restrictions with washington, d.c., atlanta, st. louis, kansas city, and savannah all issuing mask mandates this week. broadway s theater owners and operators also saying, friday, that they will require theater goers to be vaccinated and wear masks to attend performances. let s bring in wall street journal columnist dan henninger. what are you learning that you didn t know before and that we should be concerned about? well, the cdc s hair is obviously on fire over the possibility that some vaccinated person will transmit covid to some unvaccinated person. the evidence apparently shows that people who have been vaccinated can pick up this delta variant. they may or may not show symptoms and they may or may not be capable of spreading it, but the cdc is very worried they are going to spread it. paul: what about the data? is there any new information on just how serious disease you will get if you re vaccinated and you get the delta variant? any change on that informatio
trump pushed to decide and this comes after the first foreign trip kicking off wednesday including the g7 summit, nato women in brussels and the highly anticipated face to face meeting with vladimir putin in geneva next week. the president is expected to deliver a sharp warning for putin with the cyber attacks launched by russia and russian-based hackers. here at home, hoping for a voting rights act in the senate are virtually dead today after a key vote coming out against it. west virginia democratic senator joe manchin digging in his heels against killing the filibuster which republicans are using to block the voting rights bill to prevent voting access against restrictive measures. joining me now nbc news correspondent kerry sanders is in guatemala city and mike menially. kerry, first to you, the vice president in guatemala for just one day. another 34 guatemalans are expected to leave the country for the u.s. today, making the trek daily. what is the vice president s goal
many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president and his superfluous excellen excellency. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do, i think you d probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and s
we as a nation spend the best part of the year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place. since then, party bosses have recorded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents. at best, it s a compromise. at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president as his superfulous excellency. i think the quote that wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit. what does the vice president do? you would get a shrug of the shoulders. people would be asked, who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we formed this nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and some years, was described in all kinds of ways, most of which meant inconse
best part of a year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin when the constitution was written said we should refer to the vice president as a superfluous excellencely. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do? i think you would probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if