i need you. i need you to get vaccinated when it s your turn and when you can find an opportunity. and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors gets vaccinated as well. here s the point. if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, there s a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesn t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special, where we mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark or independence from this virus. president biden announcing last night his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days will be met and beaten. when i came into office, you may recall i set a goal that many of you set was kind of way over the top. i said i intended
Votes, his Campaign Says hes heading home to vermont to have those hard discussions and to have that and make that decision. Yeah, and hes i have to say i thought last time he was very responsible about this and very responsible about the way he ramped everything down and ramped his supporters down into the point of understanding the reality of it all. Thank you very much, rachel. Really appreciate it. Thank you, my friend. Well, the most powerful democratic member of the United States senate will join us on a night when his state now has the largest number of reported coronavirus cases. New yorks senior senator Chuck Schumer will tell us what to expect next from congress gnaw that the Coronavirus Response act passed the senate tonight and has been signed by the president. Senator schumer will join us later in this hour. Eight senators voted against the Coronavirus Response act. They are all republicans. And the first two members of congress to reveal they have tested positive for covi
Time have been focused but yet we did not still have enough. We didnt have enough swabs. We didnt have enough masks. We didnt have enough gowns for all of those Incredible Health care providers. I dont want everyone to be given the impression you raised the flag just in january, okay, when you saw it was short because you hadnt gotten the job done prior to january. You were at those tables, as were so many others. This happened over a very, very long period of time. And those of us have been very disappointed to learn what was and was not in the Strategic National stockpile. I thank you for your service. I thank you for your expertise. But across the board over many administrations we did not do enough, and i yield back. Do you want to respond, doctor . I can say those plans had been in place and it was disappointing they were not pulled out in january of this year and followed. They were not put on the table with a strong leader indicating these are our plans. Everyone fall in line an
Approximately 80 traders at one time. And President Trump is raising a ruckus over North Carolinas planned Republican Convention in august, threatening the democratic governor of North Carolina of moving the convention to another state. Some suggest to his own doral resort in florida, although the president denies that. The Vice President is saying that florida, texas or georgia, all battleground states, of course, will be considered new sites. We will talk to a couple of Health Experts about how a gathering of thousands of people can even be held safely by august. And joining me from two critical areas struggling with this virus, nbcs dasha burns in jackson, mississippi, and nbcs ali vitali in northern washington. Were talking about the state of mississippi that has more poverty than any state in the country. It ranks 50th in poverty and a large minority community, especially in the delta area. Tell me how mississippi is bearing the brunt of all of this. Yes, andrea, mississippi is th