are coming on the air. that's a live shot on the left side of your screen of the floor ahead of the key vote on a sweeping voting reforms bill. spoiler alert it's almost certainly going to fail. not one republican is expected to sign on. so the biggest question of the morning, what happens next? just how hard progressives might push to change senate rules to get more done? we're live on capitol hill and at the white house and later this hour, we're talking with a key democratic senator where she sees the state of play and what her party should do next. plus breaking this morning's first here on nbc, a miss for the white house, with sources telling us the administration is expected to acknowledge today, it will fall short of its july 4th vaccination goal where the biggest problem is and a reality check, just ahead. we have a lot to get to on this tuesday morning. i'm hallie jackson in washington. we have a couple of reporters from capitol hill, that is where the action is today, leigh ann

caldwell and peter alexander on pennsylvania avenue at its white house. good morning to all of you. and leigh ann, setting up the day you talk about how there's three big questions ahead of us today. what is joe manchin going to do? is he going to join with the rest of his party to get them to at least 50 votes for the voting reforms bill? what do democrats do next on voting rights and will progressives turn up the heat on changing some of these senate rules? we're laying out the questions here, do you have answers or when might we get answers on these, leigh ann? >> reporter: i don't have answers just yet, hallie, but i can explain to you why those questions are so important. the first is where does joe manchin stand. as recently as last night, he told our team he's undecided how he'll vote on the voting rights legislation. why is that important? it's going to fail anyway because it won't get the ten republicans but it's going to be

important party unity. it's better for democrats who can say it's republicans who blocked this instead of republicans and a member of their open party. we'll watch what senator manchin does. the next step on voting rights say question we can't answer and i've been asking a lot of democrats about this, and they say they're going to keep fighting. what that means, what the fight entails is that breaking up the legislation or is that eliminating the filibuster? they don't have answers to that yet, and that's because they don't have the votes to get rid of the filibuster, but that is going to come in to sharp focus after this vote, because there are going to be a lot of pressure on these democrats from the outside groups and from progressives who say that because voting rights can not pass the senate, the filibuster has to go. one more thing i'll note, hallie, there's a lot of

rumbling from progressives, especially in the house of representatives about what president biden's role has been. they think he needs to be much more open. they think he needs to be talking about this issue every single day and it needs to be a priority of his so they are disappointed that he hasn't done that and he hasn't put a focus on this, these are all things that are really important to the progressive base, to the democratic base and many members of the democratic party and they're trying to figure out a way how to get a win here, but it's just not clear how they get that yet. hallie? >> that's something we'll talk about in a second with peter. are you getting ready to go after senator manchin in the hallway soon if he comes out? >> reporter: our colleague garrett is after senator manchin. i'm after senator kyrsten sinema, she put out the op-ed you were about to talk about and wanted to see what she would say. >> two key players in all of us,

chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell before to speak at any second after obviously the chaplain finishes the prayer to open the senate floor, both expected to address the voting rights bill trying to come to the floor today ahead of the procedural vote. saha, while we wait to hear from the two key leaders let me talk with you. kyrsten sinema another big player in all of this is out with this op-ed. the question what happens after the expected failure of this bill? is that going to give democrats enough, i don't know, juice, impetus let's say to get some of these senators hesitant to change the senate rules over that hurdle. kyrsten sinema was clearly saying nope, i'm not going to do that. talk the pressure campaign on her and other more moderate democrats to get this done. >> reporter: that's right. she has an op-ed in "the washington post" making clear she is not reversing her position in favor of the filibuster. she argues she has been in favor

of the 60 vote threshold. she's not going to change her position. what's vexing for progressives she isn't arguing unlike joe manchin that the filibuster pro motors bipartisanship was an opening up but it promotes stability in policy-making and prevent wild swings in policy from one governing party to the other. it doesn't matter if the senate is not able to get voting rights through. she's indicating she is not going to reverse her position and this is not working out the way progressives had hoped because the democrats are well into filibuster season at this point after the blockade of the january 6th commission, the filibuster of the paycheck fairness act. now this impending filibuster of the massive voting rights bill democrats consider a top priority and the needle has not moved among the biggest holdouts. they seem to be digging in deeper. more votes to come, gun control, lgbt rights to add straws on the

camel's back. it's unclear what if anything will cause it to break at this point and to leigh ann's point there are progressives getting agitated president biden is not weighing in more. from the white house's perspective like taking your star player off the floor you an 30 or 40 points and unlikely you're going to win. >> there is this progressive anchor where the president has been on this and the founder of indivisible for example coming out and pointing to things that past presidents have done. for example you had this debate between al gore and ross perot back during the nafta days in the early '90s on "lar i had king" cnn bush 43 when he wanted to get one of his pivotal pieces of legislation talking with business leaders about tax cuts, former president obama and the affordable care act and we have some graphics on the screen to show, too, debating republicans. these are presidents putting themselves on the line to get key legislation done. some of the questions for the

white house from me see progressive democrats, why isn't joe biden done the same? is there an answer to that, peter? >> i just posed that question to a senior white house official within the last ten minutes, asked that very question here and they pushed back and dispute this idea that president biden is not putting muscle into this effort toward voting rights, acknowledging this is an effort that's been going on over the course of the last 60 years and one that will not change overnight. as it relates to the filibuster, while a lot of the cuss is on senators manchin and sinema, jen psaki acknowledging the white house believes they are not the only democrats opposed to filibuster rule changes. there's only so much they can do alone. obviously the white house indicates the president met yesterday with manchin, speak being voting rights, using charming language according to a white house official after the fact saying among other things they had a shared commitment to voting rights and he expresses sincere appreciation. that's one effort to get manchin on board today.

more broadly the white house says the president focused on this with a series of speeches, supporting the attorney general, the department of justice, putting more money having more attorneys working on issues of voting rights. last week the vice president who of course is the one tasked with this effort hosted legislators here from texas, and beyond that, they say that they are doing other things to try to make it better as the way this is pursued including an executive order on expanding voting rights but clearly none of that meets what progressives want, what a lot of american democrats want right now, which is more to be done broadly as it relates to the issue of voting rights. >>alexander, great reporting. we appreciate that. sahil kapur and leigh ann caldwell a big day. we'll keep an eye on the senate floor if we hear from chuck schumer or mitch mcconnell. significant not for what it says but what's to come as it relates

to the senate rule changes. we want to get to other news developing to morning you get first here on msnbc, a big headline breaking in just the last hour. nbc news reporting that biden administration is preparing to acknowledge it will probably fall short of its goal of partially vaccinating 70% of american adults by independence day, by july 4th. but they'll point out there's been substantial progress in their view made in the race to vaccinate. mike memoli is breaking the story at the white house for us and joined by senior medical correspondent dr. john torres. mike, this is something if you've been tracking the numbers and looking at where the country is, many experts said it was very ambitious to look at that july 4th deadline for 70% of americans and now the white house it seems, mike, is getting ready to acknowledge that very fact. >> reporter: yes, that's right, hallie. we've seen this over the course of the biden administration so far. it's been a real feature. the president likes to set these ambitious goals and very often they've been able to clear them

and when we heard though the president on friday touting sort of a milestone we hadn't been talking about, 300 million vaccine doses in 150 days, it made me wonder if they were looking at the math right about 65% of adults with one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and really starting to lay the groundwork for missing what goal he set two months ago of getting to 70% by the fourth of july. so indeed, we are reporting that at the covid briefing later today, jeff sainz will acknowledge there's more work to do to meet this goal. the country has hit 70% for adults 30 and over and by july 4th they think they'll get there with adults aged 27 and over but as sainz will say in remains we've prepared for his delivery the reality is many younger americans that have felt that covid-19 is not something that they're really as worried about. it impacts them so they're less likely to get this shot but

zients will raise the alarm the delta variant spreading across this country infecting younger people worldwide is more important than ever they take this important step and get vaccinated. so hallie, there's the sort of letter of the goal to 70% number that they're going to acknowledge is going to take a few more weeks to hit and the spirit of the goal. biden talked about a few months ago, fourth of july having some small backyard gatherings. the reality that most americans are experiencing now is very different, masks are off, ball parks are filling up, and the white house south lawn will have about a thousand people in joe biden's backyard to celebrate the fourth of july in a few weeks. they're making the point they surpassed expectations in terms of what the country would be looking like, just a few months ago by this point, hallie. >> dr. torres, it's not surprising that the white house would be looking to put a positive spin on this missed goal which experts acknowledged was ambitious when he set it. one of the interesting things

mic is reporting that jeff zients is reporting, the age group 18 to 26. it will take a "few extra weeks" with that age group to get all americans 18 and older up to be vaccinated to the point they'd like to see. can you give us a gut check on. is that realistic for the age group, the younger americans, early 20s, is it only going to take a few extra weeks or might it be longer than that? how do you see this framing? >> hallie, it's going to take a little bit longer than a few extra weeks. hopefully by the end of july more are vaccinated to get close to the 70%. they're the population that needs to be worked on. we found a theme throughout the pandemic and a theme throughout vaccinations in the pandemic is getting these different age groups, getting a different message to them and for these 18 to 26-year-olds like mike was talking about, they don't listen to the message of this can protect you from covid because they think they're already protected from covid. so that message needs to change and possibly needs to change, too. you need this vaccine to help your community out. you need this vaccine to help

children out. you need this vaccine to help the pandemic end sooner rather than later and there's a saying that close only counts in horseshoes but in a case like this, close to getting that goal right now by july 4th is great. 27-year-olds and above are at 70%. getting the 18 to 26-year-olds is important. the other thing to remember, we're talking one vaccination, if it's the moderna or pfizer it's partially vaccinated. with the delta variant getting the second vaccine is important. getting the message out they need to follow uhm on vaccines is important going forward as well, hallie. >> it's great context. dr. john torres, thank you, mike memoli great reporting. just ahead coming back to the big issue facing capitol hill today the voting rights bill. we're live with a member of democratic leadership about the impact she's anticipating, what this means for the filibuster. plus a lot of news this

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now blasting republicans critical vote to debate the voting rights bill. let's listen in. >> of all parties, but particularly aimed at democratic voters, people of color, young people, poorer people have a harder time finding the time, place and manner to vote. they're limiting the kind of i.d.s you can use like student i.d.s while removing requirements for any form of licensing to own a firearm. has any studies shown that there's less fraud among firearm owners than students? there's probably very little among either, but they pick one group, not the other and we know why. republican legislatures are making it easier to own a gun than to vote. republican legislatures are making it harder to vote early, harder to vote by mail, harder to vote after work. they're making it a crime to give food or water to voters waiting in long lines.

they're trying to make it harder for black church goers to vote on sunday and they're actually making it easier for unelected judges and partisan election boards to overturn the results of an election, opening the door for some demagogue, a trumpian type demagogue, maybe he, himself, to try and subvert our elections in the very same way that trump tried to do it in 2020. republicans say these laws are about election integrity, quote/unquote. they claim they're only trying to "secure the vote." some of my friends here in washington have resorted to the old reframe that election laws are best left to the state ignoring the fact for generations we've passed federal election laws and constitutional amendments to prevent exactly this kind of discrimination and voter suppression.

we all know what the laws are about. i dare say my republican colleagues know. they're not stupid. when the state of texas continues to limit hours to only a few hours in the evening do they really believe that's about preventing fraud? do my senate friends want to back up that kind of thing? prevent it from being talked about on the floor of the senate, when georgia republicans say if it's a crime to give a voter water or food as they wait in line in a hot day, do they really think they're preventing voter fraud by denying them a snack? give me a break. give me a break. republicans across the country are deliberately targeting all the ways that younger, poor, non-white and typically democratic voters access the ballot. republicans claim they're making

it easier -- >> you have been listening to senate majority leader chuck schumer delivering what at points was an impassioned speech on the floor, just hours before that key procedural vote to even begin debating this voting rights bill that is going to be in front of the senate later on this afternoon, blaming republicans, he says, for targeting in his view poorer people, younger people, people of color as well. we do also expect to hear from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who is leading the gop effort to block this bill an effort that seems likely to succeed. we'll stay on top of this story throughout the day, throughout the morning here on this show but we've got other headlines for you, too, specifically involving somebody who used to be in the white house, former president donald trump, emerging from his post presidency hibernation. headlines about him and some of his closest associates. mr. trump holding his first post-white house rally in ohio as he wades into 2022 gop primary contests. back in the spotlight at the same time as a new spotlight on

him and his businesses what the "wall street journal" reporting new york prosecutors are reportedly investigating whether the one-time body guard to the former president, a guy named matthew calimari got tax-free fringe benefits. "the journal" citing people familiar with the investigation. nbc news reached out to the trump organization, no response and not independently confirmed that reporting. "the journal" notes calimar nor anyone from the trump org is accused of wrong-doing. new today an fbi agent acknowledges in a court filing trump backers talked about a revolution before january 6th and as it relates to the insurrection, the justice department has released this video showing somebody accused of leading the proud boys in the insurrection. with me now investigative reporter for the "wall street journal" rebecca ballhouse who broke the story on the investigation into the former president's ex-body guard and

national security and justice correspondent ken dilanian. rebecca, tell us what this means and what you learned as it relates to the former president. >> so what we've learned is new york prosecutors are investigating whether matthew calimari, the chief operating officer at the trump organization received tax-free fringe benefits as part of his employment at the trump organization. we know this is part of their larger investigation into whether the company and its employees illegally avoided paying taxes on such perks, so according to people familiar with the investigation, we're told that in the last couple of weeks, both callima ri and his son who also works at the company were advised by prosecutors they should get their own lawyer and previously represented by a lawyer also representing other trump organization employees. while this doesn't mean that

either calimai for his son will be charged with wrongdoing, it's a sign the subject is heating up. >> what does that mean, given that. what does it tell you about any kind of particular pressure that may be put on any of the players involved in this investigation? how do you read into this? >> well, before this report, i think we had understood that they were investigating perks, but we had understood that to be more focused on allen weisselberg, who is the company's cfo and his family. we know that they have for months now pressuring weisselberg to cooperate with the investigation, although there's no sign that's been successful so far. and so i think the reporting that calimari is also under scrutiny shows prosecutors may be broadening their approach on the perks investigation. >> rebecca, it's great reporting, thank you. ken, i want to talk about the reporting as it relates to trump supporters january 6th and the new court filing that is

revalatory. >> it's interesting because this was an fbi investigative document filed in the case of an nypd officer charged assaulting a capitol police officer. what jumped out at us, this document said the fbi reviewed social media and found that trump supporters were talking about bringing guns to the capitol and talking about fomenting a revolution in the days and weeks before january 6th. that's no surprise. >> again, anyone with eyeballs could have seen that before january 6th on the internet. >> what's interesting is the fbi has been downplaying this social media evidence. the fbi director was on the hill last week, he said the fbi had no actionable intelligence that anyone was going to attack the capitol, and that it's really difficult for them to discern intentionality on social media, who really means what they say. here they are in a court document saying there was a lot of evidence that trump supporters were planning

violence and it really underscores why congressional democrats are cuesing the fbi of a massive intelligence failure. >> there's a new department of justice video we mentioned a moment ago, can you talk about the significance of that? >> yes, it's in the case of an alleged proud boy named charles donohoe, iraq veteran former blackwater contractor held in jail because the judge decided he's too dangerous to release and this video evidence is part of the reason he's there and shows him and other proud boy members holding for example a riot shield they allegedly stole from capitol police, moving and pushing.ccused of helping to le this insurrection. it's one of the important cases the prosecutors are making. these are not people caught up in the moment. these are people who planned and

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part of the image for today's vote on the major federal voting rights bill is what's happening at the state level with 49 states considering rolling back some of the voting rights, at least 14 of them you see them on screen passing those bills into law since january. it's a local level picture of the challenges democrats are running into in washington and something that has a lot of state lawmakers feel powerments to stop. more than 480 of them are now signing on to a letter to congress saying in part, we are out of options. we need your help, all but begging for them to do something and hoping help comes fast. because just this week, just

this week alone in pennsylvania, you have the gop state senator at the head of a key elections committee now saying he supports an arizona style "audit" there in georgia, the secretary of state released a list of people removed from voter rolls unless they take steps to stay on and in texas governor greg abbott followed through his threat to veto the state legislature's budget, retaliating against democrats who blocked temporarily a restrictive voting bill there. nbc's von hilliard is on a bus live with a group of people calling themselves freedom riders. there's worried about everything we laid out. what is happening at the state level? they're sounding the alarm loudly to lawmakers basically begging for something to be done as it relates to this voting rights bill today. >> reporter: yes, that's right, hallie. this is a bus full of folks, a caravan of multiple businesses. started a couple of days ago in phoenix, headed to atlanta.

the ultimate destination is washington, d.c., to address lawmakers. this is a caravan of activists, union members, faith leaders, community members that are calling this legislation for the people act the most significant piece of voting rights legislation dating back to 1964 and that's why i want to introduce pastor barnwell, you're one of those. you're the minister of first new life in south phoenix. you can give folks a sense of why you're on this cross-country trip and your message particularly to senate sinema, arizona's senator, your home senator right now at this moment. >> a couple things, we're commemorating the 60-year anniversary or commemoration of the freedom riders so we call ourselves the freedom riders, going from phoenix all the way to d.c. but we stopped in montgomery and we stopped at the lynching museum memorial and one thing we grasped there was a lynching bill about 1922 that did not pass. it didn't pass in the senate because of the filibuster, and

we're doing this again. i don't think we should have to do this again to go to the house to go to the senate to get them to do what they should have done before, which was revamp and dismantle the filibuster, so i believe this for the people act is taking away another right that we have to be able to vote and when we think about the vote that has been put in arizona, that ultimately what happened was is that we've had individuals now, it's passed and the only way to reserve it or the only way to preserve it and change it back to what it was, in other words we lost 100,000 some odd people from the voting list and we want to get that back and we believe the for the people act will do that for us. >> reporter: as a minister in south phoenix, joe biden won this last election by just over 10,000 votes in arizona. what is yours message specifically to senator sinema?

>> as we think about those 10,000 votes, those 10,000 people, one of the things that happened is their votes would be taken away as a result of this, as a result of this legislation that just went through, and our senate. so i would suggest that i would strongly urge her to do everything she can to make sure that we get this passed. whatever that means, so put everything on the line. >> reporter: pastor barnwell, thanks. hallie back to you ahead of the senate vote tonight. these folks are still on their way to washington, d.c. >> riding there to get their message delivered to the people here at the capitol, vaughn hillyard, great reporting. safe travels to you. let's go to the hill, senator mitch mcconnell has taken to the floor, he's started to talk about this voting rights bill that he and other republicans are seeking to block debate on. he's explaining his reasons why. listen. >> even after its companion faced bipartisan opposition over

in the house, what a craven political calculation, what a way to show your didain for the american people's choices. of course it isn't limited to election law. among the most dangerous parts of s1 is the way it would equip partisan regulators to intimidate and discourage private citizens from engaging in political speech. unfortunately, this one is a familiar concept for too many americans. it's not hard to imagine federal bureaucrats induling ideological grudges and chilling free speech. it's actually happened before. the nation was reminded just a few weeks ago how unable the federal government can be to protect private citizens' personal information. unable? or just unwilling? but conservatives in particular didn't need a reminder of what became institutionalized discrimination under the last

democratic administration. so when private contributors, nonprofit am nsty groups and religious organizations see s1's disclosure requirements would unlaern the lessons of the irs under lois lerner they have plenty of reasons to fear. naming and shaming is not a hypothetical concept. 'been a concrete reality for thousands of private citizens, and today, democrats are asking for a green light to supercharge the intimidation machine that makes all that possible. we've heard this -- >> you've been listening to senator minority leader mitch mcconnell explaining his raggal for leading the gop in an effort to block this procedural vote to begin debate on a key voting reform bill. i want to bring in democratic senate debbie stabenow of michigan who chairs the democratic policy and communications committee. senator, good morning and thank you for being back on the show.

>> absolutely, hallie, always great to be with you. >> thank you. i would be remiss if i did not ask you to respond to some of what we heard unfolding live on the senate floor from senator mcconnell, making the argument he says that this bill is about democrats trying to tilt elections in their favor. your response? >> reporter: hallie, if we weren't on tv i'd say something different but this is a bunch of baloney. the reality is there is a strategy across our country, you talked about how many states where republicans are trying to take away people's freedom to vote, what we're going to be voting on today is an effort just to get on a bill to be able to discuss the whole idea protecting people's freedom to vote, and how we should stop billionaires from buying elections. and so all this stuff is just a smoke screen, and you know, all i can say is we know what's going on. it's right in front of our eyes, it's right in front of our eyes in michigan right now.

39 bills, republicans in the state legislature bringing forward to take away my 95-year-old mom's ability to get an absentee ballot mailed to her like she's had for 30-some years now, so instead she's going to have to go into the clerk's office, show a picture i.d. and she doesn't drive anymore so she doesn't have a driver's license, and then going through all the extra steps which she will do, but the reason the aarp has come out against what's being done in michigan and georgia and everyplace else, this will disenfranchise senior citizens, people who voted for trump as well as people who voted for joe biden. this is really an outrageous situation going on. >> i want to ask you about the stakes of this vote today, because senator jeff merkley according to politico is telling acti

activists, he says "we are going to lose the opportunity to enact legislation for a decade or longer, calling it policy and political armageddon." do you agree with that, senator? do you think that is what the stakes are here today? >> hallie, i think the stakes are very high and i also know today is not the end. so i feel confident we as democrats will be together standing up to protect people's freedom to vote, standing up against billionaires buying elections, we know that there won't be one republican standing there with us, but we also know we have an attorney general and a civil rights division, and a commitment from the president of the united states, and we will continue on in every way we can. this is not the end of the fight. this is the beginning of the fight, because this is fundamental and it's stunning to me that we are in 2021 and we are having to basically just protect people's fundamental ability to vote.

>> i know that you have been open potentially to talks about maybe the filibuster, and i wonder -- >> right. >> although you've not been leading the charge on that i think it's safe to say. if this vote ends up getting blocked tonight does that change your calculus on what senate democrats need to do as it relates to the filibuster? >> my calculus has changed. i came to the senate 20 years ago. i had a different view at that time, similar to our senator from arizona and the world has completely flipped upside down. we now have a peversion of the rules and alexander hamilton is probably rolling over in his grave. the fundamental debate in our constitution was about majority rule. they debated majority rule versus super majority rule and came down on the side of majority rule and in fact, i'm going back now in deep reading the federalist papers, federalist 22, alexander

hamilton really laid out what's happening now and how people will lose faith in their government if it's not majority rule, how the minority can manipulate things, can stop the will of the majority, which is exactly what is happening now. so i'm on the side of getting things done. i want people in michigan to have their lives get better. i want their freedom to vote to be protected. i want to be able to move forward in our economy and jobs and health care, and everything else that we were elected to do and people in michigan want that to happen, and i'm on the side of getting that done, not protecting rules that have been completely perverted. >> so quickly, before i let you go, given that, do you believe then that your colleagues, senator joe manchin, senator kyrsten sinema are frankly living on a different planet if they think republicans will get on board with bipartisanship and secondly do you think president biden has done enough to make this a priority and push for change?

>> certainly the president is pushing in every way he can and so no question about that, and i think we're at a point where we see some things happening in the senate around the edges that don't go to the fundamental essence of dnl conditional trying to get back power. he'll work with us on making juneteenth a federal holiday, which was great, but why aren't reprotecting people's freedom to vote? they'll work with us on an innovation bill. great but that doesn't tackle what we've got to do on the climate crisis, and clean energy manufacturing to move forward, and when they stand up and say oh, no, no, january 6th, no, nothing really happened here, or we know everything that happened here, which of course we don't, and the public has a right to know and we ought to be focusing on making sure we are doing everything possible to make sure it doesn't happen again. when it goes to standing up to donald trump, when it goes to their fundamental power, you

know, that's when they're going to stop us every single time, because what they don't like in michigan is that we have more people vote than ever before in michigan and they voted for joe biden, and so for the first time, the republicans and legislature said no, no, no, no. we liked it when you vote narrowly for donald trump in 2016. now you voted for the democrat so we want to take away your freedom to vote. this is all about raw power right now, and i think all of our colleagues need to understand that. >> sounds like a message aimed specifically at a couple of your colleagues. debbie stabenow, great to have you on the show. thank you for being with us. it's a big and important day for you at the capitol pip appreciate it. >> thank you. here on the show it is primary day because if it's tuesday you know folks are voting. one of the most high profile races of the season, a live look right now at new york city, where folks are headed to the polls, not just about who will face off in the city's mayoral election. there are three other big things getting put to the test in this

new york mayoral race. the first and most obvious voters attitudes and candidates plans on key issues, crime, the economy, policing, housing. the second and this is important here, the political clout of progressives, including national names like alexandria ocasio-cortez who have been weighing in and the third the voting system. for the first time new yorkers are using ranked choice voting which asks people to rank their top five candidates. it's been used before but in smaller races. the biggest test today though in a city of more than 8 million people the candidates are out, we've already seen front-runner former brooklynboro president and nypd captain eric adams at the ballot box, senior political mark murray joins us now. let's talk about the lay of the land here and why people outside of new york city should care about this and it's because it says something, right, about the clout of progressives in a city that is very solidly blue in new york. you're talking about these top four candidates at least the

polling shows right now, eric adams, katherine garcia, andre yang and maya wylie. >> she and some of the other progressives have faltered which allow a progressive like maya wylie to consolidate the progressive vote. the conventional wisdom is different than the reality when it comes to how liberal new york's democratic tech lorrate is. according to a wnbc/marist poll, 19% of likely democratic voters describe themselves as being very liberal, compared to 36% who called themselves liberal, 32% moderate, and a combined 13% who call themselves conservative and under that ranked choice voting given those numbers, maybe just being the very liberal end of things isn't all that desirable and hallie, other

surveys have shown the crime is a big issue here which is contrary to some of the progressive voices that we sometimes hear from in washington, d.c. >> mark murray live for us there with that. will be covering the story throughout the day and probably see you back here tomorrow as we look through the preliminary early results from new york. mark, thank you. coming up here on the show, an alarming new report just out this week, finding four times as many american servicemembers and vets died by suicide than are killed in combat. one woman's emotional journey and her pleas for help and resources, coming up. ♪ welcome to allstate, ♪ ♪are you down, d-d-down, d-d-down, d-d-down♪ where we're driving down the cost of insurance. ♪ ♪ are you down, down♪ ♪d-down, down? are you♪ drivers who switched saved over $700. ♪ allstate. here, better protection costs a whole lot less.

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this morning a brand new and disturbing brand-new and distur at veterans and service members that died from suicide. it's new research by the research at brown university. nearly 7,000 service members were killed in combat, and compare that to 30,000 personnel and veterans from those wars have died by suicide, and 22,000 vets since 9/11.

an ambassador to the operation resiliency program is joining us now. danica, good morning and thank you for being on the show. >> good morning. i am so happy to be here with you today and be able to discuss some heavy topics. >> is it heavy, and you know it. you know it very personally, these are more than just statistics to you. can you share with our viewers your story? >> absolutely. i was married to a staff sergeant in the army and his name was alley thomas and he was injured by a suicide bomber that blew up and took out his respiratory system. we welcomed him to walter reed and that's when we started our road home from war, and he brought home some really troubling things and we tried our best to navigate it and in september of 2013 he had what clinicians described as a

psychotic break, and he ended up taking the lives of two random unknown neighbors and a dog and turned the gun on himself. my daughters and i then buried our war hero and we since then have been trying to figure out how we can right these wrongs, and in doing that, we reunite heavy hit combat teams back together and they find their formations and get to unpack the baggage they have seen overseas, and we have done incredible work. >> i just got back from a trip focused on veterans, and this is something that came up time and time again, and even unrelated to the topic that we were shooting on, and the issue of veterans specifically dying by suicide, and that transition

back into civilian life. what other resources do you need? you talk about ways to make this right or to fix this, if you will, and what is missing right now in the system that you think needs to be done? >> well, i think that there has been a lot of work that has been done with this system. unfortunately, we are still seeing numbers climb, but i think that relying heavy on the bond of brotherhood, sisterhood, the things that you work shoulder to shoulder, overseas with people that know you best, and i think being able to be vulnerable and embrace the help, and then certainly embrace the veterans that want to get help. another thing that we see is we need to kind of understand why and who is dying by suicide, and with that data being released

and the va has to demand that we see numbers of the suicides of combat veterans and unpack that as well. >> danica thomas, you are doing work meaningful and thank you for sharing it on the show. thank you for being on the show with us. a lot more coming up here on msnbc reports, including the next hurdle facing the economy as a result of the pandemic. why the airlines that got billions of dollars in rescue money last year are struggling to keep up the surge. there was nothing i could do.

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this morning in california you can get a mcgriddle and a vaccine at the same place. it's part of a push to get people not vaccinated vaccinated. california fully reopen but with a 57% vaccination rate. we are joined outside one of those locations, a mcdonald's, as it's part of the new vaccination effort. >> reporter: vaccinations here will start at 8:00 a.m. pacific time. this is part of a larger

campaign in california and they are trying to motivate communities to come and get the vaccines, and we know 60% of californians have received one dose of the vaccine, and underserved communities have lower vaccination rates and that's why mcdonald's chose more than 70 locations across the state, locations like this one in bell gardens, california, where the vaccination rate is lower than the rest of the state, and this is predominantly a hispanic community. >> the biggest challenge is to get to those saying i will do it later, i don't need to do it now, there's no hurry, i'll get to it. we want to get to those people and that's why we have little

incentives, the push they need. >> this is the example of how the state is trying to get to those communities. this is a very centric location. you have got the shopping center, heavy traffic, and this is just one, like i said, of 70 locations that will be doing this, and we spoke to the owner that was excited to do this. he said he was happy to get back to the community and help out in some way so he was glad to pair up the state officials and do the vaccination. people basically come into the restaurant. they will be told they want to get the vaccine, and if they have not they can choose any item on the menu, and that's how it will work throughout the day. >> if people are not going to get the vaccines, bring the vaccines to them. thank you for watching this hour, and you can koch any of

your shows with tune-in, and you can find us on twitter @hallieonmsnbc. and we have craig melvin picking up our coverage right now. craig melvin here from msnbc world headquarters. democrats in the senate are moving forward with a procedural vote on their voting bill, the for the people act. we're seeing brand-new pleas to pass this bill, or pass something to protect the right to vote. they range from hundreds of state lawmakers to former president barack obama. 24 senators do seem to