Theres not a normal week for you. You are not done by any stretch of the imagination. I am hoping for a nap, schedule and wheaties. But theres not a nap this week because theres too much to do to talk about important hours of the night. So im going to be watching you guys all week and i thank you for everything youre doing and for some amazing shows this morning. And you guys, have a great few hours of breast. Yeah, write. A couple of hours and we are off. Have a good one. Velshi starts now. Good morning, to saturday august 18th. The election is 79 days away and tomorrow democrats will kickoff the national convention in chicago with the wind at their backs. Hoping to build on kamala Harris Momentum. This morning it was revealed the theme of this Years Convention will be for the people, for our future. Which borrows from the Vice President s pass campaign slogan, Kamala Harris for the people. Is going to be s a slightly different affair from past democratic conventions and a very differ
Flint. Failed levies in new orleans. Reporting for Nbc News ive seen it myself. Driving over the troubled bridge between cincinnati and kentucky in this 18wheeler. Roads getting better or worse . I would say getting worse. That is wild. From the air above this highway in arkansas that goes nowhere. Thats The End of it right there. Yeah. After decades of talk and with our infrastructure still in peril, this Spring President biden proposed a giant Spending Bill that radically defined the term beyond bridges and roads. He calls it the american Jobs Plan with a promise to create millions of good paying Blue Collar jobs under the banner of buy american. What the biden administration says theyre actually trying to rebuild is the american Middle Class. This hour, well show you that you dont have to wait for the president s plan to see what he wants to rebuild and why. And at street level, well see who could benefit and who risks getting left behind. One of the principles of the american Jobs
Monitoring the vote on hr1. If its signed in to law it would destroy the integrity of our elections in this country forever. It will institutionalize and pretty much guarantee fraud in the future elections. First, no matter how the Biden Administration tries to spin it, there is a real and a growing crisis on our southern board. Lured by the amnesty promise, loosening of Border Restrictions there is a surge of new Illegal Immigrants pouring across the border. Many of them are decked out in the full Biden Campaign gear. I never saw it on the Campaign Trail but you are seeing it here. Some are wearing tshirts and carrying signs that are saying, biden, please let us in. My of the migrants are unaccompanied minor. Last week, 2,000 of the kids were intercepted by the Border Patrol. According to the d. H. S. , a record get this 117,000 unaccompanied children are expected at the border this year. 117,000. Of course, the Biden Administration totally, completely unprepared. Now they have alread
But a small and significant mandate that could still throw things off track. They said they dont want to see republicans shut down. We hope cooler heads will prevail. If there is a shut down, it will be a republican antivaccine shut down. And the House Rules Committee is holding off on The Con Tempt Referral that passed unanimously on wednesday night. I will speak to Committee Member zoe lofgren. We start a jake ward and the coronavirus. Antonia hilton, and dr. Michael osterholm. Jake, i will start with you. You spoke with the professor that helped lead the response in the bay area. What are they learning there. As you know San Francisco add a very robust response to the pandemic and is blessed with facilities like the university of San Francisco. Once this travel started to feel symptoms, the travel reached out to the San Francisco Department Of Health and said i have been in south africa, i know the omicron variant is there, and that persons sample wound up here and within about five
Us tonight. I have run into the words real estate, and now its time for lawrence odonnell, with ali velshi in for lawrence odonnell. This conversation you were having about the National Guard in oklahoma. A year ago we were 13 months away from having a vaccine. It was some time from when i qualified to get one. I remember the day i qualified, i had like nine websites open, and im trying to get an appointment. I remember thinking to myself, wow, there is this free vaccine that could save my life from a deadly virus. It did not occur to me a year ago that we could be having discussions you had, that people are still hesitant about a vaccine that is still killing people. And the governor of oklahoma is giving wrong advice to people if they dont get it and what he is discouraging them from getting. When you think of all the heroism from National Guard members who have stepped up to distribute the vaccine, to do so much on covid, for them to be roadkill for this governor. Thank you for brin