>> they doved us healthcare heros. it gave the public this really wrong impression that we were sacrificial lams and willing to die for them. we want to help people. i want to save lives. i want people to get better, but not at the expense of my family's lives either. then you have the public going, well, you signed up for this. no, i didn't. when i was 17 i enlisted in t army and knew i might die for my country and 22 and went to nursing school that wasn't on the agenda. i didn't volunteer to die for everybody. even with the vaccine now, it's still highly politicized thing for no good reason. >> reporter: last year, sunny started venting on tiktok. >> you're just trying to spread fear. if that's what it takes to get you to listen to me, sure. >> i had avoided posting about covid for a long time because of the negative reactions i got. it hurt my feeling. couple weeks ago i had people threatening to kill me, calling me a murderer, saying i helped kill those people. is my thing to respond to hate comments for just $10 i

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none of us can say things like that. so what is his administration doing to ensure that there are more people who are doing community research that are coming actually from these communities because i believe that that would instill so much more trust. >> stephanie, that's such an important point because you're right, it's who you know and the trust coming from that community and that kind of an initiative can make a huge difference. it's an important point. i want to stick with you, stephanie and then christian weigh in. but i want to understand specifically what's the kind of misinformation you hear from your families and friends about why they're vaccine hesitant or skeptical? >> a lot of them are relying a lot more on the internet and social media. some of the circles around them. so if you take an inner city black community where you have a grandfather or grandmother raising a lot of her younger children, that grandmother may have directly been part of that network that was used in the us the keegan experiments, som

cnn's elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, give us the information here about the booster shot. what do people need to know about whether they need it or not? >> right now i can just tell you that most people who are listening to this do not need a booster shot. that's very clear from a statement that the cdc and the fda put out. so let's talk about these boosters for a minute. first of all, so pfizer says that they're going to apply for authorization from the fda for a booster shot next month. i got to tell you i think surprised pretty much everybody. what? we have been talking about boosters but a booster next month? it sounds like people need it when, in fact, there's lots of evidence that they don't. the booster, by the way, would just be a third shot of what's already out there. so let's take a look. pfizer said -- didn't offer any new data. didn't say we did studies that show why we need do this but just point to israeli data. that data says that the shot is only 64% or the two shots are only 64% effective at preventing infection but 93% effective at preventing hospitaliza

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he really beat us up. he was drunk. >> physically abused you. >> physically abusive and abusive to my sister, and everything and we couldn't wait for him to get out of the house, you know, he used to be a coal miner, he used to come home for 20 days, and then he was home for 10 days, and worked for 20 days, and then when he was at home, it was like a nightmare for us, and he always told me you're good for nothing. nothing going to happen with you and so forth, and finally when i was 14 years old, i left my home, moved 50 miles away, found a little room, and started my apprenticeship as a cook. >> which is amazing. you took adversity, and you turned it around. a lot of people don't do that. they're not able to do that. you left home at 14. >> yeah. and i wonder, you know, what you're hoping that people take away from that, watching in documentary. especially this is going to be on disney plus where, you know, you might have some young people watching. >> i think it's important, especially now with the pande

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cnn's whitney whield is joining us now. i know you're watching this very closely for any indications of other cases. >> this is the beginning of the end so to speak because we're now getting into the phase where people are starting to plead guilty, starting to get their sentences. 38 years old of florida pleaded guilty to one felony count. he admitted to taking selfies as we walked around the desks in the senate chamber and worn protective goggles and gloves. he originally faced five charged related to him entering the capitol and the justice department ended up dropping all of the charges against the most severe charge the obstruction charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison. he's most likely to serve a lot less than that, though. he's probably serving 15 to 21 months will be the likely sentence, although the judge, of course, has a lot of discretion here. he will likely get some leniency because he accepted responsibility for his crime. but this does mark the first felony sentencing and might serve as an indicator f

can you give us a sense, just tell us what happened. tell us about when she became ill, as you were kind of awaiting a vaccine. >> yeah. well, thank you. good morning. we both had some symptoms. i would say her symptoms were first. tiredness, a little bit of soreness, loss of taste and then i had the same symptoms right after her. her case with a little bit more severe, tiredness. a week prior to us getting the test results. when we got the test results, the next day our primary doctor had us go into the hospital as an outpatient to do the antibody. and she was in there first and then shortly afterwards i went in to a separate room. and while i was getting my procedure and the nurse came in, told me that kathy's oxygen levels were just really, really bad. and i could tell. i mean, prior to us going to the hospital, walking to the car, she had to literally stop and sit on a park bench. so i could tell it was very laborious, her breathing. so the nurse told me they had to admit her. she couldn't complete the test. her oxygen levels were r

they don't represent us. they are saying by doing those kinds of things they are saying they don't believe in america. they don't believe in the promise of america or the equality of america. that's what they're signaling. so their views ought to be discounted. i think most of us do discount their views. i so strongly reject the idea that they are going to be able to appropriate the american flag and take it a i way from those of us who revere the flag and everything that it stands for. so i -- look, i think there are people out there who live on division. they live on their politics depends on division. their politics depends on us hating each other, and i think frankly there are people that live on both sides of the political extreme spectrum here that love that we're debating whether the american flag is divisive because it furthers their ends. the american flag is a unifying symbol. it is a unifying symbol for me. it is a unifying symbol for people around the world who see it as a beacon of hope and freed

doctor, great to have you with us. just to be clear for our viewers, you don't work for pfizer, you collaborated on its trial. but what do you think that pfizer is going to say here? >> first of all, good morning and thanks for having me. well, i expect they're going to go over three pieces of information. the first is they're going to look at the longer-term safety data that is now available. so you may recall these studies started almost a year ago. so, there's more safety data that they can look at. the second is they're going to look at immune responses. primarily antibody responses. so they're going to look at what the peak responses were, they're going to look at how these responses have changed over time or deck ramts over time. the third thing is the real world experience. how is the vaccine working out in different countries. they'll talk about the israeli experience and the experience in the uk. and then they'll take all this information together and have a discussion about the rational for whether or not a b

thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i started with the pompeo book. from a 30,000 foot view, i think this is the thrust of what your book gets into, which is that so many people inside the white house and in trump world felt that the president was dangerous. >> yeah. >> felt that he was dangerous, yet didn't take it public. >> that's right. i think we are all pretty familiar with the story of the chaos of trump's four years, whether it's the administration or the president himself. what this book lays out pretty me tho methodically and for the first time how dangerous people cl closeest to trump thought he was dangerous for the country. you bring up a good one. secretary mike pompeo becomes concerned about the national security of the country, the domestic unrest and what that could mean internationally. privately he sets of a call, daily call with the chief of staff, and mark milley, the nation's top general in order to try to keep temperatures down. publicly what does he say? he says that there is goi

give us time, give us money. we'll get there. the new president comes in, began -- gani comes in after him. we're not going to get there. >> what's fascinating to me is what every president in theory dreads is a fall of saigon picture, helicopters leaving with the last u.s. troops and questions about who lost this country. who lost afghanistan. but the thing is the biden administration and joe biden is going into this with eyes wide open. he knows what pictures might likely emerge from afghanistan. so, too, did donald trump, by the way, who made the same decision that joe biden. he didn't execute the full withdrawal, but wanted the same thing. it just seems, you know, yes, there is opposition, but by some people not just security hawks, per se, but there is some political consensus that despite the pictures that may emerge, it's worth it. >> and that is the key part of the biden calculation. in the sense that the democratic base is anti-war. the trump base is anti-let's not have the united states policing the world. the president

sir, thank you for being with us. tell us your reaction which we have seen a little bit of on social media to massey's tweet here. >> it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. and it's just -- it's just stunning to me that someone in that position has such little knowledge of what the facts really are. you know, first of all, one does not quit the military. that's called desertion. secondly, vaccines can be made mandatory. there are a lot of mandatory vaccinations now. the only issue with the covid vaccine is that it's being used under emergency use authorization. however, the president has the power to waive that and make those vaccines mandatory. he said in the past he was going to leave it up to military. and as much as i respect president biden, he's made a mistake in punting this one. i think he should show the leadership and just go ahead and waive the informed consent requirement and go ahead and make that mandatory just from a system standpoint. and those who decide they're not going to take it or literally

and larry is with us now. larry, thank you so much for sharing your personal story and really putting a face, the face of your family on this disparity in vaccines. it is, you know -- it's unacceptable quite frankly. >> it is because i've kind of had this roller coaster of emotions, brianna, between obviously heart break for losing family members but also just anger, outrage because it was preventable. my uncle got covid just last month and died within a few days. he didn't get vaccinated. so, we can't help wondering if he did get a vaccine, maybe he would still be here. he was only in his 60s. he still had a whole life ahead of him. and the most heart breaking part for me is my grandmother who is 96 and also did not get a vaccine on time and has now been on a ventilator for five weeks struggling to breathe, battling for her life and she's a brave, brilliant woman who outlived her husband by 25 years. she has great sense of humor. and she's in this position where i'm constantly -- i'm just dreading when ever i

used car prices $26,000. are you kidding me? used car price $26,000. so you can see that actually the auto part is a big part of the inflation story. a third of this gain in inflation was just used cars. that's going to work itself out. >> we also have to remember that high inflation hurts low income americans the hardest. and those are, of course, are the same ones really hurt by the pandemic. >> got to keep our eye on the wage numbers. a lot of americans will be willing to take some inflation if it means their wages appreciably increase. >> some of the eating out numbers are higher because restaurants have to pay more to get their workers back. >> great to see you both. thank you. >>> coming up, we have brand new reporting emergency hot line the white house is considering setting up with china. >>> plus, a hacking gang that attacked u.s. companies mysteriously vanished from the internet. so where did they go? and who might have gotten rid of them? i've got big news! now, nurtec odt is the first and only medication proven to treat and prevent migraine

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that's what they've reported to us. but we have been spared the worst from what was tropical storm and what was a hurricane at one stage, downgraded to a tropical storm overnight, of course. you talked to randi just a moment ago about the storm surge coinciding with the passage of the storm at its highest peak intensity and it did push water into the bay, but there was no flooding. we scouted the area in the usual places, bay shore boulevard in tampa, south tampa, no flooding. the city of tampa reporting no major incidents. so that's good news. obviously still electricity within this area. there are 13,000 people without power within the state of florida, but that's really in the big bend area where they are bracing for the brunt of this storm still hurricane warnings located in that region. now, the threats are not over just because the winds are gusting and the rain is still falling in some locations. the threat of tornadoes spinning up, heavy rain fall, causing flash flooding and then we need to focus on the storm as

natasha chen joins us live from surfside, florida, with more. >> that space behind us, the sky between the buildings there, that is where champlain tower south used to be as of last night about 10:30 p.m. that's when they took down th

atallah, for being with us. we appreciate it. >>> today president biden has a lunch date on capitol hill with senate democrats. this is his first with the caucus since taking office. and there is a heaping portion of party unity that will be on the menu. democrats on the senate budget committee actually just struck an agreement. they struck this deal on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, and it includes spending for president biden's sweeping social agenda. the hurdle, the big one, is going to be getting everyone on board. so let's bring in cnn white house correspondent john harwood. >>> all right. he has his work cut out for him, john. >> reporter: he does. but this agreement that they announced last night is a signal that they will be able to get every democrat on board. this is a very significant moment in the biden administration, brianna, because it's not the finish line for the president's agenda on infrastructure and help for struggling families, but it gives you an indication of what the finish line is g

cnn's josh campbell is joining us now. josh, what can you tell us here? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, brianna. this garnering a lot of attention. authorities say four people were arrested on friday after an employee at this hotel, saw something suspicious and called police that leading authorities to obtain search warrants on two hotel rooms. now, during the course of that search, they located this cache of weapons. this hotel was a block away from where this baseball game is set to take place tomorrow on tuesday. now, one local media report citing law enforcement officers police feared this was possibly preparation for some type of mass shooting that causing the federal bureau of investigation to come out very quickly with a statement trying to ratchet down any talk of terrorism. we have no reason to believe this incident was connected to terrorism or threat directed at the all-star game. the fbi said we're not aware of any threat to the all-star game events, players, venn use at this time. you don't often see daylight between the feds and local law e

joining us now, cnn white house correspondent john harwin, i know you're sitting with all of us stunned about the simone biles news to be honest, this is a big deal, but let's talk about infrastructure, a big deal in washington. where exactly are the talks right now, and what exactly are the hold ups? >> they're on the 5 yard line where they have been for some time. remember, it's been more than a month since joe biden walked out with those republicans at the white house and said we've got a deal. but you have to go from having a deal in concept to putting the numbers on a piece of paper and putting the policy on a piece of paper and coming up with what is the ratio of transit funding to highway funding, what are the ways to pay for the deal. can you use surplus covid relief money. at the end of the day, though, i think it is going to be about do those 11 republicans who made the deal, potentially bipartisan deal, do they have the stomach at a time when their party is looking to the 2022 electioelections, wanted joe biden to fail. do they have the stomach to make that deal with him. joe

i can use it. >> i played bud. bud usually had a problem with the truth telling on some level. >> what was all that racket upstairs? >> i didn't hear anything. >> father knows best represented the good >>> all right. joining us now is annie pots, actor and star of the hit sitcom designing women and young sheldon. thank you so much for being with us. big fan of yours. >> thank you. >> you know, when we talk about the sitcom, it really is part of america since the 1950s. you know, what role do you think they play in our culture? >> well, i mean, i think they're great touch stones for what's really going on. my first memory, or one of them, one of my first memories in life was watching "i love lucie" and my mother bringing me my bottle. so that kind of started it off just as the american musical is a very american thing, situation come diffi comedies are essentially an american invention. they always reflect society and provoke it sometimes. certainly in the last couple of decades. but, you know, it's a wonderful vehi

just tell us how this all happened. >> well, blk reached out to us and, you know, they wanted us to remix "back that thang up." they thought it was a good idea. being somebody that -- being one of the guys that have been vaccinated, like i said, it's a family decision. i felt like it was a great way to put awareness out there for, especially for people like me and people that look like me. >> and, look, we know, juvenile, that when it comes to dating apps, some people want to know the person that they're going on a date with is vaccinated. they actually consider that a positive. they want that protection as they might, you know, get to know someone better. but let's talk about the creative process lhere because your lyrics, girl, you can be queen after quarantine. dating life, you need to vax that thing up. tell us how you went through this and the writing of this remix. >> well, blk had their own ideas that they came up with, and i just -- i wanted to be more like the original song. so i tweaked it a little bit, put some of my ideas in it, but i really wanted it to make sense. manny fres

he joins us now. jordan, what an extraordinary american story, from a cambodian orphanage to the tokyo olympics. tell us about what or who got you to where you are today. >> yeah, thank you for having me. and, you know, my dad adopted me at 18 months, and he pretty much got me in the sport of diving at the age of 7, and so, you know, from that point on he sacrificed so much. i've been diving for 15 years now, and the journey itself has been extraordinary. and, you know, i couldn't be more thankful for what he's done for me. >> jordan, he nursed you back to health? tell us about that. >> yeah, so when i was in the orphanage, i was very malnourished and i had a lot of parasites and i was very, very sick, you know. i was an infant. from that point on my dad took care of me and we went to many hospitals. i had to get a lot of shots and get seen by a lot of doctors just to get my health back to where it should be when i came into america. you know, he really did save me from that point on. >> and your dad

thank you for being with us. you heard as john berman spell out governor parson of missouri has been critical of this door-to-door outfit. michelle baughman has as well. she said this. >> so, door-to-door, they're coming. they've got syringes. i don't think this is going to go too well, michelle. what do you think? >> well, i'm glad that actually this is an issue. i want to urge all the viewers to go out and buy no trespassing signs. the government has zero business to do this, zero right. what they're wanting all of us to do is to check our bill of rights, our civil liberties at the door. >> what do you think about this, as we're seeing vaccination numbers not being where they should be, and you have outreach from the government, it is being described, characterized as the way bachmann is characterizing it. what do you say? >> we're hopefully in the final stages of a very serious pandemic and i hope reasonable steps to get people vaccinated are okay. we have people come to our homes to read water meters, to come

we must have the president use his voice, use miz inhis influe use his power. >> reporter: it's unclear how much biden can change without the support of congress after democrats failed to pass sweeping reform in the senate last month, roadblocked by the filibuster, a senate rule which requires a 60-vote threshold to advance most legislation. this challenge is extremely concerning to many state legislators like the group of texas democrats who arrived in washington yesterday who fear their gop colleague's attempts to pass voter suppression laws will continue to take place across the country. >> you have to act, and you have to act now. there's no more waiting. there's no more chances here. we need congress to enact strong, value voting rights legislation to save our democracy. >> those texas democrats are hoping to meet with senate democrats while they are in washington. and one big question that remains in the senate is the future of that filibuster. president biden is feeling a lot of pressure from democrats or activists to eliminate or reform the filibuster. for the time being, presid

doctor, thank you so much for being with us. we know na fthat federal offici meeting yesterday with pfizer as pfizer came out and talked about a booster certainly before the federal government said that was necessary. the federal government saying it's not at this point, but i wonder how far off are we from the federal government recommending a booster shot for vulnerable americans, people like cancer patients or transplant patients who may have troubled immune systems. how far off are we from that? >> well, it's good to be with you this morning. what i'll tell you is we had a good conversation with pfizer yesterday. it's always helpful to see additional data that companies have, but i want to make clear that the data from pfizer is one part of a much larger puzzle, if you will, and we have to look the at data from multiple sources, laboratory data, clinical trial data, real world data from cohorts and look at just not from countries but the united states and other countries. all of that together will go into the decision about

it just has that emergency use authorization. kristen holmes is on this story for us. okay, so assuming that would actually change minds what is the holdup here with getting full approval? >> well, that's the big question that the white house, that the public, that businesses all want the answer to. especially as we see these cases rise. right? so the fda insists to me that they are moving as quickly as they possibly can. they point to the fact that they made this a priority, meaning normally the process takes ten months. they shortened that down to six months. they said it could be sooner. january timeline that's the six months it's going to be before that. we have the former fda head saying it could be as early as august which of course is in two days or september. but still from the update we have no timeline. they say they are just pouring through the data. now, we have learned that over at the white house biden administration officials are watching this obsessively so. that's the the word that seen r administration official said to us. the reason is twofold, what

joining us now is elie honig. the big question is will they issue subpoenas and for whom. >> john, there's a huge legal battle brewing right now on capitol hill. and there will be subpoenas. first of all, the chair of the january 6th select committee, representative benny thompson, told us anybody who had a conversation with the white house and officials in the white house while the invasion of the capitol was going on is directly in the investigative sights of the committee and i have no reluctance whatsoever in issuing subpoenas for information. so, who could be receiving these perhaps unwanted subpoenas? well, if you want to know what happened in the white house on january 6th, the logical place to start is this guy, the former president, donald trump. will congress want the political circus that goes along with subpoenaing donald trump? we shall see. i think you're also going to want to subpoena mark meadows, chief of staff. jared kushner, senior adviser. we know they were in contact with trump throughout janu

tell us about that. tell us why. >> well, it's obviously pretty easy for someone outside an organization to tell someone they should not tolerate what their organization is doing. but you just cited the figures. and it's staggering and so dishonest. it's just not honest. i mean, what's the rational for this? what's their reason for saying, oh, be skeptical about the vaccine? skeptical is one thing. if you mention that and then say, yeah, but 99% of the people dying are the people who aren't vaccinated, at least you're doing your job. you're giving honest information. but to not give honest information and save lives, i just don't understand how you can justify that. if you're a professional in the information business and you're giving out this disinformation all the time that could cost someone their life, i don't know how you can function as a responsible journalist that way. just doesn't make sense to me. >> it's not responsible journalism what we're seeing, right? this information taken to heart enda

ryan young live for us in kennesaw. thanks. >>> in san jose, california, has passed a new gun law that's the first of its kind in the nation. get this, the law requires gun owners to have liability insurance. pay an annual fee to help curb the cost of gun violence. at the wake of the shooting at the valley transportation authority that left nine people dejoining us to analyze this is cnn's "early start" anchor laura jarrett. laura, this is an interesting policy suggest by the san jose mayor, how does it work? >> super interesting. novel, as you said. of course, as you can imagine, very controversial. the best way to discuss this, as you and i were discussing in a break. think about car insurance. anyone can wrap their heads around that, right? the idea, you own a car. you have to have insurance. you pull the risk, hopefully, you don't have as many accidents that way. this is just a draft proposal what they're considering, but if it goes through, it's not only about the devastation to the families, obviously, loved ones

yaun, for being with us. lots of concerns this morning and certainly helps to get your insights on them. >>> new this morning, it wasn't just a coup that general mark milley feared. it was the possibility that the former president would start a full-blown war with iran in hopes of having it help him stay in power after losing the election. that's according to brand new reporting from our next guest, cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, a staff writer at the new yorker. susan, you're writing a book along with your husband peter baker. and in the process of reporting your book, you discover not only was general mark milley who has been in the news a lot concerned about the idea of this coup and stopping the president from sort of launching a coup after the election, but concern that he would somehow push it too far with iran and start a war. this is a quote from your upcoming book, your reporting an article you put in the new yorker. milley was worried trump might set in motion a full-scale conflict that w

their own version of cancel culture to intimidate us and possibly shut us down. our goal is to protect our employees first. >> i assume that washington politician you're talking about congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who of course represents congressional district 14, which is in northwest georgia. and she tweeted that this is called segregation. will you be testing everyone at the door for the flu, strep throat, stomach bugs, colds, meningitis, aids, hep a, hep c, staff infections, croup, ringworm or any other con contagions. tell what you say that response has meant for you? >> well, first of all, i would like to say everyone is entitled to their own opinion. i've certainly been guilty of not so civil discourse regarding this. really we're trying to put our people back to work. hard-working georgians looking forward to re-entering society and being able to make an honest living. unfortunately that this particular tweet is hindering that -- their ability to do that but putting them under unnecessary stress of infection and threat. >> how are you going to en

joining us now is cnn business anchor, julia chatterley, tell us, julia, what caused this fear. what are the concerns of wall street when it comes to the delta variant? >> good morning, brianna, there's a couple of things here, to your point exactly, i think wall street came back from the weekend and looked at the situation and said, does delta destabilize the recovery and slow our return to normal life, and it's not just about the united states, it's also going on in asia, europe, the u.k. reopening too. it was the whole world sort of shuttering in one particular day, and we could probably cope with what we're seeing if it weren't for rising prices that we talk about on a daily basis. there's fears out there, at some point, the central bank is going to have to step in to tame those prices, and then you've got the perfect storm. you've got slowing growth, a central bank stepping in to calm prices and a lot of people were thinking, should we be at record highs in the stock markets if these are the kinds of conditions we're looking ahead towards. >> and tell us which sectors, you

john. >> lauren, stay with us. we're also going to bring in phil mud, our cnn counter terrorism analyst to talk about this. what are you expecting today? how do you see this day fitting into this larger investigation? >> you got to look at this as two pieces, what happened and what do you do about it. typically in a committee, you want to focus on how do we improve how the u.s. government operates. in the current environment, you have to do the emotional set up. you have to have the people on camera to explain this was not a bunch of polite protesters. this is a violent riot. the set up is today, and you're going to move on to the tictoc, the time line of how people were deployed, and what we can do to improve it, past and future. today is the past. >> i have to say, i'm fascinating to see how liz cheney, and adam kinzinger will be used. i don't mean to suggest they're being manipulated by the democrats here but what role exactly they're going to play during these hearings. >> look, i was fascinated yesterday becau

doctor, thank you for being with us this morning. you know, just tell us how dangerous this delta variant is for children under 12 who obviously can't get vaccinated yet. >> good morning, brianna. it's great to be with you guys. i wish i could tell you just exactly how dangerous this is. the truth is we don't know. we know the delta variant is spreading more easily than other variants have in the past. that's what viruses do. they mu tate so they can spread easier among the hosts, which is us unfortunately. and we're seeing more infections in kids. we don't know yet how severe this is. i can tell you anecdotally on the ground it doesn't seem like the kids who are getting this variant are having a more severe illness, but we just don't know enough yet which is why this is so concerning. >> yeah. look, kids often don't show many symptoms. but we do know that hundreds have died in the u.s. so this is an issue that many parent aren't going to ignore. we're seeing rare breakthroughs in adults. they're rare but they're happening. cnn spoke

so joining us now is dr. erik griggs, he's a community medicine director to access health louisiana. dr. griggs, it's good to talk to you. this new advisory comes just two months after nola lifted its mask mandate for those vaccinated. do you agree with the mayor's decisions here? >> first of all, good morning. >> good morning. >> and yes, and absolutely. here in new orleans, in louisiana, if you remember, we were one of the hottest spots in the world at one point, and we successfully flattened the curve. now, we've been following not only the data of the vaccinated, unvaccinated cases, but the science. the science says that this delta variant is 1,000 times more concentrated or the viral load is 1,000 times higher than the original virus. meaning that if i'm infected and i sneeze, where as i would have maybe ten viral particles out, if you can imagine para troopers in an elevator. where as normally it would be ten that would spread into the air everyone breathes, it's a thousand times that. the fact there's

joining us now, mhag gi haberma. maybe this isn't about the law is because i couldn't help notice the fundraising pitches that went out at the same time. >> look, i think that with most things if not everything with donald trump there is some money component involved. i think that's definitely a piece of it. i think the other piece is that this is frankly something of a distraction that he's trying to set up after his company was indicted last week by the manhattan district attorney and as his cfo was indicted by the manhattan district attorney. this is a go-to move of his going back to the early 1970s. if you get sued or in some legal trouble, you countersue in some way. he's not able to countersue the manhattan d.a. this is what he's aiming the punch at. but to your point about the efficacy of this lawsuit, this has been tried by other people. supreme court has not favored these arguments. one of the stranger arguments in the suit is essentially saying that these firms, these tech companies, are pseudo state actors

leyla, thank you so much. >>> joining us now is chrisna. her father died last year of covid after a three-week battle. she since founded an advocacy group. thank you so much for being with us. i also have to say, we're still so sorry for your loss. i know it was more than a year ago but it doesn't get any easier. your father died. he didn't have a vaccine available to him. so how does it feel for you when you see people now dying, refusing to get the vaccine that might very well have saved your father's life? >> well, thanks for having me on. i mean, it's complicated. it's hard for me to actually put the blame on any one individual with so much health disinformation flying around. people like my dad, who made decisions about how to behave based upon what he was seeing on fox news and what the leaders who he trusted were saying, are in a position in which they are being led to a place where they're susceptible to contracting the virus and getting very sick. so, it is complicated in the fact that we are now really just seeing for the very fir

but you are sort of bringing it to us. tell us what we can expect. >> well, i told people it doesn't matter if you believe or what you believe, it's a city that's absolutely worth visiting to see the power it has on people and the influence it's had on history. it plays a major role in judaism, christianity and islam and at different times and few thousand years of history the different religions controlled the city. it's not just that significance, it has a political significance as well. it's one of the founding problems of the united nations. we see it on our screens all the time and that significance isn't likely to diminish. it's religious and biblically important. >> this is coming at such an essential time with what we've seen here between the israelis and the palestinians just in 2021. >> there is a biblical or historical grounding to all of these conflicts, a claim to the city so many people so many reli religions, so many nations believe they have a part of city and they want a part of the city. perhaps not in co

tell us why? >> well, brandon said he had done his research on the vaccine and it was not enough research going on about the vaccine. so he was not going to get it until he knew for sure that it would work. he had a lot of health issues. and i asked him to take the vaks even and he told me no. i did, but he did not. >> and he came down with covid. can you tell us a little bit about what happened there and when you knew that this was going to be very series fseriou for him? >> he did not go to too many places. he had his food delivered. he had very few friends to come by. so one morning he called me and asked me to come over to help him clean. when i got to his house i said brennan, your house is clean. and he said mom, i just need you to help me with my bed. i'm not feeling well. i walked out of his bedroom to get the cleaning supplies and he told me to call 911. and i said call 911? he said i'm not feeling well. this was unusual because brennan would go to the hospital two and three times a year

tell us about eddie. >> it was. i think that chapter is the most powerful example of how a lifelong friendship can change history. in the early 1920s in kansas city, it failed, but they stayed best friends afterward. and because of this friendship which was a relationship built on total trust, total respect, jacobson could fly halfway across the country, march into the oval office one day in 1948. he didn't have an invitation, and he could speak to the president in the most direct and brutally honest terms, using words and mannerisms that no staffer would dare try lest they get fired. all of this was to convince the president to do what he knew was right. but out of frustration that i detail in great length in my chapter, he'd been resisting which is recognize an independent jewish state. two months after eddie walked into the oval office and spoke to him, only after that intervention was truman was the first foreign leader to recognize israel minutes after it was declared. >> it was amazing the influence he had and

tell us why? >> it plays into the narrative that trump likes to put out that people are somehow unfairly out to get him. both adam kinzinger and liz cheney supported donald trump twice for election. 2016 and 2020. but they, like so many other republicans on the ground through the states, were horrified about the consequences of the big lie that trump started post election that culminated in the january 6th insurrection. it wasn't until that attack that they started vocally speaking out against him and saying many of the very same things that kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell were saying in the way that donald trump bore a special responsibility for that attack. most people were on the same page. liz cheney and adam kinzinger stuck to their guns on that. mcconnell and mccarthy folded. >> if you're not going to call them anti-trump, what would you call them? >> i would call them pro-democracy, anti-insurrectionists, republicans who are committed to the country and the constitution. >> scott, what d

joining us dr. katherine o'neal, chief medical officer at our lady of the lake regional medical center. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. how fast is the spread right now in your community? >> right now in the community the spread is exponential. and that exponential spread is because of the delta variant. we know now that delta variant carries 1,000 times more viral load and everybody who is sick with it and that spreads to more and more people than previous variants. last year's variant we thought was bad enough was far less contagious than this variant and that's resulting in just an exponential number of patients coming into the hospital. this morning we're sitting at 119 covid positive patients in our hospital, that's a 50% increase from just last week. >> we're looking at that chart right now. that incredibly steep rise you say exponential. you have your arms around it? is this something you can grasp? >> you don't get your arms around something like this. this isn't a controllable thi

natasha chen joins us live from surfside, florida, with more. >> that space behind us, the sky between the buildings there, that is where champlain tower south used to be as of last night about 10:30 p.m. that's when they took down the remaining part of the structure. it was up until that point really unsafe for the people searching and rescuing on site. they were actually not able to reach the area closie st to the remaining part of the structure. now that the building has come down that will be easier for them to do that. here is the mayor of surfside talking about how this timeline of trying to get this demolition done before this coming storm might have been a lucky thing. >> it appears as though the approaching storm may have been a blessing in disguise for us in that it initiated the demolition discussion. that discussion has accomplished several things. it's eliminated a looming threat, a dangerous threat for our rescue workers. it will potentially open up probably a third of the pile so we can all, you know, so the teams can focus not just on two thirds of the pile but on the w

so it has to be good for us. it must be mutually beneficial. >> reporter: this tricky reentry made more difficult by employees questioning the safety of the workplace amid surging cases of the delta variant in the u.s. >> we created this within the organization between vaccinated employees and unvaccinated employees. we've literally had reports of employees confronting unvaccinated employees and literally almost getting into physical fights. >> reporter: a june survey showing 63% of workers support vaccine mandates at work. >> many employers are hearing from their workers, from their employees that they want to know that people are vaccinated. >> reporter: new york city employers are growing more confident workers will be in the office come september, from 45% in march to 62% in may. willingness to return to the office, though, is uneven. >> the young tech employees, it seems to be much tougher to get them back. >> reporter: the balancing act also important for small businesses. >> while there's concern about for

it's very useful. dr. jerome adams, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. >>> republican lawmakers in texas now launching a second effort to pass sweeping voting restrictions at a special session called by the governor. texas democrats blocked republicans' first attempt in may by staging that dramatic walkout. the republicans there did concede two of the most controversial provisions, limits to early sunday voting hours and language that would make it easier for courts to overturn election results. measures that make casting mail-in ballots harder, banning drive-thru voting centers and partisan poll watchers all still in the proposal they're talking about in this special session. >>> joining us now, attorney and contributing columnist at the washington post, george conway. >> hi. >> nice to see you here. >> thanks. >> what's going on in texas? inevitable governor abbott would call this special session to push this through. the courts in georgia and other places have said, we're not going to

adam rotheman with us now to talk about this. adam, thank you so much for joining us. just tell us how you're feeling and what your breakthrough cases for you and your wife have been like. >> yes, thanks for having me. it's good to be here. and to be able to share our story. you know, right now i'm feeling okay. i have a little bit of -- little bit of cough and congestion, but it's not add was it's not as bad as it was. my 10-year-old daughter tested positive last tuesday, and my wife and i who are both vaccinated developed symptoms a couple of days later. you know, we had a mild fever, congestion, runny nose, cough, fatigue, headaches, you know, all of that stuff that people associate with covid. and most recent bly she and i he lost our sense of smell. but our daughter is doing a lot better and i think we're coming out of it, too. >> so she had lesser symptoms. you think that you contracted it from her because she tested positive first. do you have any idea where her exposure might have been? >> um, we really don't. she and i had been traveling the week before, so th

sanjay gupta who is live for us from tokyo. sanjay, first, before we get to the questions of health, which are so at the forefront of these games, what is the latest feeling there on the ground. >> well, i think there's excitement and there's anxiety. it's sort of both, you know, it's very interesting, you know, just flying here typically you fly to an event like this. you can't barely get seats on the plane. it's crowded. there's nobody on the flight. it's like flying into a war zone or a natural disaster. so there's that sense. there's no spectators allowed in the stands. that sort of feeling, you don't have that, all that earnestness around the games like you have had in the past. there's a lot of testing that's going on. we got tested, for example, 96 hours before we left again. 72 hours before we left. that's happening for the athletes and everyone that's involved in the village as well. so there's that whole sort of feeling. what they have tried to do here is really separate out the olympic village from the rest of tokyo.