The country with some exceptions. We have also just learned defense secretary austin is expected to seek to make vaccination mandatory for all activeduty troops, perhaps even this week. Those two pieces of reporting come, as global cases today crossed the 200 million mark, and with the fda now working as quickly as possible to give full approval to pfizer s vaccine. Meantime, driven by the delta variant but, also, by growing pressure from private employers, more people are rolling up their sleeves. Up 26% from three weeks ago, that s good news. And while defiance on masking and other mitigation measures is still burning hot in states like florida and texas, one redstate governor, arkansas s isa hutchinson now says he regrets approving a statewide ban on mask mandates and is working to amend the law. Lot to talk about with our first guest tonight, bill gates, who we have talked to at critical points all throughout this pandemic. His foundation has donated billions of dollars to fighting
I want to live. As far as how his family is doing, he gave this update in a facebook post last week quote that regret, that plea, did not follow in his footsteps, that s a common narrative emerging in the pockets of the country dealing with the worst outbreaks right now. The ten states with the highest new case counts in the country are also now the states with the highest increase in first shots administered. That has been the trend for the past three weeks now. Overall, the average pace of vaccinations across the country is steadily rising. Look at the bottom right of your screen. People are scared. Without full protection from the vaccine, they have good reason to be. According to data kept by john help skins university, we just crossed the threshold of 200 million coronavirus cases across the globe. With the delta variant dominating, that number just keeps rising. The cdc now reports that the delta variant accounts for more than 93% of covid cases in the u. S. That number is as hig
Lies or misspeaks or gets it wrong or fudges because he was just trying to win the fight. It doesn t matter because i m worse. It doesn t matter because he s their guy. It doesn t matter because he s still in right because he s being victimized. Look, representative maloney didn t like when i said this tonight, all due respect to her and the oversight committee putting out the emails about what trump is trying is huge. I say i think they are better than you at this. If they had been the the aggrieved on january 6th in a position the democrats are in, you and i would have never been able to move on from it. I probably would have been in washington, d. C. For three weeks covering it because it s all the republicans would have been doing and saying we must put down the civil war. It s all they would do. Biden wouldn t be able to be nowhere else. You get no argument from me on that. Imagine as we have said and many have said before if the tables had been turned on january 6th. Imagine if i
But i meant someone who is important. Thank you. My mistake. Yes. I misspoke. Or at least you corrected it. I ll see you, brother. Good night. So this is don lemon tonight. On a big news night, right? so what about this? russia, if you re listening, remember that? well, russia is going to hear from a very different united states in just a few hours. That s when president biden is going sit down for his summit in geneva with russian president vladimir putin. And the united states goes from this the supposed leader of the free world failing to stand up for democracy, denying russia s interference in the 2016 election. My people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others said they think it s russia. Have i president putin. He just said it s not russia. I will say this. I don t see any reason why it would be. So trump s answer was so disastrous, the next day he tried to do damage control. But the damage was already done. In a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead
trafficking and we ll break down what we know and what gaetz is claiming and we begin the reidout with day three of the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. george floyd s life mattered and that was the emotional crux of today s testimony and a day we haven t seen much of since george floyd died under chauvin s knee almost a year ago. today we got to see george floyd alive. here s surveillance video inside cup foods before he was stopped by police, footage that was unseen by the public before today. you can see george floyd in a black tank top dancing around and you can see him interacting with customers and cashiers. one of those cashiers testified today. his name is christopher martin and he s 19 years old. floyd bought cigarettes from him the day that he died giving him a $20 bill and martin testified today that he was suspicious, but because of a store policy that made employees pay for counterfeit bills out of their own paycheck, martin report