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re-election. and from new coke to diet coke plus. it s had its fair share of soda fails. now comes another change. the question, whether coke fans will drink it up. it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that remembers joe biden pretty well who ran basically to the right of bernie sanders. i m kasie hunt on this thursday, july 15th. we ll start with the national news. the democrats worked to pass another spending proposal. he s pushing for a blueprint. nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander has more. reporter: president biden back on capitol hill urging senate democrats to unite around a massive $3.5 trillion spending proposal. we are getting this done. we re getting this done. reporter: focusing on social programs and climate change, democrats planning to go it alone on this package. that means they can t afford to lose a singerle vote. progressives like bernie sanders who wanted even more new ....
said it is to confront the scorch of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia here at home and around the world. and the white house is actually backing him up. he believes responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of human rights record. rather, they should acknowledge with intent to improve it and also push and listen up amp hood and shine a light on other countries that need to do better. that is the role we are playing for the united states. jesse: keep in mind, the human rights council that the white house wants to criticize america includes cuba and china. a quick reminder, keep it right now rounding up thousands of people for protesting against communism. they have shut down the internet so the rest of the world can t see what s happening. in china, growing over a million uighurs in concentration camps. republicans like nikki haley are calling all of this just a bunch of nonsense. you ve got people being bullied and beaten in the streets of cuba ....
that it is telling facebook about social media posts it considers misinformation. again, the biden administration is flagging posts that it thinks facebook should block. the reason? they say the misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine is the biggest cause of low vaccination rates in some areas and with some groups. we ll talk to missouri republican senator josh hawley about all of this in just a moment. all this occurs as vice president biden welcomes german chancellor angela merkel to the white house as the two countries seek to smooth over relations strained under the trump administration. white house correspondent peter doocy begins our coverage tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening and fresh out of that press conference with the president and the german chancellor where the president updated what we have been hearing from the administration about why, exactly they think people are taking to the streets chanting chant liben ....
taken root abroad and at home. we have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people. we have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength, guard against those who would stoke hatred and division for political gain as phony populism. well, to that note we have reporting tonight as well as remarkable congressional testimony on the domestic version of what the president warned against. he had another example of how thoroughly the former president tried to coopt and recruit the justice department to help him overturn the election that he lost. first, the summit seen as kaitlan collins traveling with the president joins us from geneva. what are we hearing about the format of the summit? i think, anderson, it will be pretty tightly scripted and if you talk to the white house of they ve kind of been running through the actual format of it. but the details we ....
themselves from the lunatic fringe, they never fully vaccinated themselves against the underlying illness so flash forward to now. enter congresswoman marjorie taylor greene seen here equating mask regulations for house members are the holocaust. you know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers and nazi, germany and this is exactly the type of abuse nancy pelosi is taking about. that is congress woman last week, marjorie taylor greene talking about genocide and here she is again. i said nothing wrong and i think any rational jewish person didn t like what happened in nazi germany and any rational jewish person doesn t like what is happening with over bearing mask mandates. her remarks are as my mom used to say deeply stupid. but much as she d like it to be, this is not about her. it s about this. ....