that does it for me. the rachel maddow show with my friendally velshi in for rachel is next. normally i m handing off to you. it s like you ve moved to the other side of the street. nice of you. have a good evening. have a great show. thanks for joining us. rachel has the night off, and i hope you had a great and restful fourth of july weekend even though it was a little weird this weekend. hard to rejoin normal life after a long weekend. it s hard to return to work after a little time away, especially if you know that there s some project or issue at work that you re going to have to deal with as soon as you get back. for instance, say you re a democratic lawmaker returning to capitol hill today for the first time since president biden s debate performance sent the democratic party into a panic. here s nbc news audio of the moment that the senate democratic leader chuck schumer arrived at capitol hill this afternoon. you ll note that he doesn t let the waiting re
thank you for watching, it is great to be back with you. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off xishgs hope you had a great and restful fourth of july weekend, even though it was a little weird this weekend. hard to rejoin normal life after a long weekend. hard to return to work after a little time away, especially if you know that there s some project or issue at work that you re going to have to deal with as soon as you get back. for instance, say you re a democratic lawmaker returning to capitol hill today for the first time since president biden s debate performance sent the democratic party into a panic. here s nbc news audio of the moment that the senate democratic leader, chuck schumer, arrived at capitol hill this afternoon. you ll note that he doesn t even let t
that does it for me. the rachel maddow show with my friend ali velshi in for rachel is next. nice to be on the other side of it. normally i m handing off to you. i know. it s like you ve moved to the other side of the street. nice of you. have a good evening. have a great show. thanks for joining us. rachel has the night off, and i hope you had a great and restful fourth of july weekend even though it was a little weird this weekend. hard to rejoin normal life after a long weekend. it s hard to return to work after a little time away, especially if you know that there s some project or issue at work that you re going to have to deal with as soon as you get back. for instance, say you re a democratic lawmaker returning to capitol hill today for the first time since president biden s debate performance sent the democratic party into a panic. here s nbc news audio of the moment that the senate democratic leader chuck schumer arrived at capitol hill this afternoon. yo
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day. that is a 40% jump over just last month. most of them are the delta variant, but omicron is right on the heels. that variant is highly transmissible and it spreads a lot faster than the delta variant. pay attention to this dire warning tonight about omicron. it s from michael osterholm. you ve seen him here on this program, one of the nation s leading infectious disease experts. i think we re really just about to experience a viral blizzard. if you look at what s happened in south africa, in europe, i think in the next 3 to 8 weeks we re going to see millions of americans are going to be infected with this virus, and that will be overlaid on top of delta. and we re not yet sure how exactly that is going to work out. millions more infected with the virus, but will that lead to more hospitalizations, even deaths? let s hope not. so far the cases seem to be milder than even the delta variant, the ones from omicron. president joe biden meeting with his covid advisers thi