disgraced usa. still testifying before the committee. in a few minutes we expect to hear from senators who participated and joined by the gymnasts who are survivors of nassar s abuse. when that press conference happens, we ll take you there live. also this hour the president is scheduled to meet with leaders in the business community about the pandemic response as cases are rising nationally, again. vaccine soft mandates for u.s. businesses, if you will. today s top story is a reminder of the potency of the pandemic politically after a recall defeat in california. despite some serious concerns about voter enthusiasm, could governor newsom s strategy be a model for democrats around the country in elections this year and perhaps next year, though i would hold off on the next year given the uncertainty of covid. he did handily defeat the recall vote. republicans did not put any dent in his level of support. he may emerge from this ordeal even stronger politically. wait until y
speaker pelosi strikes a deal with moderates in her caucus to advance the massive reconciliation bill. just how big were the concessions she made to the moderates? progressives are just about to find out. welcome to meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. six days to go until president biden hits that august 31st deadline to fully withdraw all troops from afghanistan. six days from now is also the deadline to evacuate any remaining americans along with the afghan officials who have risked their lives to help us. reporters have been asking the white house for days, how many americans are left in afghanistan and for days, the biden administration has been answering that question with how many people have already been evacuated. but today is the day we do expect to learn at least somewhat of an answer to the question of how many americans remain to be evacuated. he announced that blinken would provide the numbers today. he was supposed to brief last hour. those has been pushed t
the latest on the situation there. today s remarks are expected to focus almost solely on evacuation efforts of americans and afghans. the remarks come as we just learned another troubling development. not a single flight has left the kabul airport in eight hours. let me repeat, no flights have left in eight hours. we know qatar said no to more plane loads of afghan. the u.s. has evacuated about 3,000 people from kabul yesterday. another 9,000 in total evacuated since kabul started to fall last weekend. keep in mind the pentagon said earlier this week it hoped to quickly ramp things up to a point where they could evacuate as many as 9,000 people per day. so we re basically doing what we hoped would be one day s worth of work in one week. complete being pressed repeatedly yesterday, officials have not been able to say how many americans are left. it s not just about getting people out of the airports, it s about getting people into the airport. the situation outside of the kab
the record setting pace of covid positive patients. we speak with one hospital leader who is getting help from military medical workers being dispatched by the white house. welcome to meet the press daily . i m chuck todd. we re awaiting remarks from the president. touting pieces of the bipartisan infrastructure bill that he signed into law 60 days ago while given an update on the how the billion is being put to use. these remarks will cap off a decidedly bad week for the administration. also bad time to have a bad week. his voting rights agenda appears to be on capitol hill after. the spite a presidential visit to the capitol and a meeting with sinema last night at the white house. the plan to hold the vote on the senate on the issue likely to fail anyway before monday s self-imposed mlk deadline has been delayed because of democratic a senator s positive test for covid. he says to isolate and democrats without a majority, they would meet on the senate floor in order to p
counting votes. and the biggest thing when you say, hey, what happened last night? and i just tell people, don t look at virginia look at new jersey. 1:00 p.m., the day after the election night, it s still too close to call in new jersey that in itself is a headline. biden won that state by 16 points last year, just a year ago. where democrat phil murphy won by 14 points in 2017, hillary clinton won the state by 14 points in 2016. you get my drift. this wasn t just a blue state. this was kind of a dark blue state. democrats expected virginia would be potentially very close but not new jersey. the vote count there so far means democrats can t explain away what happened in new jersey, as a result of any one problem. about this candidate trying to nitpick and deflect blame away from themselves. the big take away from last night, democrats have problems they have to face everywhere and it s all over the ideological spectrum. you don t think you re part of the problem and you re a