Possible they ll go through with impeachment proceedings unless he resigns. First, late today, we ve learned defense secretary austin is seeking to make vaccination mandatory for all troops, perhaps even this week. Global cases today crossed the 200 million mark. Meantime, driven by the delta variant but also by growing pressure, more people are rolling up air sleeves, up 26% from three weeks ago. That s good news. While defiance on masking and other mitigation measures are burning hot in florida and texas, one state governor, arkansas sationa hutchinson says he s working to change the law. Our guest tonight, bill gates. His foundation has donated billions of dollars. Bill gates joins us now. Bill, thank you for being with us tomorrow. I really preach it. Glad to talk to you. There s a lot to get to. Since we last spoke there s been more reporting about permanent topics. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about that. I know you feel some things have been misreported. I ll start
The country with some exceptions. We have also just learned defense secretary austin is expected to seek to make vaccination mandatory for all activeduty troops, perhaps even this week. Those two pieces of reporting come, as global cases today crossed the 200 million mark, and with the fda now working as quickly as possible to give full approval to pfizer s vaccine. Meantime, driven by the delta variant but, also, by growing pressure from private employers, more people are rolling up their sleeves. Up 26% from three weeks ago, that s good news. And while defiance on masking and other mitigation measures is still burning hot in states like florida and texas, one redstate governor, arkansas s isa hutchinson now says he regrets approving a statewide ban on mask mandates and is working to amend the law. Lot to talk about with our first guest tonight, bill gates, who we have talked to at critical points all throughout this pandemic. His foundation has donated billions of dollars to fighting
Dana: i m dana perino. If the president will take a shot at them you can imagine they would push back. Not exactly constructive. But the feud is erupting after president biden singled out texas and florida for banning mask mandates saying those states account for 1/3 of new infections. He said help slow the spread or get out of the way. Ron desantis firing back. Joe biden suggests if you don t do lockdown policies you should get out of the way. Let me tell you this, if you are coming after the rights of parents in florida i m standing in your way. Dana: griff jenkins is covering the story from the white house. Governor desantis has been standing in the white house s way as loudly as humanly possible, i think. Remember he was an immediate hard no on school mask mandates and now he is not taking lightly being called out by the president on tuesday. President biden: governors not willing to do the right thing. If you aren t willing to help at least get out of the way for the people trying
John: first, democratic lawmakers from texas on the run and in washington, d. C. , today. Part of a second attempt to block g. O. P. Back to voting bills back in her home state. Hello, i m john roberts in washington. Sandra: good afternoon everyone. I m sandra smith. Democrats leaving texas yesterday. We saw the pictures. All coming after governor greg habit because the special assessment to debate on everything. He said that democrats that left the state could be arrested when they return. John: those low makers say that blocking the voting rights protect democracy and republican say that those bills would strengthen election security. Sandra: senior correspondent is live from austin, texas, with the very latest from there. Hello. It good to see you. Talk about a real impasse. Both sides have really dug their heels in. The lawmakers in washington, the democratic lawmakers say that they have every intention of staying put in running the clock out while the governor of the state, greg a
Play at the tournament? hello and welcome. There are some sore heads here in england this morning after the country s footballers reached their first major tournament final since 1966. They beat denmark 2 1 in the semi finals of the european championship, and will play italy in the final on sunday. The victory sparked celebrations late into the night, as tim allman now reports. England allman now reports. Fans have waited a long time england fans have waited a long time for this. 55 years in fact. 55 years since they had last reached the final of a major tournament, so you can understand why they wanted to have a party. In london, they danced in trafalgar square. They danced on top of double decker buses, and it wasn tjust double decker buses, and it wasn t just the capital. Double decker buses, and it wasn tjust the capital. All across the country they celebrated, as if the tournament had already been one. North, south, eastand west, everyone understanding the significance of three ve