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while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwide. on thursday. there is no progress on vaccinations. president biden marking today the 100 millionth dose, two months ahead of the goal he set. in total more than 115 million vaccinations have been injected into arms. more than one in five in the u.s. have received at least one dose, and more than one in ten in the u.s. are fully vaccinated at 12.3%. my next guest says that her coronavirus v ....
secretary is leading a bipartisan trip to the border today amid new information obtained by nbc news the humanitarian emergency at the border is only escalating. welcome to friday. it s meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. president biden left the white house a short time ago. he spoke to reporters about china, russia and vaccines. he is about to land in atlanta where he will visit with asian community leaders today amid the fallout over the atlanta spa shootings. his first stop is cdc headquarters coming as the administration announced a loosening of guidance for schools due to promising data about transmission rates in the classroom. in new published guidelines, the cdc calls for three feet of social distancing in schools as long as masks are worn and community transmission in general is not high. this could pave the way for more kids back in the classroom. obviously, three feet cuts the amount of space you need to find to see how big of a classroom you need. th ....
that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleag ....
we ll see you here tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. it turns out all of our guests are of asian descent and expert about what we ve been seeing in atlanta except for one guest, which is, of course, senator john osoff, who will be joining us and also discussing the situation in atlanta and the situation in the united states senate. so, it s excellent. a night of serious reflection on a situation that really now needs our attention. absolutely. get to it, my friend. thank you, lawrence. thank you, rachel. katherine tai was born to parents who were born in china, went to yale, harvard law school, became an expert in trade and she served in the bush administration as general counsel to the united states trade representative, a cabinet level position. general counsel is a very important job. she continued as counsel to the trade representative during the obama administration when the trade representative was an bomb a ....
will commit additional acts of violence, it s more a question of when. welcome to thursday. this is meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. six asian women are dead when gunman aaron long went on a two-county rampage targeting spas in the area. while a motive has not yet been determined, the reality is this happened to have happened during a massive rise in asian american violence in this nation. a year after the prior administration referred to the pandemic as the china virus or the kung flu. now our leaders are being forced to recon with a ugly reality. two senior administration officials tell nbc news president biden and vice president harris will meet with asian american leaders when they visit atlanta tomorrow. flags are being flown at half-staff in honor of the victims and members of congress did something they said they have not done in more than 30 years, held a hearing on violence against asians and other americans. sitting and testifying about their experien ....