good evening from new york i m chris hayes, there is a minority of americans, though a sizeable won an absolute terms, that is not just hesitant or an enthused, or a little skeptical that the vaccines have questions, that they are steadfastly opposed. and they have been highly mobilized. and very loud in proportions greater than their actual numbers. and in this one instance as it becomes, a central point of a republican primary challenge, in the senate. meet, pastor jackson la meyer. young, he s 29 years old, he runs an investment company, and he is a pastor of evangelical church in elsa. that is him on the red standing next to donald trump s formal national security adviser, national flynn. who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. he has launch a challenge to place incumbent, very conservative. right now it appears one of the central pillars of his campaign is to get people to defy the vaccine requirement. so he is encouraging people to donate to his church, in exchange fo
get all 50 democratic senators on board. the remember, one of the reasons at least this bill has been problematic is that not all democrats are on board. senator joe manchin say notable holdout, opposes certain portions of the bill but supports a lot that s in there, including making election day a federal holiday, 15 days of early voting, automatic voter registration and we believe that democrats are close to coming up with a version that can get all 50 of their members on board. of course, hallie, as you know, getting 50 democrats on board is not enough. they need to get 60 to clear the filibuster and that is where the big question comes in. senator manchin has said he is speaking to republicans trying to get them on board, and the only one republican senator who expressed any interest in doing something major is lisa murkowski, the senator from alaska who supports the john lewis voting rights act, a separate bill that requires states with a history of racial discrimination
to keep children safe. what children have told us is that sexual violence is now completely normalised through social media platforms, through access to online pornography. as kids go back school, is enough being done to protect them? the stuff that we re talking about here, harmful sexual behaviour, is life changing and it needs to be addressed. earlier this year, thousands of young people posted anonymous accounts of sexual harassment and assault on a website called everyone s invited. many were at school or university, the same age as my own children. it s quite a shocking reality. the website was founded by soma sara. can you talk me through the kinds of testimonies that you were receiving? harassment, sexual bullying, down to the more extreme behaviours such as rape and sexual assault and the nonconsensual sharing of intimate photos. there have been more than 50,000 posts. it was just the reality of myself and my peers growing up. we were experiencing this on a daily bas
we meet this year s mercury prize winner, singer songwriter arlo parks, just 21 years old. in his most sweeping act yet, president biden has set out a series of radical measures to get more americans vaccinated against covid 19. it follows a surge in cases of the fast spreading delta variant. all federal government workers will have to be innoculated as will businesses with more than a hundred employees. mr biden expressed frustration at the eighty million americans who are still notjabbed, saying they were causing hospitals to become overcrowded and he appealed to them to get the shot. my message is this. what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? the vaccine has fda approval. more than 200 million with at least one shot. we have been patient, but patience is wearing thin. and refusal has cost all of us, so please, do the right thing. just don t take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans. taking their final breath, saying, if only i
about what it means to her. thank you for being here, everybody. we do begin this hour with president biden stepping up his war against the coronavirus. more man dates, more political and legal battles ahead and likely more in vaccinations because of it. in an impassioned speech, the president s frustration with americans still resisting gettin g expected to that is up ten poibs from a year ago soxts think about where we were a year ago and now we see an increase. an think that sentiment is driving why his overall approval on handling the virus is down a little bit and exactly those worries and concerns that the president is aiming to address last night and today at school when you see them talking about this now. and the numbers nationally and 400,000 were dead when he took people have died from covid-19 when he took office. 250,000 people have died since he has been in office. that is the national numbers and then as you re saying when you look at people s communi