been a vaccine push is now becoming a vaccine must with more and more vaccine requirements taking effect especially now that the food and drug administration granted full approval to pfizer s vaccine. today the pentagon ordered troops to get their shots as soon as possible. private businesses are joining in. cbs health and disney said they would add or expand requirements for workers and delta airports said it would raise health care premiums for workers who remain unvaccinated. add to that schools and universities. more than 800 are requiring students to get covid vaccinations before returning to campus because the reality is the only way to blunt the pandemic is through vaccination. the only way stop the misinformation and the selfishness of the unvccinated is the stop begging and start making it mandatory. for the fruly mitted anti-vaxers could make covid jones town and move to florida or texas or south dakota with apologies to the doctors and nurses there. today governor
black and brown americans who look very much like washington d.c. s nearly 60% majority minority population. many of them serve on the capitol police force and were beaten with flag poles and fire extinguishers as well as maysed by the angry, trump-crazed crowd. they also worked on the maintenance crews tasked with the cleaning up the vandalism, trash, and feces left behind by right-wing hooligans. one republican lawmaker would call normal citizens. many washingtonians found it shocking but not necessarily surprising. after all, president trump used their fair city as a prop during his most overt turn at dictatorial cos-play casting a crowd of peaceful black matter protesters so he could flaunt a bible in front of a church he had never shown any worship in though it had been the favorite place of worship for dozens of presidents who preceded him. even now republicans stand in the way of d.c. s third s statehood even though the population exceeds that of wyoming and vermont, s
uncover the truth about the capitol insurrection. the white house announced today the ukrainian president will meet with president biden at the white house on august the 30th, the announcement comes almost exactly two years after donald trump threatened the president during a phone call in an effort to sabotage then candidate joe biden. as more details emerge it became clear that trump needed to be held accountable for his abuse of power and it seems obvious now but at the time, a common refrain from political putt mince was at holding trump accountable would be electoral death. the democrats would give fuel to trump s base and hand him his reelection on a silver platter. democrats did the right thing, opening an impeachment and exposing the breath of trump s ukrainian skin, he was soon impeached for the first time, and congressman adam shift made his case soon after for the senate to convict the former president. you can t trust this president to do the right thing, not fo
msnbc, an exclusive look at what happened when bill barr told then president donald trump he was going to lose the election. we re taking you inside that conversation with new excerpts from an upcoming book. a lot to get to on this friday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington. alsan barber in jackson, mississippi, and brandi with her new reporting on social media and misinformation, along with nbc news senior medical correspondent dr. john torres. alison, new warnings about kids and covid and the time line or at least updated time line on when vaccinations could get to kids under 12. reporter: i just got new numbers from this hospital, the only children s hospital in the state of mississippi, the only one specifically designated for children. they have six children hospitalized with covid-19, three in intensive care, most of them are under the age of 12, which means that at this point they re not eligible to get vaccinated. the problem is the people around them, be it f
hospitalizations and sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated. the new numbers are staggering. more than 90,000 new covid cases just in the last 48 hours. all 50 states and washington, d.c., seeing an uptick in cases and 11 of those states seeing a spike of more than 100% in cases over a two-week period. the biggest areas of concern again, the south. southern states including tennessee, south carolina, louisiana and alabama with the majority of residents are still unvaccinated and california with a sharp increase in cases has led los angeles county officials to re-instate indoor mask mandates as of tomorrow and the sports world is taking a hit with six new york yankees in covid protocols postponing the matchup last night with the red sox after the all-star break and washington wizards star guard bradley beale off of the u.s. olympic team for reasons connected to the virus. also this hour i ll be talking to michael wolf author of the bombshell book of president biden s final day