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it's even more absurd because the audits were done in arizona and found no fraud. so take a step back. look at the results of these audits and recounts and republican-led investigations in eight states. and you'll see there is just no actual evidence of mass voter fraud. there is only the desperate attempt to keep doubt alive, to please donald trump at the expense of our democracy. and if you're still not solved, remember how fast fox news and newsmax backtracked when threatened with lawsuits. bill barr thought trump's claims were -- and look at the top lawyer describing trump's legal team as a joke. that was getting them, quote, laughed out of court because of wishful thinking. if you believe their claims, i'm sorry to say the joke's on you. of course, the real insult is to our democracy. that's a causal real patriots should rush to defend. and that's your reality check. >> john, let me ask you, we've had a number of authors on today about this period. the friday after election day there was not a single white house aide or trump campaign official or pollster who

he just announced on telegram to his followers he put $3.3 million into it, way more than the arizona senate put into it which was 150,000. so this is someone very invested in this audit. he comes out with this movie saying that he has proof of election fraud, meanwhile i didn't see that proof presented in this movie. and then i'm watching it and they're showing the film crew walking through the cage with the ballots. meanwhile the journalists who tried to get access to the auditor up in the coliseum, not in the nosebleeds but close to it, trying to watch what's going on, obviously they have chain of custody that they've promised that they'll maintain the security of the ballots. so it was shocking to me to see that they had let someone else besides the workers and whoever they had planned to into those ballot cages. >> so jessica, what do you make of this? this is clearly this one would think highly partisan film crew here with a definite point of view allowed right next to the ballots. how unusual is that? >> this is extremely unusual. i have been covering elections since the very b

the suns, the hottest thing in that arizona desert in july right now. devin booker had 31 points in this one, 7 three-pointers. and the bucks played really well, phoenix just shot down any of their hopes from beyond that arc. a playoff franchise record 20 three-pointers. milwaukee's antekun poe scoring a playoff career high 42 points. the rest of the starters scored 43 combined. suns win. series now going to milwaukee for game three on sunday. >>> stanley cup champion lightning will celebrate their second boat parade in tampa on monday, but the big question this time, are the players going to throw the stanley cup from boat to boat. you remember tom brady and the bucks tossing that lombardi trophy they won the super bowl in february. twitter feed giving a warning to brady saying, for your information, it's too heavy to throw, tom. well, brady responds, i don't know. everything feels a bit lighter after some tequila. if tom brady talking tequila shots doesn't say happy friday, i don't know what does. >> everything about that was true. everything about th

having 25 or 50 members of the national guard from south dakota go to arizona and texas. they are probably wondering just why am i going? and these are people, who are patriotic americans, who have private lives.their own states definitely the situation on the southern border is troubling. 180,000 a month is way too high. president answer to that problem, and it is a problem, is not just simply bringing 25 people or 50 people from south dakota or other parts of our country to do something that they're not sure about. >> secretary johnson, thank you for your time on both topics this morning. >> thank you. >> it's good to see you in person. >> thank you. >>> we now know who will be tasked with investigating the insurrection on january 6. congress. one of the democrats just named to the select committee will join us. >>> and breaking news. the last u.s. troops based at the air base in afghanistan departed overnight. a milestone. cnn is live in afghanistan next. why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? because every new day starts the night before. "hi everyone" and

he was upset when arizona was called by fox for joe biden. you suggest that it was rupert murdoch who ultimately made the decision, the final decision to make that call. you write he got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. his father with a signature grunt added f him. fox disputes this. they say the account is false. fox news media president jay wallace was called into the control room. any other version of the story is wildly inaccurate. >> they just lie. i am rupert murdoch's biographer. i have spent more time with murdoch than any other journalist not in his employ. at this point in my life and career, i know what rupert thinks before he thinks it. there's no question here. i don't suggest this, i know for a fact this is what happened. there is no possibility that rupert murdoch on election night is not calling almost every shot. this is the day of all days for rupert. >> again, i did read the fox statement so people know what fox says about it. you say bill hemmer called the trump campaign to tell them tha

arizona congressman andy biggs tweeting, it's none of the government's business knowing who has or hasn't been vaccinated. joining me now is health and human services secretary xavier becerra who is helping in this effort to get americans vaccinated. sir, thank you so much for being with us. i wonder if you can answer that criticism. it's none of the government's business knowing who has or has president been vaccinated. what do you say? >> brianna, perhaps we should point out that the federal government has spent trillions of dollars to keep americans alive during this pandemic. so it is absolutely the government's business. it is taxpayers' business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting covid. and helping reopen the economy. and so it is our business to try to make sure americans can prosper, americans can freely associate, and knocking on a door has never been against the law. you don't have to answer, but we hope you do. because if you haven't been vaccinated, we can help dispel some of the rumors you heard and hopefully get you vaccinated. >> th

in a recent cnn analysis, we have identified at least nine states that have such policies, arkansas, arizona, georgia, iowa, oklahoma, there's south carolina, texas, utah, and vermont. now, this list is constantly updating and changing, but brianna, like you said, these policies go against what the american academy of pediatrics recommends which is that staff and students who are 2 years old and older should wear masks regardless of their vaccination status. now, the cdc says that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask. there is that difference. dr. anthony fauci, he described the american academy of pediatrics recommendation as being made out of an abundance of caution. here's what he had to say. >> you can understand why the american academy of pediatrics might want to do that. they just want to be extra safe. >> so you see there, he said they're being extra safe. and brianna, with students heading back to school, most of them next month, you can imagine there are a lot of questions among parents and students about how to stay safe. brianna. >> there certainly are. i certainly

arizona audit could up end biden's victory in the state. in michigan, christina, a republican candidate for secretary of state, is also running on claims that trump won the state even though biden won michigan by more than 154,000 votes. she, too, is calling for an arizona-style audit for her battleground state. joining us now is natasha alford, cnn political analyst and vp of digital content and senior correspondent and also with us is cnn political commentator, scott jennings, a former special assistant to president george w. bush and former senior adviser to senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. great to have you both on this morning. natasha, i wonder what do you think of this echoing trump's false election claim as a strategy for winning? >> well, i think people are doing exactly what has worked for donald trump. right? poll after poll has shown that even with this big lie being proven and disproven that people still believe donald trump is the rightful president. and so in the same way that folks have chosen the media that echos exa

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look what happened in arizona over the weekend. 4 to 6 inches of rainfall in phoenix and tucson and flash flooding. now, this isn't really the area that we need the rain. that's up here. and they didn't see a drop. but that may change over to this week and into the coming next week. some rainfall this week, this is the entire week's worth of rain fall that the computer thinks. then next week we have a green circle over the west and above normal chance of precip especially in the areas where the fires are. so, some good news there. temperatures are still hot. not going to give firefighters any relief there. temperatures 100 to 105 right over these fires. but then the cool air does work its way into the inner mountain west helping things especially with that rain fall, cooler air, not as much wind. we will absolutely take it over the next couple of weeks. the firefighters can use a little bit of help. the next hour of "new day" starts right now. ♪ >>> hello, i'm brianna keilar alongside john berman on this "new day." mask mandates back on the table in some u.s. cities as coronavirus cases

then it's going to fall to joe manchin, to kyrsten sinema, the senator from arizona, let's give bipartisanship -- if it falls apart, there's going to be tremendous pressure on them to play as part of the team and not bring down the agenda of this new democratic president. are they willing to do that? i think the white house doubts it. but they can't know for sure. >> john harwood, thank you very much for being with us this morning. >>> let's bring in cnn contributor, dr. abdul el-sayed, and former adviser to the pete buttigieg campaign, and former obama pollster, joel beninson, you have a warning for democrats about being greedy, too greedy in their commands. explain this position. >> well, what i said is that you want to push your agenda as far as you can without losing support of voters in the middle. and what i mean by that is, you know, we don't have a majority of people on the left or on the right, so to be successful, you've got to persuade centrist voters, a lot of them in swing states. president biden did a good job of this with his campaign in 2020, and i think the infrastructure bill

. >> reporter: in tucson, arizona, two people are dead and several others injured after a shooting sunday afternoon. among the victims, an emt worker who was shot in the head. >> this is a really horrific incident with many unknowns at this time that's going to involve a lengthy and complex investigation. >> reporter: now, in con tech, the murder rate in 2020 nationwide was high but still 40% below what it was in the 80s and '90s when murders peaked am the united states. that's little comfort to cityie seeing record surges in gun violence. here in chicago, we're slightly under where we were last year when it comes to homicides. but when you look at prepandemic levels, we are still up more than 45% in murders and up around 60% in shootings, again, compared to those prepandemic levels, brianna. >> whatever the level is, it's headed in the wrong direction and cities are trying to get their arms around this problem. omar, thank you so much. live to you from chicago. >>> there is an american gymnast who has tested positive for covid just days before the summer games. we do not know the identit

i'm sure you saw that alexandria ocasio-cortez tore into kyrsten sinema, arizona senator who said she is not on board with the other bill, which is a $3 plus trillion bill that democrats want to push forward using the budget process. how are you going to navigate this chasm in your party? >> well, we're going to keep working and talking to members. what we're going to do with the infrastructure bill is remind people the historic investment. remind people of the racial equity that's embedded throughout this bill. and then we will make the case very hard. and then members and i used to be one will have to make a hard decision whether you want to leave 10 million people with lead service lines going to their homes? do you want to leave 400,000 homes lead service lines going to children? we have to make sure that we're focussed on the issue and delivering results. i think that when we do that, we will navigate this. look, legislating is a messy, ugly process. it's the sausage-making process. most is not done out in the public to the extent it is, we know that that's the process and we'll

. >> synagogues are being defaced from alaska to arizona. >> and sadly it is a reality. we've seen the rise across america. >> reporter: yes incidents spiked around the war in may. >> it's never been about the conflict. >> >> reporter: okay, what does the data say. >> they've pointed to israel palestinian conflict and the tropes of anti-semitism. >> reporter: american je wefs are suffering hate from many sides. >> jewish americans could feel, how do i say this right, they could feel squeezed. >> reporter: stones were thrown through synagogue windows in new york in april. a young black man was arrested. some see this man as fuelling an anti-semitism in the black community. >> and i'm here to separate the good jews from the satanic jews. yes, yes, yes. >> reporter: but say the social scientists, one group is still the biggest issue. >> we see high rates of anti-semitic attitudes on the far right. >> >> reporter: and on the left, it is the man accused of shooting up a synagogue in san diego in 2019 was just 19 at the time. >> it spread apart in the aiming position right at