with clergy for major action on the second of august in d.c. on constitution avenue. these things can be done and the congress can do all of this and more. the last thing we need is to pass an infrastructure bill, which is good, thank god for the three something trillion, but we really need 10 trillion or 6 trillion ought to be the baseline according to many economists. the last thing would be to pass an infrastructure bill why we let the infrastructure about democracy go down and be torn apart. it is not either or. it is both things. that is what we need to happen. we say to everybody who joins us, forward together. forward together, not one step back. host: poorpeoplescampaign.org, reverend william barbour, we always appreciate your time. guest: thank you and god bless you. host: about 15 minutes left in our program. we will take your comments on your top news story of a busy week. phone lines for democrats, (202)-748-8000. republicans, (202)-748-8001. independents, (202)-748-8002. go ahead and start calling in. we will be right back with you

you are a clergy and business,it is your job to do.nell, to have him realize,blocking to his own people is knotts a goods thing. >> too many republicans believe having their own konts wents suffer is fine. >> well, let's be real. long before trump, republican party decided they're going to make -- that was decided long time ago. it is just coming in full at this moment. connect them with black folks in louisville. we must come together. what we got to do is push the democrats, the use of power they have. i would love to convince mitch mcconnell. there is a script that says only god can change the lem pard spot. we not 51 -- sinema, you need to decide, which side are you on? it is time to use those 51 votes to do what's right for this democracy. the way we push that to happen is that we got to show and even the democrats, democrats and republicans want minimum wages and that's what we got to put in the street. if we let this be a black and whitish, we lose on that. if we make it a moral issue, a constitutional issue, and it will be chan

when a member of the clergy abuse as a child. obviously the kind of gross abuse of power undermines public trust institutions. a familiar form of corruption. it is not new. there are plenty of examples so it doesn't exactly explain how a distinct loss of confidence another way they can lose the trust is that they failed to impose it doesn't even seem to see that as its purpose what they no longer see as a mold of their character or behavior but just as a platform for themselves to raise their profiles when we don't think our institutions as formative our political institutions are stages for outbreaks when university becomes virtues signaling and they are harder to trust their not asking for trust just attention the book lays out how that has happened in a series of key institutions with the academy and the media corporate america parts of suit civil society into the role of social media and then a character and ultimately that they could push back just a little against the trend. that has the assertion of personal commitment and

. >> in an uphill battle to get vaccines into arms, members of the clergy are getting involved in the push to vaccine. >> if you had not had your vaccination, then you are part of the problem. let's make an attempt at getting back to some normalcy, protecting ourselves and others. >>> blue origin founder jeff bezos is preparing for a rocket-powered 11-minute excursion to the edge of space. >> i wanted to go on this flight because it's a thing i've wanted to do all my life. it's an adventure. it's a big deal for me. ♪ >>> i'm pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this sunday. you are live in the cnn newsroom. as more and more places try to emerge from this coronavirus cocoon, the delta variant may have other plans. days before the u.k. lifts restrictions, the prime minister needs to self-isolate. here in the united states, half the country is at risk of catching this powerful strain. >> this variant is so contagious, it's going to infect the majority. most people will get vaccinated or have been previously vaccinated or they wil

there was the nobility and the clergy in the present. some of the peasants were moving up in that area. francis came from a wealthy family and he had everything he wanted and he was kind of a playboy. he had a reputation in the town and was not always a good one i don't think. his dream was to go to riverside. he was on his way to join them and he was in some battles i got knocked off his horse and he was held prisoner for a year . he had some dreams and some visions then but it was a very dark time for him. when he went home his father was not happy with him and francis had somehow heard back call from the lord deep inside himself. he realized that he was repelled by some things in society and for him it was the lepers. >> yes, okay. b mac so as he went on with his life and realized he still wanted to go up to the crusades but francis had a dream in which the lord said to him francis, do you want to serve, you want to serve? the lord or the master? of course, he wanted to serve the master and so he began to think and gradually his conve

tons of clergy members and folks praying this morning.praying for about the past half hour, praying to cover those lawmakers who are in washington, d.c., that as they have those conversations with people like senator joe manchin, like the possibility of a meeting with the president that it will have an impact and it will move things and change things here in texas. and when they complete these prayers, all of these folks are going to be heading inside of the state capitol and will be lobbying those lawmakers who remain here against the passage of these more restrictive voting laws. as one preacher put it when he was up there, they want to pray the hell out of those lawmakers. they say this is something that's happening in the political space and now they're taking it up to the spiritual level. they want to see movement. they want to see impact. when they finish at the state capital, heading to the governor's house. hallie, back to you. >> priscilla thompson in texas, thank you. >>> with that meeting with texas senators and joe manchin hap

well, as we found out last night, it's not just doctors or members of the clergy showing unat your door's far left activist groups like action nc who have this big old resist fist right there on their home page. that got us thinking that couldn't be the only progressive group going door to door passing out vaccine info. well, it turns out we were right. i hate that we are right, but we were. it's a long list of groups like ie united whose progressive platform pushes radical racial reforms and calls for climate justice. its website also links directly to planned parenthood. and alliance s.d. a group that wants to build a more progressive san diego. and the cnc education fund whose liberal agenda extends to immigration, healthcare for all, and the environment. and i'm sure all of these trusted messengers are going door to door for free, right? just out of the goodness of their heart. they couldn't be using covid outreach as an opportunity, i don't know, to line their pockets with government money and freshen up the old voter databases. here's a document we got from canvassers in lake coun

have anything to say to religion and the scientists in berkeley don't want to talk to presbyterian clergy so it's parallel tracks. again, what is the dialogue and how do you get people talking together all of that approach and what are you hopeful about? >> that's a great question. one of our programs we got a grant you can imagine from the national institute of health about the human gee gnome project. to find cures. >> how many genes do we have? >> 300,000. >> so any case this project was to look at the theological implications of the project and it's a good example saying it's not just ethical questions. but when people say well, god created me this is my body and yet, my own cells and genes are producing a disease that could kill me. where is god in all of that? does god love and work with me and through those diseases. how do i understand the devine intimacy. these are spiritual questions that go beyond the ethical questions whether you inform the family and employer and different issues. the feedback to the scientists would be again i'm using this model of a bridge traffic going bot

comfort and faith displayed through clergy clutching rosaries, rabbis in prayer as rescue efforts now turn to the first day of recovery rachel spiegel's mother judy is still missing. >> it's so difficult and what i'm really dreading is the next phase. i'm not quite yet there personally my family's not quite there, and my kids are not there. >> reporter: tonight, miami-dade fire and rescue telling families we mourn with you. this powerful scene against a backdrop of community-wide concern. right now many residents in neighboring miami beach want to know what risk am i at with my building. there are about 5,000 commercial properties in miami beach, and around 500 of them are undergoing some form of recertification right now. the city immediately sprang into action how soon after the collapse did you jump in on inspections? >> the next day, friday >> reporter: city manager alina hudak says miami beach just wrapped up a visual inspection of all those buildings as it awaits a deeper dive within 21 days, and 15 complexes, 10 of them occupied, have been red-flagged for visual deficiencies wh

with clergy and workers. clergy and low wage worker, a mass of them to in fact engage in direct action. and everybody needs to get in where neck get in. you don't have to be under the same banner but we need to be in the same battle >> you make this connection for wages. for poor people. and for democracy. i was talking to dolores jaurta register vote esper in 1955 because she understood if the voters do not have fravrpz, their right, it affects all decisions about them including keeping people in poverty >> exactly right. that's why we don't need to make the choice between physical infrastructure and protecting the infrastructure of our democracy. we don't knee need to say we need to build bridges but stop people people from voting. dr. ic king says the great fear of the southern arrisocracy. we can't see this as a race issue. it's a race issue and targeted at black people. but it's not -- when you look at these bills and look at texas, west virginia, the bills passed, it will hurpt white people. it will hur

those messengers could be your family doctor, it could be a clergy person, it could be a community leader could be a sports figure. it could be the people who are really trusted by the community. so you're absolutely right. telling people you've got to get vaccinated, you've got to get vaccinated -- i think it is important to point that out. people do need to know, not in a prejorative way, but just look at the data. 99.5% of all of the deaths are among unvaccinated people. so we have vaccines that are highly, highly affective. and what we need to do is to get those trusted messengers, which we're trying to do, to get out into the community and explain to people, you know, in a non-finger-pointing way why it is important to get vaccinated. >> dickerson: the delta variant acts differently, depending on the vaccination. massachusetts has a high vaccination rate, and mississippi has a low one. if the delta variant is the majority variant in the country and it is only going to get worse, tell me how people who live in those two states should think about the delta variant, given the levels of

he was dismissed from the clergy in 2019 after a vatican investigation confirmed decades of rumors thatested adults and children. correspondent: former cardinal theodore mccarrick has been charged with the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. mccarrick was the former archbishop of washington dc, and that makes him the highest ranking catholic priest ever to face sexual abuse charges in the u.s. the alleged victim says the assault happened at a wedding in wellesley, massachusetts, in 1974. mccarrick is 91 years old and was well respected within the church until accusations of sexual abuse surfaced in 2018. a year later, the catholic church defrocked him and expelled him from the priesthood. he has faced civil lawsuits in new york and new jersey, but he has not been expected to face criminal charges because the statutes of limitation had expired in those instances because they happened so long ago. now, officials in massachusetts, according to the boston globe which broke the story, says he can be charged because he was not a resident of the state of massachusetts and therefore the statute

. >> reporter: here in texas, hundreds of clergy members and civil rights leaders descended on the south steps of the capitol. they kicked things off with a prayer for those texas democrats who have fled the state and are in washington, d.c. holding those meetings around this federal voting legislation, and then they prayed about this bill that is currently making its way through the texas legislature saying that while the gop may control both chambers here, it is god who has the ultimate power to intervene on this legislation that they say is unnecessary. and, so, what these folks did after holding those prayers is they went inside to speak with republican lawmakers about their opposition to these bills. and so you've got the democrats from texas in d.c. you've got folks on the ground here all in opposition to these bills. but it remains to be seen what impact, if any, this will actually have on whether or not these bills become law phillip? >> doing everything they can with so much at stake. >>> let's see how we're going to end the week weatherwise and get a check of your friday foreca

it started last year was a pressure from 20 nan islamic clergy and highlands is who said, just the arguments as we are news to himself. the convention is to gain some additional family values of 2. okay. and if normalizing homosexuality, just because the convention policies that the same protection is also to be provided for thank you so much for joining us and explaining that to us. i'm detail time today the international gemini well take a look at some more stories making news around the world now starting the u. k. where prince, william, i'm prince harry and veiled stature. their late mother of what would have been her birthday, dine, it was killed in a parish car, crash. 19770 briefly reunited. 2 brothers will be the odds of allegations and racism within the drawing. a coach in the united states has denied the request by the sing a britney spears to remove her father from the guardianship arrangement, gives him control of her offence. the ruling is independent of testimony given by students last week that she, that she had been abused under the arrangements. bill cosby has been freed fro

he was dismissed from the clergy in 2019. after about a good investigation confirmed decades of rumors that he sexually molested adults and children. john henry has more from washington d. c. former cardinal theodore mckerick has been charged with the sexual abuse of a 16 year old boy. mckerick was the former archbishop of washington dc, and that makes him the highest ranking catholic priest ever to face sexual abuse charges in the us. the alleged victim says the salt happened at a wedding in wellesley, massachusetts, in 1974. mckerick is 91 years old and was well respected within the church until accusations of sexual abuse surfaced in 2018. a year later, the catholic church diffract him and expelled him from the priesthood. he has faced civil lawsuits in new york and new jersey, but he has not been expected to face criminal charges because the statutes of limitation had expired in those instances because they happen so long ago. well, now, officials in massachusetts, according to the boston globe which broke this story say

and as we're finding out murders by the staffing clergy that run the schools, so they were run an administrative by the church, the cat, the roman catholic church, the anglican churches, and a few others. i know you've so kanisha, pictures of your mom and dad, so i'm going to show a picture of your mom and dad right here. and these are pictures of the hud. you know, so this is your dad. how does he have his 5 years old dad try now? and then this is my mother. i need to, i mean, you well, what happened to they were both taken away at 5 and 6 years old. and you know, really parent her, their parents didn't really understand and even the generation before my parents, they got caught up in kind of the tv sanatorium in the hospitals. so they didn't have the opportunity to be parents for their children. and just as my grandparents started a really young age and just as a result of kind of the same sort of policies and legislation that were set out to kind of have this genocide effect on the indigenous people in the country. i'm going to bring in here melanie clinker. tony haven't listened to what mela

how's that clergy nationwide marshall for 15 days with the army patrolling the streets to ensure a compliance the country's borders have also been closed. local journalists filed this report for us. we are now in front of the private residence of the presidents . if you see jovan eloise, who was a suffocated on the 9th of july, the 6th, the 7th, by a group of men who have yet to be identified. now representatives of the country high court have met with relatives of the victims on the family of the capital of porto, printed mc. absolutely. all activities have been suspended for private and state, and businesses have shot the doors to the country's 1st lady was also shows an injured. she's been lifted to a hospital in miami for treatment, 80 some buster to the u. s. a martine, we see, is in a stable but critical condition. ortiz john hubby picked up the story. it was a brazen and calculated attack. gunman storming the private residence of haitian president giovano mois. he just after 1 am wednesday morning shooting him to death and wounding his wife. martine, the 53 year old haitian president a

over 14, he was dismissed from the clergy in 20. 19. after a vatican investigation confirmed decades, rumors that he actually molested adults and children, dozens of people have been killed in a taxi turf for in the south african city of cape town. rival companies are fighting for control of a busy route. the violence is spot fair among compete, commuters and drivers are ben smith spoke to some of them with millions of south africans dependent on public transport. the government is not taking any chances. rival, taxi associations have been fighting for ownership other busy route. confrontations have raged for years, and it's got worse. with more than 80 people killed so far this year. 24 of them in july alone. among those injured a 5 month old baby, senators, drivers and bystanders say they are living in fear. we can't exactly dive like the way we used to this is because, you know, the, with the, with the got to shoot to guys. so the 3 guys came in and around the corner and then just enjoying the fun side of the container where we know

over 14 years old, he was dismissed from the clergy in 2019 after a vatican investigation confirm decades of rumors that he'd sexually molested adults and children. several tornadoes have touched down in the u. s. state of pennsylvania and wisconsin killing at least one person, a line of powerful storms, tor houses apart, prompting emergency declarations. tens of thousands of households are waiting to get their electricity switched back on. the lake and southern argentina has turned and alarming say to pink environmentalists, blame it on pollution from a nearby industrial park, and they say the lake is now so contaminated. no fish or wildlife can survive in its peruse. new president, pedro christine, has appointed a member of his own party. as prime minister, the move is expected to raise eyebrows among investors weary of the new left his government, and its casting dose on his ability to find political consensus. arianna sanchez reports from lima. the region is peruvians bring offerings to the pump, liking law, which is where their ancestors for the last battle for independence from spai

. >> the two met with clergy to address the city is increasing crime cuomo pledging to work in partnership there similar philosophies as progressives. >> new orleans police say a shortage of personnel as crime rates in the city go up and residents feel unsafe. joining the president of the police association of new orleans michael glasser. tell us what you are dealing with. how bad is the police staffing shortage in new orleans? >> it should be 1600 commissioned officers, we are at about 1000 which puts us at 60% where we should be and the number keeps dropping. jillian: why do you think that is happening? >> a variety of issues. like every other major american city we experience the anti-police sentiment that is a national issue. defunding efforts by city government, overriding scrutiny of officers citizen contacts all the time and the district attorney who now refuses to prosecute many misdemeanors and some felonies and all but illuminated cash bail and none of those things are conducive to hiring and retaining our officers. >> all of the resulting in new orleans residents feeling unsafe.

heard them talk about the marathon public hearings and they didn't change much but today there are clergyng for the move on these bills and i want you to listen to what one of those pastors chaired earlier today at the rally that just occurred. >> simply we are remixing the words of that great sister in that phenomenal movie and hit wrl she said you don't have to lie. there is no evidence of voter fraud in texas. you don't have to lie, and use a black man to justify the lie ta you were doing. >> and i want to talk about the mood on the ground here, you see the hem nants and they say they're not going to let anything turn them around you can hear the gospel music playing as they make this pitch to the lawmakers that remain here and we feel like this is a big issue and it is time to move out of the political space and into the spiritual place to see if that has an impact they say why the g.o.p. may control the legislature it is god that is in control and i want to say certainly not lot on folks here. one of the signs that i saw out in the crowd was directed at him and we need to act on vote

clergy from time to time. and that is where we have invested our funding and resources. we have seen almost every former president play a role in putting out a p.s.a. making sure people understood in the country that the vaccine is safe and effective. we don't believe that first and embroidered invitation to be a part of. but certainly any role of anyone who has a platform where they can provide information to the public that the vaccine is safe, it is effective, we don't see this as a political issue. we certainly welcome that engagement. reporter: about those texas democrats. since the vice president met with the texas democratic lawmakers, five of whom tested positive for covid-19, is there any safety concern about her spending time around the president until a certain amount of time has passed? jen: first i would say i think the vice president's office put out that she was tested. and that she -- there is no detection of covid-19. they also put out some specific details about their proximity to the individuals who tested positive as well. we take these precautions in

this is grassroots volunteers, members of the clergy, these are volunteers who believe people across the country, especially in low vaccinated areas should have accurate information and information about where they can get vaccinated, where they can save their own lives and their neighbors life and their family members lives. that is exactly what this is. it's something that has been going on since april and it is something where we have seen an impact in states where there are lower vaccination rates, so it is something we will continue to work with local groups to do and it is a service to the country and to people who may lose their lives were family members to provide inaccurate information we are still fighting a pandemic. reporter: two questions on the president trade agenda. he has spoken a lot about why america, but when can we expect -- about why america, but when can we expect anything about lifting the trump tariffs or u.k. talks? jen: this is under the preview of ambassador tie, someone working every day to commute kate what our agenda is. i don't have anything to predict

that could be clergy. to get people to put aside this political issue.d: fauci suggesting friends should check your vaccine status. 49% of republicans said they will get the vaccine. ashley: richard branson beats jeff bezos and elon musk to become the first billionaire to blast off into the final frontier. >> we're here to make space more accessible to all and we want to turn the next generation of dreamers into the astronauts of today and tomorrow. ashley: the historic flight traveling more than 50 miles above the earth's surface, the crew experiencing zero gravity before returning to earth. virgin galactic is set to start commercial space flights next year. todd: how cool is that shot, right? ashley: it's cool but there's not enough money in the world to get me to do that. todd: me too. mele, she's like she's ready to go to face tomorrow. ashley: it's a no for me. todd: protesters filling the streets to cuba, demanding an end to the country's dictatorship and with democrat policies skewing further to the left, comerica become the next failed socialist

it's grassroots volunteers, members of the clergy, volunteers who believe that people across the countryecially in low vaccinated areas have accurate information. >> that from jen psaki at the white house. as you can imagine there are still concerned that some teachers unions may not intend to follow the cdc's recommendations, calling instead for more stringent protocols to return to it in person learning as "the wall street journal" today highlighted numerous studies showing there's almost no risk to children, relatively speaking, noting that 99.995% of those who get covid survive it. the flu and many other illnesses for that matter are far more lethal to children. shannon. >> shannon: okay. we are debating kids, masks and those things. i am hopping on a flight tomorrow. passengers grumbling over having to wear their masks. one passenger is facing a hefty fine. i'm not going to risk that. for not properly wearing the mask. >> pretty crazy. let me tell you this is a widespread problem so when you hear about individual case where someone is really getting hammered with a fine, they're not

engaged, funded local voices, because they are often the most trusted voices, doctors, medical experts, clergy, people who are members of civic leaders and communities. that is where we are putting most of our resources even as we are working to combat misinformation traveling online or traveling out of the mouth of elected officials from time to time. go ahead. reporter: on ransomware. the president said last week he's having a meeting tomorrow with the u.s.-russian working group on ransomware. and you say more about that -- can you say more about that? [indiscernible] it made sense to go after servers [indiscernible] >> i would say that the meeting, which i believe was yesterday, is part of ongoing engagements that have been occurring at the expert level since the president met with president putin. it's been ongoing. no one meeting is necessarily decisive. it's about having a continued discussion about our expectations and steps that need to be taken to address ransomware attack's cyber attacks, and with the capacities are in information that we have. in terms of specific actions, the presi

contractors, politicians, even the clergy. even the clergy. so, commissioners, you need to reach out to the department of justice for help. this is an emergency. this first-class city is now known as a very corrupt city proven by some politicians at other levels, saying san francisco should redeem itself, and san francisco has a city has been compared to rwanda, a third world nation. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. dacosta. are there any further callers in the queue? >> clerk: please stand by. madam chair, there are no more callers in the queue. >> all right. public comment, then, on agenda item 13 is closed. and before i move for adjournment, i just wanted to say, commissioner bush, the further comment you had on the executive director report, if you want to bring that to my attention and director pelham, i'll follow up with you on that. i don't want to, i mean, go back and reopen that agenda item and public comment on that matter again. >> thank you. >> and i don't know about you, but i'm hungry, so i'm going to adjourn the

nurse dying from covid, a 30-year-old clergy member both unvaccinated and i know you could not get intohe specifics of their cases for privacy reasons, but we just moments ago heard more than 50 big health organizations like the american medical association, like the american academy of pediatrics say it is time to mandate all hospital employees be vaccinated across the country. do you agree with that? >> yeah, i think that is the right thing to do. both from protecting the very front line and vulnerable people that work there, they deserve to beb protected. and from a patient's perspective, when you go into a hospital, you want the assurance that you're not given a disease you didn't come there to get. and a lot of patients are there. and i do think it is the right thing. more hospitals will do it certainly once full fda approval comes, think we'll see more institution moves in that direction. >> do you believe -- i mean you've seen the resistance from many within your state. what do you think that would look like if all hospitals in louisiana were to mandate that? >> well i think if p

frankly, when a member of congress does wrong, ike a lawyer, when a lawyer does wrong, a member of the clergy does wrong, they need to be held accountable. our police, to whom we give a great deal of power and we demand courage and integrity, that they as well should be accountable when they do things that are obviously and wrong and harmful and against justice in america. >> and i might add as i say often, it is not an anti-police bill at all. >> absolutely not. >> for police, because it keeps good police, which are the majority, from being smeared by those that step out of line with no accountability. i have to go back to something you said as i let you go. we have marched across edmund pettus bridge together and some of the commemorative marches. you and i would be among those that go with john lewis every year. i can honestly say in private conversations there is no one john lewis respected more than you, congress hoyer. and thank you for being with us, congressman steny hoyer. >>> coming up on "politicsnation," republicans want you to believe crime is running wild and president biden is

brought together survivors, foreign policy experts, and clergy from around the world, convening in d.con, who live in countries where religious persecution is an occurring. enemy number one, china. >> more religions and religious believers, aggressively promote communist ideology or else. to drive home the point, religious believers of any persuasion are harassed, jailed, and tortured. >> former secretary of state mike pompeo warned of dire consequences if the biden administration continues to make climate change its number one priority with china. >> at the expense of allowing religious oppression to fester and grow throughout the world. >> although all religions suffer persecution in various parts of the world, experts say the most persecuted is christianity. shannon? >> shannon: lauren green, thank you so much. pastor of a community church in texas praying for god's mercy following a wave of covid-19 infections connected to the mega-church's student ministry camp. bringing robert jeffress. vaccine hesitancy among americans of faith and how his very large church has tried to navigate

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you had members of the community standing amongst first responders, joined by members of the clergy whoe saying prayers as people held candles and clutched rosaries. one of the families of those still missing telling me that as they now approach this thought of a worst-case scenario, they just want to be reunited with their loved ones to say good-bye. craig? >> closure. morgan chesky, thank you. >>> and another major story. the countdown to the olympics with opening ceremonies just 15 days away, overnight japan declared a new state of emergency in tokyo because of mounting covid concerns. how will that impact the games? tom llamas is in tokyo for us. good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning to you. the olympics here in tokyo will make history but not the type of history organizers were hoping for the first olympics we know of taking place in a host city under a state of emergency, and we just learned spectators are being banned from the events at the olympics. this morning, japan declaring a covid-19 state of emergency in tokyo, the move set to collide with the start the olymp

this comes as over 400 politicians, intellectuals, clergy members, artists, activists, and former headsf state are calling on biden to immediately lift the 243 sanctions the trump administration imposed on cuba. the group, which includes former brazilian president luiz inÁcio lula da silva, noam chomsky, and cornell west, have printed an ad in "the new york times" headlined "let cuba live." congressmember and congressional black caucus whip hank johnson was arrested thursday, alongside prominent african-american voting rights advocates, as they protest ongoing attacks on budding rights in front of a senate building. harvard professor and former naacp president cornell william brooks, black voters matter co-founder cliff albright, and color of change president rashad robinson were also among those arrested. before their arrest, the men were joined by other activists and black congressmembers on the steps on the supreme court where they called for abolishing the filibuster and for senators to pass the for the people act. this is rashad robinson speaking yesterday. >> don't come to us and

doctors, medical experts, clergy, you know, people who are members of civic leaders in communities.ting most of our resources. >> pete: okay. they are not politicizing it. we don't know exactly hot white house is funding or empowering. but we do know that some of the quote trusted messengers knocking on americans' doors they are not doctor, pastors and leaders. fauci and friends are making them out to be. in fact, this week we showed you how the trusted messengers in north carolina who are gathering information and giving out shots at your door were largely democrat political operatives belonging to groups like action nc. and we showed a bunch of other groups in other states involved in similar efforts all left wing groups. which calls into question what exactly are they doing with all the data they are collecting? and as it turns out, this is much more widespread than we initially thought. it's not just happening as we said in north carolina. these vaxivist seem to be targeting swing states convenient. they have been spotted in states like georgia, florida, wisconsin, and many othe

convincing vaccine messages come from folks people know directly, whether it is their personal doctor, clergy member perhaps, and beyond that, the administration is sending mobile units to hard to reach areas, enlisted vaccine volunteers to go door to door to get shots in people's arms. even that has become political, some conservative commentators try to find an opening to attack the biden administration for government overreach, but i have to say the way the white house messaged around this has changed dramatically. early in the administration this white house was reluctant to criticize state and local governments for their own slow vaccine rollout, but we have seen just in that exchange you see on the screen between peter alexander, that misinformation on social media platforms its killing people, which we should say is an objective fact. the white house has been more forward in returning fire when it comes to disinformation and misinformation, given that the vaccination rate plateaued, and delta variant is on the rise. >> facebook quickly put out a statement and said we're not costing liv

will not be a surprise, trusted messengers are people and communities, neighbors, civic leaders, clergy. they are not always the president of the united states. they are medical experts and we are supporting those efforts and think all of those have been effective. there is more work to be gone but certainly that is encouraging. >> do things have to get worse and the hotspots before they get better that fear is driving the vaccination rates. how concern is that? jen: that is not our preference. that is why we have made vaccines so readily available and have employed the tactics for months now and making them available, assessable and working with trusted messengers and partners. have seen in some communities where local news stations are covering young people unfortunately getting sick, some being put on ventilators. i can't tell you from data what impact that is having, but we are seeing in areas where there are lower vaccination rates some positive signs over the last rates some positive signs over the last week. we'll see if that continues. >> on covid, you and dr. wilensky have used

. >> in an uphill battle to get vaccines into arms, members of the clergy are getting involved in the, protecting ourselves and others. >>> blue

this is members of the clergy. these are volunteers who believe that people across the country, especially in those vaccinated areas, should have accurate information, should have information about where they can get vaccinated, where they can save their own lives and their neighbors's lives and family members's lives. that is exactly what this is. it is something that has been going on since april and something where we have seen an impact in states where there are lower vaccination rates, so it is something we will continue to work with local groups to do and it is a disservice to the country and the people who may lose their lives, lose family members to provide an accurate disinformation at a moment when we are still fighting a pandemic. go ahead, george. reporter: two questions on the president's trade agenda. he spoke a lot about bio america. when can we expect activity on future things like the u.k.? jen: sure. this is of course under the purview of the ambassador, somebody who is working every day to work w

are not members of the government, not federal government employees, they are volunteers, they are clergy, trusted voices and communities playing this role and doorknocking. >> that said, the white house is under pressure to ramp up vaccination efforts. former obama administration officials believes there should be a vaccine mandate. former hhs secretary under obama told "the new york times" "i'm trying to restrain myself but i kind of had it. we are going to tiptoe it around mandates. come on, i'm kind of over that. i want to make sure people i deal with don't have it so i don't transmit it to my granddaughter." with the variant also increasing an threat, the white house has praise decisions from private-sector entity and also said those are innovative steps. go forward and take steps that you feel are appropriate. speaking of private-sector entities, businesses making those kinds of mandate decisions. the white house also said this week they do not expect to issue any new guidance when it comes to mask wearing as the variance are increasing in threat but did say local governments should