Time someone told me this package is dead, i would be a rich person. It was dead back in may. It was dea in june. It was dead in july again. All ive heard is how its dead and yet amazingly, it continues to advance. New polling from the Washington Post and Abc News shows Vaccine Hesitancy has gone down in the wake of the Delta Surge with the percent of americans likely or less likely to get a covid shot now. Just about half of what it was in january. It also comes as president Bidens Approval Rating has dropped. Thats down about 10 points since june. Senior adviser to the president reacting this morning. Were not worried about Poll Number numbers. Were worried about the people in louisiana and New York and nj nmg. This has never been a president who worried about himself. He really worries about thE Country. Lets go to heidi at the White House for us. Heidi, welcome to you. Is the White House concerned that when extended Unemployment Benefits end, it will hurt the economy . Reporter the
Troubling new rise in coronavirus cases. Hospitalizations and deaths across the country. New cases up almost 70 compared to last week as the u. S. Sur passed 34 Million total infections. Covid hospitalizations up 36 this week. Deaths up by 22 . A new warning from Cdc Director calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated. As the Delta Variant drives up cases in every state. Just 68 of american adults gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. Less than half of the total population is fully vaccinated. The Los Angeles County sheriff says he will not enforce a new Mask Mandate requiring residents to wear a mask indoors regardless of vaccination status. And then in tokyo the first Covid Case in the Olympic Village is reported days before the games begin. Officials say the person infected is not a Player But Someone involved in organizing the games and now in a 14day quarantine. On the covid beat this hour, Cory Coffin from New York and Josh Letterman at the White House for us. Ladies first. T
U. S. Since the pandemic began. Crowds packing beaches, and airports today, well have more on that. Just ahead, but first we begin in texas, where the war on voting is taking a surprising turn. Democrats staging a walkout during a legislative session last night. That stopped a controversial Gop Voting Bill from becoming law, for now at least, known as Senate Bill 7, it would ban some mailin applications, it would reduce voting hours, it would stop drivethrough voting all together, among other things that it does. Republicans are still going to press forward, they say, they can now have a Special Session that Governor Greg Abbott says will happen. I asked a democratic state senator, a lawmaker there last hour, why her party did this. We delayed a Bullet Train to suppression, to voter suppression, and it was important to delay it so that we can we can shine some light on what this leadership is doing. So, yes, inevitably we are going into a special suppression session. But everyone will
easier for eligible voters to register to vote and improve access to voting. every eligible voter should be able to vote and have that vote counted. on this victory lap of a weekend for president biden, he s letting his actions provide the encouragement to a nation looking to a much brighter spring and future. fresh from his big legislative win yesterday on covid relief, new poll numbers from abc news show nearly 70% of americans approve of his response to the pandemic. including most independent voters and more than a third of republicans. this morning, the president was at the white house marking the anniversary of bloody sunday, and attacking the current flood of voter suppression bills from republicans with a historic executive order to protect voting rights. it s a poetic end to a week in which the absence of the late john lewis was especially felt both in congress where his own signature voting legislation was passed, and of course, today as we joined the president in
this morning democrats are looking to go at it alone while republicans are looking for bipartisan. let s make it bipartisan. covid relief has never been a partisan issue. over the last year we passed five bills with overwhelming bipartisan margins. there are a bunch of us republican, i was one of the ten republicans who went to see the president a few weeks ago and said let s negotiate. we have done this five times before. question do it again. the question should be, why we re having a lard time with getting the covid done bipartisanly in the congress. the u.s. officially proving a third vaccine. to ship four million doses of their single shot vaccine as soon as arms as soon as tuesday. we re talk about the reports they have been agonizing over how to keep imon script. what are the expectations for that. reporter: this is the tug of war in trump hold. as long as i ve been covering him, we have seen the push and pull of advisers that want him to stick to the script ve