Welcome to meet the press daily. I m chuck todd. We begin this hour with new inquiries. Andrew cuomo s conduct and new calls for his resignation. In just the past several hours the district attorney s in manhattan and westchester county announced they are looking into cuomo s actions after requesting from the attorney general s office and algallegations. To the reporting of covid cases in nursing homes and amid the mounting legal scrutiny comes mounting political pressure on the governor to step down and do so quickly. Including now pressure from president biden. Who held off making that announcement when the allegations first surfaced against cuomo in march. Will you now call on him to resign given the investigator said the 11 women were credible? i stand by that statement. Are you now calling on him to resign? yes. The president joins a growing list of democrats calling for cuomo s resignation. In fact, the question is who isn t inside the democratic party because this list of resign
About trump? let s go outfront. Good evening, i m erin burnett. The special committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection as kevin mccarthy pulled all five republicans he named from the panel as president biden is about to speak to the nation on cnn. Tonight s exclusive town hall comes at a pivotal moment in biden s presidency. He s facing head winds and crucial issues, the most pressing is the pandemic and also the economy. Infrastructure, voting rights, police reform, immigration. A daunting list. Especially when washington has descended into an all out partisan war, we ll have more on that in a moment but first, kaitlan collins is outfront live in cincinnati, ohio where biden s town hall will take place shortly. The stakes are high for the president tonight. What is his message to the american people? reporter: well, erin, it a critical junction tour for his presidency. He s going to come here tonight and talk about what he believes he s accomplished in the first six months
Spreading conspiracy theories now at odds. Why? let s go outfront. Good evening. I m erin burnett. The breaking news, president biden just telling reporters that new covid restrictions are lik likely. Should americans expect more. [ inaudible ] in all probability. By the way, we had a good day yesterday. Almost 1 million people got vaccinated. Well, on that last note, the best tool we have in this frightening and uncertain situation is the vaccine but biden s words about in all likelihood new restrictions comes as information is turning crucial things we were told about covid upside down. The cdc revealing tonight 74% of covid cases in massachusetts home to province town where there was a recent outbreak were found in people who were fully vaccinated and they say now the vaccinated are just as likely to spread the virus as those not vaccinated and that of course, is contrary to what was widely known. In rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with the delta variant after vaccin
Members of the state legislature are trying to pass. 21st century jim crow assault is real. It s unrelenting. Wear going to challenge it vigorously. While while this broad assault against voting rights is not unprecedented, it s taking on aec new and literally pernicious forms. It s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It s about who gets to count the vote. Who gets to count whether or not your vote countedun at all. It s about moving from independent election administerors who work for the people, to polarize state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. To me this is simple. This is election subversion. It s the most dangerous threat to voting in our history. Never before have they decide who had gets to count count what votes count. Some state legislators want to make it harder for you to vote. If you vote, they want to tell you that your vote doesn t count for any reason they make up. They want to reject the
and in north carolina, officials looking into why a man was shot and killed, calls now for transparency and to that body cam video to be released getting louder. all of this as the city of minneapolis warnings the death of daunte wright. the 20-year-old killed in a traffic stop days ago. we are live in minneapolis for that funeral and in minneapolis as well, we are hearing now for the first time from one of the jurors, an alternate in the trial of derek chauvin. we have a lot to get to this morning. i m hallie jackson in washington. i am joined by megan fitzgerald in columbus, ohio. shaq broouser and katie beck and gator haik on capitol hill. we will play that new 911 call released from columbus, ohio, showing what happened in the moments before 16-year-old makaya bryant s death. we have to warn you, this video is disturbing. we got these grown girls over here, trying to fight us, tryin to stab us. get here now. reporter: the officer arrive, he sees a group of young peop