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Team within the white house. fast forward to trump. trump was able to suborn the justice department. we are going to find out about the threshold, if there really was one, or the predicate. that -- that -- that the justice departments prosecutors used to seek a subpoena against sitting members of congress. lets just step back, for a minute. these -- this spying was renewed, which means that during both impeachments, the executive branch was spying on congress. just think about the implications o...

The entire justice system it seemed was hijacked. when you abuses like these are institutionalized, how danger do they become. >> i agree with johns assessment that there are parallels and big differences. one of the big differences is that the permanent government, not the deep state, the permanent government was more compliant to trump than it was for nixon. nixon was not able to get the irs, for example, to act on the enemies list. nixon was not able to get the department of justice to do eve...

Moderate democratic senator joe manchin has said he will not support that bill. theres a bill named after the late john lewis, the voting rights advancement act that is not quite as sweeping as hr-1, but is looking to implement some of the similar changes and does have one republican senator on board, lisa murkowski. but without any of these motions moving forward with any of these bills coming into law, the jurisdiction of the justice department remains rather narrow. they still need support fr...

Wrong this week. >> well, greg, hes actually the fact-checker at cnn. hes incredibly busy these days. but first up, lets hear your comments from monday about the body mass index. director mike, lights, camera, faction. >> weve shifted the definition so that everybody is obese. like by definition. >> well, it looks like you are partially right. according to the nih and the cdc, the threshold for being considered overweight was lowered in 1998 from a bmi of 27.8 to 25. so not everyone has to say i...

Will be more tolerable in terms of putins active aggression against the west and the united states in particular. >> i want to ask you about this wave of cyberattacks originating from inside russia also hanging over this meeting. not all are tied to the kremlin obviously, but they operate within russia. at what level do they become an act of war that merits a response not just from the u.s. but from allies? what do you see in terms of a strategic front, an allied front against this? >> well, cyb...

World is better prepared for a future pandemic. for example, having a mechanism that will sort of speed up that readiness to 100 day footing. you can speed up production of vaccines. you can speed up licensing of vaccines. you can speed up the science behind catching a pandemic when it appears on the global threshold. that you have and the u.k. is going to invest in what the u.k. is calling a zoonotic research facility that will look out for the animal to human transfer of potential pathogens in...

Sustainable societies, often against very deeply entrenched powers that be, that stand in their way, that are often aligned with the government. so it is really a question of how the u.s. uses its money and how it uses its political and diplomatic weight, and how much money the united states is bringing to bear. >> tarina, aide have said that they hope to reduce reliance on u.s. foreign aid and boost nonprofits and the private sector as a way to circumvent what dan was talking there. how do they...

Threshold, and today the governor said new york has the lowest seven-day positivity rate in the entire country. whit? >> trevor ault for us, thank you. we turn to the weather now. temperatures cooling in the east, but a dangerous heat wave building in the west. 36 million americans under heat alerts and amid a worsening drought in the region, lake mead, the countrys largest reservoir, dropping to its lowest level ever. greg dutra is here from wls in chicago. greg, walk us through the next few ...

Threshold for a truly mandatory for all legislation outside a budget reconciliation. in a 50/50 senate, the democrats are just a heartbeat away from losing control of the senate. and now, they are hoping to increase their majority in the senate with a candidacy of florida congresswoman val down mings who is announced shes running for the senate seat currently held by republican marco rubio. >> when you go up in the south, poor, black, and female, you have to have faith in progress and opportunit...

Almost always has run by majority vote until mitch mcconnell made the 60-seat threshold mandatory. in a senate, the democrats are just a heartbeat away from losing control of the senate, and now theyre hoping to increase the majority in the senate with the candidacy of congresswoman val demings who announced she is going to run for the senate seat currently held by marco rubio. >> when you grow up in the south, poor, black and female, you have to have faith, progress and opportunity. my father w...