tonight from excuse me, arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders, former press secretary to donald trump, with an extended anecdote at the end there about how, on a trip with president trump now most felt like they were in the military. they were not in the military. other than that, it s kind of an american carnage speech from their huckabee sanders talking about how president biden surrendered his presidency, to the woke mob, and he has been hijacked by the radical left, and america s is having war waged on it by the left, a war that didn t seek. two things, on a factual basis, which is not where she is hanging. donald trump was known and it was reported extensively, and some of the most harrowing reporting in the atlantic reported it to the believe men and women who served in the military, who died, were quote, suckers and losers. he was especially disgusted by men and women who ve been injured, in the service of our country, something so cystic, i don t even l
forward to signing it, which he s expected to do at the white house on friday. also breaking, the president just announced a plan to buy an additional $100 million doses of the single-shot johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccine. that comes as several states are expanding eligibility requirements and allowing more residents to be vaccinated. let s get straight to the white house right now, where our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us. this is a major victory for the new biden administration. that s right, wolf. when president biden addresses the nation in prime time tomorrow night, his first prime time address, he says he s going to talk about what s next, launching the next phase in the coronavirus relief process and a central component of that next phase will be the legislative victory he just secured. help is on the way. reporter: tonight on day 50 for president joe biden, the first mission accomplished. this bill represents an historic, histo
you are vaccinated. also, why it is still telling vaccinated americans not to travel. politico reports that the agency did originally consider updating the travel guidelines only to scrap the update before the report became public. cdc director rochelle walensky tried to address the balancing act with my colleague rachel maddow last night. here s what we know about travel. we know that right now there are a lot of variants here in this country. some have brought in from travel. others have emanated from inside the country. we know that after mass travel, after vacations, after holidays, we tend to see a surge in cases. and so we really want to make sure again with just 10% of people vaccinated that we are limiting travel. we are reaching a turning point when it comes to vaccines, as supply increases, experts believe parts of the country could reach a scenario where they have more vaccine than people who want it. and that could come as early as next month. instates like
talk about a lot of the stuff that is real, and how it s real important political stuff, so it got squished down so that those things could be the great bulk of what the president talked about tonight. what did you make of that? so, i thought the whole speech was great, but i thought that first 20 minutes to half an hour with the best the president has ever been. he s always good at making the metaphysical connection with the american public. but look, i think he knows what s gonna happen in next years. i think he knows that there s not a great chance that we can get the kind of big legislative achievement he s had in the last two years. so, he speaking directly to the american people. he s talking about these forgotten americans, he s talking to people about how their communities, their cities, feel weaker than ever before. he s really speak to the dignity that people have lost. i just thought it was brilliant, the way that he was speaking directly to the middle of the country. no
kind of repression. it is extraordinary that this could take place still on june 12th. senior administration officials told cnn, that is in ten minutes, essentially. you get back to trump wants this to happen. he loves the drama, the theatrics of it. the problem is many presidents within they confront difficulty, they realize the president has almost unilateral authority. the tax cut is the big legislative achievement. there is no wall. the tariff talks continue. there s no new deal with nafta and the tpp. so where can he show some progress? and trump thinks about the optics, maybe he s right about that. we live in a visual age. he views this, this would be the