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welcome to mtp daily. i am chuck todd. i have been saying it for months, how covid goes in the united states, so goes the biden presidency. as pandemic numbers increase, the president s numbers are starting to decrease. more than a month ago, president biden declared independence from the virus, covid cases in the united states flat lined to 10,000 a day. we are now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day, 10 times jump. cases are rising in all 50 states, and in places with low vaccinations rates. the administration announced a plan to encourage children over 12 to be vaccinated by the time school starts in fall. the education secretary will be at the white house press briefing, expected to begin any minute. we ll keep an ear on what he says. we have an idea what they re proposing, all of this as most of the country is experiencing substantial, high transmission of the virus. some hospitals and states like arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, florida are breaking records ....
hello. after the torrent of racial abuse that england s footballers suffered after that penalty shoot out, you might wonder why they d want to be on social media at all. do the benefits of direct access to the fans and being able to tell their own unedited story outweigh the really horrifying negatives? and what about the platforms themselves? why can t they quash the abuse more effectively? it is an example of much broader issues around the power and accountability of social media giants, and that is the subject of a behind the scenes book written by two new york times journalists about facebook. so, let me introduce you to our guests. firstly, to new york and to sheera frenkel. sheera, you ve called your book the ugly truth, which means, i guess, that you re not secretary of the mark zuckerberg fan club. i wonder what facebook makes of you. have they been in touch with you directly about what they think of the book? in the weeks leading up to the publication of the bo ....
was defeat a motion to proceed with s-1, what democrats call the for the people act. in other words, agree or disagree with what s in the bill, what republicans did tonight was foreclosure any possibility of even opening debate on it. now, none of this was unexpected or particularly unusual, except perhaps for the degree of the nothing to see here, folks, coming from minority leader mitch mcconnell. nothing to see, in his view, nothing for the federal government to do about it. i m okay with the states sorting this sort of stuff out. you know, the most important election in the country is the presidential election. it s not decided in congress. it s decided in the electoral college. those are state-by-state decisions. and so regardless of what may be happening in some state, there s no rationale for federal intervention. they ll figure it out. they ll go to court and determine whether or not there s any rational basis for this. that s not unusual in this country. it ....
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louisiana prompts more outrage in a black man s deadly arrest. queen elizabeth back in public meeting u.s. marines. while it s hats off for graduates of west point. and later, the cub s historic choice for wrigley field s new voice. i thought that this stream was out of the ballpark. this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening. diplomats today pushed to cement a truce between israel and hamas militants, following 11 days of conflict violence that put civilians on both sides in the cross-fire. today, trucks carrying humanitarian aid began rolling into gaza, as residents picked through the rubble, taking stock of the damage. the u.n. is pledging to help rebuild. more than 250 people were killed, most of them palestinians in gaza. cbs s holly williams is there. reporter: four-year-old sara was at home when an israeli airstrike hit her family s apartment building, her relatives told us. the ceiling collapsed. she suffered a s ....