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The vaccination front. and alisyn, if you look at the trend lines here, just in the last month and a half or so, everything is spiking dramatically. its like going straight up. hospitalizations, in some areas around texas, youre starting to see areas that dont have icu bed space or theyre under ten available icu beds. and the number of cases also spiking dramatically in just the last month. and despite all of this, the governor says -- well, you can listen to it for yourself. and this is his app...

Here, alisyn. >> okay. evan, now to you. so were now seeing with our own eyes, some of the pressure that former president trump applied to top doj officials to promote his lies about the 2020 election. what have you learned? >> thats right. so, what has now happened is that some notes that were taken by richard donohue, who was the acting deputy attorney general in the closing days of the trump administration, theyve been turned over to members of congress, who are investigating what happened in...

Virtually. masks are required here, virtual distancing, but the uptick in spread is happening. its not clear whether his children were in contact with the close cases, but he is taking them home anyway. >> natasha chen, thank you very much for that breaking news. meanwhile, in florida, despite case numbers spiking statewide, governor ron desantis vowed just a short time ago that there will be no lockdowns and no school closures. he also announced that he will be signing an executive order allowi...

His taxes from being public. were not sure what hes afraid of people seeing, but whats his legal resource now to rtry to stop it again? >> well, not much, alisyn. as we all know, you can go to court to file a lawsuit and it takes some time to sort it out, even if you have no legal basis for that, whatsoever. so he may try to file a lawsuit to force doj to not turn over -- force treasury to not turn over the tax returns, but theyre on really solid legal ground here saying that the provision retur...

Contagious as the chicken pox, this is a game changer. >> alisyn, first, thank you for having me and always good to be speaking with you. it is a game changer. we have to start treegtating th as a different kind of phenomenal than the original coronavirus, with which weve dealt with for the past 16 months. and a lot of people feel frustrated, because it feels like a step back. but the ultimate goal is to save our own lives, the lives of people in our community, and the lives of people we dont ev...

You very much for your expertise. >> alisyn, thank you. coming up, two developments about former president trump. one about his tax returns and one about just how far he tried to go to overturn the election that he lost. and later, a heartbreaking plea after an unvaccinated father of five loses his battle to covid. >> hes only 39. our babies now dont have a dad. you cant sayh im young and it wont affect me, because it will. >> his fiancee has a dire message for those opting out of the vaccin...

Havent found any of that evidence. and trump says the following -- he says, just say that the election was corrupt and lead the rest to me and the republican congressman. over and over, alisyn, you see from these notes that donohue took from those calls the president is pressuring them and theyre saying, what youre hearing, mr. president, is false. the allegations of this fraud, weve looked into it, weve lau launched hundreds of investigations and havent found any. trump responds, you guys may n...

And then perhaps there is some opportunity for us as a country to save our democracy and to be able to move forward. >> congresswoman, while we have you, tell bus this bill that you are reintroducing, the domestic workers bill of rights act. >> alisyn, im so excited about this national domestic workers bill of rights. we will be reintroducing it tomorrow. it is essentially a protection, civil rights protections for 2 million domestic workers, primarily women of color, that were left out of the p...

So we are waiting to see what the bipartisan bill has, but nothing has changed in terms of for us, there are not going to be the votes in the house for a bipartisan bill without the reconciliation bill at $3.5 trillion because thats what we need in order to deliver on these promises. so im looking forward to what they came up with, but the two have to move together. >> but congresswoman, wouldnt it be a shame after all of the blood, sweat and tears that apparently have gone into this bipartisan ...

Notion, why? because they told the truth? why is telling the truth hard. i guess in this america, it is. >> thats the cutaway that alisyn was talking about and seeing him there. >> and hes right. we shouldnt call people heroes just for telling the truth. but it is a mark of political courage. its because the people who are standing up to the big lie in their own party are being attacked. theyre being sidelined. theyre being stripped of committees. they are being called unrepublican if not outrig...