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

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. >> 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

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

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

used car prices, this is a third, a third of it is just because of used cars. but there is a really funky reason here. last year all the car rental agencies sold off their fleets. used car prices cratered because of all the supply. now what's happening? you can't get a new car easily because of the chip shortage. all of this is because of covid and the craziness that happened in the economy, used car prices up 26%. we've never seen this before. >> who is this hitting the hardest? >> this is hitting people with the least money. families spend just on the basic, food, utilities and rent, they spend about a quarter to a third of every dollar on the basic, right. so take a look at the next level of family. 15,000 to 30,000. they're spending half of every dollar just on the basic. so when the basics go up in price, they have less money to work with. look at this. families earning less than $15,000, they spent more than they make. they spend everything on the basic plus 16% more. that means that they are taking on debtor they're relying on child tax credits through t

yaun, for being with us. lots of concerns this morning and certainly helps to get your insights on them. >>> new this morning, it wasn't just a coup that general mark milley feared. it was the possibility that the former president would start a full-blown war with iran in hopes of having it help him stay in power after losing the election. that's according to brand new reporting from our next guest, cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, a staff writer at the new yorker. susan, you're writing a book along with your husband peter baker. and in the process of reporting your book, you discover not only was general mark milley who has been in the news a lot concerned about the idea of this coup and stopping the president from sort of launching a coup after the election, but concern that he would somehow push it too far with iran and start a war. this is a quote from your upcoming book, your reporting an article you put in the new yorker. milley was worried trump might set in motion a full-scale conflict that w

leyla, thank you so much. >>> joining us now is chrisna. her father died last year of covid after a three-week battle. she since founded an advocacy group. thank you so much for being with us. i also have to say, we're still so sorry for your loss. i know it was more than a year ago but it doesn't get any easier. your father died. he didn't have a vaccine available to him. so how does it feel for you when you see people now dying, refusing to get the vaccine that might very well have saved your father's life? >> well, thanks for having me on. i mean, it's complicated. it's hard for me to actually put the blame on any one individual with so much health disinformation flying around. people like my dad, who made decisions about how to behave based upon what he was seeing on fox news and what the leaders who he trusted were saying, are in a position in which they are being led to a place where they're susceptible to contracting the virus and getting very sick. so, it is complicated in the fact that we are now really just seeing for the very fir

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

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

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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

he doesn't use e-mail. so, you don't have the usual records that would allow you to bring a case against trump easily. they can still bring a case against trump, but it will be a lot easier if allen weisselberg decides that his best interests and his moral duty are to tell the truth. >> david cay johnson, thank you. >> thank you. >>> next, republican leader kevin mccarthy denies threatening members over joining the january-6th committee. but makes an accusation about liz cheney. >>> plus, breaking overnight. cnn attains a letter warning of extensive concrete damage to the condo building that collapsed. and what might be a big, new clue. >>> and covid cases on the rise in the united states, as we head into the holiday weekend. the new numbers, ahead. ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ ♪all by yourself.♪ you look a little lost. i can't find my hotel. oh. oh! ♪ this is not normal.

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

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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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

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

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

doctor, thank you for being with us this morning. you know, just tell us how dangerous this delta variant is for children under 12 who obviously can't get vaccinated yet. >> good morning, brianna. it's great to be with you guys. i wish i could tell you just exactly how dangerous this is. the truth is we don't know. we know the delta variant is spreading more easily than other variants have in the past. that's what viruses do. they mu tate so they can spread easier among the hosts, which is us unfortunately. and we're seeing more infections in kids. we don't know yet how severe this is. i can tell you anecdotally on the ground it doesn't seem like the kids who are getting this variant are having a more severe illness, but we just don't know enough yet which is why this is so concerning. >> yeah. look, kids often don't show many symptoms. but we do know that hundreds have died in the u.s. so this is an issue that many parent aren't going to ignore. we're seeing rare breakthroughs in adults. they're rare but they're happening. cnn spoke

>> 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

tell us why? >> it plays into the narrative that trump likes to put out that people are somehow unfairly out to get him. both adam kinzinger and liz cheney supported donald trump twice for election. 2016 and 2020. but they, like so many other republicans on the ground through the states, were horrified about the consequences of the big lie that trump started post election that culminated in the january 6th insurrection. it wasn't until that attack that they started vocally speaking out against him and saying many of the very same things that kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell were saying in the way that donald trump bore a special responsibility for that attack. most people were on the same page. liz cheney and adam kinzinger stuck to their guns on that. mcconnell and mccarthy folded. >> if you're not going to call them anti-trump, what would you call them? >> i would call them pro-democracy, anti-insurrectionists, republicans who are committed to the country and the constitution. >> scott, what d

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

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

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

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

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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

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

tell us about eddie. >> it was. i think that chapter is the most powerful example of how a lifelong friendship can change history. in the early 1920s in kansas city, it failed, but they stayed best friends afterward. and because of this friendship which was a relationship built on total trust, total respect, jacobson could fly halfway across the country, march into the oval office one day in 1948. he didn't have an invitation, and he could speak to the president in the most direct and brutally honest terms, using words and mannerisms that no staffer would dare try lest they get fired. all of this was to convince the president to do what he knew was right. but out of frustration that i detail in great length in my chapter, he'd been resisting which is recognize an independent jewish state. two months after eddie walked into the oval office and spoke to him, only after that intervention was truman was the first foreign leader to recognize israel minutes after it was declared. >> it was amazing the influence he had and

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

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

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

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