[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: try doing that at 6:00 a.m. good morning and welcome to fox & friends. that was the u.s. air force brass quintet performing our nation s anthem and that is the u.s. honor guard performing live in front of the u.s. s up trend here in new york city because we are intrepid because we are celebrating the air force s 74th birthday all morning long. look how impressive that is. will: can t do it at 6:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. or 9: 30 a.m. pete: there is a huge bayonet on the end of every one of those rifles. a long knife on the end of the rifles that they are throwing at each other. rachel: when they train, do people get hurt? pete: my guess is that they usually look at that they usually train with nonlethal. rachel: shield over it. pete: when they do it for real they are doing for real. impressive. happy birthday to the air force 74 years young. rachel: 74 years. i m going to sa
sometimes or cautiously optimistic, but will obviously continue to monitor the. situation i do hope that you re right, it is a big risk, but anyways on today s subject thank you for being with us, i hope you ll come back and will continue have this conversation better circumstances. when i come home, it will be. thanks for having me on the show. there has to, it has to. thank you for coming on, thank you all at home for watching, we will be right back here next sunday, 8 pm eastern. you can catch me monday through thursday live at 7 pm eastern on the choice, on nbc s streaming channel, peacock. now, it is time to turn it over to joshua johnson. good evening, joshua. good evening committee, thank you very much. good evening to you, it is great to be with you tonight. on a rather historic day. tonight, we re keeping a close eye on cuba. thousands of people marched today in havana, protesting food and medicine shortages during the pandemic, we ll have the latest there al
to all you kids down there, i was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. now i m an adult in a space ship with other wonderful adults looking down to our beautiful, beautiful earth. to the next generation of dreamers, if we can do this, just imagine what you can do. very cool stuff. an hour after liftoff, unity re-entered the atmosphere and landed safely. the quick round-trip nearly two decades in the making. after hugging his family on the tarmac, branson said he hopes the impact of that 60-minute flight is felt for years. we re here to make space more accessible to all and we want to turn the next generation of dreamers into the astronauts of today and tomorrow. we ve all asked on this stage have just had the most extraordinary experience. and we d love it if a number of you can have it, too. cnn s rachel crane was at the launch and spoke to branson after his historic journey. richard, you just fulfilled a life-long dream. and i know you said earlier y
in areas with low vaccination rates. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. let us begin tonight with two stories that say a lot about who we are as a country and where we might be going. in charlottesville, virginia, crews removed three statues today. among them were monuments to confederate generals robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. charlottesville had planned to remove them nearly four years ago. white supremacists and neo-nazis marched in protest and that led to violent clashes that turned deadly. it was one of america s first looks at extremism during donald trump s presidency. meanwhile in austin, texas, we re monitoring a special session of the state legislature that began this morning and continues into the night. it s happening right now. it is the next phase in the republican party s push for new rules on voting. texas has become a battleground state in the fight for voting rights. according to the brennan center for justice, nearly every state has introduc
new video of the hand to hand combat at the capitol as we get a date for the first select me hearing. what we know about what the biden administration is planning after yesterday s voter rights summit at the white house. one senator is filling the blank space of republican ideas with culture war nonsense. if we have marxism, you are going to be first ones who will be cut off. taylor swift would be the first victim. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the way that right wing politics work s the main per va yours are sniffing out new messages to find what agitates their shrinking base. they are like truffle pig. we saw this with donald trump. we see it with the host of fox news who will follow the base where it leads them. we are seeing this play out in those folks mobilization against the vaccine. it seems hard to believe but it was not all this way. here are the host of fox and friends back in may talking about getting vacc