Spreading conspiracy theories now at odds. Why? let s go outfront. Good evening. I m erin burnett. The breaking news, president biden just telling reporters that new covid restrictions are lik likely. Should americans expect more. [ inaudible ] in all probability. By the way, we had a good day yesterday. Almost 1 million people got vaccinated. Well, on that last note, the best tool we have in this frightening and uncertain situation is the vaccine but biden s words about in all likelihood new restrictions comes as information is turning crucial things we were told about covid upside down. The cdc revealing tonight 74% of covid cases in massachusetts home to province town where there was a recent outbreak were found in people who were fully vaccinated and they say now the vaccinated are just as likely to spread the virus as those not vaccinated and that of course, is contrary to what was widely known. In rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with the delta variant after vaccin
Members of the state legislature are trying to pass. 21st century jim crow assault is real. It s unrelenting. Wear going to challenge it vigorously. While while this broad assault against voting rights is not unprecedented, it s taking on aec new and literally pernicious forms. It s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It s about who gets to count the vote. Who gets to count whether or not your vote countedun at all. It s about moving from independent election administerors who work for the people, to polarize state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. To me this is simple. This is election subversion. It s the most dangerous threat to voting in our history. Never before have they decide who had gets to count count what votes count. Some state legislators want to make it harder for you to vote. If you vote, they want to tell you that your vote doesn t count for any reason they make up. They want to reject the
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I want to start with the news out of texas. Nbc s ali vitali has been following all of the twists and turns from d. C. Ali i. What is going on? steph, they killed the bill but only for now. By walking off the floor last night, they made it so there weren t enough lawmakers present in order to actually vote on this bill before the midnight deadline but this only bought democrats time. As you said, the governor is stepping in and we heard from lawmakers last night this was one of the last arrows in their quiver as they tried to stop this legislation. Listen. We use all of the tools in our toolbox to fight this bill, and tonight we pulled out that last one. They were prepared to cut us off. They tried to silence us. We were not going to let them do that. We killed that bill. Again, steph, they killed that bill for now. We re going to see the next chapter of this unfolding in very short order because last night governor abbott called for a special session almost immediately after this bill