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polantz at the federal court in washington. >> and this is cnn hello, and welcome to allow viewers watching from the united states and around the world. i'm anna coren. >> we begin with relentless severe storms that continue to threaten millions across the us. this memorial day weekend. especially hard hit overnight texas and oklahoma well, this is what's left of a gas station in valley view, texas, north of dallas and it's just one of several reports of major damage in the area officials in denton county, texas. so they are responding to reports of multiple victims and people trappe...

When he tells the story about his father, talking about the dignity of work, that is his dna. i would also say that in addition to that heartfelt impulse ofjoe biden, there is a very important political calculus here. going into a presidential election in two years, it is going to be eight or nine presidential background states —— battleground. voters in those states, in the summers, they tend to be from the middle—class, so it important to communicate with those voters. ——in the suburbs. he did that in my view. following the january six insurrection, he said democracy insurrection, ...

Here on a friday to end at week, and well, we've got it. we've got the new subpoenas. this is from the january 6 probe and the content is familiar but the development is new. the january 6 committee is issued subpoenas, 14 of them, to those, quote, alternate electors, or fraudulent electors that, is how we putting in our reporting because trump lost and these appear to be an effort to confuse or create controversy that might have been used in a coup. what is in thes? well congress wants information on the planning and organization to send what they call false states of electors to the national...

Saw some polling from the "new york times" and sienna college about the background states. tom, you know better than anyone else that national polls are one thing but background states are another. these polls show that in michigan donald trump where he won by about 11,000 votes, biden if he were the candidate leads the president by one point, sanders bsand ers by one point. in other words, the concept of who democrats need to lead in order to beat trump, is it relevant to have that conversation yet as people haven't yet cast a ballot in iowa? >> well, we'll continue to have that and other con...

Comparison to the differences between our candidates and donald trump. and i think voters are getting that, and what i see across the country in my travels, especially in these background states, is people understand i may support candidate "a" now but in order to govern, we must first win and i will be out there with the winner. we've asked all the candidates to take a pledge to actively support and campaign for the winner, and they've all done so because they understand, ali, this isn't about them. this is bigger than them. this is about our democracy as we know it. so, i'm confident we can ...