the georgia lawsuit is interesting, because they were careful to challenge that georgia law based on intent to discriminate by the georgia legislature. there was a unique timeline that let them make those arguments. it's not clear yet whether they'll be successful. ultimately they want what the country needs, which is hr-1, an act that will strengthen laws around registration and make it easier for folks to exercise their right to vote, as well as hr-4, the john lewis voting rights act which would restore essentially what shelby county took away, restoring preclearance and making it more difficult for people to discriminate against folks who are just trying to exercise their right to vote. >> mike memoli, we learned last hour via a white house official that vice president harris is going to be meeting with that group of texas democrats who left the state to block those republican-backed voting restrictions. president biden has made voting rights part of her portfolio. what can you tell us about that meeting and what the white house hopes to get out of it? >> reporter: the vice presid

the answer is that it doesn't, same deal with the voter integrity laws in place like georgia and florida but biden sent out his untalented vice president to do her best. >> these laws make it harder for you to vote because they don't want you to come. your vote is your power. isa don't let anybody ever take your power from you. >> notice they never mention any specific aspect of these voter integrity laws they so vehemently oppose? but then again why facing convenient facts when you can make outlandish claims with impunity. >> and make sure the vote gets counted we will never have one man one woman one vote and vote for the candidate of our choice. >> laws that mandate the cleaning up of voter rolls and tend to increase transparency and ballot counting, just like the laws that require clear voter id, not racially biased in any way, they have no racial component whatsoever, they apply to everyone across the board. to say otherwise, which the sharpton charlatans are doing is alive. you want to know what this fear mongering and hyperbole was really all about? i will tell you. the democrats

that's happening down in georgia this week. >> this fight revving up as we see right there. tracie, thank you. >>> in san diego this weekend the u.s. navy christened the "usns john lewis" honoring the late congressman and civil rights icon on the first anniversary of his death actress alfre woodard broke the champagne bottle for the blessing many of lewis's former congressional colleagues were there as well, including house speaker nancy pelosi the navy plans to name another six ships after civil rights leaders. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is in for janessa this morning. he's keeping an eye on that mega drought out of the west as well as a soggy southeast hey, bim, good morning good to see you. >> good morning. it's like monday's the same. we're dealing with the heat and the drought out west too much rain in the east. that's the case this morning bring the umbrella with you if you're in the southeast from atlanta all the way up through alabama, mississippi including areas around new orleans here's how it's going to look as we go throughout the day this front is kind of

to colorado because of georgia passing the restrictive voting laws there, but this is a whole chicken and egg thing here, right? >> that's right. they've said over and over they don't want the politics in sports, but now they're participating in it. >> shut up and dribble but we'll run a campaign ad here. >> the message was very clear. >>> this morning, a series of brand new books, frankly we did win this election by michael bender and landslide by michael wolf, they shed new light on the final days of the trump administration. brian stelter has the details. >> i alone can fix it. >> reporter: from 2016 to 2020 -- >> frankly we did win this election. >> reporter: donald trump went from deceptive to down right dangerous. >> we won this election. and we won it by a landslide. >> reporter: and three new books using trump's words as titles underscore just how ugly his final days in office were. >> everybody knew that what was going on here was abnormal and dangerous and on top of everything else, ludicrous. >> reporter: in michael wolf's landslide, trump is portrayed as incompetent and al

you have lawsuits involving defamation, misusing funds, the phone call to change votes in georgia. where does this fit in his legal worries? >> well, i think that this one obviously he is not named in it, so unlike i think the situation in georgia where he made that phone call directly, i think that that is the one that poses the potential greatest risk. it is on tape, it is not something that he will be able to skecurity out of. he -skirt out of. he was the one making the phone call. the attorney general in new york says that the investigation continues, so maybe she has something else. but as of right now, the former president is not implicated in this directly. >> but certainly a reputational hit for the trump organization. >> and lenders won't want to business with an entindicted company. >>> all right. more local news,errick gar land says there are serious concerns whether capital pu punishment is imposed fairly. and president biden says he also has significant concerns about the death penalty and how it is applied. there was a flurry of executions during the waning months of

and the creme de la crazy are already volunteering for the job, like georgia representative and woman-- ( audience reacts ) >> audience: ohh! >> audience: no! >> stephen: that's more like it. georgia representative and woman in the matrix who took all the pills... ( laughter ) marjorie taylor greene, who has been publicly pushing to be seated on the panel. i for one can't wait-- ( booing ) i for one can't wait until she offers up her theory that the halls of congress were actually soiled by jewish poop lasers. ( farting and laser sounds ) ( laughter and applause ) greene is not alone. florida representative and jimmy douche-tron-- ( audience reacts ) >> audience: no! >> stephen: wow! matt gaetz, also openly expressed his interest. as usual, he showed his interest by offering to give the commission a ride home from band practice. >> jon: oh, oh, oh, oh! >> stephen: there are also a slew of books coming out, taking us behind the scenes that led up to january 6. for instance, michael wolff's new tell-all reveals that the night before the riot, rudy giuliani was "drinking heavily and inco

tornados reported across the state, as well as parts of southern georgia. well now, the powerful storm is making its way towards the northeast. joining me, now, meteorologist, karen mcginnis. what are you seeing out there, karen? >> yes, this is very interesting, now, because elsa is now moving into high density. high population areas. along that i-95 corridor into the northeast. but what is interesting here is there is a lot of dry air intrusion. meaning, there is dry-edge air that's moved in across the southern and western edge. but this is moving so quickly, now. it's not poking along, like it was. moving at about 14 miles per hour. b but now, it's racing to the northeast at 25 miles an hour. it's position right now puts in a del mar peninsula so as it continues to move, now we are looking at areas from around philadelphia to new york city. eventually, towards boston and into down-east maine. and that's where we have got the highest risk of severe weather. . we could see two to four inches of rainfall, some isolated amounts, up to six inches of rainfall.

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the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from georgia is recognized. mrs. greene: i ask for the recorded votes. the speaker pro tempore: yeas and yeas are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 further proceedings are postponed. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from district of columbia seek recognition? ms. norton: i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to the bill h.r. 2617. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will -- does the gentlewoman wish to call up the bill as amended. ms. norton: yes. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 2617, a bill to amend section 15 of tiet 381 of united states code to amend how performance goals are achieved. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from district of columbia, ms. norton, and the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr0 minutes. ms. norton: i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to the bill h.r. 2617. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. norton: as amended. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative d

there was a diner segment, what the women said, don't california my georgia. >> "fox and friends" diner segments are setting the tone for the nation and hopefully we are setting the tone for your thursday. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. carley: vice president kamala harris still fawning over texas democrats who are being compared to freedom fighters. >> of stalling tactics cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> lauren blanchard joins us from washington with more. >> the vice president said democrats are in line with the legacy of civil rights leaders and applaud their efforts to stop texas from passing their voting bill but republicans say a trip to dc isn't exactly the same as what freedom fighters have gone through. >> they took a bold courageous action in line with the legacy of everyone from frederick douglass, women who marched down pennsylvania avenue for women's rights to vote for those folks in 1965 pass the voting rights act. >> reporter: today the group of texas democrats will meet with moderate senator joe mann's which in an intimat

the gentleman from georgia, miss williams is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. >> we have a lot of work to do when it comes to closing the racial wealth gap in this country and in my district, which unfortunately is at the bottom of the list for all cities. if we want to make significant progress on this issue, it is going to take both the industry, and governments making ambitious commitments. but even more importantly it is going to take intentional implementation of steps to reach these commitments, and consistent measurement and assessment of progress. mr. coles, can you tell me a little bit about how your members are mentoring progress and the objectives that they device to address the racial wealth gap, and how this measurement will be used to inform their plans and actions going forward? >> thank you, congresswoman. i think the bpi members are tracking according to a different buckets as the numbers of cdfi dfis, mdis, that they've engaged are part of those commitments. philanthropic commitments, and disbursements that they have made -- i think that thes

la frontera con georgia, y lluvia durante el sur del estado. carolina del sur, carolina del norte jueves lluvioso y muy ventoso. el viernes llega al Área triestatal y tambiÉn en nueva york y en boston lluvia asociada a lo que nos va quedando en este caso. un largo recorrido de la tormenta tropical todavÍa de aquÍ a que termine la semana. hay alertas por tiempo tropical, vigilancia encarna del norte, aviso carolina del sur y en la costa de georgia, como pueden ver la lluvia es el mayor problema, esas lÍneas nos indican un viento intenso de mar a tierra que podrÁ favorecer ese oleaje muy lejos del sistema , de 20 a 30 millas por hora. podrÍamos llegar a las 10 pulgadas hacia el sur y que se intensifique es muy poco probable. muchos modelos ya se va este sistema. en texas la zona del paÍs que me preocupa, fijarse como estÁn las nubes en el sur, 4,000,000 por inundaciones al sur de austin, san antonio y houston y para poner nÚmero a esas inundaciones, es peor que elsa. se pueden acumular 10 pulgadas mÁs. eso es tambiÉn la humedad del go

alabama, georgia, idaho, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, west virginia, and wyoming. let's take closer look at arkansas. only about 35% of eligible people are fully vaccinated. in the past week alone, there were more than 7,000 new cases. one doctor puts in it stark terms. the hospital is full. covid-19 numbers increase every day. we are stopping patients in the recovery room. no space for transfers. running out of caregivers. support health care workers. mask up. get vaxed. that position, dr. have the doctor joins me hive from little rock. dr. patterson, thank you for joining us. your tweet from yesterday paints a grim picture, a picture we saw in the early days of the pandemic. not something we would expect to see with three different effective vaccines available in the united states. one of your colleagues says it is heart wrenching to see unvaccinated individuals come into the hospital with regret. what is it like the hear regret when it is too late? >> you know, we talked to people who should know better, and they are now dealing with the worst health care crisis

so if i was in the state of georgia, because we gone through this, you need to push back. if you need to fight back. don't let the far left that the narrative. the department of justice shouldn't be weaponizing this process and punishing states were trying to enact measures that protect voters. once again, put george's new law in context, they allow about 17 days of early voting and new jersey only allows nine. the left is so hypocritical, why isn't the doj going after massachusetts or new jersey or delaware? i think the answer speaks for itself because what they are trying to do is intimidate red states essentially. >> gillian: justice elena kagan issued this fiery dissent today, accusing the court of gutting section two of the voting rights act which she said is historically the most important piece of jurisprudence put in place to protect the vote of minority americans. what's your response to the justice? >> i think it's important for everyone to remember the history of the country and even the history involving the voting rights act and why it was passed. that being s

passed across the country in the name of election security, just last week, they sued the state of georgia that in fact the new law passed by the georgia state did in fact unfairly and directly targeted minorities, the justice department i don't think based on conversations i had yesterday will look at this law and chang >> the supreme court upholding national impli m have a full wr on "world news tonight" and much more on abcnews.com and our streaming channel abc news live. i'm whit johnson in new york. we'll send you back to regular programming and for those out west that's "good morning "good morning america." have a good day. >>> zbla this has been a special report from abc news. th dupixen, you can change how their skin looks and feels. and that's the kind of change you notice. hide my skin? not me. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, parasitic infection. if you takn't an o them thout . when you help heal your ski

many of the states that have been targeted, when we talk about texas and georgia, that fundamentally because they participate in a historic election last year now what we're seeing is punitive measures. what the message does that send about democracy? if we're -- if we allow that to happen, then that completely undermines democracy. that is the actual definition of political corruption. that means the political party is trying to use and use weaponize the administrative provide process to prevent certain people from voting . >> tomorrow it will be a year since we lost john lewis. i understand after you were involved in litigating the shelby county case you spoke with him on the bridge during one of the anniversaries. what did he have to say to you? >> well, he had actually attended the shelby county argument. he was there to observe it and to witness history try again. he didn't say nug. he just grabbed me and gauff me a big hug and said you did. you did. that was a moment in which we were thinking about all that and so many others had done all the way from that bridge to the court,

tomorrow morning is expected landfall staying a category one for a while until it goes through southern georgia dropping back down to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression. as you can see with that low. meanwhile, it's going to go back over waters again and again. the something has to be watches. it becomes upgraded to a tropical storm. why? because the gulf stream waters are still spilling out there. course, this july. the waters are warm along the east coast at any rate we want to watch out for the heavy rainfall. but the good news is in the east coast up here in the northeast there on the west side of this system. and when you're on the west side of hurricanes like that, you tend to get falling air. so it doesn't produce as much rain as on the east side, which is why all throughout the southeast. they have to watch the sink climbing through different story. we have we're praying to get any water here just getting that marine layer for tonight. that's it. fog. just rolling in across the bay. we have still the clear skies along the east bay shoreline watching things going. a here com

those democrats had more meetings with the clintons and georgia's stacey abrams, and joining us now is adam serwer who is staff writer for "the atlantic" and the latest piece is "the democratic leaders are betraying the blackvoters." tell us why you wrote something that incendiary? >> well, you have to raise the expectation of that statement saying that you will do something with the federal power that you acquire to protect the rights of the constituents who are the target of legislation that is an attempt to either diminish their access to the ballot or diminish their political influence on the electoral process. if you are not willing to do that, then you are asking for the votes without giving them anything in return. >> i want to draw you out on something that you wrote in the "atlantic" piece, because you say this about the democratic vote sers. the targeted constituencies must treat every election cycle as if their fundamental rights are on the line, and to listen to the democrats target the rights to the franchise as the new jim crow and then watch the same leaders do knotting

a group of senate democrats led by raphael warnock of georgia are preparing a revised form of legislation which is expected to be unveiled in the coming days. the details are under wraps pu it's expected to include components of west virginia senator joe manchin's proposed changes to the voting rights bill. meanwhile, pressure to act continues after leading a protest against senate inaction on voting rights with black women activists texas congressman sheila jackson lee was arrested outside a senate office building by capitol police. i'm joined now by texas state representative senfronia thompson who as you just saw testified at today's hearing. representative thompson, you spoke very powerfully about paying a poll tax, not being allowed to vote in primaries. what do you want congress to understand about what it is at stake in texas and nationwide? >> i want them to understand that our voting power is about to be ripped away from us unless they act. here's why. when you get people keep chipping at your right to vote because you happen to be a minority within this country, and you are powe

all of these states, georgia, florida and arkansas put significant restrictions on voting, strong evidence for racially discriminatory impacts to george's law, the supreme court's decision makes it harder to bring successful challenges, and it is a significant problem to deal with it. democratic narrative is voter suppression is a major problem. 6 justices accepted the republican narrative. >> the unenviable task of adding nuance to that in two minutes if you will. >> i will note what burnohwhich said is it shapes the landscape for the law of democracy so in addition to this decision in 2021 we have marion county from 2008 which made it harder to bring challenges to voting restrictions and russo versus common cause where the court concluded federal courts lacked jurisdiction to determine constitutionality of gerrymandering and that decision will have considerable consequences for redistricting as we have seen in the past year and we will see going forward and as erwin alluded to, the 2-d 13 -- 2013 decision, to be very clear, in doing so the 5-numfour opinion, the chief justice noted that

georgia is the number one forestry state in the nation and i'm proud of it but we have to address this and climate change but we have to address it with a policy that includes stable, reliable, affordable energy. i yield back. >> next up, representative kasten you are recognized for five minute. -- five minutes. >> if you can heat your home or drive your car without using fossil fuel, do it. but we need to invest capital to save money. it's a problem if you are in the business of extracting fossil fuel. we have to make sure those people are protected. ms. flowers, you mentioned energy efficiency. some people [indiscernible] a lot of utilities and states have tried to provide resources to pie the up -- to provide the upfront capital and it is not worked as hard as it should have to make sure we have access to more efficient homes. any suggestions on what we should do federally to accelerate the access to capital for people who might in the -- you might not be able to afford the initial investment? >> it's not my area of expertise but as a consumer who has talked with people who have had

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. >> reporter: nationally, more than a dozen states, including florida, georgia, and iowa, have put similar voting restrictions in place with bills in progress in many other places now president biden, in philadelphia today, planning to use the power of his bully pulpit in a speech focusing on voting rights. and nbc news has learned that the president in his remarks will blast those new republican-backed voting bills as the most egregious attempts to block our democracy since the civil war. but some on the left want the president to go even further in trying to rally democrats around changing those rules here in the senate which would allow them to pass a voting rights bill even without gop support. savannah >> hallie, thank you >>> coming up on 7:14. craig is here with the latest on the growing crisis in cuba >> good morning to you savannah, hoda for the second night, thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets in cuba. they are frustrated by rising poverty and covid numbers and lack of access to medicine and basic supplies nbc's sam brock is in miami's little havana with m

in atlanta local officials, voters and senator warnock testifying on georgia's voting laws. here is amy klobuchar with garrett haake. >> i believe that this is an even bigger deal than just party versus party. this is literally a question to save our democracy. because once you start disenfranchiing people, people lose faith. >> and while that is going on, texas democrats who traveled to d.c. in an effort to block republicans from passing voter restriction bills back in their home state are kicking off a week of events to pressure congress to pass federal voter legislation. and joining me now from atlanta is gar rett haake. i want to hear about what happened in atlanta, but first i understand mitch mcconnell was talking about this on the floor back in d.c.? >> reporter: yeah, it is really all related. this field hearing today a chance for democrats to try to shine a light on this issue both here in georgia and nationally. they see these state legislatures passing laws in republican-controlled states, making it more difficult to vote, voter earlier, vote absentee and they see

the same deal with the voter laws in georgia and florida. but biden sent out his untalented vice-president to do her best refer end al. >> these laws make it harder for you to vote because they don't want you to vote. your vote is your power. don't let anyone take your power from you. >> laura: they never mention any aspects of the voting laws they oppose. >> if we lose ability to make sure that vote is counted we will never be able to vote for the candidates of our choice. >> laura: laws that mandate the cleaning up of vote roles like the ones that require clear voter i.d. they are not racially biassed. they apply to everyone across the board. to say otherwise which the sharpon charltons are doing is a lie. the fear mongering yesterday was about the democrats saying in power no bad how the country gets under their leadership. they don't want to go to the people to defend their record on immigration or rising gas prices, schools or crime. they prefer to create a system where they can stuff the ballot box to guarantee victory. they will get c

, the department of justice says it's going to sue georgia because it isn't like it's state election laws. the rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel tweeting and saying new york city admits to counting over 100,000 test ballots, retracting vote totals week after primary election day yet the doj's suing georgia? want to give you a bite at that. we will start with you. >> this is based on the whole idea anytime you have election reform, especially with republicans involved, that it's racist and it's a giant plot to hold down black people and critics like to point of this idea that there was an effort to dehydrate black voters because they can't get water while they are waiting in line to vote. it's absurd. water can be given to them by election officials, that's fine. it's as if donald j. trump is running for president in 2024, he and his campaign staff cannot hand out bottles of water that they vote for donald j. trump within 150 feet of the polls. however if 151 feet away, they can do so. perfectly willing to do so. mrs. anti-electioneering rule that applies to democrats and republicans. it'

[cheers and applause] and from atlanta, georgia, it's the lewis family. [cheers and applause] everybody's here trying to win theirself a lot cash, and somebody might have a shot at driving out of here in that brand-new car. [cheers and appl

the failed georgia gubernatorial candidate. in 2018, she started her campaign with over $200,000 worth of personal debt, personal debt. because that's what you want and charge of your state apostate b.s. finances, someone who can't handle their own pocketbook. she's been raking in the dough, making so much money that she recently purchased a new million dollar home and you add that on top of the $400,000 house she bought in 2019 and she's just a regular real estate mogul. so where did all this money come from? she hasn't been working a 9-to-5, so how do democrats continue to get so rich without really doing much to jones, former democrat now running for governor of georgia joins me to explain. vernon, is there any conceivable way she amassed this type of money this quickly smack >> i think we all know that she's probably been intellectually dishonest. you failed to mention one thing was also. supposing she had all that debt, owned i think $50,000 in state income taxes when she decided to run in 2018 but mysteriously she loaned

you are getting-all-star game tonight that they moved away from georgia. the game should have been played in atlanta as we know. the idea that elected officials are going to run from their job, they were going to get on an airplane, the only thing they wanted to make sure they had was alcohol and no masks. to come to the capitol to play politics. i think their real job is to be back in texas, to do the work, to work on the legislation, and get it passed to make sure more people have the opportunity to vote and that people don't have the opportunity to cheat. >> bret: house minority leader kevin mccarthy. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> bret: up next, women have made enormous progress in afghanistan during u.s. involvement there. so what happens if and when the taliban take over? >> afghanistan is on the brink of humanitarian crisis. this can be avoided. this should be avoided. ♪ ♪ not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a bit

. >> savannah, georgia now has a citywide mask mandate for a month. mask mandates nationwide could be next. >> this is under active consideration. >> white house says of course it is. >> it would be actually surprising and odd if our health and medical experts were not having active discussion about how to best protect the american people. >> peter: it's becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated which has experts wondering why persons who got the shot should be subjected to the same restrictions as those who haven't. >> they have chosen not to get vaccinated at own individual risk. >> vaccines still have not been fully approved by the fda. >> we still have no clear timetable on when we can expect fda licensure of these vaccines for adults and a lot of people say that that is still causing their hesitancy. >> peter: the fda hasn't been a priority for this president. >> why has the president not nominated someone for fda commissioner yet? >> he is certainly eager to nominate someone. >> is he also optimistic about revving up stalled mask vaccination effor

. >>> controversial congresswoman marjorie taylor greene of georgia says she's seeking a seat on the democrat-led activity to investigate the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. she tweets this. take a look. she says the republicans assigned to the january 6th committee should be the toughest fighters that will stand up to pelosi's witch hunt 2.0. the people know who the fighters are. i have asked to be assigned. joining us now to discuss this and a lot more, democratic congressman adam schiff. he's a key member of the select committee, also the chairman of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you for joining us. let me get your quick reaction to the tweet from the congresswoman. >> well, it's not surprising. you know, that's certainly where she's coming from. qanon conspiracy theory and an ardent trump defender. we hope that mccarthy will appoint people who are serious and interested in getting to the bottom of what happened on jan 6th, all the preparation for that tragic day, what happened on the 6th itself. but i fully expect that kevin mccarthy will do whateve

watch this. >> some of these voter suppression laws in georgia and other republican states smack of jim crow rearing its ugly head once again. >> president biden: it is the most pernicious thing. this makes jim crow look like jim eagle. this is gigantic what they are trying to do. >> the resurgence of jim crow-style voter suppression measures. >> it is a tsunami threatening democracy. >> a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. >> sean: ultimately the all-star game was viewed by 8 million people, a historically low number for that game, showing politics in sports aren't going over well with the american people. worst of all, businesses in atlanta including minority-owned businesses, they lost tens and tens of millions of dollars in revenue. why? because of the selfish political actions of the democratic party. one longtime democratic strategist has a few choice words for his own party. take a look. >> -- party of blacks and suburban women. they are not into this. all right? and you know, we

perÚ haciendo un llamado a una nueva constituciÓn, y la suerte le hizo ilia: autoridades escolares de georgia investigan la muerte de un estudiante de 15 aÑos que estuvo expuesto a altas temperaturas durante una prÁctica de fÚtbol el lunes. el niÑo sufriÓ una emergencia mÉdica no especificada en el terreno de juego y muriÓ en el hospital. el incidente ha provocado advertencias sobre la prÁctica de deportes a la intemperie. temperaturas altas en gran parte del paÍs. nos comunicamos con albert martÍnez. quÉ podemos esperar? albert: buenas noches. en el norte del paÍs, calor, humedad, sensaciones de calor de 100, pero en el sur, peor, oklahoma, texas, luisiana, mucho calor, antes de salir de casa podemos hacer cosas para pasar mejor estos dÍas, por ejemplo, subimos un par de grados la temperatura del termostato para no sufrir cortes de suministro, tambiÉn apagar las luces que no necesitamos y, ligeramente y s ——comer ligeramente y tomar mucha agua, vestir ropa clara y si manejamos en el auto con pequeÑos, revisar el asiento trasero porque puede superar la temperatura los 100 y

across the board they changed arizona, georgia, and parts of nevada. and then after that, republicans said well, we'll need voter restriction laws. that's occurring right now. not only is it occurring, but it's continuing. and we're having challenges to the supreme court. allowing people of color to vote and seeing these voter restrictions. he set the tone. he's sending dog whistles to say the number of people voting is corrupt. the republicans are saying we agree with you and need state laws to prevent it. >> elie honig, walk us through number one, i'm not a lawyer, i know this is grossly inappropriate. grossly inappropriate for the president of the united states to call the country's chief law enforcement officer and say help me lie and cheat. but walk us through the specifics of why this is such a morass. >> yeah. first, this is a closl abuse of power by the president. i think it's important we not take this for granted. we've seen plenty of evidence that the president was willing to do anything to overturn the election. here we are getting confirma

. >>> a live look out of georgia on the left-hand side of your screen, with that state taking center stage in the battle over voting rights this morning. why? you have a group of senators, the ones you might typically see on the hill behind me in atlanta. typically obscure, fairly low-key senate rules committee is holding its first field hearing in 20 years. remember, georgia passed one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country and lost last week's mlb all-star game because of it. in texas democrats from that state kicking off their second week in d.c. to try to stall a restricted voting bill in that legislature as a fifth member of the delegation tests positive for covid now. with all of them being fully vaccinated. garrett haake is in atlanta, priscilla thompson in georgiatown, texas. take us inside the hearing and what you heard from the woman leading this committee, senator amy klobuchar. >> reporter: hallie, good morning. this hearing has just gotten under way and just the fact that we're here at all speaks to what democrats believe is the scale and scope of the proble

. >> everyone is looking at georgia right now, molly. >> that's right, although this is all over the country these kinds of laws are being considered and passed. frankly the democratic establishment is concerned they have not effectively countered this push. whether you're talking about in congress where the big, you know, what they call democracy reform bill went down, or whether you're talking about in the states where this case sent a clear signal about how the supreme court is going to look at the democratic attempts to litigate these laws. the lawsuits being brought in various states -- in georgia you have the justice department involved. that makes it a different story. even there you have to wonder about how the courts are going to look at attempts to combat these laws using the legal system. if it's not going to happen on capitol hill, if it's not going to happen in the courts, then it has to happen in the political process. it's going to be about -- as averi was saying, using the fact that these laws are unpopular to motivate democratic voters. >> lz, not exactly in line wit

investigations related to his conduct surrounding the january 6 riot at the capitol and his efforts to overturn georgia's election results. lester >> hallie, thank you >>> another major story tonight. bill cosby leaving the state of pennsylvania a day after his sexual assault conviction was overturned but for his many accusers, an outpouring of shock and outrage. we get more now from stephanie gosk >> mr. cosby, how you doing? >> reporter: now a free man, bill cosby didn't stay long at his pennsylvania home. leaving today to reunite with his wife. >> he will spend the next months with her they haven't seen each other in almost three years. >> reporter: according to his spokesperson andrew wyatt, cosby knew the pennsylvania supreme court decision was coming, but didn't know when. prison guards told him he was free at noon yesterday, unlocking the cell and opening the door according to wyatt, there were cheers from the other inmates. bill cosby came back home wyatt says they stayed up until 2:00 in the morning. the 83-year-old telling him he didn't want to go to bed. he was afraid all of this was just a ba

and in san diego, an honor of a different kind for the georgia congressman. the christening of the united states navy ship named in his honor. >> one of the mottos of the army is always courageous and john lewis was, indeed, always courageous. >> reporter: the u.s., the lead vessel of its class of supply ships for the navy. in the year since his passing, congressman lewis's legacy of voting rights activism continues to inspire not just because of his mission but, also, because of his methods. >> he was a joyful person and i -- and i think that's one thing that needs to continue here. as -- as we fight a fight that really needs to be fought. i think we have to approach it with joy and -- and enthusiasm. >> reporter: there are currently two bills circulating through congress focused on voting rights. the first is the john lewis voting rights act. the second is the for the people act. both of them are, currently, stalled because of senate republicans' efforts to block them. sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. >>> the list is official. late tonight, the secretary

also in trump's best including overturning the election which trump remains under investigation in georgia. so i think you make an important point of what it means to have this many indictments around you. i give you the floor for the next point you wanted to make, sir. >> you and i talked about a lot on your program. you can't make these one-on-one connections and the man allegedly instructed them to commit criminal acts without these men telling the truth. without these men flipping on donald trump. one of his family members and the thing that really like always surprises me is that except for michael cohen only flipped after he was in jail. lowers his credibility threshold just a tad. not one of these people flipped on trump or any of his children. they have all kept their mouths shut. one of the interesting things about tom barrack's indictment and the latest and i am sure it won't be the last. he's in a position and not just to flip on trump, maybe he does it because he loves the man, but herself in a position to know stuff about weisselberg and under indictment right now and he's als

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

>> and representative andrew clyde of georgia who compared the january 6th attack as a normal visit was pressed at a rules committee meeting later in the day. let's watch. >> okay. >> watching the tv footage of those who entered the capitol and walked through statuary hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stantions and ropes and if you didn't know the tv footage was a normal tourist visit. those are your words. >> and i stand by that exact statement as i said it. >> and that went on for about five minutes with congressman raskin pressing him how can you believe that after what the officers said, what you saw with your own eyes and he kept not responding, basically. just standing by his statement saying that he was being misquoted, and that was clearly jamie raskin, quoting exactly what he said. >> this was an attack done in the open. every american turns on the television occasionally saw this attack as it happened. so his -- his character is in realtomb refuted by what every american can see, and that's why we need to call other actors to hear what happened. that

over the age of five wear a mask endorsed regardless of vaccination status and counties in california, georgia nevada and louisiana among others are taken similar measures that the covid-19 delta varient causes this new infection to surge country. in doctor anthony's address the issue and he said that he understands why these decisions are being made at the local level. >> you're saying the individual situations with a level of infection is so high and the level in the community of vaccination my below is quite understandable why the local authorities are now saying good that your vaccinated but in the situation and you have people indoors particular crowded of you should wear a mask. reporter: several large school district including atlanta, chicago and washington dc say they will require all students and staff to wear a mask if they returned to in person learning in the fall however, in florida 25 of all new covid-19 cases are currently recorded, governor ron desantis said that he will is willing to call special legislative session to reverse any mask mandates in school. >> we need her kids

a tornado at a georgia navy beach flipped recreational vehicles upside down and blew one of them into a lake. about 10 people were hospitalized. california democratic governor gavin newsom is asking residents to cut their household water consumption by 15%. newsom is expanding his regional drought state of emergency to cover 50 counties more than 40% of california's population. newsom is facing a recall election in two months. there will be no spectators at the olympics in tokyo. the international olympic committee announced a total ban after japan's prime minister declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus. fans from abroad were banned months ago. a group of house republicans is expressing concerns about the political statements of american olympic athletes. congressional correspondent chad pergram tells us what is forcing the issue. >> olympic trials were a warm-up to see who may stand atop the podium for the u.s., but also a dress rehearsal for potential protests by american athletes. hammer throw specialist gwen berry turned her back on the flag during the national anthem.

senator raphael warnock of georgia who is leading this push in the senate said that voting rights is just as important as everything else the senate is focused on right now, including infrastructure. let's take a listen. >> passing voting rights in my view is the most important thing we can do this congress. now, i know that there are a lot of pressing issues, but the american house is the house built by democracy, and if we don't preserve our democracy, strengthen people's access to it, we will not have done our job. >> reporter: so back to your original question, steph, will it get more support? well, it needs republican support, especially in the senate, ten republicans. it's very difficult to see how that happens. but you can't rule anything out until it's a done deal obviously. >> leigh ann, thank you. now let's head to austin, texas, where the march against voter suppression just resumed about an hour ago. texans have been braving the heat all week ahead of tomorrow's rally at the state capitol. i want to bring in two people who have been leading that march. former texas congre

no said prosecutor front humphrey's, who knew he had been cited in georgia at the time of the murders, 200 miles away. >> so this awful thing at the farmhouse, you know associating that with him? even in the public mind? >> oh, truly at that time, law enforcement knew, he was physically in augusta. >> rather, humphries focused on evidence coming from the parker crime scene. he quickly came to believe this was more than a bungled home invasion. >> it was apparent nothing had been taken, at least nothing that you would suspect to be taken in a burglary. >> humphries fought back to some curious statements bambi had made in her interview with police. she said she had given it willingly. >> so, you sure you are okay to sit down and do this? >> i'm not okay, but i want to help you. >> soon after the interview started, bambi said he had began describing in detail, a feud within her family. an issue with the land bambi owned, and her parents were living on. >> that's been a long, like, family feud. >> right. over the land? >> a long time. >> according to humphries, bambi and diane argued over

from georgia to colorado. i think there's a lot of people who fall somewhere in between, which is to say there was not widespread fraud, but because of all the problems of covid, you had states making unilateral decisions from unelected people who are extending voting days, allowing ballot harvesting and this governor, abbott said. in your last segment that belongs to state legislatures to make those decisions for each state. and the people can vote in math. they don't like the changes they make. but that's the appropriate process in a democrat system that we have. all right panel. we have to take a break here. we'll see you a little later in the program. next we go live to afghanistan as u. s forces pull out. the taliban makes games and we'll speak with a top pentagon officials about the end of the u. s mission. only 6% of us retail businesses have a black owner that needs to change. so i did something like an insight. i created a black business accelerator at amazon. and now we have a program that's dedicate

from cumberland, maryland, wishing my grandma georgia woods a happy 90th birthday today. ♪♪ >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to "today." doesn't friday fee da is getting a jump on the weekend. we're happy about that. we have some amazing guests coming up next week. next week is going to be crazy. hoda has her first exclusive interview with meghan trainor and her family. she's a mom now. so we just cannot wait to catch up with meghan. see how she's doing. we're going to meet baby riley. that's happening. >>> but, wait, there's more. also next week, coach ted lasso himself. actor jason sudeikis joining us as that megahit comedy series kicks off its second season. can't wait. it's become one of my favorite shows. >> i love it so much. second season is coming up. >>> busy morning. let's get right to your news at 8:00. americans getting a tough reality check this morning as the delta variant fuels a sharp rise in new covid cases. los angeles is once again requiring masks indoors, even for the fully vaccinated. and in tennessee, infections are up nearly 340% in two weeks. in the meantime,

if you go back to the first quarter of 2021, we feel the catalyst was the georgia runoff election where we had asymmetry on the fiscal side, on the monetary side. that's really where you start to see rates take off from there, exposing positions. we had real yields going higher, vaccination levels going higher. there was a real growth story in the market and we had some problems on the treasury auction side with some sloppy auctions. around 178, we stopped out what was the catalyst there, it was positions. people were very, very bearish in the marketplace and we've seen some real money buying, insurance companies, pension funds, foreign central banks and the reality is, the fed is still buying here. we talk a lot about talking, talking about tapering, now we know they're talking about tapering but as all this talking is going on, the fed is still taking 120 billion of securities out of the marketplace each month at the same time that the treasury now is spending a lot of the cash that was raised last year into the marketplace, supply has really come down. so those dynamics have really,

ainsley: is he from georgia. brian: the suburbs of georgia he said this when we talked to him about how buck head is so fed up from the lack of support from the major city of atlanta they want to spin out on their own and handle their own. have their taxpayer dollars go to their own police force. listen to what he said about that. >> there is a crisis of failed leadership, brian. i mean, if you look at the city of atlanta, the leadership there, this is not just some random covid crime wave as the mayor likes to say. this is what happens when you fail to support the people, the people, the men and women who defend the city, the police officers who keep the city safe. this is what happens when morale gets low because they don't trust the mayor will defend them. there have been 368 shootings just this year, brian. in the city of atlanta. it's so real and a lot of people are very afraid, obviously, and so they are doing whatever they can to try to come up with creative solutions to defend their communities. dr. pete:

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