right now the start of a make or break week for the biden agenda here in washington. five days that could shape the future of voting rights, infrastructure, police reform. senate democrats expected to trigger a vote as soon as tomorrow. today the bipartisan group could drop details on the infrastructure compromise.

you know that's something the white house will be watching closely while the talks on policing shift, the goal for this week no specifics but a broad agreement on something plus we are on supreme court watch again this morning, big blockbuster case out but 15 others still remain with opinions coming on cases involving freedom of speech and whether college athletes should be paid. we have our team standing by in case that breaks in the next couple of minutes. i'm hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team. leigh ann caldwell just behind me on capitol hill, mike memoli at the white house. leigh ann a make or break week in the senate for key democratic priorities, infrastructure, voting rights, police reforms and today maybe more clarity on the bipartisan infrastructure plan, right? >> that's right. last week white house officials are talking to house democrats saying they were going to get these bipartisan talks another

seven to ten days to see if they work out. we're coming up against that deadline and why is there this deadline? there' not enough time to get all the priorities done for the biden the administration. they are waiting to see if the group can come to some sort of aagreement. we're waiting for their proposal which totals about $1.2 trillion over the next eight years including assumed and new spending. the biggest problem why they haven't released their proposal after weeks of negotiating they can't figure out how to pay for it including if there should be a gas tax tied to inflation moving forward something the white houses has set is unacceptable or this proposal as it stands now has the supports of 11 republicans that's

notable. any legislation that passes the senate has to have the support of all 50 democrats and at least ten republicans so they met that republican threshold. the question now hallie, will it get enough democrats, senator bernie sanders was on "meet the press" says saying if it has a gas tax he will not support. a tax on electric vehicle users he's not supporting that either. they have a lot of work to do if the deal can come fruition and get passed. >> mike, talk to us about what you hear from your sources behind the scenes as this is a pretty high stakes week for the president's agenda. >> that's right, hallie. you see that in the president's schedule. this is his first full week back at the white house since returning from that foreign trip taken up most of the last two weeks. in the last 48 hours officials telling me they cleared a lot of the president's schedule so we could have some phone calls and

in hrn person meetings with some senators involved in the discussions. the white house continues to insist they see multiple routes to the destination in terms of getting an infrastructure package onto the president's desk and one official said this is the week we need the gps to tell us which route to take and to the discussion leanne raises about the gas tax that was an interesting signal about potentially a road block in this bipartisan road ahead, they felt the need on the white house to put up a very clear signal refineding lawmakers they would not support any deal that leans on a gas tax to pay for it. you see the focus of the white house in public today on that child tax credit, a key part of the american family's plan to extend what we saw already in the american rescue package for an additional five years. you will see the vice president in pittsburgh trying to get those who haven't enrolled in that $300 or $250 a month

benefit per trild to do so by this week and part of this is also a little bit of a race to credit. we're seeing some good economic indicators especially compared with the rest of the world, the positive vaccination rates, the president was touting on friday, they want to make sure americans know this is because it's not by accident, it's because of the legislation they've already passed and they hope that builds political momentum as well to try to get infrastructure proposals over the finish line as well. >> you've talked about the behind the scenes work the president is doing with lawmakers on capitol hill. fair to say this is an uphill fight for democrats given where republicans in the senate said they are on some issues with mitch mcconnell's opposition to the voting rights legislation set to come to the floor tomorrow. that is putting the filibuster, this rules change in the senate that some democrats want to put through that would basically lower the threshold for how many people need to support something so we can move forward. you have moderate democrats and

not just joe manchin coming under more and more fire from progressives. you have exclusive reporting to share. >> this is the moment of truth for democrats on voting rights and the filibuster. many argued this is an existential moment for democracy, these reforms have to be put in place for the right to vote it could be in jeopardy. tomorrow the senate will hold a procedural vote on the for the people act the sweeping democracy elections legislation and it has a modified version to getting all 50 democratic members of the senate and it has no path to getting 60 voeds, there isn't that ven diagram of overlap with republicans. that will force democrats to consider the question of what to do with the filibuster. two prominent vocal holdouts are madgein and of course kyrsten sinema. other democrats are quietly supportive of the filibuster, don't want to abolish it. we talked to them, mark kelly of arizona, sinema's colleague and

maggie hassan of new hampshire. they believe if they can get madgein and sinema to flip the other 48 won't stand in the way and that end progressive activists are going out with a seven-figure ad by $1.5 million in arizona putting heavy pressure on kyrsten sinema to flip. they accuse her of supporting a jim crow relic over voting rights, that's how aggressive this has gotten. sinema's office tells nbc news her support for the fill buster is not predicated on one issue, she's trying to prevent wild swings in public policy between the two parties that she does support the s1 for the people act and does not believe it is worth abolishing the 6 threshold. >> thank you. a lot of developments you will be watching over the next day, the next several days as well. we'll see you back here on the show. appreciate it. this monday morning we're watching for developments not just from capitol hill but over

at the supreme court as well and that is because a slew of decisions to come on critical cases not just obamacare which we saw last week and the crazy breaking news day thursday, but look at this list here, everything from free speech to clem athlete pay to campaign finance. some could be determined today, wednesday, maybe friday, those are all supreme court decision days along with potentially more to be added next week. i want to bring in msnbc contributor melissa murray, former cl erk to sewn yo sotomayor. we're waiting to see as we speak what the decisions we got today from the supreme court are. we bust in and brings them to folks live. walk through the jut standing cases. is there a consensus from experts and scholars who watch the court how they think the court is going to go here? >> a number of important cases with he wait for.

the obamacare case overshadowed the term. >> so people know what that is, melissa, sorry, you were getting there but we have a graphic, too, the question to the court in that particular case is what is the standard that courts ought to use deciding whether a change in election procedures violates the voting rights act. that is the critical one. >> it concerns section two, the remaining sections with teeth of that landmark civil rights litigation since 2013 when the supreme court gutted the preclearance for teachers of the voting rights act making it hard are for individuals to have voting rights changes made at the state level vetted by the department of justice before they go into effect. section two legal challenges to changes in voting procedures and the question here what will

constitute the standard for determining when the voting rights act has been violated? a law has a disproportionate impact on minority voters or some showing intent of discriminating against minority voters or something else. it will shape the voting rights for the future and certainly have ramifications for what happens in congress on the two key voting rights bills currently pending. >> another case of interest to folks who watch this show, knowing it's politics show related to the potential, it's campaign finance, but it's basically on charities and nonprofits whether we have to disclose the names and addresses of the donors. that has implication in the political world as well. >> certainly. the whole question of transparency on the state of california is one of the litigants here and the california legislature passed a law requiring donors be

transparent. you have to be clear who is funding your organization and a group of conservative groups came in and said no, that's a violation of our first amendment rights. we don't want to disclose, that would be speech and it really is a place where we'll see where the direction of this new six degree super conservative majority is. one of the questions before the court in california is whether or not california's system of disclosure, essentially private because it doesn't go to anyone is more public. the state has been the subject of some data breaches. >> i know i told viewers we were waiting on a potential decision. we have one in a critical case one of the ones we talked about the ncaa and the question in nt from of the court whether the idea athletes cannot be paid violates federal anti trust law. there is a decision, it is nan news. pete williams are you with us? >> sure, this was not the question whether they can be

paid this was the next best thing to being there. this was a question about whether the ncaa rightly wanted to stop universities from giving what were called education related benefits to athletes. this would be computers, lab equipment, musical instruments, allowing them to take internships that sort of thing. not the compensation question and the ncaa has lost this case. the ncaa went to the supreme court and said please don't allow this to go into effect. let us keep this in place, continue to resist the ability for amateur athletics to be compensated. they lost the case and this comes at a pivotal moment for the ncaa. in theory the ncaa is meeting this month to decide what to do about this growing number of states that are passing laws, i think it's up to 15 now and student athletes should be able to get some compensation for the use of their likenesses, their

image, their names which allow to endorse products or promote products on the internet. the ncaa is trying to die what to do. they were hoping the supreme court decision if it went in their favor something of a firewall against the short of changes but they can't rely on that now. they made the appeal to the spleem court of don't go further down this path and the supreme court said no. interestingly enough the case involved anti trust laws and here is why. if the ncaa imposed the rules nationwide it would make it harder for schools to compete for athletes, which would in theory violate any trust laws but the supreme court has made a exception to ncaa, that's the law that was at the heart of this case. in any event this is a loss for ncaa, and it seems like a further step toward allowing student athletes to get some

benefits even in the fact that their schools get enormous benefits from their play. they don't get much and that's been the issue here. so it's a loss for the ncaa. >> you look at for example the pay for coaches for ncaa tools, d1 schools that has come up. pull on this thread. i want to be clear. it's not cash. it's not about whether or not athletes can get cash for playing but it is benefits in some way and is this not a little bit of opening the door to the potential for athletes to get paid down the road which is working on a separate track with the name and image likeness discussion happening on the legislative side. >> these benefits were educationally related, academic. not athletic. this was unrelated to athletics or it was related to education, to classes, to academics.

overall playing fields and basketball courts and swimming pool that was not at issue with this case but it's a loss for ncaa and seems that their ability to hold the line here is eroding. >> i don't know if you can hang for one second. sports and culture of the athletic is standing by. is there another case working its way through the system that could address that broader question on athlete payment? >> the broader question confronted with right now they were going to meet this month to decide what to do, this is moving so fast in the states that the ncaa is trying to decide what to do about it. allow the use of abathlete's image or likeness or name. impact on this, what do you

think? this san issue you've been covering a lot on your show and in your reporting. >> i think what the interesting thing here is that this is very limited to educational compensation but the broader implication if you read some of the decisions and some of the arguments made in this entire process it seems really clear that the supreme court is not buying this amateurism argument, the ncaa put forth for decades frankly. the implications on future cases whether athletes will be able to be compensated for their names and images and likenesses this doesn't have direct implications there but seems like the argument has been eroing we might be paving the way for athletes to be compensated. >> we spoke with last week or the week before actually an athlete working on sort of a state track here in this what's called nil the name image likeness track to allow athletes

to be compensated separate from the court decision itself. this is not the judicial side but the legislative side and what you hear from athletes you talk to, this student d1, very good basketball player in iowa talking how they feel just right. you look at the salaries for college coaches and the way the ncaa makes a ton of money from these athletes. they are asking to make money off of an instagram page or signing an autograph here and there. what's important we talk about this issue is that we don't only think of the high earnings in sports. we don't only think of football and basketball because having no rights will end up doing for some athletes in the nonrevenue generating sports and women's sports is allowing people to

have a moment of viral fame or gymnast whose routines are going viral, they'll be able to sign book deals and make money off instagram and social media pages which any other student can do right now. seems to be the one limitation of being an athlete, and i think what this particular supreme court decision does is throw out the anti trust argument. such an important conversation because for years a lot of people have been talking about the ncaa up and close to a car tell and this does undercut that. >> stand by for one second. melissa murray, i can't help but notice we had a graphic on our screen showing the makeup of justices who decided on which way. it's an easy graphic. this is a unanimous decision, 9-0. this is not the first unanimous decision on an important case we had this term. given the makeup of the court, the way that it shifted with

more conservative justices on the court have the installment of amy coney barrett. can you read into that yet? there was a fair amount of anonymity on cases like fulton. if you look at the cases argued on the regular documents the slivers might suggest more cohesion. if you look at the shadow docket the emergency decisions that are often argued without full oral argument or briefing you begin to see there is a more conservative picture emerging, just not necessarily emerging on the court's regular docket in the shadows, in other cases that don't get a lot of attention. you have to look at the whole picture. >> that's an important point, melissa. is that something you're hearing? i know you're still connected to

folks in and around the court world is that something your phones get blown up a little bit about this morning? >> a lot of people suggested it's been on the covers of the major newspapers that maybe this is a more progressive court than we imagine because of its makeup. i don't know that's true. that seems a little overstated especially when you look at these other cases on the shadow docket. these are rare points of unanimity. they don't tell the story the whole story. >> when it comes to the case we have in front of thus morning breaking in the last 15 minutes here as you're watching it live on msnbc reports that unanimous decision now that rules against the ncaa on whether or not college athletes can receive education related benefits for their play, two questions on that could be the first on the microlevel do we know what the time line is? is it next school any athletes might start receiving some benefits, be able to receive

benefits if their schools choose to do that? >> i think it's a little bit unclear how the time line comes down. you could assume it would be for next year at the very least. a lot of these decisions need to be made in the immediacy. >>ily' ask my team if we have any statement yet from the ncaa. we have a team behind the scenes and our control room working on that. the second we get one we'll bring it to you. more broadly, too, how does this change college sports? do we know right now and how do you see the domino effect from this playing out down the road? >> i don't know if this changes anything in the immediacy on that kind of microlevel. you're not going to suddenly see d3 schools signing huge superstars because they can compensate them for laptops. but what you will see is the trickle down effect of what athletes can fight for, what they are considering themselves and workers and whether their

employee comes to a head and also the small gains athletes have made over the last years and in order to have some compensations really do add up now and separate from this supreme court decision the ncaa has a whole lot of decisions they need to make about how they are going to governor especially with some the state bills coming down and needing to find one codified centralized piece of legislation or piece of framework for how any of these things are going to work. >> melissa, quick to you, this was interesting as i was doing my prep for this week and scotus was writing about justice brett kavanaugh, who coached girls basketball, into basketball. indications we an interest in this case and writes that the court's decision in this ncaa case that the ncaa violated federal anti trust laws here marks an important and overdue

course correction. i wonder what you make of that and his interest in this case. >> i don't think it's one justice having an attachment to the sport. this plays out as the final four was happening in men's and women's basketball and there was this huge flap about the disparities and conditions for women athletes at the two tournaments. that was playing out as the case is being argued. i don't know how much that trickled into the decision. but everything said about the impact of the decision for athletes nonrevenue generating sports like women athletes might have played a role here. >> pete williams is back with us. i believe that is it for decisions on the day. the decision days are wednesday, friday, who knows more next week involving freedom of speech,

student related with the cheerleader brought a case and couple other cases as well. your final thoughts to wrap up this day of decisions? >> we'll get decisions again wednesday, friday and then monday for sure and then we'll see how it goes for the rest of the month. we're down to 12 cases left to decide. the concurrence from justice cavanaugh he says yes, this decision is only about the education related benefits, not about compensation. he says i underscore the ncaa's remaining compensation rules raise serious questions under the anti trust laws so this is not a good decision for the ncaa which hoped the supreme court would hold the line here and interesting that it's unanimous. the court during the argument seemed to say we think what the ncaa has done restricting the education related benefits, the noncompensation benefits we think they went too far. we don't want to do something

that will upset the amateur status of athletics. they seem not as concerned about that with this opinion today. >> pete williams, thank you so much for that. thank you for being with us on a busy monday morning. right now inew jersey we're watching a rally happening in support of a 9/11 style commission to investigate the response to covid. we're live with how lawmakers are thinking about this plus how dr. anthony fauci is now on offense, like we really have not seen him before, defending himself to gop attacks. and claudette gaining strength again in the carolinas after ripping through the south killing 12 people including ten children. we're live on the ground in alabama with that destruction coming up.

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this morning some of the sharpest pushback we've seen yet from dr. anthony fauci against attacks that's facing over the pandemic response saying the people criticizing him are criticizing science, doubling down on what he told chuck todd earlier this month and adding this in the "new york times" sway podcast.

listen. >> i copse trait on my job and when i concentrate on my job i put very little weight in the adulation and very little weight in the craziness of condemning me. the are the more extreme they get the more obvious how political it is. like fauci is like hitler, fauci has blood on his hands. are you kidding me? i mean anybody who is just thinking about this in a dispassionate way has got to say what the heck are those people talking about? here is a guy whose entire life has been devoted to saving lives and now you're telling me he's like hitler? you know, come on, folks, get real. >> as for some of what he's talking about, listen to this new attack from senator tom cotton in the last few hours. >> tell me fauci is not acting like a scientist he's acting

like a democratic strategist in a white coat. >> a push for a 9/11 style commission on covid as you are taking a look live at a rally in new jersey to build support behind just that, the senators behind it trying to make sure this is not about pointing fingers, nbc's garrett haake is on capitol hill and so far it's a tale of two stories when it comes to lawmakers more interested in here. >> let's put the two pieces together here. dr. fauci has become on the right if you can zoom any right wing media and follow the far right pro trump members of congress on social media, dr. fauci has become a villain for his roles in lockdowns, procedural and lock downs in states during the depth of the covid crisis and perceived lack of interest in the lack leak theory of the qualify, something fauci addressed in the podcast saying he thinks it's a remote possibility but a possibility

nonetheless. rally in new jersey a support senators menendez and collins have to create a 9/11 style commission to investigate everything about the covid pandemic, both its origins and how it was handled in the u.s. and how it's handled across the globe. the challenge for that politically while there are republicans who would like to delve further into the questions of the virus' origin we hear it all the time, the idea of probing deeply into the pandemic response especially during the trump administration is not something many republicans are keen to do, the illusion of finger pointing. republicans don't want to go too deeply into that. talking to senior democratic aides and lawmakers, this does not seem to be an idea with much momentum behind it on capitol hill. looking ahead to the next pandemic is something that washington talked about but i don't know that anyone is ready to make that turn into

law-making towards the next pandemic in that way. >> garrett haake live on the hill, thank you for the rundown. appreciate it. elsewhere in washington hopes for a smoother troop withdrawal from afghanistan pushing that pullout date back to september, seems to be scrapped with confusion building unanswered questions, still out there unresolved issues, on full display friday with a flag lowering ceremony called off at the last minute. here is our newest reporting. three defense u.s. officials telling our team there were questions over what the ceremony was meant to signify as troop departures speeding up finishing maybe within weeks and part of the withdrawal roughly 18,000 u.s. funded contractors looking for answers from top u.s. owe fishes about how that's going to look and plans for their post withdrawal support for afghanistan security forces a big question mark and important question mark and one that doesn't have a ton of time left to get figured out. nbc's courtney kube is at the

pentagon driving her sources on this. good to have you on the show. talk to us from what you heard from people behind the scenes how damaging these frankly public displays of confusion are about the withdrawal. >> you just laid it out, hallie. this is a contested withdrawal, so this is a very dangerous environment that thousands of troops are leaving thousands of pieces of equipment, we should expect upwards of 1,000 c17s worth of equipment and people that will leave that country when that withdrawal is over. this is a huge logistical task on top of the fact that it's a dangerous difficult environment they're leaving from. when you factor that in to just the confusion over so many of these decisions that don't seem to have been made before the biden administration decided to with draw. among those, what will happen with the contractors. the afghan military relies heavily on contractors both u.s. and others for many things like

maintenance, training, so their air force there, they've come quite a long way in the last several years. they conduct air strikes now in afghanistan, supporting the afghan military, but they rely heavily on u.s. contractors for the maintenance for the training. when the contractors leave what happens? there is concern about that. another big question, what about this so-called across the horizon presence what the pentagon and the white house have said what will happen with the u.s. military going forward. they won't be in afghanistan and nearby in case needed. there aren't agreements we know about in neighboring countries for the military to respond if needed. a major decision that doesn't seem to be worked out here. another one we laid it out in our article, this flag lowering ceremony supposed to happen at

resolute support headquarters in afghanistan friday and canceled at the last minute that is symbolic of the confusion that is surrounding this withdrawal right now, hallie. as you mentioned it's going to be a lot faster than we expected. september 11th was the time line the administration laid out. it's more like early to mid-july. >> courtney kube, great reporting. thank you for sharing it with us on the show live this morning. we appreciate it. to talk more about it, democratic congressman chrissy houlihan an air force veteran. congresswoman, good morning and thank you for being with us on a monday morning. >> of course, good morning, hallie. thanks for having me. >> you heard some of the reporting my colleague courtney kube who covers the pentagon laid out. what is your concern where things stand on decisions related to the withdrawal that need to be made? >> they are excellent questions. i have concerns and i know many of my colleagues in foreign

affairs do as well, many of whom are vets just like i am. i'm not only worried about the way we're with drawing and the status of contractors but also worried about the vulnerable populations we leave behind from people who have helped us as translators and otherwise, women and children and families and making sure that we have the progress we've made is protected one of the reasons why i introduced my bill last week the unfpa funding bill to protect women in their maternal health and families so we have a lot of work to do and accountability to make sure we're following up on. >> are you comfortable with the way this time line seems to be accelerating to perhaps middle of next month for the withdrawal to be under way? >> i think that we need to make sure that we are providing appropriate oversight the congress is and that we're being cautious that we're not overly

enthusiastic about the withdrawal. this is a contested environment, we have to protect our sailors and soldiers and those accompanying them so we need to be cautious rather than accelerating this unnecessarily. >> significant coming from you, congresswoman, thank you. i want to ask you about other topics you are getting close to ddition time on over on capitol hill, we talked about them at the top of the the show, infrastructure, voting rights, police reform. it's a make or break week as we've said if things are going to happen this legislative year. taking infrastructure first here. what are you hearing from democratic leadership and what are you comfortable with as far as where you see the most potential for a deal right now if at all. >> what's really interesting is you sigh a lot of different proposals from different places, from the white house or the senate and problem solvers or senate group of bipartisan senators working and they have a lot of things in common and it's

infrastructure week. hopefully this is the last one we'll have. we need to come to a bipartisan agreement in my opinion to make sure we fund bridges and roads and tunnels and broadband and frankly we also need to come to an agreement on what would be considered soft or human infrastructure. if you asked me last week at this time if we'd have a new federal holiday i would probably have asked you what you were talking about so anything is possible in washington, d.c., bipartisanly and this is essential we get together. >> you bring up juneteenth. there has been some criticism within the span of 72 hours congress basically introduced enacted and the president signed into law a new federal holiday that was, took place this weekend yet on voting right, more broadly, something critically important to many in communities of color there is just no movement that seems to

be possible beyond this floor vote senator sumer plans to bring tomorrow. where do you stand on the proposal for example from senator joe manchin, say something happens and that gets to the senate although that seems wildly unlikely at this point. >> i appreciate senator madgeon putting forward these ideas, clearly they're good ideas because stacey abrams enforced them also. i believe hr1 is a broad sweeping legislation to s1 and i wish that would get to the floor for a vote. i'd like to see us getting something done and i think it's very important we recognize that if we don't do something at the federal level, the democracy in my opinion is threatened and so i'm hopeful the pieces that senator manchin put forward has an opportunity to gain life into hopefully be considered by the senate and would very much love it if they'd come over our way so we could consider them, too. >> on police reform can you bring us inside some of the negotiations as far as we've been briefed on them and what

you expect to see by the end of the week? >> again, this is a similar situation to infrastructure where i think there are a lot of people working very hard to come to an agreement and come to a compromise. i had a good conversation with karen bass, representative bass on friday about this. she remains optimistic they will be able to come up with a compromise and a solution. we have to do this, too. it is very important we have police reform in this nation and so i had hoped we'll be able to come to xro he miz on this. >> thank you, we appreciate your time. with covid concerns olympic officials making an announcement this morning they will let some people living in japan go to events but it is not going to look like any olympics you've seen. we'll explain why, coming up after the break. ♪♪

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overseas this morning, let the people watch. that's the message coming from japan's government just within the last few hours reversing course and letting some spectators, some into the olympic games in tokyo, one month from tomorrow by the way. tokyo resisted calls to cancel or postpone the games for a second time instead bracing for a spread among athletes staff and possibly spectators. why? listen to this. only 6% of people in japan are fully vaccinated. shots limited to health care workers and the elderly. owe fishes say more and more vaccinations getting more widespread like how we are in the u.s. is a long ways off. janis mackey frayer has been tracking the olympic sized hurdles to get the games off the ground and janice, this is really interesting because spectators will be in the stands but there won't be a lot of them and won't be allowed to do

things like actually cheer. >> they will need to shout in their hearts, hallie. the stands will be half empty and going to be quiet because officials don't want there to be any opportunity for the virus to spread. there are going to be mask rules and anti socializing policy among athletes who are going to be living in the olympic athletes village but this was seen as a major hurdle ahead of the olympics, which are due to open as you say in just over a month. no foreigners are being included in this of course determined months ago there would be no foreign visitors allowed to attend. domestic fans will be able to go. officials are saying the upper limits is going to be 50% capacity at most venues with a maximum of 10,000 people. the caveat to all of this is that if there is another state of emergency or need for another

state of emergency officials are going to reevaluate the plans and maybe! them all together. the competition schedule will stay the same. the other issue that's facing officials with this decision they presold nearly 4 million tickets so now they're going to devise a sort of lottery system to determine who among these domestic fans is going to be able to attend the games. >> can i go back to the number, janice? i think it is stunning to some folks in the u.s., 6% of people only that are fully vaccinated in japan. is it not, do officials no the think it's almost a guarantee there's going to be some kind of surge in cases after the olympics? >> this decision today on domestic fans contradicts the advice that came from japan's top medical adviser just last week when he was saying that the best way to pull off the game successfully and safely is to have no fans at all, and

remember, the vast majority of japanese don't want the games to go ahead at all. polling was putting the number around 80% of people who did not want the thousands of officials and athletes pouring into the country and potentially creating a super spreader event. there were at least 10,000 volunteers of 80,000 for the games, that have quit because there weren't the measures in place to ensure their safety and to reduce the risk of infection. so all in all, yes, the games appear to be going ahead. this is a major hurdle that's been cleared. ioc officials have been saying it's crucially important for athletes to have live spectators watching, but still there's a lot of consternation about these games and the risks that they pose with a month to go before the opening ceremony and

finally, hallie a ugandan athlete who tested positive upon arrival in japan that athlete was turned back but all of the other teammates who were not considered close contacts and allowed to continue on. a lot of questions about the methods that are in place. >> >> no kidding. janice, thank you for being with us live. covering a lot of news down south. two severe storm systems causing major destruction. you had an ef 2 touching down. dout south we're talking about claude.

one woman in louisiana was caught off guard. >> we thought it was just a regular tropical storm. >> we had ant four inches throughout the entirous. that happened within about an our or so. >> another ef 2 tornado touched down, good morning to you. >> we are in eastern alabama, and it was hit hard by fierce winds. we're going to show you the scope of the damage here. you see folks there is some dweep, we say it was inside of

the hope at the time. when the storm hit, and she told me she was tumbling inside of the mobile home when the storm came through this community. she flew in that mobile home over here where you see this incredibly no one was seriously injured. they were in shock, they have bumps and bruises. but she says she was counting her blessings today. >> that is terrifying to think about that family, and so many young families down there. thank you so much. we'll look for more of your reporting today on msnbc and tonight on nightly news. >> pushing ahead with a controversial plan that would deny one of the country's most prominent catholics holy

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uno, dos, tres, cuatro! [sfx]: typing [music starts] [sfx]: happy screaming [music ends] so con vensal wisdom is that polite people stay away from two things in polite conversations. but there is a debate happening right now between the church and

the u.s. the president of the united states, joe biden. american bishops decide to move forward with a proposal that could deny the president communion. why? because of his political stance on abortion. here is what president biden said about it. >> that's a private matter and i don't think it is going to happen. tell us more about how this meeting went down and where it goes from here. the president sounds pretty confident, but this train is leaving the station. >> there is two things at issue here. first is whether or not the bishop should deny president biden. that's the issue that divides them. what brings them together is the need to reeducate catholics about the sackment of the yoouk

resist. they will be written this storm and voted on by the bishops. as for the argument to deny the union. >> those who advocate for abortion no longer talk in the language of choice, they talk about it as a right. and our president talks about it as a right. now other bishops don't want to see the yuk resist weaponized as a political favor. where is pope francis on this issue? he said that communion is not a reward for saints, but the bread of sinners. exclusion goens against all of his papacy. >> so giving all of this, will

any of it make a difference where he can and cannot take communion? >> it might, it will ultimate i will be up to his local bush shon. he said he will not deny him. if he goes to the archdiocese it could be a problem. we could see what are called the wafer wars. >> i was just going to ask about it. thank you to all of you for watching this hour.

you can find new highlights and links to segments here. let's go to craig melvin who picks up our coverage. >> we're in the early hours of summer already. a series of pressure points coming to a head. gun violence is flaring from cities from coast to coast. also a tale of two americas. the vaccine bringing normalcy to large swafts of the country, but a new variant is taking root in others. it is a make or break week for two of president bide's key agenda items.

a group of bipartisan senators