capitol, by leaving the state, so they re beyond the reach of texas law enforcement, these democrats are preventing a quorum in the state legislature back home, which means that in very practical terms they re preventing texas republicans from passing draconian new voting restrictions. at least for now. they could have gone anywhere outside of texas. they chose to come to washington, d.c. specifically to ask for federal help, to ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on voting rights that no state can fall below. that of course is the idea behind the for the people act. the for the people act is busy not passing the united states senate right now. basically because of one conservative democratic senator named joe manchin. the texas democrats have met with him directly. they have met with other senators as well. they ve met with white house officials up to and include the vice president kamala harris. these texas democrats are away from their families, away fro
too early for us. and former aid to the george w. bush white house, elise jordan and also katty kay on the way this morning. in the united states covid cases are on the rise again driven up in increases in places with low vaccination rates. and now the former surgeon general is suggesting the cdc should once again ask everyone to mask up indoors. nbc news correspondent kathy park explains. reporter: no signs of covid backing down. in los angeles county a 700% increase in positive cases in just the last month as masks go back on while indoors. i think better safe than sorry for sure. reporter: former surgeon general on mask weighing, the premature guidance was wrong. the cdc should be advising to vax it and mask it. the current surgeon general defended the cdc s decision on masks for the fully vaccinated. they gave communities and individuals a flexibility to make decisions about what to do with masks. reporter: across america, cases rising in all 50 states some hi
resistance to vaccines. this is an american tragedy. people are dying. they will die. they do not have to die though. if you are out there unvaccinated, you don t have to die. the administration is now confronted with the reality that it has worked to stopread d potentially face a major setback. today, the president acknafct millions. it s time to impose requirements on key groups. every federal in government employee will be asked to attest to their vast skin nation vaccination status. anyone who doesn t a test, they will be required to mask, no matter where they work. test one or two times a week. if in fact you are unvaccinated, you present a problem to yourself, to your family, and to those with whom you work. tonight, the pentagon says it will also impose the same rules on all military and civilian personnel. president biden added that the justice department says it is for local communities and businesses to require vaccines. several major companies have alread
among nats fans they they don t pay the way they should. but we ll take it, charles schwabber. he is on the injured list and probably will be for a couple more weeks. that s as seen by the sox as an effort to match what the yankees have done, picking up gal low and rizzo. but the big trade not official yet, but rumors the nats are close to sending max scherzer and tray turner both of them to an already loaded dodgers team. that s going to be tough. going to be very tough. we ll see what happens. hopefully the red sox will do better than last night. but the red sox, it was the red sox and the yankees last night, lost by a combined like 27-1, something like that. so better days ahead. let s hope. yeah, let s hope. let s get to the headlines this morning. faced with a surging number of coronavirus cases, president biden has announced sweeping new requirements for millions of federal workers. under the new policy, federal government employees and members of the military wil
right now, announced the president of the united states. by attempting to pass laws requiring voters to show i.d. when they vote, republicans are risking permanent internal division as well as violent conflict. think we are overstating? here s what he said. president biden: there s an unfolding assault taking place in america today, and attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections. we are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. that s not hyperbole. since the civil war. tucker: the civil war? sound overheated to you? joe biden would like you to know this is not hyperbole. voter i.d. laws are literally like the civil war. that is habeas corpus suspended, state legislatures shut down, hundreds of thousands of americans dead in fields. that was the civil war. biden made it clear that s what he meant. he said it twice. one was the last time a sitting american president gave a speech like this? well, probably not s