Vaccinated they might be able to pass it onto their children? i have to say, don, that s possible. We don t know that. I would be just giving wishful thinking here. I believe that what we re going to see is that vaccinated people who get a break through infection, namely they get infected, but they don t have any symptoms, that the level of virus will be low enough in their nasal pharynx that it is unlikely that they will pass it onto someone else. But we haven t proven that yet, so i can t say that defi definitively. What is your reaction to schools and children given the risk and spreading of the delta variant? you ve got to be careful because it depends on where you are, don. It gets back to what we were saying before. If you are in an area where the viral dynamics are really high, you ve got to be careful about pulling back the mask mandates. You ve really got to be careful. If you re in an area where many of the people are vaccinated and the level of virus are very low, you could
Under that final vote, 5435. Six republicans breaking ranks and joining with democrats. But, it was not enough. Two democrats didn t vote. But, still it would not make a difference. 60 yes votes needed. The country fell for short. A total of nine republican senators you see there and nearly onetenth of all members of the senate did not bother to show up or go on record against the legislation. Only one of them, senator pat toomey says he would have voted in favor of the bill but it would not have mattered. The gop fix was in. Senator republican mitch mcconnell opposes the commission. He spent yesterday lobbying fellow republicans to vote against the bill as a personal favor to him. A personal favor? why would you need that? republican senators falling in line behind him and trump also opposes the investigation. Majority leader chuck schumer called him out. The republican minority prevented the people to get the real truth of january 6th. This vote made it official, donald trump s big l
With future allegations of voter fraught. As donald trump and his allying bludgeoned our democracy, and lobbied and strongarmed local officials. Those efforts may have worked to overturn the results, if all of these voter suppression laws had been in place back in november. Texas is the latest battle grown with democrats and the legislators there buying some but the brave actions will fail if here s bet on o rourke even though they were in a fairly deep minority here in texas, i hole that are watching their example. These guys were able to stop a bat bill. They have the numbers to do it, and democrats need to stick together, stand up and fight, we win. I hope the senate democrats will do that while they have a chance. The senate democrats and the white house now have a choice to make about how hard they have to fight for the one thing that oar. Free and fair elections, they re pleading with the president to do so. We knew today the eyes of the nation watching actions in austin, that we
hello and welcome. let s start in the united states, where the us attorney general william barr, appointed by mrtrump, says no evidence has emerged of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the presidential election. this comes despite repeated claims made by president trump that the election was stolen. last month, mr barr issued a directive to us attorneys across the country to pursue any substa ntial allegations . he is one of the president s most ardent supporters, but his patience appears to be wearing thin. there s a growing tendency he said, to use the criminal justice system as a sort of a default fix all, and if people don t like something they want the department ofjustice to come in and investigate. 0ur north america editor jon sopel is at the white house. what william barr has done is com pletely what william barr has done is completely undermined president s argument. he has looked at this and so there is no widespread evidence of widespread forward
should be just pushed to the side until it s actually real in the courts and you only deal with it then? such a great question. nerd out a little bit in terms of politics. this is whiee do a lot of research with voters. even the critical race theory bs that is made up in virginia by youngkin, if he wins tonight, people will assume that s going to sweep the republicans to every election victory next year. i hily doubt that. i think you ll find some states and candidates where that won t fly. here s what i know has to happen. if the build back better and infrastructure bill passes, and i think they will, most we have seen polling. nobody in america knows what s in it outside of people, so you have to educate them about what s in it, by the way, the billionaires and big companies paying for it, that s more popular than the popular stuff in the bill. story telling along the way, you have to make clear that the republicans opposed all of that. you have to make most voters su