mayor of boston now labor secretary is going to join us tonight and i might slip a little. my boston accent might crack. there s another very special boston accent we ll hear later in the hour and that is my father, who i wish was still with us to hear this. a 1963 recording of him arguing a case, an important case in the united states supreme court. when i was listening to it today trying to find something the audience would understand because of his boston accent i felt so bad for chief justice earl warren and william o douglas and all of those people sitting up there trying to understand this guy from boston. eventually they ruled in his favor but that boston accent is later in the hour. i always watch rachel s show and your show in my sweat pants with my mommy water and i had to obviously get through this show in a different way but i am racing upstairs to change into sweat pants and watch your show and all the boston accents with my mommy water in hand. i can t wait.
night chat with you, but as i understand it, correct me if i m wrong, i believe your weekend officially begins when i say good night rachel. 47, 48, 49, 50. good night, rachel. thanks, lawrence. good night. bye! bye. well the biden/harris administration completed six full months in office this week and tonight the biden/harris agenda faces challenges, its biggest challenges in the united states senate. now, no president in history served in the senate longer than joe biden and no president in history has understood the senate that he is dealing with better than joe biden understands his current senate. joe biden said this week that in effect the senate is broken. he said that the rule on the 60 vote threshold is no longer working the way it was supposed to. and he said he supports a change in that rule, but some people think they heard him say there should be no change in the senate rules. but what i heard joe biden say indicates that he will support a change in the
new day. good morning. good morning to you. with vaccinated, unvaccinated americans in danger of the highly transmissible delta variant that is sweeping the country, some experts say it s time to put the masks back on. plus, 48 hours to go, tokyo just recorded its highest daily increase in covid cases since january. we ll take you there. and join the club. yet another close ally of donald trump s indicted and arrested. what tom barrick is accused of doing. president biden s town hall on cnn comes at a critical time as white house officials admit the clock is ticking fast on his agenda on capitol hill. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, july 21st. that means we re half way there. that s an important mark, right? 48 hours from the olympics, too. exactly. covid, this is the bad news, it s back with a vengeance. cases are rising across the country and so are hospitalizations. the resurgence of the virus
in this country, particularly where areas where people remain unvaccinated. this morning more than 91 million americans live in counties with high covid-19 infections, and the delta variant, which is more transmissible, accounts for more than 83% of covid cases across the country. despite plenty of vaccine supply, there are no lines, you don t have to wait for them and plenty of data to back up the efficacy of vaccines, more than half of the country remains unprotected. as it stands, these are the ten states there on that map struggling the most to get people vaccinated. poppy, it s no coincidence that those are the states you see the biggest jumps. tragically for a number of families, it is already too late to get the vaccine that could have saved lives. she liked the song beat it by michael jackson. i started singing to her. that s why i made that sign up there that says beat up. my is my baby slipping away every day. my daughter is not vaccinated. i really do believe
good evening again from west texas near blue origin s launch site one. chris is off tonight. in this hour of 360 my conversation with jeff and mark bezos after their history making flight into space. we begin with the world of trouble they return to. it follows word today that the delta variant now accounts for 83% of coronavirus samples sequenced in this country. in other words, it is now the dominant strain in the united states . this is a dramatic increase. up 50% from july 3. particularly in areas of low vaccination rates. the message from cdc is clear. the best way to prevent the spread of covid-19 variant is prevent the spread of disease and vaccination is the most powerful tool we have. i mean, it s certainly a lot to think about tonight especially when you consider how badly behind the eight ball so many states now are. because when people in those places were offered the vaccine, they said no. so let s not make any mistake this situation is happening because no