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the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden has started trying to convince voters that a much-needed victory for his agenda is a win for them as well. the senate approving the democrats flagship economic package. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. final passage is expected in the house of representatives later this week. it will be a very big moment for the president. reporter: it absolutely will, wolf, because it s been a very tough few months for this white house. so this is a welcome change of pace for many of the officials, including president biden as they are now cruising into what appears to be the passage of this major piece of legislation. you re right, going to the house later this week and then the white house hopes on to president biden s desk for his signature. while the bill is very different from what democrats were negotiating over just last summer, wolf, it is still something that ....
police tackled the gunman, you can see there, described as a man in his 40s, state broadcaster nhk quotes police who say he used a homemade gun. we will be live in tokyo in just a moment. we are also keeping a close watch this hour on what s happening in washington. former white house counsel pat cipollone expected on capitol hill for closed door testimony today. he ll speak with the january 6th select committee. again, watching that closely as well as the latest jobs report, just out a short time ago, which shows the economy added 327,000 jobs in the month of june. the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.6%. a lot going on this morning as you can see. but we do want to begin with this breaking news out of japan, the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. blake essig is in tokyo this morning. what more do we know about this suspect and also what is the reaction throughout the country. reporter: hey, you know, jim, erica, i apologize, i cannot hear yo ....
name a full-time monkeypox coordinator as the world health organization declares a global public health emergency. a spokesperson for the w.h.o. joins me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to all the latest developments in the january 6th investigation. the select committee is not slowing down at all. releasing new evidence today showing donald trump crossed out key parts of the speech he delivered the day after the capitol riot. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. he s joining us now. tell us more, evan. what are you learning? we know that the former president was resistant to trying to stop the violence. one of the things we learned from the committee today, this is incredible, that this did not make the cut for last week s hearing. what we learned from the committee, they released a video that indicates that he was ....
we told him, the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief in chances for success at this point. my belief was that it was very, very 5% to 10% is not a good optimistic outlook. the committee then showed how former president trump continued to embrace allegations of fraud, going against his white house lawyers, who told him that accusations were baseless were not substantial enough to make a difference in the election outcome. the justice department even told him there was no there-there as trump kept holding onto wild conspiracies. there were so many allegations, that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them, he wouldn t fight us on it, but he would move to another allegation. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. we told him flat-out much of the information he s getting is false and/or just not supported by the evidence. we look at the allegations, but they don t pan out. so then former president trump had a choice. the commi ....
Tonight, we are learning more about how the planning for that deadly october 7th attack by hamas on israel went undetected, for two years. Sources tell cnn tonight, that hamas operatives were actually communicating through a network of land lines that were built into those tunnels that we have discussed, that are underneath gaza. Well have more on that tomorrow night. Thank you so much for joining us. Cnn news night with abby philips, starts right now. Three major stories tonight. The war in israel has taken a new turn. Donald trumps former Chief Of Staff reportedly flips on him. And the house is still without a speaker, as the Republican Party implodes. Thats tonight, on. And good, evening im abby phillips. It has been an extraordinarily bad day for republicans and their leader. In perhaps the Biggest Development ....