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in the icu, with two on ventilators. a poll last night by abc news and the washington post found that only 6% of democrats say they aren t likely to get vaccinated. whereas, 47% of republicans fall into that camp. of course, the virus doesn t stay contained by political boundaries and the ferocious delta variant which now accounts for an estimated 57% of all cases. poses a risk to not only those who choose not to get vaccinated but also kids are and those for medical reasons can t get vaccinated. so how do we reach the vaccine hesitant? can anyone persuade them? what about the person on whose watch the vaccine was developed in record time, former president donald trump? you would think that donald trump would be eager to remind that the vaccines were formed on his watch and relative to warp speed. relative to the times he spends complaining about the 2020 election results he hardly mentions it. last week, he send out a missive saying that his administration did a, quo ....
china? i ask then president trump about it back in may of 2020. so a terrible thing happened and you can look at it as a source. it took place in a certain at a certain point and it could have been put out. and it should have been put out. and we asked to go over and they said no. they didn t want our help. and i told you, that was okay, because they must know what they re doing. it was either stupidity, incompetence or it was deliberate. one or the other. maria: former secretary of state mike pompeo on thiso morning about his probe of the origins of covid-19 and why joe biden s foreign policy seems to be helping china, iran and russia instead of america. plus, president biden s mega spending plans, the $6 trillion budget nobody seems to be talking about. house budget committee ranking r member jason commit smit on how biden is planning to spend your tax dollars. from the russia hoax to hunter biden s labtop and his business deal with foreigners to the origins of co ....
biden to be office. 54% of the respondents see the country on the right track. of this, the times writes, quote for the first time in a.p. polling going back four years, a majority of americans said the country is heading in the right direction. president joe biden seems to have given the country its optimism back on many of the issues most important to voters, he also gets high marks. 71% of americans approve of the job. 62% approve of health care. president biden gets a 57 approval rating for the handling of the economy. the majority of americans approve of his handling of foreign affairs. it is good news for the white house and gives them an even stronger hand, at up republican party cements its dissent on the verge of lindsey graham repricing his role saying, you re just not going to be a leader in the country if you re anti-trump. i think it would be a disaster for the republican party if we just didn t acknowledge the fact that donald trump is the most popular ....
and i thought we d negotiate it down to like the rodeo. [ laughter ] you know what i mean? let him ride the horse. horses are weird. i thought we d end up there. but i never thought in a million years that cnn would let me go talk to the kkk. but they did. my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i ve made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don t understand. and now i m challenging myself to dig deeper. i m on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is the united shades of america. learning about america means sometimes reaching across the aisle. and this week i m reaching way across the aisle to the ku klux klan. hopefully, when i m done reaching i still have my hand. my first stop in this what the hell am i thinking tour is to meet with an arkansas leader of the kkk. according to kkk rhetoric, there s a new klan in town. they re no longer anti-black. they re just pro-white. an ....
whether this was an armed insurrection because he said, when i think of armed, i think of firearms. just to fact check that, there were arrests that did have to do with firearms but a number of weapons that clearly were not firearms but deadly weapons. well, i think it s total rubbish. i think he has a political agenda. he wasn t listening to the people who were actually there trying to fight the insurrectionists. you will also recall johnson wasn t sure this was actually an insurrection. i don t know what he thought it was. did he think it was a walk in the park? and what mr. sund said, he said these people came with equipment and with climbing gear. these are people intent on getting into that capitol one way or another. if you were just going to a trump rally, you could just listen to the former president and whatever he would say, and then go your merry way. there were a lot of people who did that. but the people who invaded the capitol had an agenda and that s wh ....