another mr. president how is the first lady, sir? you re going to find out in a minute. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. you ve been listening to president biden speaking about the urgent need for more americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. the president announced some new requirements for all federal employees and federal contractors. he also laid out new incentives to get more people vaccinated including asking states to give $100 to every newly vaccinated person and reimbursements for companies who give their employees paid time off to get their shots. president biden also addressed the new mask guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention and the mask mandates popping back up in cities across the country. let s get straight to cnn s jeff zeleny right now live at the white house. jeff, the white house obviously is worried about the trajectory that the u.s. is on with the delta variant, and too many americans still refusing t
violence, members of congress are allowed to spend campaign money on their safety, some members of congress travel with personal security while in their districts and states, there is a police present when requested. the capitol itself it heavily guarded there are police everywhere, metal detectors and dogs trained. it is there safety is prior toyy number one for members of congress. but what about you? are you safe? do you feel safe? could your neighborhood benefit from greater police presence. is your place of work armed with metal detectors or guard dogs? do you have personal security when you travel? i understand full well why members of congress spend money on their personal safety. i just don t understand why some members of congress don t feel the same way about your safety. if their safety is the highest priority, shouldn t your safety be too. corey bush represents st. louis, missouri in congress, she wants to defund the police, she wants to defund your police, but no
trying to claw our way out we want to have this special our to talk with you about what we can do about it and where we are and how we got here. so rather than doing a one-hour monologue i thought best to discuss this with me? that is america taxes and , pete thank you for coming. i am behind humbled and when american marxism arrived in my mailbox it was like christmass for me. mark: thank you. phenomenal read and it could not be a more important moment for all the reasons you stated. i have the same feeling that we are not looking at the address that in the middle of it and you use the word marxism for the first time in a title in your book and if i may i will diving for a second on fox and friends i said i like to ask you a hundred questions i want to ask you 1000 but this is only one hour but on page 251 youk talk about washington reading thomas paine s words but the challenge today speaking in 1776 is just as crucial and urgent and more complicated. we need not ask fo
politics are a big part of how we got here. look at canada. 69% of those who supported the conservative party have gotten at least one dose. much more than the 52% of donald trump supporters here in the u.s. now look at how the u.s. has rapidly fallen behind canada in vaccinations. less than 600,000 vaccine doses are being administered daily now. that s down from a peak of more than 4.5 million a day in march. we ve heard plenty of reasons why people aren t willing to get a shot. our elle reed caught up with a woman in arkansas. did anyone you know get covid? my son got covid. how old is he? 8. wow, that s rare for a young kid. what was that like? he s sick a lot. he s been sick for a long while so we have to go get him looked at to see if there s further damage. he got real sick. fever every day for weeks. are you guys going to get the vaccine? no. no vaccine. how come? i just don t trust the government. cnn s gary tuchman heard another woman s reasonin
they re saying that the land in siberia has never been this dry in living memory, the temperatures are far higher than they ought to be at this time of year. that s causing the permafrost to medical which is fueling the fires and the environmental disasters have knock-on affects. as the fires rage, that s causing dangerous carbon emissions, which is making the air pollution very, very bad. and scientists are warning that time is running out. if something isn t done about this, these floods, these fires, are going to be regular features in our life at great cost to our planet. so it s time to wake up and take these things very seriously, otherwise we re not going to leave much of a future for generations to come. it is a stunning and sobering report. thank you so much. good to see you. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. welcome to alex whit reports. we re beginning with the rising number of covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths. the daily averages in