surveillance act. allow the former president blamed for enabling democrats supposed spying on his 2016 campaign. as you know, ray outlasted the trump administration and remains in this position as fbi director to this day. he remains under intense scrutiny not just by the former president but also by trump s powerful republican allies in congress. even the florida governor ron desantis to trump s main rival for the 2024 republican nomination has vowed to fire wray on day one if you were to become president. trump s expectation of loyalty from others within the federal government continue toward his tenure, and continues to cause problems for him to this day. according to the new york times, special counsel jack smith s other trump investigation, the one involving january six in the efforts to overturn the election is reviewing the events surrounding the event of crabs. he released a statement that the 2020 elections were, quote, the most secure in american history, which
pope francis slowing down? what he said after a pilgrimage of penance to canada. i m chris livesay in rome. pope francis apologized for what he called cultural genocide. mega-winner. mega ball number. a single ticket beat the odds. later, seeing is believing. we take you to a place where all children see themselves as heroes. we get a lot of gasps from children. really? we ve had parents and adults cry. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. a covid rebound for president biden. he s tested positive again. a phenomenon that happens in some cases after people take paxlovid. that s the antiviral therapy from pfizer taken as a pill. in a video released today, the president says he s feeling fine. but he is again isolating at the white house and canceled his weekend travel plans. cbs christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with more. christina, we know the president tested negative just yesterday. what s t
i don t want go bankrupt. i don t want to lose my house. i don t want to lose my independence or the little moral value that i have. changes people are forced to make as inflation continues to squeeze bunts. good morning and welcome to your new day. it s saturday, july poth. good morning, sara. it s great to be with you, even though we have to start with breaking news. at least 16 people are dead in kentucky including six kids. authorities there are warning the death toll is almost certain to rise. kentucky governor an dy beshear says it s hard to get a correct number with cellphone service out. flooding wiped out parts of eastern kentucky. rescue efforts have also been slowed by power outages. more than 17,000 homes and businesses remain in the dark this morning. animals are without people. people are without homes. we just need help. we need as much help, please, i m begging anyone who sees this. help my town. help my people. to hear that desperate call for
billet-y look at it since essentially march. when we see? in march of 25, 4 months ago, it was minus 6 points. then it s minus 7 points april 25th. may 25th, minus 9 points. june 25th, minus 10 points. july 25th, minus 13 points. you don t have to be a mathematician to know that that s a bad trend line. it follows everything that we know that we have seen in the past. when the president stays out of the news, his numbers go up. when he gets in the news, the numbers go down. so to me, it s a pretty clear trend line. what do you see among republicans in particular? if you look at republicans obviously the thing i see the most republicans are worried about, is trump, whether or not he could win in 2024. can he win that republican nomination? of course at this particular point is the main nemesis. round incentives, the governor florida. we do we seen the trend line there? if you go back from last year, we essentially see is that donald trump s numbers of state pretty steady
stolen, and a live stream captured the crime going down. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the january 6th committee releasing new evidence in its case against donald trump as it narrows its focus for the coming weeks. on the agenda, trying to compel testimony from ginni thomas, a conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, over her role in advocating to overturn the 2020 election. committee vice chair congresswoman liz cheney telling cnn they will consider a subpoena if thomas doesn t cooperate. we certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. committee is also pushing to get more documents from the u.s. secret service and answers about the agency s potentially missing text messages from on and around january 6th. one of the committee members, congresswoman elaine luria, released previously