schools? and they always have excuses for all this. it could be health. it could be for the god of the community it could be for the good of the community, whatever it is. whatever happened to individual liberty. who even talks about individual liberty or the declaration or inalienable rights? what kind of country are we turning into? we ve been warned about soft tyranny. ladies and gentlemen, we re surrounded by soft tyranny, and it is getting increasingly more aggressive. you see the demands when it comes to vaccines. you see bureaucrats shutting down businesses? you see bureaucrats of the cdc telling landlords that they can t collect rent as they go broke? you see a president of the united states defying a supreme court ruling that says those bureaucrats don t have that authority? you see a president of the united states opening our borders wide to individuals, many of whom have the virus, are criminals, are ms 13 and you name it, and he could care less that he s doing t
good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, i m john berman with brianna keilar. it is friday, august 13th. and overnight, a major announcement from the fda that will have a direct impact on millions of americans. authorization of a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine. so, it s not for everyone yet. just the immunocompromised for now. the ruling comes as hospitals grow increasingly overwhelmed. nearly 80,000 americans are hospitalized with covid this morning, that s the highest number in six months. half of all covid patients are in these eight states, even though they account for only a quarter of the nation s population. one of those states, mississippi, is seeing its highest hospitalsization numbers ever. republican governor is extending a state of emergency but says there will be no lockdowns or mask mandates. florida governor ron desantis is deploying a rapid response team to fight but is still banning mask mandates and cracking down on
week alone. we can expect a flood of vaccine mandates once they get full approval, at least dr. fauci thinking so. we ll have reaction from dr. thomas friedan, who joins us alive. more than 700,000 bikers descending on a small mountain town. we ll have a report from day three of sturgis. so far out and so high up, you can see the smoke from space. it s been pushing to denver, which now has some of the world air quality in the world. we do say good morning, everybody. it is sunday, august 8th. i m kendis gibson. and i m lindsey reiser. the closing ceremonies are beginning. it s been quite a games. normally that stadium would seat about 70,000 people. it s relatively empty as for protocols there in tokyo. what a couple weeks it s been. we ll have a live report from tokyo as the festivities get underway. we ll see what sort of fireworks we can see. we have a team of reports and analysts fooling the latest news from florida to south dakota. first, a painful sense of
from boston. eventually they ruled in his favor. but that boston accent is later in the hour. i always watch rachel s show and you are showing my sweatpants with my mommy water, and i have to, obviously, get through this show in a different way. but i m racing upstairs to change into sweatpants and watch your show with my mommy water in hand, all those box in boston accents. thank you nikole. thank you. senate majority leader chuck schumer just told the senate that he would be working on saturday to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. there remains a slight possibility that senator schumer will be able to get unanimous consent, to vote on final passage of the bill as early as tonight. but that would require mitch mcconnell s full cooperation and last night on the floor of the senate, rob portman, usually closely aligned with mcconnell, put public pressure on mcconnell on an important bridge that joins their two states, ohio and kentucky. the bryant s pence bridge, it
mayor of boston now labor secretary is going to join us tonight and i might slip a little. my boston accent might crack. there s another very special boston accent we ll hear later in the hour and that is my father, who i wish was still with us to hear this. a 1963 recording of him arguing a case, an important case in the united states supreme court. when i was listening to it today trying to find something the audience would understand because of his boston accent i felt so bad for chief justice earl warren and william o douglas and all of those people sitting up there trying to understand this guy from boston. eventually they ruled in his favor but that boston accent is later in the hour. i always watch rachel s show and your show in my sweat pants with my mommy water and i had to obviously get through this show in a different way but i am racing upstairs to change into sweat pants and watch your show and all the boston accents with my mommy water in hand. i can t wait.