love a man may have for a girl. steve bannon is laying the groundwork to help steal the next election. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. i saw a covid stat today that blew my mind. the vaccine as we know has been widely available for free to the public for about six months and right now as i speak to you current fatalities from covid in this country are running roughly double what they were a year ago. before we had vaccines. it seems ununspeakable tragedy. it s maddening and confusing. i think it s worth taking a second to understand where we are in the battle against this virus right now. about 62% of those eligible are fully vaccinated in this country, which means we have a whole nation within a nation of unvaccinated folks, right. tens of millions of people who aren t vaccinated, not to mention children. unvaccinated folks are clustered in areas around each other because it s not evenly distributed throughout the population. ar
meet with georgia s new democratic senators, congresswoman williams and voting rights advocates to discuss ways to combat the states gop voter suppression activities. one of the advocates in that meeting will join us in a moment but here is how the vice president described the meeting. the vice president s third event this week focused on protecting the right to vote in republican led states. on monday, vice president harris met with veterans activists in south carolina, and on wednesday, she met in washington with more than a dozen texas democrats who blocked gop backed butter instructions. one of those texas democrats will also join us in just a moment. the administration is serious about protecting the right to vote at the state level. democrats in state houses believe that the best way to do that is to protect the right to vote at the federal level. some of the same tech stomach a secure last-minute meeting with joe manchin in an effort to win his support for federal
tonight the abject republican surrender imperilling democracy, then, why mitch mcconnell is feeling heat after his brush with honesty. 100% of my focus is on stopping this new administration. plus, how did the federal elections commission let donald trump off the hook for the criminal conspiracy that sent to prison, i will ask federal elections commissioner ellen winetrout. why there s genuine alarm with the economic recovery after today s jobs report. all in starts right now. good evening, i m chris hayes, the republican party tried to sell both its base and the country ceo capitalism, the freer the market with paul ryan and mitt romney. perpetual global war with john mccain and george w. bush, and no one now wants any of it. the party landed on donald trump. that is who the base chose. they do not have an alternative other than him. while there s a lot of debate about the future of what the post donald trump republican party should look like, which is the heart
proclaims we don t need to raise taxes on middle class by one penny. reality check and so much more on making money . charles: the economy booming, showing no signs of slowing down. we re doing better experts thought we were. united states adding 128,000 jobs, 40,000 more than consensus. hours worked outpacing expectations. that hid the highest level in six years. i have liz peek and steve moore. this was 128,000. minus 40,000 from the gm strike and consensus revised up 95,000. doesn t get any better than that, charles. to see manufacturing would have been up except for this. after all the concern about a slowdown in the manufacturing sector. this is great news. 15th consecutive month where wages go up by 3% or more. i think, look, i think democrats have to be horrified by these numbers. this blew out expectations. absolutely, by the way you mentioned third quarter earnings a second ago. it is one more data point including third quarter earnings where everything is coming
the sach waituation. we re nice and clear. 26 minutes. same thing asou re headed northbound this morning. nothing in the way as far as any rog work or anythin like that. 66 is fine, into town and out of town. 95 northbound. we do have a b little of a slow down southbound through quanticohi morning. in just a few hours the first crucial vote for the confirmation of brett kavanaugha will en. they called for a procedural vote at 10:30 this morning. it could set the stage for the final vote tomorrow. jue kavanaugh admits to making mistakes in his testimony at a senate hearing last he wrote an op-ed for the wall street journal last night in response to criticism over his partisan tone he wrote i was very emodaonal last thu and i said a few things i should not have said. judge kavanaugh wro he revered the constitution and going fo ward il keep an open mind in every case. kavanaugh s behaviore during hearing is an exact reason a former republican supreme court judge says he do