love a man may have for a girl. steve bannon is laying the groundwork to help steal the next election. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. i saw a covid stat today that blew my mind. the vaccine as we know has been widely available for free to the public for about six months and right now as i speak to you current fatalities from covid in this country are running roughly double what they were a year ago. before we had vaccines. it seems ununspeakable tragedy. it s maddening and confusing. i think it s worth taking a second to understand where we are in the battle against this virus right now. about 62% of those eligible are fully vaccinated in this country, which means we have a whole nation within a nation of unvaccinated folks, right. tens of millions of people who aren t vaccinated, not to mention children. unvaccinated folks are clustered in areas around each other because it s not evenly distributed throughout the population. ar
of race can be called into question. this is all the result of decades of work, even longer. even the united daughters of the confederacy bullied school boards to teach white supremacist propaganda as u.s. history. the latest strategy according to the propublica pieces to seize control of the gop from the bottom up. galvanized by none other than steve bannon. you know that saying, good artist copy, and great artist steel, bannon is activating his army of trump worship-ing conspiracy theorist to swarmed the precincts. let s be clear, the precinct strategy is in bannon s brain child, this is simply as propublica notes something that he plucked out of obscurity. wait a minute, this strategy, maybe not so obscure, republicans have been flooding the election boards, school boards and local city county ranks for a long time. let s not forget there pinch off for purging the courts. it s just out in the open now. its use of intimidation has been truly unleashed. at this point, they a
allowing strangers to sue anyone suspected of helping a woman get an abortion. the new york times describes the court s decision like this. quote, the majority opinion was unsigned and consisted of a single long paragraph. it said the abortion providers who had challenged the law in an emergency application to the court had not made their case in novel and procedural question. the majority stressed it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the texas law. it did not need to limit proper challenges to it. justice sonia sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent. the court s order stunning, a flagrantly unconstitutional law designed to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny? a majority of justices opted to bury their heads in the sand. sotomayor also describes the texas law like this. quote, in effect the texas legislature has deputized the state s citizens as bounty hunters. offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their ne
states down south are still without power. and it could be for weeks before that power is restored. the storm left a trail of destruction in louisiana and mississippi, and now comes the scorching heat with no power. temperatures could hit 103 degrees today. overnight, two people were killed when floods washed out a major roadway between mississippi and louisiana. first, afghanistan, the challenges still ahead, and the legacy of what has been left behind. joining me now is pentagon press secretary john kirby. thanks so much for being with us. you know, i m cognizant of the fact that you spent your life in public service, a big chunk of it in the military. what s it like for you to wake up this morning and after 20 years, for the first time in 20 years, to have no u.s. troops in afghanistan? yeah, i think we re all still processing that, john, to be honest with you. it is something that for two decades we ve all been connected to, without question. and i think it s going to
are you going to do now? so what are you going to do now? sr what about us? we are work are you going to do now? srs what about us? we are work with them. we support them. demonstraters in greece clash with police over new rules that force health workers to be vaccinated against covid 19. and, one of the most influential reggae producers and performers, lee scratch perry, dies injamaica aged 85. hello and welcome to the programme. one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit america s gulf coast in 200 years has slammed into louisiana. 16 years since hurrican katrina, hurricane ida is battering the state with winds reaching 200kmp/h. this is a live picture overlooking new orleans. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, and meteorologists say the slow pace of the hurricane now a category three has increased its destructive potential. president biden described the storm as life threatening. nada tawfik sent this report from new orleans. well, conditions are deterior