Even debate a Voting Rights bill leaving democrats trying to plot a new way forward. Plus, breaking overnight, results from the heated New York City mayoral race, and a socialist pulls off a stunning surprise, an upset, in another primary. President biden set to address crime in a speech as it becomes a growing problem for his presidency. And Britney Spears goes to court as we learn new details about the conservativeship she has been under for years. All right. Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. It is wednesday, june 23rd. As the dangerous new covid variant surges across the United States, a disturbing rise in younger people dying of covid. And the victims disproportionately africanamerican. Thats according to a new cnn analysis moments ago. Deaths have fallen dramatically across the United States but nearly 300 people are still dying a day covid and the victims seem to be younger and the Racial Disparity is growing. Dr. Anthony fauci says americans who are still dying from covid are overwhelmingly unvaccinated. Vaccines are the tools to crush coronavirus and this message is echoed by the director of the cdc. Nearly every death due to covid19 is tragic because nearly every death especially among adults due to covid19 is, at this point, entirely preventable. Elizabeth cohen is with us now. That is heartbreaking to hear her say that. What does cnns analysis say about the coronavirus deaths . Brianna, in many ways it shows vaccination works. It works so well and that people who are not taking advantage of it are, unfortunately, suffering. So lets take a look at what our data shows about Racial Disparity. So this analysis of cdc data, if we start off with black people in the United States are about 12. 5 of the population, we know that covid has disproportionately affected people of color throughout the pandemic. Black people have accounted for more than 15 of deaths from covid from the beginning of the pandemic. But in may things got even worse and black people accounted for 19 of deaths. Now part of this is a continuation of the same terrible trend that weve seen of racial disparities, but part of it is also that black people are vaccinated at a lower rate than white people are, and theres a lot of work now to try to change that. Now lets take a look at age. You see sort of an interesting trend here as well. Throughout the pandemic the majority of deaths have been among people older than aged 75 but in may another turn. The majority of deaths have been people under age 75. Again, the reason for that, people over age 75 have availed themselves of the vaccine metropolmuch more so than younger people. Younger people arent taking advantage of the vaccine the way they should. Choose vaccination, choose life. Its such a good thing to remember. And were seeing the real effects of the vaccines. Elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. It seems clear Senate Republicans are afraid to even discuss Voting Rights. Overnight all 50 refused to debate a voting bill, and thats despite the fact joe manchin gave republicans what they demanded on voter i. D. Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell insisted its up to individual states to sort it all out. He claims theres just nothing to discuss. Theres nothing broken around the country. The system upheld very well during tense stress in the latter part of the previous congress. Theres no ration basis for federalizing this election. Therefore, theres no point in having an election in the u. S. A debate in the u. S. Senate about something we ought not to do. So there is a law in the logic here, because if theres nothing to fix, why are so Many Republican states committed to restricting or blocking Voting Rights, changing them from the 2020 election . According to the brennan center, there are 14 states that have passed at least 22 laws that limit voter access. And if nothing is broken, as the minority leader claims, why conduct a sham audit in arizona . If nothing is broken, why all the claims of election fraud. If nothing is broken, what are republicans trying to fix in the states . This is what Vice President Kamala Harris had to say about the failure of the Voting Rights bill. Listen. The bottom line is that the president and i are very clear we support s1. We support the john lewis Voting Rights act, and the fight is not over. Its not over, she says. So then, what happens now . Lauren fox joins us from capitol hill this morning. Lauren, what does happen . Where does this go . John, look, this Party Line Vote demonstrated how Much Division there is on the issue of Voting Rights here in the u. S. Senate. I will lay out for you that one of the issues that democrats are dealing with here is they just dont have 60 votes to get through the u. S. Senate at this point. And, while there are many progressives who are going to amp up their calls to get rid of the filibuster at this point, they dont have the votes to do that either. Here is what joe manchin said yesterday when i asked him specifically if this vote demonstrated they need to change the filibuster. You will also see one of his progressive colleagues argue right after why the filibuster needs to be changed. Your democratic colleagues are saying this moment illustrates exactly why the filibuster needs to be changed. Some of the things weve done over the years, lets look at how many times they bring things back and rework them and rework them until we finally got a bipartisan buyin. I think this is no different. Reporter do you feel now is the time to change the filibuster . Ive thought it for some time. Mitch mcconnell is part of this, this effort by republicans to suppress the vote. They know they cant win elections anymore. They lost the popular vote by millions of votes. They lose overall votes for the house and senate. The only way they can win is to change the electorate and republican senators almost to a person blindly follow mcconnell when he does this. Reporter does biden need to get involved . I think we need to figure out how to do this. I dont care what it takes. Reporter and, of course, joe manchin making the case it needs to be based on bipartisanship. As you heard from Mitch Mcconnell they dont think anything is broken. A lot of republicans say there is no piece of the bill they would have voted on if they had gotten into the debate yesterday that they would have supported. So breaking this bill apart trying smaller pieces of it is not really an option at this point. Expect democrats to keep up the heat, though, because this is going to be a key issue for them going into the 2022 midterm elections. John . Of course Mitch Mcconnell likes the status quo because the status quo is republicanlead states rigging the election so republicans can do better. Lauren fox, thank you for that report. Amid growing criticism from the left for not doing more on the bill, President Biden has made it clear his top priority is actually infrastructure. And later today Top White House officials are scheduled to meet with senator Chuck Schumer and House Speaker nancy pelosi. Jeremy diamond with us. Tell us where negotiations stand, jeremy. Reporter listen, some progress but no clear breakthroughs is the clear consensus on all sides after white house officials spent time on capitol hill meeting with that group of senators working on this bipartisan infrastructure deal. There will be more meetings today as well, and the status of those meetings and how much progress in meetings, im told, will determine whether or not President Biden is going to meet with those 21 senators, democrats and republicans, who are working on this bipartisan infrastructure deal. Weve been told that meeting is likely to happen this week, but i am told they are making daybyday decisions whether the president will meet with that group depending on how much progress is actually made. Now despite some signs of progress, the republican Majority Whip john thune saying the Bipartisan Group seems to have made three steps forward and one step backwards. A bit of a more pessimistic assessment. One thing is clear, even as they pursue these bipartisan negotiations they are looking at this on two tracks. On one track the bipartisan negotiations and the meeting happening with the Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi sending a very clear signal that while the president is pursuing these bipartisan negotiations hes also looking at that Reconciliation Track where democrats could potentially pass an Infrastructure Package or perhaps even this broader 4 trillion jobs package simply along party lines using that budget reconciliation progress. We will see whether thats ultimately the track they decide they have to take. John, brianna . We will see. Jeremy, thank you for that. We expected this but i dont think it makes it any less significant what has happened with the senate vote. So lets bring in our chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. How do you put this in perspective . Theres infrastructure and theres Voting Rights. Infrastructure is sort of the classic stuff of politics. How much do you spend on roads and bridges, how do you pay for it, and that should be the stuff of compromise. The Voting Rights is very different. This is life or death for the democracy. This is about whether the people are going to control their government or the government is going to decide how the democracy works or doesnt work. And i just think one of them is an existential crisis for the United States, and the other seems like its going to be worked out. Are either of you star trek fans . No. In the movies where is he going with this . They have to pass this test in order to go through and theres no way to pass it. The test is rigged, so you fail every time. Democrats cant get past Mitch Mcconnell no matter what. Kirk changed the programming. The only way to get behind the test is to change the programming. And unless democrats and im not saying they should but unless theyre willing to change the programming, which is to change the filibuster rules, this is a moot point. It is done. It is done. That is absolutely the case. Everybody is focused on joe manchin, for understandable reasons, because he is the leading democratic holdout, sometimes we focus too much on manchin and not enough on 50 republican senators. Some of whom call themselves moderates, who are falling completely in lock step with a program that is i dont want to overstate it, but is limiting our democracy in a way we havent seen. As you were pointing out earlier, mcconnell having it both ways saying everything is fine statement his colleagues in florida, in iowa, in georgia, in all these states that they control, are limiting the vote. It cant be the system is working perfectly, as he says, at the same time as his republican colleagues around the country are limiting the franchise. You heard what lauren fox asked sharrod brown, about President Biden. Some progressives are saying get more involved here. What about his role in this . Is it something that you are focused on . I think thats magical thinking about the power of the president. Joe manchin knows what the stakes are here. He has made a decision about the filibuster. I dont know what joe biden could say to him that is going to change. We have sometimes this, i think, somewhat naive faith in what president s can accomplish. Joe manchin doesnt answer to joe biden. He answers to the voters of West Virginia, and he and his conscience, and he has made a decision about this. And what biden does or doesnt do here i think is sort of irrelevant. Ill say it again. Every time people try to go through without changing the rules the test fails and everyone on the enterprise dies. Joe manchin thinks he can get through this test by the rules. He cant. And he keeps talking about we need to do bipartisanship. What channel is he watching where bipartisanship on this or any other issue is possible . I mean, its just particularly about Voting Rights. It is possible, it seems, on infrastructure. But on Voting Rights the republicans are locked in, and there is not going to be any bipartisanship. I will say there is one way besides changing the rules that democrats can get through this if they want which is to vote, to figure out a way to mobilize the vote despite the new obstacles jumping up around the country. We havent seen a lot of evidence that happens in the past. Another possibility along those lines are the courts. Will the courts step in and restrict some of these attempts to stop the vote . At 10 00 today were going to have some of the last Supreme Court decisions, this very important Voting Rights case out of arizona, that may give us a hint about whether the courts are going to step in. Ever since the Shelby County decision the Voting Rights act has been a metropuch less power tool. This will tell us whether the Voting Rights act is a tool left at all in its current form. Well, this is john roberts problem here for democrats, too, who democrats depend on as more of a swing vote than he was in the past, hes been clear where he is on Voting Rights. He is the author of the Shelby County decision. The Shelby County decision was when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was still on the Supreme Court this is a different court, a court with gorsuch, amy coney barrett, three republican appointees plus Clarence Thomas plus samuel alito. Even if john roberts were to join the three remaining liberals, theres not five votes for the moderation that democrats hope for. A very interesting point. I will say thank you for your star trek analnalogy. I found it illustrative. We were skeptical. I was initially. He turned me around. Im not even a trekkie but it deals with a system you cant win in. Theres no way to succeed unless you change the rules. You have to break the system. Exactly. Is the lesson. Kirk taught me that. 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Kathryn garcia, who supposedly had all that late momentum, near 20 of the vote, andrew yang faded significantly, all the way back to 12 of the vote. This does not include at least 87,000 mailin ballots. These totals may shift down the road. Its clear eric adams is well out in front. This gives us the shape of where things stand. Well talk about the ranked choice impact in a second because thats harder to cipher. What i think isnt as hard is the choice New York City voters made by and large on ideology. Explain. One of the things weve been talking about is the left wing of the party versus the moderate mainstream and at least in New York City its very clear that the moderate mainstream part of the party did very well totaling over twothirds of the vote so far. Three of the top four candidates, adams, garcia, yang, look at this, they, right there, 12, 20, 32 . Just 30 on the leftwing part of the ideological spectrum. Maya wiley in second with 22. Everyone else way back and this has been participate of a pattern, john, we saw in the virginia gubernatorial race, in the second congressional district, and last year in the democratic primary for president that at least in the biggest races the moderate mainstream candidate seems to be outlasting. People think New York City is so liberal. No. Right now moderate democrats are getting 67 of the first choice vote. Exactly right. Eric adams ran a very hard tough on crime message, more police on the subway, doing especially well and especially well in africanamerican communities. I want to look at we talked about the rank choice voting. Eric adams is about ten points ahead with 31 , 32 . What are the chances someone else wins at this point . Obviously we still have those near 100,000 ballots that are still out for the absentee and the election day votes. Essentially that tenpoint lead in my mind is pretty solid if it holds. Why is that . We can look back at ranked choice elections that have taken place since 2000. It just started in new york. When you have a leader with less than 40 of the vote, which adams clearly has and is ahead by less than ten points, that firstround leader wins just 72 of the time. But if the leader has less than 40