vaccination rates seen in some states have health experts warning it may not be time to ditch your masks altogether just yet. vaccines are not even as good as they are, nothing is 100%. if you put yourself in an environment in which you have a high level of viral dynamics and a low level of vaccine, you might want to go the extra step and say when i m in that area where there s a considerable degree of viral circulation, i might want to go the extra mile to be cautious enough to make sure that i get the extra added level of protection, even though the vaccines themselves are highly effective. we have team coverage of the holiday celebrations across the country. let s go first to articlette signs at the white house. arlette, what s the plan for tonight? some thousand people at the white house as invited guests. any concerns from the white house that the gathering could potentially look like the super spreader rose garden event? the white house is using this 4th of july h
handoff. who is that guy on the left? good hairline. the suggestion that they really don t like what we say because they don t even show our mouths. the first else is out. i know. but they re telling us to shut up and look ugly. i ll tell you what. you win this. you have better spacing of wide eyes. look how close my eyes are. beady. beady little eyes. what do you want people to know about this? i want people to know, it s been said, it is what they do every night. it is not what we do every night. we re going to up the anty. the freedom we have in a podcast, it is not on broadcast or cable television where you have a bit more restraints and the parameters are tighter. in a podcast, we are freer as you are freer on the radio to say certain things, talk about certain things. what i want people to know is, this is a place for everyone to come to. as i have said, if you are easily offended, you definitely want to watch this i mean listen to us. if you are not easily
broadcast or on cable television, where you have a bit more restraints and the parameters are tighter. in a podcast, we are freer, as you are freer on the radio. to say certain things, to talk about certain things. but what i want people to know is that this is a place for everyone to come to. as i have said, if you are if you aren t easily offended, you definitely want to watch us i mean, listen to us. if you are not easily offended, you definitely want to listen to us. because especially, if you are, because we are going to toughen you up a little bit. as you know, i don t i believe in accountability. i don t believe in cancelling people. i believe that people are fallible and that they re human. and in this podcast, we are going to say things that are provocative. the way people talk in person, with each other. how people, often, make mistakes in conversations because that s what we do. and if people make a mistake, then we talk about it. we don t cancel people for
america. and dr. fauci says it is not a big deal but he says young people are the reason that the u.s. is falling short. good to have you with us. u.s. senate republicans dealt a fatal blow to a landmark voting and election bill on tuesday at least this its current form. democrats were unable to convince them to budge on the for the people act. democrats say that it is a necessary check on states efforts to restrict voting access but republicans say it is a power grab. now the only hope is in making concessions to attract bipartisan support. here is ryan nobles with more. reporter: senate republicans successfully blocking senate bill 1, the voting rights act, the for the people act ow, whic democrats say is their top priority. they were able to get all 50 of their members to vote in favor of it, but because of filibuster rules, you needed ten republicans to join up in that effort and they couldn t even get one republican to vote for it. so what happens next? chuck schume
live. plus, kim jong-un s sister taking a swipe at the u.s. the new warning from nuclear north korea. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we start with break news in our politics lead, and one of president biden s top priorities about to die an ugly death on the floor of the u.s. senate. in the next hour the senate is set to vote to advance a sweeping election reform bill, the so-called for the people act. the bill would, among other things, make election day a public holiday, it would expand early voting to at least 15 consecutive days, it would ban partisan gerrymandering. expanding public financing of campaigns, requiring many states to overhaul their voting machines. tonight s vote is nearly guaranteed to fail because as of now zero republicans support the legislation, though we should point out, this is not a vote to pass the legislation today, it s just a vote to open debate on the act and begin amendments. are there really not ten republicans who are willin