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 come

together from across the i will on a infrastructure bill. speaking of the biden administration, it's coming to terms with the harsh reality on the pandemic goals. the white house is ready to concede it is not going to reach its goal of 70% of americans with at least one vaccine dose by july fourth. this comes as the more contagious delta variant grips communities across the united states, especially among younger people. what this all means for our pandemic fight coming up. we start with that fight over voting rights coming to a head today in the senate. nbc's mike membly is covering for us.

nbc's jane tim is on vote watch. jane, first to you. just set up what we expect today on this bill? >> this bill is sort of the everything for a lot of voting rights advocates. they don't have a plan b of where this bill goes if they don't -- if they can't pass it. we are not seeing the votes in congress to push it through, and i think we see an enormous push, and my inbox is filling up as we speak with letters for a huge push to get it through, and it's not there, the votes. >> mike, let me come to you for a moment. senators kyrsten sinema and manchin, they were talking

infrastructure, and they are also talking about voting rights. what is the white house's calculous right now? >> you have to remember that when the president really spoke out last in a forceful way about this voting rights issue it was in tulsa, and he singled out without naming them senators manchin and senator sinema. the voting rights was the main topic of discussion and it's significant, and as the push on capitol hill today over voting rights, you have to look at it in the context of the joe biden legislative philosophy. he outlined this so often in the campaign, it would always be his goal to find common ground with republicans, and he said when you can't do that you go out and you beat them. that's where this vote sets up

the administration going forward. yes, perhaps the president could be doing more in the eyes of some activist, but ultimately what the administration thinks is this is something voters will have to punish republicans over next time they go to the ballot box next year, and that's how the white house is looking at it. as for infrastructure, it's going to be groundhog's day for a few more days, and senior officials from the white house going up to capitol hill to meet in different gatherings with members of this caucus. the big issue continues to be how are they going to pay for it, and the president paying a red line on the gas tax, and the republicans are asking what they could use he would support, and that's where we are. >> and now you are on this bus with folks who have been motivated to travel through the

south, and it's not just one bus, it's -- oh, you know, let's go to the hill. garrett is talking with senator manchin right now. let's listen. >> reporter: what was president biden's message to you about this yesterday? you spoke to president biden about this bill yesterday, and what was his message about it? >> we had a good conversation about it. it was a very respectful conversation. >> will the end -- >> what now? >> what happens next? >> we're just going to keep working. >> if this bill fails today, what does that look like? are you going to go out and find republican votes? >> i always try to. >> i have got to go. >> what was the president's -- >> just to be clear you are undecided. >> the president's message is very confidential. >> you were also talking about infrastructure, and did he urge you to --

>> no, he understands exactly. we had a very long conversation about that, and we have a lot of needs in our country and a good bipartisan bill that we're working on -- i have to keep going. he likes the movement going on there, and he encourages basically a good process -- >> so bottom line on voting rights, you need more assurances it will be your compromise -- >> we'll make a decision. thank you all. >> our capitol hill correspondents at their best there, and it's not easy to walk backwards and ask questions of sitting senators, but they make it look easy. it sounds like senator manchin was reluctant to in any way shape or form to characterize the conversation he had with the president other than saying it was, in fact, productive on

infrastructure, and voting rights, it would seem. it would also seem the two spoke at length as well. what do you make of what we just heard there from the senator from west virginia? >> i thought it was interesting he said he wants more help on the democratic side of the aisle in talking to democrats on this issue. manchin has talked about how important it is to have republicans as part of the process, and maybe he was feeling lonesome and that was part of the message to the president last night. it was interesting he would not give an answer on his final vote today. this is not a up or down vote on the legislation itself and it's a vote to start the debate. the white house is trying to argue we are seeing more democratic unity on the issue, and at least to have the discussion and debate, and it's unclear if a manchin compromise

would be the final product but the starting point for this discussion is what has already passed the house in the for the people act, and manchin not willing to commit to his vote there, and the white house is making it clear democrats are united on the issue and we have not heard from manchin on that, though. >> i think we may have missed the beginning of what senator manchin said. bring us up to speed. what can you tell us about what he did not say? >> the bottom line is manchin is still noncommittal on how he will vote this afternoon. he seemed to be saying he is holding out for some kind of assurances that the bill that would come up for debate would be the compromised version of it and not the s1 bill, and that's academic, because whether or not

manchin votes for this it will fail because it doesn't have republican support, and he's looking for assurances that can't happen anyway. and what was the most interesting point of it, manchin saying he needs help and other democrats out here trying to recruit republicans on the issue. the s1 will get zero republican votes, and that's not going to change, and republican lawmakers does not think the federal government should get involved at elections run at the state level. a challenging task for manchin and a challenging task for democrats to convince him to vote with them tonight. democrats want this to be a 50

democrats united here, and manchin told me he's not there yet. >> really quickly before i go to you on the bus there to talk about voting rights, on infrastructure, garrett, is senator manchin indicating -- as least the way i heard it was, president biden seems to be onboard with the bipartisan plan? >> reporter: look, we have known for a long time that president biden is eager to get a bipartisan agreement on something if it can be done. i am standing outside the office of kyrsten sinema, the democrat from arizona, and officials were coming to be briefed by them, a little back and forth, and if there's an agreement to be had between this group and the white house it could be soon in the senate sense, not soon in the time we're talking here, but the meeting that would come to that agreement is under way as we

speak. there are a lot of balls in the air as it refers to infrastructure right now, and those conversations are live as we speak. >> soon in the senate sense, and that's sort of an analysis comparing a real year versus a dog year. >> something like that. >> now, to the bus, these folks have been motivated to travel through the south to pass for the people act? what is the mood on the bus knowing most likely this is an exercise in futility, perhaps? >> reporter: futility, and also manchin told garrett the conversation will continue. when you are doing this in the life of a buzz making its way from arizona to d.c. this group of folks here, this is just one bus among a caravan of hundreds of folks, activist, faith leaders, union members that are on their way, and they

are landing in d.c. come this thursday. when we are talking about where we are right now, we just crossed into georgia, a narrow victory for biden, and most of the folks on this bus came from arizona. i had no idea she was going to be on the bus, and i want you to meet marilyn wilber, and you were out knocking on doors and getting folks to vote in arizona, and mark kelly won, and joe biden narrowly won. for you you were out there in the 100-degree plus heat, and why are you on the bus and what is your message to president biden in washington, d.c.? >> i have to fight, and i gave my life for this country. >> reporter: you served? >> i served in the air force for years, and some of my fellow brothers and sisters in the military gave all, you know, and some of us gave some and i still have to continue that fight.

just because i am retired doesn't mean i stop fighting for democracy. >> you were in the streets knocking on doors? >> i was. i was. i had good interactions with people. i had some bad interactions with people, but either way everybody deserves the right to vote. that's the basic right that everybody deserved the right to vote. >> reporter: it's not clear where this legislation is going on capitol hill. you will get there thursday. what is the message to your home state senators? >> they need to do whatever is necessary to make this bill pass. kyrsten sinema says that john lewis was her mentor. she needs to do what is right for john lewis, so she needs to get rid of the filibuster. they already passed legislation in our state that will purge thousands of people from our

early voting list. that's not right. i didn't give my life for that. don't dictate me on how to vote. if i don't want to vote in some elections, that's my business. that's the way that i should be able to vote. it shouldn't be anybody else's business on how i vote. so she needs to pass this bill. i know she wants to do bipartisanship, but bipartisanship didn't get her in her seat, we did. we are the people. she needs to take care of the people, because she got voted in by the people and she needs to take care of the people. >> marilyn, good travels to you and everybody else on this bus the rest of the way. again, this bus is headed to atlanta today, greenville, charlotte, finishing in greensboro, north carolina, before they get to washington, d.c. on thursday, craig. >> all right.

a big thanks to awful you. we are keeping an eye on capitol hill for another reason as well, because d.c. mayor, mural bowser testifying at a hearing that is all about making d.c. the 51st straight. we will get to the latest on that fight. also this morning, new warnings about the fast-spreading delta variant, and it's more contagious than other strains of the coronavirus. we will take a look at the risks and also a historic moment in professional sports. >> i just want to take a quick moment to say that i am gay. >> carl nassib, coming out to the league and other players, and that's next. , and that's next.

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now on capitol hill, washington, d.c.'s mayor testifying tkpwu. the focus is d.c. statehood, and the mayor referenced the role d.c. citizens played in defending the capitol on january 6th. >> we are washingtonians that defended the nation's capitol by answering the call to support

our federal partners despite not having any representation in the senate. >> again, mayor bowser there on the senate. the bill faces a steep climb in the 50/50 controlled u.s. senate. we will monitor that hearing and bring you any developments out of that as they happen. this morning we are getting a chilling of the new chaos at the january 6th insurrection. the justice department just released three new clips that day. one shows a violent crowd breaching the police side and an accused member of the proud boys is part of that mob. scott mcfarland from our nbc station in washington, d.c. joins us on this. scott, take us through the videos and what investigators are learning from them?

>> craig, good morning. it was a multifront war on january 6th. the new video shows us the east front, the east side of the capitol, this video was curated and released by the justice department, and they were seeking pretrial detention for don ahoe. the mob will forcefully approach the police line, and when they do that they start throwing makeshift items, and also they will deploy chemical spray. we eliminated the audio because it's quite vulgar, and the mob moves up the stairs and you can see how the magnitude of size

difference between the mob and police forces the police to retreat and ultimately gets overwhelmed. charles donahoe is accused of being with the proud boys. >> scott, the more we learn about it, the more it would seem that speaker pelosi was in particular danger on january 6th. you are reporting that misogyny is at the root of a growing number of cases. tell us about that. >> not only are a series of defendants accused of making vulgar and violent threats against pelosi, and two others have a history of violence against women. one once held a gun to children's head, and he assaulted her and called her a

vulgar name. he's in court later today seeking release. quickly, ryan samcell from pennsylvania, and he has been convicted on multiple occasions on knocking other women in the head and attacking his pregnant girlfriend in 2010. >> scott, thank you. let's stay in washington, d.c. for a moment, because there's a big legal update and a different dramatic moment in washington, d.c., the clearing of lafayette square during the protests after george floyd murder, and it happened before former president trump took a picture, and a federal judge dismissed most of the claims activist filed against the trump administration. our justice correspondent, pete williams, taking a look at this one. >> she didn't toss the entire lawsuit, so some of it does

remain alive but she did throw out the claims that president trump and bill barr and other officials ordered police to clear lafayette square, and she ruled the groups behind the lawsuits didn't offer evidence that the officials intended to violate the civil rights of the protesters, and the government had the need to take actions necessary to protect the white house, and she kept those alive, those that challenged the restriction. there's still some of the no-climb fencing around part of the square allowing the park service to close it off quickly. the judge said the groups made a plausible claim that these rules do sometimes limit first amendment protests. the groups can continue with their lawsuits with the d.c.

police department and the arlington police department. the judge said it's too early in the litigation to know why the police cleared the protester. they said it was to prepare for president trump's walk over to the church, and the park service said it was to make it safer for workers putting up more fencing. >> pete, going back to the fencing there in lafayette square for a moment, is it going to remain there for the foreseeable future or do we know? >> we don't know. i think so. this is the side away from the white house. on the other side, which would be pennsylvania avenue of lafayette square, there's not that permanent fence. on the other hand, pennsylvania avenue can be shutdown because traffic has been restricted on

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remember president biden's goal to get at least one vaccine dose in the arms of 70% of adults by the july fourth holiday? you remember that? well, today the white house said it concedes and will likely fall short of that goal. there will be a briefing next hour, and despite falling short the team is pointing to some success. the 70% target has been reached among americans age 30 and older. when it comes to the fight against the virus we are seeing troubling signs that this delta variant is spreading fast. it now accounts for one in every five cases in this country, and new research shows it's about twice as likely to leave patients hospitalized.

i'm joined now by the doctor, the dean at the school of public health. let's start with why, why are folks twice as likely to be hospitalized if they come down with the delta variant of the virus versus the original? >> craig, thanks for having me back. one of the things that we are learning about the delta variant is it does seem to cause more severe illness, and it has not been fully nailed down but the study out of scotland looking at the delta variant versus the previous uk variant that had us so concerned a few months ago, and this one causes twice as much hospitalizations and really only among unvaccinated people, fully vaccinated people remain largely pretty well protected. this is really an issue for unvaccinated folks. >> also, we're seeing more young patients ending up in the icu

now who are not vaccinated. why is that? >> yeah, there are two sets of things going on. one, of course, is that we are not seeing a lot of older people because they are mostly vaccinated. thank goodness for the vaccinated older people. a large proportion that is not vaccinated, this variant does seem to cause more severe illness and is landing a bunch in the hospital and icu. it's just a reminder that people that downplayed the virus and said it's not a big deal for young people are just plain wrong, and especially with the vaccine, there's no logic to letting people get sick and some end up being quite sick. >> you said the administration's goal of 70% by july fourth was pretty optimistic from the beginning, if you will, and one of the administration's loftier

goals, and the white house is set to announce it will fall short of that goal. >> i did say this was by far their most ambitious goal, because it's outside of their control. one was 200 million doses, and they could make sure vaccines were available, and now it's the ground game of convincing people fighting this information, and helping people get vaccinated, much, much harder. we ought to keep going, but i am not surprised that we fell a little short of that. >> and at this point, one would assume that every american who qualifies for a vaccination, they know they can qualify. if folks want to get a shot,

they can get a shot. at what point -- i don't want to use the word lost, but at what point do we resign ourselves to the fact that people that don't want to get a shot just aren't going to get the shot? >> it's a good question. i see it a little different. there are some people who are never going to get vaccinated, and that's okay. but there are still people out there on the fence, and saying maybe i want to wait a little longer and maybe i want the fda to give us full approval. and there are people that would like to get it but can't get time off or are worried about missing work. there's lot of work we could still do and i don't think we should write people off yet. and there's a lot of misinformation, and we have to fight against that. we don't give up on anybody and we have to keep going and we can make a lot more progress. >> doctor, thank you for doing your part to combat the misinformation and

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least, we should be able to debate voting rights. they are preservative of all other rights, and what could be more hypocritical and cynical that invoking minority rights in the senate as a pretext for preventing debate about how to preserve minority rights in society. >> senator warnock introduced a provision on monday that would prevent politicians from being able to overrule state elections. senator, what do you say to democrats that are disappointed about your vote about the

filibuster, and feel they could still change your mind? >> couldn't make out exactly what she said there, but we will try and get you what the senator from arizona said. we will monitor updates as we get them on this crucial fight. we are proud of you. that's the message from the nfl this morning as one of its players is making history. carl nassib, the first active nfl player has come out as gay. >> i want to take a quick moment to say i am gay. i have been meaning to do this for a while now and i feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. i hope that one day videos like this and the whole coming out process are not necessary. >> he also announced he will pledge $100,000 to the trevor project, an organization that

provides suicide prevention and support for teens. how big of a deal is it and what do we know about the timing of him coming out now? >> yeah, he said he wishes there was a time when this won't be news. the reality is for an nfl player this is still news, and it's part of our society where it continues to be surprising to hear football players talk about being gay, and that's because there have not been many of them. he will be when he hits the field this fall, and the other active player to come out to say he's gay, and there's players that came out after retiring, and one player said he was gay as he was drafted and he never played for the team. you are seeing public support

and from the league, and his team, and you have j.j. watt, he plays for the cardinals and i will always think of him as a texan, i think, and he's coming out and supporting him. all of that is really important. i have to say, too, one of the things he's saying is he's coming out because some players feel like they can't, and why can't they is a question a lot of people have to ask themselves? is it a quiet message in the locker room that is perhaps not as supportive in public, and hopefully this is a sign that corner is being turned. >> representation matters. we know that. burnout, retirements, and

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oh, we are continuing our series "the future of the force" this morning, and it's all about the state of modern policing in america after last year's summer of unrest, more and more police officers are leaving the job. many say morale has plummeted. nbc's gabe gutierrez reports from portland where more than 100 officers have called it quits since july. >> night after night after night, the clashes in portland

were relentless and police officers felt targeted. the precinct where this officer works is still boarded up more than a year after george floyd's murder. >> we are being held responsible for the actions of an officer that is across the country and i don't think that's fair. >> since july more than 115 officers have left the force by resigning or retiring, and there are barely 800 left. last week members of the city's rapid response team resigned from the unit after one officer was charged for excessive force. darryl turner is the police union's executive director that retired in january. >> we are dealing with rioting at a level and sustained by violence we have never seen before, and the lowest catastrophic levels we have never seen before. >> some have called to defund the police and more and more

officers say they feel villainized like never before. retirements are up 45% in some departments and resignations 18% when compared to the previous year. a point. sergeant halen in california says floyd's death has rippled through smaller departments like his where recruiting officers is getting much harder. >> i think there is a bigger picture that being that public discourse, if you will, against the police and some young people are asking themselves the question is that really a career path they want to go down. >> in richmond, virginia, carol adams is trying to mend relationships within her community. as a black woman, last year's protest felt even more personal. >> i'm standing as a human being and i'm processing as a human being. >> do you think you can help me with a dollar. >> you can't separate me, you

can't make me one or the other. i'm both. >> that duality even more drastic as many officers say within months they went from being considered heros on the front lines -- to enemies. >> it all boils down to these three main concepts of being underfunded, understaffed and undersupported and now uncertainty about their future. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, portland, oregon. >> let's continue the conversation now. let's bring in shanette hall with the ethical society of police and a police officer in missouri. i so enjoyed our conversation last month and i wanted you to be back. what goes through your mind when you hear what gabe just reported and retirements up 45% and resignations up 18%. are you seeing that where you are in missouri? >> right. so first, thank for having me

back, for sure. i definitely appreciate that. i think one thing that we have to realize as police officers is sometimes we are part of the issue and it is more often than not that we are part of the issue and so if we truly believe as citizens, as everybody that this exodus, law enforcement officers by way of resignations and retirements are solely due to immediate calls now of just defunding of the police or immediate laws changing right now, i think we are truly missing the bigger picture. we have to understand what is expected of us and what it is that citizens are calling to actually do. we are dealing with large segments of the population that has a history with police that is not so positive, and so when we are looking at this, we have to understand where it is that they're coming from. these are police officers. you chose to do this job. you have to do it correctly and

understanding why it is that you are doing it. your job is not to just protect. your job is to protect and to serve. in order to serve you have to understand who it is why you are serving, why it is you are serving them and how it is that you're beginning to serve them. so this huge exodus, i can see some people it's retirement time to get older and you want to spend time with your kids and there are other people that are manipulating this authoritative role that they have and as soon as they begin to get challenged by citizens and then i want to leave. then they want to go. >> it's not worth it. when you talked about so many people in your profession signing up because they want to protect, because they want to serve. what happens along the way to discourage folks or make protecting and serving more difficult? >> you know, i don't believe that people truly understand

what it means to protect and serve and more so the latter. we don't really understand what it means to serve and in order to serve people we have to have a certain level of empathy and sympathy and we are not teaching officers that when they are coming along. when people are coming through the academy and they're having these thoughts and saying hey, i want to be a police officer we're, like, cool yes. you can put this uniform on and look at this shiny car and these different things, but are we truly teaching officers how to deal with authority? how to talk to people, how to understand the plight of black folks that we have been through over the years. are we really teaching people that and if we're not, then how can we expect them to stay here and do their job appropriately. >> i was in missouri last week. i was in jefferson city, working on this story. i came to find out that up until a couple of years ago, at least, deputies in missouri, the majority of them were being paid below the poverty level in the

state at the time. how much of this is about money? you sort of get what you pay for, if you snl. >> there are some issues and we have to understand the complexities when we begin to define how law enforcement was developed in the first place, right? not it take you too far back, when we were talking about washington patrols and what we know of police officers came about. the healthier people in the 1600s were the first ones to pay people to look over their property and people and when you were beginning to see how that is manifesting today, when you look at the smaller and most rural areas this is how you can begin to see how it plays out. yes, some officers aren't paid a decent salary, and we can say that about teachers. we can say that about nurses. we can say that about counselors and social workers and we all have a job that's here that

we're supposed to be doing for people. >> you can make the argument that more often than not in this country, those whose jobs matter the most are paid the least. shanette hall, thanks as always for your perspective and your analysis. that will do it for me this hour. i'll see you back here tomorrow, and i'll see you back here thursday. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next. so, you have diabetes, here are some easy rules to follow. no. you know what you want? no fettuccine. no fries with that. no foods you love. no added salt. no added sugar. in a can? you can-not. no pizza. have that salad. unless there's dressing. then, no. remember, no skipping meals. but no late-night snacking.

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good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington where the senate will hold a critical test today for one of president's top priorities. a procedural vote on whether to even permit debate on a voting rights bill facing a brick wall of solid republican opposition, but the vote will show where democratic senator joe manchin and some of his colleagues stand after saying he is still undecided even after meeting one-on-one with the president. >> we will see. >> with the final, it's going to be the vote on the -- >> no, no, no, no. i have to make sure that we'll move to a better compromise, okay? >> another moderate democratic senator arizona's kristen sinema is apparently slamming the door on progressive hopes for changing the filibuster to get liberal priorities through congress with the any legislation