it is also one of the biggest. 80 small businesses in this one spot. just like people across the country, the business owners here are worried. worried the covid surge will keep customers home and mask mandates or vaccination mandates will hurt their bottom line. that is on top of supply chain issues and inflation. today s numbers are good. it follows gains with 4 million jobs added so far this year alone. it doesn t account for something important. the surge in cases we are seeing right now and the threat of the delta variant on our attempt to get back to normal. here in philadelphia, this city saw more than 100,000 jobs wiped out in the first two months of the pandemic. they spent the last 16 months clawing back and they do not want to go back a second time. i want to start this morning with my all-star panel here to break it down. josh lederman and the moderator of washington weekly. and jason furhman. he joined the obama administration. and john hope bryant is here. jason
sweeping across the country. if senators 60 years ago held that the federal government should never intervene to protect voting rights, this body would have never passed the voting rights act. the republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights, and it is an indefensible position. there is no effort in any state in america to suppress votes based upon suppression of minority participation. what this is really about is an effort of the federal government to take over the way we conduct elections in this country. i ve got the best team of experts here to help make sense of all of this. jeff bennett at the white house and victoria soto. democrats say this thing isn t over, but it sure seems like it is. what can they do next? options here, plan a for progressive supporters of this bill was to unify the senate democrats behind it, and get that 50/50 vote and then hope that enough democrats support nuking th
the gop is about to do what former president trump wants them to do, remove cheney from her leadership position. her offense is telling the truth and unlike many of her colleagues, refusing to peddle trump s big lie that the election was stolen. on the house floor last night, she said that silence is not an option. every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. i will not participate in that. i will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president s crusade to undermine our democracy. by the way, the guy sitting next to brianna there, that was a stand-in. we ll talk to him in just a moment. cheney s likely replacement, new york congresswoman elise stefanik has been blessed by both trump and kevin mccarthy but there s pushback from party conservatives not happy with her more moderate vot
overcoming opposition and passing voting rights in the senate. these bills help treat the symptoms of the disease, but they do not fully address the disease itself. while i continue to support these bills i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, another protector of the filibuster, seem to believe when it comes to protecting democracy the cure is worse than the problem. in their minds eliminating the filibuster, a maneuver done many times before to bypass the 60-vote threshold, that that is somehow worse than republican states like texas and georgia making it harder to vote and installing partisans to perhaps put the thumb on the scale in a close election. how big is the threat? consider this last year 19 states enacted 34 laws that restrict voting and alter the vote counting process. hundreds more were introduced. more are coming this year. and threats of violence an
they are. or that i m not focused on inflation. malarkey. coronavirus meanwhile fueled by the omicron variant continue to soar as former biden health advisers argue the administration must embrace a new normal. not a pandemic. the president telling reporters in answer to a question he doesn t think covid is here to stay as we re now dealing with it. the leader of california speedway cdc is playing defense. how serious is that in the midst of a pandemic? we are at the cdc are 12,000 people working 24/7 following the science with ever evolving nature in the midst of a fast moving pandemic. we ll continue to update. we ll continue to improve how we communicate to the american public. that was dr. walensky with savannah guthrie. as washington moves on from the comment rations of the first attack on the capitol those on the front line that day especially the police who battled the mob are still waiting for accountability. tell me how you feel when you think back to wha