$300 a month if their child's under 6. it will lift 40% of american kids out of poverty. it makes a big deal. i did a bunch of roundtables around ohio a couple weeks ago, and you hear these stories. first time a mother said i can send my son to a summer camp. a father said, i can buy softball equipment for my daughter to play fast pitch softball. others have said, you know, i'm anxious every month, the last week of the month just to figure out how to pay my rent. this makes a huge difference for those families, and the good part about it, don, is these families, they choose. we don't -- don lemon, sherrod brown, we don't make the decision about how they're going to spend their money. they do. and it empowers these families to launch their children and give them more opportunity as they grow up. >> empowering and transformative as it has been described by some democrats in washington. senator, ohio is a good

representation of the u.s. as a whole. it is diverse. there's urban areas, rural areas, and a fairly even distribution of both democrats and republicans. so why haven't more democrats been able to connect here, particularly statewide and in presidential elections? >> well, i think that -- i mean rather than answer it that way, don, i apologize. i'll answer it this way. i think that for the first time in a long time in either party, a president of the united states is putting workers at the center of trade policy, tax policy, wages, all that we need to do. in the past, presidents of both parties have put corporate interests front and center far too often. and i think that -- i mean i win in ohio because i talk about workers, because of the child tax credit, because of raising the minimum wage, because all the things that -- because of a trade policy that focuses on workers. and joe biden is the most pro-worker president. he talks about unions. he talks about giving workers the right to organize and

bargain collectively. we're seeing wages go up for the first time in years. for years, corporate profits have gone up. executive compensation has exploded upwards. profits have gone up. young workers' wages remain flat, and that's beginning to change now. that's the really good news about this biden economic recovery. >> yeah. i want to talk about what's going on in washington because republicans are expected, senator, to block a procedural vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill tomorrow. they say that they want more time to hash out the details, especially over how to fund it. you have been involved in some of the consultations with lawmakers. do you think that president biden's bipartisanship effort will pay off, or will the gop refuse to play ball? >> well, i hope it pays off. it's up to the republicans to continue negotiations and move on this. i mean it's the oldest trick in the book to just sort of say, we need more time, need more time, need more time. i just want to get this done. i hope it's bipartisan. if it's not, we need to go big.

and where the president's going in cincinnati, one of the biggest public works projects in the country, the bridge which crosses the ohio river in senate to kentucky, 3% of gdp crosses that bridge every day. that's essential that we fix that bridge. it's essential we invest in infrastructure. but infrastructure is not so narrowly defined that it's only highways and bridges and water and sewer systems. it's broadband. it's the child tax credit. it's education. it's health care. it's home care. it's all those things that help families building a foundation under families so kids have more opportunity and can launch into a better life. it's not just highways and bridges. it's all of those things that matter in people's lives. i just want to see us go big on all of that. i hope republicans want to go along. we will do it if they don't, but i'm hopeful that it can be bipartisan. >> you were talking about ohio.

listen, i think that these beautiful midwestern cities, these beautiful, i should say, american cities like cincinnati, like columbus, like detroit, it's always amazing to come see them and to see an old-school downtown. i was so happy to be here and to see that. but also people are getting out now, but coronavirus cases are rising in ohio. the state has fully vaccinated nearly 46% of its population, just below the rate of the whole country, senator. but the vaccine demand now is scarce. my question is are you worried about what happens if vaccinations don't pick up? >> oh, i'm very concerned. i think ohio unfortunately we've had pretty bad leadership -- really bad leadership out of the legislature. we don't invest in public health or public education. there's this sort of move from the radical right against vaccinations. i'm hopeful the most important thing in the president's visit really is to encourage people to

get vaccinated. we know we can't return to the kind of lifestyle as one writer wrote the other day, a collective exuberance that when people get together and get to celebrate and just go around, go through their normal course of affairs and the normal -- the normal mess of life, if you will. we also can't get our economy going the way we need to if people -- if people get sick, if people have to continue to isolate because so many still haven't gotten vaccinated. so i'm hopeful the message is loud and clear. i know it has been on your show, don. i know it has been throughout cnn. but it's so important that people get vaccinated so we can get back to a normal life and we can -- this economy is poised to really take off. everything's in place, but this illness continues to drag us down as a country. >> senator sherrod brown, thank you so much. i really appreciate you joining this evening.

sherrod brown, the democratic senator from ohio. you know, at six months into his presidency, the stakes could not be higher for joe biden, who will take questions from american tomorrow night at cnn's presidential town hall right here in cincinnati. i will be the moderator. the town hall taking place as the senate takes a key vote on advancing biden's massive bipartisan infrastructure plan. but tonight republicans are vowing to block the vote. the president likely to take questions on the surge in new covid-19 cases. the head of the cdc saying that the aggressive delta variant now making up 83% of all new cases as vaccination rates are stalling. and billionaire jeff bezos along with three others making a successful trip to the edge of outer space and back. bezos saying that he wants to make space travel commercially viable someday. stay tuned. i want to bring in now cnn's chief national affairs correspondent mr. jeff zeleny. thank you for joining us. it's six months in to joe biden's presidency.

he's taking questions from americans at the town hall tomorrow. but you've got the covid cases going up. the variant is out there, the delta variant. and the republicans are poised to block this vote on infrastructure. he's up against a heck of a lot. >> reporter: don, he is. he's only at the six-month mark of his presidency, which sounds early, but it's actually not that early. inside the west wing, there is a sense of urgency. talking to white house officials throughout the day and this evening, one says the clock is running. we know it, and the president certainly knows it. the reality is on a variety of fronts, there is a sense of urgency on covid-19 first and foremost, largely because of the economic impact of this. yes, it's a pandemic for the unvaccinated, but it also affects people on both sides of this divide. and the infrastructure bill you mentioned, if republicans block it tomorrow, look for the white house and the president to try to hold democrats together potentially as a plan b, putting it all in the reconciliation, the so-called reconciliation bill to keep that alive. a variety of fronts. here at home, never mind the foreign challenges with hacking and other things.

so certainly many summer challenges, like any president. it's a long, hot summer for joe biden, and the challenges are really mounting. >> speaking of infrastructure, i mean there's no greater example of how infrastructure needs to be fixed when you look at the bridge here. there's a bridge here that people are worried that they go over every day, that they're worried is going to fall down. our country is so fortunate we have these lifesaving vaccines, jeff, free and accessibility. we're heading back into this crisis now because we can't get past this political divide. you had the opportunity to talk to folks here in ohio. what do they have to say? >> don, there's no question that the vaccine hess tansy is such a challenge. i spent some time yesterday with the first ladies for health in cincinnati, a group of spouses, wives of pastors as well as the wife of the mayor, first ladies for health they call themselves. they're on the front lines of vaccine hesitancy. really my conversation with barbara lynch, she is working so

hard to try and talk people into getting vaccines. but listen to what she said here about someone in her own family. >> we've come up against a brick wall, and we're trying to figure out what we can do now to induce people to get the vaccine. i have a grandson who is not taking the vaccine, and we've preached to him and preached to him about it, but he's not taking the vaccine. >> your own grandson? >> my own grandson, yes. he believes the stuff he's seeing on the internet. >> reporter: so definitely there is a sense of misinformation out there. there is disinformation. don, what i found was a little surprising to me. it's not just on political lines. yes, there are many trump supporters, others who are not taking the vaccine. but it's more than that. a lot of young people are not taking the vaccine for a variety of reasons. one common theme, that disinformation. the white house, yes, is fighting back, but they're not necessarily listening to the white house. so that is one big challenge. >> i experienced this with my own family. there is -- look, here i am on television talking about it every night. but there is an ambivalence, a

lack of urgency for getting the vaccine. perhaps this new delta variant will change some of that, and this campaign to get rid of the disinformation from the white house, hopefully that will help as well. also tonight, i understand you're getting some information about what republicans may do next when it comes to this january 6th select committee. what are you hearing? >> we are hearing from our team on capitol hill that republicans really after one day being named to the committee, we know that kevin mccarthy really named quite an interesting group of characters, all deniers of the insurrection. they are poised to, we're learning, to muddy the waters if you will, to try and turn the tables on democrats, to say, look, this was a security issue that speaker pelosi should have solved. this was something that was her purview to keep the capitol safe. democrats are saying -- bennie thompson said, look, they're simply trying to muddy the waters. this is not going to be a committee that is going to independently look at this.

it's going to be another washington sort of drag-out fight. being out here in the country, one thing is clear. people are not interested in another food fight in washington regardless of what side you're on. but that is what sounds like is coming down the way. >> quite frankly it's a desperate attempt because it's hard to change the narrative when we have so many images coming out. >> and arrests. >> and none of them mention nancy pelosi except that they don't like her and they stuck their feet up on top of her desk. thank you very much. i want to turn now to "washington post" investigative reporter carol leonnig. so happy to have her here. she's the co-author of the explosive new book "i alone can fix it: donald j. trump's catastrophic final year." again, so good to see you again. thank you so much, carol. listen, there are so many details from your book that we need to discuss. but i want to start with today's news. trump's ally, tom barrack, arrested and charged with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the uae. you have interviewed barrack multiple times. are you surprised by these charges? >> i think in a way i am because

it's so unusual for the government to bring these kinds of cases. they're serious cases, don. make no mistake, when federal prosecutors subpoena your records, as they did with tom barrack more than a year and a half ago, it's a big deal. but the government is usually shy of bringing this kind of case, charging someone with essentially illegally lobbying. but, you know, what's interesting about tom barrack's charges and the arrest is that he's accused of basically trying to use his in with donald trump, a good friend, you know, he was basically part of the kitchen cabinet for donald trump, and he's accused of using that in to create foreign policy for his allies in the uae and also in saudi arabia. and, you know, that's not very far from what donald trump was doing himself.

he set the model. he was a believer in basically making a personal profit, a personal gain from his connections and ultimately from his role as president. >> carol, if you will, i want to get to a line in your book that really stands out to me. you said, most of trump's failings can be explained by a simple truth. he cared more about himself than the country. is this selfishness still putting the country at risk? >> you know, one of the biggest takeaways from phil rucker, my co-author, and my reporting for our book, "i alone can fix it," was this idea that so many insiders were really in panic, near panic, don, about how quickly the president would put his personal gain in front of american health, american lives,

in front of the sort of sanctity of the constitution, in front of the democracy's stability. and a lot of people could say, oh, you looked back for a year, at the final year of donald trump's presidency. that's interesting history, but it's not just interesting history. it's current events today. donald trump just recently gave a statement explaining why people don't trust the vaccine. his supporters often don't trust the vaccine. and he said they also don't trust the election, as if to equate the two, as if to say, you know, i'm pushing you on this conspiracy that i won the election and it was rigged against me, and at the same time, he's pushing and enabling people to distrust something that could save their lives. >> you and your colleague, philip rucker, interviewed trump for this book. this is what he said about the

republicans visiting mar-a-lago to kiss the ring. he said, we have had so many, so many are coming in, trump said. it's been pretty amazing. you see the numbers. they need the endorsement. i don't say this in a braggadocious way, but if they don't get the endorsement, they don't win. i don't have to tell you that a lot of people want to put trump in the rearview mirror, but that can't happen because he is still leading the republican party. they're still in thrall. he has a huge hold on them. >> you're absolutely right. i mean there is a genius in donald trump, which is his mastery of the megaphone. he really tapped into a dissatisfaction and a disaffection in a very large part of american voters, people who felt dismissed, felt the economic winds were blowing against them, felt the elitists in government were ignoring them. some of them white supremacists and nationalists as well.

but donald trump figured out what was making them mad, and he kept stoking their anger and their fear, and that's a huge problem because today the things that he says, whether they're true or not, a large segment of the population believes as if it's the bible. and it's a huge problem because, you know, you can't unhook these people from the person they trust and really adore. donald trump continues to stoke fear about the government being something that will do harm to you. he continues to sow distrust about the vaccine. and let's be clear. he is the prominent standard bearer for the republican party. if a primary were held today, he would be the republican nominee for president. >> i have to read something else that you said during that interview. i'm sure you won't mind if i continue to quote from your

book. i think it would be hard if george washington came back from the dead and chose abraham lincoln as a vice president. i think it would have been very hard for them to beat me. i mean obviously that is ridiculous. >> it's strange, and it's strained to put it lightly. many historians rank donald trump in the very bottom of effectiveness and good character as a president. however, donald trump views himself as essentially basically number one, a person who could beat george washington and abe lincoln if they were teamed up against him. he has a kind of alternate reality, and in our interview with him, it was really important for him to get those facts, his alternate facts, out to the public. i think that's why he sat down with us. you know, he said a lot of other

things, don in our interview that strained credulity. he said essentially that he thinks most of the people who were charging up capitol hill on january 6th were very loving people, that they were ushered into the building by friendly capitol police officers. he said that he believed that crowd that came out for him on january 6th at the ellipse may have stretched into as many as a million people, the largest crowd he'd ever seen, all cheering for him. none of those things are true, and yet it's important to donald trump that he repeat them. and the question becomes really, you know, how many other people are going to continue to believe this information for which there is no evidence? >> it is really interesting how he lives in a delusion and he gets other people to buy into that. it's amazing. your reporting, carol, about the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley preparing to

stop the then-president from attempting a coup, i mean it is stunning. here's what you write. you said, they may try, but they're not going to f-ing succeed, he told them. you can't do this without the military. you can't do this without the cia and the fbi. we are the guys with the guns. i mean you've been reporting for trump on years. this is your second book on him. i just spoke to you not long ago about a book that you had. but even you said it was chilling to learn that he would stop at nothing to stay in power. >> don, you said it better than i could have. but i will add one thing, which is phil and i, when we sat down with these interviews with people -- and we interviewed more than 140 senior trump advisers, friends, government officials, people with a front-row seat. and each time we sat down, we were gobsmacked by a new fact. and it was chilling to the bone to hear that generals, four-star

generals, people who had led thousands of men and women into combat, were in near panic about how they were going to block donald trump from illegally or improperly or dangerously misusing the military simply to sow chaos and fear and maintain his grasp on power, to retain his position as president. >> carol, i know we have a delay. why didn't they speak up? why didn't they say anything at the time? >> you know, we were on guard for this question about why -- we asked the same question. let me put it that way. what in the world? why did you stand by his side quietly? why didn't you object? and what we learned in our reporting was that so many individuals were either afraid of president trump and what he could do to them, or they were

afraid that if they spoke up, somebody more yes-man, somebody weaker, somebody worse would replace them in their positions. and, you know, there are moments in this book that are very striking where some of the president's most ardent supporters become fearful and disgusted with him. there is a moment very close to the heels of january 6th. it's that evening, and the white house counsel, again, pat cipollone, one of the president's most loyal and trusted advisers, threatens to resign along with his deputies because he cannot believe that he's being told they are being urged to write up pardons for the president, for two of his sons, for rudy giuliani, to protect them from the possibility that they'll be charged with inciting a riot. he cannot believe that anybody would try to do this.

so at all levels, from government officials to the most -- again, most loyal deputies, people were throwing up their hands at what donald trump was doing. >> carol leonnig, we're so happy that you're here. it has been a pleasure. thank you so much. >> thank you, don. great questions. >> thank you. the book, again, is "i alone can fix it." so the richest man on earth flying to the edge of space. what does it say about america? i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger.

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enterprise and being about this intermeshing of public and private. it's a conversation that has worked out pretty well for us. sometimes it veers to the right. sometimes it veers to the left. but it's a coherent one. one of the aspects of the last four years from 2017 to 2021 is that it was not a sequential chapter in that ongoing conversation. so, you know, i think that if i were jeff bezos, i would be a lot more careful about the messaging here. i think there are a lot of legitimate questions about what's happening on earth related to amazon, and so that's something that needs to unfold. on the other hand, it is american ingenuity and possibility. what i would hope is that it would be a sign that we can do things in this country if we can

focus. and i think you're right. there's nothing wrong with individual effort obviously. that's the fuel of capitalism. it's the fuel of what's made democracy work. but we need to make sure that everybody believes that someday they can be part of that journey, not literally to space, but the american journey and try to rebuild the engine of mobility in this country. >> you know, it's also a pivotal week for president biden's domestic agenda. he has been out trying to be mr. bipartisanship, right? but we are learning that senate republicans are expected to block wednesday's vote to advance the bipartisan infrastructure bill. if that happens, will he have to change his approach, you think? >> well, you know, bipartisan is the goal, and i think the president understands that he's been hired to govern. he's been hired to unify the

country not necessarily on specific issue after specific issue, but at least about the rules of the road. you know, let's acknowledge that the constitution, however flawed, gives us a guide to living together, and we can amend it and try to change it as we go along. but you can't have one of the two functional parties slipping into a permanent state of the denial of reality and the denial of the constitution when they don't like the result. and that's where, as currently constituted, the republican party is right now. and so i think the president knows that he won this election fairly and squarely and with, you know, a number very much in line with history and above people like truman and kennedy, nixon the first time, more than

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i don't know if you can get closer to the microphone or what, but i'm having an issue that i can't really hear you. can you hear me now, jon? can you continue to talk? >> so i should say -- >> now i can hear you. now i can hear you. [ inaudible ] and they have to repeat it again and again. and i think the story for president biden is can democracy deliver? can, in fact, this journey toward a more perfect union continue to unfold amid these elemental forces that are trying to undermine the experiment in liberty that depends on our individual habits of heart and mind. and i think that as long as he stays true to that, then that

narrative will be coherent. and he has a remarkably difficult task here, as difficult as anybody since lincoln to try to lead a country where a significant, significant minority is devoted to not just an opposing political vision, which you expect, but an opposing vision of reality that's not based on fact. >> let's talk about your podcast, "hope through history." you cover pivotal moments that have helped to shape the nation, including bloody sunday, the voting rights act. talk about that because when you see what is going on now to restrict voting rights, what gives you hope that our democracy will be accessible to everyone? you mentioned earlier that jeff bezos had to make people think that they were -- or we, as americans, had to make people think they had not just access to go to space, but access to what is essentially the american

dream. >> yeah. my sorurce of hope is that 55 years ago, we just commemorated the one-year anniversary of his death, john lewis was nearly beaten to death in the streets of america by a state-sponsored totalitarian police force. and there was, in fact, progress. and the fact that progress is being repealed means we have to redouble our efforts. history is not a straight line. it's barely a zigzag line. there are steps forward, and there are a lot of steps back. and so the hope here is founded on an awareness, the energy on the part of those who believe that the vote, that making genuine the promise of the declaration of independence available not just to some but to all, that those principles,

again, those habits of heart and mind, will become reality. and it's not a blind optimism, believe me. you know, this is a bloody, difficult, and tragic and painful history that we've lived through and are living through. but we can't give up. you know, democracies are the exception, not the rule. there's nothing foreordained about the ongoing success of the american experiment, and there are a lot of folks who wouldn't even argue that it's been a successful experiment. i disagree with that, but i understand those who see the country's history as fundamentally flawed. of course it's flawed because history is all of us, right? what is a democracy but the fullest manifestation of all of us? and so we have to do everything we can to press on.

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the more contagious delta variant of the coronavirus now makes up 83% of new cases as vaccination rates are stalling around the country. here in ohio, where president joe biden participates in cnn's town hall tomorrow night, the department of health reporting that the state seeing the highest number of new cases since may. joining me now is the medical director here in cincinnati. not even half of ohioans are vaccinated. what are you feeling? are you concerned? >> i'm very concerned. this delta variant is so incredibly infectious that i'm really worried that those unvaccinated people are all going to get it. >> what are you hearing from patients about why any of them, about why they aren't getting vaccinated? >> some are just worried that it hasn't been fully fda approved yet. for that group, i think some of them will agree to get the vaccine one it's fully fda approved. o others just don't believe in vaccines and that's a tough row

to hoe. >> what about people that work across the medical industry here? we're seeing lower vaccinate rates than expected even among health care workers and hospital workers. >> yeah. it's tough, and so we have a huge campaign going on to educate our health care workers to tell them how safe and effective the vaccine is. some of them are still concerned, but i think once we get full fda approval, most of them will agree to take it. >> the american academy of pediatrics also issued mask guidelines and a mandate really, for children, especially children in school. they are reporting that 23,000 kids caught coronavirus last week. are you seeing an uptick in younger patients? >> our pediatricians tell us they're starting to see coronavirus in the children and they're really worried about when school starts that it's going to spread pretty quickly. they're also worried that small children will have difficulty wearing masks in school, and that's going to be difficult to get them to comply. >> what symptoms are you seeing, and how sick are these children

or these teenagers? >> they have high fevers. they feel very run down, extreme fatigue. fortunately we don't see a lot of admissions to the hospital because kids usually weather it pretty well, but we really need a vaccine for children. >> the thing was during the beginning of the pandemic and really through the quarantine, most of the quarantine, parents really felt some ease because kids weren't really getting sick, right? but now you see children getting sick. what can parents do to protect -- what can we do to protect the children in our society? >> well, i think the main thing you can do is get yourself and the rest of your family vaccinated that are old enough to get a vaccine. that way you'll protect your kids. when you're out in crowds, if the children are around other unvaccinated people, they can wear masks if they want. >> there's still plenty of people who think that, well, even if you get vaccinated, you can still get covid. so then what's the need for me to get vaccinated? >> well, there are a few breakthrough cases of people who are fully vaccinated that get covid, but they get very mild

disease. we don't think they're able to transmit it very easily at all. the key thing is it keeps you from getting sick enough to go to the hospital and the icu. >> is it true this has become a disease of the unvaccinated or pandemic of the unvaccinated? >> it really is. we visually see no cases in our hospitals among vaccinated people. they're all unvaccinated that end up getting admitted. >> and your message is get vaccinated. >> get a vaccine. it's save. it's effective. it works. >> i'm so happy you're here to help give us some information on this. thank you, sir. i appreciate it. we'll be right back. it's a simple fact: nothing kills more germs on more surfaces than lysol spray. it's a simple fact: it even kills the covid-19 virus. science supports these simple facts. there's only one true lysol. lysol. what it takes to protect.

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hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm isa soares in london. just ahead, the surging delta variant has health experts ringing the alarm. is it time to hit the reset button. dozens of wildfires are scorching the american west, one so large it is changing the weather. plus this -- celebrations in wisconsin for the first time in 50 years, milwaukee