adviser for the d triple c. and also with us capitol correspondent kasie hunt. also alexi mchammond joins us, she s rejoined the axios political team covering the 2022 midterm elections and jonathan lemire and reverend al sharpton are still with us. curt, looked like an extraordinary night we heard joe biden say america is back but last night it looked like nashville is back and open for business. joe, it sure felt like it. i can t even do justice to what it felt like to look out and see 350,000 plus people just in the celebratory euphoric, joyous mood. you know this being a musician
jl jonathan lemire it s nas fascinating. leaders have been saying on this show they oppose defunding the police, joe biden came out talking about additional funding for the police. obviously they understand this is going to be a top issue as crime rates go up across the country according to one headline after another. i m wondering, jonathan, any future plans from the white house to show americans that president biden is tough on crime? joe, the white house feels like they are pretty well protected against the defund the police attack, biden personally, they point to his long career, associations with law enforcement, support for the crime bill obviously from the 90s some of that he has withdrawn saying we should have done this better, but they feel he personally is okay on this issue. they re watching the stats too. this is why they had the event at the white house a few weeks
so if you re not vaccinated you re hurting your own neighbors, communities, families, is true. and i fear the politics in the fall is going to get worse as we start talking about vaccinating school kids as they go back to school. jonathan lemire, president biden wanted to get to 70% by the fourth of july, he s close, 67% i think the number is, but you look at the number of where we are as a country, then you look at that poll, and you ve got about 30% of americans saying they haven t gotten it, they re not going to get it. what s the next step for the white house to try to encourage more americans to get those vaccines? in your conversation with michael beschloss a few minutes ago, he mentioned the george w. bush mission accomplished banner, and that is the forefront of this white house s mind, they wanted to make sure they are not perceived as doing that. as getting out ahead of it,
jonathan lemire. we re about to collapse. you could see it a couple nights ago in oakland. true we ve won nine out of ten games, we re ahead of the new york yankees by ten just before the all-star break, true our relief pitching for the most part has been excellent but you dig into that one loss in ten games a couple nights ago in oak oakland you can see the beginning of the end from this franchise. i suspect we re moving down to triple a. they re lulling us into this false sense of security and when it s time to go around the home stretch, going to go right past you. they got us where they want us joe. it s interesting that you suggest relegation, which is a staple of english soccer leagues would now come to major league baseball. does seem like it s the red sox s fate and sad future.
$11 million ransom. so jonathan lemire, what has been and is the white house reaction to these attacks and how do they counter them? this is sort of the first test of how president biden s summit with vladimir putin went a few weeks ago. part of that meeting was biden delivering a stern and not subtle messaging to putin suggesting we don t necessarily believe that the russian government are behind the cyber attacks that happened up to that point but you are giving safe harbor to organizations doing this. the pipeline that was shutdown that caused temporary fuel spikes just one of many examples of the ransomware attacks going more and more prevalent. the president was asked about this saturday he was at an event in michigan, and more or less he was asked about it by a report erthere. he said he hadn t been fully briefed yet, wasn t able to weigh in one way or another who