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conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the president s own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. we ll go to the border in just a moment. john: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let s listen. borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie. it s a lie. the borders are wide open. i have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. thousands of being released every day into the united states, man ....
administration to reassure him that donald trump had no plans to attack china in an effort to remain in power and that the u.s. was not collapsing. yet despite his assurances, general milley was so concerned about trump that later that day he convened a meeting with top commanders to remind them that the procedures for launching a nuclear weapon called for his involvement in such a decision. the book also sheds light on just how close the u.s. came to a full-blown international crisis with china. from the times in the days leading up to the 2020 election the book reveals american intelligence showed that the chinese believed trump planned to launch a military strike to create an international crisis that he could claim to solve as a last-ditch effort to beat joe biden. general milley who has become increasingly concerned about china s growing military power and the potential for one misread one misread move to set off combat between the world s superpowers first cal ....
with over 100 employees to mandate vaccines or require weekly testing. the president will also pressure entertainment and sports venues to enforce vaccine passports for entry: schools across the country to set up regular testing for students, teachers and staff. jesse wins the contest for guessing correctly, the most correctly as to when he would start. we are going to watch this whole speech and will be on the other end of it and you ll get everybody s take on what he says. jesse, initial thoughts? jesse: i look back and i notice a few months ago, he said he was against mandates. psaki said he was against mandates. that was the white house policy. now they are announcing mandates. i recall july he announced independence from the virus. months later he is saying we need to defeat the virus. i have a new plan. the americans don t trust this guy anymore. he booted afghanistan. you ve got to look through everything he does to the prism of afghanistan. it doesn t add up. ....
fence around the capitol. those concerns come as we get a look at brand-new fbi video of the person they think planted pipe bombs the day before the insurrection. we re also following breaking news in afghanistan. 200 more evacuees taking off from kabul today, ending an impasse with the taliban. among them, more americans. this is the brand-new video of that flight. we re live from the city where that plane is expected to land. but we begin with breaking news. a new phase in the pandemic fight. in just a matter of hours, president biden is set to lay out his next big push to stop the spread of covid and to boost vaccinations. one part of the six-point plan is coming into much sharper focus in just the last 90 minutes. we have now learned that president biden will sign an executive order requiring all federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated. plus, there s some new guidance for schools as pediatric cases rise. nbc s mike memoli is at the white house for us. nbc s ....
it is good to see you. thank you for being with us. i m geoff bennett for another hour of msnbc reports. how a texas restrictive abortion law is driving patients to neighboring states and how residents are stepping up to protest the law. and now, how the death toll of hurricane ida is continuing to climb. up to 70 in multiple states. the president is going to new jersey to tour the devastation after he visited louisiana where hundreds of thousands are without power after a week after the storm. also, this hour, the latest on the covid pandemic, and the u.s. is hitting 40 million cases over the weekend, and the number of people dying daily is rising amid another surge from this holiday weekend. but we start with the staggering damage and devastation from ida. joining us now from louisiana is nbc s vaughan hillyard in lafayette, and we have john in st. jhn parish and anne is our msnbc correspondent reporting on the devastation. so, we go to you, vaughan, what have you ....