getting wrong about the abortion law in texas? we ll go live to austin for a fact check on that. and we are at the 18-month mark of the pandemic. what is the two-month cycle and why is delta such a media dilemma? we have covid insights that you won t hear anywhere else. but first, how news sources should be covering a critical point in biden s presidency. he is facing some serious headwinds right now. these headlines tell that story. he is coming off the afghanistan withdrawal, and now this may be the single most important month of president biden s tenure, between afghanistan, booster plans, vaccine mandates and the infrastructure plan. 3.5 trillion is the shorthand heard on tv news. but today senator manchin says he won t vote for a bill that is that big. so we hear the price tag cons constantly, but what s being purchased? how much do you know about the purpose of the social safety net bill? democrats are, in the words of the new york times, taking the most significa
was desperately seeking would have been illegal if this case happened in texas today. a woman found out she was eight weeks pregnant. she fried to find an appointment with the goal of getting an abortion. she thought about the possibility of going out of state but couldn t afford it. the cost of an instate abortion was multiple paychecks. she did get an appointment just hours before midnight last night. when the new draconian abortion law went into effect in texas after our fever dream of a supreme court declined to take action. the law bans abortions after six weeks before most people even though they are pregnant. there are zero exceptions for rape or incest. take that in for a moment. those victims have no way out. think about that. think about that 13-year-old girl raped by her grandfather or if if one finds herself in an abusive relationship or unable to financially care for a child. texas says, too bad. forced birth is now the law of the land. there s no exception even
themselves. christine, just clarify something for me, does the u.s. require all athletes to be vaccinated? is it potential that this person who has come down with it was vaccinated? reporter: john, the u.s. and the tokyo organizers do not require vaccinations. and i think that s really the root of the problem here. if everyone had been vaccinated, vaccines were required, you would be have a very different story going into the opening ceremonies, but they re not. that means unvaccinated athletes can absolutely be here and they are here. michael andrew, one of the stars of the u.s. swim team told me a week ago or so that he was not vaccinated. i ve written about that. so, there are certainly there s one. we know one of the alternates, one of the gymnastics alternates said that she was not vaccinated. again, we do not know if she is any way involved with this breaking news. yes, unvaccinated athletes from the u.s. and unvaccinated athletes from around the world. again, that co
for an update on the vaccine race. a disturbing video from the january 6th insurrection. it showed a man wielding a flagpole in the direction of police officers. the doj has a stunning detail about who he is. a former new york city police officer. we will get an update on the case in a few moments. we start with the new hurdles and passing the president s agenda. garrett haake has the latest from the hill. nbc s mike memoli is standing by for us at the white house. garrett, i will start with you. set the stage for us. where are we right now in this infrastructure negotiation process? we don t know a lot about the bipartisan proposal. some democrats seem to be pressing forward on going at it without republicans. what about that $6 trillion plan progressives are floating? reporter: the infrastructure effort is still proceeding on two parallel tracks. bipartisan negotiations about hard infrastructure, what potentially enough senators from the two parties could agree to,
that moment followed by a wild and chaotic scene as reporters jockeyed for position before being tossed out so the talks could begin. meeting was shorter than expected at about three-plus hours. both held separate back to back news conferences. putin went first followed by biden. i think there was no hostility. we don t share the same positions in many areas but i think that both of these sides showed a willingness to understood another. president biden is experienced. i said my agenda is not against russia. or anyone else. it s for the american people. it s not about just going after russia when they violate human rights. it is about who we are. we need to have some basic rules of the road. i came what i came to do. the tone of the entire meeting was good. the two leaders agreed to open talks on arms control, said the respective ambassadors would be returning to their posts. putin defended the provocative moves in ukraine and biden spoke of the two americans in priso