that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. thank you. for the last two weeks, donald trump has been kind of quiet, kind of. the reporting has been that trump is ceding the spotlight and keeping a low profile. last night, donald trump got back up on the microphone. a waitress came over, beautiful waitress, and i never like talking about physical she s beautiful inside. you never talk about a person s look. never, you can never mention it. the other day i got very angry, some men called chris christie fat, and i said, sir, and that he said he was a pig. i said, sir, chris christie is not a fat pig. please remember that. please take it back. the guy is looking at me like, no, we have to defend people. you can t call people that. i said it nine times. he is not a fat pig. mike trump veered wildly from topic to topic using his favorite device of, i would never say the thing i m about to say. to both objective by a service worker, the waitre
battle plan? i ll talk to former texas state legislator wendy davis who filibustered. and plus we ll look at the gop frontrunner to replace gavin newsom oig. and a man who has argued against vaccines for young people, faced sexual harassment and domestic violence allegations and once made the case for slave owners being the ones who should get reparations. more on larry elder, the man who could save newsom. plus an amazing new interview with sydney powell. not sure that she s ever been asked this before. do you have hear yourself and think thatit sounds ridiculous? no, i know myself very well. i ve been in me a long time. and that is just one of the rival moments from a new documentary about right wing media and the big election lie. more on that coming up. but we begin with texas republicans enacting one of the strictest anti-abortion laws. one of the most well-known acts of democratic resistance came in the summer 2013. when then state senator wendy davis filibust
now reached its pinnacle. whether it s critical theory, critical race theory, critical gender theory, critical immigration theory, which comes under different names, the so-called green new deal movement which is a marxist attack, a degrowth movement exported to the united states, that s a war on your lifestyle, a war on your income, a war on your private property, a war on capitalism. it s true. it s here. it s now. i ve written a book called american marxism . i don t make any bones about it. we got to take the language back. we got to take the narrative back. we need to confront this. it s in our schools. it is in our immigration policies. it is in the executive orders issued by the president of the united states. it s in our corporations. it s in our media. some of these people are unwitting who are promoting it. some of them are surrogates who are useful or really useless idiots. that s why i have written american marxism . you can see it in congress. you can see it pl
general mirthy offered this hopeful prediction to parents to cnn s wolf blitzer. if anything were to go well and everything were to fall in place i think it s possible we could see a vaccine for the end of the calendar year for kids under 12. that cannot come too soon, obviously. nationwide the number of kids hospitalize frd covid is on the brink of exceeding the highest numbers on record for the entire pandemic. in california the governor today became the first in the nation to order vaccination or regular testing for all teachers or all school personnel statewide. meanwhile in texas and florida where child cases are climbing more steeply local officials and across the hardest hit areas people who work in children s hospitals are seeing something they haven t seen prior to the delta variant they say. over the last year we hadn t seen as many kids get acute covid lung disease as much as we re seeing there. the delta variant is definitely hitting them a lot smarter, a
if everything were to go well, and everything were to fall into place, i think, it s possible that we could see a vaccine, before the end of the calendar year for kids under 12. that cannot come too soon, obviously. nationwide, the number of kids hospitalized for covid is on the brink of exceeding the highest levels on record for the entire pandemic. in california, where the numbers are also climbing, the governor today became the first in the nation to order vaccination or regular testing for all teachers and other school personnel statewide. meantime, in texas and florida, where childhood cases are climbing, much more steeply, local officials defied orders from their respective governors, by imposing mask mandates in schools or the general population. and across the hardest-hit areas, people who work in children s hospitals, are seeing something they haven t seen, prior to the delta variant, they say. over the last year, we hadn t seen as many kids get acute covid l