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been a vaccine push is now becoming a vaccine must with more and more vaccine requirements taking effect especially now that the food and drug administration granted full approval to pfizer's vaccine. today the pentagon ordered troops to get their shots as soon as possible. private businesses are joining in. cbs health and disney said they would add or expand requirements for workers and delta airports said it would raise health care premiums for workers who remain unvaccinated. add to that schools and universities. more than 800 are requiring students to get covid vaccinations before returning to campus because the reality is the only way to blunt the pandemic is through vaccination. the only way stop the misinformation and the selfishness of the unvccinated is the stop begging and start making it mandatory. for the fruly mitted anti-vaxers

could make covid jones town and move to florida or texas or south dakota with apologies to the doctors and nurses there. today governor greg abbott rolled out a new ban on government vaccine mandates. his previous one banned those under emergency authorization. republican partnering death is pushing vaccine mandate mans. there's south dakota governor who is not con tent to let abbot and san tis fight for the title of most derelict governor. she welcomed thousands of bikers to her state on a house for the sturgis motorcycle rally because freedom. she along with abbot and desantis mean freedom to die.

south dakota has seen massive surge. cases have nearly quinn the upper led. she's declared war not on the virus but on president biden over vaccine mandates that he hasn't implemented. she tweeted she would take every action available under the law to protect south dakotans from the federal government. does that mean that south dakotans shouldn't use the highways? she's staked her political ambitions on being the governor of yolo when it comes to covid last month she said she would not step up efforts because her messaging has reached saturation level. joining me now is professor at the center for policy reserge and emergency medicine and health and science university and charlie sykes.

a saturation point in messaging. sounds like she's not going to talk about getting vaccinated. do you think that from a medical point of view is good public policy? >> it's really painful to hear that from where i stand because like in many other states we're struggling here to just figure out who we let in next off a very long waiting list for icu beds that are just running out. across the country last week one in five icus were at 95% capacity. this week one in four icu beds are at 95 capacity or greater. in florida we're seeing icus at 200% capacity which means nobody is getting the care they should get in the icu. to go from that to a governor who is saying things like that, i mean you're neither going to continue urging people but you're also going to remove the ability of businesses to mandate that -- if you're not doing persuasion and not doing

mandates then you're doing nothing to encourage vaccination. >> i think that's the plan. the plan is to do nothing. why the you invite a political guy too a segment about health, because it's all political. that's why we have you here charlie instead of talking about 2022. we have to put you in this segment because for these governors, for the texas, south dakota, all these guy, to them, i don't get it but i wish you would explain to me. the good politics is let covid run wild through my state and back it up by having some pop um clinics for people to get treated. they think that's good politics. do you agree? >> no. i think we have an inflection point where more and more people are getting disgusted by the selfish and the stupid refusing to get vaccinated. you see this in the public opinion polls. i agree with you that the private companies that are mandating this will change behavior. the politics of this is

interesting. you have governor abbot in texas, governor desantis in florida who are all thinking they are handling of this is their ticket to political success in 2022 and 2024. as bad as christy noom has been, she said today or yesterday that she would not support banning, prohibiting private companies from requiring proof of vaccination which really highlights, in many ways because she's very maga but that highlights how radical ron desantis is. he's saying talking about conservative government, telling private companies he will bar them from having these policies and you had governor abbot who is doubling down banning these vaccine mandates. christy noom who is deplorable is saying, no, that's no in my

power. i may not be pushing this and riding around on the horse saying freedom, but i'm not going to ban these vaccines, these vaccine requirements by private companies. that's an interesting division that really kind of shows you what an island ron desantis is on. >> he's saying you're not a private business. i own you and you'll do what i say. that's not a conservative thing. she was in south carolina monday and she's almost doing it. people are happy like his eye is on the sparrow except you'll get covid. south carolina codified a law. it was revised in 2016. received immunization against

these things. he tweeted her basis she said if joe biden mandates vaccines, i will take every action to protect south dakota. if these governors took the same attitude towards measles or chickenpox as they are taking toward covid, they would be run out of office because people are like you want to let chickenpox in too. some of the same people are like let covid in. i want to get your comment on it. >> there's a total carve out for covid where pretending like this never happened before. we had the little yellow cards, you go to elementary school where you had all your vaccinations stuff done. all of us traveled out of the country, we get vaccines that are required and wi understand that's part of the social contract that you get to go to these places and get your education and get to live your life if you just demonstrate you're not going to harm other

people. these are not new or different. it's the newest disease and it's been plugged into the same old process from a public health standpoint, making covid something that is really kind of make it this exotic thing when we need to just behave the way we do for any other infectious disease. the reason we're all around with the life spans we have, the reason we have grandparents who do not have polio and the reason all of us are here is because of the massive improvements and life expectancy and quality of life from all of these vaccines. the same goes for covid. >> you're right. this is not like an ancient thing mp mitch mcconnell had polio as a child. south dakota, the number one state in terms of who has vaccinated is vermont. new england is doing great. they are in the middle. they're at 48% vaccination rate. that's not good. that's not way to stop the disease from killing people. what do you think the politics will look like when you start

seeing the military require it, when you're seeing universities require it. when the mandates start coming in because you're going to have to adjust. they will be there. is the new politics going to be for people like noom and desantis is run against the military? are they going to say the military is marxist institution. what will be they play when it has to be done to get on a plane or go into a federal building? >> they will play the card it's an infringement on freedom. this point can't be stressed too strongly, we have had immunization requirements for years. in fact, these folks running around with the don't try it or me flag and talking about 1776, you know who imposed one of the first vaccine mandates in american history? george washington who required members of the continental army to be vaccinated. this is not a new thing. there's a long history of this. there's no question about the

legality of all of this. also, it really is a degradation of the slogan of freedom. we have also understood, i'm free to swing my arm until it hits your nose. this is -- we have always balanced -- we always balanced freedom with responsibility. we have rights but we have responsibilitys to the community as well. i think this is showing up in the polls. ron de santis position on masks is rejected by strong majorities of voters. i think people -- there's a stream of common sense out there which is reassuring for those of us that sometimes are tempted to think that twitter is real life. people understand that being vaccinated is not a radical thing. it's something our children have been doing for years to be able to go to school. it's something that americans have been doing. they understand it's part of the american historical legacy.

i think they have miscalculated. they are playing to base tribal politics. if my kid can't go to school and my neighbors are dying, this is just stupid. this is stupid, wreckless and invincible ignorance on the part of these governors who put demagogue ri over the lives of their con e constituents. >> you're right. i had to fedex have my vaccine records for my kids fedexed so they could enter into new york schools. they lived in florida which is one of the strictest states. you cannot walk into a -- walk your kid into an elementary school in florida until they are fully vaccinated and you can prove it. in the end, is what saves us this is mandates. if you don't like it, just stay home. isn't that going to be the answer in the end? >> i do think they will play a major role especially paired with fda approval.

i will say there are chunks of this country where it is not just an issue of people who have full access and information refusing to get it. i still think we have a lot of work to do and people who do not have access to care and not had equitiable access to good, medical information from trusted sources. i think on the medical side we're really focusing on people for whom mandate is not the issue. it really is equitiable access and after that, chipping away at those who are just putting their foot down and saying i just refuse to get it because of the political rhetoric and i think that's where we need to compel people with mandates. we don't want to go to that. it's just that's where we are with delta and anticipating the next variant because the longer this goes on, the more the variants will emerge. i'm sure we will be talking about lamda, xeta. >> every time someone says

lamda, i want to pass out. these people are playing games letting it mutate because they won't do a simple thing like wear a little mask or get a shot. it's unbelievable. yeah, we got to work on it. if you don't have a doctor and you don't have a doctor to ask then i have empathy for you. if you're being ideological about it, when mandates come, adjust. grow up. thank you very much. up next, the january 6th paper trail. the select committee announces a sweeping request for records of trump and his top lackeys including all of his adult children, except for tiffany. the shame of the republican party. unanimously voting against the john lewis voting rights act in the house as their republican colleagues in texas get ready to vote on their voter suppression bill tomorrow. we are learning there are consequences to racist voter

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acknowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the american people about the election. they are requesting documents and communications relating to a sprawling list of subjects. a list that reads like a whose who in trumps effort to steal the election. people like rudy giuliani, michael flynn. the list includes alex jones of the fake news site info wars who claim he paid for the rally. ali alexander an organizer who implicated three members of congress in the stop the steal effort. roger stone, the trump confidant whose body guards were involved and the leader of the proud boys sentenced to five months in prison this week on weapons and vandalism charges related to his ripping the black lives matter sign off a historic church in washington, d.c. with me is former acting u.s. solicitor general.

all documents referring and relating to qanon, proud boy, stop the steel, the 3 percenters all concerning the election 2020 results. here is another thing they are requesting. all documents and communications related to the mental stability of donald trump or his fitness for office. i will ask you first and then frank what all that says to you. >> that may be a lot of documents. i think this is really significant. i think it underscores the seriousness of the inquiry that the january 6th commission is looking at. when you view it in light of yesterday's order which was to a bunch of telephone companies to require them to preserve all their electronic data about

communications involving january 6th, including with members of congress. it's significant. we haven't had a hearing since the police officer's testified about this which was so moving. i think the investigators have taken a pause and said what do we now need to know. i think the most significant thing you see in today's request is it gets to the heart of something that you and i have both talked about in the past of fear that donald trump used the justice department as a coup agent or tried to use it. we need to know what was the pressure he tried to put on the justice department and what was the response. the trump justice department basically was a blank check for donald trump throughout his presidency but all of a sudden you have themfinding a bit of a spine and saying no. how significant must those demands must have been for even

them to say no. >> what does it say to you as a former investigator, frank, that they are looking for these groups we knew the flames of them. looking for that information and also looking for information on trump's mental stability. >> it's the first significant sign of life we had from the select committee following the testimony of the police officers. this is a very broad records request. i want to try to set expectations here first. let's remember the former president was not someone who engaged in e-mail communications. let's not get excited that we're going to find some smoking gun e-mail communication. there must be some predication here. i do not believe and certainly if we're use the model they

would send out this kind of shotgun request without reason to believe that there were such communications or may have been such communications from the white house to these parties or vice versa. the national archives is the repository of regard for the white house communications. they are for official devices and communications. that doesn't mean that personal phones, personal computers and communications aren't being used by certain folks in and around the white house, including members of congress, which was part of the request and they would capture those communications. here is encouraging news. this sign of life is significant. the investigation is taking off. they have reason to believe this will reap benefits for them.

>> you have been -- you're gentlemen. you didn't touch the mental stability. i'm going to come back to you on this frank. when talking about autocrats. you talk about people who we think of as madmen. it's sort of a way we refer to them. if you're asking for records related to someone's mental stability, that indicates to me, you're questioning whether there were communications whether the president of the united states was mentally stable. that seems significant to me. does it to you? >> yeah, on the theory they would not send out this kind of phishing expedition, it might have been discussed. they requested record that indicate what the president might have been told about the

actual election results. he may have been warned, don't go there. these are certified results, my friend. if he kept pushing back and making stuff up, that would be indcative of a diminished mental state. i think they have reason to believe that kind of thing was discussed. >> i want to ask you about another person that sort of involved in this. sydney powell. this is a federal judge in michigan who sanctioned several pro-trump attorneys, including sydney powell and lin wood ruling they should face punishments undergoing legal education and facing disbarment. their lawsuit about the election was a historic abuse of the judicial process. neil, that seems pretty strong language. are we starting to see the consequences, maybe not for trump but his lawyers are just going to keep getting more

severe? >> yeah. as it says in spinal tap, that goes to 11. you don't see federal judges talking about that to lawyers in my appearance. -- experience. i have no problem with people who take a client's position and fully support it with law and facts. unfortunately, this cast of characters didn't do anything like that. they did the reverse. when the legal profession gets a bad name, it's because of stuff like this. i'm glad to see the judge calling out this conduct because this is -- this is not part of our advocacy tradition in any way shape or form. >> last question, frank. we now know that the officer who shot ashley babbitt will reveal his identity in an interview with lester holt. this comes after his exonerate bid capitol police and saved members and staff from injury. i want to know what you think of this officer coming forward.

>> i'm intrigued and slightly concerned. i'm monitoring communications by violent extremists. they want this guy. many of them already know his identity. it's all over extremist sites now. i'm intrigued by why he feels now he needs to come forward and claim his actions. he's opinion cleared by doj civil rights. he's been cleared by the distribute of columbia and his own internal capitol police inquiry. he was within their policy. he needs to convey that and we need to hear from him as to exactly what he found to be an imminent threat to life for him. >> we're all interested. i believe he can be labeled a hero. he did the best he could. are you sitting down?

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. the right of ordinary men and women to determine their own political future lies at the heart of the american experiment. in four decades since the voting rights act was first passed, we made progress. for equality you have to work for a more perfect union is never ending. >> that was republican president, george w. bush proudly promoting the voting rights act of 1965. since its passage the law has been reauthorized and amended five times with large bipartisan

majorities under a bush, not a single senate republican opposed the bill. only 33 house republicans opposed it. at that time their opposition was viewed as an embarrassment of the republican leadership. in the 15 years since then republican support for voting rights has evaporated. what has deemed shamefully oppressive is proudly central to the republican party. yesterday, house democrats passed legislation that would strengthen the landmark civil rights voting law and not a single republican voted for it. not one. mo brooks defended his opposition by tweeting this. i will vote against hr 4 because much like hr 1, the for the people act, it undermines america's republic and turns our election results into what we see in north korea. venezuela and any other.

he was joined by adam kinsinger and liz cheney. republican who is have been praised for their objection to the big lie. it could neutralize or block many of the voting laws inspired by orange java's big lie. that sounds great for democracy. sadly, the bill faces dim prospect in the senate thanks to joe manchin. voting rights activist of the poor people's campaign met with speaker nancy pelosi to urge immediate action. >> we're hurting. we're scared. we seen january 6th. i'm scared to death of the political insurrection i'm seeing in states. >> this is not for show. my life, my children's live and texas residents lives are at stake. we have elected officials that

are fighting to suppress my vote. >> we're being punished people people participated within this democracy. >> joining me now is the man you just saw, bishop william barber. i want to give you an opportunity to tell us. you met with speaker pelosi. let me play what she said. she also spoke at that rally. let's play real quick. >> i welcome the comments that you have made about policy and a connection between voting rights and policy progress for the people. i do not get involved in rules in terms of the senate and the rest but i do hope that we can make sure that we have success in saving our democracy. >> bishop, give us a sense of what you came out that meeting

today? what commitments were made and what happens next. >> it was a huge meeting. i have even more respect for the speaker. we had 21 people there. for an hour she listened to us make a moral case to say this is bigger than just black and white. this is about the future of this democracy and we helped to lay out what we said is on january 6th, we had a violent physical insurrection that was put down but now we have a political policy insurrection. this is a moral crisis, constitutional crisis for the country. we asked what does it profit america if you hold onto a regressive filibuster, if you pass a limited infrastructure plan but you lose the democracy? you lose the infrastructure

people lives like passing $15 minimum wage and a serious budget that lifts from the bottom. she could hear that. she understood that. these pastors and bishops made it clear, you cannot separate the voting rights struggle from the economic justice struggle. you have to keep them together. what we said to her is the house has to hold the line. yes, we're for infrastructure. i'm for infrastructure. more than they have. we thought it should be 10 trillion dollar over ten years but not without ending the filibuster, passing the for the people's act. passing the voting rights restoration act. those two have to be passed. one is not enough. passing $15 wage and the build back better program. leave the infrastructure of our democracy shattered, broken and

destroyed. >> just to be clear because the one, the house seems to be focused on is the john lewis act which has a lot of great things. hard to believe that republicans would reject it with his name on it but they don't care. it would require changes in election procedures to go through doj approval but that's for the future. that has nothing to do with the laws already passed. what would you like to see? in the ideal world you can make the rules of what democrats could do, what would they do in terms of the strategy in the house? are you talk about holding up all the bills unless they get hr 1? what do you think -- what would you like to see they show they mean they want to pass the bills? >> at least do what the republican senators did. they held up and say we're not going to do this until you give us the infrastructure. at least they should say,

listen, we will pass it but we're not sending the infrastructure bill over by itself with no commitment from you to pass the for the people's act which is the only way you deal with the bills being passed now. it's great. it's got do be done. state has to have had 15 incidents of voter suppression over the last 25 years adjudicated in order to be covered now. that's some states but not all. you can't stop those with voting rights act. you have to have the for the people's act to get dark money out. they could put riders on this bill and say, we're going to get -- we will get the infrastructure but when we do it, the rider will be on it. if your state is engaged in voter suppression, you don't get a dime. the bottom line is fight. this is what politics is about. they should not get everything and poor people, black people and brown people get nothing.

we cannot give up the infrastructure of the democracy. that's why tomorrow we're in west virginia, a moral motorcade. i'm in and getting ready to call other country stars in. this is not just about black folks being attacked. this is about the entire democracy being attacked. how can you give infrastructure that will go to developers and not give $15 living wage to 32 million people. 32 million people who make -- and 65 million poor low wealth voters in this country. the ideal world is fight into the house, hold the line. hold the liep.

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with six days to go before the august 31st deadline to leave afghanistan, the state department gave its full report on the number of americans safely evacuated and those who still remain. >> based on our analysis, starting on august 14th when our operations began, there was a population as many as 6,000 american citizens in afghanistan

who wanted to leave. over the last ten days, rougly 4500 of these have been evacuated. over the past 24 hours, we have been in direct contact with 500 additional americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely. >> while that means more work needs to be done in the coming days, let me try to get ahead of the critics who will bang on with their saigon comparisons. the total number of people air lifted out of vietnam in 1975 was around 7,000. that was done under threat of being shot at and before saigon fell. the pentagon says that more than double that were evacuated from afghanistan just yesterday alone. for a total of nearly 88,000 people with no u.s. casualties. most of this is done after the taliban took control of kabul.

for those who insist that doesn't matter, that the whole enterprise is a failure because it has been messy at times, welcome to war. that's what war looks like especially one we lost a long time ago. you don't want a mess, maybe don't do wars. joining me now, former under secretary of state in the obama administration. i have to start by getting your take on some of this has been such posturing, i have to say. pure political posturing, the response to what's happening in kabul. including by some democrats too. you have two representatives representative peter meijer who is a republican and seth moulton who is a democrat took themselves to afghanistan, went to kabul while people were trying to evacuate. used up resources that should have been used to get people out. they are full of outrage that we are not getting people out.

they took two seats. john kirby said we can't use the resources for you politicians that want to take pictures over here. your thoughts. >> joy, there's a lot of hypocrisy to go around. i would say what those two gentlemen was irresponsible. the administration has asked for no congress people to visit afghanistan during this crisis. one of the things that happens in government they are called codels when congressional delegations come. you have to use resources for the congressmen and women that would go to other people. these two guys had american soldiers guarding them who instead of helping other americans get out or afghan citizen who is helped us get out, they are protecting these two congressmen and then they take the seats when they fly back of people who would come to the united states. there's grand standing and there's dangerous grand standing

and then there's ir responsibility. >> then there's kevin mccarthy. this whole thing he's trying to do now about trying to be speaker of the house, that ain't what he's good at. here he is talking about what he would have done. speaker of the house. that ain't what he's good at. here he is, speaking about what he would have done. >> why wouldn't we keep a base in that geographical region of the world? why would we release it? if only 2,500 troops had to be there? we were securing what we need to do. i don't believe it was right to close the base. you asked me a question, i would have kept it open. >> want to help him out? any ideas on help answer poor kevin's question? >> well, he supported the trump

agreement, which was not even an agreement. it was a going out of business sale without negotiating with our allies, the afghan government. it was the trump administration that set this time bomb off as it exploded now and reduced the amount of soldiers there from 15,000 to 1,500. of course, we have soldiers in the region. we're not going to have them in afghanistan because president biden has decided it's the right thing to get them out, and get as many people out as we can and have this sorry sad chapter in our history be over. >> let's talk about what can be done after. the world bank has already taken some steps to freeze aid to afghanistan, to maybe hold on to their money, to have some leverage over the way they behave. here is their spokesman trying to convince the west that women in afghanistan have nothing to fear from the taliban. take a look with our richard

engel. >> what would you say to afghan women who are tirefied? >> translator: they are sisters. we must show them respect. they should not be frightened. the taliban are humans and from this country. they have fought for their country. women should be proud of us, not scared. >> what are you going to do with that? >> the first thing to know, as you do know, joy, 70% of afghan budget comes from foreign assistance, mainly international institutions and europeans. one of the things that the taliban are doing and it may be honest or not, i don't know. they want to have a more moderate line so they don't lose all of this funding. they don't want to have to take over government and then have absolutely no operating budget. so i would wait and see.

it's in their best interest to be welcoming to women in a modern way i wrote a piece in the "new york times" about the social media campaign they have to try to be -- they want to be the legitimate government of afghanistan and we'll have to see if they do. >> all right. and, right, we assume they're at least rational actors and not wanting to be a pariah state. in the end, we're getting out of it before it's done. richard stengel, thank you very much. don't go anywhere. tonight's absolute worst is going up next as two of the most egregious robo call scammers face the music. and what a tune it is. we'll be right back. it is. we'll be right back. and minerals, now introducing ensure complete! with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪

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there's an entire underbelly involving dirty tricks, flyers and pamphlets, fake officials with their fake official clipboards all designed to keep certain people who don't usual ly look like them from voting. well, sometimes those tricksteres get caught. enter jacob wall and jack berkman two conservative operatives behind illegal robo calls that made false claims about mail voting.

the calls, more than 1,000 of them, targeted black voters in detroit as well as in multiple states ahead of the 2020 election. now we'll play that call. just to be clear, everything you're about to hear is falsitiy false, false, false. >> hi. this is tamika taylor from project 5599 organization founded by jack berkman and jacob wo. l. mail-in voting sounds great but did you know that if you vote by mail your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts? the cdc is even pushing to use records for mail-in voting to track people for mandatory vaccines. don't be finessed into giving your private information to the man. stay safe and beware of vote by mail. >> i hope tamika taylor got a healthy coin in exchange for her soul. a whopping $5.1 million fine

against wohl and burkman making it the largest robo call fine ever proposed for violating the consumer protection act. it's not an original crime. discouraging black people from voting through targeted mailing making bogus claims about penalties for votingying election laws, pony express version of these robo call, hiring off-duty cops to patrol the polls in minority neighborhoods to try to intimidate black voters. when they got caught rnc agreed it a dissent decree. it expired in 2018. kind of makes sense now, right? army for trump poll watchers, poll workers who were harassed, taunted and threatened because after nearly four decades the republican party is now free to sabotage elections again without

restraint. these operatives behind the robo call are picking up where the rnc left off, which is why the long history of republican trick ry to intimidate voters is tonight's absolute worst. no wonder republicans -- no republicans voted for the john lewis bill to restore the voting rights act. they love violating it. that is tonight's reid out. my guest tomorrow night include alexandria ocasio-cortez. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in" -- >> you know that is my message today, that it is the cure for this. >> you support. >> of course. >> new warnings over human use of livestock medicine to treat covid. >> he said i'm taking ivermectin. he has members of his family on ivermectin, disregarding fda guidance and giving dewormer to