issue but maybe not changing the policy. mayors and police chiefs will talk about illegal guns, the focal point of the administrations response but confront members of his own party forville filing law enforcement and pushing to defund the police. bill: from st. paul. national journal josh will analyze the politics of it all. we begin at the white house north lawn. mark meredith kicks off the coverage today. the white house admits that crime is on the rise nationally. now comes the hard part. how do you stop it? later today the president will be sitting down with the attorney general as well as mayors from washington, d.c. as well as san jose, california and police leaders from memphis and chicago to address violent crime impacting communities coast to coast. look at the situation in new york from the month of may of this year compared to last. shootings were up 73%. double digit increase in robbery, larceny, a state of emergency over the rise in violence in the empire st
we need to stop this evident to change our elections now before it goes further. ultimately we need the united states senate to act. having federal intervention to protect the right to vote. the new york times is reporting that the president is expected to step up his public profile on the issue of voting rights. the times is signaling it may at this point simply be window dressing. they report, quote, president biden is expected to put his political muscle behind the issue in a speech in philadelphia tuesday. in congress, democratic senators have been unable to move voting and election bills that would address what many call a fundamental attack on american democracy that could lock in a new era of republican minority rule. in the courts attacks on voting restrictions face an increasingly hostile judiciary. there is extreme peril in the democratic party s frame on this issue. the democratic construct politically is pushing moderates to abandon the filibuster is more dicey
well, the last thing anyone in the u.s. needs is more confusion over coronavirus shots. according to the cdc, less than half of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. the confusion is what we re getting after pfizer announced its see waning immunity from its shots. it an nonethelessed it will try to get emergency authorization for a booster shot. well, that caught held agencies off guard. the cdc put out a statement assuring that the coronavirus shots are working take they re supposed to from illnesses and dr. anthony fauci is offering his own clarifications. nothing has changed with regard to the cdc s recommendations. so, we respect what the pharmaceutical company is doing, but the american public should take their advice from the cdc and the fda. the cdc and the fda say if you ve been fully vaccinated, at this point in time, you do not need a booster shot. the world s top health agencies also agree with dr. fauci. athena jones has more on that and the worrisome s
yet. she is just minutes away. in a violence, vulgar message sent wow containing white powder sent to the home of senator rand paul. we have the breaking details on this disturbing story coming up. in one year after the death of george floyd, calls for justice and for some, calls to defund the police. the u.s. is facing surging crime rates in big cities nationwide. and now many localities are reconsidering the millions they stripped away from law enforcement. we begin tonight with the latest development giving significant new way to one potential theory that covid-19 originally escaped from a lab in wuhan, china. white house correspondent tracking it all for us tonight. good evening, kevin. great to be back with you. the origin story of covid-19 as you know has been a bit of a forbidden topic in the corporate/mainstream press for the past 16 months. often people bring it up on social media and they are immediately subject to banishment or media ridicule and so-called fact-
we d like to do things a little differently, they tell you. we d like to make a change to some customer belief that people have been attached to for the last two thousand years, but don t be alarmed, not a big deal. you don t even need to participate. all we ask is that you let us live the way we want to live. that s always the pitch. and, of course, you always agree to it. why wouldn t you, who could say no. some guy down the street wants to wear a dress? okay, fine. have a party. it doesn t affect you. you don t have to wear a dress so go ahead. live and let live. but it turns out that s never actually the deal. the guy down the street wears his dress but after a while that s not enough for him. he s still angry. and for some reason, he s angry with you. and that doesn t make sense because you re the person who had no problem with him wearing a dress in the first place. what did you do wrong? well, the problem is, you re not wearing a dress, and neither are your kids. your