tamra: 16 months. lisa: you make it engaging every time. thank you, so much. the opening ceremonies of the olympics are four days away, and competitions in soccer and softball begin tomorrow night, but the specter of covid hangs over these games. 50 people in tokyo connected with the games have tested positive. that includes contractors and staff. among the athletes, an alternate on the u.s. gymnastics team who tested positive while training outside of tokyo. officials say they hope to put on a compelling series of games despite it all. we have a preview of some of the americans to watch. i spoke with christine brennan shortly before she left for tokyo. good to have you with us again. let's start with an athlete who brings the highest hopes around her, and that would be simone biles, the gymnast who has already won so many gold medals. what are the expectations for her this time? christine: i don't think i've ever seen an athlete moore discussed, more hyped, on the tip of everyone's tongue. we've had gat stars go in for the united states and from around the wo

our politics monday team is here to analyze all this and more incling tamra keith and amy walter.eing there. it is great to see both of you here in person at the desk. i want to go back to what former president trump said. love was in the air. and it was peaceful. can he rewrite history? >> he has been rewriting history since january 6 or before. on january 6, he tweeted, these are the things that you get with regards to the election and he ends the tweet, go home with love and in peace and remember this day forever. he was rewriting the story of what happened that day on that day. and this is a continued evolution. it is not just him. there are republican members of congress who have said it was just a tourist visit. there is a very concerted effort underway to say that what we all saw with our eyes was not what we saw. judy: amy, we have been covering this city and american politics for a long time. have you seen an instance where someone in the former president's position can rearrange --? >> asking us not to believe our own eyes and arrest records. 500 people have been arreste

. >> for that as always, the politics monday team, including tamra keith from npr.h. the lead segment on the show tonight, covid. even though july 4, president biden said we would be celebrating our independence from covid and we woul have 70% of americans vaccinated, is there aanger that the president's agenda, what he wants to talk about is going to or has been overtaken by something that is largely out of his control? >> everyone was celebrating on july 4 and it felt great. and then reality has been setting in a the delta variant has another agenda. and the fact is that we are now three weeks out from the july 4 goal of 7 adults vaccinated and it is still not quite there. 69% according to the latest numbers. axa nations have once again started picking up just a little bit. but there is only so much that president biden can do and he has -- he and the administration are sort of stuck in between people who say, don't you dare tell me what to do, don't mandate and on the others, people in public health and a huge number of medical associations saying, no, you really

policy slide, is there any movement towards finding a full-time dedicated policy to build the shoes of tamra, we've all been missing the last year or so. >> let me jump in there for that one. that is kind of a bigger budget issue. we had really tied constraints this year and that is one of our biggest priorities is more of a focus and expansion of the focus not just because of the significance here which we think is really important in san francisco and a lot of our policy, because it's evidence-based and fact-driven, based on complaint from the agency, it's the maud that will other counties use in their divisions as well and it's a state and national level as well and so, it's a long way to answer the question is that it's influx and still being negotiated but we've never stopped asking for broader funds to try and address expanding that division and to have a full time policy person. >> ok. >> didn't you, what is one of your -- i don't know. what do we call you guys? director below ms. wu, didn't she leave? >> she did. so we did. >> that's like, i mean, you can get two policy persons for t

policy slide, is there any movement towards finding a full-time dedicated policy to build the shoes of tamra've all been missing the last year or so. >> let me jump in there for that one. that is kind of a bigger budget issue. we had really tied constraints this year and that is one of our biggest priorities is more of a focus and expansion of the focus not just because of the significance here which we think is really important in san francisco and a lot of our policy, because it's evidence-based and fact-driven, based on complaint from the agency, it's the maud that will other counties use in their divisions as well and it's a state and national level as well and so, it's a long way to answer the question is that it's influx and still being negotiated but we've never stopped asking for broader funds to try and address expanding that division and to have a full time policy person. >> ok. >> didn't you, what is one of your -- i don't know. what do we call you guys? director below ms. wu, didn't she leave? >> she did. so we did. >> that's like, i mean, you can get two policy persons for that