Quarters. Did you hear president biden s promise? he said the people who people like you, have a home in the u. S. , they can come and live in the u. S. , the door is open. I got a lot of news, a lot of announcements, but there is no action. Reporter: tom put in his visa application four years ago. You helped the u. S. , now the u. S. Needs to help you. Yep. Reporter: simple as that. The u. S. Army, the u. S. Government has to help us. Reporter: seems reasonable. That was nbc s richard engel reporting. Well, it is the top of the hour and it is very good to be with you tonight. The delta variant of covid has been detected in every state, so why are so many of us still not vaccinated? we will dig into the misinformation campaign that could be holding some people back. Plus, more than a half million people have signed a petition to let sha carri richardson run in the tokyo olympics. Our panel will dive into the changing debate over cannabis in sports. And when it comes to spelling, americ
Saying, hold on, there is no need for a booster shot right now. The agency saying the hyper transmissible delta variant is a growing threat, but only to those or mostly to those who are not vaccinated. It is driving cases up in nearly half the country. The states you see there in red or the cases arising the fastest, and they are the same states largely where vaccination rates are the lowest. Joining me now, dr. Jerome adams, former surgeon general in the trump administration. Thank you so much for being with us this morning. So, pfizer and biogeneral, they are applying for biontech are applying for emergency use authorization for a booster shot. They say this may be beneficial to americans right now because of waning immunity. That is something i frankly haven t seen before. The cdc and fda saying, wait a minute, americans don t need this now. What is yours reaction to this back and forth? well, my first reaction is it is troubling there is such a lack of coordination on communication
Look, i m not going to go into it now, but i used to you know, there s noncompete clauses or people running the machines that lay down asphalt. If, in fact, you get offered a job and you have a, you know, you re in arkansas doing it, a lot of specific examples, you can t take a job in west texas to do it. What in the hell does that have to do with anything? no, i m serious. Or there were clauses in mcdonald s contracts. You can t leave burger king or go to mcdonald s. Come on. Is there a trade secret about what s inside that patty? no, but i m serious. You all, i don t know whether you do know. I didn t know until five years ago the incredible number of noncompete clauses for ordinary people who are done for one reason, to keep wages low. Period. Look my executive order will limit noncompete agreements. Let workers choose who they want to work for. I m also calling on the ftc to do away with certain occupational licensing requirements. Do you realize if you want to braid hair and you m
Quarters. Did you hear president biden s promise? he said the people like you have a home in the u. S. , they can come and live in the u. S. , the door is open. I got a lot of news, a lot of announcements, but there is no action. Reporter: tom put in his visa application four years ago. You helped the u. S. , now the u. S. Needs to help you, simple as that. Yeah, yeah. The u. S. Army has to help us. Reporter: seems reasonable. That was nbc s richard engel reporting. It is the top of the hour and it is very good to be with you tonight. The delta variant of covid has been detected in every state. So why are so many of us still not vaccinated? we will dig into the misinformation campaign that could be holding some people back. Plus more than a half million people have signed a petition to let sha carri richardson run in the tokyo olympics. Our panel will dive into the changing debate over cannabis in sports. And when it comes to spelling, america has a new queen be. Zaila avant garde, the
agreement in a late night vote avoiding a disastrous default that would have crippled the economy. that bill now on its way to the president s desk, and we ll hear from him in a prime time speech planned for tonight. and later, donald trump reacting to the news that the special counsel has a recording of him talking about classified documents. two attorneys join us to talk about the legal peril that evidence could pose. and the gloves are off, trump and desantis going round for round trading blows. governor, how come you re not taking questions from voters? coming up to me talking to me, what are you talking about? are you blind? what? are you blind? he got very angry at the press. you re not allowed to get angry at the press. we re live in south carolina where the florida governor is campaigning this morning. let s get straight to those breaking economic numbers right now, the jobs report revealing a huge number for the month of may, 339,000 jobs added, the u