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brave. all those we honor today gave their lives for their country, but they live forever in our hearts, forever proud, forever honorable, forever american. >> and while the president spends memorial day at the white house, there are millions of americans getting ready to hit holiday traffic and long tsa security lines after the first long holiday weekend of the year with more than 100 million americans now vaccinated. and we're also following big political news in texas where democratic lawmakers blocked the republican majority in their state from passing new restrictive voting laws, but texas governor greg abbot isn't giving up on getting that bill to his desk. we start with nbc's kelly o'donnell at the white house. president biden made the trip from delaware back to washington to take part in this sacred tradition with this speech that seemed to touch on a good deal

of curren events and president biden is at his most emphatic and critical things and one personal loss the other is america's place in the world. this is a speech that weaved together both aspects. >> it did, and it did so without being overtly political, but if you were listening come tying it to modern events you'd see it was more than the themes of what made this holiday so revered by americans. the president talking about, for example, empathy as a way for americans to understand each other, not see each other as enemies even when they disagree. he talked about the sacred right of voting and that the underpinnings of democracy. he even used the infrastructure of democracy requires that voting be easy, fair and accessible to americans. well, that certainly sounds like a note on what's happening in texas and a number of other states that are dealing with lawmakers, particularly republicans who are buying into the former president's lies

about the election and claims of fraud where it did not exist and making new laws to make tighter restrictions and harder access for americans to vote. so the president wove that in, but he also, of course, spoke to the real heart of what this day is about, honoring the loss of those who have had family members who died in battle and connecting personally with his own family's loss. yesterday marked six years since beau biden, the president's son died brain cancer and he made that emotional connection today at arlington. here's when he said. >> to those who mourn a loved one today, jill and i have some idea how you're feeling. our losses are not the same, but that black hole you feel in your chest as if it's going to suck you into it, we get. >> also took time to visit some

of the graves at arlington and then in a way, adding to more of what this holiday is beyond that remembrance, the president and first lady did something we have not seen them do yet during their time in office and that's stop at a washington, d.c. restaurant for lunch, dining inside now that covid restrictions have been lifted and that's something that the president in many ways is doing as an example of the accessibility now that the american people can enjoy, but it's something that stands out because they haven't done it before. jeff? >> nbc's kelly o'donnell getting us started. good to see you as always, friend. >> there are plenty of options for millions of americans trying to make the most of it. from embracing the normal, by staying safe by visiting an outdoor area. it's time to pack up, mask up and brave the airport terminal for the long flight home. joining us now to cover every angle for us is nbc's mara

barrett at doylestown, pennsylvania. blayne alexander at the airport in atlanta and in arizona. as we start to return to normal on this holiday, the local parade in doylestown is so important to that community. what are you hearing from residents and small business owners there? >> it really is, jeff. i've spent the better part of last year plus reporting on empty streets as people stay safe and quarantined and today the streets were filled with color guard members, band members and just this overarching sense of joy and relief from thousands of community members that came out to celebrate the parade and last year it was cancelled and it would have been the 150th anniversary of the parade and it was a sense of community here today and along these streets, the community relies on its small businesses and independently owned restaurants, bars and cafes and the reason

why the parade was able to happen, these businesses can fully re-open is because pennsylvania is lifting its capacity limits and everything will happen with 100% with the exception of pennsylvania and business owners feeling so excited to have a summer season. i spoke to christopher and he opened three months prior to the pandemic and had to close. i wanted to hear from him about the outlook for the summer season. >> it is so exciting. it is so exciting just to watch things open up again. this town really thrives when we're doing our events and things. so to have the memorial day parade back again, it doesn't sound like much, but it's a big deal and we're doing an outside concert with barbecue. to actually be able to put into action what i saw happening when i started this story is really exciting. >> reporter: i can confirm the community did, in fact, feel like it was thriving here today. i haven't seen crowds like these

outside of political rallies and protests in the last year. it was a really, mobile day for a lot of these people, reconnecting with neighbors that i haven't seen before. one of the business owners is excited to see people smiling outside. here in pennsylvania the mask mandate still in place until the end of june until all a dulls are fully vaccinated. >> that business owner saying a simple thing like a parade or an outdoor barbecue, great reporting. mara barrett in doylestown. let's head to arizona with allison barber. you hit the road in an rv to take a look at how the more adventurous travelers are getting along. i've saeb some rvs as nice as houses. >> this is a little guy and i think we're doing pretty well. we've met so many interesting people who love to travel like this, the pandemic made them

feel like this was the perfect option to be able to safely get out a little bit and for a lot of people that's something that they really, really need. we met healthcare workers who were finally having a bit of a break from the chaos, the pain, all of the work they've been doing the last year and a half. i want you to listen to one man that we met. his name is angel rivera and works at a hospital in california. he loves to camp and when i asked him why he was here this weekend, this is what he told us. >> just to get away. i work at a hospital so this was something i wanted to just get away. just get away -- >> it's been a hard year. >> it's been a hard year. >> it's been a real hard year. i can't explain it. i just wanted to get away and something i wanted to do. something i needed to do, so now that i'm fully vaccinated it feels really good, getting away.

>> we're hearing that sort of thing from so many people, not just health care workers, but how much it means to them to just be able to have this break. look at this view with me, every time i see it, i just take a deep breath because it is so mesmerizing. it just never gets old and people keep telling us how much they appreciate the beauty and the quiet of this place and for those who are vaccinated, how much it means to just meet other campers and just like mara said, jeff, for the first time in quite a while, start to see some faces. i said it earlier, but the people that we're meeting here, it's just been so much joy and so much happiness because so many people needed this, and they feel like they have a space like this, to go out and feel safer and they feel more comfortable coming out and seeing some of the bigger crowds. jeff? >> an rv is a great way to do

it. after it is over and they've seen the sweeping views, i'm headed out there after the show. i'm connecting in atlanta. what's the scene in hartsfield jackson specifically in airports across the country right now. >> jeff, get ready to see a lot of people when you connect through atlanta hartsfield jackson. you look around here at the nation's busiest airport it's starting to look exactly like that, the nation's busiest airport. the constant stream of cars is a constant and it's looked like that since early this morning and i was standing in almost the exact same spot last year and what we're seeing now was almost unthinkable and it was practically a ghost town here and when i spoke to the airport spokesperson they tell me they haven't seen crowds like this since december of 2019 so the fact that the numbers are starting to come back and they're expecting 1.9 million people and that's only a fraction of what we're expecting when it comes to travel. some 37 million americans expected between thursday and

today to either hit the road or get on a plane and travel around the country, but keep in mind, this is still not quite what we were used to seeing when it comes to pre-pandemic numbers and we're shy of 2019 during memorial day weekend there. another thing to watch, of course, ts a set a new record 1.9 million passengers processed and that's the heightest since the pandemic. blayne alexander, our thanks to you. coming up next, texas two-step. democrats walk out of the legislature to stall the latest push to restrict voting rights. more on the chair of the congressional voting rights caucus next. plus american massacre. 100 years after one of the worst examples of racial violence untold for decades remembered and memorialized. this is msnbc reports.

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now to texas where democrats have blocked one of the most restricting voting bills in the nation, at least for now. texas house democrats staged a walkout just before the midnight deadline last night meaning there were not enough lawmakers present to vote on the legislation, but governor greg abbot says it will be a top priority during an upcoming special session. among other thing, the bill would ban drive-through voting, it would limit early voting hours and make it more difficult to vote by mail and it would also allow a judge to overturn an election if the number of fraudulent votes cast could change the result, that's whether or not it's proven that fraud affected the result. even with this latest victory, democrats say the fight is far from over. >> we came together to say that enough is enough, that the people of texas deserve better, and until they are willing to listen to us to actually have a real conversation and pass common sense voting, and until

they're willing to listen to us and we can sit together then we will stand united and we will fight the state of texas. >> and joining us now is texas democratic congressman mike veasey and a former member of the texas house of representatives. welcome to you. thanks for your time. greg abbot says this bill will come up again during a special session. will democrats in texas still be able to use the same tools to block it, as well? >> it will be interesting to see what democrats decide to do then. before i was in congress and became chair of the voting rights caucus here i spent eight years in the state legislature and understand the rules very well and the republicans have bent the rules over the years so they can pass racist pieces of legislation like this and the perfect example of that is that the texas senate used to have a filibuster rule. it was the two-thirds rule and

you had to have two-thirds of senators present to advance any piece of legislation while the current lieutenant governor completely abolished the filibuster rules and raised it to where there aren't enough democrats now to block a bill and so we know that they can change these rules on a whim and if greg abbot does bring it back up, we are able to see some sort of tactic like that, but what i would tell greg abbot is he needs to do something about the grid and make sure we don't have another breakdown in electric service during our next winter storm and prioritize things like that instead of trying to discriminate against african-american texans. >> when we talk about voting rights, give us a sense of how this bill in texas makes democrats in washington think differently about federal voting rights legislation. >> absolutely, it has to make it say differently and i would say, jeff, the biggest thing that we can do is that we absolutely

have to pass hr-1 and we have to pass hr-4. hr-4 probably more so. we have to keep them honest. in addition to these racist voter id bills that greg abbot is trying to push, we've seen it in georgia, same thing. you are going to see the most discriminatory, the most anti-black redistricting that this country, perhaps, has ever seen if we do not get those two pieces of legislation passed, and so what i would tell democrats that are hesitant in making sure that these get through, look at what mitch mcconnell did with the three supreme court choices and how he changed the rules and he can do that. i just talked about how republicans in texas, so they could pass whatever they wanted to, if we do not make passing those two pieces of legislation

a priority then we're just asking for it and it is going to be terrible for african-americans in this country for years and years to come, from an electoral standpoint. >> can you put into context what these new texas restrictions, if they are signed into law what it would do and the reason i ask that is because georgia approved voting restrictions before the last election and democrats were still able to turn out the vote and we know how they turned out. they turned georgia blue, elected joe biden and sent two democrat senators to washington. do you think if this texas bill becomes law that democrats will be able to navigate around it or would it be too onerous? >> i think that it will be terribly onerous. >> if you look at some of the provisions in the bill, for instance, the one that says that they're going to reduce sunday voting hours, that one is aimed right at the heart of african-american voters, when you change those sunday voting hours because that's typically

when churches -- african-american churches around state do souls to the polls. so the republicans knew that by doing that that they were absolutely aiming, squirrelling right at our communities and then, of course, overturning an election. when you say that you can overturn an election based on crazy tropes and stereotypes on citizens it's absolutely insane that they're even thinking about that and so imagine any host race that republicans wanted to go and -- and overturn, they would be able to do so with that provision and that's not something that happens in our country. that's something that happens in zimbabwe or venezuela or some other country that's not industrialized and has issues dealing around freedom and democracy, and our country is supposed to be the shining light and beacon of freedom and

democracy around the world, and we certainly can't be a model for others if we are going to turn to third-world suppression voter -- voter suppression tactics here and in other states around the country. >> i took note of a tweet of stacy abrahams. a well-known voting rights advocate who ran for georgia and she ended her tweet with this, this is what happens when we fight. what about that? is there something that democrats in washington can learn from democrats in texas about how to be tactically ruthless to get across some of these policy positions that you chair about? >> no. absolutely. let me give a shout out to chris turner and jessica gonzalez who was on the screen talking right before i came on, to nicole colyer here in fort worth, that's my name. they stepped up to the plate, but i would tell democrats to

look towards mitch mcconnell. look at what mitch mcconnell did when he completely changed the rules. him and ted cruz sat there on national tv and lectured us about not appointing a supreme court justice and then he turned around and did it just a few days before the damn 2020 election. if these things are important enough to them, that they are going to bend the rules and why in the hell are we not doing the same thing if we do not pass hr-1 and hr-4 it would be an opportunity that was missed, but more importantly, the harm that's going to do to black and brown americans perhaps for a generation or more to come is just -- you don't even want to think about it because it will be so terrible and so we have to get this passed. we see what they're doing and we see that they absolutely have no morals and that the republicans

have absolutely have -- they're not going to lose any sleep at all about discriminating against voters of color. so in y in the world are we not making these two bills the most important thick that we do before september and, jeff, it has to be done before september. before these lines start being drawn. >> all right, congressman mark veasey of texas. we appreciate your time this afternoon. we want to update you on the tragic shooting from florida. miami police just released this surveillance video of three gunmen who unleashed a hail of gun fire in ten seconds. they opened fire on a crowd outside a banquet hall, killing two and injuring 20 others. the victims range from 19 to 31 years old and 17 people remain hospitalized with three in critical condition. in this latest mass shooting is one of at least 200 in america so far this year. all right. coming up, capitol stonewall. republicans block an independent commission on the january 6th

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the calm before the storm moment on capitol hill right now, things will be fairly quiet this week as congress is on its

memorial day recess, but lawmakers will still be talking about how to move forward on a number of major and bitterly fought issues. transportation secretary pete buttigieg told cnn the administration is not willing to let negotiations with senate republicans over infrastructure drag on. >> by the time that they return, which is june 7th, just a week from tomorrow, we need a clear direction. i think we are getting pretty close to a fish or cut bait moment. we believe in this process and very much agree this can't go on forever. the american people want results. >> nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake joins us now. senate republicans in the white house are giving themselves an extra week to figure out what infrastructure is, how to pay for it and what the top line spending number should be. other than that, everything sounds great. >> yeah. i think you pretty well nailed it. despite months of negotiations we are still miles apart on key things like what should go in

this package and things like elder care or electric vehicles, qualify as infrastructure. we've made no progress between the two sides on how to pay for this. the latef republican counter offer dealt mainly with taking money that had been appropriated for the covid relief package, but hasn't yet been spent and redirecting that toward infrastructure. you are pitting democrats biggest legislative achievement against republicans greatest legislative achievement in their mind of the previous congress in terms of the tax cut bill in terms of how to pay for it and when i listen to secretary buttigieg i listen to the white house and they're the ones along with democratic allies who will have to decide when the negotiations are and if they're not fruitful or if they can feel like they can go it alone with democratic votes. >> let's set aside infrastructure for a second and talk about the hot-button issue which is an effort to establish an independent commission to

investigate the january 6th insurrection. that seems to be dead for now since republicans blocked the senate from taking it up. you have jerry connolly calling on president biden to establish a presidential commission. there's thought that the house speaker could set up a select commission. where does this go next? >> those are both options and i see these things as related. that vote on friday damaged what was left of trust between the two parties up here on capitol hill. the, i think, quicker option would be for speaker pelosi to establish a committee or give one standing committee, like the intelligence committee more leeway to conduct a more thorough investigation and task them with doing exactly what a select commission would do or a presidential commission could be appointed. the problem with both of these and this is why pelosi has resisted going this route is she wanted the idea of a bipartisan commission so that the results would be trusted by the significant percentage of people in the country who see

conspiracies in the january 6th attack and who might not be willing to trust president biden or speaker police to get to the bottom of this. >> final question which is completed unrelated and when i heard you were working today i wanted to get you on the record. tomorrow marks one year since police cleared protesters from lafayette square so president trump could do a photo-op. washington police admitted tear gas was used and the reason i wanted to put this question to you because you were there and you had been saying all along that the official line was wrong and you stuck to that based on your reporting. what's your take. what do you make of the admig today. >> i appreciate the opportunity to come back and say what i have said all along. i had to deploy my gas mask to do television coverage on that day. there was no question that tear

gas was used. there were cs canisters found in the street in the days afterwards, but it spoke to how disorganized and chaotic the police response was that day that no one could be sure whose units actually fired the tear gas and who deployed it. i think it's good, if late, to see the mpd finally admitting that yes, in fact, it was their officers who used tear gas on peaceful demonstrators on that day. >> nbc's garrett haake, believe the people who were there and not the official line sometimes. >> thanks, jeff. we're looking at live pictures of reverend jesse jackson and at vernon ame church. it's one of the only structures to partially survive the tulsa massacre in 1921. tulsa is commemorating the 100th anniversary in which an angry right mob decimated the neighborhood of greenwood then known as black wall street. joe biden will visit tulsa

tomorrow to mark the centennial. nbc news correspondent antonia hilton is in tulsa live with more on this story. >> hi, jeff. throughout the weekend in tulsa, residents and visitors have honored descendants and the last known survivors of the 1921 race massacre, but on this 100-year anniversary tensions rock the city as it still works to come to terms with what happened here. in morning a solemn anniversary for the city of tulsa where a new memorial now commemorates the 1921 race massacre. residents and supporters marking the moment with a march this weekend and gathering with two of the last-known survivors in the place once known as black wall street. exactly a hundred years ago, a white mob descended on the affluent black community killing 300 black tulsans and burning every home and business in the

area turning families into refugees. her great-grandmother was one of them. >> 10,000 people were displaced at the hands of racial terror violence and 100 years later people are coming back home, descendants from everywhere and so we call this home coming. >> that home coming bringing moments of reflection and sharpening the push. no one has ever been responsible for the attack. >> the way to heal america is the reparation for the tulsa massacre. >> can there be healing without repayment? >> i do not believe that there can be healing without restitution or reparations. >> without accountability, many black tulsans believe this centennial will ring hollow. they marched through streets to take advantage of their second amendment rights.

the anniversary comes as the country continues to grapple with race and its history, crutcher's dream is that this weekend becomes a call to action. >> is anything giving you hope? >> the black community in tulsa, we don't take injustice lying down lightly. we are not afraid to stand firm on what we believe, and demand better for our community. >> tonight, there will be a candlelight vigil marking the start of the massacre and tomorrow president biden is scheduled to be in tulsa. jeff? >> nbc news correspondent antonia hilton, thank you for that. joining us live from tulsa, my friend and colleague trymaine lee. you have been doing important and necessary work from tulsa for weeks and months. what are activists saying need to happen in tulsa today 100 years after that deadly riot? >> thanks so much for having me, jeff. as we reflect on the 100-year anniversary of that violence

that this community experienced in those two days back in 1921. one thing is clear. it's evident that the trajectory of so many families, black families in this community is forever changed and not just because they're holding that trauma that they inherited in passing along, but the wealth that was stolen so long ago and they had the inability to pass it on. we need to repair and we need reparations and earlier right behind me at vernon ame church one of the few black buildings left standing, with the lisa blunt rochester touched on this theme of equity, healing and repair. let's take a listen. >> i feel this ground, but i also see a highway that went through a city. so we are here to remember, to mourn, to rebuild equitably and for people we heard about repairing the breach, the word

repair is connected to reparations. and so that's why hr-40 is in congress and we must pass it. >> connecting the past and present with hr-40 and repairing and commemorating and mourning altogether, that's what this community is doing, jeff. >> let's talk about the president because there has been dispute in tulsa between the centennial commission and the survivors of the massacre and their descendants over how money raised for the centennial shall be spent. there was a concert to commemorate the massacre and that was abruptly canceled over this dispute. speak to the tension between the commission and the survivors. >> the canceling of the concert certainly illustrated the divide in this community, but the commission reportedly aimed to raise $10 million on behalf of a museum and some events. they raised $30 million. so the community is saying if you have $30 million pouring in and based on the narratives and the victims and descendants of

this community then some of that should be placed in the community. so there is a divide on what to do with the money and the funding. so the tension is thick because any fund-raising that would have been going on it would have been on the backs of those who lost so much so long ago and continue to feel the pain of that. >> absolutely. nbc's trymaine lee, always good to see you. appreciate you. coming up, benjamin netanyahu, the man known for his political comebacks may be about to be sidelined. american sacrifice. president biden remembers the lives of those who gave their life at arlington cemetery. more on the president's comments coming up. this is msnbc reports.

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opposition party leaders will form a new coalition government that will unseat his ousting of power. israeli forces and palestinian militants. joining us now is nbc's kelly cobiella in tel aviv. kelly, walk us through how this is expected to unfold and whether netanyahu has any options left. jeff, at this point, the parties, the broad coalition of parties from the far left to the right right are trying to hammer out the details and the power sharing arrangements and who sits in which ministerial post and for how long. they have to hammer out those details and then sign the deals, present those to the israeli president by wednesday at midnight in order for this coalition to hold. key to all of this is neftali bennett who says he is joining the coalition for the better of

the party and all it takes is just one for this coalition to collapse, but still, this is the most serious threat to netanyahu a a very long time. we asked people on the street about what they thought about a change in government. take a listen. >> i'd say there were plenty of people who think he needs to be out and he's been there for too long and their voices have been heard and hopefully that will be for the best. >> netanyahu has been in similar positions before and he has found a way out of it, political observers say he really cannot count him out. >> nbc's kelly cobiella with the latest from tel aviv. coming up on the home front, how a military wife and a new mom was able to lean on the strength of the u.s. military community to make it through the pandemic. the nation pauses those who gave their lives in service of our country.

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to navigate its way out of an historic pandemic. let's bring in sam brock with this because sam, you met up with a military family whom you spoke with last year who were struggling to put food on the table at the time. what did you hear from them now on this memorial day? >> reporter: jeff, just gratitude, honestly. when we met rachel zabo back in december, she was going through tough times and had lost her job like so many across the country. she's landed back on her feet and her story moved so many, jeff, that there were record breaking donations to the armed services ymca and now it's a message of hope. rachel zabo is back on the job, a designer who moved to fort bragg two years ago when her husband joined the army. like many americans, rachel is working from home, taking care of her 5-month-old son, andrash and giving back working at a

food pantry. >> is there any specific needs your family has this month? >> i would say canned vegetables and fruit. a giant reversal of fortunes from when we met rachel in december and months after she lost her job because of the pandemic, half of its two-parent income. the mother to be preparing to care for her son while forced to lean on others for a boost. does it hurt this is affecting your family? >> yeah, it does. i mean -- sorry. i need a minute. >> reporter: her story touching hearts across the country. what response did you receive? >> so many people wanting to help us out. we were flabbergasted how much people reached out and wanted to help. >> reporter: did it feel like outpouring? >> it did. >> reporter: not just for her family but for the organization that helped her when times were

tough. >> we were floored. i worked in non-profits for 20 years. i have never seen a single day of donations like what we saw. >> reporter: $300,000, five times what the organization received in online donations for the previous year. the influx of new money going back to help still reeling pockets of the country, coping not only with empty cupboards but roadblocks finding childcare. an issue rachel is confronting. childcare is not cheap. >> it's not. you have to have a job that pays for day care but also can pay for your groceries and your bills and that on top of it. >> reporter: it's another obstacle the armed services ymca is tackling along with the u.s. military. >> our partnership is vitally important. the military -- we couldn't do what we do without the military leadership. >> reporter: rachel has been back at work for more than a month. her tears replaced by hope. with a regular paycheck, food

insecurity is no longer top of mind. what have you learned from this experience? >> i just want other people to know if you keep trying and just persevere, something good will happen to you. >> reporter: today, rachel is paying it forward. volunteering once a week. >> they became people that i came to trust and depended on just to keep me sane through this whole thing. >> reporter: is that the message you want to send to americans, that there's light at the end of the tunnel? >> yeah. i want everybody to know it's not forever. it can be temporary. i'm proof of that. honestly, it feels like everything is in color and positive and rainbows and butterflies to be honest, to say the least. >> reporter: rachel says americans were donating their stimulus checks to families just like her to try and help. one box of food costs about $20. you can only imagine the generosity right now, how far $300,000 goes.

>> sam brock, an incredible story. appreciate you bringing that to us. i want to turn to general mccaffrey, a retired four star general and msnbc analyst. let's start with what we heard from sam. this has been tough on everybody. that's true for military families. what can our nation, what can the va do to help these service members and their families out right now? >> a very touching story. i was glad to see the armed forces ymca does good. they are married, they have young families. many are on two incomes. the pandemic, which devastated all of america economically, clearly had an impact on our servicemen and women, also. fortunately, we got to remind ourselves, particularly for the active duty military, they do have health care, they do have access to px privileges.

the situation is not dire. again, you have to take into account that across the country and in particular when we move the armed forces all the time, which is costly to them, a lot of these families are on the edge. >> let's set aside the economic issues and talk about the public health aspect of this pandemic. the pentagon says just about 30% of the u.s. military have gotten the covid vaccine. that leaves a vast majority of the military not vaccinated against covid. does that worry you, especially when it comes to the idea of force readiness? >> to be honest, i'm flabbergasted. apparently, there was a legal argument which we should not have listened to that you couldn't order active duty or reserve servicemen and women to take the vaccine because it was under emergency use authorization. that is crazy. in particular, for things like

navy ships headed to sea, air crews deploying overseas, of course, we ought to tell them, you are taking the vaccination. it's scientifically demonstrated as safe. 100 million americans have taken it with almost zero problems. i'm severely disappointed. that must have been a legal argument. we have to get off the dime and tell the armed forces, step up. your wellness, your deployability is vital to defending the country. >> before we go, i want your take on the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. "the washington post" reports that, quote, u.s. troops and their nato allies intend to be out of afghanistan by early to mid july, well ahead of president biden's september 11th withdrawal deadline. do you think that's the right move? >> absolutely. look, you know, i don't think the biden administration had much of a political option but to get out of afghanistan.

a tragedy is likely to ensue. thankfully, we have one of the most experienced combat leaders in the armed forces, scott miller, our four star nato and u.s. commander on the ground who is trying to pull us out. the navy is in there covering the withdrawal with a carrier at sea, an air cover. this is likely to be an utter disaster for afghan women, for those who fought with the united states and our nato allies. this is a disaster unfolding. we will see millions of refugees, i would imagine, fleeing into other adjoining nations. going to be a very tough period coming up. >> general mccaffrey, appreciate your insight. we have more in the next hour, including the latest on texas after democrats blocked passage of a new restrictive voting bill. what their actions could mean for the lone star state and

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