A very happy political saturday night, everyone. Welcome to our very special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary, im chris hayes. Im joined tonight by my colleague, rachel maddow, and my colleague, joy reid, here with me at this table here, lawrence odonnell, 70 role, alex wagner, and ari melber. Weve got a whole gang together. Across several different locations. Polls will close in South Carolina in just about half an hour. At seven eastern. Coming up, were going to hear from Steve Kornacki, out of course, the big board. We will also hear from South Carolina voters out in the field, we have a lot to get to over the next few hours, in what has been a crazy last 48 hours of news. This Republican Primary tonight, of course, brings us back to the home state of one, nikki haley, where she was twice elected governor, at high Approval Ratings as such. It also brings us the moment where donald trump hoped to basically end this thing. To close the race out and consolidate his con
A very happy political saturday night, everyone. Welcome to our very special coverage of the South Carolina Republican Primary, im chris hayes. Im joined tonight by my colleague, rachel maddow, and my colleague, joy reid, here with me at this table here, lawrence odonnell, 70 role, alex wagner, and ari melber. Weve got a whole gang together. Across several different locations. Polls will close in South Carolina in just about half an hour. At seven eastern. Coming up, were going to hear from Steve Kornacki, out of course, the big board. We will also hear from South Carolina voters out in the field, we have a lot to get to over the next few hours, in what has been a crazy last 48 hours of news. This Republican Primary tonight, of course, brings us back to the home state of one, nikki haley, where she was twice elected governor, at high Approval Ratings as such. It also brings us the moment where donald trump hoped to basically end this thing. To close the race out and consolidate his con
i had a little bit with him tonight. you guys are playing it too safe. and this is a balancing test. okay, there are going to be cases, but the vaccine, the rate of vaccine, who we ve gotten vaccinated already, the fact that there is an increase in masks, messaging has been working with trump out of the way, not all surges are the same. and you have to balance that against the depression to the economy, the depression to our way of life of just straight up depression, and you re playing it too safe. how better safe than sorry. i don t believe in this playing it too safe. i agree with you. but i m saying here s the argument you could make. oh, got it. is you re playing it too safe. give me a vaccine passport. i want to be able to go and businesses say the vaccinated only. so don and chris get vaccinated and now we can go to dinner. how about what the president said, give me a patriot passport, give me a better countryman passport, an american passport that says we sh
welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. the u.s. will cross 100 million vaccine shots since joe biden s inaug inauguration. that s 42 days ahead of the biden pledge. the u.s. is averaging 2.5 million coronavirus vaccines a day with 35% of americans partially or fully vaccinated. now, there are plenty of folks that noted that 100 million was a very low bar to begin with, but if you do the math going forward, at the pace we re going, we ll cross 200 million vaccinations within the first 100 days, and honestly, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone that optimistic. but and this is hugely important there is concern this morning the u.s. may be on the verge of a new surge. the drop in hospitalizations, i want you to look at that graph. you can see it was going down steeply for weeks and weeks and weeks, but that decline has stopped. it s completely stalled right now. hospitalizations static and may be ticking up slight
testing. it s going to help us accelerate our nationwide effort to reopen schools safely. last week i directed all states, tribes and territories to make all adults eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. while this is a time of optimism, it s not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part. wash your hands, stay socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc and get vaccinated when it s your turn. none of this is political. it s all science based. but now is not the time to let our guard down. that is science based as well. in the last week we ve seen increases in the number of cases in several states. things may get worse as new variants of the virus spread. that s why we need to vaccinate as many people as quickly as we possibly can, because the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants. we have to beat this virus. we have to and we will, but we ll do it by setting aside politics and embracing science. another s