As pfizer makes moves to approve a covid booster vaccine, u. S. Health officials are pushing back. An epidemiologist will weigh in. And england doesn t come out on top. Painfully. But tonight s soccer match is one for the books. I ll share my thoughts on why england making it to the 2020 final of the euros may help redefine what it means to be english, what patriotism means. Good evening. There are two words to every american concerned about the future of our democracy should be aware of, election subversion. That is the biggest threat we face. Yes, the assault on vote rights is a huge problem. As we documented on this show, week in and week out. And, yes, the myriad and grotesque ways in which local republicans are perfecting the art of voter suppression. It is a massive threat to our democracy and to racial equality. But the biggest threat of all, one perhaps shamefully underdiscussed in our politics and media so far is the threat of election subversion. To quote an election expert,
Dana: the heat wave in the west right now there is no sign of it alleviating and it is actually causing huge problems. Get a load of this. Disturbing new photos from border patrol in texas. Human smugglers cramming migrants on top of each other in rental trucks in the middle of a heat wave that isn t going anywhere. Good morning. The administration is defending its border policy, secretary of homeland security testifying before the house homeland security committee saying it is his job to deal with the u. S. Southern border. Does it make sense for the leaders of the free world to go to talk and see what s going on at the border? i m the secretary of homeland security and it s my responsibility to manage the border at the direction of the president and the vice president, and i have visited the border on multiple occasions. The vice president served as the attorney general of a border state of california and she is quite familiar with the situation on the border. She has not been there.
This time wasn t even close. The question, is i think there is an answer, is obamacare here to stay? plus, democrats make progress on a critical voting rights bill as senator joe manchin s proposal gets a key endorsement. The question is, will it get enough republican support? and two of the biggest names in tennis withdraw from wimbledon. Will we see them at the olympics? it s way too early for this. Good morning. Welcome to way too early, the show that is serving up a busy hour of news ahead. I m kacie hunt. We ll start the news. A conservative dominated supreme court dismissed the latest attempt by republicans to eliminate obamacare leaving intact insurance coverage for 31 million americans. By a vote of 72, with justice stephen breyer writing for the majority, the case was dismissed on basically the procedural basis of lack of standing. The court held that a texas led coalition of gop controlled states as well as two individual plaintiffs hadn t suffered any injury and, therefore,
Paves the way to an actual bill? let s dig deeper on all of this. I want to bring in nbc s national reporter sahil kippur, and moderator for washington week on pbs, it s friday so you better tune in. Sahil, let s talk about voting rights. Talk to us about joe manchin s compromise and whether it actually changes the prospects of something getting done here. Reporter: that s right, steph crucial offer, because if they can get that, they can say they re united and force a conversation about whether more is an option. They need 60 votes to move forward. They don t have any hope of getting meaningful republican support to advance this bill. The senate is likely to vote on tuesday. There are multiple things that manchin said that offered democratic support, including making election day a national holiday guaranteeing 15 days of national voting. Even a push for some i. D. Rules was pushed by warnock if it is designed in a way to not be restrictive or oppressive. A significant move, but democ
Border, as you know, temperatures in the southwest have been soaring into the triple digits. It is dangerous and a hazardous preview of what the unfor giving desert summer can bring. We have a live report from the border in la jolla, texas. We may see an increasing death toll, sadly. Reporter: eric, good morning to you. That s what border agents on the ground are tellings us to expect as we head into the summer months and as the surge continues we re really starting to see the length some of these migrants are willing to go, not just to get to the united states but stay in the united states and how ruthless some of the human smugglers are. Take a look at this, this was in texas, this tuesday. Horrible images of 15 migrants who had been locked inside of a train by human smugglers. They had apparently all been locked inside of grain hoppers. Border patrol and texas state troopers had to rescue them. They say it was 110 degrees inside the train at the time of their rescue. Five of the mig