Passage of americans and our allies. My guests this morning, national security adivsor jake sullivan and republican congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming. Plus, our numb nbc news poll. New numbers on president biden s approval rating, his handling of covid, the economy in a deeply divided country. Also, kids, schools, and covid. Cases rising nationwide. The situation is dire, and we are simply out of time. With more and more children now falling in critically, critically ill children. Local school districts are pushing back against statewide bans on mask mandates. These school boards are having to essentially protect kids from their own governors. I ll talk to education secretary miguel cardona about the fight over masking children. Joining me for insight and analysis are, nbc news national washington correspondent andrea mitchell, stephen hayes, founder of the dispatch, helene cooper, pentagon correspondent from the new york times and leo shane, deputy editor of the military times. Welc
It back. Good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. It is monday, august 2nd. The pandemic of the unvaccinated accelerating. 35 states have seen cases rise by more than 50% since last week. Hospitalizations are rising, nearly 44,000 americans are hospitalized right now. That s the highest number since april. Dr. Anthony fauci says he does not expect lockdowns but he is warning that there are dark days and weeks ahead. We re looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we re seeing the cases go up. Which is the reason why we keep saying over and over again the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening. The cdc is stressing more than 99. 9% of people who are fully vaccinated against covid have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death. That kind of messaging and a healthy dose of fear may actually be working because the pace of vaccinations is actually picking up. The sevenday average is up 26% f
But cases of coronavirus mainly driven by the unvaccinated continues to grow. The u. S. Is now averaging more than 79,000 new infections a day. And more than 4 out of 5 americans live in an area with substantial or high transmission. The pressure campaign to get vaccinated appears to be working, because for nearly a week, the u. S. Has seen increases in vaccine doses administered. Cnn s lucy kauchb has been following the trend. Reporter: more than 700,000 doses administered daily for five days straight. The good news, health experts say rising vaccination rates could help avoid winter lockdowns. The bad news, there may be rough weeks ahead. We re looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we re seeing the cases go up. We want to avoid lockdowns at all costs, but that means we re going to have to do some other things that won t necessarily be welcomed by people. Reporter: across the country, mask mandates going into place, even for people fully vaccinated. New york city s
Discussions on building back the global economy postpandemic, and signing a global health declaration to make sure another crisis like the coronavirus pandemic does not happen again. And in the last hour, first lady jill biden took part in an event featuring veterans, first responders and family members. The organization hosting it helps those with physical injuries or mental health issues through surfing. Looming over the g7, president biden s first facetoface with vladimir putin just days from now. The russian president in a rare interview with a u. S. Network saying relations between the two nations are the lowest they ve been in years. Let s get to cnn s jeff zeleny, who is live from england. So has this bilateral meeting happened? what do we know? reporter: we do know that any moment now president biden will be sitting down for his first oneonone formal bilateral meeting with french president emmanuel macron. They did speak yesterday on the sidelines of this g7 summit, and it was
overcoming opposition and passing voting rights in the senate. these bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself. while i continue to support these bills i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, another protector of the filibuster, seem to believe when it comes to protecting democracy the cure is worse than the problem. in their minds eliminating the filibuster, a maneuver done many times before to bypass the 60-vote threshold, that that is somehow worse than republican states like texas and georgia making it harder to vote and installing partisans to perhaps put the thumb on the scale in a close election. how big is the threat? consider this last year 19 states enacted 34 laws that restrict voting and alter the vote counting process. hundreds more were introduced. more are coming this year. and threats of violence an