republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin. i m rachel maddow, joined here at msnbc headquarters by my colleagues joy reid and nicolle wallace and jen psaki and ari melber. we have chris hayes under a desk here somewhere. on days like this when it can be difficult to wrap your head around all of the news that will just not stop unfolding, we know you have every choice in the urld about where to watch the news tonight, so we re grateful to have you here with us. let s start with some of the day s biggest developments. just after 3:00 eastern this afternoon, republican nominee donald trump announced online that he had chosen ohio senator jd vance to be his vice presidential running mate. jd vance is 39 years old, he has held political office for less than two years before which he was best known for writing his autobiography. senator vance was famously a harsh trump critic in 2016 when trump first ran for president. jd vance at the time, again then, famous just as a
stick with the of kabul is imminent. speak of imminent fall of kabul. the fall of kabul. the taliban has entered the city. the fall of kabul as the taliban completes its takeover of afghanistan. broadcasting live from inside the presidential palace. greg: i blame those pesky whites and pharmacists. you would figure we would have a plan for this but this is the most botched pullout since hunter knocked out that stripper. 20 years, doing $2 and no plan. or maybe we had a plan but joe left it at the men s room. this crowd is quiet. oh, now you are laughing. wake up, people. i know it s monday but [bleep] if we knew this would happen the moment we left, what gives. i m not here to see i told you so because i never did. i was like most everyone else, spending the last decade forgetting afghanistan existed and watching the bachelor which is either a testament to the effect of effectiveness out of our military are my very short attention span. the telegram sets its sights on
great interview with the santos. laura: thank you, see you tomorrow night. this is the ingraham angle from washington. a canadian immunologist was part of the group did the nearly research on the amrna covid vaccine. tuesday night he revealed they missed something significantly she s back tonight with more on that but first a time for action is the focus of tonight s angle. in case you didn t notice democrats love shutdowns and covid mandates as much as they love high taxes and i think it is safe to say many liberals were never happier than when americans were forced by their governments out of the workforce, out of schools, away from church and even away from friends and family. not only was there all the interrupted time to catch all 6 seasons of downtown abby and youtube yoga and planting herb gardens, it presented, golden opportunity. i emergency cut off for a way to change america forever. of fearful public, they wagered would be a complacent public. interestingly, ant
nation s top infectious diseases expert, dr. anthony fauci, says the u.s. is headed in the wrong direction. reporter: the worst case scenario among the unvaccinated. feel like we re going back in the bell again and it s definitely, it s definitely another wave. reporter: the highly contagious delta variant fuelling a surge of new cases across the country. dire warnings from the nation s top doctor. going into the fall with the delta variant, we could have a really serious problem with a considerable surge of infections. reporter: the variant sweeping through the south, texas, arkansas and florida accounting for 40% of new cases in the country. but in miami, thousands packing the stadium for a live concert. you re drowning in people. reporter: as the cdc said they could recommend masks for the fully vaccinated indoors. but in arkansas, a new law banning mask mandates goes into effect this week. it s important not to have the current debate about mask wearing bu
here in l.a. county, has not been vaccinated and that is exactly the problem here. just to compare where we were to where we are now, the test positivity yesterday was 3.7% is what the county reported. on june 15th, that is when we saw the state open back up, the test positivity was just half a percent. they were saying that the delta variant is very much part of the issue here, that it is accounting for about three quarters of sequences in a recent period. so that shows that you this more easily transmissable delta variant is part of the problem. here is the numbers. there are about 10 million people in los angeles county. nearly 4 million are not vaccinated yet. they also are saying that residents 16 and older who are allowed and eligible to get vaccinated, the one shot, that is about 69% and that is about 8.3 million of those people who are eligible for that. those who are fully vaccinated, it is about 61% of that subset as well. obviously we know that vaccines are working