Today Joe Biden makes a final Campaign Pitch for the California Governor. Voters decide if Gavin Newsom stays or goes and even before the votes are counted, the top republican insists outcome is rigged. And former President Donald Trump spends the day, many are clearly worried a 2024 run would bring another defeat. We begin the hour, though, with the covid crisis and the nations biggest backtoschool challenge. New York City today, right now, 1 Million students back in the classroom for fulltime Inperson Learning. This as experts say there is hope vaccines will be authorized for Kids Age 5 to 11 by halloween. There is a Vaccine Mandate for teachers in new york, but the deadline is not by today. Polo sandoval is tracking this very Big Day for us in new York City. Polo. Reporter john, good afternoon to you, those students are well into the first days of classes. Some parents did decided to take the citys offer up on sending their children to school for Inperson Learning in the last semest
Sonia sotomayor called the Courts Order stunning. But while the Texas Law and the Courts Decision might have stunned us with this brazenness, we cannot be surprised. The current court with five of its nine members appointed by republican president s who did not win the popular vote. While theyve shown Nothing But Disdain for the fundamental rights of americas most marginalized people, this court has continuously disregarded not just the right to choose but also the Singlemost Right of citizens in a socalled democracy. The right to vote and choose their own leaders. The two are inextricably in connected. Both fundamental issues about the right to selfdetermination. In a truly free society, people should get to decide whether and when to become parents without interference from the government. Just as we should have guaranteed access to the Ballot Box without fear of intimidation, suppression, or retaliation. Thats why we marched on the capitol last saturday, last week today. And why we
Starting with several antigovernment comments he made on facebook live during his standoff with police today. And, of course, No Matter What his motive is, this underscores the ongoing danger faced by u. S. Capitol police in the months since January 6th and the urgency of another Brand New Dhs Bulletin released just late last week that warned of a heightened threat of domestic terrorism. It is against that backdrop that Todays Incident played out among the police and residents of Capitol Hill. We start with some of our most favorite reporters and friends on this breaking news story. Nbc News Investigation Correspondent Tom Winter, Capitol Hill Correspondent Garrett Haake is here for us, near the site of the Bomb Threat, and former Fbi Assistant Director for Counterintelligence And Msnbc national security analyst, and our friend, former senior aide to Mike Pence and director of the accountability project. Tom winter, take me through all of nbcs reporting. I know a lot of it is Pete Will
Country. The united states officials telling Fox News that the taliban is now just 30 miles from kabul, and that city, the countrys largest, could be seized as soon as tomorrow. Remember, just yesterday and the day before they were saying about 30 days until they would reach kabul. Now they are saying tomorrow. So that is a devastating reality. There are reports that inside the u. S. Embassy a tenner has changed dramatically. Youve got staff they are preparing to begin withdrawal measures, which would include, by standard procedure, beginning to shred the documents, destroy the computers, all of that. Part of the shocking but necessary move, given what is happening at a breathtaking pace right now in afghanistan. Moments ago we were all watching together as the pentagon was asked if it is alarmed by the shift the quick change, i should say, and what has gone on here. Watch this. We have noted with great concern the speed with which they have been moving, and the lack of resistance that
This is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the Afacts Attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former President Trump. Our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. Lets start on Capitol Hill. What more do we know about the Opening Statements . The Opening Statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four Police Officers, two Capitol Police officers, two d. C. Police officers who defended the building that day throughout the days testimony will be neverbeforeseen footage, Body Camera Footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. Pushed back on the conspiracies about were hearing from a lot of folks on the