Pelosi rejects the republicans trying to troll the january six investigation. Plus, new details on the plot to kill the governor of michigan and the fbi s role in it. And it has stood in the tennessee state house for over 40 years. Our state capital is recognizing and supporting the first grand reserve of the kkk. Tonight a nathan bedford bust is finally coming down, when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. You ve noticed what we ve noticed? right in the last few days it seems as though someone somewhere hit a button, all of a sudden we re seeing conservatives coming out to finally state the obvious, covid vaccines are saving lives, they re safe and effective and they are a great with protecting you, your family and your loved ones from covid, and infectious respiratory virus which has already killed more than 600,000 americans, and at various point brought our hospitals and our broader society to its knees. Hospitals an pleased to covid, i can t say i
Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. I m peter alexander in for lester we begin tonight with two major headlines in the fight to combat covid. The cdc releasing new guidance for schools, urging them to fully reopen this fall for inperson learning, saying those who are vaccinated do not need masks, and those who are not should wear them after the ne we told you about last night, ththat pfizer is developing a booster shot to target the delta variant, the fda and cdc now say those who are fully vaccinated do not need a booster. I just asked dr. Anthony fauci about all of it. We will have that in a moment but we begin with latebreaking details from miguel almaguer. How you doing reporter: when fully vaccinated students and teachers return to the classroom, they won t need a face mask, says the cdc. The new guidance, which several states stopped enforcing weeks ago now mirrors the same guidelines for inoculated adults. But vaccines are not yet available for chi
Complication. You look into it and everyone says, this is is very rare. Then why put the warning? we ll get the straight talk. The investigating along with the cdc matters, but the government still stresses it is better to get vaccinated than to get covid. So, you see, it all confuses you. Be worried. Don t be worried. We need straight talk. We already know the big concern when it comes to covid sickness a lack of vaccinations. That s what s happening here. Less than half the country is fully vaccinated. We knew. That s why they were talking about herd immunity. It s a little of a magical number. Doesn t exist that way as a metric you could nail to a certain number, but when you don t have a fully vaccinated population, the pace is going to grow. Vaccinations, the pace dropped peak in april, 84%. It s slowed down since then. So, what are cases doing? they re climbing. Averaging nearly 20,000 a day. 47% increase from last week. 47% from last week. Why? these are gone. Why do you know so
Lego set of the capitol building from a riot suspect. There are more individuals that are going to be receiving the same indictments. Why it may be more than just informed speculation that ivanka trump could face an indictment of her own. How the national rise in violent crime can be traced back to the explosion of gun sales in america. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. I will start off showing you an image that in my opinion perfectly represents the state of the country, the state of american politics, the state of our battle against coronavirus. At first, this will probably make no sense, depends on your background here. It unpacking. Chip roy, from the suburbs of austin tweeted this. Come inject it. Get it? the basic meaning here is more or less, you can give me the vaccine over my cold, dead body, more or less. Okay. First of all, some background on chip roy, the man who tweeted this. He comes from a conservative district that has been trending t
Capital with d. C. Police and u. S. Capitol police officers on the front lines trying to defend against that violent attack. The attorney general today said thank you to the capitol police officers were what they went through six months ago today but he also importantly went up to the capitol police roll call delayed due update officers on the state of the justice department s investigation into what happened. Updating them on the 500 plus arrests that have been made thus far, the seriousness of the charges brought against those who have been arrested. Also the justice department s efforts to find unrest roughly 300 more people who they are still looking for. Justice department law enforcement has arrested on average, law enforcement of all levels, arrested on average three people every day since the january 6th attack happened. Some of the suspects they re looking for people who are wanted for potentially very serious crimes. For example, they have a huge reward out for information th