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together. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. >> reporter: mr. president, do you have any comment -- could this variant force us back into lockdown? >> i don't think so, because a lot of people have still been vaccinated, but the delta variant can kill people where people have not gotten vaccinated. the variant is unlikely to result into anything. the existing vaccines are very effective. no, it's not a lockdown but some areas will be very, very hurt. >> reporter: with what the catholic bishops are done, are you concerned about this rift between the catholic church and are you concerned about this action? >> say that again. >> reporter: the catholic

bishops will keep you and others who seek abortion from -- >> i don't think that's going to happen. you were just listening to president joe biden speaking from the white house there, talking about the administration's efforts, 300 million shots in his first 150 days, reaching that milestone, encouraging people to continue to get vaccinated before the july 4th holiday where, as you heard the president say there, this country would celebrate its independence as well as its independence from the virus. joining us now, nbc correspondent mike memoli, political reporter sahil kippur on capitol hill. mike, the president still

keeping his focus on vaccination efforts in this country in the fight against covid. a pretty important milestone that the president had set out for himself and this country that they wanted to see 70% of people vaccinated by july 4th. as we've seen, vaccination rates have fallen in recent weeks. what does the administration plan to do in the next 16 days to reach that goal? >> reporter: well, eamon, you heard the president talk about this being a summer of freedom, a summer of joy, starting by touting a real milestone with 300 million vaccinations administered as he approaches his 150th day in office. the district of columbia have already passed that goal of 67% of americans, of adults getting that first dose, at least. my sources keep telling me there are 50 states in this country, so the white house is very much going to be sweating out that the last 17 days, 18 days here as we head into the fourth of july, doing everything they can to make sure this great

disparity, especially along party lines, we can't help but notice the red states, especially in the deep south, are those with the lowest rate in terms of first doses of the vaccine. so that's why the president is now doing his part to join what has been an administrationwide month of action here. the vice president, kamala harris, today in atlanta doing her part as well. our colleague, heidi przybyla, reporting on a new effort especially to target those younger americans, some who weren't eligible until more recently to get the vaccination and target a campaign. but the warning that he issued there about the delta variant and parts of the country that don't have the same heightened vaccination rate could suffer some of the same fates that we're seeing and that the president just saw in the united kingdom. the united kingdom extended its lockdowns because the delva variant has become the

dominating strain there. that was part of the warning the president issued there, was to those states. we've seen them do everything they can to offer incentives. the government as well offering incentives, but now they're coupling that with the warning that we could see more spikes in hospitalizations and possibly deaths, eamon. >> and we're going to go to the delva variant and what that means for vaccinations. the administration is certainly facing this white house, and that has to do with infrastructure. what president biden had described as a two-track strategy when it comes to infrastructure. on one hand seeking this bipartisan agreement. on the other hand, pushing it through using budget reconciliation rules that would require just 51 votes in the senate and not that mandatory 60-vote threshold. given the current dynamic we see playing out on capitol hill, what is the most likely path

forward on infrastructure? what is the white house prepared to throw its weight behind? >> eamon, there are a few ways this whole debate could play out, but the sweet spot for the republicans and democrats are to do those tracks. there's about $600 million and the republicans can say they got their desire. with changes only in climate change and child care, there is a belief that if they cut a bipartisan deal that moderates won't be with them on the bigger bill that's necessary. so they want assurance from moderates like senator manchin that he'll be with them for reconciliation if they do support the bipartisan bill. they're not making any guarantee which means americans are not

making any guarantee with supporting a bipartisan bill. the bottom line here is there is a strong desire among democrats to get something big done on infrastructure, and they have a path to do it with or without republicans, so these two trends will continue to proceed on these two tracks, but hopefully from the white house perspective, at least one of them arrives at the destination. >> mike, before the president left europe this week, he was asked about infrastructure. where does the white house stand when it comes to this negotiated plan by a bipartisan group of senators, and have they formulated any positions on joe manchin's proposals on the votes compromise that is being categorically rejected by mitch mcconnell? >> before the president took off on that trip to geneva to see president vladimir putin, but where those bipartisan talks stood, his chief of staff had told him there was still room,

he thought, to find an agreement between what the reconciliation package might look like and what these bipartisan senators were looking at. the white house did issue a fresh warning today about one of the potential pay-fors, the way they would raise the revenues to pay for what would be around a trillion-dollar compromise plan, and that was indexing the gas tax to inflation, a white house spokesperson making clear that what they said all along, this is a red line for the president. he does not want to see those who suffered the most over the course of this pandemic, those who have seen their budgets really hit at home, those who really need to be able to drive their kids to school, drive themselves to work, pay the brunt of an infrastructure plan when, of course, their proposal all along had been to raise corporate taxes. even as this bipartisan group thought they would roll out a plan, it better not have to do

with that increase. whenever you can get manchin on board, which included stacey abrams yesterday, the white house house is intrigued. this is trickier, because while there is potentially republican swort for an infrastructure plan, it really has become an experienced leader. even with joe manchin, you don't have the 60 votes you need to implement this, so the white house cognizant of that as well. >> thank you for starting us off this hour. joining us to talk about these issues, ro kahanna.

they ever come up with an infrastructure plan guided by a group of senators. you and other republican senators have made a case against it. make the case why? >> it's a non-starter for two reasons. first, it taxes working class americans who have 30-minute, 40-minute commutes to work because they can't afford rents in urban centers. why in the world would you put a tax to build the infrastructure on the working class instead of taxing the billionaires and the wealthy who have done extraordinarily well, made trillions of dollars in the pandemic, haven't been paid an appropriate amount of tax? let's tax them to pay for the infrastructure. second, there is no meaningful investment in green infrastructure, and if anything, it's taxing electric vehicle use which could actually slow down our commitment to renewable energy and electric vehicles. so the way it's crafted just

doesn't work. if they make changes, we'll consider it. >> as you said, progressives in the size and scope of an equal recovery package. president biden has put forward a $4 trillion package. vermont senator bernie sanders who is in the progressive camp said that could go as high as $6 trillion. what are you looking at when it comes to the size and scope of this packpackage? what do you want to see in? >> the bigger, the bolder, the better. but let me put in two red lines for progressives. first, no climate, no deal. any infrastructure package has to have bold investments in climate. second, no taxation, no deal. you can't tax the working class to pay for this. we need to have higher taxes on the wealthy. we need to have higher taxes on big corporations. those are the two core

principles as we have a skbugs what this infrastructure package should look like. >> you are obviously a member of the oversight committee which is looking into january 6. the justice department has released new body cam footage on those. be do want to warn our audience it is difficult to watch. the nypd policeman rushed capitol hill police and came at them with a flagpole. some of your republican colleagues continue to deny the events of that day until today, saying these were peaceful protests with one describing -- i'm sure you heard what happened -- as a tourist visit. have you tried to talk to them about it, and doesly, putting

this in place to they can see up clois the riot. >> this was an insurrection. this was people using armed force to storm the capitol. they wanted p to outplace members of congress and people can sthee about their own eyes. soly for instance, how can you have a conversation with someone who is not willing to acknowledge reality. >> just to be clear, rn dair who wants to see the autopsy report died of no speck act, right? is that what you were referencing when you said killing a police officer -- >> i was saying five officers

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we are closely following the coronavirus pandemic and here are the facts as we know them. at the white house, president biden acknowledged that areas where lower vaccination rates are seeing higher numbers. >> cases and hospitalizations are not going down in many cases in the lower vaccination rate states. they're actually going up in some places. >> in atlanta, vice president kamala harris urged people at a pop-up vaccination site to get it in their community. >> the only way we can get the word out is friend to friend, family member to family member,

neighbor to neighbor. good news for travelers who may soon be invited back to europe as member states lift the ban on non-essential travel from the united states. each country gets to choose its own individual restrictions so the recommendation at this moment is non-binding. the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 which is killing thousands in india makes up 12% of coronavirus in the united states. as the strain spreads, one of the best ways to test for its presence is actually wastewater. in missouri, for example, only 23% is fully vaccinated. one facility is looking to track that variant. alison barber is with us. alison, it's great to have you with us. how are they doing so? >> reporter: they first found

the delta variant in this wastewater in the state. they found that on may 10. within 48 hours give or take, they identified it here in brookfield again, in the wastewater they had been sampling. they are working with the state department to pull samples of wastewater facilities all across the state so they can see what's in the water. they use machines like this to first pull the samples of wastewater. that then gets sent over to columbia, missouri where the university is where scientists in labs can look at the wastewater and not only determine whether or not covid-19 is present in the wastewater, and as a result or by default, in the rest of specific communities, they can also see exactly which variants are there. what they tell us is the scientists who are looking at all of this, they say that what they are seeing is the delta variant is not only prevalent in the state of missouri, but it is spreading incredibly fast, particularly in smaller world

communities where vaccination rates are really low. this county where we are right now, only 31% of residents are fully vaccinated. health officials here tell us they hope the fact this variant is present in the state and it's spreading so fast will serve as a warning for those unvaccinated. listen here. >> whereas in november when we weren't dealing with that variant being in our community, we had maybe one or two members of a household testing positive, but now we have seen whole households testing positive, and doing the same mitigation and isolation guidelines that we have been promoting through the whole pandemic. >> reporter: so this definitely seems to be spreading faster? >> yes. >> reporter: and she says that shows you how contagious this delta variant is, that in the past with other strains of covid-19, if bun person in the household contracted the virus, they could isolate, they could separate and maybe the rest of the family wouldn't get it.

but you heard her say there that despite people separating and isolating, entire families are still getting this virus if they are not vaccinated. they hope that people, particularly in this community and also statewide, because the total vaccination rate in this state is less than 40%, that people will realize how serious this variant is. this is already a serious virus, we knew that, but this variant is spreading really fast and it's very dangerous and it's hitting people who are unvaccinated. hospitals from branson, missouri to here say almost everyone they are seeing hospitalized right now are unvaccinated and they're a lot younger than what they were seeing two, three months ago. >> ellison barber with that fantastic look. we have dr. ashish jha, school of public health.

good to see you again. in a recent piece for the "washington post," you called it a triple threat. explain what you mean by that. why is it a triple threat? >> thanks, eamon, for having me back. any time you want to look at the variant, you want to look at lee characteristics. you ask the question, is it more contagious? the delta variant is way more contagious. the second question, is it more deadly if you catch it? the answer is it probably is more deadly. and the third question, does it cause more breakthrough infections? what we're learning about the delta variant, if you're fully vaccinated, you're actually pretty protected. even if you're just partially protected, say, one shot of the pfizer vaccine, you may get it. this is the most powerful variant we've seen. >> you heard and what the

president was saying was america probably won't meet the president's goal of 70% getting vaccinated by july 4th. despite everything we know for speeding up vaccines to get everybody off the fence and vaccinated? >> look, we have to get to 70, we have to get to 75, we have to get to 80. this variant is not magically going to go away. my take is we've got to make vaccines ubiquitous. they need to be made available in grocery stores, in pharmacies. you should be able to get a vaccine everywhere you go. secondly, i think businesses should be encouraging their employees a lot more, and we've just got to make it really easy for people. we should go to people's homes and vaccinate them. there are people who want the vaccine but can't take time off, can't figure out how to deal with appointments. let's make it really easy for people to get vaccinated. >> as you probably saw, dr. jha,

there was data on young people who saw a heart inflammation post vaccine. that's out of about 20 million vaccinated so far. what's your message to parents who have concerns about the safety of young people getting vaccinated? >> first and foremost, thank goodness for that 300 people out of 20 million, extremely rare, most of them did not require any medical treatment at all. it got better on its own. that is what happens with this inflammation of the heart muscle, so thank goodness for that. the message i would send to parents is getting covid is way worse than this, and just kind of put my money where my mouth is it on this. i have two teenage children and both of them are now fully vaccinated. i believe that's what every parent should be doing. >> let me ask you about the decision from the eu today recommending that a number of companies lift their bans on american travel. is that a smart decision? do you think this is a good or

the best time to be doing so as we're talking about the delta variant spreading? >> yeah, you know, that's a great question. i think it is the right decision . first of all, infection amounts are low. hopefully americans will feel safe traveling there, and if that happens hopefully more will get vaccinate so we can get back it our lives. coming up, my one-on-one interview with yan stoltenberg. g

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coming on the heels of this week's nato summit where the 30 nation members agreed to a new cyber defense policy, we spoke to nato attorney general jens stoltenberg whether they're ready to face challenges from

russia and china. >> we face a world where nato is faced with challenges at different times. we don't choose either one or the other. and, of course, for decades nato has addressed the soviet union, russia. russia is still a country that behaves in an aggressive way against neighbors. we've seen cyberattacks by russia, but china matters for our security because that really is shifting the global balance over power. nato allies agreed for the first time, very clear in a united position, both on the challenges and opportunities, but the challenges for the rights of china. they are investing in

opportunities, and of course that matters for nato. >> when it comes to cyberattacks, the united states and obviously other nato nations, they endorsed a new cyber defense policy that cyberattacks on a nato member could lead to the invocation of article 5, which is essentially an attack on the entire organization. does that mean that a cyberattack on one alliance nation is now considered an attack on all of them, and what type of specific attack rises to that level. for instance, what we saw in the united states in recent months with the attack on the colonial pipeline and food processing plants, would that constitute an attack on the alliance? >> nato's core responsibility is to protect and defend allies against anything, and that's based on article 5, our founding

treaty, that said an attack on one is an attack on all. and we have not treated that article once. what we did a few years ago was to decide that the cyberattack can be as damage and go dangerous as an attack on air, sea, land or any other military domain, and therefore we decided that a cyberattack can trigger article 5. but we will maintain what we call strategic ambiguity as to when we trigger article 5. that's the case when we address kinetic attacks domain and the cyber domain. what we do is constantly

strengthen our cyber defenses, sharing best practices and improving the way we both defend nato but to help allies defend their own networks. >> i know that you're saying it's part of the strategic ambiguity, but would the colonial pipeline and ransomware attacks in the u.s. rise to that level? has nato even addressed these attacks, and would nato respond in kind with a cyberattack of its own or not? >> we will decide how we will respond. of course, we can respond in the cyber domain, but we can also respond in any other domain. that's for us to decide when we make a decision to trigger article 5. the main purpose of nato is to prevent that from happening, is to have a credible deterrence of defense and decide to defend ourselves where we never end up

in a situation where we need to trigger our defense clause. >> secretary general jens stoltenberg, thank you for your time. i greatly appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. rising tensions in the mideast for the second time this week. israel has issued airstrikes on the gaza strip. we're live on the ground with what's happening there and much more. you're watching

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ago. kelly corbiella, what's happening there? >> reporter: there was a rocket launch in gaza overnight. that was a result of those incendiary balloons coming over gaza for the third straight day. today there were no balloons sent over, no rockets fired from gaza, however, some sirens did sound down in the south of israel around the time when those airstrikes were ongoing. the israeli defense forces say that was not because of incoming artillery or rockets from gaza, more likely from guns on the ground in gaza that mistakenly triggered those sirens. an interesting situation here. you have yet another set of airstrikes by the israelis but no response yet in terms of action on the part of hamas. another development here on the ground today, which actually

started off as a somewhat positive sign, the israelis and the palestinian authority said they agreed to a vaccine swap. the israelis were going to send over a million pfizer vaccines to the palestinian authority to be used in the west bank with the first 100,000 doses going today to help vaccinate the palestinian people who are woefully undervaccinated right now. the first 100,000 went across the border just in the past hour. the palestinian authority canceled the deal. they said the vaccines are of subpar quality, they're going to expire too soon, and we don't want them. we're sending them back. we'll wait for our doses to come from pfizer in september/october. now, there's been a lot of back and forth about vaccinations with the previous government, benjamin netanyahu's government. this was meant to be a positive sign with neftali's bennett's

government, and now it sounds as though it's all going awry. we have not been able to get in touch with the israeli government tonight, it's sabbath, and all offices are closed. >> kelly corbiella in tel aviv for us. kelly, thanks for that update. we are within two hours of voting in iran today as they get ready to select their new president. out of four potential candidates, one, ebrahim raisi, is frontrunner as they try to resurrect the 2015 iran nuclear deal. joining me now from tehran is bureau chief aly aruzi. what have you seen from the polls today? what can we expect to happen? when can we expect results to be officially announced?

>> reporter: hey, ayman. it was a pretty lackluster affair here today. there was not a big voting turn out. those polling stations in past elections that i've covered would have massive queues going down the road, around the block. today it was pretty much empty and that hasn't come as a big surprise. there is always going to be a lot of voter apathy around these elections and that's exactly what happened. this evening there seems to be a few more people at the polling stations, but not nearly the sort of numbers that the ruling system here would like to see. very, very small numbers. so it looks like the hard line candidate, ebramim raisi, is going to become president. he doesn't seem to have much competition. those results will be announced

sometime tomorrow afternoon. and barring some surprise he'll be the new president of iran. and he's going to set a very different tone. he's a very different man to the current president, hasan rouhani. he thought he could solve the problems. that's not the approach raisi is taking. he believes in a resisting economy. that being said, he doesn't want iran to return to the new clear deal. he said it's of national importance, because even the most hard line of clerics in this country like ebrahim raisi realize that without the nuclear deal, this country is not going to get rid of nuclear sanctions, and if nuclear sanctions are

still weighing down on them, this country will never survive and they'll not get anything done. that will never change. i think they'll still pursue the nuclear deal but the tone is going to change to staunchly anti-american and very proud of that, so i think it will be a tricky path for president biden to go guard with any negotiations with what looks like will be a raisi presidency. >> talk about what his election, assuming he does win, would mean for the reform movement inside iran. obviously president rouhani was considered to be a reform president even if he did not move on reform. what would it mean for raisi pushing for reforms? >> it's not going to be good for them. we spoke to the other candidate,

and he said in the race for presidency is a race for freedoms. i think the reformist movement will pretty much be brushed aside altogether. most of the people in this country have lost faith in the reformist count. they just don't think they can deliver. now, the line coming out of the hard line cap here is if you want to get anything done, we're the people to get it down for you. that big test is going to be delivering on the nuclear deal and getting rid of sanctions and that will all become obvious in the coming months. >> aly arizi for us out of iran. some companies have already let employees take the day. we're going to talk to one

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country's 11th federal holiday. >> great nations don't ignore the most painful moments. they don't ignore those moments of the past. they embrace them. great nations don't walk away. we come to terms with the mistakes we made. and remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger. >> joining me now is the senior vice president chief inclusion officer at endeavor. she worked to make juneteenth a paid holiday for employees at endeavor which is a private company. thank you so much for your time. i know today is officially a day off for you so thank you for joining us. i know that you were successful in making a push to make juneteenth a holiday at your company. tell us why you look up that causeway before the federal

government did. >> first i will say that this is actually -- it was something that is just important obviously for the nation. right? and as president biden was just saying this is a moment of recognition and a thing i was able to do is speak with our chief human resources officer from my kitchen table and immediately carrie chandler was in favor of making this a paid holiday for all endeavor employees within the quite. she within the hour spoken to the ceo and the president and they came back with an enthusiastic absolutely. so the process was amazingly seamless and i think part of that was because there was a lot of work that they were really committed to doing so it wasn't just one event in one moment but really important, very important to have this moment to signal to the employees how committed we

were. >> yeah. talk about this moment for the rest of the country. do you think that juneteenth becoming a federal holiday will inspire a broader dialogue about the changes that you're trying to achieve within your company and within the country whether to do with broader systemic issues of racism? do you see this as a catalyst for change? >> absolutely. it's going to make us be able to have conversations that have been somewhat forboden. it's about slavery and the country's recognizing the impact and influence of it. it's an important conversation and education to ensure we don't continue to have -- find ourselves in the same situations we have been having in the future. >> certainly within the company as a company, how do you recommend people and the employees celebrate juneteenth? do you take up activism or pause

and reflect? what would you like to see the company, the employees and the country do on a day like this? >> our team sent out a list of opportunities, things to learn more. yes, we also think it's a great day to just exhale and be free. >> what's the -- when you talk about the broader issues in this country and what you want to do besides moving this dialogue forward what specifically do you think are the top issues that have to be addressed in this day? >> you know, i can only speak to the work that's happening within our company but we are committed and dedicated to looking at the policies, the systems that have the potential to not ensure that everyone can thrive working here

for whether or not they know that they are welcomed to be employees and part of our community and company. so everyone did that. if every company and every like any entity that had policies that have been around or systems that are created just looking at it through a lens of equity and inclusion i think would go a long way. >> very important conversation indeed. thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. that wraps up the hour and the week for me. have a great weekend. "deadline: white house" starts right after this quick break. into your washing machine before each load and enjoy fresher smelling laundry.

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