additional body has been pulled from the rubble bringing the death toll, so far confirmed death toll to 95. security around the site will be tightened with only authorized personnel allowed access. i'm wolf blitzer, "erin burnett outfront" starts now. >> biden rips trump in comments yet calling out trump's election lies and texas democrats that fled the state appeal to the white house for help. she's been on a ventilator because of covid for more than 100 days. republicans and once vaccine skeptics spreading the word to get the shot or end up on a ventilator, too. the final days of trump's presidency worse than you may have thought including this detail. the president wanting a leaker executed. the author that broke the story. let's go "outfront".

good everyone. i'm erin burnett. the current president confronts his predecessor as he refuses to say his name. >> the big lie is just that, a big lie. [ applause ] >> 2020 election is the most examined and fullest expression of the will of the people in the history of this nation. this should be celebrated. the example of america at its best but instead, we continue to see in the example of human nature at its worst something darker and more sinister. in america, if you

accept the results. you follow the constitution. you try again. you don't call facts fake and then try to bring down the american experiment just because you're unhappy. that's not statesmesmantatesman. that's not statesmanship. that's selfishness. that's not democracy. >> extremely harsh and a break in precedent for biden, usually chooses to ignore his predecessor and his words come as trump admits he calls things fake when he doesn't like the outcome. he admits it. here is trump on sunday saying the quiet part aloud. >> you know they do that straw poll, right? now if it's bad, i say it's fake. if it's good, i say that's the

most accurate poll. >> kind of sometimes those dark truths are just. he doesn't like the outcome. he calls it fake. that is the trump playbook to the election he lost and last week revealing the strategy. he'll say something again and again and again because then people believe it. >> if you say it enough and keep it they'll start to believe you. >> that was last week. it's not like you have to wonder if he admitted the truth. he just did. amazing to hear trump he calls things fake when they don't go his way for no other reason than they didn't go his way and admit he repeats lies until people start to believe them. it is incredible in fact to hear him say that. but trump's big lie no matter how much he repeated it would not be as powerful if it were not for his enablers early and e

earnest. they made up stories to support a lie. in fact, lies upon lies upon lies. it is well documented, of course, but today we learned something new about rudy giuliani. according to a new book by reporters about trump's final years, rudy giuliani tells trump on election night quote, just say we won pennsylvania. that's advice he got. that's what trump did again and again and again and still again. even though he lost, he knew it. had trump stood up loudly and publicly and abandoned him on day one of the lie things may have done differently but they did not and others in trump world with lies and liars. according to the washington post the rnc's chief counsel sent an email in november about team truc trump's efforts to fight it in court. referencing trump's attorneys including rudy giuliani it reads what rudy and jen tna are doings

a joke and getting laughed out of court and in the following month in december somebody that could have spoken out publicly and been heard spoke very quietly. here is the operative line by the "wall street journal" michael bender quote, barr told trump the fraud allegations were bullshit and the team he put around himself were clowns but only said it to trump. nobody broke through the wall of lies and liars around trump. i'll speak to bender about his reporting in a moment. but first, biden's takedown of trump today comes as a war is being waged between texas lawmakers tonight. >> in texas for example, republican led state legislature wants to allow partisan poll watchers to intimidate voters and impartial poll workers. they want voters to dive further and be able to be in a position where they wonder who is watching them and intimidating them, to wait longer to vote. to drive a hell -- excuse me, a

long way to get to vote. they want to make it so hard and inconvenient they hope people don't vote at all. that's what this is about. >> texas governor tonight threatening to arrest the 57 democratic lawmakers who fled the state in an attempt to derail republican attempts to pass a controversial voting rights bill. a short time ago vice president kamala harris stopped by to meet those to get involved and pass federal voting legislation. >> i know what you have done comes with great sacrifice personal and political. and you are doing this in support and in defense of some of our nation's highest ideals. >> kaitlan collins was traveling with the president today "outfront" live where he gave the comments. kaitlan, biden taking on trump,

a break in precedent. is that enough for those pushing for the president to do more? >> reporter: well, it remains to be seen. we heard from some of them like al sharpton that liked the speech but wanted the president to go a little further but when it came to the remarks that he made directed toward his prede predecessor, this is probably the most forceful we heard him on the big lie. he talked about it in the past. it's loomed over the first several months of his presidency because he came into office and such an extraordinary manner given what he was pushing back against with his former president, former president trump but today going after him saying in the united states if you lose, you just accept it and don't dispute the facts of it and of course, i think that talking about that is certainly something we have not seen from biden in that way before. the question is what is he going to do about it? we know the former president's claims are a lot of what is driving what you're seeing happen in several state republicans trying to change their election laws even though there was no wide spread fraud

in 2020 election and so that is where this powerful and definitely symbolic speech given by president biden runs head first into reality where he was calling to pass those two massive voting rights legislation, two bills on capitol hill. they have no path to being adopted right now. the president and the white house are well aware of that. that raises the question of course about the filibuster and whether or not he is going to actually try to get democrats to unify around changing those rules and that is something else al sharpton and he said he has not be committed about whether he is going to push for that so that is a question from the white house after this speech. >> thank you very much. i want to go to the republican philadelphia city commissioner you may remember him. i talked to him several times. he over saw the 2020 election there. been attacked by president trump because he's refused to accept the big lie and today he was there and attending president

biden's voting rights speech. appreciate seeing you tonight. i know you were there and invited by the white house and heard president biden take on trump and republicans who have supported the big lie about the election. do you think president biden said anything in his speech today, though, that will actually convince more republicans to stand up for the truth about the election? >> i do. i think it was very important what president did. he amplified and really brought into focus exactly what is on the line here and that is the future of our democracy and i think it's important that the american people, democrats and republicans alike hear that message from the president of the united states. >> so i want to play something else for you now that president biden said today. here he is. >> the assault on free and fair elections is such a threat literally. i said it before. we're facing the most

significant test of our democracy since the civil war.h. since the civil war. back then never breached the capitol as insurrectionists did on january 6th. i'm not saying this to alarm you, i'm saying this because you should be alarmed. >> do you agree with biden? >> unfortunately, i do. i have a phd in history in my former life and critical juncture and our democracy and i think the president in part of speech really raised an important point and that is going to take a collision of people, democrats and republicans and really right minded people to save it. it's far more fragile than i think most of us ever

contemplated. it's going to take a lot to save it. >> president biden spoke today about states like georgia new laws there that let state or county legislatures which are now run by republicans to remove anyone they don't like from election boards, whether democrats or republicans. i want to play that. >> who gets to count what vote counts? literally. not figuratively. you vote for certain electors to vote for somebody for president. state legislator comes along in the proposal in case we don't like that, we'll point other electors and vote for the other guy or other woman. >> are you worried about that republicans in more states, even yours could find a way to remove you because you've spoken up about this or people like you that stood up for the truth? >> i'm very concerned about it. it not really about me. while i have concerns about efforts to restrict access to

voting and concerns that will disenfranchise our voters, even more so perhaps the most part of the so-called reforms we're seeing are ones that replace non-partisan election administrators with political operatives appointed by political state leg slayislator other people. that's not how the system should function and that's a dangerous road to go down. >> appreciate your time. thank you for it despite the sobering content of our conve conversation. thank you. >> as i mentioned a moment ago, president biden did also call out what is happening in texas where democratic legislatures have fled to d.c. to try and stop new voting bills to become law. "outfront" now one member that's in washington d.c. the chair of the texas legislative black caucus. i appreciate your time, representative. i know you saw vice president harris today.

she stopped by meeting your group was having. do you want more time with her and the president? >> thank you so much for having me, erin. the vice president was very generous with her time today, gave us an hour by explaining the symbolic nature of the acts that we have done, the courageous acts we've done as texas democrats by breaking the quarom. she was generous. president biden has been very generous, also, by pointing out the very important work that congress needs to do and let me just break it down. maybe i need to translate this for the trump supporters. this is a bigly lie. how about that? maybe they'll start understanding that this is not the truth. the elections were not stolen. in fact, even in texas, our republican appointed secretary of state confirmed that the last elections were safe and secure. >> right. absolutely true. important that you raise that

point. of course, the reality of your situation is now representative, you can ride the special session outside the state but greg abbott, your governor can keep calling special session after special session, right, until eventually a vote can't be avoided. here is how he put it to a local station about his plans. >> i can and i will continue to call special session after special session after special session all the way up until election next year. >> what are you going to do about this? it's not realistic to imagine so many people staying outside the state for a year. what do you have a plan on how to handle that strategy? >> well, here in washington that's part of the plan. we're asking congress to act by passing the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights act. we need them to get to it right away. our special session is set to end august 7th. the senate is supposed to log out on august 6th. we've got the time. let's get it done.

>> so i know you're fighting for voting rights, right? it's a crucial thing. but there is also the reality that the voters of texas did elect a republican majority in your state house and here is what some of those republicans are saying today, representative. >> they fled to washington d.c. on private planes and refused to come to work. they have abandoned their conc constituents and jobs and took a solum oath to protect and defend and faithfully execute the duties of the office of a member of the house of representatives. we demand that the democrats show up for work. it's an outrage they do what they need to do. >> the will of the people, you know, when you're preventing the legislature from doing its job from voting on something. >> well, i would disagree. we are doing the work for the people. we are representing the people. they are ignoring the people

because over 400 people signed up to testify against this bill that dealt with elections that this voter suppression bill and only 65 voted -- wanted to support it. so they are ignoring the vote of the people and when we try to amend it, we tried to work with republicans. when we try to amend the bill, they ignored us so there is no working with them. there is no compromise with the republicans, it's their agenda or nothing. so we have -- we are representing the people of texas. >> all right. representative, appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you. next, vaccine wars as more states ban vaccine mandates in schools. the former health and human services secretary kathleen wants to stop tiptoeing around mandates and a book about the end of trump's presidency is "outfront". michael bender has new details. >> alexandria ocho asio-cortez s the man that won the democratic

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bom -- obama administration. appreciate your time. kwo you've expressed frustration over tiptoeing around mandates. that's fair. so much tiptoeing, so unbelievable how silent people can be. what would you like the u.s. government's message to be about mandating vaccination? >> thanks for having me, erin and i was the governor of kansas, not texas. >> oh, i'm sorry. i literally just misspoke because we were talking about texas. thank you for correcting me. >> no problem. i think that the federal government has done an amazing job and we are in such a fortunate position in the united states to have ample vaccine, a policy that says it's free and a government that's determined to get to the final mile and we still have this block of vaccine hesitancy, which is pretty terrifying. the federal government has never in history issued a vaccine mandate of any kind and i don't expect that to change very soon

but i think the federal government can continue to play an enormously important role looking at all the tools they have. their mask mandate on transportation was very effective. i think they could look at whether or not that could be effective. working with schools, the authorities since 1905 is at the state and local level. the states like kansas passing laws saying any entity that gets funds from the state can't put a mandate in place are really terrifying because there are 48 million americans who are under the age of 12 including my four grandchildren. if we start with a lens on the children and wanting children to go back to school, which is what we all say is the priority, then we have to get more serious about employers and schools and universities stepping up and saying it's great if you don't want to be vaccinated, but if you don't, you really can't have

access to places that will put you in contact with folks who can't get vaccinated. >> this is the thing. let talk about the private companies. some of them are requiring vaccines. delta any new hire has to be vaccinated. morgan stanley barring anyone unvaccinated from going to the new york offices. hospitals we're seeing a lot of this. obviously, uhouston health dis m -- methodist mandated vaccines. if you put the government aside for a second, a private company, it is a no brainer if you don't want to get sued by someone that gets sick from someone else to mandate vaccines and in fact, we all expect it for our kids. you can't go to summer camp or school with a bunch of other vaccines so i don't know why this one is different. do you think the mandates are worth it for all these private companies? should they keep doing this? >> i think first of all, we have never seen a situation where our

public health guidance has been so politicized and that started a long time ago during the trump administration where and you saw just recently at the cpac convention this weekend where people cheered the notion that the 70% threshold that president biden had set as a golal was no met. why in the world would we have americans cheering for a very dangerous variant to be spreading throughout the united states? i don't know. i do think that the federal government can also work on expediting the full approval. pfizer has submitted all the paperwork, moderna is close behind. so getting full approval getting out of the emergency use authorization and into full approval is something that will clear up any legal questions that private employers may have. they have a big chance. a lot of universities have real authority, rutgers, cornell,

others took the lead but university students shouldn't come back unless they have been vaccinated. >> it's an interesting point because some said there are people that will get vaccinated once they get the full approval and the eua is a conspiracy talking point but you raise on interesting point that may enable companies to require it and i think it's significant. you mentioned cpac and, you know, the hesitancy we've seen for getting vaccines, right, is contributing to the drop in the pace of vaccination in this country. and as you point out, we saw it at cpac and from republican lawmakers and trump supporters pushing the hesitancy and resistance on to others. here is just a brief summation. >> don't come knocking on my door with yofauci ouch and leav us alone. >> do you know anybody that died? >> i know people that got it and died and people that got cancer

and died, too. >> you know three people that died of coronavirus and you won't get the vaccine? >> no, like i said, i don't need the vaccine. >> the government was hoping they could sort of sucker 90% of the population into getting vaccinated and it isn't happening. there is a -- younger people -- >> you heard the cheers. you heard a man who is saying, equating cancer to the virus when there is virus obviously a vaccine that would prevent those deaths. what is your reaction when you hear all this? >> well, it's horrifying. i don't know any cancer patient who if they were offered a shot that was 90% effective wouldn't take it in a heart beat. we're in a situation where we have a wildly effective vaccine, multiple voices, lots available, free of charge and we have folks who are just saying i won't do it. i think that it's time to say to those folks, it's fine if you

don't choose to get vaccinated. you may not come to work. you may not have access to a situation where you're going to put my grandchildren in jeopardy where you might kill them or you might put them in a situation where they're going to carry the virus to someone in a high risk position. that's i think the point where we are is freedom is one thing, but freedom when you harm others like secondhand smoke and issues that we've dealt with very clearly in the past you can't drive dunk. you can drink but you can't drive drunk because you can injure other people. you can't smoke inside of a public place where you can give cancer to someone else in spite of their never having been a smoker. so i think we're reaching that point in the united states where those of us who are vaccinated, i want to take off my mask.

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tonight, quote they should be ex kruted trump said to secure underground bunker during protests near the white house with the murder last year. a new book out by the "wall street journal" michael bender says quote it was the most upset

some aids ever seen him. he should be charged with treason and executed. "outfront" now michael bender frankly we did win this election, the story how trump lost and there is so much in here and i want to try to get to some points here and i know people will buy it and read the whole thing for themselves. that bombshell from your book is getting a lot of attention today. you're revealing how furious trump was when he first saw the bunker story. why did that strike such a nerve? after owl things that make all the hmost furious. >> the walls were coming in and trump could feel it. middle of 2020. he started the year at a real high point. yes, he'd been impeached but survived and thriving. his polls were at the highest point they were. the only thing he wanted to talk about was red hot and just a few months later, all of that was gone. and he's in the middle of the

worst pandemic in 100 years. civil rights protests. he's afraid that -- and he takes it all personally and responds to it not by a thoughtful careful message or a particular policy response, but by lashing out at the people closest to him in the white house and at the protesters who are demonstrating civil rights still. >> a spokesperson is no surprise. the former president quote never said this or suggested it to anyone but aids told you they never seen the president lash out like this and you went on to write and i quote you and your book here, meadows repeatedly tried to calm the president as aids avoided eye contact. okay, he said over and over. i'm on it. we'll find out who did it. you know, it is, you know, pretty amazing just immediately the fear of everyone around him. >> yeah, i was trying to re -- i

think this is a real pivotal moment in 2020 for trump's presidency and his reelection and so i went back and tried to reconstruct that and i was struck by the number of aids when i asked about the bunker detail, the first thing that they mentioned was how visceral it was about how trump, how angry he was that the story had gotten out and how much time it had taken day after day after day again in the middle of a pandemic. that this is what he's -- that this is what he's pfocused on ad a line through the book, erin, that we know the story of chaos with the trump administration and what this book shows through repeated situations it's the people that thought trump was dangerous and trying to prevent dangerous situations and it really shows how close to the brink we got several times. >> so, you know, it's amazing.

you read a lot about temperature u.s. general mark milly and how he clashed with trump and administration and what i thought was so amazing so you revealed his realtime reaction when trump staged the photo op at lafayette square where people were taking place after floyd o's murder and in quotes you write what the f star ck as sivanka stepped towards her father with the bible and patrolled washington streets with his troops until well past 2:00 a.m. and you reporting this in your book that milly had no idea about this political photo op but clearly, this enraged him. >> this is the same few days in june and what is striking about this hasn't been reported is that milly and attorney general bill barr ended up as a lark and

they were -- there was a lull in the action today. that day they were monitoring protest. there wasn't much happening in the afternoon. milly was in his fatigues. he was going to visit with national guard, the national guardsmen stationed around the city that might. barr knew they would push the perimeter out at some point that day he wanted to see what the pr progress was so they decide on heck, let's just go to the white house moment and what happens they both end up in one of the most controversial political moments that people are going to be talking about that historians will be talking about for years. >> so you know, you write about a theory trump grabbed on to around the election that somehow democrats would steal biden's nomination and told advisors in april 2020 you write they will give it to somebody else. they will give it to hillary or

obama and win the nomination as you report bender, michael but trump really just couldn't believe that biden was going to get the nomination. right? he just could not. this was one time where his political instinct really was off. >> yeah, i mean, really throughout 2020, i mean he can't figure out how to message against biden. i think it comes up with 12 or 16 different nicknames for biden, which is a signal for president trump that he's kind of grasping at straws. he got impeached trying to go after biden on one hand but then on the other hand, he is just dismissing him. i mean, i set that up a little bit in the book. there is another scene a couple months earlier where he calls in the middle of the policy meeting in the oval office and just blurts out he can't believe he's losing in the polls to a mental retard. this is the president of the quite using this language with policy advisors in the oval office. >> wow. mental retard, amazing.

michael, thank you so much. these are just a few of the anecdotes. you got to read the book. as you can see, i asked a question and six levels deeper michael was able to share. michael, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> thank you, erin. >> "outfront" next alexandria ocasio-cortez said the mayoral race wasn't a warning. eric adams won the primary and responds. >> her mother has been sick with covid on a ventilator for 100 days. she has a message for skeptics because after all, she was one of then. for insights on when to buy and sell. and proactive alerts on market events. that's decision tech. only from fidelity. get ready - our most popular battery is even more powerful. the stronger, lasts-longer

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tonight, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez said the prodepress gressive party tt after they elected a moderate nominee for mayor for the democratic party. that manner eric adams campaign against issues like defund the police. >> i do not believe that this is some large bellwether for the country or for democratic voters

in the country and i think it was very just indicative of a pretty wild race. >> "outfront" now the democratic nominee for mayor of new york city. ocasio-cortez says your victory is just the outcome of a wild race and is not a bellwether at all about the democratic party not sending a message the party is not rallying around a candidate like yourself. what's your response? >> well, i am not running against any particular elected or any particular person and i believe that it was crucial that both kathryn garcia and eric adams are two extremely forward thinking candidates were able to occupy the top spot and i think far too often people tend to define what they are against and not what they are for. i'm for a safe city where we can

raise healthy children and families into something i committed my life to and i believe this is a great opportunity for the entire democratic party to look at what we are doing here and what we are going to continue to do. >> so the current mayor bill de blasio said new yorkers should assume masks will be worn in schools in september even for vaccinated suntudents that come after the cdc released guidance saying fully vaccinated teachers and students don't need to wear masks. this will be a big issue for you if you're mayor to take this over. do you agree with de blasio ee dec decision to take a mask mandate for students above the age of 12? >> no, i do not. we must follow the science. if the cdc states that we don't need mask and we don't have to wear them, that's fine. but let's always give people the option because there is a level of comfortability we should look at. i wear my mask when i'm in certain locations because i

believe it crowded and i feel comfortable in doing so. let let's not take away that c comfortability. >> schools are one part of covid. if you win the general election, the biggest challenge you'll face is crime and we talked about that but you mentioned taxpayer money and new york passed a so-called millionaire's tax during covid that made the personal income tax rate the highest in the united states. the top 1% of new yorkers alone and eric, i know you know these numbers but some listening that don't, they paid nearly half the income tax collected in 2018. 42.5% paid by the top 1% of new yorkers and we know that this has caused some to leave. goldman sachs, west palm beach. carl icahn the investor and florida and others of course as you and i both know, as well. how will you make up for that revenue loss? are you going to have to

increase taxes on everyone else? >> no, here is what i have found. you know, in new york 65,000 new yorkers higher income earners pay 51% of the income taxes and when i speak to my high income earners, you know what they tell me? eric, public safety. they don't feel safe in their city. they're not seeing the city services they deserve. you can't go to parks and feel safe. we're watching what is happening at washington square park where you bring your babies and people are injecting themselves with heroin right in the park. you're seeing what is happening in front of restaurants where you have encampments and so what we must do is say to our taxpayers and businesses that number one we're going to be safe that includes our subway system and we're going to have a better use of your tax dollars. we're not doing that. the city is too bureaucratic and expensive and difficult to do business in and we're going to turn that around to show how to run a city. >> all right. eric adams, aplepreciate your

time. thank you so much. >> thank you, take care. >> all right. that was eric adams. the mayor of new york. next, you'll hear about a republican, a one-time vaccine skeptic who has an important message to share. plus, people are starving. an economy in utter collapse. what happened to lebanon? paris and the middle east? a story you'll only see "outfront". ? like sandpaper. introducing new dove handwash, with 5 x moisturizer blend. removes germs in seconds, moisturizes for hours. soft, smooth. new dove handwash. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression.

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struggling through every day. i know your mom gwen had many ups and downs since getting sick. how is she doing now? >> we've had a series of really good days so we're in a good place right now. doing better. >> so you think perhaps soon things will turn around, i hope? >> that's the plan. yeah. >> well, look, obviously part of the reason you're talking to me is about the vaccine and i know your mom didn't but you're you're not sure she would have gotten the vaccine or would others in your family have gotten the vaccine if it weren't for what happened to her and this awful ordeal she has gone through. tell me why. >> i mean honestly i can't tell you if we would have gotten it or not because we don't have that opportunity now, but we were scared. we just didn't know what we didn't know. i mean we don't work in the health care industry. all i knew was what my friends were saying on social mead you, my mom groups, on the news and

it was just too soon to come out so we were scared. >> and you're not alone in that. i know you identify as a conservative republican and you just mentioned social media, and i wanted to ask you about that. because i know the peer pressure you were getting on social media, the things you were seeing, the things being put out there had an impact on your view of the vaccine before your mom got sick. can you tell me some of what you saw, some of what influenced you, some of what was impactful on social media? >> a lot of chatter about what ingredients are in it, the side effects. i even heard some people say they put microchips in them, which ysk i didn't believe that part, but i was afraid of the possible side effects. i didn't want to injure myself or my family, so obviously we were afraid. but we didn't know. >> right. and missouri now obviously is

unfortunately a ground zero for the delta variant which is so much more significant and contributing to outbreaks across your state. we all know what doctors say. vaccines, that's the way to stop infections to save lives. now you've been through this horrible ordeal, what is your message to people who still have the fear you have. who still may be influenced by social media whether it's microchip or something sinister and are not getting vaccinated? >> it's just they're there, they're available. get them, be safe. i convinced one person, my neighbor lisa. she went and got vaccinated. and that's the only person i convince, then i did what i was supposed to do. >> i think convincing one person, it's a life you may have saved. it's hugely significant. are you trying to talk to some of, you know, your friends who felt very differently or who had all of those concerns?

i guess what i'm asking, april, is has your belief in the vaccine influenced in any way your relationships friends who feel differently? >> yeah, absolutely. just because my friends feel that way doesn't mean we're not friends. i don't feel the same way some of those people feel. they're still good people outside of their beliefs. i'm not going to try to change them because they're not going to try and change me. this is my mom. this is my family photo. this is it. you want this for you? this is it. so, yeah, i try to convince them. >> i hope that will be your photo again. it's been a few good days, but i hope the power of that picture will convince some. thank you so much, april. i appreciate your honesty and courageousness in speaking out. >> thank you. and out front next, what was once known as switzerland middle

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pandemonium in beirut right now triggered by rage. that deadly bomb blast and food, electricity and a deadly shortage. lebanon is a country on the verge of total collapse with ramifications on the entire middle east. here's ben wedemen. >> reporter: anger is seething in this country beset by multiple crises. a collapsing economy, mounting shortages of food and fuel as rage continues to boil over last august's beirut port blast. relatives of those killed in that blast carried pictures of the victims and mock coffins to the home of lebanon's caretaker interior minister. protests soon turned to pandemonium tuesday evening. the protesters enraged that the minister has ruled lebanon's powerful intelligence chief won't have to answer questions

about the blast. the massive explosion that killed more than 200 people. it's almost a year since the blast says protester melissa. where is justice? the government promised swift justice at the time, that promise like so many others proved empty. lebanon once known as the switzerland of the middle east is falling apart. for almost two years the economy has been in free fall, made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. picking up a bag of food, part of a local radio stations program to help the needy. two years ago her monthly salary was worth more than $800. now it amounts to less than $80. things were all right before, she says. we worked, we got by. but now we can't afford

anything. at a gas station just up the street people line up for hours. beirut gets at best just a few hours of electricity a day. more than 80% of families here don't have enough food to eat. while the world bank describes lebanon's economic crisis as one of the the worst the world has seen in the last 150 years. the bottom still nowhere in sight. you go to thefir pharmacy for b formula for your kid, there's none, he says. aspirin, none. days ago the prime minister here warned lebanon was days away from a social explosion. he may be right. u.s. and european diplomats have made it clear they're actually eager to provide lebanon with the aid to stop it from falling

into the abyss, but they and in fact most lebanese worry that lebanon's corrupt and incompetent political elite will simply pocket that aide, send it to switzerland and lebanon be damned. >> thank you very much for that powerful report. and thanks very much to you all for joining us. anderson starts now. >> good evening. no president should have to do what this president did today when he spoke up in defense of the right to vote and the obligation elected officials have to graciously leave office when the voters say it's time to go. after nearly 2 1/2 centuries as a functioning democracy that should obviously be a given. sadly it's not, which is what made president biden's speech today in philadelphia so significant, the fact it was even necessary. and sadly, it is. whatever else you might think of his specific legislative agenda on voting