On it. Congressman adam schiff the head of house intel joins us live. In the covid crisis today, to mandate or not no mandate. In the last couple of minutes, new york city is about to announce vaccines will be mandatory for all city employees, including teacher, police officers, firefighters, all of it as millions of health care workers are out this morning, calling for vaccinations to be required in their field while another big city reimposes a mask mandate. Will the federal government do the same? i m hallie jackson. We start in washington with leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill. Leigh ann, brand new reporting on who is giving opening statements tomorrow and who else speaker pelosi is considering adding to the committee. Reporter: good morning, hallie. Representative benny thompson, the top democrat on the committee is giving an opening statement tomorrow and so is representative liz cheney, a republican who is on this committee, of course, she s his pick by speaker pelosi. Another
When the u. S. Quits the country all together. Just anecdotally, alex, as you know i work in iran a lot, it shares a very porous border with afghanistan, so you see a lot of afghans pouring to iran. They have a terrible life there but it is still preferential to staying in afghanistan for them. I have to tell you, it is a heck of a story. Allie arouzi, let me thank you for covering two big stories for us, from climate change to how to extricate our afghan partners. Thank you, ali. And a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Here is what is happening just a bit past 2:00 p. M. Eastern,. We begin with the president hitting the campaign trail for the first time since his candidacy. He touted his vaccination push and efforts to pass an infrastructure deal and even calling out his predecessor by name. This is a big deal. Terry and i share a lot in common. I ran against donald trump and so is terry. Look, this is
Simone biles will return to competition. Heat alert: the southeast sizzles in tripledigit temperatures, while a worsening drought fuels fires in the west. Europe reopens, with rules. We re in paris, where american tourists have returned. And later, raising a wallaby. How these caregivers are getting creative. So you guys would say you re doting parents? doting and paranoid parents. This is the cbs weekend news. From chicago, here s adriana diaz. Diaz: good evening. After all the pleading from doctors and urging even begging from politicians for reluctant americans to get vaccinated, it s finally happening. Vaccinations are increasing. But it comes as the dangerous delta variant sends cases skyrocketing. This c. D. C. Map shows the counties with the highest levels of transmission. It s especially bad in all those areas in red. And even with vaccinations up, only about half of americans are fully vaccinated. Adding to the uncertainty, the federal moratorium that stopped landlords from ev
Stop the bill. We re going to talk with two leaders in that fight. Georgia democratic congressman hank johnson and melanie campbell, president of the national coalition on black civic participation. Meantime, democrats are slighting the fbi over the handling of the investigation into sexual assault allegations made against now supreme court just brett kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings in 2018. We re going to talk with a new york times reporter that cowrote a book on justice kavanaugh. And a virtually empty stadium did not stop the tokyo olympics from kicking off in style after a year long delay. With tennis superstar naomi osaka having the honor of looit lighting the olympic caldron. The surge driven by the delta variant could accelerate as we head towards fall and triple the current number of daily deaths. That s according to new projections from the covid19 scenario modelling hub. A group of researchers working with the cdc. Now across the country, we re seeing new cases hea
Trillion spent and billions more in federal aid that could bring us to $6 trillion in planned spending, and that s just for started. Welcome everybody, i m neil cavuto, so happy to have you. It s hot out there, but the spending is running hot and heavy too. A lot more detail with south carolina republican nancy bates who, you know, her whole reason to run for office was to put a lid on this. So what does she think of all of this? in the meantime, let s go to the david spunt on these plans, tax cents and all this stuff creditsand tough that you are paying for. Reporter: good morning. That $3. 5 trillion is feel up for debate, members of the administration say that money is well worth it. Some progressives on capitol hill like congresswoman pramila jayapal, she said it is merely a down payment meaning that total of $6 trillion could go even higher. You see the president there on capitol hill on wednesday, he made that trip to meet with democrats to talk about this $3. 5 trillion human in