vaccinated person that i ve still diagnosed with covid-19. plus who still hasn t gotten the vaccine and can they be convinced to get it? and the bipartisan infrastructure deal facing another hurdle this hour. progressives are not happy. some promise to tank a top biden priority if they don t see action on voting rights. a pathway to citizenship and police reform. up nfirst today, the war chz changed. the war has changed. that s the rethink everything take away from a brand new alarming cdc document that says delta covid variant is as infect x as chickenpox and new precautions are needed. days ago scientists put the delta variant on par with the common cold, believing each infected person transmit the virus to maybe two other people. the new analysis says each infected person on average is actually infecting eight or nine others. cnn national correspondent christen holmes with more on the alarming, alarming findings. christen? yeah. john, i mean, there s no doubt about i
integrity bill. taking what could be america s last chance to salvage free and fair elections. because these folks are going to be remembered on the right side of history. a last ditch effort to block a restrictive new voting law as the g.o.p. is pushing its assault on our most sacred right as americans. defending the right of the american people to vote is as american as apple pie. dramatically left the state of texas to block republicans from passing another draconian voting bill in that state. greg: those lawmakers are vowing to stay in d.c. as long as it takes to stop texas from passing those voting laws, the lawmakers are kicking their feet up in a nice hotel and posting pictures of our lunch but at least they are eating healthy and on there is president biden who invokes jim crow again and the civil war yesterday. at least he didn t say this again. i m convinced we will be able to stop this because it is the most pernicious thing to. this makes jim crow look
that s not the creepy part. the person knocking at the door is a volunteer for a group known as the utah voter verification project and the latest front in the so-called stop the steal election fraud conspiracy movement. we know this thanks to an investigative story by the salt lake tribune. kudos to local journalism. this is what they found. the questioners are part of a private statewide effort to root out supposed voter fraud, sound familiar? like the thing they tried in arizona examining ballots for cheeto dust to conclude president biden won the state by a greater margin unlike arizona trump won at utah but that isn t stopping utah door knockers from sniffing out fake fraud with clipboards. the tribune got its hands on the training material. the questioners are trained to keep these fake. they don t wear name tags and don t identify the organizations they re with. people of utah who care about our country and the integrity of our elections appear to have the personal vot
microphone. she s standing in the lawn, social distance, being sneered at and attacked. and lots of people do it. we get to showcase the best journalists covering our politics at the most extraordinary moment and we get to lift up all that incredible journalism, and she s one of that class that really emerged as fearless. it s really, really even harder than it looked, and i know from being on the other side, and even as you said, when they challenge the politicians they work for, you re still sort of in awe of their ability to do it. yeah t is difficult. i guess that s the old saying, some people do make it look easier. i think it s difficult in interviewing, especially as you say, when you re in that format. i love that you ran that, and good to see you, as always. thank you, my friend. have a good show. thank you, nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we begin with breaking news out of the insurrection probe. tonight, the criminal trial set for steve ba
him. are oleg deripaska had, of course, a starring role in the mueller report and in the whole russian scandal when the trump campaign, for example, was inexplicably sending secret internal polling data to a russian intelligence officer while russia was enter jeeng trying to help trump. mueller and the intelligence committee said that the intented recipient was this guy oleg deripaska. now, that s why his name is familiar when you saw the news that the fbi was raiding his home today. we don t know why the fbi raided his home in d.c. and another place that he owns in new york city. but, boy, do i have questions about that. we will try to get some answers on that tonight. again, that was surprise news today though. this afternoon we also got some surprise news that a sitting republican member of congress has just been indicted on multiple felony charges. it s republican congressman jeff fortenberry. he has been in congress since 2005. he was charged by a federal grand jury with