yeah, you know, we don t talk about mental health enough, but we also seem to have as a society a sense of like ownership over some of these athletes. and i think it s really unfair. but behind the scenes, there s often a lot more going on. and you have to wonder. and i have no idea. did were they able to actually help her at these appearances? did she get any support or training? you know, was she forced to kind of endure dozens of questions at a time? i actually was behind the scenes with the women s soccer team after they won the world cup there and, you know, they came to city hall in new york, it was really a great day. we had a ticker tape parade for them. but they came with minders. and, you know, we had just ordinary kids and women and young women coming to them, can you sign my soccer ball, and
you can let life interrupt you a little bit and you can come back. i thought her message was very clear, very poignant and a great example in many ways. you know, it is we just don t talk about mental health enough in this country and we haven t for a long time. not just in this country, but across the world. it s something that people have started to talk to. i think the pandemic has brought us a lot closer to addressing it more straightforward and head-on, which we ve been trying to do on this show. and i know other shows have been trying to do it as with pel. we just assume fans just assume. somebody decides they want to go into a sport and they make a lot of money from that sport, they win a lot of trophies, they get a lot of fame. they re superstars. and so many people are like, you owe it to me to do the press conference. you owe it to me for this, owe
is an msnbc contributor. ana, good to see you this morning. it took this last-straw stunt for democrats to walk out and deny republicans a quorum to stop the bill for now at least in the state of texas. what is happening in the congress, though, on capitol hill in terms of voting rights. what s the future of these pieces of legislation? i think jonathan laid that out pretty well. but basically, we re all looking to july. chuck schumer has said, that is when he plans to bring hr-1, this kind of massive bill that would deal with a lot of the voting rights issues at the federal level that we ve seen crop up in many of these different states where conservative legislations are trying to peel back some of the voting rights, at this point, there is no support in the republican party, in the senate, to try to kind of forge some kind of agreement on this voting rights act, that schumer is going to try to force a vote on at the end of july. the question is really going to be, i think, is this
crow segregation, and the thing about it, the thing that perhaps younger people don t remember, but what we choose to remember, tulsa is an example of history that a lot of people didn t know, because it certainly wasn t tulsa was not taught in the schools when i was growing up, what happened in tulsa 100 years ago. and if you dig just a little deeper, you see that tulsa was not a one-off. tulsa was part of a pattern of these violent, deadly, white riots against almost black prosperity and advancement,
this country where vaccination rates are low. where there isn t as much immunity in the population. you have the potential for outbreaks, particularly in the south, as we get into the warm summer months, like we saw last summer, where we saw epidemics in places like phoenix, houston, and miami. you have some of those cities where vaccination rates are lower. there is some risk. but tony is probably thinking about the variants and the propensity for this virus to form new variants that could pierce some of the immunity that we ve acquired. that s a risk for the future. we are seeing variants around the world that seem more contagious. but right now based on the evidence that we have, so far the vaccine seems to cover the new variants that have arisen quite well. we haven t seen a situation where we lost the vaccine to one of these new variants. that risk is always out there, we re consequencing a lot of samples right now. so we ll have time to pivot and get a new vaccine into the market