has sustained over affeghanista he has centered around trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and deliver benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, and in the form of a human benefit, child tax credits, pre-k, expanded medicare benefits. free community college. a whole range of things in the budget bill that was advanced today in the house of representatives. he is facing tremendous resistance from republicans, legislatively on covid and the states and voting rights and he said going in to 2022, and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have done for people. today was a step on the path. mr. brownstein the budget package, huge. it could transform american lives. but, you are not convinced it s going to actually help biden or democrats politically. why? why is that? in the near term. yeah. look, i think i
a cure. just why are members of congress allowed to buy stock? plus the taliban moving with frightening speed to take back afghanistan. they ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation. the terrible end to the terrible 20-year war. when all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c. i m in for chris hayes. it s friday, august 13th. for most of you today is significant probably not beyond a warm summer friday. for the one in three republicans in this country who believe donald trump will be installed as their rightful president today is a very significant day indeed. it is reinstatement day. the reason they believe this deranged nonsense has a lot to do this man the my pillow guy mike lindell. his is in many ways a harrowing life story from the depths of his crack addiction that cost him his home and marriage. he found god. founded a successful business. most importantly he found donald j. trump. he never found common sense. you see, in the bi
i can t believe i m reporting that. i was reporting that during the height of the pandemic. and yet, here i am, reporting it, again. and the daily average of people getting fully vaccinated is at its lowest since the end of january. you heard the president, joe biden, at our town hall. look. here s it s real simple. we have a pandemic for those who haven t gotten the vaccination. it s that basic. that simple. this is simple, basic proposition. if you re vaccinated, you re not going to be hospitalized. you re not going to be in an icu unit. and you re not going to die. so it s gigantically important that you act like we all act like americans that care about our our fellow americans. a few states are in particularly bad shape. okay? pay attention to this, everyone. 40% of the cases coming from texas, missouri, and florida, where governor ron desantis, who has been pretty cocky about his state, is still mr. laissez faire in his response to the virus. even in the middl
too early for us. and former aid to the george w. bush white house, elise jordan and also katty kay on the way this morning. in the united states covid cases are on the rise again driven up in increases in places with low vaccination rates. and now the former surgeon general is suggesting the cdc should once again ask everyone to mask up indoors. nbc news correspondent kathy park explains. reporter: no signs of covid backing down. in los angeles county a 700% increase in positive cases in just the last month as masks go back on while indoors. i think better safe than sorry for sure. reporter: former surgeon general on mask weighing, the premature guidance was wrong. the cdc should be advising to vax it and mask it. the current surgeon general defended the cdc s decision on masks for the fully vaccinated. they gave communities and individuals a flexibility to make decisions about what to do with masks. reporter: across america, cases rising in all 50 states some hi
information. reporter: on covid misinformation, what s your message to platforms like facebook? they re killing people. plus, a day after meeting texas democrats in d.c., why is joe manchin going to raise money with republicans in texas? and as the mega drought continued in the west, why the biden administration just rolled back a ridiculous trump era regulation. when i take a shower i want water to hit my hair instead of drop, drop. it is hard enough, my hair, without all of that. all in starts right now. good evening from chicago. i m chris hayes. january 6th was, of course, a truly horrible day for our country, but what is getting more and more clear day by day by day is that it all could have been so much worse. we just learned the country dodged another metaphorical bullet through a federal indictment of two california trump supporters, ian rogers and jared copeland. according to the indictment, prompted by the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, r