Texas democrats used to block a Redistricting Proposal in 2003, but the latest move is not without risk as jane reports the lawmakers could be arrested. She writes this. Under the texas legislature, the quorum of 2 3 is required for the legislature to conduct business and they could be compelled to report to capitol and they could be tracked down. The white House Press Secretary a short time ago teeing up the speech by calling the republican push for Voting Restrictions across the country, the worst challenge to democracy since the civil war. And with that, we will bring in our guests, Priscilla Thompson in texas, and the digital reporter the aforementioned jane tim, and playbook political reporter eugene daniel. And priscilla on the ground, as i understand it, you have the lawmakers in the airport in austin ready to board planes ready to come here to washington. Yeah, and that is exactly right. We began hearing the murmurings of this picking up yesterday and i was in the car with a la
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This week. Thank you for getting up Way Too Early with us this morning. Dont go anywhere, Morning Joe starts now. You had such love at the rally, they were there for one reason. The rigged election. They felt the election was rigged. Thats why they were there. They were peaceful people, they were great people. The crowd was unbelievable. And i mention the word love, the love in the air ive never seen anything like it. Former President Trump speaking yesterday with Fox News, continuing to frame what happened on January 6th in a far different light than reality. As we know, he directed many of those socalled great people the great people that were beating Police Officers with american flags, that our troops had fought to defend for 240 years. They used that american flag to bludgeon, nearly to death, Police Officers. Right. And he told them to go to the capitol and get tougher on congress, to stop the certification. He told them and, of course, Don Junior said something about, were comin
Good morning. And welcome to your New Day. Im boris sanchez. Im christi paul. We are counting down together here. In a few hours Richard Branson will board a supersonic plane that will launch him to the em of space. Hear his message this morning ahead of the flight. There is also a race to vaccinate parts of the country. What Health Officials are doing to reach Vaccine Skeptics as concerns grow over the delta variant. The town of charlottesville removed two Confederate Statues amid cheers from onlookers. How officials hope had will close a painful chapter of the citys history. And President Biden warning there will be consequences if russia does not do more to stop hackers from targeting the United States. But what can realtily be done to stop him . New day starts right now. It is sunday, july 11. We are grateful that you are with us. We will get to that historic launch in a moment. But we begin with rising concerns about coronavirus. Yeah, the delta variant, it is really, its scared a
Delta variant is now the dominant Covid Strain in the United States and were seeing Case Numbers heading in the wrong direction in areas with low vaccination rates. For those who are vaccinated, there is new confusion about booster shots. Pfizer is raising questions about how quickly americans may need another third shot as the Fda And Cdc say, no, no, not yet. Joining me now, the president s chief medical adviser on the covid19 pandemic, dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci, thanks for joining us. I want to start with this new reporting from Reuters Today that israel, the government of israel, is beginning to administer pfizer boosters. Third shots to people they consider vulnerable. Here in the United States the Cdc And Fda say we do not need booster shots. Do you think boosters could theoretically help vulnerable people . Well, certainly they theoretically could. What the Cdc And Fda were saying is that right now, given the data and the information we have, we do not need to give people a t