On whether we will be required to wear masks in public again. To give first this afternoon republican senator rand paul asking the justice department for criminal referral on welcom to the program, this is americ reports. Great to be back with you fo the day. So this new development comes after the two sparred on capito hill yesterday. Senator paul slamming dr. Is fauci previous the possibly par possibly came from. The senator a leader telling fo news, warrants doctors didn t agree with him about covid, but are afraid to cross impaired. This is that as gained a lot of traction in recent months, and as we await the results, th 90 day intelligence committee review which are expected next month. We begin with jenkins live with more. Good afternoon. The hearing was supposed to focus on that s viking delta variants, but it turned into a brawl over covid origins. Watch. This paper, that you are referring to, was judged by a qualified staff up and down the chain is not gain of function. You d
You re watching msnbc reports with yasmin vossoughian. Welcome, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. For those of you still with us, thank you for sticking around. If you are just joining us, welcome to you. We have a big show ahead, a lot coming up this hour, joe biden preparing for what may be the toughest meeting of his first foreign trip as president. Next week s summit with russian president vladimir putin, a man that he s been brutally honest about in the past. When president biden was asked whether he believes you are a killer, he said, i do. Mr. President, are you a killer? so, the answer to that question, as we bring you more of nbc s inclusive interview with putin and talk with nina, who knows a lot about the russian strongman in a moment. Plus, is an investigation enough, or is it time to clean house at the department of justice after the new revelations about how the former president may have used it for his own personal political vendettas? i m going to talk to former u. S.
Cities large and small, including several new mass shootings. We re now nearing 290 mass shootings for the year. In houston, a deputy s apartment was ambushed overnight. That shooting leaving his wife and step child wounded. Evan mcmorris santoro is watching this escalate. I hope viewers are paying attention because this is an important summer in the country, trying to get back to normalcy, trying to move forward in a lot of other ways, but we re seeing this scourge of gun violence really being a huge part of the story line. 395 shootings, sounds like a lot for a summer, was actually the number of shootings we have tracked so far this weekend. Seven being mass shootings, what we call where four or more people are shot excluding the shooter. Those are huge numbers and a huge increase over previous years. More than 40% increase over the same numbers, the same point in 2020, and nearly 70% increase over the same time in 2019. So just a huge rash of problems all across the country, as you
The bill was nothing more than a typo. Call it an error, whatever you want to. I talked to our team yesterday. Kind of regrouping what happened. That was not intended to be reduced. I think there was a you know, call it a mistake if you want to, what should have been 11 was actually printed up as one. That s a supporter of the bill. Republican supporter of the bill, who is calling it a typo or error. A mistake. Why it took them more than three days to find that mistake and many public arguments about the mistake, in fact, supporting the 1:00 p. M. Timeframe, is a nonanswer to that question. The very public outcry is anyone s guess, exactly, what s going on. Now, maybe, his retreat on an especially problematic piece of it is a welcome sign. If so, it would be a lonely bon and exception to president biden s warning just the other day that, quote, democracy is in peril. Consider what we have seen in just the past few days. There s been credible reporting the defeatedformer president has a
And odors like detoxifying your clothes. Made with never more than 9 ingredients. 9 elements more than a clean, a cleanse. We re on the air from washington with breaking news on the new house republican party. The one making moves to cementitis firmly behind donald trump. That is within the voes just in the last few minutes or so. She is telling her kliegs the truth will set her free. It s an indication of where the republican party is and i think we re in a place we have to bring it back from. Just after a matter of seconds to boot the congresswoman from leadership, this woman running to replace her makes it official. Elise stefanik making her case to take over for her. As we speak this minute, lawmakers are gaveling in to hear, for the first time, from the person in charge of the pentagon that day talking about why help took so long. We have a ton of developing news let me bring in kaci hunt on capitol hill, barbara comstock, michael steel. One of the questions was what will the numb