Be watching that. Thank you. Lets do it now well, first of all, im just glad to be back In Atlanta after getting caught up in the travel mess, we all just went through maybe the only thing as complicated to navigate is the 2024 Race Inauguration Day is six months away from today, guys and democrats do not want to see former president Donald Trump back on that stage. And yet they are struggling to decide who has the best chance to keep that from happening. Among the new batch of names publicly asking President Biden to step aside, congregate Congressman Marc Veasey of texas not the biggest name, but he is the first member of the Congressional Black Caucus to do it. President biden still seems to have the support of what democrats know is the base of their party. Most Black Women and then this week, more than 1,000 Black Women leaders and organizers signed and released a letter demanding no change to the ticket former Atlanta Mayor Keisha lance bottoms, actress vivica fox, former Senator
Seem to be inspiring more people to get the vaccine. The daily number of first doses has doubled since the start of july. Republicans have turned and said to their favorite scapegoats, immigrants. Joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. This is a Guy Who Ran for president , saying he was going to, quote, Shut Down the virus, and what has he done, hes imported more virus from Around The World by having a wideopen southern border. As the biden administration is allowing people to come across the southern border, many of whom who have covid, most of whom are not really being checked for covid. Those who do have covid, some have been released into our cities. And americans all over this country. Ought to be damned angry whats happening to their country. Total invasion. People are going to die because of people coming in illegally with covid, with the Fentanyl Drugs that are crossing the border. Joining me now to get into all of that foolishness this morning
the most vulnerable in our society. shannon: yet the media is going on offense, challenging more companies like lift to pull out of cities like atlanta because of g.o.p. voting reform. would you consider pulling out? you re hurting people you re trying to help. you can t be for pulling the all-star game out of georgia over election fog, but be fine with the olympics going forward in communist china. our position on the 2022 olympics has not changed. we refer to the georgia law as a jim crow law, yet he s not doing anything about literal slavery happening in china. we were democrats tried redefine infrastructure after the senate parliamentarians tease up to more nuclear options. to automatically say that the only thing of infrastructure as a high window bridge, that s not national. may be the republicans should call these migrant children infrastructure to get some attention. human before starts right now. in a matter of hours, president bite inside to sign a s
covid. the u.s. facing impending doom fro potential fourth wave as cases rise in 31 states the emotional new pleas from her and president biden and what he now says nearly all adults can get the vaccine. plus, the leaked report on covid s origin. the new image of governor andrew cuomo kissing a woman, the ninth now to accuse him of inappropriate behavior the governor s response tonight. the deadly floods in tennessee our team is on the ground a week after that massive ship became stuck in the suez canal, how crews finally got it free. and the touchdown seen by millions and inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone today a minnesota jury and millions of tv viewers relived the incredibly disturbing last minutes of george floyd s life the uninterrupted video of him while under the knee of a minneapolis police officer ten months ago shown today at the start of a televised murder trial of the now-former officer d
skepticism. the w.h.o. report on virus in china. but we began with correspondent kevin corke and growing concern over covert concerns, good evening, kevin. dr. michelle wilensky with deep concern as you point out that the u.s. could very soon bear witness to a fourth covid surge as the country average 2.7 million vaccinations over the past week. still the numbers are daunting and recent days the u.s. surpassing 30 million cases with seven-day average, bret, 10% with 1,000 deaths per day. i m going to pause here. and i m going to reflect on the feeling that i have. we have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are so much reason for hope that right now i m scared. she said the project tree of the pandemic and the u.s. has similar like germany and france where there is a worry and spike in cases, is all the more reason, says the white house, to wear a mask. for my call for every governor, mayor and local leader to maintain and reinstate t