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♪ hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i'm rosemary church. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom" -- >> it was important to meet in person so there could be no mistake about or misrepresentations about what i wanted to communicate. i did what i came to do. >> u.s. president joe biden delivers his message to vladimir putin. we will break down what happened at the summit and look ahead to what's on mr. biden's agenda now that he's back in the united states. plus a new warning about the
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covid variant predicted to dominant cases in the u.s. and china launches three astronauts into space. they're due to dock with china's space station at any moment. ♪ good to have you with us. well, the u.s. president is now back at the white house after the highest stakes summit of his lengthy career. joe biden's big one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin was considered a critical test of his ability to confront that country. the talks lasted just a few hours with both leaders calling them constructive and positive. we were warned from the git-go not to expect any dramatic breakthroughs or tangible results. cnn's kaitlan collins explains
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how the summit unfolded. >> reporter: president biden summing up his first summit with president putin. >> i did what i came to do. >> reporter: the two leaders met behind closed doors for under three hours in geneva and cited progress on their way out. >> translator: the talks were quite constructive. >> the tone of the entire meetings, i guess it was a total of four hours, was -- was good, positive. >> reporter: but it was clear that divisions on critical issues like cyber attacks and human rights remained. >> the bottom line is i told president putin that we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. >> reporter: putin summed up the summit first, praising biden while denying any role in recent ransomware attacks and brushing off concerns about jailing his political opponents. >> translator: they've said that most of the cyber attacks in the world are carried out from the cyber realm of the united
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states. >> reporter: biden said he pressed putin on multiple fronts and would continue to do so. >> i also told him that no president of the united states could keep faith in the american people if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values, to stand up for the universal and fundamental freedoms that all men and women have in our view. that's just part of the dna of our country. >> reporter: biden expressing confidence that putin would not continue to ratchet up tensions with the u.s. >> the last thing he wants now is a cold war. >> reporter: the two agreed to send their respective ambassadors back to their countries and attempt to establish guardrails on cyber attacks. >> i talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack, period, by cyber or any other means. >> reporter: at times biden rebuked his russian counterpart after he equated jailing political opponents with the rioters who stormed the capitol. >> reporter: as for who is
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killing whom or throwing whom in jail, people came to the u.s. congress with political demands, 400 people. >> my response is kind of what i communicated, that i think that's -- that's a ridiculous comparison. >> reporter: biden saying they will know in three to six months if there can be a productive dialogue, but growing visibly angry when asked if the summit would lead to real change. >> why are you so confident he will change his behavior, mr. president. >> i don't know why he would change his behavior. what the hell -- when did i say i was confident. >> you said in the next six months you will be able to determine that. >> what i said -- what i said was -- let's get it straight. i said what will change the behavior is if the rest of the world reacts to them and dim she is their standing in the world. i'm not confident of anything. i'm just stating a fact. >> reporter: the president later apologizing for his response. >> i owe my last question an apology.
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i shouldn't have been such a wise guy the last answer i gave. >> reporter: during that summit president biden said he did not make any threats towards president putin but did say, yes, the u.s. is capable of carrying out cyber attacks on their own, powerful cyber attacks at that and he said that is something the russian leader is well aware of. kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in geneva. >> drawing the russian president's post summit news conference cnn's matthew chance fired off a few questions about several contentious issues, some of the questions vladimir putin answered and some he didn't. here is their exchange. >> first of all, could you characterize the dynamic between yourself and president biden? was it hostile or was it friendly? and secondly, throughout these conversations did you commit to ceasing carrying out cyber attacks on the united states? did you commit to stopping threatening ukraine security and did you commit to stop cracking
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down on the opposition in russia? >> translator: well, the first overall evaluation, i don't think there was any kind of hostility. on the contrary, our meeting was obviously a fundamental one. many of our joint positions are divergent but nevertheless i think that both sides manifested determination to try to understand each other and to try and con verbal our positions. i think it was very constructive. as far as cybersecurity is concerned, we agreed that we would begin consultations on that issue and i believe that it is extraordinarily important. obviously both sides have to assume certain obligations th there. >> so let's bring in our international diplomatic editor nic robertson is standing by in london. good to see you, nic. what has been the overall assessment and reaction to the biden/putin summit and is there
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any change this may change president putin's behavior in any way? >> reporter: you know, i think you're listening there to matthew chance's question of vladimir putin and matthew was speaking after that press conference and he said something that i think was a very important take away and that is that for the past 20 or so years vladimir putin has been behaving this way with a variety of u.s. presidents and none so far has been able to find a way to change the direction of vladimir putin's behavior. so i think that, you know, the overall take away has to fall into the camp of what president biden said, which is we don't know, we need to wait three to six months to find out. have any of the sort of deeper more sort of philosophical arguments that biden thinks he has that reaches around putin's intellect and putin's view of his own personal standing on the international stage, the standing of russia on the international stage, russia's
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ability to do business in the future, russia's potential threats from china, all of these things sort of fall into this envelope of why biden believes that change can happen, not that it will, but that it can. you know, i think that's a judgment that as biden says we just can't see at the moment. what is clear is that putin on the stage was playing in the press conference to his domestic audience, deflecting criticisms of questions that were implicit in the questions that matthew chance and others asked and looking uncomfortable when he was really pressed on questions about his treatment of alexei navalny, which president biden said if there was a death of navalny in russian custody, then absolutely he would hold putin accountable. you know, so i think biden --
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putin, rather, is able to walk away having spun this to his domestic audience that there was no day mash put on him there were areas of agreement and there was nothing that he feels he didn't answer and categorize and essentially say that's not really our problem, look at america, america is worse than us. >> all right. cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson joining us live from london. many thanks. militants in gaza have floated another round of incendiary balloons toward israel causing at least four more fires, but no injuries so far. it's a tactic they've used many times in the past, only now israel has been responding with air strikes against hamas targets. let's go live now to jerusalem and journalist elliott gotkine who is standing by. how are israelis react to go nafty bennett's handling of his first big test as prime minister and is there concern there that
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this could trigger another round of violence. >> reporter: i don't think anyone sees this just yet as a major escalation and given that naftali bennett has frequently criticized even ex-prime minister netanyahu's stance and response to attacks from the hamas controlled gaza strip and given that benny gantz is the same defense minister that served alongside ex-prime minister netanyahu i don't think there is a huge surprise in terms of israel's response to these incendiary balloons which have been sent across from the gaza strip into the surrounding areas and have burned some more than 10,000 acres of fields or nature reserves that are in the surrounding area. i don't think that was a huge surprise in that sense. i think at the same time those people that supported this incredibly unprecedentedly diverse coalition, those that supported it probably won't have changed their views, those that were prepared to give it the
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benefit of the doubt will still be giving it the benefit of the doubt and those that were critical of this government, particularly ex-prime minister netanyahu, deriding it as in his words a left wing government that wouldn't be able to stand up to hamas and attacks from the gaza strip i think they will continue to oppose this government and will no doubt criticize it for being too week or too easy or not responding to all of these balloons. indeed we haven't yesterday had a response to these incendiary balloons from yesterday. there were air strikes the night before which didn't result in any casualties in the gaza strip, there weren't any strikes last night. in the past we have heard from the israeli defense forces saying any attacks will be met with a powerful response. there have been multiple reports in palestinian and israeli media saying that israel has been trying to get a message to hamas through the egyptians saying, look f these continue then israel will escalate and that they will start taking out, you know, hamas operatives.
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we are not at that stage just yet, but whenever there is a round of fighting or tensions rise, rosemary, there will always be a concern that things could escalate. >> elliott gotkine joining us live from jerusalem, many thanks. now that u.s. president joe biden is back in the states he is facing a new showdown with republicans and members of his own party in congress. we will have the latest on the infrastructure talks, federal voting bills and the new federal holiday that could be signed into law today. coming up next we are talking about one of the most impressive heat waves the u.s. has ever seen and it's happening before summer each officially arrives. we will have more on that coming up in a few minutes. not touching is still touching protectionon. adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria. detergent alone, can't. lysol. what it takes to protect.
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this is just one of several wildfires burning in western u.s. as the region experiences record heat and dry conditions. emergency officials had advised people just south of reno, nevada, to evacuate. late wednesday night they lifted those orders saying the fire was now under control. two fires in arizona have to get scorched more than 220,000 acres
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and a wildfire that started sunday on the montana/wyoming border has burned more than 28,000 acres. cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri joins me now. just incredible these fires, these high temperatures. is there an end in sight here? >> you know, summer of course officially arrives in north america and northern hemisphere on sunday so we expect the hottest temperatures climatologically to kick in in the middle of july into early august for about a month ahead that have pace which is really remarkable when you take a look at how things have played out in recent days. look at death valley, california, well known for being the u.s. hot spot. the all time record for the day comes in at 123 degrees, over a century ago, the titanic just finished being built back in 1911, that's the last time it was this hot across that region for the date and they set a new record. las vegas hottest it has ever been is 117, they come in with 116, that sets a daily record.
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phoenix sitting 10 degrees above what is considered normal for this time of year. again, this pattern continues across a large area of the western u.s., south dakota, kansas, even into nebraska triple digit heat where over 50 million americans underneath these heat alerts that have been in place. now, we talk about the dangers of heat, how lethal it is in nature, especially when it's a long duration event. the next seven days temps fail to come back down to average, that's really concerning. even the overnight temperatures staying close to 90 degrees. hot spot in death valley 128 degrees, phoenix into the 1 teens, kansas city climbing up to 101 degrees as well. look at what's happening in the bay of campeche 90% chance in the next week we have ourselves a tropical storm, a home brewed tropical storm because it develops in a body of water in the area it is going to impact. potentially this heads as claudette will be the name of
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the tropical storm northward and could bring in tremendous rainfall towards portions of the gulf coast. a lot of weather going on, rosemary. >> you have it all covered, thanks very much. the u.s. labor department releases its weekly jobless report in just a few hours and the number of people filing claims is expected to fall for the seventh straight week. this week's report will be the last one in which full federal pandemic benefits are in place across all 50 states. meantime, u.s. financial markets are hoping to bounce back from wednesday's woes. i want to take a look at u.s. futures, you can see they are all in negative territory. we will keep an eye on all of that. of course, the growing u.s. economy could bring an end to the federal reserve's easy money policies pushing interest rates higher. cnn's clare sebastian has the details. >> reporter: this was an acknowledgment by the federal reserve that the u.s. economy is recovering faster than expected and policy might need to change
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quicker, too. there was no actual policy action at this meeting, interest rates are staying at record lows and the fed is going to continue purchasing $120 billion in assets every month to support the recovery, but we did get a few signals, they are increasing their forecast for gdp for this year to 7% from 6.5% in march, they have now increased their inflation forecast as well to 3.4% and a majority of fed board members now think there will be a rate rise in 2023. that is also in contrast to their previous predictions. the markets going into this were looking for any signal at all that there might be a change in the if he had's other emergency measure that $120 billion in asset purchases. this is what fed chair jerome powell had to say about that. >> you can think of this meeting that we had as the talking about talking about meeting, if you like. i now suggest that we retire that term which has served its purpose well, i think. so committee participants were of the view that since we
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adopted that guidance in december the economy has clearly made progress, although we are still a ways from our goal of substantial further progress. participants expect continued progress ahead toward that objects testify and assuming that is the case it will be appropriate to consider announcing a plan for reducing our asset purchases at a future meeting. >> jerome powell did acknowledge that this is an extraordinarily unusual time he called it and that there is no template for how the federal reserve should be dealing with this. he did say, though, that he still believes the most likely scenario is that that surge in inflation that we have seen recently does start to ease over the next few mondays as the demand surge in supply chain bottlenecks start to come down. he also believes that the jobs market will start to recover a bit quicker, that has lagged behind expectations recently and that will come as kids go back to in-person school and enhanced unemployment benefits go away and more people find new jobs after the pandemic. the markets dipped a little bit on the fed's at the same time as investors start to digest the
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prospect of a gradual end to the fed's easy money policies coming slightly sooner than expected. clare sebastian, cnn, new york. after a showdown abroad u.s. president joe biden now faces one back home. a small group of democratic senators met with white house officials on wednesday to discuss a bipartisan framework on an infrastructure plan. a working draft document is circulating the halls of capitol hill although democrats say it will likely change before being formally rolled out. the draft breaks down how the nearly $600 billion would be spent on roads, bridges, rail, power and broadband projects. and democratic senator joe manchin now says he may support voting rights legislation after previously opposing it, but only if certain changes are made. senate democrats seeing an opening have been quietly would
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go him. manu raju has more. >> reporter: he said laid out a series of changes that he wants, one of which is actually a nonstarter for a number of democrats, it would actually require an id to vote. that's a voter id requirement that has long been pushed by republicans that democrats have said is off the table in a push to try to reform voting laws, but joe manchin i'm told from democrats who have engaged with him is open to some modifications to that proposal, he's also open to potentially even moving ahead with this legislation even if it does not have republican support. i had asked him today would you support a revised bill even if republicans don't get behind it? he did not go that far, even though that had been his red line for weeks. now, this came -- this comes after withering criticism that he has gone from the left for being the lone senate democrat to not sign off on that bill because of his concern he had said that such voting laws
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changes should be done on a big bipartisan basis, there should be a deal between the two sides. what democrats really want to get him on board because they want to make the argument that the whole caucus is behind this and that republicans are the ones who are standing away, having joe manchin defect could undercut that key argument they plan to make going forward. it's important to note here that still 60 votes would be needed to advance such legislation. they simply do not have 60 votes even if they do get joe manchin on board, but nevertheless the key test vote, the first test vote could occur next week. chuck schumer the senate majority leader just took the necessary procedural steps to set up a vote that would happen sometime next week. all moving towards that as democrats try to woo one of their own to get behind their party's effort here. u.s. republican senator lindsey graham says policing negotiations have taken a big step forward. on wednesday he told cnn, quote, we maybe had a break through and added he thinks a deal could be reached by next week.
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negotiators have been hung up on how to criminally prosecute police officers. democrats want to lower the standard to charge them in order to make individual officers more accountable, but republicans don't agree. president biden is expected to sign a bill today making june 19th a federal holiday, juneteenth, national independence day, will commemorate the end of slavery in the united states. the house approved the measure last night although 14 republicans voted against it, most u.s. states already commemorate the day. in 1865 an army general in texas announced the news of then president abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation freeing the slaves. >> i just want to take this moment for thanking all of my colleagues, democrats and republicans, who showed america that there is unity in the understanding of our history.
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that history of slavery is the original sin and should never be ignored, but now we have a national independence holiday for juneteenth. let us come together. >> following the highly anticipated summit in geneva cnn's matthew chance pressed russian president putin on some key issues. we will have his answers, that's next. plus could a more contagious coronavirus strain convince more people in the u.s. to get vaccinated? what health experts are saying. wet dishes? residue? spots? it's not your dishwasher's fault. simply add finish jetdry 3in1 to rinse, dry and shine your dishes. solve 3 problems at once with finish jetdry 3in1.
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welcome back everyone.
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well, joe biden is now back in washington after wrapping up his first presidential trip abroad. first he shored up western support while attending the g7, nato and eu summits, before the week's most anticipated sit-down with vladimir putin. both leaders say the three hours of face-to-face talks were mostly positive, but without any big breakthroughs. mr. biden raised cyber attacks, human rights and the case of jailed kremlin critic alexei navalny and said he had this message for his russian counterpart. >> i told president putin my agenda is not against russia or anyone else, it's for the american people. fighting covid-19, rebuilding our economy, reestablishing relationships around the world with our allies and friends and protecting the american people. that's my responsibility as president. i also told him that no
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president of the united states could keep faith in the american people if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values, to stand up for the universal and fundamental freedoms that all men and women have in our view. that's just part of the dna of our country. >> but while president biden looked to stand up for democracy and human rights, mr. putin offered no indication he would be changing russia's stance or rhetoric when it comes to the treatment of opposition leader alexei navalny. cnn's matthew chance has more now from geneva. >> reporter: the historic summit started in chaos. >> russians on the left, americans on the right. >> reporter: kremlin and white house press packs jostling for position, u.s. and russian presidents themselves faced off inside. >> and i hope that our meeting will be productive. >> reporter: always better to be face-to-face he said, the words
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drowned out by the scuffle. >> stop pushing. >> reporter: the undiplomatic start to this controversial meeting set the tone. >> could you characterize the dynamic between yourself and president biden? was it hostile or was it friendly? >> translator: i think there was no hostility, quite the contrary. we don't share the same positions in many areas, but i think that both of these sides showed a willingness to understand one another and to find ways to bring our positions closer together. >> reporter: but there are some things the two presidents will never agree on, like the appalling treatment of alexei navalny, the russian opposition figure who was poisoned then jailed. his anti-corruption campaign shut down. russian military threats against ukraine as well as cyber attacks emanating from russian are also a major thorn in the relationship's side and something president biden wants stopped. secondly, throughout these conversations did you commit to ceasing carrying out cyber attacks on the united states?
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did you commit to stopping threatening ukraine's security and did you commit to stop cracking down on the opposition in russia? >> translator: as for cybersecurity, we reached an agreement, chiefly that we will start negotiations on that. i think that's extremely important. >> reporter: it was only a partial answer and the press conference almost moved on, but to his credit president putin took my follow-up. >> translator: was some of the question not answered? >> that's correct, thank you very much for coming back to me. the first one was did you commit in these meetings to stop threatening ukraine. remember the reason the summit was called in the first place or the timing of it was when russia was building up a lot of forces and the second part of the question -- the third part of the question was did you commit to stopping your crackdown against the opposition groups inside russia by alexei navalny. >> reporter: i didn't hear that part of the question, maybe it
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wasn't interpreted or maybe you just decided to ask a second question. >> reporter: on ukraine he restated the cripple lin's line about exercises on russian soil being a threat to no one and he again refused to utter alexei nasally's name. >> this person knew that he was breaking the laws effective in russia. he should have noted that as a person who was convicted two times. i'd like to underscore that he deliberately ignored the requirements of the laws. >> reporter: so far there's no sign this summit has changed president putin's uncompromising stance. matthew chance, cnn, geneva. in the u.s. covid-19 vaccinations appear to be back on the rise. the centers for disease control says almost 55% of all u.s. adults have now been fully vaccinated. it also says the delta variant,
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the strain first identified in india, now accounts for about 10% of cases in the u.s. that makes it a variant of concern. cnn's nick watt takes a closer look. >> reporter: it's one more reason if you are still on the fence to go ahead and get vaccinated. >> reporter: it is the delta variant, as of last week accounts for roughly 10% of new covid-19 cases in this country. >> people who get it are about twice as likely to end up in the hospital. it appears to be about 60% more transmissible, more contagious, in other words, and especially so for younger people. >> reporter: but in arizona the governor just banned public colleges from mandating vaccines for students. over in california, state colleges will now mandate shots for almost all come the fall. and in this tale of two states, arizona won't even come close to the president's goal of at least
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one shot for 70% of adults by july 4th, california is already there. so the state just reopened. >> it was one sector of our economy that was particularly impacted by this pandemic and that was hospitality and restaurants and entertainment. >> reporter: disneyland vaccinated visitors now roam maskless. >> we're super excited just because of the heat to not have to wear a mask. >> reporter: dodgers stadium last night more than 52,000 fans, the league says the biggest pro sports league game crowd in america since the pandemic began. >> it's full capacity now. >> we're glad to be back with the dodgers. we really are. >> reporter: i mean, it's still not quite like pre-pandemic. there is a mobile vaccination clinic for fans. and some more evidence that vaccines work. cnn analyzed the data, states that have vaccinated more than half of their population are
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unstridesingly seeing on average significantly lower new case counts than the states that are trailing in the vaccine rollout. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. with less than six weeks until the start of the tokyo olympics we've just learned the state of emergency in tokyo and eight other prefectures will expire this sunday as scheduled. earlier officials said if it was lifted the number of spectators allowed at olympic venues could double. cnn's blake he is sigg is in tokyo, he joins us now live. what is the latest on this and how are people across japan likely to respond to this news? >> reporter: well, rosemary, as far as the announcement that was just made by prime minister suga, he for tokyo, osaka and five other prefectures removed the state of emergency that was set to expire on sunday, but
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instituted a quasi state of emergency which will last until july 11th for those seven prefectures and what that is is essentially a slightly scaled back state of emergency order. restaurants and bars still are asked to close by 8:00 but the fines for restaurants and business that is don't comply is lessened. there's also the fact that the governors of each of these prefectures will have the opportunity to target specific towns, locations for these covid countermeasures as opposed to having this blanket state of emergency in effect for the entire prefecture. now, ultimately this decision by japan's prime minister to extend a quasi at least state of emergency order in some of these prefectures could impact the olympics down the road. again, it is set to expire on july 11th. now, if that is lifted at that point what that will mean that
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10,000 -- 10,000 spectators will be allowed potentially to attend events or half of the number of seats available, whichever number is smaller in each of these venues. if a quasi state of emergency order or any state of emergency order is extended through the olympics, that number would be cut in half to 5,000 spectators in each of these venues, or, again, half of the number of seats available whichever number is lower. so, again, there's still a lot up in the air at this point. medical experts continue to express concern that if these olympics are held with spectators that there will be an increase in the number of covid-19 cases which given the fact that the state of emergency order has been reduced in a lot of prefectures, that's because the case count has been going down, but clearly, rosemary, not out of the woods here. >> all right. blake essig, many thanks.
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at the southern baptist convention the role of politics in religion is at the heart of a growing divide. >> does faith have a place in politics? >> yes. when you say separation of church and state, you're basically -- you're basically discriminating against a group of people. >> the culture war disputes ahead. do stay with us.
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first time attendees like debbie, this year's southern baptist convention is a reckoning for christianity and the nation. >> does faith have a place in politics? >> yes. >> she is part of the far right and more fundamentalist contingent of southern baptists that was just handed a big loss last night when moderate ed litton was elected president. she fears his win means woke idea like teaching critical race theory will take hold in the church and society, the only way to stop it the former teacher says is for the southern baptists to get more involved than ever in politics. >> when you say separation of church and state, you're basically -- you're basically discriminating against a group of people. >> and in the spirit of talking about discrimination, does your stance against critical race theory not run the risk of pushing out more people of color from the sbc? >> no. >> why not? >> because in christ there is no
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color. >> reporter: but looking around the convention grounds the reality is very different. 35-year-old associate pastor keelan adams of montgomery, alabama, is one of the few black people here. adams voted as a convention messenger for the first time this year. he has hope for litton who is politically conservative but considered a moderate by some in the denomination on issues like critical race hery and the black lives matter movement. >> there is a reason younger people like him. it's due to him being flexible and understandable towards different -- like some of the newer issues that have come up within the sbc. >> more progressive issues. >> exactly. >> reporter: sex abuse survivors hannah and tiffany say litton should focus less on politics and instead on what they say is the church's real problem, it's mishandling of sexual abuse allegations. a recent letter between two high
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profile southern baptist leaders brought to light new allegations of alleged spiritual and psychological abuse of survivors as well as attempts to exonerate churches of abuse claims. at a press conference after being elected litton called churches places for people to feel protected. >> as i just said, i think we have to find a mechanism and a way to help train our people, get more churches involved in wanting to create a safe environment in their church and to be known as great commission people. >> reporter: but thigpen says some of the denomination, even one of her best friends have turned their back on her for speaking out. she says others have encouraged her point-blank to be quiet about her abuse. >> said the church needs a day of reckoning, it needs to be a stripping down to the basics of everything that you say you stand for, everything that you claim to represent, your view, the world, it's the great commission baptist, well, how does the world really see you? do they see you as hypocrites?
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>> reporter: the path ahead for the sbc is clear for some, but it may not be for all. nick valencia, cnn, nashville, tennessee. as nick reported critical race theory was an issue at the convention. in 2019 the convention adopted it as acceptable. a challenge to that position failed this year. erin burnett spoke with incoming president ed litton about it. >> so you're saying there is systemic racism but there are some who say even in your own -- your own faith group that, quote, our lord isn't woke. they're frustrated that you would even do that. how do you have those conversations when you feel so differently about something that's so crucial and core right now to what this country is going through? >> it is crucial to what our country is going through and the answer to that question is jesus tells us to -- the word of god tells us to come reason
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together. so what our design is that when we come to our convention that we gather, we reaffirm our doctrinal statements and nothing changed in any of our doctrinal statements in this convention and they won't. that we reaffirm who we are, what our mission is as a convention of almost 50,000 churches. >> yes. >> so we reaffirm those things but we need a better conversation about this because these allegations are false. we are not -- and let me tell you why i think this is happening is because there are people that are afraid of dealing with this issue and it's basically recognizing that people of color in our communities are created in the image of god, they have values because god not only loved them he redeems them and god wants them in his family. so it's our mission to help get that gospel message to everybody. the incoming president of the southern baptist convention speaking there with erin burnett. well, china's dream of building
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its own space station just took a big leap forward. according to state media a future station has just received its first temporary residence.
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we have breaking news. chinese state media says a chinese space cap ul has just docked at the country's space station. the three-member crude launched earlier today. the astronauts are the first space farers to arrive at the station said to be completed by the end of next year. the astronauts are expected to spend three months inside the space module that would be by far the longest space mission for china. david culver reports from shanghai. >> reporter: three astronauts bound for the heavenly palace, that's china's space station still under construction. from a launch pad in the desert the rocket ship dubbed the divine vessel blasting off, designed to arrive at its destination in just six and a half hours but at a total length
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of 55 feet and a living space of just 50 cubic meters these astronauts are going into orbit in a capsule a bit larger than a city bus. any claustrophobic thought forgotten when the men do two planned space walks. inside they will test the tech and the living area and run experiments. two more laboratory modules expected to be launched in upcoming missions with the aims to have its space station fully operational by the end of next year. china wants its own because the u.s. government barred it from participating in the international space station project. china says their heavenly palace will be truly international. >> translator: foreign astronauts are certainly going to enter the chinese space station one day. there are a number of countries that have expressed a desire to do that and we will be open to that in the future. >> reporter:? just the past seven months china has put a rover on the moon and
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one on mars being becoming the second country in history since the u.s. to land a rover on the red plant. they also plan to send humans to the moon in the 2030s. for now these three men will build the foundation of the space station. >> translator: we will obey orders and instructions and keep calm while meticulously carrying out the mission. >> reporter: cheese experts like weiss confident in this mission and its safe return to earth as the vessel carries precious cargo along with the pride of a nation rapidly advancing its work in this in you frontier. david culver, cnn, shanghai. a huge win for italy, an emotional match for denmark and a big upset in the nba. cnn's patrick snell has our minute in sports. we start in the u.s. with the nba playoffs where after the philadelphia 76ers blew an 18-point lead against the atlanta hawks in gave four they somehow managed to do it again only worse this time. the 76ers led by 26 points but somehow the hawks led by
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superstar trae young with a game high 39 points overcoming that deficit to win now lead the series 3-2. at the european football championships italy the first team to qualify for the last 16 after sweeping aside switzerland. a long ranger sealing the 3-0 victory in rome. a crowd of more than 30,000 in baku to see wales beat turkey. conner roberts deep into stoppage time and we are guaranteed a very emotional day later in copenhagen when the danish national football team will take the field to play for the first time since christian eric sent suffered a cardiac arrest last saturday. belgium saying they plan to put the ball out of play in the tenth minute for applause for eric sent who continues his recovery in hospital. with that it's back to you. >> thank you for that. thanks for your company.
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good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is "early start," i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm christine romans. it is thursday, june 17th, it is 5:00 a.m. exactly in new york. and we begin this morning with president biden, he is back in washington landing late last night at joint base andrews, returning from his high stakes summit with russia's president vladimir putin. their meeting in geneva, switzerland, lasted just about

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