Welcome to thursday. It is mtp daily. Kasie hunt in for chuck todd. We begin with the latest revelations involving the former president s conduct in final weeks in office, what it says about the future of the republican party. Former President Trump is meeting today with House Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy, a meeting which will likely at least be in part about marshalling republicans to defend trump as the house select committee investigates the January 6th riot. That comes as excerpts from a Book Talk about the most alarming things around the president as he tried to overthrow election results. New excerpts published last hour with new details about Trumps Response or lack thereof during the January 6th insurrection as aides urged him to intervene. At one point, The Books authors say he stayed in the dining room, watching television. Nbc news obtained additional excerpts from The Book which reveal stunning levels of alarm among top military commanders leading to the January 6th siege
Moments. Plus, monster inferno, wildfires in the west harming Air Quality from Coast To coast. It is literally Climate Change playing out before our ey eyes. How much worse could this get . Ill speak exclusively to Oregon Governor Kate Brown ahead. Hello. Im Jake Tapper in washington, d. C. , where the state of our union is sad and confused, as the u. S. Suffers tHrough yet another covid surge, one that did not have to happen. The highly contagious Delta Variant is fueling a rise in coronavirus cases in every state with cases at their highest level since may. And one clear Demographic Group causing the spike. Those who are not vaccinated. Only 49 of the united states is fully vaccinated. For those eligible for the vaccine, those 12 and old er, its only 57 . The most severe outbreaks, not surprisingly, are happening where Vaccination Rates are the lowest. Just tHree states, just tHree, florida, texas and missouri, accounted for 40 of all the new cases this week. Weve heard some heartbre
Covid. There is a covid bill complete with federal minimum wage hike, and special interests totally unrelated to the pandemic come about to go to the vote in the house tonight or early tomorrow. With hospitalizations and cases plummeting, perhaps there is less of a need for trillions in spending, say republicans, especially since so much of what has been authorized still has not actually been spent. By the way, that new vaccine has actually been tested against the new variants. Those findings ahead and just a minute. And imagine if this had happened under the prior administration, journalist Rage Tweeting tonight over a new plan reported by the Washington Post to charge them each 170 for covid tests every time they enter the white house. Could that strain the relationship between President Biden and the mainstream media, which is often been pretty deferential on the Campaign Trail and at the white house . First tonight, Congressional Correspondent chad pergram to see where things stand
Fear mongering and lockdowns over covid19. There is a 2 trillion covid19 bill, and special interests totally unrelated to fighting the pandemic about to go to a vote tonight or tomorrow. With hospitalization cases plummeting perhaps theres less of a need, especially since so much of what has been authorized still has not actually been spent. The new vaccine has been tested against the new variant. Those findings in a moment. Imagine if this happened in a prior administration, journalists talk about a plan by the Washington Post to charge the beach 170 for covid19 test every time they into the white house. Could that strained the relationship between President Biden and the mainstream media. First tonight, chad program to see where things stand at this minute on the covid19 bill and growing Person Progressive August overall of it, this is about the minimum wage. Democrats insist they will pass this bill later tonight but there were divides over the senate stripping the National Wage sta
It has been tough in texas and continues to be so. Hello, everyone, welcome to a brand new hour of americas news headquarters. Im eric shawn. Hi arthel. Arthel hi, eric. Im arthel nefl. Nell. Going from a Power Knowlede food and power crisis. Electricity being restored to more homes. Fresh food, water and other resources have become hard to find. Millions are under boil water notices that could last several days. It is especially challenging for some people who have no water to boil due to frozen or burst pipes. We never lost power. They never lost water. I mean, they comfortable over there what about us . Getting Text Messages about water and ice where go get water. So far, us getting it back in our homes yet. There is still no bread. You know, they are bringing out pallets of water right now. But no dairy products. No eggs. We have live Fox News Team coverage. Meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the Winter Weather that hammered texas. We begin with Grady Trim Bull Life In Dallas cov