blockbuster testimony. an independence ad war. california s governor is taking out air time on fox news telling florida residents their governor, ron desantis, has america all wrong. up firstly a fourth of july inflection point for president joe biden. the president will celebrate american independence today at the white house, hosting military families before a marathon fireworks show. those fireworks, though, and virtually everything else will cost much more this year than last. it s part of the summer squeeze that has cratered biden s rating and has democrats on track to lose big at the ballot box in november. mj lee is with us. how are they spending the forage. reporter: we re going to see the president any moment now return to the white house from camp david where he and his family spent the holiday weekend. and this morning we saw him tweet out a holiday message to the american people. he wrote, the fourth of july is a sacred day in our country, time to celebrate
this is cnn breaking news. . i m victor blackwell, thank you for staying with us. we are of course covering the breaking news, this man hunt happening right now for the man who opened fire at a july 4th parade in highland park, illinois. he s described as armed and dangerous. at least six people are dead. more than two dozen have been taken to hospitals. now, a briefing a short time ago, police described this suspect. the suspect is currently described as a male, white, approximately 18 to 20 years old with longer black hair, a small build and wearing a white or blue t-shirt. a firearm has been recovered from the scene. it does appear he was shooting from a roof. the roof that he was shooting from, i don t have that information right now. we now know that the fbi is assisting in this investigation. and authorities are asking of course anyone with video to contact highland park police. we ve known the video in situations like this has been crucial. cnn s adrienne broad
let s begin this hour with whitney wild. what is the secret service saying? the secret service is saying that they are giving the january 6th committee a significant document production, but as you point out, a source is telling us that this does not include any of these potentially missing text messages that would have been generated on january 5th and january 6th, 2021. a secret service official told cnn that that s because the agency has not been able to recover any of those records that were lost during a phone migration around that time. one of the things the courses did tell us was that any message that was not uploaded by the employee as a government record, again, would have been lost during this migration. before this phone migration, secret service employees were supposed to manually back up their text messages so if any employees skipped that step or just forgot, this would have been permanently deleted when their phones were wiped during this now we know ill-tim
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
congresswoman cheney is the last of the so-called impeachment ten, those are the ten house republicans who voted to impeach president trump after the insurrection. seven of them have either lost their primaries or chosen not to run for re-election. two of them won, and then there s cheney. you may remember congresswoman cheney was booted from her leadership post in the republican conference more than a year ago after trying to warn the country about the threat she believes donald trump poses to democracy. since then, she s continued to try to sound the alarm and call out her colleagues. to my republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible, there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. none if she manages to pull off a win tonight against her trump backed challenger, hater hageman, she will defy long odds. but cnn learned congresswoman cheney intends to make a speech tonight saying her battle has just begun. she started talking a