we meet this year s mercury prize winner, singer songwriter arlo parks, just 21 years old. in his most sweeping act yet, president biden has set out a series of radical measures to get more americans vaccinated against covid 19. it follows a surge in cases of the fast spreading delta variant. all federal government workers will have to be innoculated as will businesses with more than a hundred employees. mr biden expressed frustration at the eighty million americans who are still notjabbed, saying they were causing hospitals to become overcrowded and he appealed to them to get the shot. my message is this. what more is there to wait for? what more do you need to see? the vaccine has fda approval. more than 200 million with at least one shot. we have been patient, but patience is wearing thin. and refusal has cost all of us, so please, do the right thing. just don t take it from me. listen to the voices of unvaccinated americans. taking their final breath, saying, if only i
since us troops withdrew. and the film crew turned space crew, the people planning to shoot something that is truly out of this world! welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the biden administration is suing the state of texas over its near total ban on abortion. the state law makes it illegal to terminate a pregnancy six weeks after conception and, crucially, allows private individuals to sue medics or others who assist in the proceedure. courtney bembridge reports. presidentjoe biden had promised action and it came just over a week after the texas law, known as sb8 came into effect. texas law, known as 538 came into effect- into effect. 538 bands nearly all abortions into effect. 538 bands nearly all abortions in into effect. 538 bands nearly all abortions in the into effect. 538 bands nearly all abortions in the state - all abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant and months before a p
precedent. we have to do everything we can. senator, always good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. she is on the science and transportation and is the co-sponsor of this new legislation before the senate. a vote will be held on wednesday. do not go anywhere. straight ahead, pressley an i discuss that this is having control over women. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning. it is saturday the may the 7th. it is 9 am in the east. it has been five days since we got the post row reality that the supreme court is poised to usher in with the sam alito draft opinion erasing abortion rights in america. we still do not fully understand the far-reaching consequences that this decision could have. the implications of rolling back women s rights in this particular way. using this decision and the reasoning laid out by justice alito will have a ripple effect that is beginning to come into full view. this is as legal experts digest the opinion and anti-and p
erected days later. now senate democrats are planning a vote next week to codify abortion rights into a federal law. here s what you may have missed in the leaked opinion. in a footnote, justice samuel alito notes that supporters of abortion rights really just want to suppress the size of the african american population. justice samuel alito goes on to suggest that because of roe v. wade a disproportionate percentage of fetuses is black. the man who helped get a voting rights and uphold white racial innocence is now moved to protect a black lives. he offers no context here because while brevity is the soul of what it is also clearly the soul of the dim-witted. we will offer context and a second. shout to the republican voters who paved the way for this very thing to happen. do not mind us. we are still here cleaning up this mess. the mess on our hands now is the trump appointed judges who helped create the conservative majority. now, they are empowered and emboldened at a tim
democracy. the only way you can stop him is by voting for nikki haley, as much as you might disagree with her. and while there might be many voters who agree with that sentiment, are there enough? and what happens now that donald trump can train the full force of his machine against her. attacks on stage and online and in ads, coupled with endorsements from one-time haley allies now turned rivals. haley has gotten sharper taking on trump s age and mental fitness. polls show trump handily is in the lead. if so, are there still enough people out there who think that their vote will actually make a difference. joining us at the big board, nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki, in manchester, new hampshire, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, in franklin, nbc news correspondent ali vitali who just caught up with nikki haley a moment ago, and in hollis, nbc news correspondent garrett haake. all right, steve, have the numbers moved at all? well, we do hav