lobbyist in question, requesting a transcribed letter under oath. the committee wants an answer by next monday. if they deny the request, a s&p subpoena could be around the corner. as rachel says, watch this space. that does it for us. we'll see you tomorrow. "way too early" is up next. coronavirus cases are surging across the country and now some states and officials are rolling out vaccine mandates. with so many millions still unvaccinated t question is could this be a tipping point. plus, the house committee investigating the deadly january 6th capitol riot will hold its first hearing this morning. the question is what will we hear from the officers who are set to testify? and tennis star naomi osaka is eliminated from the tokyo olympics after an upset loss. now the question is who's going to win gold in women's tennis?

it's "way too early" for this. good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that's been shouting at the tv way too much lately. got to love the olympics. i'm elise jordan on this tuesday, july 27th. we'll start with the news. as the nation faces an explosive growth of new cases of the virus variants, new vaccines are being rolled out across the country. new york city and california is now requiring vaccination or weekly testing for all employees and the veteran of department affairs is the first federal agency to sish a vaccine mandate, which would require front line workers to receive covid vaccine shots some of experts say this could exhibit a pivot toward mandates. nbc news miguel almaguer has the

latest. >> reporter: well before any false surge, many hospitals are struggling to manage the 60,000-plus daily new covid infections facing the u.s. our nation could see upwards of 4,000 death as day by october. the 100 million americans who are unvaccinated driving the numbers and the risks even for those who are inoculated. >> if you allow the virus to freely circulate because so many people are unvaccinated, you give it yet again another opportunity to mutate even more, and you may wind up with creating a variant that, in fact, eludes the protection of the vaccine. >> reporter: as new inoculations plateau, pfizer and moderna at the fda's urging are expanding the size of their vaccine studies in children 5 to 11 amid rare reports of heart inflammation in younger

americans, a precautionary move, like the idea of bringing back masks indoors nationwide, said to be under active consideration. st. louis county joining savannah, georgia, in reism plea -- reimplementing the policy. they say vaccinations should be mandatory for health care workers. the department of veteran affairs became the first federal agency to require vaccines for medical staff. >> veterans affairs is going to, in fact, require that all docs working in that facility are going to have to be vaccinated. >> reporter: the states of california and new york announcing employees will have to show proof of vaccination or facing weekly testing. >> individuals' choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us. >> reporter: with health officials confirming americans could need booster shots, 65 and

older, as well as those with compromised immune systems. covid cases are rising in all states and there's a risk to all americans including those vaccinated. turning to the latest of capitol hill, lawmakers in washington working on the bipartisan infrastructure bill have still not been able to come to a final agreement. democrats and white house officials sent an offer that covered the remaining sticking points such as broadband that republicans didn't accept. the global offer as they're calling it may have done more harm than good with many democrats in the bipartisan group saying they had no say in what was included. last week when senate majority leader chuck schumer's procedure failed, most lawmakers said said they would be ready to vote by wednesday. schumer warned they should be ready to work over the weekend if they cannot come to an agreement. >> senators should be on notice

the senate may stay in session over the weekend in order to finish the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and as i've said before, further delays may mean session will remain into the previously scheduled august recess. >> but the potential deal has another obstacle as former president donald trump has decided to weigh in. in a newly released statement, the former president is urging republicans not to work with democrats. here's his quote. don't do the infrastructure deal. wait untilafter we get proper election results in 2022 and otherwise, and regain a strong negotiating stance. don't let them play you for weak fools and losers. typical. we're just a few hours away from the house select committee hearing on the deadly january 6th attack on the capitol. here's a look inside the compact room where the nine members of the bipartisan committee will meet.

nbc news has learned committee chair bennie thompson and the former number three ranked republican in the house, liz cheney, are expected to deliver opening statements. >> it's an opportunity to remind everybody about the necessity of accountability for what happened. >> the first hearing featured these four police officers, all of whom were at the capitol on january 6th. two are from the capitol police and two are from d.c. police. the four will describe what they faced that day including moment d.c. officer daniel hodges was crushed as a doorway of the capitol, screaming in pain. and coming up on "morning joe," we'll hear from a member of the house committee, congressman pete aguilar ahead of this

morning's hearing. speaking to reporters at the rose garden yesterday, house minority leader kevin mccarthy criticized congresswoman cheney and congressman kinzinger for joining the house select committee in the insurrection committee. here's what hae had to say. >> some republicans have been saying -- >> republicans? >> -- the gop should play ball on this committee. >> really? who was that? adam and liz? aren't they kind of like pelosi republicans? >> are you a pelosi republican? >> we've got very serious business here, important work to do. i think it's childish. >> it's childish. we're doing big things right now. we're getting to the answers on the worst attack on the capitol since 1812. you can call me whatever names you want. i just think, look, bottom line,

i'm an elected member of congress, a republican. kevin mccarthy is technically my republican leader, and to call, you know, members of congress childish names like donald trump used to do, i guess, is kind of par for the course. >> it's worth noting that last night the house rejected a last-ditch effort by mccarthy to seat his five original picks for the january 6th select committee. the vote was mostly among party lines. joining us now, "new york times" reporter lisa lair. she's the author of "the new york times" letter. you wrote an analysis for "the new york times" about the insurrection at the capitol. it had a depressing headline. "why america isn't getting the investigation it needs." explain what you mean. >> the country's views has

become so divided. we've seen the footage of the horror and violence on that day and the days that followed and during the impeachment trial. what we've seen is a growing number of republicans either don't think it was an extremely important event in political life or they really don't believe the facts of it at all. they blame antifa or left wing groups, think it was overplayed by the media. speaker pelosi has a very steep hill to climb here to convince a big part of the country of any sort of national consensus about what happened and really derive any kind of historical record and make sense of this event, particularly when half the country doesn't believe the truth of what happens. >> you write about a cbs poll that finds only a certain amount of supporters call it patriotism

or defending freedom. this tracks anecdotally from friends and family who voted for trump but were horrified by what happened on january 6th. so why is this narrow sliver of the anti-democratic sentiment still what's dominating the gop? >> well, it's the same reason that this kind of con speartoryial thinking is going on. they're talking about the attack less and talking about it in a way that doesn't comport with the facts. it's what they're learning from their lawmakers. this is still going to be a politically damaging day for republicans. one republican i spoke to yesterday admitted as much to me. that's in part because of the testimony we're going to hear today. it's testimony from a couple of police officers who are on the scene. it's expected to be quite emotional. it may feature body cam footage of that day. so very few in the republican party think that this whole committee is going to be a

politically beneficial exercise for them. but kevin mccarthy is trapped between those who have a hold on his party and the democrats and an event that could be quite damaging for them. >> it's quite an analysis and a lot to look forward to today. thank you so much. "new york times" lisa lerer. thank you. still ahead, a shift in u.s. foreign policy as president biden announces anent to the combat mission in iraq. plus, an alaskan teenager will be bringing home the gold after pulling off a stunning upset in the women's 100-meter breaststroke. that story and many other highlights from the tokyo olympics coming up next. g up ne.

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way this morning at the tokyo games. olympic tennis players competing in the fourth round of the singles women tournament will not include naomi osaka. she won her opening two matches in straight sets following a two-month mental health break, but the second ranked woman in the world fell to former french open finalist of the czech republic in yesterday's third round. after the match, organizers said osaka left the venue and would not be speaking to press after losing to marketa vondrousova. the american men lost a backstroke race at the olympic pool as russian swimmers raced to the top two spots. ryan murphy settled for bronze. team usa did have some success in the pool yesterday. 17-year-old lydia jacoby became

the first ever alaskan swimmer to win olympic gold, upsetting teammate and defending champion lily king with a stunning victory. it's worth going back and watching that race if you haven't seen it. king earned america another medal by taking bronze. off the japanese coast this morning, team usa adds another gold to its medal count. in the sports debut at the games, the top ranked women's surfer in the world, american karissa moore, defeated her south african. parratto and schnell win the silver medal for the first u.s. medal. and team usa women's basketball

wins 50th straight olympic game against nigeria. this dates back to the bronze medal game in 1952. they're eyeing a fifth medal. something no basketball player, man or woman, has ever achieved before. let's take a look at the current medal count. the united states is on top with 22 total medals and is tied with china for the most gold with nine. time now for the weather. let's go to meteorologist bill karins who may not be an olympian, but can call himself an iron man. >> not even close. >> bill? >> thanks, elise. sunday i had the pleasure of about 13 hours in lake placid iron man course. four years ago i could barely run two miles. if i can do it, anyone can do it. it's not for everyone. i'll tell you that. my kids got to witness the

finish there too. it's a lot of fun. yes, i'm still sore this morning. >> so let's get to this forecast. yesterday the heat was building in the middle of the country. we're talking about another heat dome building. we're going to have millions of people under very brutally hot conditions. we do have a heat advisory up around indianapolis and des moines. the heat advisories extend all the way down to new orleans too. about 24 million and growing. near record highs today in the northern plains iechlts been a very hot summer for our friends in the northern plains. this is going to be the hottest stretch you're going to see from chicago to st. louis. tomorrow will be very hot. when you add the humidity, it feels very uncomfortable. everyone feels like 95 to 100. this time of the year, the heat indiocese is the worst. we'll see a few strong storms, indianapolis, buffalo, syracuse, and it looks like a severe

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crazy. so in a video posted on twitter, verified by nbc news, flynn is seen at an event at the church of glad tidings in yorba, california, seen with a man holding a gun who said, it's one of our top guns. said, maybe i'll find a member in washington, d.c. the audience laughed. it was posted on a facebook page but has since been taken down. nbc news has attempted to reach general flynn for comment. with just over a month to go before the u.s. mission in afghanistan officially ends, president biden announced the end of another long-lasting u.s. mission, this one in iraq. nbc news chief foreign correspondent rushal engel has more. >> reporter: president biden with iraq's prime minister announced the end of an era, that the combat mission in iraq

is over -- again. >> it's critical for the stability of the region and our counterterrorism cooperation will continue even as we shift to this new phase we're going to be talking about. >> reporter: it's the second time the u.s. has ended combat in iraq after president bush invaded in 2003 to overthrow saddam husain. it took nearly eight years for the u.s. to declare the combat mission complete. >> america's war in iraq will be over. >> reporter: then vice president biden with president obama, welcoming back the last troops from iraq. with the last troops out, iraq collapsed, becoming a safe haven for isis terrorists. the u.s. went back in. now that's over.

this time a few thousand troops will stay there and conduct counterterrorist operations as needed. president biden is fulfilling a deal signed by former president trump to pull out nearly all troops by the end of august. the taliban are already making rapid advances. >> our thanks to nbc's richard engel for that report. on a sad note, former wyoming senator mike enzi has passed away. he was injured in a bike accident. according to a statement, he passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends. the republican was elected to if u.s. senate in 1996 after serving as a mayor. he decided to not seek a fifth term in 2020. he was 77 years old. still ahead, a longtime friend of the former president

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welcome back to "way too early." 5:30 on the east coast and 2:30 out west. i'm elise jordan. tom barrack, the former chair of donald trump's 2015 inaugural committee pleaded not guilty. he appeared in the brooklyn court after he was freed on $250 million bail following his arrest in california last week. he left court and told reporters, quote, what you'll find over time is that i'm 100% innocent. prosecutors allege barrack used his longtime friendship with trump to influence middle east policy, starting with the 2016 campaign and continuing through the beginning of the trump presidency. now former president trump is endorsing texas attorney general ken paxson for

re-election in the united states primary. he picked paxson or bush, grandson of george h.w. bush. george p. bush was the only bush member of his family to support trump in 2016. he was actively courting trump's endorsement, paying homage to the former president while downplaying his own family's political dynasty. that was despite trump's repeated attacks against the bush name over the years. paxton meanwhile is facing several issues including a trial over allegations of security fraud. he is also the subject of an fbi investigation over accusations from former senior aides that he abused his office to aid a trump supporter. sounds like a typical trump endorsement made in heavy about. joining us now, jeremy peters.

hi, jeremy. did you get a sense from the former president when you interviewed him recently about how much he is planning on throwing his weight behind other gop candidates? >> i think this ken paxton endorsement is totally unsurprising for all the reasons you laid out, elise, but remember, ken paxton was the lead author on that lawsuit that was tossed out by the supreme court that sought to overturn basically the results in several swing states. it was essentially laughed out of court, but more importantly to president trump, that was the ultimate display of loyalty that he likes to seeing and because ken paxton was behind that, he gets the endorsement. i think that's what you're likely to see play out going forward as we get into 2022. trump is not looking for anybody to adhere to any set of policies that he favors. he's looking for people to

embrace his lie about this, quote/unquote, stolen election, and no one has done that. few, i should say, have done that more vig rugly than ken paxton has. that's going to become, i think, the wall, the next big issue that trump supporters are already chanting at the rallies that he's given. stop the steal. you hear it all the time. that is his litmus test. did you come to my aid when i needed you the most, when i'm avenging this grave injustice about the stolen election. >> and, jeremy, without preempting anything that's going to come out in your forthcoming book, when you recently sat down with president trump, has time wounded his loss at all or is he still pretty aggrieved over losing the presidency to joe biden? >> you know, i think -- one

thing i picked up sfr him both times i spoke with him, he still sounds just as aggrieved as he did the day he left office. he does genuinely think this was stolen from him. he's been -- i should say he's convinced himself of that, and for that reason, i think anybody who doesn't take seriously the idea that he could run for election is mistaken. i'm saying a lot could change in the next year and a half or so to dissuade him from doing so. but the person i spoke to is one who is determined to avenge what he sees as an injustice perpetrated against him by various conspirators. that's really the reality of the republican part right now. that's why you have people like

george p. bush going to pay homage to him because he is the leader, and if you want to get anywhere with republican politic as that point, if you want to raise money, this is the reality you're dealing with. >> well, well. that's news that you think it's serious, this 2024 trump bid. thank you so much, jeremy. good to talk with you. "new york times," jeremy peters. still ahead, a totally different record set by an american restaurant. "way too early" is back in a moment. " is back in a moment

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top biden officials are reportedly weighing in on mask mandates. four sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell politico that the topic was discussed dur degree meeting

with white house and health agency officials on sunday. it comes as a surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations sweep across the south and midwest. pfizer and moderna are expanding the size of their pediatric clinical studies to include children ages 5 to 11. the studies are designed to detect potential side effects including heart inflammation problems that appear in some vaccinated people who are younger than 30 years old. the expansion came at the urging of the fda that came with the size and scope of the current studies were inadequate for detecting the rare side effects. it's unclear whether and when vaccines could be authorized for children. joining us now, seensenior health doctor. yesterday you said a vaccine is

necessary for american health care workers. do you support such a mandate, and do you see it taking hold as a national trend? >> absolutely. i think this is something we should have done much earlier. we know that health care workers are at high risk for covid-19 not only to ourselves but to our patients. we also have seen with your own eye as what covid-19 can do, so this should be something that every health care worker wants. unfortunately when you look at non--health care workers, it drops off significantly. it's something we need do, and if there's going to be fights with nurses unions, so be it. it's important and we need to lead the way. >> looking forward, doctor, are

we doing enough to prevent the next pandemic? have we learned any big lessons so far in. >> well, one of the biggest lessons is that no matter how good your toolbox is, and the u.s. had a lot of tools at its diggs posal, if you don't use the tools, you're going to end up in a very bad place with this pandemic because no matter how good your subject matter expertise is, how many plans you've written, unless you have the political leadership to execute it, you will still run into a major problem if you're dealing with an efficiently spread respiratory virus. we let this virus spread in january, february, half of march before anyone took action. you had to use blunt tools like lockdown. you didn't know who was infected, who wasn't infected. hopefully we'll get it much better. and we also need to be much more pro-active with vaccines by focusing on viral families that

we know have pandemic pathogens within them. >> doctor, as we're looking in the short term to school reopening, what should we be doing differently, and should there be a mandate for teachers to get vaccinated? >> i i do this there should be a mandate for teachers to get vaccinated. remember, many schools couldn't be opened. now they should be mandated as a condition of employment just like many other places of employment. we know how to do schools safely. we had good less ons in the pre-vaccine era when cases were high. now it's become easier because you've got teachers vaccinated. children above the age of 12 vaccinated. as long as you're following the measures and being careful with unvaccinated individuals, you may have to have flexibility with the mask policy depending on what's going on with the community. but the mandate has to be to

have the school vaccinated as much as possible. we know children suffered from the pandemic not because of what the virus did to them but what adults did to them. >> absolutely. i can't imagine another school year with students learning from home. doctor, learning from home. doctor, thank you for being with us. earlier in the show we asked, why are you awake? jeff writes in, why am i awake? smoke detecter decided that its 10 year battery would annual last three years at 3:30 a.m. poor thing. collin tweeted i'm up early getting ready to watch simone biles lead the u.s. women's team to victory in tokyo. another viewer tweeted this, i'm up way too early to support my mississippi native. that's sweet, thank you. coming up on "morning joe," we'll hear from new york city

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the battle against wildfires is growing more intense as crews in if california try to contain fast moving flames that are threatening thousands of homes just one of the large fires in a dozen states. nbc news correspondent steve patterson has the latest. >> reporter: wildfire season in full force way too early. the har binger northern california's dixie firing with ripping apart more than a dozen homes and structures, threatening a dozen more. >> it's stressful, scary at times. >> more than 5,000 firefighters on the front lines, struggling to maintain the firms after it merged with the fly fire into an unpredictable megablaze. >> it's beyond comprehension how

fast the fires can move. >> reporter: crews across the west stretched thin, 22,000 firefighters on the front lines of 85 major fires raging across 13 states. so far more than 2.7 million acres have burned this year outpacing this time in 2020, the worst year ever recorded by nearly a million acres. >> we have to keep our head in the game because we still have the peak months ahead of us. >> reporter: in oregon, the bootleg fire, the nation's largest, the burning more than 450,000 acres and only 53% contained. >> it's so dry a lot of this is turning to dust. >> a sparks of a climate in chaos, igniting fears of an unprecedented year of devastation. >> thanks to nbc's steve patterson for that report. joining us now with a look at axios a.m., editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnston.

what's the axios one big thing for this morning? >> today's one big thing is a new capitol alarm. house speaker nancy pelosi is getting to ponder whether to extend some of the covid rules and covid plans that were put in at the start of the pandemic on how the house operates. a key one is proxy voting. that allows members of the house to vote remotely not having to be physically in the chamber, that was at the start of the pandemic to space out members, to allow members who were possibly quarantining to not have to travel to washington, allow older members who were afraid of being in crowds to not show up in the chamber to vote. that's something that republicans had opposed. this is because of a rise of infections in the delta variant variant in the house, nancy pelosi looks to be pushing forward. there have been vaccinated members, including in nancy pelosi's office, that have had the breakthrough virus.

that's sounding alarm bells on the hill. seeing more social distancing and mask wearing for the staff. remember, nancy pelosi does not have a big margin in the house, just a handful of votes, she doesn't have any room for error to lose voters if they're possibly in quarantine, sick, if they can't travel, come to the house floor so making sure the infrastructure bill gets through is important in the considerations to make sure as many democrats can come to the floor as well. also this is an election year coming up. what a lot of folks are going to do is go home and work the voters and by not having to travel to washington for votes, particularly if this drags into august, during the recess, which members said they might be dragged into with the infrastructure bill. this allows folks to be able to stay home and stay in touch with voters. look for changes on this as nancy pelosi discusses whether to continue the proxy voting

into the fall and possibly into next year. >> do you see this becoming politically contentious at all with republicans or do both sides feel they have something to benefit voting by proxy. >> is anything not politically con ten thoushs absolutely not. republicans hate this in the house. if it lets them win votes on the infrastructure bill they'll support it. like everything else that happens in the congress today this is sharply, sharply partisan and will probably be enacted by nancy pelosi over objection by republicans. axios is reporting on profits for tech giants. how are they using the wealth to their advantage? >> we're starting the earning season this year. they'll have blockbuster numbers, record setting earnings growth as we saw in the start of

the pandemic, as we locked into the house and turned to this technology to buy everything we needed and have it shipped to us. they have massive piles of cash they're sit on. this is an important time for them, when anti-trust fears are ratcheting up. people are coming after big tech. so they're able to hire lawyers to fight this, and pay large fines. and they're spending a lot of money to fund research and reports about transparency, to try to shape the debate by digging into how people use tech companies, how they benefit society, rely on these kind of networks, all as a way to push back against the compelling narrative -- counter vailing narrative that tech companies are bad. look for them to continue the fight but they're well financed to keep doing it. >> thank you so much for getting

up early. and thank you our viewers for getting up "way too early" with us on this tuesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. this is a tough business to run for president. >> you're a tough guy, jeb i know. >> we need a president -- >> i'm at 42, you're at 3, so far i'm doing better. >> doesn't matter. >> so far i'm doing better. >> one of the many times donald trump insulted jeb bush. jeb's son however cast his lot with the former president in a bid for texas attorney general. >> texas is precious and we must protect her. under the leadership of president trump our country was strong and vibrant again. >> so how did trump return the favor? by endorsing george p. bush's republican rival. >> you know, we -- we've been trying to t