sweeping social spending bill. many in the party are blaming joe manchin for the holdup, but he isn t budging. so why do they think this will pass? t in the new year? i want to get straight to cnn s nick watt for the very latest on the surge of covid cases and hospitalizations. reporter: covid-19 cases and hospitalizations climbed around 40% this past month. deaths, says the cdc, forecast to rise in the month ahead. the delta variant still rampant. omicron on the rise. it s here now, and it s spreading, and it s going to increase. for unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death if you re unvaccinated for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they ll soon overwhelm. very soon, it s going to be the dominant variant. we ve seen that in south africa. we re seeiinhe uk, a i m absolutely certain that s what we re going to be seeing here relatively soon. reporter: for the vaccines, this variant is now the most complete escapee say researche
to the top of the biden agenda. he said there s it s the most important thing. he said that today when he was in kentucky, but there s just nothing more important than voting rights. that s a new shape of the biden agenda in the priorities. i doubt i wouldn t ever take credit for anything i thought myself. i would not put it past the president that he watched senator warnock, either in the senate when he was giving that speech, or maybe he saw us clip it. but yeah, i mean, i the democrats in the united states senate and every cause that senator raphael warnock believes in is lucky to have him as their messenger, my god is he a good spokesperson for what he believes in, and he made that case so effectively last night i could hardly stand it. yeah, it s it s a fascinating turn. we ll see whether this actually is an agenda shift. it appeared to be in the way he said it today, but we will see. yeah, indeed. thanks, lawrence. thank you, rachel. as i was just sayi
things i really liked about what he had to say was that everyone on the democratic side who of the senate who is now in fay very of change the 60 vote threshold rule came to that position reluctantly. he came to it, has been coming in that direction more reluctantly than most of the rest, but everyone s thinking about this move slowly, and there was that moment where he mentioned norm ornstein, he mentioned me in our history with this subject, and i can remember the first time it came up somewhere, you know, in the 2005 or 6, i remember the first time i heard a discussion of it publicly and i immediately just of course not. of course you don t change that rule because like angus king and people who worked in the senate, i lived on the winning side of votes where the side i was on had, you know, 43 votes in the senate of 100 senators, and did it repeatedly. and so that s what he was talking about tonight is that concept of, you know, remember, if you do this it won t be t
see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. we have the decision, this order by the federal judge in texas that i think many people anticipated that there would be a federal judge somewhere in texas who would see it this way. just completely shutting down that texas law ordering absolutely no administration of that new texas abortion law at all. none of these lawsuits specifically sending an orderto every state court, do not accept filing of any of these lawsuits against abortion providers, and absolutely shut it down. shut it down. and we ve just learned in the past couple of minutes that texas is appealing and again, the legal undergirding of the texas abortion ban is so weird, it s specifically designed to evade federal constitutional scrutiny, that i think it s very hard to predict what s going to happen here between here and the circuit and the supreme court, but this judge s ruling
do your deposition. really stacking them up fast. we re eager to get to that. but rachel, i just want to i have the most the most common question i get out there in the world about msnbc is how does rachel do it? and i always say she s the hardest working person i know. but tonight i don t know how she did it, okay? because, because i am aware, let s say half aware of how hard you were working today on the arizona story and how much how far down that road into the arizona story you were and how late in the game you were on that road. uh-huh. and then your show comes on, and somewhere you have you ve made the judgment, the news judgment that you can t use what you found. we re going to wait 24 hours or less and wise judgment. but you then pull this other show out from somewhere that fills that s a whole hour of a tv show that as far as i know didn t exist about a half an hour before you went on tv. so now i officially do not know. i have no idea how rachel does i