccines mandatory. he said in the past he was going to leave it up to military. and as much as i respect president biden, he's made a mistake in punting this one. i think he should show the leadership and just go ahead and waive the informed consent requirement and go ahead and make that mandatory just from a system standpoint. and those who decide they're not going to take it or literally

sanjay gupta who is live for us from tokyo. sanjay, first, before we get to the questions of health, which are so at the forefront of these games, what is the latest feeling there on the ground. >> well, i think there's excitement and there's anxiety. it's sort of both, you know, it's very interesting, you know, just flying here typically you fly to an event like this. you can't barely get seats on the plane. it's crowded. there's nobody on the flight. it's like flying into a war zone or a natural disaster. so there's that sense. there's no spectators allowed in the stands. that sort of feeling, you don't have that, all that earnestness around the games like you have had in the past. there's a lot of testing that's going on. we got tested, for example, 96 hours before we left again. 72 hours before we left. that's happening for the athletes and everyone that's involved in the village as well. so there's that whole sort of feeling. what they have tried to do here is really separate out the olympic village from the rest of tokyo.

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ryan young live for us in kennesaw. thanks. >>> in san jose, california, has passed a new gun law that's the first of its kind in the nation. get this, the law requires gun owners to have liability insurance. pay an annual fee to help curb the cost of gun violence. at the wake of the shooting at the valley transportation authority that left nine people dejoining us to analyze this is cnn's "early start" anchor laura jarrett. laura, this is an interesting policy suggest by the san jose mayor, how does it work? >> super interesting. novel, as you said. of course, as you can imagine, very controversial. the best way to discuss this, as you and i were discussing in a break. think about car insurance. anyone can wrap their heads around that, right? the idea, you own a car. you have to have insurance. you pull the risk, hopefully, you don't have as many accidents that way. this is just a draft proposal what they're considering, but if it goes through, it's not only about the devastation to the families, obviously, loved ones

it's very useful. dr. jerome adams, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. >>> republican lawmakers in texas now launching a second effort to pass sweeping voting restrictions at a special session called by the governor. texas democrats blocked republicans' first attempt in may by staging that dramatic walkout. the republicans there did concede two of the most controversial provisions, limits to early sunday voting hours and language that would make it easier for courts to overturn election results. measures that make casting mail-in ballots harder, banning drive-thru voting centers and partisan poll watchers all still in the proposal they're talking about in this special session. >>> joining us now, attorney and contributing columnist at the washington post, george conway. >> hi. >> nice to see you here. >> thanks. >> what's going on in texas? inevitable governor abbott would call this special session to push this through. the courts in georgia and other places have said, we're not going to

atallah, for being with us. we appreciate it. >>> today president biden has a lunch date on capitol hill with senate democrats. this is his first with the caucus since taking office. and there is a heaping portion of party unity that will be on the menu. democrats on the senate budget committee actually just struck an agreement. they struck this deal on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, and it includes spending for president biden's sweeping social agenda. the hurdle, the big one, is going to be getting everyone on board. so let's bring in cnn white house correspondent john harwood. >>> all right. he has his work cut out for him, john. >> reporter: he does. but this agreement that they announced last night is a signal that they will be able to get every democrat on board. this is a very significant moment in the biden administration, brianna, because it's not the finish line for the president's agenda on infrastructure and help for struggling families, but it gives you an indication of what the finish line is g

general clark, kaitlyn, thank you for being with us. stand by for us. there are more revelations including what liz cheney said to jim jordan, the congressman, during the insurrection. and what general milley told speaker nancy pelosi over her fears that trump might fire nuclear weapons in his final days. >>> plus, the answer to the question on so many democrat's minds this morning, will the supreme court's most senior liberal justice stephen breyer retire? cnn exclusive interview where he kind of answers that question. real progress? when you're affected by schizophrenia, you see it differently. it's in the small, everyday moments. and in the places, you'd never expect. a little sign of hope. the feeling of freedom. and once these little moments start adding up, that's when it feels like so much more. it feels like real progress. caplyta effectively treats adults with schizophrenia. and it's just one pill, once a day, with no titration. caplyta can cause serious side effects. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. call your d

doctor, thank you so much for being with us. we know na fthat federal offici meeting yesterday with pfizer as pfizer came out and talked about a booster certainly before the federal government said that was necessary. the federal government saying it's not at this point, but i wonder how far off are we from the federal government recommending a booster shot for vulnerable americans, people like cancer patients or transplant patients who may have troubled immune systems. how far off are we from that? >> well, it's good to be with you this morning. what i'll tell you is we had a good conversation with pfizer yesterday. it's always helpful to see additional data that companies have, but i want to make clear that the data from pfizer is one part of a much larger puzzle, if you will, and we have to look the at data from multiple sources, laboratory data, clinical trial data, real world data from cohorts and look at just not from countries but the united states and other countries. all of that together will go into the decision about

thank you for joining us. good to see you. we'll be watching biden in cincinnati tonight. >>> the white house joining us live in a few minutes right here on "new day." president joins don lemon for that exclusive cnn presidential town hall live tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> dr. anthony fauci not holding back on senator rand paul. >> and if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you. >> senator paul, i have never lied. >> more from their confrontation on capitol hill. that is next. >>> and a u.s. paralympian who has made the tough decision to quit the tokyo games and you won't believe why. . among my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity and gum gives us a dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. ♪ ♪ i had the nightmare again maxine. the world was out of wonka bars... relax. you just need digital workflows. they help keep

thank you for being with us. what do you think the most important thing to discover here is? >> the most important thing for us to do is to seek and find the truth on what happened january 6th. what happened was an assault on our democracy, and the cause of it and what the focus was is to prevent a peaceful transfer of power, which is a hallmark of our democracy. and so the most important thing we can do is to seek the truth where -- for the american people on what transpired on january 6, what we can do better, how we can learn from this, and what was the root cause of this leading up to january 6th. >> as of now, liz cheney is the only republican on the select committee. she was appointed by house speaker nancy pelosi. there was question -- is questioned whether kevin mccarthy will appoint anyone. there is reporting this morning in punch bowl and other places they think he likely will. what if it's someone like jim jordan? people said marjorie taylor greene. forget her for a second. even jim jordan, he's been a

john. >> lauren, stay with us. we're also going to bring in phil mud, our cnn counter terrorism analyst to talk about this. what are you expecting today? how do you see this day fitting into this larger investigation? >> you got to look at this as two pieces, what happened and what do you do about it. typically in a committee, you want to focus on how do we improve how the u.s. government operates. in the current environment, you have to do the emotional set up. you have to have the people on camera to explain this was not a bunch of polite protesters. this is a violent riot. the set up is today, and you're going to move on to the tictoc, the time line of how people were deployed, and what we can do to improve it, past and future. today is the past. >> i have to say, i'm fascinating to see how liz cheney, and adam kinzinger will be used. i don't mean to suggest they're being manipulated by the democrats here but what role exactly they're going to play during these hearings. >> look, i was fascinated yesterday becau

adam rotheman with us now to talk about this. adam, thank you so much for joining us. just tell us how you're feeling and what your breakthrough cases for you and your wife have been like. >> yes, thanks for having me. it's good to be here. and to be able to share our story. you know, right now i'm feeling okay. i have a little bit of -- little bit of cough and congestion, but it's not add was it's not as bad as it was. my 10-year-old daughter tested positive last tuesday, and my wife and i who are both vaccinated developed symptoms a couple of days later. you know, we had a mild fever, congestion, runny nose, cough, fatigue, headaches, you know, all of that stuff that people associate with covid. and most recent bly she and i he lost our sense of smell. but our daughter is doing a lot better and i think we're coming out of it, too. >> so she had lesser symptoms. you think that you contracted it from her because she tested positive first. do you have any idea where her exposure might have been? >> um, we really don't. she and i had been traveling the week before, so th

give us time, give us money. we'll get there. the new president comes in, began -- gani comes in after him. we're not going to get there. >> what's fascinating to me is what every president in theory dreads is a fall of saigon picture, helicopters leaving with the last u.s. troops and questions about who lost this country. who lost afghanistan. but the thing is the biden administration and joe biden is going into this with eyes wide open. he knows what pictures might likely emerge from afghanistan. so, too, did donald trump, by the way, who made the same decision that joe biden. he didn't execute the full withdrawal, but wanted the same thing. it just seems, you know, yes, there is opposition, but by some people not just security hawks, per se, but there is some political consensus that despite the pictures that may emerge, it's worth it. >> and that is the key part of the biden calculation. in the sense that the democratic base is anti-war. the trump base is anti-let's not have the united states policing the world. the president

cnn's elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, give us the information here about the booster shot. what do people need to know about whether they need it or not? >> right now i can just tell you that most people who are listening to this do not need a booster shot. that's very clear from a statement that the cdc and the fda put out. so let's talk about these boosters for a minute. first of all, so pfizer says that they're going to apply for authorization from the fda for a booster shot next month. i got to tell you i think surprised pretty much everybody. what? we have been talking about boosters but a booster next month? it sounds like people need it when, in fact, there's lots of evidence that they don't. the booster, by the way, would just be a third shot of what's already out there. so let's take a look. pfizer said -- didn't offer any new data. didn't say we did studies that show why we need do this but just point to israeli data. that data says that the shot is only 64% or the two shots are only 64% effective at preventing infection but 93% effective at preventing hospitaliza

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that's what they've reported to us. but we have been spared the worst from what was tropical storm and what was a hurricane at one stage, downgraded to a tropical storm overnight, of course. you talked to randi just a moment ago about the storm surge coinciding with the passage of the storm at its highest peak intensity and it did push water into the bay, but there was no flooding. we scouted the area in the usual places, bay shore boulevard in tampa, south tampa, no flooding. the city of tampa reporting no major incidents. so that's good news. obviously still electricity within this area. there are 13,000 people without power within the state of florida, but that's really in the big bend area where they are bracing for the brunt of this storm still hurricane warnings located in that region. now, the threats are not over just because the winds are gusting and the rain is still falling in some locations. the threat of tornadoes spinning up, heavy rain fall, causing flash flooding and then we need to focus on the storm as

joining us now, cnn white house correspondent john harwin, i know you're sitting with all of us stunned about the simone biles news to be honest, this is a big deal, but let's talk about infrastructure, a big deal in washington. where exactly are the talks right now, and what exactly are the hold ups? >> they're on the 5 yard line where they have been for some time. remember, it's been more than a month since joe biden walked out with those republicans at the white house and said we've got a deal. but you have to go from having a deal in concept to putting the numbers on a piece of paper and putting the policy on a piece of paper and coming up with what is the ratio of transit funding to highway funding, what are the ways to pay for the deal. can you use surplus covid relief money. at the end of the day, though, i think it is going to be about do those 11 republicans who made the deal, potentially bipartisan deal, do they have the stomach at a time when their party is looking to the 2022 electioelections, wanted joe biden to fail. do they have the stomach to make that deal with him. joe

natasha chen joins us live from surfside, florida, with more. >> that space behind us, the sky between the buildings there, that is where champlain tower south used to be as of last night about 10:30 p.m. that's when they took down th

i can use it. >> i played bud. bud usually had a problem with the truth telling on some level. >> what was all that racket upstairs? >> i didn't hear anything. >> father knows best represented the good >>> all right. joining us now is annie pots, actor and star of the hit sitcom designing women and young sheldon. thank you so much for being with us. big fan of yours. >> thank you. >> you know, when we talk about the sitcom, it really is part of america since the 1950s. you know, what role do you think they play in our culture? >> well, i mean, i think they're great touch stones for what's really going on. my first memory, or one of them, one of my first memories in life was watching "i love lucie" and my mother bringing me my bottle. so that kind of started it off just as the american musical is a very american thing, situation come diffi comedies are essentially an american invention. they always reflect society and provoke it sometimes. certainly in the last couple of decades. but, you know, it's a wonderful vehi

>> derek van dam for us in tampa. keep us posted. thank you. >> will do. >>> we have some breaking news. unsealed court records show that after the attack on the capitol, the fbi infiltrated a group led by a capitol riot suspect in northern virginia and members of that group talked about surveilling the capitol, testing homemade bombs and also seceding from the u.s. joining me now, cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild as well as d.c. metropolitan police officer michael fanone who was assaulted as he tried to protect the capitol on january 6. this, whitney, if you can take us through your reporting, this centers on wong. he was arrested last week. >> reporter: i need to do a shout out to my amazing team for doing the story for us, staying up to go through the court records. basically here's the deal. there's this guy wong, fbi agents under cover contacted. they basically investigated him for a series of months. what they found was he was part of this group of people who were under the guise of a bible study group. they were

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cnn's josh campbell is joining us now. josh, what can you tell us here? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, brianna. this garnering a lot of attention. authorities say four people were arrested on friday after an employee at this hotel, saw something suspicious and called police that leading authorities to obtain search warrants on two hotel rooms. now, during the course of that search, they located this cache of weapons. this hotel was a block away from where this baseball game is set to take place tomorrow on tuesday. now, one local media report citing law enforcement officers police feared this was possibly preparation for some type of mass shooting that causing the federal bureau of investigation to come out very quickly with a statement trying to ratchet down any talk of terrorism. we have no reason to believe this incident was connected to terrorism or threat directed at the all-star game. the fbi said we're not aware of any threat to the all-star game events, players, venn use at this time. you don't often see daylight between the feds and local law e

just tell us how this all happened. >> well, blk reached out to us and, you know, they wanted us to remix "back that thang up." they thought it was a good idea. being somebody that -- being one of the guys that have been vaccinated, like i said, it's a family decision. i felt like it was a great way to put awareness out there for, especially for people like me and people that look like me. >> and, look, we know, juvenile, that when it comes to dating apps, some people want to know the person that they're going on a date with is vaccinated. they actually consider that a positive. they want that protection as they might, you know, get to know someone better. but let's talk about the creative process lhere because your lyrics, girl, you can be queen after quarantine. dating life, you need to vax that thing up. tell us how you went through this and the writing of this remix. >> well, blk had their own ideas that they came up with, and i just -- i wanted to be more like the original song. so i tweaked it a little bit, put some of my ideas in it, but i really wanted it to make sense. manny fres

joining us now, dnc chair, jaime harrison. chairman, thanks so much for being with us. just broadly speaking, when you read that ruling, what was your reaction? >> well, it was a gut punch. it was appalling. and i think that justice kagan said in her dissent really crystallized what this is. she said that this was like pouring old poison into new bottles. we know what that old poison was. it's -- it's jim crow. it's -- it's, in essence, the reason why the voting rights act was created, in the first place. to stop racial discrimination, as it relates to voting. we, also, know that, you know, john roberts has -- since he was a young lawyer in the reagan administration -- has been focused on chipping away at the voting rights act. but, john, you know, this is not a woe-is-me moment. this is a moment, in which the american people have to stand up. and the american people have to take back the power that they wield. you know, the most powerful people in this country aren't sitting on the supreme court. they are not senators on the floor of the united states senate or in the

he really beat us up. he was drunk. >> physically abused you. >> physically abusive and abusive to my sister, and everything and we couldn't wait for him to get out of the house, you know, he used to be a coal miner, he used to come home for 20 days, and then he was home for 10 days, and worked for 20 days, and then when he was at home, it was like a nightmare for us, and he always told me you're good for nothing. nothing going to happen with you and so forth, and finally when i was 14 years old, i left my home, moved 50 miles away, found a little room, and started my apprenticeship as a cook. >> which is amazing. you took adversity, and you turned it around. a lot of people don't do that. they're not able to do that. you left home at 14. >> yeah. and i wonder, you know, what you're hoping that people take away from that, watching in documentary. especially this is going to be on disney plus where, you know, you might have some young people watching. >> i think it's important, especially now with the pande

kim, elizabeth, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having us. and hi, elizabeth. >> thank you, john. >> hi, kim. >> you guys can go and have fully safe vaccinated gatherings now, in-person. thank you to both of you. it's really interesting. >> amazing. that was fascinating to hear from them and just how they sort of worked through that and also their messages to other people. so compelling. >> first of all, don't be the one in the hospital. if you want to help, if you want to help protect your children, if you want to help protect your parents, go get it. go get the shot. >> the senate moving forward with an historic bipartisan infrastructure deal, but can the president get progressives on board. >>> plus, minority leader mitch mcconnell voting to move forward with the bill as donald trump tries to sabotage it, trying to primary republicans over it, will the former president's opinion, though, have an impact? when you earn a degree with university of phoenix, we support you with career coaching, including resume building, interview prep, persona

joining us now is elie honig. the big question is will they issue subpoenas and for whom. >> john, there's a huge legal battle brewing right now on capitol hill. and there will be subpoenas. first of all, the chair of the january 6th select committee, representative benny thompson, told us anybody who had a conversation with the white house and officials in the white house while the invasion of the capitol was going on is directly in the investigative sights of the committee and i have no reluctance whatsoever in issuing subpoenas for information. so, who could be receiving these perhaps unwanted subpoenas? well, if you want to know what happened in the white house on january 6th, the logical place to start is this guy, the former president, donald trump. will congress want the political circus that goes along with subpoenaing donald trump? we shall see. i think you're also going to want to subpoena mark meadows, chief of staff. jared kushner, senior adviser. we know they were in contact with trump throughout janu

we must have the president use his voice, use miz inhis influe use his power. >> reporter: it's unclear how much biden can change without the support of congress after democrats failed to pass sweeping reform in the senate last month, roadblocked by the filibuster, a senate rule which requires a 60-vote threshold to advance most legislation. this challenge is extremely concerning to many state legislators like the group of texas democrats who arrived in washington yesterday who fear their gop colleague's attempts to pass voter suppression laws will continue to take place across the country. >> you have to act, and you have to act now. there's no more waiting. there's no more chances here. we need congress to enact strong, value voting rights legislation to save our democracy. >> those texas democrats are hoping to meet with senate democrats while they are in washington. and one big question that remains in the senate is the future of that filibuster. president biden is feeling a lot of pressure from democrats or activists to eliminate or reform the filibuster. for the time being, presid

thank you for being with us. you heard as john berman spell out governor parson of missouri has been critical of this door-to-door outfit. michelle baughman has as well. she said this. >> so, door-to-door, they're coming. they've got syringes. i don't think this is going to go too well, michelle. what do you think? >> well, i'm glad that actually this is an issue. i want to urge all the viewers to go out and buy no trespassing signs. the government has zero business to do this, zero right. what they're wanting all of us to do is to check our bill of rights, our civil liberties at the door. >> what do you think about this, as we're seeing vaccination numbers not being where they should be, and you have outreach from the government, it is being described, characterized as the way bachmann is characterizing it. what do you say? >> we're hopefully in the final stages of a very serious pandemic and i hope reasonable steps to get people vaccinated are okay. we have people come to our homes to read water meters, to come

their own version of cancel culture to intimidate us and possibly shut us down. our goal is to protect our employees first. >> i assume that washington politician you're talking about congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who of course represents congressional district 14, which is in northwest georgia. and she tweeted that this is called segregation. will you be testing everyone at the door for the flu, strep throat, stomach bugs, colds, meningitis, aids, hep a, hep c, staff infections, croup, ringworm or any other con contagions. tell what you say that response has meant for you? >> well, first of all, i would like to say everyone is entitled to their own opinion. i've certainly been guilty of not so civil discourse regarding this. really we're trying to put our people back to work. hard-working georgians looking forward to re-entering society and being able to make an honest living. unfortunately that this particular tweet is hindering that -- their ability to do that but putting them under unnecessary stress of infection and threat. >> how are you going to en

what can you tell us? >> reporter: john, so a lawyer for allen weisselberg, donald trump's long time chief financial officer surrendered to manhattan district attorney's office just a few moments ago, according to his lawyer. allen weisselberg will be arraigned later this afternoon. he's facing charges that stem from this long investigation into tax fraud, tax crimes. we don't know yet exactly what the indictment will charge him with but this has to do with compensation he received including school tuition for his grandchildren. rent free apartment. a company car. bonuses. that will all factor into these charges today we're told. now these charges will, you know, have to do with whether or not he paid the appropriate taxes on the various gifts and compensation he received. as a senior officer of the company he's also, you know, tied into the charges that will be brought against the company. the company was also indicted by manhattan grand jury yesterday. those charges will be unsealed later this afternoon.

they don't represent us. they are saying by doing those kinds of things they are saying they don't believe in america. they don't believe in the promise of america or the equality of america. that's what they're signaling. so their views ought to be discounted. i think most of us do discount their views. i so strongly reject the idea that they are going to be able to appropriate the american flag and take it a i way from those of us who revere the flag and everything that it stands for. so i -- look, i think there are people out there who live on division. they live on their politics depends on division. their politics depends on us hating each other, and i think frankly there are people that live on both sides of the political extreme spectrum here that love that we're debating whether the american flag is divisive because it furthers their ends. the american flag is a unifying symbol. it is a unifying symbol for me. it is a unifying symbol for people around the world who see it as a beacon of hope and freed

joining us now is cnn business anchor, julia chatterley, tell us, julia, what caused this fear. what are the concerns of wall street when it comes to the delta variant? >> good morning, brianna, there's a couple of things here, to your point exactly, i think wall street came back from the weekend and looked at the situation and said, does delta destabilize the recovery and slow our return to normal life, and it's not just about the united states, it's also going on in asia, europe, the u.k. reopening too. it was the whole world sort of shuttering in one particular day, and we could probably cope with what we're seeing if it weren't for rising prices that we talk about on a daily basis. there's fears out there, at some point, the central bank is going to have to step in to tame those prices, and then you've got the perfect storm. you've got slowing growth, a central bank stepping in to calm prices and a lot of people were thinking, should we be at record highs in the stock markets if these are the kinds of conditions we're looking ahead towards. >> and tell us which sectors, you

leaders can use the media. media shouldn't use the leaders. if leaders are making the case about what america's strategic cases interests are, americans will support it as they did during the cold war. >> what about the parallels between afghanistan and vietnam? >> well, i think, i think the parallels that people are drawing are incorrect at this point. the issue we're talking about in afghanistan is not continued combat operations. it's been a long time since it was seriously a war that involved american troops. what we're talking about is making sure that terrorists don't take sufficient base in afghanistan or -- trying to attack the united states. >> you're trying to say we the u.s., the u.s. hasn't been at war in the conventional sense with the involvement of u.s. troops. >> i'm saying the terrorist threat to the united states is not a conventional military threat. and it takes a different kind of response. and that's what we've been trying to do in afghanistan. saying, well, the afghans have to defend themselves is a little bit like sayin

joining us is jamey patron is, thank you for being with us. this morning "the miami herald" is say the operations have been halted because of safety concerns. what can you tell us about this? >> so, to the naked eye, i thinkal your viewers -- you have all done an amazing job covering this, but the viewers can see the building is structurally compromised, it's not safe, so we take an extraordinary amount of precautions to make issues the site is safe for those working on it, and those trapped in the rubble. we use lasers to make sure we're monitoring any type of tremors. we take an abundance of caution to make sure all lives are saved. >> just to be clear, have operations halted? >> no, operations never stop on site. whether it's the survey work, anything we can do to make sure the work is still constantly progresses, just like when last night's storms came through, the amount of lightning that came from it, the site is a big lightning rod. ultimately when we have lightning strikes, we have to halt progress. >> what are the concerns with the st

it just has that emergency use authorization. kristen holmes is on this story for us. okay, so assuming that would actually change minds what is the holdup here with getting full approval? >> well, that's the big question that the white house, that the public, that businesses all want the answer to. especially as we see these cases rise. right? so the fda insists to me that they are moving as quickly as they possibly can. they point to the fact that they made this a priority, meaning normally the process takes ten months. they shortened that down to six months. they said it could be sooner. january timeline that's the six months it's going to be before that. we have the former fda head saying it could be as early as august which of course is in two days or september. but still from the update we have no timeline. they say they are just pouring through the data. now, we have learned that over at the white house biden administration officials are watching this obsessively so. that's the the word that seen r administration official said to us. the reason is twofold, what