leaders to get more americans vaccinated against the coronavirus. this as the white house announces it will convene an interagency meeting tomorrow to discuss the cybersecurity efforts following a seismic similar attack that struck hundreds of u.s. companies. the intelligence community has not yet attributed the attack, a russian based hacking group has claimed responsibility just three weeks after biden warned russian president putin to crack down on such activities. >> president made clear that if the russian government don't take action against criminal actors, we'll take action or reserve the right to take action on our own. >> in florida, teams are tirelessly digging through the remains of a collapsed condo building in surfside, the approach of tropical storm elsa has residents there on edge. we're tracking that storm for you and will bring you an update. overseas, in afghanistan,

with more than 90% of the american withdrawal complete, a stunning new report from the associateded press claiming that the u.s. bagram air base without notifying the new afghan commander. the pentagon is denying the u.s. left without telling anyone. just moments ago, we'll have an update on that. today marks six months since the deadly january 6th insurrection on capitol hill. we'll bring you these stories. as we await president joe biden for an update on the nation's efforts against the coronavirus, joining me is the white house reporter for the associated press. he is, of course, also an msnbc political analyst. also with us, physician and fellow at the brookings institution. she is also a form white house health policy director under president obama. great to have you both with us. starting us off this hour, jonathan, let's start with you. walk us through the white house

strategy here moving forward on coronavirus. how are they planning to combat vaccinations plateauing in this country? >> well, as you know, the white house did not quite reach their goal for the mournlg of july in terms of vaccination status. they didn't miss by much. that is 70% of all adults having at least one dose. they think they'll hit that in the next few weeks. indications are up for quite some weeks. there is a rise in the united states. that's a concern. there are stubborn pockets, as you said, of people would won't take this vaccine. some are hesitant and others refusing. the white house is certainly grown frustrated with that. they're not giving up their effort. the president is going to announce today more of a local movement to empower pharmacists and doctors and trusted community leaders to really get

them to convince people they need to take this vaccine not rely on the statements from the white house. they don't think that is going to work. particularly since those who are reluctant to take the vaccine, seems to be, are where the data, remembers. those that did not vote for president biden and therefore, may not be inclined to listen to him. this is something they want to push for again today and keep the public dream beat going about the need to get vaccinated. they're not, the u.s. government, the cdc, are not supporting what the who is doing in terms of asking vaccinated people to wear masks. certainly the delta variant is a concern and will remain one, especially if there is a significant portions of the population not vaccinated. >> doctor, can we zero in on this a little bit about who remains unvaccinated. do we know who is unvaccinated? is this a matter of outreach not being able to get vaccines in certain parts of the country? it is ideological?

the youth? what do we know? and what you are seeing from the patients that you talk about who remain unvaccinated and why? >> yeah. all the right questions. number one, it does seem younger. we do see more 18 to 30-year-olds who are the part that are saying no. we also aren't seeing a number of adolescents who obviously are making decisions with their parents. so, again, younger people. it is a variety of factors. the top factors do include the strong belief that they don't need the vaccine, that they don't need the immunity. and that the media, we are overhyping the dangers of the delta variant and the united states has done very well with people remaining unvaccinated. i'm dealing with this on daily basis. what i have learned to do, i have changed my own tactic. i'm trying to emphasize -- i'm not trying to just put science to their face. it's not working. i'm trying to say it's okay. tell me. if you think it is rushed,

listen, you're right. average vaccine takes at least two to four years. that's a short time frame. but here's what i do know. we had a billion plus people that have been -- two billion vaccinated and the majority of the side effects we see are in the weeks right after. . so i try to kmiz rate a little bit. i'm a woman. i also would be worried if this affected my ability to get pregnant or my dna. that is a common popular concern. so, yeah, it's really -- jonathan said it right. you know, it decentralizing this approach. and supporting a one-on-one strategy. that is a new avenue for policy, by the way. not something we do very well at the federal level. >> yeah. and we've been given the two-minute warning to the president's appearance there. so i apologize in advance for interrupting you both. but doctor, first of all, anecdotally, are you seeing improvements with this approach that you're taking of trying to decentralize it in the way you were talking about there listening to the patients and

their concerns? >> yeah. when i sit down and i'm wearing scrubs and when i sit down and just try to say, i get it. i would be worried -- >> i apologize. let's cross over and listen to the president. the. >> as i said in my undependence day address to the nation, we're closer than ever to declaring our independence from this deadly virus. today after receiving a briefing from my entire covid-19 team, i'm proud to announce that we're getting even closer because of our wartime effort to administer 300 million shots in arms in 150 days. more than 182 million americans have received at least one shot including nearly 90% of seniors and 70% of adults over the age of 27. by the end of this week, we'll have reached the mark of 160 million eventually vaccinated americans. and that is a goal i set in

march that i think we'll hit a few days after july 4th. we'll have 160 fully vaccinated americans up from three million when we took office five months ago. we see why it matters. covid-19 cases and deaths are down by 90% since january. millions of fully vaccinated americans are getting back to their living their lives as they did before. businesses are reopening and hiring and rehiring. and projected economic growth the highest it's been for projected growth is the highest it's been in four decades. the bottom line is the virus is on the run and america is coming back. our fight against this virus is not over. right now as i speak to you, millions of americans are

unvaccinated and unprotected. and because of that, their community is at risk. friends are at risk. people they care about are at risk. this is an even bigger concern because of the delta variant. and today's briefing, we discussed how the delta variant is already responsible for half of all cases in many parts of this country. it is more easily transmissible, potentially more dangerous. and it should be because of reconsideration and -- look, let me put it another way. seems to me this should cause everybody to think twice. it should cause reconsideration especially young people who may have thought that they didn't have to be vaccinated, this he didn't have to worry about it or do anything up until now. but the good news is that our vaccinations are highly effective, fully vaccinated americans have a high degree of protection including against this delta variant.

study after study has shown since early may virtually every covid-19 hospitalization and death in the united states has been among the unvaccinated. so if you're vaccinated, you're protected. but if you're unvaccinated, you're not. you're putting yourself and more importantly maybe from your perspective, your family and your friends at risk. so please get vaccinated now. it works. it's free. it's never been easier. it's the patriotic thing to do. today's briefing, we discussed how our administration is going to devote the remainder of the summer to a special focus on making gains to get those unvaccinated vaccinated. here's the deal --

we're continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring to rapidly vaccinate those eager to get their first shot and their second shot for that matter. if it they needed a second. now we need to go community to community. neighborhood by neighborhood and oftentimes door to door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus. look, equity, equality, remains at the heart of our responsibility of ensuring the communities that are the hardest hit by the virus have the information and the access to get vaccinated. so as we shift from the centralized mass vaccination sites and seeing thousands of people a day, we're going to put more emphasis on getting vaccinated in your community, close to home, conveniently and a location you're already familiar w first thing we're going to do is include 42,000

local pharmacies, folks with questions can talk to the pharmacist they know and already have dealt with. these locations allow you to walk in without an appointment, get the vaccination when you pick up your prescription or just going in to get toothpaste or something else you need from the drugstore. second, my team is going to place renewed emphasis on getting the vaccines to more and more family doctors and health care providers. so more americans can get the shot at their doctor's office, the folks they know and trust the most. third thing we're going to do, we're going to step up efforts to get vaccines to doctors and family doctors that serve younger people so that the adolescents 12-18 can get vaccinated as they go forward and back to school checkups or getting readfor physics for fall sports. fourth, we're also intensifying

our efforts to meet people where they are, outside their neighborhoods. pharmacies and doctors offices. this includes continued work with employers to make vaccination shots available at work, on the work site if possible and/or give employees paid time off to get vaccinated to nearby facilities. fifth and finally, we're sending more mobile clinics out there to help people at special events, summer festivals, sporting events as well as places of worship wherever we can find people and gather. in addition to these initiatives to continue to vaccinate the unvaccinated, we're stepping up our preparations and respond to the outbreaks we're going to see among the unvaccinated. for that, we're mobilizing what i'm calling covid-19 surge response teams. these teams are made up of experts from fema, federal emergency management agency, cdc

and elsewhere across our government, other groups. they're going to help states that are particular problems, prevent, protect and respond of the variant of people in communities with low vaccination rates. and some states have very low vaccination rates. they're going to be able to do -- we're going to deploy things like testing to expand detection of the virus, medicines to help treat the infected and provide federal personnel to fill gaps in staffing and technical experts to help investigate outbreaks. they're going to happen. states with very low vaccination rates. the bottom line is my administration doing everything kit to lead a government response at the federal, state, and local levels to defeat the pandemic. we need everyone to do their part. millions of americans have already done that. we have to keep it up though. we have to keep it up until we're finished.

let me close with this. we're emerging from one of the darkest years in our nation's history and into a summer of hope and joy hopefully. think about where you were, where you were last year. where you are today. what you were table to do last year at this time and do today. it's hard fought progress. we can't get complaisant now. the best thing can you do to protect yourself and your family and the people you care about the most is get vaccinated. the best things community can do to protect themselves is to increase vaccination rates. can you do this. can you do this. let's finish the job together. god bless you all and, please, please get vaccinated. makes a big difference. as i said, it's the patriotic thing to do. st may god protect our troops. thank you.

>> can you tell if you think the ransomware attack leads to the level of u.s. retaliation? >> i can tell you a couple things. i received an update from my national security team this morning. it appears to have caused minimal damage to u.s. businesses but we're still gathering to the full extent of the attack and i'll have more to say about this in the next several days. we're getting more detailed information. but that's what i can tell you now. and i feel good about our ability to give a response. >> thank you. you were listening to president biden speaking there at the white house giving an update on the country's efforts and his administration's efforts to deal with the pandemic. also taking question on the ransomware attacks. saying he was updated this morning by the national security team. we'll get to that later on in the show. but more importantly, talk about

the efforts that the administration has been making against the fight -- against covid-19, excuse me. the president there sounding optimistic. laying out what this administration plans on doing with the remainder of the summer going after what he thinks is five key important areas, trying to get more young people vaccinated, getting vaccines to local communities, to pharmacies, to doctors, and making them more accessible in places like festivals, sporting events and elsewhere in the country. let's break down some of what the president was saying with our panel. our doctor is still with us and jonathan still with us. doctor, the way i saw the five points that the president outlined, the first really had to do with trust. the second two had to do with accessibility. he was saying he want to get vaccines to communities. 42,000 local pharmacies. we want to get them to doctors. like you were saying, doctors who people have a personal relationship with and more importantly, trying to get them to the young people and doctors

that deal with young people back to schools and sporting events. accessibility is one issue. but really trust remains the overarching problem in getting quung people and others vaccinated. >> yeah. and also who is delivering that message? they probably have more trust than a gofd ad, right? burt then on top of that, i would say younger people, seeing people like them that are reluctant to get vaccinated may be stronger. so as they're doing this kind of decentralized one-on-one, you now have almost a little bit of a core of people that can spread the message. >> jonathan, the president is using the war analogy through all this and remains the country at least to some extent as the

president said has the virus on the run. but interestingly enough, he said he wants to create or will be creating the covid-19 surge response teams that as he expects were going to see more surges perhaps with the var yants and others among those that remain unvaccinated in the weeks and months ahead. he's putting the full weight of the federal government including the search teams that will include members of fema and the cdc to deal with the outbreaks. it's a president that is still very much has on his agenda a possible outbreak in certain communities. we're seeing low vaccination rates and uptick in rates in missouri chief among them. as much as the administration's agenda contains a variety of things, the infrastructure program, we'll know a few weeks.

we expect to learn a lot about that -- this summer and certainly we know that there is a looming fight coming over voting rights. the president and white house wants to make sure they don't take their eye off the ball. as much as the fourth of july moment was a marker on, hey, we've come a long way, it wasn't a mission accomplished moment. as a final point, you're correct to note the war analogy. he is really done that. i thought in particular he is really calling to the idea of pay yachtism. did he so on july 4th holiday. but again today. and really trying to rally the country together to say, look, we need to do this for each other. we need to do this for the nation. we need to stamp out any potential come back from the virus. >> yeah. as the president said, it may sound corny, it is the patriotic thing do for your community and country. jonathan and doctor, thank you both for staying us with throughout that event. joining me now is former head coach of the wnba's utah stars denise taylor.

she coached multiple college basketball teams across the u.s. and is currently the operations manager at the delta health center. we appreciate your time. i know you've been working to get people vaccinated in it mississippi where only about 36% of the population has gotten one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. that's a pretty low number. what are the concerns that you're running into when you speak to ordinary people about why they remain unvaccinated and how do you change their snindz. >> absolutely. one thing we're running into is, number one, people are afraid of needles. number two, the misinformation and all of the misinformation they get on social media. and number three, is that you to educate and really do some one-on-ones because the hesitant people are the ones that you have to do one-on-ones and really educate them on, hey, trust the facts. trust the science. and so that's what we're seeing

here in mississippi. >> one thing we're noting is trust and trying to get the vaccines to the people through people they trust. i know that you said that you too at one point were hesitant about the vaccine at first. do you think having those initial questions like you did has made you a more relatable ambassador for getting the vaccine? >> absolutely. i think one of the things, the number one thing is trust. because absolutely. that's what, you know, they're saying. hey, you can watch the things on the news but when a person like myself comes to them. i'm from the community. i can relate to them because i was hesitant. when i talk to peers and my friends and i did the research, then that's what i let them know. like, hey, trust the science. talk to the providers, not your neighbors, your friends.

because if you take the vaccine, it will save lives. it's going to open up. we can go to sporting events and be able to hug your mom, your dad, your sister, your brother. so that is so important. >> yeah. in some ways you're on the front line. tell us what more you think local health care providers need to be doing better to increase vaccination rates? what you would like to see more of from what you've been seeing as somebody who is helping get the word out? >> i think it's -- it has to be more one-on-one. you say, have you had the vaccine? they say no. you say why? you have to respect people and what their are. there is one part of the population. i run into people and it's like, hey, i don't want it. i'm good. i eat well. so i'm like i respect that. but if there is people that are open and you ask why, then you

have an opportunity to communicate to them, to educate them. you know, one thing also is like the side effects. so i say to them, well, do you take blood pressure medicine? do you take diabetes medicine? do you get over-the-counter drugs? look at the side effects. the risks outweigh the benefits -- the benefits outweigh the risk. what i would say is each one of us, we have to go out to the churches, to the schools, to the athletic events and we have to talk to these individuals one-on-one and answer their questions and let them know it's okay to be hesitant. but look at the facts. talk to your provider. not your neighbor. not your friend, not your family member. and if you get the facts, then you will understand that the benefits outweigh the risk. >> all right. coach denise taylor, thank you for breaking it down and giving us that perspective. greatly appreciate it as always. >> you're so welcome. >> take care.

it is day 13 of the tireless search for survivors of the devastating condo collapse in surfside, florida. the death toll is rising, sadly. now at 32 with 113 people still unaccounted for. at least 70 of whom are confirmed to have been in the building during the collapse. now work is expected to move considerably faster today after crews de crews demolished part of the building to make room for more rescues. officials there are they remaining hopeful at this point? and is there a point at which there is a shift in the strategy of the rescue efforts? i was talking to lieutenant generous he will honor y. he thinks it's time to declare this is a recovery mission because it will allow them to move fast on the pile. >> exactly. because you're bringing up the very interview with the lieutenant general from yesterday, i want to introduce everybody to maggie castro who

is one of those individuals with the rescue team who has been out very rescue team here from miami-dade county that has been out there on that pile of rubble here for last 13 days. because i asked her the very question that you and general honory were talking about. at what point do you make this a recovery effort? there were only two survivors pulled after the initial collapse in the 12 days since, there are no survivors found. and he was telling you that this needs to be a recovery effort so they can accelerate that process to go and recover up to potentially 113 more bodies here. and when i asked maggie castro that, i'll let you hear her response, i think it's a testament to a sort of the rescuers in their view of that very point. >> at the end of the day, we're still looking for people. we're still looking for families' loved ones and we're

always going to treat the people that we're looking for with that dignity and respect and honor that they deserve. so i don't foresee us changing too much the way that we're doing our work. because at the end of the day, that's what we're trying to preserve. we're trying to preserve them to bring something back to those families. >> and i also just talked to the mayor of surfside on the site here off camera about that very question too. he said, look, we're going to move deliberately. we're not going to speed up this process and putting danger the potential of harming anybody that may still be alive and also they want to try to make sure that those individuals are able to be returned to their families in the form that is most out of respect for their burial in that family's closure. again, pushing back on that they will will call this a rescue effort until every individual is pulled here from the rubble. we have to address what you're seeing behind us here. over the last hour after a good day of no rain, essentially no winds here, you're seeing strong

wind gusts and rain. i am told by an official here the rescue is on going but there is a tornado watch now here in the area. at this point here, that rescue is on going. but if you look here at the forecast here, the next couple hours may be difficult here in surfside. >> all right. thank you for us in florida. very important update. thank you. joining me is miami-dade's police chaplin and director in pine crest. rabbi, great to you have back on the show. thank you so much for your time. there was something that, you know that, stood out to me and a few others here and that is a statistic from "the washington post" that a third of those missing are dead in surfside's collapse are of jewish faith. many are jewish and hispanic dissent. so it raises the question about what this means and how this tragedy reverberated through the larger communities there in

south florida? how is this from those that you speak to and hear from affected by this? >> it's not only from south florida communities, it's really from all over the world. jewish communities are out because we're one big family fe all the victims and the families of the victims. so it is something that is a very painful thing. we have to support not jewish families, we're here to support all families affected by this tragedy and are still going through this tragedy. we're hoping that we'll find people alive but at the moment they could bury their loved one. definitely had a big impact. it's a very large jewish community in south florida.

it impacted the jewish community all over the world. >> sometimes people turn you to for answers to difficult questions and trying to understand why something like this would happen, especially with all the warning signs that people are talking about. is understanding faith key to understanding the depth of this tragedy? how does it help inform your conversation with families waiting for news or seeking closure for their loved ones? >> yes. and that's the obviously this is a great devastation. and as spiritual leaders and rabbis, our number one priority is to be there for the people. it's not there really to explain why god does things and why things happen. our responsibility, number one, is to be there for people. so we really are taking a moment with them, we cry with them. we pray with them. it's not really a moment to ask questions why it happened. it is really there to be able to comfort the families and help

them through this very challenging time. if you're a person of faith, it's obviously much easier in the sense of believing that -- we're really there to help the families in these difficult moments. >> all right. rabbi, thank you so much for your words. thank you so much for your time once again. and keeping our focus on florida for a moment. millions of residence there are on edge wondering how bad of a blow tropical storm elsa will deliver to that state. nbc news meteorologist bill karins tracking this storm for us. he joins me now with the very latest. a lot of questions about where elsa is going. who is in its path. could surfside get hit? what do you know at this hour on all the questions, bill? >> yeah. elsa such a borderline storm. the tropical storm, it is moving at a rapid pace. that's good. i mean it's not going to be a

big flood producer. it's not a huge hurricane. there won't be a lot of wind damage. it is borderline between a nuisance for a day or two or sneaking up and producing a couple tornadoes or just enough storm surge to create damage. the first threat is the tornado threat. we just had one band go through the surf side area. we have the live shot. no tornadoes reported or anything like that. but that's the kind of stuff we're going to expect throughout the rest of the afternoon is squally type weather. this is a small. storm. it is still gusting to 52 in key west. that won't do any damage. even in marco island, 36 is the highest we have. ft. myers at 10. st anyone with interest in those areas, you're not going to have any wind damage whatsoever. you'll be able to handle the amount of rain. as we go further up the coast tonight, that's when we'll be seeing the heavier squalls coming closer to the coastal

areas. it sticks out into the gulf of mexico. we're almost at hurricane strength winds. the closest approach that elsa will will make towards the sarasota-tampa area. there the is still a chance it could make land fall. if not, it will brush along the coast. right around midnight to about 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. the middle of the night when everyone is trying to sleep is when the ones will be howling the most. and it should come up somewhere near cedar key 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and rapidly weaken as it against to head up into georgia and then tomorrow during the day, it moves up through south carolina and then thursday into friday, all the way through the mid-atlantic region. its not going to be a powerful storm at that time. there will be squally weather. maybe a chance of some wind damage with a thunderstorm. but that will be really the worst of it. so we're going to have any big issue out of this, ayman, watch the storm surge tonight. that is one issue. three to five feet. that is borderline doing a little damage or nothing. the winds, i still think florida is going to be okay. much it's build to hurricane

strength. that's what we'll likely deal with. i think this will be upgraded to a hurricane this evening. the difference between a 70 mile per hour hurricane and 75 mile per hour hurricane and a 70 mile per hour tropical storm is not much. we don't give up until they start to weaken. we still have 12 hours left until that happens. >> thank you for that update. i appreciate it. all right. when we come back, we'll head overseas. the latest on the u.s. withdraw from afghanistan. n the u.s. wit from afghanistan and contains high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscle health. try boost today.

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today marks six months since the attack on the capital. there are so many unanswered questions. among them, who this person is. placing pipebombs outside of the republican and democratic national committees and what police called an attempt to divert resources from the capitol. the suspect hasn't yet been arrested or even identified.

so far law enforcement officials have charged more than 500 people from across the country with dozens more still expected to come and footage continues to be made public showing what officers faced on that day. a warning, you may find this video disturbing. newly released court exhibit video showing officers in close quarters with rioters as disorienting lights were pointed in their direction. joining me now with more on this, nbc washington investigative reporter scott mcfarland. he is covering all the developments for the past six months. scott, good to see you begin. where do things stand? >> a few moiments ago we heard from the justice department w very new updated numbers. as of this moment, 535 total arrests including some local cases, that's an average of three a day over the past half year. 165 of them charged with assault. ten guilty pleas so far. that's about 2% of the cases. there is a long road to go. another development today. we learned a trial date for the

second group of accused oath keepers, that far right group accused of conspiracy and planning and plotting. that trial date is late april, 2022. again, there is a long road here. there is some progress for the feds including in that oath keeper's case. prosecutors have already secured three plea agreements and each of the defendants has agreed to cooperate with the feds to flip, to help them with the investigation. there are two other far right groups, the 3% and the proud boys and those cases are still in the infancy. as we approach this six month anniversary, worth remembering at this moment six months ago, there was hand to hand combat outside and inside the capitol. still on going. they were still waiting for the national guard to arrive. it was a mess. and a lot of these cases have still yet to be charged. we expect possibility of hundreds more arrests. >> and, of course, the big

question as we mentioned, who planted the pipebombs outside the dnc? scott mcfarland, thank you as always, my friend. got to see you. joining me now is democratic congressman andy kim of new jersey. congressman, thank you so much. i want to first get your thoughts on what you experienced firsthand six months ago. how are you doing six months later? >> thanks for raising this. i mean, i'll be honest, it feels surreal in some ways to be six months from that event and simultaneously feel like it's a long time ago and yesterday. i remember talking about it with some of my staff earlier today and still i felt very emotional about it. not only in term of the trauma of the day but it just still -- is still so surreal just how dire and bad things have gotten in our country. and we haven't fixed any of the major problems that led to january 6th. that's what worries me. >> i want to talk about a personal contribution you made. you donated the suit that you

were wearing on january 6th so the smithsonian institute. why did you do that? what do you think is the most important thing for americans to remember about that day? >> yeah. you know, that day started off as really day where i didn't expect anything like what happened to occur, of course. and, you know, i was wearing a blue suit that i bought to be able to wear to biden's inauguration. but a suit that was going to be one i get to wear to a very celebratory cause. and when i wore it on that day for the electoral college, it ended up being a suit that took on different memories and different experiences for me. and certainly for people around the country who saw that photograph of me cleaning the floor of the capitol, it was a suit that many people saw. they had some ways gave them a sense wrf do we go from here?

now what happens next, how we heal this country and about literally picking up the pieces. the for me, it was a suit that was linked to the tragedy of that day. but it took off greater meaning and one that has to be requested and i decided to give it to them and donate it to them to help tell the story of january 6th. >> let's talk about the unanswered questions with what happened that day. the house of representatives approving a select committee to investigate january 6th. what concerns do you have about security at the capitol that you hope this committee addresses? >> first of all, we need to know, you know, are the problems that led to january 6th the security gaps and the exposure, is that something that is fixed or something that is going to need significant more attention? there is a technical aspect in terms of just day to day operations, the fact that one of

the most important buildings in our country was left so exposed. i mean this building is literally the capitol literally the physical manifestation of our constitution. it is the embodyment of article one. so our treatment of the capitol building should be the same as our treatment to the constitution, especially as we just celebrated july 4th just this past weekend. we should recommit ourselves to it. the second major thing is that we still don't know and we still don't have enough information about the organizations of the groups that were organizing this effort against our capitol and continuing to operate and continue to try to grow support. this is not just some random group of people. very poor effort that was on the way that was trying to penetrate the capitol and try to push their agenda upon our democracy. and we need to learn a lot more about them and understand what it is that we need to do to stop them. >> congressman andy kim from new jersey.

sir, thank you so much for your time. always a pleasure. >> thank you. nicole hannah jones turned down a ten year offer from the university of north carolina chapel hill after weeks of controversy. she announced this morning that she will instead take a faculty position at howard university. unc trustees denying granting hannah jones tenure with her professorship after backlash from conservatives who denounced her hiring. unc decided to grant her tenure after weeks of protests. you can catch more of nicole hannah-jones' story when she joins my league joy reed this evening on the reedout at 7:00 p.m. eastern. up next, it's been two weeks since new yorkers cast their ballots in the democratic primary. there is still no clear winner yet. that could change today. you're watching "ayman mohyeldin reports." "ayman mohyeldin reports. to a job that feels like home. with home instead, you too can become a caregiver to older adults.

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us at the big board to try to make sense of it all, if possible. steve, good to see you, my friend. could these outstanding ballots give us a winner in the race by today? >> well, let's see if we get results today. like you had, the board of elections in new york city, which has really made a mess of this thing, said this morning -- they seemed to say at brunch time we would get more results. i'm not much of a brunch guy, but i do think the hour for that has passed and we still don't have any new results. this is what we have so far. remember, this is the democratic primary. very jumbled race here. and they're doing this new system, ranked choice voting. so what you're seeing here is the first choice for all the votes that we have counted so far. this is from last month actually at this point. this was late june is when the actual primary date was. what we think is going to come sometime today, we hope is going to come sometime today, are about 126,000 more votes. these would be mail-in ballots,

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