Be here with the bbc news at ten. Now though it s time for newscast. Hello, it s adam in the studio. And laura in the studio. And we are still two metres apart. Even though legally we don t need to be any more. Yes, but i think like lots of people are still taking precaution. Lots of people are still wearing masks everywhere, on some forms of transport you re still expected to wear a mask too, so fascinating over the next few weeks to see the kinds of decisions people are taking. Yeah. And it s the last episode of newscast before the summer holidays, because it s the last day of parliament before the summer holidays, so there is quite a louche atmosphere! what in our. There would never be a louche atmosphere in our newsroom, never, ever, ever. Not allowed. Unfortunately chris mason is on the louche, he s not here. So he s not in his cupboard. But we decided to replace him with two friends of the podcast. Yes. Restored to her rightful place on late night thursday political tv, it s liz
Out against mr. Trump s lies about the election. We have to fight fort truth, and we ve got build our party back on a foundation that embraces the constitution, embraces fidelity to the constitution, and that, you know, we have to be very clear to say a president who did what donald trump did has no role to play in the future of the nation. He simply can t. It s too dangerous. Plenty to talk about tonight with our round table, so let s get straight to it, michael steele, the former rnc chairman and the host of the michael steel podcast and a msnbc analyst. And eugene daniels, a white house correspondent for politico, coauthor of politico s play book and an msnbc political contributor. Good to see everybody. Michael, let me start with you. One of the big topics today is the impact that donald trump may or may not have on the midterms and on the 2024 election. Setting aside for a moment the possibility that he may or may not run for president again, his impact on more immediate elections
We have to fight fort truth, and we ve got build our party back on a foundation that embraces the constitution, embraces fidelity to the constitution, and that, you know, we have to be very clear to say a president who did what donald trump did has no role to play in the future of the nation. He simply can t. It s too dangerous. Plenty to talk about tonight with our round table, so let s get straight to it, michael steele, the former rnc chairman and the host of the michael steele podcast and a msnbc analyst, cristela alonzo, and eugene daniels, a white house correspondent for politico, coauthor of politico s play book and an msnbc political contributor. Good to see everybody. Michael, let me start with you. One of the big topics today is the impact that donald trump may or may not have on the midterms and on the 2024 election. Setting aside for a moment the possibility that he may or may not run for president again, his impact on more immediate elections. What do you make of that, par
predicted. according to the university college of london who has done this modelling, 50% of the population has been vaccinated. around 42% have been exposed to the virus and have anti-bodies and 10% have pre-existing immunity. according to their modelling, that suggesting taking consideration over those that no longer have the anti-bodies, herd immunity is thought to be 75%. other scientists say current immunity levels are only 35%. the main disagreement over how many people have already had covid. neil: all right. we ve had some problems there. the significance of this can t be lost on people that have been waiting for herd immunity here. a success percentage or percentage enough of the population, it seems to have developed a resistance to this, an immunity to this that everyone benefits. the significance of this right now with carl fritz from the university of london, senior professor behind this model. thanks very much for taking the time. could you explain the signifi
the lasers and things brought up about her. ou he has said qanon before, he knows what it is. through it all, the qanon congresswoman from georgia has remained publicly defiant. greene has been using this opportunity to fundraise. quote, we owe them no apologies, we will never back down. in an interview with the washington examiner, she said this about democrats. how stupid they are, they don t even realize they re helping me. i m pretty amazed at how dumb they are. while this was unfolding in the house, democrats and republicans over in the senate have settled on a power sharing agreement. this means democrats officially get to take over the committeesk and can now push forward with the president s agenda. the senate is also six days away from the start of that second impeachment trial for the now former president. s axios has new reporting on the effort to make the case to convict the former president. quote, during a call wednesday n morning with the house wi democratic