first, we are going to talk about new bombshell reporting from a new book on donald trump s final weeks in office. this one is pretty crazy, because it s donald trump and members of his administration who were concerned he might spark a war in order to try and stay in office. we will get to that. we begin tonight with the california recall election. results are coming in very shortly. polls actually close a little later on this hour. we are going to get to exit polling information that we have available. we will get to that as well. this is actually the sixth time that gavin newsom was trying to be recalled. apparently, that is a theme on the right. of course, the other theme that they have been working on is the idea that they can t lose elections. when they lose elections, they actually still win. they win elections whether or not they actually are counted the winner in the results. we will talk about that tonight. i want to go ahead and bring in our panel. karen bass, a
significant. and this call for schools to implement regular testing. talk us through what you re hearing from sources. reporter: hallie, obviously, this is shaping up to be a pretty significant speech from the president after a summer in which he had hoped we would be looking at the downslope of the covid-19 pandemic and focus on other issues, but instead the delta variant changed those plans. white house officials are casting this speech as sort of everything they ve been trying to do, but bigger and bolder. one of those specifically already has to do with something the president himself did a couple of months ago. we talked about in july when the president ordered federal agencies to require a vaccine requirement on their staff or give them an option short of a vaccine of doing regular attestation of their negative status from covid-19. what the president is expected to do today sign an executive order, directing those federal agencies to give up that second option. yo
right now in geneva we are about to get an update from the officials at the world health organization, you re looking at live, covid will mutate like the flu and is probably here to stay. president biden getting a briefing from his pandemic response team in a matter of hours before his big speech tomorrow on that topic. new details from our team there, and on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, house speaker nancy pelosi expected to take to that microphone any minute now the democratic to do list looking long. we ll bring you the head lines as they happen. good morning i m hallie jackson in washington along with our news team, cal perry in kentucky, shannon pettypiece at the white house to start us off. cal as we follow the court hearing in florida where the governor is fighting against school mask mandates the governor of kentucky is in a fight in his state where you are to keep them in place. the stories mirror each other and shows you where we are as a country when it
an eye on that stop with you so if you keep pictures of the president, that s what we re watching. but we re going to start today with the republican party s full embrace of extremist policy views that completely ignore the views and priorities of a majority of texans. today it s voting restrictions, fueled by fears of voter fraud, even though texas investigated the 2020 election result and found no fraud. no fraud in any of the measures they today banned. but facts be damned. governor abbott this afternoon signed into law a restrictive voting bill that democrats in the statehouse held up for weeks. many of them fleeing to washington, d.c., to rally support for federal legislation. the voting restriction law now set to take effect in texas, targets ballot access measures disproportionately used and needed by voters of color. procedures particularly popular in harris county, that s home to the democratic stronghold of houston. the new law will also make it much more difficult
department warning as many as 15,000 americans stuck in taliban country they can t ensure safe passage to get them to the kabul airport and fly them out? you must demand that the mightiest force on the planet does not surrender its own to this kind of fate from a bunch of zealot thugs. [ gunfire ] that s what you want your countrymen to surrender to? the state department should not be warning the desperate. the warning is a desperate one to the state department and this administration. you had been do what you have to to get americans out. what does this country stand for, if not committing completely to protecting its own? another bad sign, the administration seems to be allowing the taliban to dictate terms here. we re going to get everyone that we can possibly evacuate evacuated. and i ll do that as long as we possibly can until the clock runs out or we run out of capability. we will get out as many as possible. clock runs out when you say it runs out. and as many