ashley: a manhunt us underway in georgia for an extremely dangerous suspect, you accused of shooting at officers. dalton county sheriff's office says the man fired multiple shots at police after a car chase. he fled into a wooded area which

sent a letter friday demanding a vee view of fulton county election's management, a critical step in georgia's new voting law that must take place before the state election board can overhaul a county's election board. still with us victor jaw di fran victoria and bill. the reverend said, look, democracy is in trouble. if we say it is the worst attack since the civil war, the answer has to be massive, what needs to happen here? >> we need to see a movement. it is really very much looking at the playbook of the 1960s. what was the playbook pushing over two dozen jim crow law has restricted voting across the american south? we are starting to see the same thing, chris. what we are seeing in this fight is folks going to washington. i'm going to assert my texas bias here, but i really think that the presence of the texas

that similar partisan reviews are now taking place or being proposed in wisconsin, in michigan, in georgia, and in pennsylvania. quote, the proposed election reviews failed to satisfy basic security, accuracy, and reliability measures and the auditors themselves fail to meet

then on the night of january 3rd, the day trump's call with georgia's secretary of state was published, the man in charge of the maricopa county election got this voice mail. >> hello, sir. this is the white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if you're free. if you could please give us a call back, sir, that would be great. you have a good evening. >> trump has never stopped that pressure campaign. it was a multi-pronged effort that included pressuring elected officials, storming the capitol, and now passing restrictive

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georgia gop candidate vernon jones tweeting keisha bottoms will let thugs burn down atlanta, gun each other down in the street and refuse to do a damn thing but when the cdc says jump, she says how high? and rushes to impose a mask mandate. marc thiessen joins me now. the white house not ruling out more lockdowns and closures if the cdc says so. watch this encounter and i want you to react. >> if scientists come to you at some point down the line and say it is our opinion there should be shutdowns and school closures, you would do that? >> like i said we listen to the cdc and the experts and their guidance. the cdc is a body that is very well respected and we follow their guidance. >> the cdc as we know has changed its policies numerous times as we know from don't

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neighboring georgia, the new case rate tripled in in the past two weeks. in indian, daily vaccination rates jumped 111% from three weeks a. >> the delta variant is a game changer and at this point it's not whether we vaccinate or mask, we have to do both. >> reporter: an internal document from the centers for disease control and pre investigation says the delta variant feeling much of the rise across the country produces similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people affected. they may spread the krarnt as unvaccinated people. but it's critical to know break-through infections among vaccinated people are rampl as the cdc pushes for people to wear masks indoors, president biden says, more restrictions could be coming s. and health experts agree, unless many more americans get vaccinated, things could get much worse. >> what we can say is this virus is doing exactly what we predicted it will do. if we can't get extremely high rates of vaccination and those rates now need to be higher than they were with the original strain because of the increased

it's in basically states like louisiana and south carolina and georgia and florida, the southern states. and if that were to happen, we would see children losing another year of school. i need not tell you what happens to an eighth and ninth grader if they are out of school for two years. we cannot have continued education for our young people, to deliver by them without broadband. broadband to me is to the south today what electricity was in the 20th century. >> thank you so much, congressman, especially those important topics on education and health. i want to turn it over to commissioner stark. millions of americans don't have access to broadband either because it is not available or can't afford it. this is the case for black residents in the rural south. the emergency broadband benefit was developed to help families struggling to afford internet service during the covid-19 endemic, but it is only temporary. can you share your perspectives what lawmakers must address to expand internet to low-income americans? >> thank you, first of all for allowing me to be here today and we're all

places, like georgia, missouri, and texas. those with the country's lowest-vaccination rates. with the delta variant sweeping through, doctors began pleading. >> we really need your help. to help us. >> reporter: and republican governors, taking a louder stand. >> it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks. >> reporter: now, data showing progress this weekend. in alabama, vaccinations are up, 159%, compared to three weeks ago. and florida, up 78%. a local pharmacist in missouri encouraged by the new demand. >> it's gone up by at leas where it was end of june. >> reporter: but why now? what took you these many months to finally decide to get the shot? >> um, because i saw the cases are rising. >> because i've seen more people, my family and friends have taken it and they are okay. >> reporter: one entire family in st. louis decided to roll up their sleeves before school starts. >> i wanted to get the shot because i wanted to protect myself, and i also wanted to protect other people. >> we do know. >> in some states, offering $100 with the shot. >> um, you know, the pros

in georgia, where the case rate has more than tripled in the past two weeks and schools are about to reopen, one metro atlanta county decided to start offering cash as an incentive. cnn's natasha chen joins me with more. >> reporter: ryan, the bad news is the number of new covid cases have been rising in the state of georgia. the good news is so has the vaccination rate. the seven-day average of new vaccination doses administered is up 85% since three weeks ago. one thing we're seeing that's working today at this site is that incentives work. they're giving out $50 pre-paid debit cards. we've seen lines of cars even before the event started at 8:00 a.m. today they've vaccinated more than 200 people. we talked to the very first person in line who showed up in a wheelchair. he arrived by public transit. i talked to him about the dangers of covid but here he is, talking about what really drove him to get here today. if you are unvaccinated, you're 25 times more likely to end up in the hospital or die from covid. >> right, right. i've been listening to all of that. but really, like i say

>> and in the united states going back through 2008 she promised ukraine and georgia no interim security guarantee so i will say first of all i don't think formal american alliances are something the bush administration would've argued against that and i making that promise in some ways we have gotten the worst we put it a bull's-eye a on and ukraine because those want to bring them in so he tries to destabilize those countries to keep them ineligible for any near-term membership. the only way out of this conundrum to my mind is to a large the conversation to allow putin in russia told their forces out of northern georgia and eastern ukraine what they want into the former soviet space think we have the right dialogue and concept we could do a better job to help georgia and ukraine but to some extent created those perverse incentives that putin look to destabilize with those that are east of nato in and that former soviet space. >> so would you say forget about the membership that's off the table? >> you want to get that unilateral concession to putin if we are partially responsive to rus

we're also looking at georgia's overall numbers, data relative to the vaccinated pop lanes. then, of course, because we do offer surveillance testing, we are carefully monitoring the numb bers of individuals testing positive, and we're watching the up tick of the delta variant. we recognize those are critical data points to help us determine how to proceed day by day. >> lisa, the governor vowed no new mask mandates, no lockdowns. if these trends continue, how much responsibility would the governor bear if the schools had to shut down, if you hit some of the triggers? >> i understand that governor kemp has articulated his position around the masking mandate. that's an open question, to determine how much of that responsibility is there to bear. i will safe, for me as superintendent, part of what is mission critical is to issue every strategy that gives us an opportunity to say we did as much as we could to help prevent the spread. again, watching the data helps drive that. i'm certain and i'm optimistic that that would be true for our state government as well. >>> 100 studen

we know that in states like georgia that went for democrats not only in the presidential but any those senate races, state houses led by the gop are going to come back with a vengeance and try to silence the very voters who don't vote for their party, and that's why it's important for democrats to step up, pass something that mirrors the for the people act in the substance about combatting partisan gerrymandering. >> as well as dealing with -- in georgia where they're now replacing even some of those that are in those election commissions. >> yes. >> where they can nullify the vote. but i want to quickly address the new evidence against the former president in his attempt to overturn the election. new notes handed over to congress show trump instructing the justice department to lie to the american people, saying, quote, just say the the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. susan, what do these revelations tell you about what trump was trying to do in the days leading up to january 6th? >> he's very consistent. he has been trying to undermine and use our government against ou

first georgia taylor—brown and, for the final leg, alex yee, who powered home to seal a 1a—second victory. after a bronze and silver in his previous two games, brownlee finally emulating brother alistair and claiming olympic gold. it's something i have wanted to do for a long time. i've chased that dream for a long time. i've seen my brother obviously achieve it twice and now i've done it and it feels amazing. introduced to try and improve gender balance, the new mixed team events have been one of the features of the games here in tokyo, and britain are certainly enjoying them. team gb�*s swimmers have already had a remarkable olympics, but it got even better in the ax100m mixed—medley relay. great britain will win their fourth gold in the swimming pool! anna hopkin sealing a stunning win and new world record after kathleen dawson, adam peaty and james guy had established a lead. this, a seventh medal for the team here. one more tomorrow and it will be british swimming's best ever games. dan roan, bbc news, tokyo. britain's fastest ever woman, dina asher—smith, has pulled out of the

very similar to georgia. even the climate, north to south, hills and the north, flatland in the south. an distance wise was accurate. if you call and say baghdad was around, we got transferred down you would call that may be that's probably geographically close. we were relieving a texas national guard unit those escorting feelers all the way up to, sometimes albeit a few -- if you are sorting feelers was heard service road or dirt? >> guest: and you still had issues? do they had local nationals driving print you don't know what their intentions are. they don't move with the same necessary urgency that we move with. you don't know if they're trying to set you up. you are always second-guessing who you were escorting, where, and sometimes would have issues with some of them, they would not go with us. but we did that for a week or so. they had been getting hit. they had taken some casualties they needed a platoon. so they chose my platoon and sent us up there. we were not there very long before time for us to

i'm joined by georgia's lieutenant governor, jeff duncan. lieutenant governor, great to have you on. elected officials right now are split on whether to offer vaccine payouts to boost rates. we've heard that the white house is considering up to $100 to get people vaccinated. is this something that you and governor kemp would consider statewide? >> well, certainly if you look at the data, we're in the midst of a pretty significant wave that's beginning. and you know, i look back to the lessons learned from the early parts of this pandemic, and you know, those lessons learned were, you know, that -- try to leave the partisan battles to the side to make good decisions. and you know, for me the majority of folks i talk to that are not vaccinated just have a couple of questions. they have some concerns. you know, somebody last night at dinner told me they said, you know, i keep being told to talk to my health care provider. how do i call and ask a question about the vaccine? there is no vehicle for it. the push i'm making is that we try to flood

we also know the situation in georgia where he -- his folks told georgia election officials, find me 11,780 votes. so when you get this pattern over and over, that's evidence to prosecutors that this guy knew that he was doing something wrong and yet he kept doing it. >> could it also though be evidence, paul, of the fact that this former president didn't even know what he was doing, that, in fact, he was just so incredibly naive to believe these lies, right? you think about the phone call the president had with president zelensky that was a topic of the russia investigation in his impeachment trials obviously, and the way in which he talked about investigating hunter biden in that phone call, how these are related and whether or not that evidence can be used either for our against bringing a case against the former president when it comes to these phone calls with doj officials? >> yeah, you know, that's a great point, yasmin. again, i think that when we see this repeated conduct over and over, and it is not just that the president is making this request. it is that government offic

jessica learmonth, georgia taylor brown, alex yee and finallyjonny brownlee. finishing first is some achievement, but being the first to finish first is how olympic history is made. this, the inaugural triathlon relay. a 300—metre swim, 6.8 kilometres on the bike, followed by a two—kilometre run, before handing over to your team—mate. first to rise isjessica learmonth. emerging from the water first then the turn ofjonny brownlee, individual bronze in london and silver in rio, this his final olympic race. a last chance to complete the set. into the water, they run, they fly, they swim. - by the time georgia taylor brown finished her leg, britain had a 21—second advantage. would it be enough? this was drama to the end. the lead wiped out as alex yee was caught by the french team but on foot, yee is in a class of his own. he will win gold. alex yee is the olympic champion. jessica learmonth and jonny brownlee has his olympic gold _ and georgia taylor brown adds the gold to her silver- from the individual. yeah, i can't believe it, i was slightly nervous b

johnson from georgia for five minutes. rep. johnson: thank you to the chairman for holding this meeting and thank you for the witnesses. $5.9 trillion is a significant sum of money. the sum total of relief and job retention measures in the cares act. congress acted decisively during a once in a century pandemic, but our work is far from done. we are obligated to ensure relief aid arrives to the folks who need it most, especially black americans, communities of color, and low income groups. already in poorer health due to being without health care coverage, communities of color were essential workers who disproportionally bore the brunt of sickness, hospitalization and death due to covid 19 and who were exposed throughout the pandemic while enabling us to work from home. they are the people who have too often been underserved and un-served the federal government. your office has found fema's management of disaster relief grants and funds to be inadequate. you reported last year that improving fema's management of these grants wo

let's begin coverage in georgia where new coronavirus cases are up 230% right now. cnn's natasha chen is live dekalb county. one of the new hot spots for covid infections and the surge is already interrupted the start of the new school year at one school, more than 100 kids now in quarantine. bring us up to speed with the latest. >> reporter: right. so the charter school in atlanta started class last tuesday and within a couple of days, they had to inform families of more than 100 students to quarantine and that's because as of friday afternoon, they've had 14 positive cases. that's because they've been actually doing a lot of testing to detect these. employees of theirs required to get tested before the school started and must continue that weekly. students strongly encouraged to test, and so out of about 1900 tests done before tuesday, they detected some positive cases and then a few more after classes started. mostly affected is that sixth grade class. nearly 100 sixth graders in quarantine. eighth graders are the ones having to move classes online because the ei

rights advancement act, and understanding that it is not just about texas but we see it in arizona, in georgia, in florida and in a number of other places. and also, people are encouraged perhaps by the daylight that there is with senator manchin and the possibility of a negotiation to create legislation that's workable and can get enough support to get passed. >> but you're right, it is an incredibly important story which is why we here at msnbc for the last four or five weeks have incessantly been covering it because it has a national domino effect as well. this rally in austin, it is coming as the texas democrats, as you know, left their state. they are trying to block restrictive voting measures, but republicans have certainly been hammering away at them for leaving, including during a congressional hearing this week. do you, julian, have any concerns of the optics of lawmakers fleeing texas? do you think it might dilute the concerns of voter suppression? >> i think the lines have been drawn very, very clearly. the legislators seem to have been doing a good job of informing their own const

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colonial pipeline also headquartered in georgia. i want to thank your personal who assisted in response to that incident. my request for you, mr. secretary, is that you commit that the next time your vacation to visit george and i hope to welcome you soon, that you will sit down with me and georgia ports authority personnel to discuss had dhs can better support cybersecurity to protect the port of savannah and perhaps you could comment now as well on your overall assessment of efforts to protect ports from cyber attack. >> so this is a very important area for us, cybersecurity structure agency is focus on port security and the cyber domain, and yes, senator, i would be pleased to visit georgia and visit the ports authority with you and address their concerns with respect to cybersecurity. and, of course, i would bring colleagues from cisa your most expert in that work. >> thank you, mr. secretary. finally on the same note we face a significant shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals. this is a field growing importance to n

this is wrapping up in dekalb county, georgia. they vaccinated 230 people today. that's better than they expected to do. this is the third time the county has run such an event, only the second time they offered such incentive like a gift card give away, and each time in the past month, they've seen more people come in. that's a good thing. across the country, we know vaccination rates are picking up, that's true in georgia as well. the vaccination rate, 85% higher than it was three weeks ago. that's the seven day average of new vaccine doses administered. some of the people coming here have been teenagers who are getting ready to go to school this week. we talked to one 13-year-old who was a little skeptical, in the last week, decided it was best to do this before she goes back to class. >> i don't want to go to school, catch the virus. first i thought if i got the vaccine, virus went into my body, i saw people sick that didn't have the vaccine. >> that's worse, right? >> yes. >> reporter: the fear of actually getting covid. of course, that's a worse experience t

reporter: jessica, more than 200 people have come through to get vaccinated at this site in dekalb county, georgia, that's more than county officials expected. that's a good thing. there were people sort of skeptical in line about the vaccine but said it was the money being given out, $50 gift cards that brought them here. america is waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions, president biden says we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta variant continue to rise. >> in all probability, by the way, had a good day yesterday, almost a million people got vaccinated, so i am hopeful people are beginning to realize ho how essential it is. >> they show the new rate of vaccinations the highest it has been in weeks. just under half the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. the fda says it is pulling in extra help to get covid-19 vaccines fully approved as quickly as possible to ease minds of those worried about vaccine safety. this comes as we learn more from the cdc about just how dangerous the delta variant is. the agency now says 74% of covid cases in one massachusetts

georgia taylor—brown had given britain a 21—second advantage, and although alex yee was dramatically caught for a moment, when he came to the finish, he and gb were in a class of their own. he will win the gold. four new british olympic champions before breakfast. forjonny brownlee, gold at last. the olympics, i've completed it! i've been waiting for that one. yeah, it feels absolutely amazing. third olympics, and to finally walk away with olympic gold, and we did everything we possibly could. whilst over in the pool, team gb have surpassed expectations. now a moment for the team's finest to come together. the mixed medley relay, another new olympic event. in the company of the finest swimmers on earth, britain have already proved they can excel. here, they were doing it again. kathleen dawson gave way to the peerless adam peaty. he did what he always seems to do, before james guy powered britain into the narrowest of leads, and here was anna hopkin on the final leg. great britain are going| to win their fourth gold in the swimming pool! one word that has changed the whole team is be

milbank wrote the half dozen lawmakers, including matt gates of florida, marjorie taylor greene of georgia, made explicit what has been more obvious by the day, they stand with those who attempted a violent coup. and house republican leaders held a news conference blaming january 6th on capitol police and particularly house speaker nancy pelosi. i mean, zerlina, how and why are they defending these people and trying to turn this around on nancy pelosi? >> well, they turn everything around on nancy pelosi. it's always going to be nancy pelosi's fault. before that it was hillary clinton. maybe they throw in aoc. any woman who has a strong opinion and values. the bottom line here is that the threat is still here. i think we have to go back to that point every time possible, because with the republicans elected in congress that, bay, marjorie taylor greene wasn't even in congress and apparently her election results were fine. just donald trump's were wrong. but i think that as long as you have folks like this in the congress that are placating what those insurrectionists, their violence was fo

they are taking the constitution power away from the secretary of state in georgia allowing people to your honor turn elections in texas. guess what, republicans instead of addressing the right to vote they want to turn critical race theory and not understanding or having any impetus of what it is. similar work on critical race theory says that race is a social construct. all of the things that sean just said are not involving critical race theory at all in slightest way and, indeed, critical race theory, ph.d and graduate law school level. red herring they use so they don't have to address voting rights and they don't have to address vaccines, they don't have to address the economic rebound that we are going through. it's a way to distract and divide people along racial lines and we have seen the same-old played many times. alicia: sean, parents across the country showing up in meetings because kids are coming home and hearing things that they are uncomfortable. not just graduate school level. >> middle schools, grade schools and high schools because the teacher unions are coming out

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but we begin our coverage in georgia. cases there have exploded in recent days, and health officials say in the last two weeks ago, new cases have risen over 200%. natasha chen is at a vaccination drive in the atlanta area. obviously, there is a big push to get more people vaccinated right now. what are you seeing today? what are you hearing from people who are showing up to get vaccinated? >> reporter: well, jessica, it's clear that incentives actually work. because this is the largest number of people dekalb county has seen at recent vaccination events in the last month or so. that is partially because people are wanting the debit cards that are being given out. $50 debit cards for each person who gets a shot today. the first person in line that we talked to said he definitely came because of that. just now, they told us they reached 200 people vaccinated since this event started at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. we did also talk to some families who brought their young kids here. of course, you have to be 12 or older to get t

educators in georgia developed item units, put them into the georgia history curriculum. it altered social studies in the state afterwords. here is where danielle and i don't disagree on the characterization. i don't think that is the central story of america. the story of america is a stunning assertion of individual freedoms, not group identity and there's a tradition of anti-group identity in united states history. think of all the figures who are individualists, rogues, runaways, orphans, benjamin franklin, emerson, self-reliance, the road heading off to the wood dancing leave me the hell alone, emily dickinson going into her room and shutting the door, ralph ellison's invisible man, all the way to those motorcyclists in easy rider, one of the nicknames is captain america. anti-group identity. ask them what group, no, not part of any group. i don't want to be part of any group. that individualist lineage, where is that in the roadmap? >> lots to go back. >> let me start by disputing mark's characterization. he misunderstood the early question. we did not have group id

she's live at a vaccination site in dekalb county, georgia, with that story. natasha, what kind of incentives are being offered there, and are they working? >> well, boris and christi, this is billed as a back to school vaccination event, so they're giving out backpacks as well as $50 prepaid debit cards. i can tell you, the $50, that is working. because there were people lined up even before this event began. it's been going on for just about two hours now, and they have vaccinated about 100 people. that's definitely more interest than they've been seeing in the past, so something as simple as a gift card could be the trick here. the seven-day average of a new vaccination dose administered, that has also increased just as it has across the country, as you were saying here in georgia. it is 85% higher than it was three weeks ago. that average dose administered to people in the state here. so that is a positive sign. it is a race against time. it is also still a challenge convincing people to come here. we spoke to the first person in line today who actually sh

of georgia, we tripled our community transmission index. our hospitalizations went from zero in a little less than a month to now over 100. savannah is a beautiful city with over 15 million visitors to come and visit us, to live, work and play, so we recognize that our reality was, to do what we could minimally, to be able to ensure that people are able to enjoy themselves in our cities, but yet, still not try to slow down our business and economy that we need so much. >> the efforts to get folks vaccinated. it seems it's going to be maybe even tougher, now that so many people have been vaccinated, you know, the so-called break through cases. and they still end up getting the delta variant and they're still told to wear masks. in other words, if i'm on the fence about vaccination and i have to wear a mask anyway, does that remove the sort of urgency factor for me to go out and get the vaccination? >> that's why messaging is so important. in chatham county, savannah, we're about 42% vaccinated which means most in the county are not vaccinate

voting rights legislation passed in 2021, because you simply will not have free and fair elections in georgia or florida or texas, or more than a dozen other states that have already passed voter suppression legislation. so for the sake of our democracy, more than for any one party, we need to get this passed. and we need the president, to bishop barber's point, to make this his number one, undying, unyielding focus. it's the only way lbj got five voting rights act. it's exactly how president biden will get through the 2021 for the people act. let's see this through, put our eyes on the prize, until we win this fight and save our democracy. >> and jonathan. can i ask you a question before you start marching? >> yeah, go ahead. >> listen, listen, as beto said, this is bigger than just this moment. this is about democracy. and the same people that did the physical violent insurrection on january 6th have been leading a political policy insurrection in statehouses. the same people that have blocked living wages and blocked health care and blocked climate change are blocking and suppressing the v

. >> so, we want to start in georgia right now. the case rating there has tripled in the last days. cnn's natasha chen is with us. we know dekalb county is a lot of places in georgia, where experts are encouraging people, roll up your sleeves. get vaccinated and they're pointing out some of their own incentives to do this. any indication it's working this morning, natasha? >> reporter: christi, the incentive is definitely working. they're giving out $50 pre-paid debit cards and there was a line before this even started. you can see all of the folks behind me, they're getting good numbers here. that is a good sign. it's tracking with what we see across the country that vaccination rates are on the steady rise. especially a sharp increase in some southern states that have been lagging in vaccinations, this is definitely a race against time. a race against that delta variant. america is waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions and president biden says we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta variant continue to rise. >> in all probability -- by the

look in georgia. republicans there are taking the first step toward taking over the elections process in fulton county which is home to atlanta, also the state's largest county, also mostly black. what they have done is request a so-called performance review of the top election official in fulton county, loug allowing the republicans to replace the election official with a temporary superintendent of their choosing who would then have full authority over vote counting apology places and staffing. that's the type of covert effort no amount of organizing by activists will be able to defeat. what's happening in texas is an overt attempt to make it difficult for black and brown voters to cast a ballot through restrictive election bills. organizers and religious leaders are tackling those republican led efforts head on. today marks the last leg of a march through texas where voting rights advocates such as beto o'rourke on the reverend dr. william barber led a group of protesters directly to the state capi

if you look first at the southern colonies from maryland down to georgia, mostly what we have is a formal commitment to the church of england. and the church of england, of course, is the national official church of england, of britain, and most of those colonies adopt what we would call a kind of formal establishment of the church of england. but the southern colonies overall are probably the least religious of all the colonial regions which, if you think about that for a second, you'll see why that's a little weird. we think of the southed today as the bible belt, correctly. but in the colonial period, it's different. in the colonial period, there is a kind of formal establishment at least of the church of england, but once you get out past the colonial cities, places like williamsburg, charleston and savannah, the rates of church going and commitment to the church of england is pretty limited. and part of the reason for that if you remember going back to the founding of jamestown these colonies are mostly being founded for business. and it's a little difficult to set up churches in the

with me is hank johnson of georgia. he's a member of the house transportation and infrastructure and judiciary committees. thanks for being with us. how do you see this unfolding? we have bipartisan support for the part of the bill that you would have assumed we had bipartisan support for. the fixing of roads, bridges, public transport. we've got some problems on the much bigger bill that democrats are interested in. >> well, i tell you, thank you for having me this morning, ali. i think the fact that democrats control the house and the senate, though those -- that control is very slight. we do have the ability to deliver for the american people. we already delivered the american rescue plan which lifted our economy from the doldrums of another great recession. and we injected money into this economy which got people back to work, got our children back to school safely or at least gives them a chance of returning to school safely now. and put money into peoples pockets. and made an initial investment to rebuild america.

future of the asian life in the, to the sort of the integrity of both states, all 3 states, basically georgia that are speaking come out to states armina mother by john. and of course, it's hard to imagine now, but in the future it's about the regional cooperation evolve. there's some sort of relationship so far. unfortunately, nice group chairs would like to live the all sorts of stop the secretion of the stock list, which is now irrelevant after the war and after 26 or 7 years of english, asian. so they should come with new ideas. right. and can you just elaborate briefly on what new ideas those are via you talk about proposals like what's yeah, my number one to the total and take it off as a budget. and i mean, yeah, that means, so there is some firms, so that in the us by john all that our boss stipulated in the united nation security solutions. and when charter, the 2nd is the opening of the communication lines asked people listed. busy by the agreements, it's been, i mean us by john rooker by russia was just to basically documents the flood ation basis, november 10th, and agreement sign

cnn's natasha chen is live at a vaccination site in dekalb county, georgia, with that story. what kind of incentives are you seeing there today, natasha? good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christi and boris. today they are giving out backpacks and $50 pre-paid debit cards. the debit cards are something they tried in the previous vaccination event that they had and they found that it was effective in a sense that they got more people arriving at that event than previously before that. so today, this morning, the event doesn't start for almost another hour. we can see there's a line of people already prepared. they have a choice to either get tested or get their vaccine. i suppose they could do both at the same time. both are being offered here. this is being billed as a back to school event. that's why they're giving out backpacks trying to encourage the school-aged children who are eligible for a vaccine to get a shot as well. but it's a good sign to see at least some people waiting here knowing that it doesn't start for another hour and as we've been mentioning, the mo

alex yee and georgia taylor brown added to their individual silvers from the opening week at the games; they were joined byjonny brownlee and jessica learmonth. then, in the swimming pool, great britain claimed another gold. this time in the mixed four by 100 metres medley. so where does that leave the medal table? well, team gb remain sixth — they have picked up eight gold medals and 28 in total. at the top is china with 21 golds and 45 overall. meanwhile the american gymnast, simone biles, has pulled out of two more olympic events — as she deals with mental health issues. on the track, the leading nigerian sprinter, blessing okagbare, has failed a drugs test and is out of the games. she won her heat in the 100 metres on friday and had been due to run in the semi—finals later. let's go live to tokyo, the bbc�*s sarah mulkerrins is there. so we know the line—up for the women's 100m final. some quick times in the semis but no dina asher smith. disappointment for those looking for dina asher smith tobacco perform in recent years, knowing she has performed on the very high stage