>> i believe so, chuck.i have discussed this on your show multiple times. to me it just is astounding. we're dealing with a public health crisis and there's still divisiveness about things like mandating and masks and things like that. let's crush this outbreak and put the divisiveness and differences aside. >> it seems like it shouldn't be that hard to rally people to this message, but it's been very difficult. dr. anthony fauci, thank you for coming on and sharing your expertise and perspective with us. >> thank you, chuck. >> when we c is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? lowering your a1c with once-weekly ozempic® can help you get back in it. oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! my zone... lowering my a1c, cv risk, and losing some weight... now, back to the game! ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. in adults also with known heart disease, ozempic® l

senators, chuck schumer and gillibrand.ernor has no intention of stepping down and categorically denies the accusations laid out in the attorney general's report. it puts cuomo's fate in the hands of new york state lawmakers who were already in the midst of an impeachment hearing. declared that cuomo can no longer remain in office. so, where do we go from here? joining me we have our own yasmin who is in albany and the managing editor of "times union" brendan lyons and chairman of the investigations and government oversight committee, james scoop. i appreciate all of you here. let me start with you and a far simpler question. yesterday we heard from governor cuomo on tape. do we expect to see him today? do we expect to see any remarks? is he going to, at all, take any questions from reporters? >> i wish i knew that answer, chuck, otherwise staked out at his mention. as of now, we don't know if we'll hear from the governor today. he issued a prerecorded statement yesterday. he also issued a statement from his attorney, as we

chuck. >> leigh ann, i'm curious.y, i'm sure last week you didn't think they'd get done what the vote-a-rama as it's called in beltway speak if you will. they moved that reconciliation bill quickly. i guess these senators want to go home. >> yeah, they do. there was 50 hours of debate if they took that up that we would just be in the first hour. and yesterday it's funny, chuck, republicans were telling me yesterday morning that they expected republicans to use all of their time to force this process out. well, that shifted extremely quickly. the vote-a-rama and first step of this reconciliation, $3.5 trillion process is baked. we know all 50 democrats are going to support this first process. so they're already four days late into their summer recess. and so why prolong it any more, chuck. >> and shannon, one of the points we made in first read today, and i'm curious if the white house believes they have to play this role, right now the human infrastructure bill is known for two things -- how big it is and that it's ab

>> absolutely, chuck. as you know, and i've said it several times on your show, you're not going to see a federally -- from the federal government mandating vaccines from the country. i'm almost certain -- in fact, i am certain, that as soon as the fda fully approves the vaccines -- >> i don't mean to interrupt. but when is that? >> you know, chuck, no one wants to get ahead of the fda because they're an independent group that makes their decisions. that's good in many respects because there will never be any concern that we're influencing that. i hope -- i don't predict, but i hope it will be within the next few weeks. i hope it's within the month of august. if that's the case, you're going to see the empower. of local enterprises giving mandates. that could be colleges, universities, places of business, a whole variety. i certainly support that. the time has come, as we have to go the extra step, to get people vaccinated. you want to persuade them and that's good. i believe some people on their own, once

chuck? >> kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you. let me go to the pentagon. hit the main check points. let's go to the pentagon, courtney kube. do we have any new information or details on the attacks themselves? do we have more information, finding out more details of who is wounded, are americans part of the casualty count. what more information have you got? >> americans are part of the casualty count. the military includes casualty to be wounded and killed. what we know so far is there were three u.s. marines that were injured. we are trying to work on whether there may have been any u.s. military killed as well, and we're still working through that at this point. obviously that's something we take seriously and don't want to get wrong. we are working hard to figure out the ground truth. we know there were a number of afghans injured and killed. the video and pictures we are seeing on social media are tough to watch. seems as if these are two large explosions, one at the abbey ga

i'm chuck todd. for the first time since the taliban took control of afghanistan military and civilian leaders will brief reporters in person this afternoon. the silence from lloyd austin and joints chief chairman milley has been notable. as we get more warnings that the white house reportedly received ahead of the troop withdrawal. many military planners were not in favor of any of this. still, multiple officials tell nbc news that top military officials are furious at biden's national security team because they wanted to start evacuating vulnerable afghans as early as may but were not allowed to do so. here at nbc, as well as other news outlets new reporting that the intelligence community warned the white house of a potential collapse and that those warnings were ignored. of course, all of this is somewhat subjective. what one person thinks they brief and what another person think they heard for what it's worth. the white house will not confirm whether president biden received such a dire forecast

i am chuck todd. i have been saying it for months, how covid goes in the united states, so goes the biden presidency. as pandemic numbers increase, the president's numbers are starting to decrease. more than a month ago, president biden declared independence from the virus, covid cases in the united states flat lined to 10,000 a day. we are now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day, 10 times jump. cases are rising in all 50 states, and in places with low vaccinations rates. the administration announced a plan to encourage children over 12 to be vaccinated by the time school starts in fall. the education secretary will be at the white house press briefing, expected to begin any minute. we'll keep an ear on what he says. we have an idea what they're proposing, all of this as most of the country is experiencing substantial, high transmission of the virus. some hospitals and states like arkansas, mississippi, louisiana, florida are breaking records, running out of beds, having to cancel things like elec

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>> he has to stand by it. >> chuck, i think a couple people asked about your book. could you hold it up again so people can see it? >> my baby. >> there, this is the book. it is available through the united states capital historical society in our -- if you go to our website, there is a shop feature and you can get all kinds of wonderful memorabilia from the capital. we have christmas ornaments made with marble from the capital, but fine books like chuck's book. if you want to get the book, come join us if you want to be part of the continuing exploration of capital history. we hope you will come a member and supporter of the capital historical society. thank you very much, we appreciate and chuck, we appreciate the depth of your knowledge and your efforts. >> it was fun, thank you. >> thank you, take care. by. >> a few months prior to the general sixth attack, the u.s. capital tour guide robert pohl shares some of his favorite stories of the u.s. capital historical society. he talks about the late 19th century fed of honeymooners visiting the capital. the electric

very guilty. >> but we were very funny with chuck. did chuck come back? oh, yeah, run pass option. one, the rpm >>> speaking of department stores, reports that amazon is considering large retail locations 30,000 square feet loca locations department stores. >> the stock's down 11% and their solution is brick and mo mortar i don't want that. are they tone deaf we don't want more brick and mortar, we want more amazon. >> negative again for the year. >> we're going back to faang being apple. we're going back to 1a faang and i put the second a in faang, i can take it out. >> you're talking alphabet >> oh, jeez, did you hear dan niles talk about how the -- about how alphabet's the cheapest basically it's ever been that is a very interesting call because they have tremendous growth i know that it is fun to trash amazon right now, and we all -- i think -- i'm waiting for t the -- when they say remember when bezos was ceo i think chassis is amazing people say no, we're not because of the variant we're staying in more than ever. let's say we're still using amazon and the brick and mortar is

>> a few things, chuck.st, we have and will maintain consistent capacity to deal with the reemergence of a threat by afghanistan. we do this in other parts of the world, in yemen, parts of syria. in parts of africa. our capacity to do that is far different and far better it was before 9/11, for example. at the same time the taliban have a certain self-interest in this. they know what happened the last time they harbored a terrorist group that attacked the united states. it's not in their self-interest to allow a repeat of that. >> that seems to be a lot of -- some people might say that's a bit of wishful thinking. the propaganda opportunity that they may have, particularly coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, that has got to scare some folks. isis, when they made their expanse, it ended up inspiring acolytes to do attacks on the west, attacks in this country. are you at all concerned about the propaganda victory these extremists are about to have on the 20th anniversary of 9/11? >> chuck, what we are i

yeah. >> chuck, i think a couple people asked about your book. could you just hold it up again so that people can see it? >> my baby. >> there, this is the book. it is available through the united states capitol historical society. if you go to our website, there is a shop feature and you can get all kinds of wonderfulmemorabilia of the capitol. we have christmas ornaments made with metal from the capitol, and we have books like chuck's books. if you want to get the book, come join us if you want to be part of the continuing exploration of capitol history. we hope you become a member and supporter of the capitol historical society. thank you very much. chuck, we appreciate the depth of your knowledge and the fact that you shared it so well. >> it was fun. thank you. >> thank you. take care. bye. we are honored to have eachf you signed on with us today for our lunch bites with steven jane with a special guester

chuck, i think couple people asked about your book. and so, could you hold it up again so people could see it. >> my baby. >> there this is it the book. it is available through the united states capitol historical society. there's a shop feature and you can get all kinds of wonderful memorabilia of the capitol. we have christmas ornaments made with marble from the capitol but we have fine books like textbooks. so, if you want the book, come join us. if you want to be part of the continuing exploration of capitol history, we hope you'll become a member of the historical society. we appreciate and chuck, we appreciate the depth of your knowledge and the fact we heard it so well. >> it was fun. thank you. >> thank you. take care. bye. >>> a few months prior to the august 6th attack, he talks about the late 19th century fad of honeymooners visiting the capitol. the electric car that traversed the underground passages and a violent episode on the capitol's mini subway system. he's the author of "unruly capitol hill." the historical society

>> thank you for having me on, chuck. will say this rally was a bad idea last year and it's even worse this year. this will be exponentially worse than last year. as you just mentioned more people, we have a hyper transmissable variant. they're not tracking to see if people are vaccinated. people will be indoors for part of the rally as well. so this will not end well at all. we know it will be pretty bad and it's just a matter of time before we see the consequences as well as the fact that many people don't live in the area. they live in the area that's are low vaccination areas. they will be taking the virus to other parts of the country. so we can't use our contact tracing effort. so this will be bad all of the way around. >> look, messaging will not work with some of these folks any more. you know we have been screaming from the top of our links for 150 months now. they view it as they're running out of tools. they think they have done everything they can. do you think they have done everything they can? >> the whole

i'm chuck todd. six days to go until president biden hits that august 31st deadline to fully withdraw all troops from afghanistan. six days from now is also the deadline to evacuate any remaining americans along with the afghan officials who have risked their lives to help us. reporters have been asking the white house for days, how many americans are left in afghanistan and for days, the biden administration has been answering that question with how many people have already been evacuated. but today is the day we do expect to learn at least somewhat of an answer to the question of how many americans remain to be evacuated. he announced that blinken would provide the numbers today. he was supposed to brief last hour. those has been pushed to later this afternoon. regardless of how long it will take to evacuate, it's becoming increasingly apparent that many afghans who are desperate to flee the taliban will not be able to get out of the country, including thousands who helped the u.s. in the past 20 y

i am chuck todd. breaking news here in the city, rattled place as it is, hasn't been that long since january 6th, the u.s. capitol police, federal law enforcement are investigating an active bomb threat, outside library of congress, across from the u.s. capitol complex. here is the captain police chief with details last hour. >> around 9:15 this morning a man in a black pickup truck drove on the sidewalk in front of the library of congress, near 1st and independence southeast. we responded to a disturbance call. driver of the truck told the responding officer on the scene he had a bomb and what appeared the officer said appeared to be a detonator in his hand. >> evacuations were ordered for several buildings, including library of congress, can none house office baghdad, d.c. police are asking some residents who live nearby to evacuate the area on east capitol, another block away. a slew of brown stones. the house and senate are in recess, far fewer people in the capitol complex than usual. capitol pol

chuck todd said a comeback could happen. that sound you just heard, that's the great tim russert rolling over in his grave. you're not going to see andrew cuomo running and winning anything ever again. it can't happen given everything we just laid out. he could be charged criminally by the time this is all done. >> sean: janice, it's appropriate we give you the last word. i like what the governor said and joe said, you still lost your in-laws.. what you went through this week sounds awful. my question is, what was your reaction at joe biden saying "hell of a job he did." that came out of nowhere to me. >> i thought it was a tape from last year when he was wanting cuomo to be his ag. i couldn't believe that it was from today. i would like president joe biden or jen psaki to give me a call and i will give them a rundown of all the things this governor did wrong that led to the deaths of thousands of seniors and maybe if they listen to that, they might have a different opinion. >> sean: tens of thousands when we look at the fou

this is an important point, chuck. their live, livelihoods and opportunities knowing that they can get child care, paidley, health care, and go to community college and address the climate cry s and this is critical. >> congresswoman, you were not here in the health care battle. >> true. >> i am watching a phenomenal develop in the health care bill with this reconciliation bill. parts are popular and poll well, but the overall package does the not poll well. perhaps it is the price tag or the confusion of what is in it, and how do you avoid the similar political problem that the democrats find that some are popular and some are not, and we are where we are. and how do we avoid where we are now? >> well, i just looked at the reconciliation build back better package which is almost as popular and few points less than the whole package and it is remarkable that people do not mind and they are not put off by the price tag, and talking about 3.5 trillion of the package, and at the end of the day, the wealth yels billionaire

mike memoli, chuck todd, and ann anne gearan of "the washington post." on the military piece of it, anne, let me get to you since we haven't brought you into the conversation yet. i got to tell you, fair amount of answers, at least on some of the numbers that we were not super clear on yet from john kirby. still a lot of questions, though, on the way that this unfolds, and what this situation is like for those americans who cannot actually get to the airport at this point. what did you hear that stood out to you, anne? >> yes, hallie, there was a lot, you're right, there was a lot of information provided there. in terms of what's likely to happen for the next few days, it's clear that the american military has really gotten hold of the airport pretty quickly. came in there, as john kirby was talking about, the 82nd airborne doing what it does getting the runways opened, making the trains run on time and flights are leaving and departing as planned. that seems like a sustainable situation for several days at the very least so long as the taliban keeps the

>> i had a similar feeling, chuck. way in which the ghani government clamsed, inability of the afghan military that we worked so hard to train to fight effectively around the country and in kabul in a sense seemed to support biden's view this just wasn't ever going to work, time had come to get out. the caution i make is the force we had left was small, has been small for several years. as one former senior commander put it to me, we have been buying a term insurance with this small force. we gave up long ago what ideas we might have had about nation building, about broad counter insurgency, term insurance, we buy it year to year, force of under 5,000 people the last several years that allows us to have some confidence that we can deal with the terrorism problem that we know is very real in afghanistan. that's what i think biden can be faulted for. he traded the term insurance policy for what at least in the last week has been chaos. we'll see if things stabilize now with the taliban taking over, holding press conferen

how does this go over, this stuff that's happening with chuck grassley?e, we've been talking about what happened on one six. and the fact that senator grassley was someone who should have known better, who should have known to push back against the lies. and not only the lies that day, that led to my friends and former colleagues get attacked by a violent mob that was fed disinformation and lies. he actually pushed those compares the theories himself. and when we talk about that, the folks that come up to me afterwards, they have tears in their eyes and they go, what happened to the guy? how did he become this? and i don't have answers for them. i don't know why he has decided to give up on democracy like this. but i will tell you, we will defeat him. because again, you do not get to talk about democracy in the way that he has, you do not get to subverted the way that he has. and at the same time that you are keep going to get reelected. that's not how this works, not what we did what we did in 2018, where we flipped seats, we actually won statewide in th

the far left has taken over the democrat party and the pressure that chuck schumer must be under hisd bernie sanders to offer this build is 3.5 trillion which we talked about before probably will wind up being north of $5 trillion when it is over, what he's done is move the entire democrat contingent so far left to the point it looks like aoc is calling the shots right now. maria: before we move on to the border, what kind of taxes should we expect from the 5 trillion-dollar bill coming in the fall now that the senate has paved the way for, who is getting a tax increase? >> first i'll say, everybody is. what's happening there accelerating inflation that a norm is pace, were seen inflation on the run in america right now, that's the most pernicious tax because it affects everybody the retirees the most everyone's dollars are worthless. what the $3.5 trillion of additional money along with a 1.2 trillion infrastructure will put more and more money into the economy and more inflationary pressure that will be the broadest base tax but to come back to your question this will cause corpora

i'm chuck todd. we've been watching the white house covid briefing as the white house battles against a run away delta variant and waning immunity from the vaccine. in this briefing moments ago the cdc director strongly indicated the fda is about to for the first time green light a third shot for some immune compromised americans. >> fda is working with pfizer and moderna to allow boosters for these vulnerable people. an additional dose could help increase protection for these individuals, which is especially important as the delta very -- variant spreads. this is about ensuring our most vulnerable who may need an additional dose to enhance the biological responses to the vaccines are better protected against covid-19. >> dr. walensky said that the cdc would be meeting tomorrow to discuss the fda's expected action and next steps. the fda's move will come amid an alarming surge of infections and hospitalizations across the country while primarily affecting the unvaccinated, not just the unvaccinated c

we're going to see chuck schumer take to the podium soon. they passed a massive bipartisan infrastructure deal. the question now, though, what will the house do? and how fast can poshl money for new roads, bridges, and internet in rural areas get to the state? we'll get to that next. we'll get to that next i'm so lucky to get him back. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ - i'm norm. - i'm szasz. to deliver our technology as-a-service. [norm] and we live in columbia, missouri. we do consulting, but we also write. [szasz] we take care of ourselves constantly; it's important. we walk three to five times a week, a couple miles at a time. - we've both been taking prevagen for a little more than 11 years now. after about 30 days of taking it, we noticed clarity that we didn't notice before. - it's still helpin

nbc news political director chuck todd, thanks. >>> and you can be sure to join chuck for "meet the press." he will have secretary of state antony blinken, disease expert michael osterholm and richard engel who is in kabul. tune in to "meet the press" at 8:00 a.m. after this news cast. >>> as we mentioned california voters will decide whether to recall governor newsom in about a month from now. the governor is making campaign stops in los angeles this weeked. one stop was in boyle heights where he thanked volunteers who have been encouraging voters to vote no on the recall. the weekend of action will stretch into monday with a morning event in san jose. while the official election is in four weeks ballots are already arriving in mailboxes and they can be mailed back or put in dropboxs as soon as monday. >> this is about turning in the votes, which you can do today in these -- these things have stamps on them. you send them right back in. >> the ballot has two questions, should newsom be recalled and if so, who should take his place. there are 46 candidates on the ballot including nine fel

>> no timing update yet on this speech, chuck. the pool of reporters that would go for the remarkets has not even been called yet. so we're looking at the chunk of time here to wait for this to start. >> chunk of time, an official forecast that we use here these days. no worries i know the feeling of the tap dancing. we're all sticking around for this, but i'm going to sneak in a commercial break here. up next after another dependent targeting the capital, he is in court right now days after federal authorities warned again about the rise of domestic violent extremism and the threat to us as americans. e threat to us as americans ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ people with moderate to severe psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the way they exaggerate the surprises they initiate. otezla. it's a choice you can make. otezla is not an injection or a cream

chuck price was happy to oblige.ow what to expect, so we fashioned more cameras to the rig than nasa glued to the apollo rockets. >> maureen fitzgerald: is everybody buckled in? >> buckled in. >> fitzgerald: all right-- three, two, one. >> wertheim: and we hit go. >> truck computer: autonomous driving started. >> wertheim: we sat in the back alongside the computer. in the front seat, maureen fitzgerald, a trucker's trucker with 30 years experience. babysitting, with no intention of gripping the wheel, but there just in case. riding shotgun, an engineer, john panttila, there to monitor the software. the driver-less truck was attempting a 65-mile loop in weekday traffic through tucson. the route was mapped and programmed in before the run, but that's about it. the rest was up to the computer, which makes 20 decisions per second about what to do on the road. as we rolled past distracted drivers, disabled cars, slowpokes and sheriffs, our safety driver kept vigil, but never disengaged the driver-less system. >> john pant

chuck mentioned a coronation. i just hope it's a coronation of support and that she doesn't make it a coronation of herself as she gets sworn in. this is still a very difficult time for new york and i think her top priority will be reassuring new yorkers that she's ready to deal with the delta variant. she is ready to lead on day one, and she will take us through this difficult time which she's very capable of doing. it will be very interesting to see how things line up. she is not from new york city and new york city is the key in political primaries. democratic primaries in new york state. so we'll see how she does, but i expect her to do very well as far as leadership goes. >> emma, we are showing you also on a split screen there is what is gathering. a crowd of reporters and others, gathering outside the manhattan office of andrew cuomo from where he was speaking. thank you to susan del percio for your insights. i want to bring in former maryland congress donna edwards and brandon buck. donna, first to you. yo

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chuck schumer took to the chuck schumer took to the senate floor for a victory lap with a twist. >> weave come to an agreement for final passage of the bipartisan infrastructure proposal as we move forward we are proceeding on both tracks. the track of the bipartisan infrastructure proposal and the track of the budget resolution with reconciliation instructions. >>laura: just went into end aoc. wanted he said that double tracking it's impossible tracking it's impossible because just last week the bec so-called republican senator cassidy of louisiana told me something very different. >> we think it's less likely to pass somehow if i may laura makes that bill less likely to pass but if we sink this and marry them to gay on —- it's more likely to pass. >>laura: who was right and wrong? wrong? joining me now with a final warning louisiana senator kennedy from the senate budget committee and voted properly on this so-called infrastructure bill. your message tonight to your 18 colleagues who took the path to help biden to throw him aato lifeline now three.5 t. >> i can share with you my pers

. >> on friday after a meeting at the white house, biden, kamala harris, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer all, quote, agreed on the moral imperative of passing

chuck, what does this mean for the democratic party in new york and nationally >> well, it's a big sigh of relief both for democrats in new york and for democrats nationally cuomo a national brand name he had the ability to drag this out. it could have sullied democrats up and down the ballot, could have cost them a couple of house seats, which could cost them control of congress. but now that's not there. and now the democrats have the rest of this calendar year to regroup. so while he's not been an asset to the democratic party for a year, on this move he actually helped the party and put the party before himself >> all right chuck todd, thanks >>> the covid situation worsening tonight, especially in parts of the country with lower vaccination rates. almost 167 million now fully vaccinated that brings us to just over 50% cases up by over 190,000. and 630 new deaths reported according to an nbc news count. morgan chesky is in hard-hit texas this evening. >> reporter: tonight delta driving covid cases to dangerous highs. the variant now tied to 93% of u.s. infections the biggest spikes

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should chuck schumer be afraid of aoc? the progressive congresswoman not ruling out a primary challenge with the senate minority leader for when he's up for re-election next year. >> are you going to challenge