like colonial pipeline plays a 4 hadn t $5 million ransom, that adds to the resources these groups have to continue these sorts of attacks. what our new reporting is saying tonight, is after years of the federal government treating this as a nuisance, because these are not nation states, these are criminals, the biden administration is moving into a mode of treating it like the national security threat that it is. these two latest attacks sharpen the focus on that because they disrupted supplies of gasoline and potentially supplies of meat. what that means, treating it like a national security threat is it s no longs just about the fbi trying to figure out who did it, maybe indicting people in russia who will never see the inside of an american courtroom. it s about all the tools of the national security state going after this problem. that means intelligence agencies collecting on these criminals, and it potentially means u.s. cybercommand, america s military
a seven-day average of u.s. covid deaths is now at the lowest level since march 29th of last year. 600,000 americans have died since the pandemic began. and the virus continues to produce misery and death day after day, around the world. here is an example. last month, 31% of covid deaths worldwide came from latin america and the caribbean, even though it only has 8.4% of the world s population. india, alone, lost almost 120,000 people to the virus, just in may. that is the deadliest month any nation has seen since the start of the pandemic. and all that happened, while we have incredibly safe and effective vaccines. we have, both, the ability and the responsibility to do everything we can to vaccinate the world. as of three weeks ago, the total number of vaccines shipped abroad from the u.s. was abysmally low compared to other countries. only, about 3 million doses. you see that export? the yellow? see how you can t see the bar there? yeah. that s us.
jacob is a business reporter at the washington post who broke the news the postmaster general s investigation today and he joins me, now. jacob, what do we know about the scope of this investigation? how long it s ongoing? and where it s at? what we know is that these people, these current and former employees of dejoy s former company, have been interviewed in the past about two weeks to ten days. and that the postmaster general s personal spokesperson confirmed to us, this morning, that he had been personally contacted by the fbi. that takes this investigation, from covert. so keeping him under wraps. to overt. just asking people, in broad daylight. and then, the fact that they have subpoenaed the postmaster general tells us just how far along they have gotten and what they think they found. it was striking when the news broke today, we went back to look at the august reporting and that jim cooper exchange. i mean, these allegations weren t hiding anywhere. they were published
something happened for the benefit of the country and did not get any republicans to vote for it. we couldn t get them to vote for the the affordable care act. should we have just left that out because we couldn t get bipartisan support? come on, joe manchin, let s get real. congressman james clyburn, joining us on the phone. of course, member of house leadership. represents district in south carolina. congressman, thank you so much for your time tonight. well, thank you very much for having me. all right. i want to bring in former democratic senator doug jones of alabama. senator, i wanted to talk to you because i thought, well, you have got an interesting perspective. when you were in that senate caucus, you were in a very sort of small category of senate democrats representing states that, you know, republicans carry by 20 or 30 points. from that perch and from that experience, what do you make of the question, now, the sort of fork in the road for democrats?
been reporting and my colleagues have been reporting for months before that on end. to try to nail that down. and and so, you know, that s why we were so enthusiastic about being able to do our job and do the work that that this requires and to take it a step further today. and unearth that the fbi s been looking into it, as well. jacob, great reporting. great reporting then, great reporting now. it s a moving story. we will have you back to update us. thanks a lot. thanks, chris. all right. next, a new investigation into congressman matt gaetz. on whether he obstructed justice. gosh, the fbi is busy, aren t they? when he spoke to a witness connected to his sex-trafficking investigation. that the details on that, after this. details on that, after this