Muddier has the latest. Tonight, Los Angeles the countrys largest county taking a step back requiring masks indoors, even for the vaccinated effective sunday. Impacting 10 Million people here, and breaking with cdc guidance, its a clear Signal Concern is growing over the dangerous Delta Variant. Meantime, for some of the 48 Million children under 12 and their parents who are hoping to get them vaccinated this fall a longer wait. The fda will now review several additional months of safety data. Meaning a vaccine for kids will likely be available until early next year. All schools should really have very strong contingency plans. One of the metrics was true go to virtual learning. But to keep stuff safe. An important to note, this is nothing like the search we saw months ago. This latest surge is mostly among people who are not vaccinated. And dont forget, we have ample vaccines available across this country. Well today the White House went on offense against those who Spread Met vaccine
Rucker. They write that after seeing the riot unfold, trumps own white House Council feared trump could be brought up on charges. Quote, the afternoon of January 6th, it started dawning on the white House Counsel and deputies that trump could be charged with a crime for setting off that deadly riot. There were a lot of ifs about weather that was likely, but one thing was guaranteed, investigations. Any good prosecutor would examine what the president , donald j. Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others had said at the rally. They could be accused of sedition, a charge not leveled at a president in a century. Also tonight, covid cases are climbing around the country. Some officials are now bringing back mask mandates. Miguel almaguer has the latest. Reporter tonight los angeles, the nations largest county, taking a step back, requiring masks indoors, even for the vaccinated effective sunday. Impacting 10 Million people here and breaking with cdc guidance, its a clear Signal Concern is growing ov
Constitutional rights to vote. We have come too far and fought too hard to see everything systematically dismantled and restricted by those who wish to silence us. Be assured this is just the beginning. This is our power, our message. Beatty isnt the only lawmaker sounding the alarm this week. As weve been reporting the delegation of texas lawmakers remains in the Nations Capital pressing for something, in their own words, anything on Voting Rights. But heres the blunt and ugly and tragic truth. It isnt working. The Washington Post reports that while many democrats insist passing a voting Rights Bill remains a top priority in the coming weeks, schumer and others have said failure is not an option. Momentum on Capitol Hill has shifted away from the voting Rights Push following a failed Test Vote last month. The dynamics were on display when President Biden arrived at the capitol for his first inperson lunch. A meeting that was largely devoted to the massive Multitrillion Dollar Safety n
Twitter went to a tissy about somebody. Im like, okay, well well, look, there is a cheap aspect to the media. People are lazy and its easy because there is a proxy for insight in that. You know, they can take 50 people or 500 people or 5,000 people on twitter and make it sound as though theres a national movement. But i do think that a big part of the division and a big part of the disconnect, and how were being really manipulated by the fringe, in this country, right now. Yep, youre right. Is because of this difference in the prepositional understanding of dealing with human beings. Yeah. Where, if youre talking about somebody, its very easy to be negative. Its very easy to be pejorative. If you are talking to or with, as you say, its a different situation. Yeah. And there is no hope for the way we are right now. Youre seeing it tonight, in realtime. They wont even study how people came to attack them. Yeah. Which is very important. Listen. You and i have these conversations, and they
for less aid. the deal on unemployment insu a week, compared to house bills. $400 a week, extends what people are getting now, $300 a week. the historic moment when it happens. the senate stripped out phased increase in minimum wage to $15 an hour, earning fair wage is something that s important to me. i wrote about the need for us all to earn a fair wage in the new piece on msnbc.com. there s another urgent need for biden s package. around 2,000 people continue to die from covid-19. more than 525,000 americans have now died from covid-19, and the country surpassed 29 million total cases with tens of thousands of new cases showing up every day. despite those truths and that we live in a deadly pandemic caused by a disease that spreads by airborne transmission, texas, mississippi, south carolina and soon alabama are ending mask mandates, joining states iowa, montana, north dakota. at the end of the spring, a slew of republican led states prematurely lifted pandemic restriction