Developments as well as the president of the united states about to address the nation on this in about an hour. Well get a gauge on this and how it affects our plans if at all to depart on August 31. Theres a Growing Call by a lot of our allies including many democrats and republicans in this country that he extend and push back that timetable. No indication whether he will jump on that. Some positive developments are that the flights have been resuming at the airport. Not the frequency that were seeing every 39, 40 minutes but resuming nevertheless. Theres still about 1,000 americans that are in the country, want to leave the country but we cant get a good handle where they are exactly in the country. Lets go to Jennifer Griffin on where all of this stands right now. Shes at the pentagon. Jennifer . Neil, we just came out of a briefing here with Centcom Commander general frank mckenzie. He explained what happened outside Abbey Gate today. He confirmed the Death Toll, that 12 u. S. Se
Biden, overturning and reversing the trump programs about how the control flow and how quickly to send somebody back with out due process in many cases is a factor in sending a message that is going to increase flow over the border. Thats true. They have to find ways to handle that flow, and find programs to deal with it. You could argue that they did it all too quickly, its a political discussion. When it comes to covid, it is a trickle, the number of people they have coming over. They are getting false positives on the test and more importantly abbott will not receive the funds from the federal government to do the testing. So, if you are going to complain that theres some kind of plague coming across, its an extension of the trumpry, the brown menace, you wont test them but you worry about them having covid. Its a ploy. It would be hard for biden to do worse. Thank you, have a great weekend. Im chris cuomo, welcome to primetime. We have to expose those things that are not true and t
Plus, news that andrew cuomo will face a Sexual Harassment investigation by the new York Attorney general and how joe biden made history with a twominute speech to Amazon Workers in alabama. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We are almost a year into this pandemic, and we are experiencing something strange. Vertigo inducing, almost incomprehensible kind of inversion of where we were a year ago. A year ago, you remember, we had political leaders denying covid was a problem. Public health officials, journalists and people like myself warning and increasingly, well, thrill in urgent terms that things were about to get very, very bad until people saw others getting sick firsthand, hard to believe how bad they could get as quickly as they did. Particularly when you had messaging like this. While the risk to the American Public remains low, as the president said yesterday, were ready. Were ready for anything. We have contained this. We have contained this.
News. There is good news that we are ahead of schedule in terms of when we may get back to normal. Listen we are on track to have enough Vaccine Supply for every adult in america by the end of may. Now, that would be two months earlier than expected. So, President Biden has to hold himself to his word. If he can do it, countless lives could be saved. Theres only one thing that we can do to mess up this accelerated track for Herd Immunity and that is, to give the variants a chance to catch up. And to create cases faster than we can vaccinate people. And increase the chances,fieffi exploited and maybe wasted. Thats why the head of the cdc just said is, we must be careful, especially if relaxing any protective measures. So, what did texas announce right after that . The governor announces they are throwing caution to the wind and reopening 100 . The same govern er who did not prepare the state for bad weather, is now leaving it exposed to a deadly virus. Just as hope is on the horizon. Th
We have a couple of pictures of baby meyer to show you. So adorable. He was born just five days oh, my god about look at him. Just five days after Leonard Davis passed away. Wow. So they never did get to meet. He wanted to meet him so badly he said that he would wear a hazmat suit to keep from getting sick to see the new baby. But they lost him so quickly. My best to the family. The news continues, handing it to chris for cuomo prime time. Coop, we hear stories like this and they hit you so hard and you wonder are we not telling them right . How do we have news like we have with tonight out of texas when the stories have reached everybodys ears and we hope their heads and then hopefully their hearts, how . How can you watch a story like that and not understand the threat and not understand what we have to do and why . Yeah. That was beautifully told and thank you for telling it. Appreciate you, pal. Im chris cuomo, welcome to primetime, first the good news. There is good news that we a