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the group says it supports the rioters who have been prosecuted for their participation on the assault on the capitol last winter. joe biden is supporting mark milley as former president and supporters demand that milley be fired or tried for treason. did general milley do the right thing, sir? i have great confidence in general milley. milley and his backers say the conversations with his chinese military counterpart were routine cause of reassurance to 20 or more allies and adversaries alike following the insurrection. the controversy erupting, of course, over those stunning revelations in bob woodward and robert costas new book. joining me is pentagon correspondent courtney kube and michael mcfall, former u.s. ambassador to russia. thanks, all. jonathan lemire jen psaki are standing behind general milley. how much angst is there about this book? i pressed the white house press secretary yesterday in her daily press briefing and certainly, they are supportive ....
also, to be able to track these immigrants and if they don t qualify for asylum, they will be swiftly deported. that is a very big shift from the way this has been handled thus far. thank you, julia. that s nbc s julia ainsley with the latest on the situation at the southern border tonight. well, it is the top of the hour and it s very good to be with you tonight. we are waiting to learn the next steps for the house select committee that s investigating january 6th. lawmakers huddled behind closed doors last night, after some emotional testimony this week. simone biles is out for at least two of the four individual competitions in the olympic finals, after sparking a big conversation about mental health. hers is just one big story this week about the ways we show up for each other. to give a teammate a break, to defend democracy, to stop a pandemic, or anything else that matters to us. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to t ....
club. it is thursday, july 29, it is 5:00 a.m. here in new york. thanks for getting an early start with us. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports from london, a s arkansas, tokyo and washington. but we depend with corporate america taking the lead on battling coronavirus, requiring employees get the shot to keep their job as the delta variant surges across the country. google, facebook, netflix, morgan stanley and others requiring vaccines for at least some of their employees. and bring your mask to liz any l disneyland and disney world whether you are vaccinated or not. masks are required there. some executives are waiting to mandate vaccines until they win full fda approval hoping that it will come soon. and here is home depot co-founder. you get the fda to say it is final, approved, and i can guarantee you all the places i m involved in, if you don t get vaccinated, you will get fired. you have an obligation to your ....
stability between europe and the u.s. after trump berated the allies including merkel and threatened to pull out of nato. with that and the backdrop of nato, there are shocking comments attributed to the chief of staff mark milley in a book by washington post reporters. in the excerpts from i, alone can fix it. obtained from nbc news, milley said that listening to trump was like reading orwell s 1884 that evil is good, and good is evil. but it was january 6th, he said, see you in d.c., he wrote to the followers, be there and it will be wild. but milley said that trump was stoking the unrest hoping to evoke the insurrectionist act, and then milley had a head s up from a former defense secretary that all ten living secretaries of defense had reached the same conclusion. he saw parallels between trump s rhetoric of election fraud and adolf hitler s insistence at the nuremberg s rally that he was the victim and their savior. and he said, this is the gol pel of the fuhre ....
the author, michael wolff, he s standing by, he will join us. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the latest on the surging coronavirus pandemic. cnn s erica hill is joining us from new york right now. erica, update our viewers. so we just learned from l.a. county where cases, by the way, are up 500% over the last month that all of the covid patients admitted now are unvaccinated. here in new york city, we learned today that from january to june, nearly all of the new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were also among people in the city who were unvaccinated. all of those headlines, all of those numbers just underscoring the boost in efforts to try to get more shots in arms. the white house calling in pop star olivia rodrigo in an effort to boost vaccinations, especially among teens and young adults, as misinformation and politics threat ....