fame. she turned down a proposal to build a statue of her at the tennessee state capital last year, after revealing she turned down the presidential medal of freedom, not once, but twice. and on a night when we note the million people lost to covid, please remember dolly parton, the queen herself, she donated 1 million dollars to moderna s vaccine efforts. she is the one who has encouraged everyone to get the shot. tonight in her statement, thanking the rocky she said, quote, i will continue to work hard, and try to live up to the honor. well it is an honor to get to speak about her tonight. on that note, i wish you all a very good night, and from all of our colleagues across the networks that nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. d of tomorrow
dolly parton. remember back in march when dolly said she was respectfully bowing out of the running, for fear of costing another artist their spot, she explained she was extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated, but didn t feel she earned the right because she doesn t do rock and roll. well today, dolly said she decided to accept the honor because it is the fans who vote. dolly already has plenty of awards, including two grammys, and in 1999 she was inducted into the country music hall of fame. she turned down a proposal to build a statue of her at the tennessee state capital last year, after revealing she turned down the presidential medal of freedom, not once, but twice. and on a night when we note the million people lost to covid, please remember dolly parton, the queen herself, she donated 1 million dollars to moderna s vaccine efforts. she is the one who has encouraged everyone to get the shot.
population are vaccinated. this is shameful. we know we can do more to assist the international vaccine efforts and what is the government doing about this? if we re going to break this endless cycle of new variants, we have to vaccinate the world. this is notjust a question of doing the right thing for other, it is in our national interest as well. finally, there are conservative members sat behind the prime minister who have spent recent weeks attacking hard working public servants. isn t it time that the prime minister stood by our experts, professionals and officials that doing all they can to protect public health? if he was happy to protect dominic cummings, the former health secretary and owen paterson, why won t he defend those public servants who are actually doing the right thing? mr servants who are actually doing the rihht thin? ~ ,,, ., ~ right thing? mr speaker, when it comes to attacking right thing? mr speaker, when itj comes to attacking hard-working comes to attacki
of experience in politics legislating needed a call from a former president is beyond me. ainsley: jen psaki enemy gay ways does a good job trying to defend him. she is writing things like this. but it s just he entered she writes he entered the office in a time of chaos with a pandemic at its most deadly peak. steve: that s true. ainsley: unprecedented vaccine efforts. more people have died from covid under joe biden. the vaccines don t prevent covid. he promise nod vaccine mandates at the beginning of the year. well, that didn t be happen. now we know that he was requiring the vaccines for large companies and for healthcare workers. she says americans have seen higher wages but that doesn t really matter unless you are making 7 cents on the dollar more because inflation. bills have gone up. steve: statistically they are all true. but it doesn t feel like it. that s to the point of the fox poll. 60% of those responding would like to vote for somebody else. because, you know,
jews will not replace us. but anti-semitism affects our politics in more subtle ways. online conspiracy theories like qanon tapped into themes. that s in addition to the negative obsessions with george soros, fox news or marjorie taylor greene s belief that space lasers called wildfires. the repeated nazi comparisons directed by republicans at covid vaccine efforts, sometimes it can be hard to know whether to laugh or cry. all of this comes at a time of increased fatality from domestic violent extremist incidents and things like the recent bomb th threats. and it is because the haters seem so emboleldened these days