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and striking gold. the u.s. finally winning its first olympic gold medal of the tokyo games and in a stunner one of the top athletes in the world is sidelined after testing positive for coronavirus. also a state of emergency in parts of the west as wildfires are burning out of control. we are on the front lines for you. it is sunday, july 25th, and we are always grateful to have your company. good morning, boris. good morning, christi. always great to see you. you as well, thanks. so this summer surge of the coronavirus pandemic that we have been talking about seems to be worsening across the u.s. cases are headed in the wrong direction while vaccination rates have stalled. yeah, it is not a pretty picture. nearly every state is reporting an increase in infections as the more transmissable delta variant of the coronavirus surges. look at all the red on that map. new numbers showing under half the population of the u.s. is fully vaccinated. 49%. the rise in i ....
boston, or charlotte, and we could keep going. that s all in just six months. it is enough people to change this country forever. they may argue that s a good thing, america will benefit from this mass influx of new people from foreign countries. if so, we d love to hear that riargument in detail. no one so far has explained how that works. but what you can t argue is that opening the borders was legal or that anyone in this country voted for it. the current mass movement of foreign nationals into the united states was never approved by congress. no one passed a law demanding it. the biden administration just did it unilaterally without asking americans what they thought of it. they probably already knew. every poll we ve ever seen shows clearly that voters of allhe backgrounds oppose open borders. that policy is highly unpopular. the administration couldn t say out loud what they were doing, instead they operated in secrecy, they hid it. they are hiding it right now. s ....
and keeping this seat warm for laura jarrett. it is wednesday, july 14th, it is 5:00 a.m. here in new york. and breaking overnight, democrats have a deal, a #$.5 $3.5 trillion budget resolution, the first step toward passing the infrastructure package separate of course from the roads and bridges infrastructure bill that is also advancing. let s bring in daniella diaz live on capitol hill. what is in the bill here? reporter: this budget resolution would provide funding to combat climate change, pay family and medical leave, expanding child tax credit and of course could even overhaul this nation s immigration system. so this is a huge democratic priority for the white house as well as senate democrats. and this is the first step for democrats to be able to start the process to be able to pass the legislation using budget reconciliation, which means that they only need to pass it along party lines. and two different sides of the democratic party, chuck schumer and ....
are looking at right now, announce the president of the infant states. by attempting to passed laws requiring voters to show i.d. when they vote republicans are risking it permanent internal division as well as a violent think we are overstating?re here s what he said. does an unfolding assault taking place in america today, and attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections. we are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. that s not hyperbole, since the civil war t. tucker: at the civil war? you sound overheated to you? he would like you to know that this is not hyperbole. they are literally like habeas corpus, the state legislature. that was the civil war. biden made it clear that s what he meant and he said it twice. one was the last time a sitting american gave a speech like this? probably not told the 1860s. it s hard to know how to process it. it was a stunningly irresponsible thing for an american le ....
those texas democrats, so there s no concern there. that delegation of lawmakers though facing criticism for the now-infamous plane photo where they were seen wearing no masks despite cdc guidelines saying mask wearing is required. the surgeon general defended the mask guidelines also pushing for choice over a widespread mandate. even though your risk of getting sick and especially seriously ill or transmitting the virus to someone else if you re fully vaccinated is low, there s some people that may decide to continue wearing masks. i don t wear my mask outdoors and when i m with people who are fully vaccinated, but that s my personal choice based on my individual circumstances at home. eric: but the cdc i says you have got to wear a mask onboard which those legislators clearly were not. david spunt with the latest. reporter: hi, eric. also rules from the faa, that is a mandate that you have to wear a mask on a plane. while president biden is at camp david and retur ....