Possible they ll go through with impeachment proceedings unless he resigns. First, late today, we ve learned defense secretary austin is seeking to make vaccination mandatory for all troops, perhaps even this week. Global cases today crossed the 200 million mark. Meantime, driven by the delta variant but also by growing pressure, more people are rolling up air sleeves, up 26% from three weeks ago. That s good news. While defiance on masking and other mitigation measures are burning hot in florida and texas, one state governor, arkansas sationa hutchinson says he s working to change the law. Our guest tonight, bill gates. His foundation has donated billions of dollars. Bill gates joins us now. Bill, thank you for being with us tomorrow. I really preach it. Glad to talk to you. There s a lot to get to. Since we last spoke there s been more reporting about permanent topics. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about that. I know you feel some things have been misreported. I ll start
The country with some exceptions. We have also just learned defense secretary austin is expected to seek to make vaccination mandatory for all activeduty troops, perhaps even this week. Those two pieces of reporting come, as global cases today crossed the 200 million mark, and with the fda now working as quickly as possible to give full approval to pfizer s vaccine. Meantime, driven by the delta variant but, also, by growing pressure from private employers, more people are rolling up their sleeves. Up 26% from three weeks ago, that s good news. And while defiance on masking and other mitigation measures is still burning hot in states like florida and texas, one redstate governor, arkansas s isa hutchinson now says he regrets approving a statewide ban on mask mandates and is working to amend the law. Lot to talk about with our first guest tonight, bill gates, who we have talked to at critical points all throughout this pandemic. His foundation has donated billions of dollars to fighting
Dana: i m dana perino. If the president will take a shot at them you can imagine they would push back. Not exactly constructive. But the feud is erupting after president biden singled out texas and florida for banning mask mandates saying those states account for 1/3 of new infections. He said help slow the spread or get out of the way. Ron desantis firing back. Joe biden suggests if you don t do lockdown policies you should get out of the way. Let me tell you this, if you are coming after the rights of parents in florida i m standing in your way. Dana: griff jenkins is covering the story from the white house. Governor desantis has been standing in the white house s way as loudly as humanly possible, i think. Remember he was an immediate hard no on school mask mandates and now he is not taking lightly being called out by the president on tuesday. President biden: governors not willing to do the right thing. If you aren t willing to help at least get out of the way for the people trying
Don t be the reason why schools are disrupted because of the polarization of this effort to reopen schools. The white house says florida and texas account for a third of the entire country s new cases and hospitalizations. Texas governor abbott partly blames it on the border crisis. We re awaiting an update from texas officials on that issue. First, dr. Jay from stanford university who has been working with florida governor desantis on covid mitigation. Great to have you on. You re an informal adviser for the governor of florida now for the past 18 months. During that time as evidence shows, he s made many of the right calls. Now you have covid cases exploding again in florida. The death rate is still down. Would you advise governor desantis to change his guidance at all? no, i think he s done many of the right decisions. The key thing about what you just mentioned, it s a very important point. What we once thought that when covid cases went up, deaths would follow. But because of gove
was there. but are you sure it was me who killed him? it was an accident. it was the self-defense or something. yeah, it was actually a terrible thing about president lincoln s untimely demise. i have no idea how that happened. it would be like john wilkes booth doing that. like king congress climbing down from the empire state building and being like, who me? what are you talking about? i ve never even been to midtown. i definitely don t have a crush on her. i have no idea who that could have been up there. why do you even think it was me? it would be like this guy from the netflix show i think you should leave. this is actually a clip that chris hayes played on his show a little while ago in order to dog senator ted cruz. i had not seen the clip before chris played it, but i have not stopped thinking about it or laughing about it since he played it. is everyone okay? what happened? did anybody see? someone drove a hot dog shaped car through the window. the driver