Look, i respect the importance of masks, but if we want to make a comparison, a mask is a Pea Shooter and the vaccine is a cannon. Lets be clear. The thing that will make a difference is the vaccine. As we speak, the First Lady is on her way to tokyo for the olympics as another Team Usa Athlete tests positive and cases spike in japan. We start with the new mandate from new York City. The mayor says disinformation about covid and vaccines has, quote, poisoned this country. Now hoe e wants his city to up ante to protect the most vulnerable among us. Elizabeth cohen joins us. A lot of cities and municipalities around the country are all grappling with what to do about masks and this Delta Variant. Right. The reason why theres such grappling about what do we do, require masks, require vaccination, is that for the vaccine for several months you could say, lets give people time to get vaccinated, lets give them time to get the right information. As mayor De Blasio of new York City said, its
frustrated base voters, who feel the white house has done too little, too late on the issue. majority leader chuck schumer s political gambit puts senate republicans on the record to their unified opposition to major voting rights bills. and two moderate holdouts on the spot over their support for the filibuster. joining me now, ahead of the action on the senate floor, as you know, the chaplain is now reciting the prayer. nbc s senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake. nbc chief white house correspondent, and weekend today cohost, peter alexander, and ashley parker. garrett, expect to hear from both chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell momentarily, really. how is this debate going to play out today and through the week? well, we know how it s going to end, andrea, for democrats, the choice is, when do they want it to end and what do they want the message to be. the floor opens right now. we won t see any votes on this bill or these combined bills today. that will pro
good to be with you. i m katy tur. new numbers today confirming, no, it s not just you, everything is more expensive than it was a year ago. across the board prices rose by 7% in 2021, the fastest increase we ve seen since reagan was in office. it costs more to eat. bread, meat, fish and eggs are all up a whopping 12.5%. a pound of bacon just over $5 last year. $6.50 today. it costs more to sleep. rent and mortgage is up 4%. that means if you were paying $2,000 in rent every month, you might be looking at an $80 increase going forward. almost $1,000 more for the entire year. it costs more to get around as well. used cars are up 37%, a $20,000 car is now more than $27,000. and it costs a lot more to drive it as well. gas prices are up 50%, despite a dip in those costs at the end of last year. all of this, as you well know, adds up, especially when salaries are not keeping up. take all of this inflation into account, and the average earnings by the hour, hourly earnings, actual
waitstaff, bellmen, their pay went up almost 16% this year. far ahead of inflation, which is still a concern. reporter: labor secretary marty walsh acknowledging there s still a lot of work to do. clearly we have some work to do in early 2022 as we move forward here. we have work to do. no question about it. reporter: the president dismissing republican criticism that he s out of touch with americans economic pain. even deploying one of his favorite terms. a lot of people are still suffering they say. well, they are. or that i m not focused on inflation. malarkey. they want to talk down the recovery because they voted against the legislation that made it happen. reporter: the omicron variant ripping through the united states also is now delaying president biden s state of the union. madam speaker, the president of the united states. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi inviting the president to deliver his address on march 1st, making it the first time in nearl
footnote. really not a lot happened that day if you think about it. the presidential election was not overturned, the capital was not destroyed, the government wasn t toppled no matter what you may have heard. not a single elected official was injured, thank god. police got shoved, unfortunately. punches were thrown, but the only person who wound up dead from violence was an unarmed protester who was shot to death without warning by a cop. none of the so-called insurrectionist had guns. when was the last time you saw an insurrection like that? looking back you probably would call what happened on january 6th a riot. we have called it that. but really only just a riot. maybe just barely. by recent standards it was an embarrassingly tepid effort. no one even bothered to set a fire or spray paint slogans on the walls. the question is why are we still talking about this? why are leaders obsessing over this event? every single one of the last 365 days, the propaganda machine has b