Plus the president today sending his top diplomat to the middle east, and the president making a promise to not put israel and gaza on the back burner, now that rockets and air strikes have stopped. More on the big political stakes on those stories ahead, covid numbers signal normal, or at least near normal, it s close. The united states today hitting a key milestone, 25 states in the district of columbia have fully vaccinated at least half of their adult populations. Important signs of the times right there, take a look, weekend images of fans jamming ballparks and arenas for baseball and the start of the nba playoffs. Another sign, new york s mayor pledges city schools will be fully open in the fall, no more remote learning, the trajectory is good, quite good. But the threat is by no means gone. Your choice about the covid vaccine is paramount. I think it s an environment right now where we re not going to be able to rely necessarily on public health ordinances and mandates from gove
constituents before the needs of other interests. from what i have seen bipartisanship is not working. there is no bipartisanship. you have to get rid of the filibuster to get the policies we need passed. manchin said he s not going to do that. right, that s why we are here. this is narrowing to an unavoidable choice for democrats. mcconnell already said publicly that he s 100% focused on stopping joe biden and his actions speak louder. another white house meeting with a group of senators of stalled talks. biden moving the curve of gun violence through executive action that don t require any gop votes. the department is announcing as i just did of the major crack down. we have an opportunity to come together now as democrats and republicans, as fellow americans of our democracy to keep each other safe. this should not be a red or bluish. it is an american issue. we are not changing the american constitution, we are enforcing it. progressives are calling biden to go
I m john berman alongside brianna keilar on this new day. Breaking news. Democrats in texas staging a walkout overnight to block a bill that would make voting hard never that state. One of them joins me live in just moments. Plus, a manhunt under way for a gunman who opened fire in a nightclub in florida in another mass shooting. And the united states celebrates a holiday, one says it s not difficult for a virus to escape labs. We ll discuss. The drumbeat grows louder for democrats to use the nuclear option. Good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. It is monday, may 31st, memorial day. We re thinking of our troops and families of those troops. Breaking overnight, democrats block a bill by staging a dramatic walkout. A quorum is apparently not present. The point of order is well taken and sustained. The republicanbacked legislation would have made it harder to vote by mail, while empowering partisan poll watchers and overturning election results. R
Unit, the year he spent deployed in iraq, was one of the things that he was most proud of in life. Yesterday marked the anniversary of his death, and it s a hard time. I always feel beau close to me on memorial day. I know exactly where i need to be, right here, honoring our fallen heroes because through pain and anguish of his loss i remember the pride on his face that pinned those bars on his shoulders. Just feeding in right now, moments ago in arlington national cemetery, this is not the right video, but i do want to at least make mention that the president did just visit section 60 of arlington national ceremony which is significant because that is where veterans in the wars in afghanistan and iraq are buried. That just happening a few moments ago. Memorial day is also summer s unofficial start and this year an unofficial glimpse at a postcovid holiday, record pandemic travel numbers as millions of vaccinated and unvaccinated americans hit the road, hit the skies, pack the beaches.
Fda says it happens all the time. Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see you. This is fox news live is memorial day. His comments coming just days after president biden announced the intelligence community is investigating the origins of covid and whether china s government has a role to play it. Also saying that the u. S. Needs to treat public health as a matter of national security. These kinds of lab leaks happen all the time. Here in the united states, we have had mishaps. Six known outbreaks of sars one have been out of labs, including the last known outbreak, which was a pretty extensive outbreak that china initially didn t disclose. In a few moments, we are going to talk to her marc siegel about this. Hi, mark. Good afternoon to you. Compile a report about how covid19 first spread. It s expected to take a few months to put together, but we certainly see more of a public interest to try to figure out how this all started. For months, china has dismissed reports that the virus may