If a local community as having a rise in their eyes, he was four and the people at the local school see that they ve got to make sure they stay open because otherwise children miss out for another year of school and they put in power see than the local officials should be listened to that as a conservative principle, sanitation, with governor design. Do disagree, government centres, the local affair, You should have control here republican. Senator bill capacity of hard hit. Louisiana says he disagrees with Florida, governor wrong to scientists and other GEO. Pete in our seas are blocking mask mandates even as co cases surge. We'll take a look at The virus is spreading the most and the toll. It is taking on hospitals plus the new rising covert is impacting the economy? We saw a varies. Jobs report on Friday, but not everyone is feeling the recovery and former president

Obama throws a birthday bash. That's raising eyebrows as the pandemic makes a comeback. We'll talk to a New York Times reporter about the deed. Surrounding that plus Taliban fighters have captured Kay cities in northern Afghanistan will go, live to capital and the Tokyo Olympics come too, others with the United States, edging our China for the most gold medals morning and welcome to morning Joe it is Monday August. Ninth Joe is off. We begin with the United Aids hitting an encouraging milestone amid a surgeon covert cases according to did data released on Friday. More than a hundred and sixty five million Americans are now fully vaccinate. Against the virus, that's half of the total! U S! Population, more than one hundred and ninety three million have received at least one dose. Vaccination

It's our still low in several states across the south, but in Arkansas Mississippi. Louisiana and Alabama. Cdc data shows The seventh day average of daily first doses has more than doubled. Since this July? That's helpful still, the country is seeing record breaking hospitalizations, including mourn children and Bc Cathy Park has the latest see he's across the country sounding the alarm as covert cases exe to dangerous levels? Austin activating its emergency alert system warning run Hence a situation is dire, just six icy you beds available and for the third, I'm this week Florida broke a wreck for daily covert cases, as doctors say, more kid are getting sick. The modules in a hospital today and we ve had any point in the past eighteen months.

in just four days, more than three thousand kids in Louisiana tested positive for the virus and the ongoing health emergency jazz in New Orleans is cancelled for the second year in a row. This weekend civilizations, in the: U S, top more than sixty six thousand grim milestone we ve crossed twice in just six months to keep the pandemic control. Indoor mass mandates are coming back from Baltimore Baltimores new case cow has risen. Three good in seventy four percent to Durham North you're a line up where they declared a state of emergency starting Monday in Arkansas, in about face from the governor who signed it in April, banning mass mandates and so It was an error to sign that law. I admit that they divide, deepening over vaccines to it. since a large crowd of healthcare workers protested outside bail or university medical center, where the requiring staff be vaccinated.

As a pandemic presses on this? just motorcycle rally. Does to a realist. It's my turn. It's my turn out. Well, I'm very concerned chuck there looking to see another surge related to that rally. Meanwhile, the battle continues to re John between parents and schools. Over masks in the classroom and this is news. Correspondent VON Hilliard has that part of the story for us down. of students are preparing to go back to school this week, while Cove it runs rampant, really concerns an area leader as parents wear off with lawmakers in school officials over masks, parents choice a feminist choice. physicians, choice, Texas, nosing schools, women have to count factories or inform families of positive cases in their kids classrooms and in Florida governor

Santa's banning school districts from requiring masks. Six other states, are now doing the same. Let the parents might the decisions, let the kids Bree that may take yourself back elementary school. Could you you won't around programme. Where am I ask for things families to make hard decisions- hobby schooling this year said: Molly open our surgeries pacemaker together, threatening to cut funding to schools, did Bucky's order. I want the school districts to stand up against the governor and make a stand based on the health. well being of our children. Several parents now filing a lawsuit What extent are you arguing that school has a responsibility to stop a communicable disease from spreading due to their high, led them exercise that oversight and that obligation to ensure schools are safe but at least to school districts.

looking around the governors order requiring masks unless students parent explicitly ops out teachers elsewhere preparing. So I think that we just how to have conversations rely on the science in the queue caught in the middle of the fight over masks. Everybody else my teeth. But how did you like going about our thanks to VON Hilliard for that report? Former president Tromp spoke at New York State Republican Party fundraiser last Thursday, where, according to the New York posed, he encourage guests to get vaccinate and telling the audience quote. I don't want to see anything. Bad happened to my people course we're. see him saying this right now openly and every day he also spoke positively about the vaccine. This is good over the weekend, in an interview with Fox NEWS but as usual also couches

support in the same breath touting freedom. I have to be a bit vaccines and because I'm the one that gotta done so quick. I got it done in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five years. They would have never even gotten it done. So I'm a big fan. I've the same time, I'm a big fan of our freedoms and people have to make that by themselves, and I would recommend that they get and they get it done, and there being paid did and vaccines turn out to be a tremendous thing and death I also feel strongly there are some people that do not want to do it, and I really eleven somebody's joy, somebody's freedom and that's the way it is I really believe in somebody's choice, somebody's freedoms and that's the way it is and self. We keep hearing tragic stories like this. A former Florida right wing radio host, who was a vocal and stone

advocate against the corona virus vaccines died last Wednesday from covert nineteen complications. Dick feral, is known for his over the top opinions and frequently railed against vaccines and Doktor Anthony Fauci on social media on July I third, he rode on Facebook. Why take it back promoted? people who lied to you all along about masks with a virus came from, and the death toll, but warning to NBC affiliate. W pay tv friend said after contracting, the virus feral changed his point of view too late, though covert took one of my best friends rest in peace, Dick Feral he's the reason I took the shot. He texted me and told me to get it. He told me this virus is no joke and he said I wish I had gotten it a friend

federals wrote on Facebook, Dick Feral was sixty five years old man. You know it was a year ago that supporters of Donald Trump said they would rather die than watch the DOW Jones Sink, the lieutenant governor of Texas said that he was a senior citizen who was ready to die rather than have Americans take moderate precautions to protect themselves from a pandemic that is now killed over six hundred thousand american other approach from posts or unworthy of having their names mentioned on the show also suggested they were ready to die rather than watch the DOW Jones drop a few points One year later, the stock market is at record highs, despite their eagerness to sacrifice the lives of senior citizens. Now these same ghoulish, death called figures are fine.

Vaccines, local control over school safety and the right for businesses to protect their workers and customers. By this information from Facebook and praised politicians crazed seventy End of Americans who tell pollsters they will not get the vaccine support Republicans. and some of those same republic and officials are celebrating still right now low vaccination rates and threatening to murder, Joe Biden or other federal officials who promote vaccination, in states like say I don't know Alabama millions of Americans refusing to get the vaccine, despite the fact that ninety five percent of doctors have been vaccines, four covered and twice as many Americans are fully vaccinated than voted for Donald Trump and still we are flooded every day

sad stories of Americans who believed the lies fed to them by death cults fuelled by Facebook until it was too late and in Florida We have a governor more interested in playing politics than saving lives, the dissenters variant. That's why nearly one in four new covert case, are coming out of Florida. And why many of their emergency rooms are once again JAM pact and the state as we so way from yet another full blown medical prices. Are you kidding me? This is completely preventable and the governor of Florida owns this. One the most tragic part of this story, is that almost all of these hospitalizations and deaths would have and could have been avoided If misguided Americans had not followed the praised teachings of a growing death cult and instead just followed the advice of there

and my doctor, it's pretty easy and they won't do it. That's death cult material. Let's bring in doctrine hotels, he's the dean of the National school of tropical medicine, paler college of Medicine in CO, director of the Texas Children's hospital centre for vaccine development. Is the author of the book preventing the next pandemic vaccine diplomacy and attack. Of Anti Science and doktor hotel. As there are a lot of people who are choosing to be a part of this difficult when making that choice, whether it that they are fed by this information and refuse to actually talk to their doctor or read a basic news. Application that actually triple checks their stories and goes to places like the CDC for their income sure and instead just fuels those conspiracy theories on Facebook and takes, pictures of them and sends them to their friends and just makes our distant from sure, go around and around their community until people are just complete

a poisoned by the Trump death called? But to me, the victims are children, and there are growing number of children in hospitals? Could you please talk about how we save children from getting this very dangerous delta variant when we have parents that are falling into a difficult it is absolutely right meagre. You know we ve got less than fifty percent of of young people are vaccinate here in the south. We ve got many it's now only twenty twenty five percent of the adolescents are vaccinated, stay like Louisiana, Mississippi and, already seeing lots of young people getting hospitalized princes Texas Medical Center, which is the world's largest medical center, the media. Ages under forty in terms of, terms of I see you in and hospitalizations, and that is really troubling and now, for the first time

For the first time, I've ever seen this whole pandemic we're seeing pediatric intensive care unit skip over run. We ve never seen that before and all of this is happening before school starts, and that's what really scared the hell out of me, because schools are opening this week in many Louisiana parishes in a week, or so after that, the low here in Texas and if you look at the slope, it's a vertical slope. It's going up and up and up and kids are adolescents and young adults are already getting sick and hospitalized, and now schools are going in extraordinary accelerant an end so were vaccinated, so few adolescents are vaccinated here in the south, the vast majority are not vaccinated where we had we already here, about the struggle with the ridiculous struggle around wearing masks. What else do we have to protect them in and that's what I'm so concerned about right now,

but your pieces about. I want to get to that in just a moment, but I have people that I know its neighbours who will not get this vaccine and who scream that it is not FDA, approved You explain when a child goes into a pediatric intensive care unit, as we are seeing growing numbers of that a child with a delta variant. Could you explain because I think this this may help they wouldn't want this for their kids? Would they what those kids go through and who can be with those kids when there offering so greatly. That's right, more often than not they're going to be hospitalized alone because of containment procedures, and I think the key point here that that then I don't think a lot the elected officials and in our red states, in our southern states, realise is dealt, is different This is not your father's covert. Your mother's covered, and I think, they're they're p, who are advising them are going by the same play book from

last year. This is different. Delta is far more. transmissible at least three times were transmissible than the original lineage and as the sea she director says s transmissible as chicken pox. One of the most contagious viruses of childhood, we know so that who's gonna sweep through or on vaccinated populations. In that's what's happening, that's why you ve got that's big steep rise. And so many if you're adolescent kid is on vaccinated You should assume there's a high likelihood that that that child's gonna get covered and if we could vote All of the adults and all of the lessons that has the collateral benefit of protecting a little kids. That's why we're not having talking about this, Burma, Massachusetts is because all of the adults and all of the adolescence practically speaking, are vaccinated and that has huge benefits, slowing or halting retransmission. So what we're Looking out right now is, is it

monitoring catastrophe that now unfolding in the south even before sky. starts in the schools actors that accelerant you should assume we're going to see a pediatric intensive care units all across the south completely overwhelmed, and something even a possibility of tat. Small ten cities of of sick adolescents and and and kids and and I don't want to see that happen. I know. No, nobody does we somehow have to get the word out to parents that this delta is some different, and it is, it is de it is picking off. Young p like we ve, never seen, and we have We got into the long covered discussion around young people and what that means for their law long term, cognitive health as well. There's someone we're still going to learn as as this as this virus.

Rage is on, which is completely unnecessary. At this point, Doktor Peter hotels, thank you and just to frame what the doctor said. Your child will go into the hospital alone. Your child will be surrounded by people, horror dressed in bubble rap, who can barely touched them sticking and poking them with tubes, and your child will suffer alone if your child gets the delta and if you don't get vaccinated, your child could get the delta variant and it is happening right now. There are more kids than ever before in pediatric intensive, units in the south. It's happening protect your child. If you can't protect yourself, if you feel like you, for some reason, want to be a part of this death cult and followed information. That's your choice, but are you really going to do that to your child last night, a federal judge? with no region crews lines in a fight with Florida, granting the crews lines request

for a preliminary injunction that blocks state law bar businesses from requiring proof of vaccination. U S district judge Kathleen Williams, granted the injunction allowing Norwegian to require vaccine documentation from customers. While the case heads to trial the norwegian Jim is scheduled to depart Miami on Sunday. It is the crews lines first trip from the states, since the pandemic halted, the crews into these operations more than a year ago let's bring in White House Rapporteur for the Associated Press, Jonathan Mare, Jonathan Hoof, a lot to get to this morning. Floored as governor to Santas, framing this, has the battle between the federal government and personal choice, personal choice to die. I guess White House press secretary general sake, responded to that notion. With this tweet twenty three percent of new covert hostile,

savings in the- U S or in Florida and their hearts we are being overwhelmed again. We are doing everything we can to help the people of Florida, and there are stepping up by getting vaccinated. We hope governor run The centres joins us in the fight. I guess my first question to you, John. The Le Maire is what is the problem. Make you certainly outlined this simply staggering and horrifying statistics coming out of Florida it now and the and Biden have President really engaged the escalating war of words on the last week or so. The president last tended to fourteen days really taken much more aggressive tone about the pandemic, really squarely point a finger at the Un Backside saying: hey your gauging yourselves, we loved ones, and all of our ability to recover from this

we ve seen the White House, as we been detailing every morning here, trying to really push incentives to get people to get the shots, but dissenters is, of course refusing that, and now we ve seen them clash on vaccines. We ve seen the White House in Florida. Saint afford a clash on mass mandates. We have seen the president himself and those of his top health visuals, really really critical of how Florida is handling this and the two men have also snipe back and forth. We her for her dissenters, criticized by repeatedly find respond with it, who and then over the weekend, we heard from the Governor Florida suggesting that bike sure of it a sub, not prickly, subtle way, accusing binding of having lost a step mentally but this is what a fine and dissent as is using. This is a political framework. We all know that he's one of the favorites in twenty twenty four for the republican nomination, particularly of trumped, doesn't end up running at he's. Framing this a choice, personal choice, verses

safety, and it seems the White House is, as you softening tweet from jet percentage, Zaki horrified that that's where this is coming is made the political point. Rather than doing measures We keep his citizens safe, and we expect from the White House as put more pressure on Florida de LA masks, to get people back said, but are simply a limit to the federal government can do better it just a word. It work politically. The math is against Rhonda Centre, since this is political and wants to be seen. As you know, the next for public and not many people we're dying in his state. People are getting covert faster than any one else in the country. I mean the math and the map looks bad for dissenters and maybe, let's just assume he cares about people. Look at the mouth and look at the map. His state is burning with covered hospitalizations more than ever before there are children in the hospital. It seems to me that the calculation that is making giants LE is

run out on him. At some point, one way or another yeah. It's hard to see this a winning strategy like they're, so many people in this country meagre who have decided to make their decision not take the vaccine further political identity, much The decision not to wear masks and we can be Donald Trump. I think for a lot of that in the early days of this pandemic, and but we have seen a hard core conservatives not all bets really still sees on that and as much as we are, in some states, some governor saying, hey, look you need to get your vaccine. I we heard the gutter markets are saying. I wish I regret signing that law about masts into the sentences. Credit he's always been pushing the vaccine, but the masks a different matter and he's framing this person. choice and we are seeing people die, and this is We only get worse before it gets better next, nor sobering here thing, because a final point is that every public health official all binds team are saying We know, there's lagging indicators with this virus, these death tolls or going to soar in the weeks ahead. If we don't get

worst beyond that. If we don't have extreme measures now We're gonna come back to this, but we're moving now to Afghanistan. With the: U S, mission in Afghanistan ending just weeks from now. Tell me forces- are seizing control of the country's cities at an alarming rate threat- is so serious that the? U S, embassy, is warning Americans to get out of the country now Bessie NEWS, corresponding Calico Ba, has more chaos on the streets of Conduce, the puzzling We have three hundred thousand falling. The Taliban, the police headquarters shown in this Taliban propaganda, video unverified by NBC News, apparently abandoned a fleet of trucks left behind, its yet another blow to the country's crumbling security forces have lost control of it. three cities since Friday ranch

in the South EAST and should work in the north, the speed of the Taliban event as you S, troops withdraw, has shocked the west. The war in Afghanistan, has entered a new deadlier and more destructive face. U S, forces have provided some air cover, two struggling afghan troops, but no more than that. The present made clear after twenty years at war, it's time for american troops to come home of Afghans have fled their homes and nervous neighbours to the north. Uzbekistan back are now military drills with Russia as fears Mount, the instability could spread and Calico beer joins us now from Kabul, Kelly people are watching this news and probably summer wondering how this happens so quickly. It's as if the Taliban just literally poured in water, what are the option for the afghan people, especially women,

All the options are slim meek. I mean in a lot of these places where the Taliban is moving in the first two core Action really is to get out of the town before they arrive. Words spoken to people today who said that they left villages in the north in the early hours of Saturday walked for hours just to reach the relative safety of Kabul, and- and we know that we know tat the Talibans history when it comes to women's rights and the lack of any freedoms regard women? There is deep, deep fear in this country that there will be a repeat throw back to that kind of regime. If, if the Taliban does take over and people are telling us look, there were trying to get out we're trying to take advantage of some of these visa programmes that the? U S is put in place specific for people who have worked or American Ngos or orbit interpreters for the? U S military, but there are a couple of problems here for

of all the Taliban, has taken over a lot of the border crossings about seven border crossing. So really it's difficult to get out of the country. It's difficult to then apply for these are, for example, Europe eligible for a visa program that requires you to get us out of the country's extra Lee expensive, to either pay smugglers or to go the legal route and the other part what is even with the S eye visas for people who have worked for the Euro government, the? U S, military, that takes an incredible amount of time, there's a lot of bureaucracy and, quite frankly, people are just worried that they don't have the time to wait for approval. Were that magical email to come through from the embassy saying? Yes, you are approved, you can leave the country And in the meantime, the Taliban appear, to be continuing to fight in the north. There's fighting reported in two more cities in the north, including and bizarre Sharif, which is a issued

Eddie you city of five hundred thousand mecca he's Calico Ba in Kabul, Afghanistan, thank you very much for that report will be watching that we're going to turn now to Capitol Hill. The bipartisan infrastructure bill is one step closer to a final vote in the Senate. In a late night session, the Senate voted sixty eight to twenty nine in favour of ending debate on the bill. According to the of the Senate. There will be up to thirty hours of debate before the final votes can be cast. That means the law. Asked Senate vote on, the bill is likely to occur tomorrow. warning. Let's bring in co founder of Punch Ball NEWS John Present a hand and John I take it. This thing is imminent in the Senate Senate, but then, but then we have some hurdles to face in the house. What are they speaker below sea has said that she will not move this five percent the structure bill

shoulda until the Senate also passes a reconciliation about. That means they were the demographic gonna move a huge mass of three point: five trillion dollar rapidly, But this is a big chunk of President Joe binds Americans job latin american families plant. That's gonna take a couple months to put together to close the plane. You have a structure bell, even a pattern and then wait for this reconciliation but kind of carbon. he did, but she needs that Japan are moderate in her progressive inside her caucus. So John former President Tromp, is trying to sabotage the bypass an effort to ass the infrastructure bill, he put out a statement slamming the bill and he threatened to hold back mid term endorsements. For Republicans who vote for it quote Joe Biden infrastructure bill will be used against the Republican Party in the mid terms, blah blah blah

so he's also suggesting that his supporters in the house could stop it from passing, quote Cavern Mccarthy in Europe What can house members seem to be against the bill if it can't be killed in the Senate? Maybe it died the house are. Are these? members so Can the news that they'd be afraid of former president Trump. The man who allowed hundreds of thousands of people that die on his watch him in what what's the line? What's the limit for these trump tends to finally say you know what I'm out. A really good question. I think if there are sufficient, or in the Senate. Republican support in their clearly is going to be, as we saw in the closure vote that you you talk. Procedure over with a cut off debate last night, eighteen Republican, you rode over that setting Republicans if that kind of

support, trades were lowered, the house and I think, you'll see a big chunk of that on this bill and infrastructure bill. I think the real pat creatively there, I mean there's more problems frankly for the democratic on progressive than there are with their moderate right now, if the bills gee. I think you pick up some some Republicans and now you could prepare There's a group called the problem. Solvers caucus, fifty six members, its twenty eight Republicans, twenty demagogic, they even endorses? Legislation may not get out we needed those Republicans, but you may get half brings you may get fifteen. I think you're gonna see a chunk of Republicans, avoid not gonna, be huge camel. Maybe in the leadership is going to vote against it. You no trouble rail against it, but listen infrastructure is important. It's you know: roads, bridges, highways. You know members of Congress like voting for that stuff, and I don't like voting against that, especially we had again to relax hybrids

jobs Willowmere seems like we're. All begins in the Senate, anyway, are ignoring what Donald Trump has to say about this, but I want to what you just said a moment ago about the tricky balancing act, Democrats are going to have put it together, reconciliation that we have real extra here too, the moderates to the progressive, very different visions of what they want in there. We have some progressives who I think, for most was last week with the eviction moratorium, they were able to come and get that done. They feel like their riding high enough said: hey you're gonna be hearing from us going for we know how much the White House wants. This President Biden is delaying is vacation these behind backed wash. It looks like in a couple days to help try to get this cross the finish line, but talk about that that we really difficult journey. Democrats you're gonna, have to get bounds all of this in the weeks and months ahead. Oh did the rest this month on that you know how it may come back where report this morning, the DAS may come back on August, we give August. Twenty third is not supposed to

to do this budget resolution. If the Senate passes it because they need to move on that, this is going. The very very difficult couple months for Democrats are going to have it like. I said before, they're gonna happen islands, there moderates their progressive. The greatest already complaining about this sin in infrastructure Bill doesn't do enough on climate did huge with the ideas IPCC report today the do enough on their priorities. They want to have a conference they whenever house instead to negotiate. Meanwhile, that said, it's gonna say without changing the build. Take it as it is to close she's gonna have to balance a lot of stop and she's got this massive reconciliation package. Like I told that's a lot of things in air. Progressive want a huge number of issues. Child tax, credit, community college, just stuff on the climate you know she can make some horse trading there, but she needs the whole both these together. the big bang Nigerian. When you are talking about it,

It's a really getting scared of twenty twenty they're starting to worry about it. They want this infrastructure building needs an hour. You know they think Biden can give it to them. I can present a hand of punch, Thank you very much for being on this morning, still add on morning, Joe Senate Majority WHIP Dick Durban calls it frightening we're learning new details about former president drums final days in office and his personal and direct involvement with the Justice Department after the twenty twenty election. plus what Doktor Anthony theology is saying about: the possibility of corona virus vaccines getting full after approval in the coming weeks, and the latest on that historic wildfires burning out of control in Northern California right now, you're watching Joe we'll be right back

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Repress then who what you discovered doesn't match. Your expectations can in fact Jack this forest. Keep asking yourself hard questions, confident not be tough on the answers. It's just not true fever facts over conspiracy. What should american citizens know relying on experts not influence? They are now going to debate it again and vote again. Entrust standards over here said. at MSNBC This is what we do in this what was the most shocking to you. Just? How directly personally involved the president was the pressure he was putting on Jeffrey Rosen it was real, very real and it was very specific presence, not subtle when he wants a former president, he's, not subtle when you want something- and I think it's a good thing for America bed, we, a person like rose and in their position who stood withstood the pressure.

I was sent a Judiciary committee chairmen, Dick Durban, unseen and yesterday speaking about what he learned from former acting attorney general brave rose and about Donald Trump attempts to subvert the election. The New York Times reports form acting attorney, General Jeffrey rose and told the Justice Department, inspector general and congressional and so gaiters this weekend that one of his deputy tried to help. Then President Donald Trump subvert the results of the twenty twenty election. According to a person familiar with the interviews, turning Now dear times reporter and Emma BC. National security- endless Michael Schmidt, Michael. I know you ve been covering this all along. What do we know about exactly what Rosen told the Senate investigators what we don't have yet the transcript you know

full accounting of it, but, as my colleague key better reported over the weekend, what rose in is talking to the committee about is about how the president with me simply trying to use, as you were saying, one of these deputies at the Justice Department to to put out information to use the improved or of the justice depart to say that the election was questionable to raise these questions about the election and to help the president's infer. During their public relations. You know campaign essentially what What was going on is that the present, which way Gee up all of these allegations and trying to make them since substantiate them. Any couldn't do that and what he wants to do was to use the Justice Department, essentially the powers of it too. You say. Yes, there is a problem with this all action and if you know if certain states want to do something about it. They there

within the right, because the Justice Department says this is a bad election. Now these efforts fail. You didn't go anywhere, but it was the most aggressive effort we ve seen, certainly in modern times, to try its use the Justice Department to subvert the the will of the people and make its job where does seem striking- and we seem to have almost daily revelations about how the former president tried to use the levers of government to hold on to power, and just how close he came perhaps to succeed What is true, but what are the next steps? Who else we're gonna be hearing from? Who else are gonna? Make me testifying in the days and weeks ed? What more? Could we learn about those frantic deeply disturbing days that took place between election day and then January? Six and then, of course, when generally twentieth, when present by did take office, I think

The biggest questions in you know in that area is. Are we going to hear from the former attorney General Bill BAR now bar with someone was under a lot of this pressure from trunk. He laughed several weeks earlier that allowed Rosen to become the acting attorney general bar was sick of trunk trying to pressure him, but was all over him doing the same things to him that he was doing to Rosen and in a bar, is someone that you know Many more Americans, no, then than folks know who rose and was an ear The simple fact of bar cooperating or talking to investigators on Capitol Hill would be substantial, Beak of sort of his standing in trumps world because for many much of the time that bar was the attorney general for stumpy was really seeing as enabler and a tool of the president's

someone that was willing to do the things that he was in the end. Your bar was not willing to go that actual life, but you hear anything from him. Under oath would be really really significant sought. Michael Michael word, as where does this guy in terms of accountability for those who who pushed the presidents, conspiracy concept lie that election was all unfair and he actually won, and the people who pull the strings like this, for him are their legal. Rests for them down. The road is their accountability right now. We're seeing accountability, for example, for the robots who rioted the capital for Trump their goal and accord and they're getting real jail time. But what about and levels of the d o J. Where does this go in terms

count, ability and oversight and preventing it from ever happening again will as far as we know release. As far as I know, this is a congressional investigation. Going on- and there is an inspector generals investigation- that's going on what we we do not know is going on in theirs. There's no evidence of couldn't going on, but we don't. We don't know about it whether there would be any type of criminal investigation now either a congressional or inspector general investigation could spawn something criminal could lead to that. But, as as much as you know, the d early Justice Department has said on this and not a lot of it. It seems like they are pretty content to allow play out in those two forums now, in congressional inspector generals investigations worse, it really could come out of them is really you know them writing and disclosing details that people don't like, but but that is all

our that they really have. There is no power of search war. and send to be. You know I mean on capital. You can. You can use subpoenas to compel testimony what it's not really the same way as it is in a criminal investigation, so it these are fact finding missions that will go out and find the facts and give us a fuller picture of what happened. This really incredible important period of time, but but that is that that is all that that these investigations would do Michael Schmidt, thank you very much and coming up a big milestone when it comes to wages in this country and what Fridays strong jobs reports about the country's economic rebound from the Pandemic morning, Joe, is back in a moment.

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the? U S, labour markets average pay in restaurants and grocery stores, is above fifteen dollars an hour. This marks the first time it is ever written that high over eighty percent of you, workers now earn a minimum of fifteen. dollars an hour up from sixty percent backing twenty fourteen joining us now form. Treasury official and mourning Joe Economic, endless, Steve, Ratner, Steve you're, taking a look at not just that, but strong jobs report. How does this all come together? Yummy Friday's shop support was incredibly strong by any measure. It was unambiguously a good report and, I think, is given a fair amount of imports: impediments to the impetus excuse me to the economy, but let's take a look first at the two five key jobs factors one is the unemployment rate which you see the red line at the top. You see how it spiked up early

pandemic, and it's been coming down, admittedly fairly slowly in recent months, but this month it went from five point: nine percent to five point: four percent: that's a little black lie. on the right and that's good news, but the second thing that some Look at when you look at our jobs number is. One percent of Americans are actually looking for a job in the labour force and actively looking for a job in that bottom blue line that also dropped additives. back in somewhat, but it was also a little bit last month, which is good news and so on. Forest for those two lives to reach that middle black line, which which is where we were back in February, twenty, so we obviously still have a bit of a ways to go, but let's turn out, the point you are making and some related points about the state of some of the workers who are closer to the bottom, and for that we can look at the leisure house, brutality sector and what you can see here is the overall, All trend in wages is the light. Blue lie the blue line in the metal, but then the

Turquoise line shows you what's happened to these workers in these blue collar workers. These are often people of color. They are often closer to the bottom of it scale than anywhere else but chickens, that their wages have shot up in recent months because of the demand for these were The shortage of these workers. Businesses have had to pay more These workers are now making sixteen percent more than they were made in January of twenty nineteen and four percent more there were making in January of twenty twenty one and as you, the average worker is now making sixteen and a half dollars an hour, which is four one, slash two per cent higher than what they were making before the pandemic. On the trajectory pandemic. I would also say that that the sector is also have robust job growth. There were three hundred eighty thousand roughly not heard fifty thousand jobs left last month in this sector. So this good news added trot, and we can see how the recovery is lifting people at the bottom, and we should all be there happy about that. But there are a couple of things to keep in mind as we look ahead that are

we worry somewhere at least challenges for us. The first one is that for that, for all we know that extra for that for all of the people so we ve making on jobs. We we'll have a long way to go. That's what this left chart shows where five Four million jobs short of where we ve more before the pandemic and economy had grown normally we would be seven and a half job short, so the story jobs are missing from this economy that need to come back for us to declare a complete victory. the second which may sound a little but technical. But it's an important point is is when this survey that we're looking at the July jobs number was actually taken. So what you see the right hand shark is a graph of covert case, is a novice, you can see that the various waves and peace and so on and see coming down gray vertical bar is the period of time in July, when these were assembled and, as you can see, this was before the upsurge in the delta virus cases before they were,

about a hundred thousand a day we have now, and so the question will be: is the upsurge in the delta virus affecting employment jobs echo activity. There is some real time data things like credit card receives breast fraught use travel but also that Americans have somewhat plateau in their willingness to reopen as the delta virus spy and so this is. This is the biggest concern at the moment, which is, is there trying to sustainable in light of the delta virus, but other It was a really great report and we shall feel pretty good, very good about where this economy is headed Steve you, as you just said that these jobs reporters for a backward. Looking right. There did not enjoy predictive, worry us. He now with the delta variant We are seeing significant surges here and I noted the first chart. Was less strong jobs work even with an exclamation point. What are they historically the strong August jobs for the next major point and as a party to the programmes of the present the infrastructure?

EL, the reconciliation builder all being bandied about in Congress right now. What sort of injection will that led to the Is that what is that? We're gonna need if things do go south, because the very sure I think you're We have to really evaluate public health side before you can conclude the economic side of you and I are not public health experts, but we can- and we are, I guess, I think that the economy is still moving forward. I do have the sense that people are still trying to get out there. I think people are tired of locked out. They want to resume their life, so my guest at the moment? The economy is still growing job disobeying added, admittedly, at a somewhat slower pace. As far as the two pieces of legislation are concerned, Those certainly ever be important if the result of very proves to be any economic or major economic factor and slowing our economy, but there also probably going to need is certainly needed in order ten of the pace of this recovery? We need to keep the economy coming

Back we need to get unemployment back was the three and a half percent. I think before virus, so we ve got a long way to go from five point four percent and we need government actually do. It is a tomb. going to be well spent. These are all questions that, hopefully, Congress will resolve in a positive way. But we certainly do more legislation, lads. Pass D Ratner. Thank you very much. As always, you know have some notable passing over the weekend, the legendary Hall of Fame football coach. You build Florida states, football dynasty has passed away at that age of ninety one Bobby bound. Died early yesterday morning, after announcing on July twenty first, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. His son, Terry later, can It was pancreatic. Cancer coach bowed and earned three seventy seven wines throughout his forty year, coaching career during his thirty, four seasons with floored estate. He led the team to twelve

of a c c championships and national titles and ninety ninety three and eighteen, ninety nine cool and the gang cofounder Dennis DDT Thomas, has died at the age of seventy, the sacks opponents passed away in his sleep on Saturday, Thomas who founded the banned in the nineteen sixties, with its popularity rising in the seventies by blending. As aren't be funk and pop, the group one to Grammy awards Seven american music awards with more than twenty top ten and be heads nine top ten pop heads and thirty one gold and platinum albums and actress Marcie Post has died after nearly four years battle with cancer,

seventeen year old actress was known for her roles and night court and the fall guy and there's something about Mary posed was determined to keep doing acting as quota side job. Even she got sick between chemo treatments. She worked on projects such as lifetime, Smith movie for Christmas is in a wedding and ABC series posed to survive. Husband, daughters and granddaughter still, I had a stark new warning about climate change. The you, Secretary General, is calling a new report about the earth's temperatures code, red for humanity, we'll get alive report on that plus such closer, the impact of vaccines, scepticism, including how its affecting on town in Arkansas and study is taking a look at the profound effect the corona virus pandemic. Has

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