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a very good day to all of you from msnbc world head kwaurters in new york. this hour from houston, texas, where eight young people are dead after a music festival turned deadly. now the police are opening a criminal investigation to figure out just what happened. more new video today showing a crowd of 50,000 people pushing toward the front of the stage during rapper travis scott s performance at the astro world festival which he organized and he is now speaking out. we re actually working right now to identify the families so we can help assist them through this tough time. you know, my fans, my fans like my fans really mean the world to me. and always just really want to leave them with a positive experience. msnbc s katie beck is following this story in houston. katie, what are we learning about the investigation? we know the situation is utterly heart breaking. reporter: it is. there s a lot of mourning going on here in houston today as victim s names a ....
but we begin the reidout with progress that will impact millions of working class americans. it sounds like democrats are finally getting close to the finish line delivering the build back better agenda but the questions we all need answers to, what exactly will be in there and will it include what was promised? vice president kamala harris travelled to the boogie down today and in the bronx and visited to promote administration s plans. this right now is a moment that will not last. it is a particular moment of incredible opportunity and a moment to transform our nation. in this moment, we have an opportunity to build an economy that works for working families. and last night president biden seemed to appear hopeful that it would actually get done. take a listen. we re down to four or five issues i won t negotiate on national television. we would be interesting in hearing if you want. i know. all kidding aside, i think we can get there. but there are two ....
criminal contempt for failing to appear today. he said he is not participating because the former president advised him not to. so where do things stand now? reporter: what stands now is the selective committee will meet on tuesday. that s where they will have an official business meeting where they will vote on criminal intent in the house of representatives. once they vote on that, it will be taken to the house to execute. this is basically the committee making good on a promise. they had warned these individuals that they had subpoenaed that they were going to do everything they had in their power to get them to comply with their subpoena request. steve bannon in particular has been the most defiant of this group of individuals that have been subpoenaed. he has said repeatedly that he was not going to comply. he sent the committee two different letters where he specifically said that he felt he didn t have to comply because the former president donald trump was g ....
leaders will, by all accounts hood county made a really good choice when they pick somebody to come in and be the sort of technocrat that nonpartisan official who would administer their elections. and in fact when it came time for the presidential election in november of last year, november of 2020, things went off absolutely without a hitch. in hud county. i should mention that county is really really conservative. it s really republican. to prove my point, these were the results in her county from the november election. the donald trump won 81% of the vote. there he beat joe biden in hood county by 64 point. keep in mind, over the entire state of texas, donald trump s margin of victory was six points in hood county it was 64 points. an absolute landslide. [laughs] by any measure. so, if you were a trump supporter, who fervently believes what trump says, which is that the 2020 election was stolen from him, or you might be mad at that, you might direct your eye or about ....
to torpedo it with a filibuster just 12 days out from when the u.s. is expected to default on its loans. the crucial question this morning, what are senate democrats going to do about it? right now they re huddling behind closed doors with senior white house officials. this hour we re tracking a change that could help thousands of americans get out from under crushing student loans. how teachers, social workers, and members of the armed services could get their debts cleared. and we re also dig spoog a brand new report that shows just how effective vaccines are at preventing covid deaths. in fact, listen to this. vaccines prevented 39,000 deaths among medicare recipients in just the first five months of this year. the report coming as we learn two-thirds of americans are now fully vaccinated. we ll get to that in a moment. we re going to start this hour with the high stakes standoff over the debt ceiling. our correspondent is with us. our white house correspondent monic ....