people who are here, there haven t been these outbreaks, and organizers of the events say really largely that has to do with the percentage of people in the bubble who are vaccinated. those numbers are between 70% and 80%. that includes athletes, organizers, media, all of it. it ends up being in an interesting kind of way this case study of how a highly vaccinated population deals with the delta variant or, you know, any kind of virus spreading rapidly. so it will be a success, i think, viewed by organizers and something that they take with them to beijing for the winter olympics, jonathan. stephanie, you led me to my last question. it s hard to believe sunday is closing ceremonies, but it s even harder to believe in six months we ll be doing it again for the winter games in beijing. quickly, what lessons do you think the olympics takes from tokyo? reporter: one of the big issues back to the topic of vaccination, there wasn t a
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be? it s really been a democratic proposition. we ve had kind of the beginnings of hearings hearing from the police that were there on the ground. but we re going into august recess, so i wouldn t expect for the next couple of weeks we re going to hear more details, but certainly the work continues. they re staffing up. i expect in september we re going to hear more. they re going to have a regular drumbeat in the investigation of what happened, and the real question, what s going to happen with the calling of former trump officials, will the former trump administration say there s white house executive privilege or not? these things are still being debated and something we re still covering closely. anna palmer of punch bowl, thank you so much. still ahead, the accomplishment of a diver. way too early is back on this friday in a moment. way too early is back on this friday in a moment
time since president biden took office coronavirus cases going up. and some republicans are pointing to it and questioning his leadership. and poll numbers suggest that americans, their view of how he s handled the pandemic has slipped a little. how effective do you think this could be as a campaign issue for republicans, considering it s largely republican voters in red states that are unvaccinated and leading to the rising cases? there has been slippage for biden on this issue but relatively stable approval ratings across the board. and there is republicans saying you inherited a situation you had the vaccine, you had to go administer it you only got so far. that was only so fair, there was a chaotic situation he inherited, the vaccine situation was a mess from the reporting we had about it. but the question is does that affect him politically that they
lived in because he is governor cuomo is not only just a powerful governor. he is someone who s very vindictive. so, susan, we were talking about earlier how possible the scandal and possible impeachment proceedings, how they could impact the state s ability to do its business with the governor in the spotlight like that. i asked white house press secretary jen psaki if the white house still had confidence in him leading the state in the pandemic. what do you think? is this something that s going to potentially harm the citizens of new york state and getting the government and services they need while this takes place over the coming weeks and months? jonathan, that s a great question. yes, governor cuomo knew how to act. he knew where all the levers of government operated. for example, one of the big