Measured, and that is going to be crucial here. This will be under a Microscope Matter what happens. Everything she does and how she carries herself. I appreciate that discussion, thank you my friend, have a great weekend. Youre Welcome, have a great show. Kamala harris has made history once again. Today the Vice President became the first black woman and indianamerican woman to earn a major Party Nomination after the Dnc Chair Jamie harrison announced that she has enough delegates to be the nominee. Now, she will officially become the nominee when voting closes on monday, but she is got enough delegates already. Vice President harris called in todays virtual rollcall to celebrate crossing the threshold. Later this month we will gather in chicago, united as one party. We are going to have an opportunity to celebrate this historic moment together. Again, this campaign is all about us coming together, people coming together from every walk of life, every lived experience, and being fuele
This morning, in this room, to answer questions about why and why now? we re going to take you live there as we go one on one with the state attorney general who tried to build her own case against nassar. We re live out west and kornacki at the big board on what happens next now that gavin newsom held on to his seat. And new this morning, what we just learned the justice department did to try and block that controversial abortion law in texas. We re taking you live to the pentagon with new fallout from the latest trump book, revealing what joint chiefs chair mark milley said to china, why some republicans are demanding milley step down. We start with the hearing that is happening now behind me at the capitol building on the senate side. Good morning to both of you. Thank you for being with us. And, ann, let me go to you, here are the four gymnasts we expect to hear from today. Simone biles, everybody knows her. Mckayla maroney, aly raisman and abbie nichols as well. You see them on th
And amanda carpenter. Good to see you, john. President biden announcing new vaccine mandates that could affect 100 million americans. What are you hearing from the white house? reporter: in terms of why they didn t go further is the biggest proposal i ve heard from people like our colleague jonathan rainer who you have on your show a lot, the doctor has said he should have mandated air travelers be vaccinated. The white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports and impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on plaeps. In terms of how it works is what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through occupational safety and health administration to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses affecting tens of millions of workers. They re a
The white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports, impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on planes. In terms of how it s going to work, what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through osha, the occupational safety and health administration, to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses, affecting tens of millions of workers. They re also counting on the fact that business itself wants to have the cover to impose some of these mandates. Business roundtable came out tonight saying we support what the administration is doing. We ve got to get aggressive in order to get on top of this. Finally they re counting on mobilizing the social political pressure of the threequarters of american adults who have gotten vaccinated against the h
the house will pass the senate approved covid relief bill as soon as tomorrow and get relief checks in the mail. we expect a large number of americans to receive relief by the end of the month. in terms of the mechanics of it, the treasury has to work through that. joining us now to start the hour, nbc news correspondent dr. torres, tara palmieri, leanne caldwell and white house correspondent mike memeli. walk thrust the guidelines. were you surprised basically that they are not changing the guidance on travel just yet? to answer the last question, i m not surprised. we ll talk about that in a second. these guidelines are very welcome. people have been getting vaccinated for months. the big question has been, now that i m vaccinated, what can i do? the cdc answered them. and they took time answer specifically because they want to make sure it was something you and your house could use. they came out with three specific recommendations. number one, if you re fully vacc