Month for the biden agenda, showing more question marks than check marks so far as the white house tries to light a fire on fighting crime and protecting voting rights. The new reporting this morning on what our sources are telling our team about the strategies. And on the pandemic front, pfizer meeting with top health officials today on the potential need for a booster shot. We re live in one of the nation s hot spots with medical experts standing by. Good morning, i m hallie jackson. Garrick and mike, big week for the biden agenda and for politics here in washington. Garrick, give us the reality check because congress has to do stuff now to avoid big problems later when we run into the annual fight over government funding, et cetera. That s right. The senate is back and they have a laundry list to get done. First they have to turn two of the president s biggest priorities into legislation. That s the bipartisan infrastructure framework that s been in agreement for two weeks now but n
Plus, the new timeline out of afghanistan has communist china waiting in the wings. Former secretary of state mike pompeo on the biggest winners of joe biden s foreign policy as oil prices move from the 30s a barrel to $74 a barrel in biden s america, enriching vladimir putin and iran. Plus we must eliminate funding for cpb, i. C. E. And parent organization, dhs. Maria: more lunatic ideas from the extreme left about stripping resources from the very people protecting our shores as we bring new numbers this morning on apprehensions and the gotaways at the southern border. Lee zelden on why so many illegal migrants and dangerous narcotics are making their ways to cities within days of arriving at the border despite his bid to turn it around. All that right here, right now on sunday morning futures. Maria: but first, this morning we are awaiting the launch of billionaire richard branson s virgin galactic rocket plane, expected to blast into outer space later this hour. Ex we will take you
At xfinitymobile. Com/mysavings or visit an xfinity store to learn how our switch squad makes it easy to switch and save hundreds. A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports as we give you a look at what we saw transpire in the desert of new mexico today and frankly 50 miles above us here on earth we have seen billionaire richard branson launch his unity 2 spacecraft. He got suborbital flight. There you see the eve mother ship as it came in for a landing half an hour or 40 minutes ago. We re awaiting a press conference that richard branson and those three astronauts with him all employees of virgin galactic and the two pilots. We ll have a press conference with them. Tom costello is making his way to that press conference and we ll take a listen to some of the details of what transpired in suborbital flight. A first, extraordinary accomplishment on this july sunday here. We have other developing stories to get to at this hour.
Antitrump lawyer michael avenatti was a media darling until he was sentenced to jail. Now the media s making stunning admissions about their coverage of him. But first, i am live at cpac in dallas, texas, and the theme is america uncanceled. The governors of tennessee and oklahoma taking the stage a short time ago talking about the divisions in our country. Yeah, i think we re divided because there s an effort to undermine this country from the very foundation. There are those who don t like this country, who don t believe in what it stands for, they don t believe in the greatness and the exceptionalism of it, is they will from and they will from within, they know that the way to disrupt is to divide from within. And oklahoma s governor says that divide became more pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic. I don t think there s ever been a bigger time when there s a difference between a blue state and a red state. And covid really brought that out. I don t believe that the government
Around. Let s not lose sight to the real enemy of democracy, the gop and nowhere is the gravity of the situation more evident than texas where democratic lawmakers are fugitives after bolting the lone star state to block a restrictive voting bill. All week they have been meeting with lawmakers in washington, d. C. Including joe manchin. They met with vice president kamala harris. But without any kind of concrete action on the federal level, what good are these cute little meet and greets when this is what the lawmakers themselves are risking? once they step back in the state of texas they will be arrest and brought to the texas capital and we will be conducting business. Joining me now is jasmine crocket, a texas state rep and a civil rights attorney and cliff algreet, cofounder and executive founder of black voters matter. Jasmine, i want to begin with you. You are essentially a fugitive as we said in the open. How long can this last? you can t live your life this way and you cannot c