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♪♪ welcome back. joining us now with a look at axios a.m., the co-founder of axios, mike allen. good morning. what's the one big thing today? >> well, good morning, kasie. tell me if you've seen this movie before. a leader who is on the verge of losing power, wages a campaign to convince people that he's the victim of the fraud of the century. this person tries to delegitimize the incoming government. they blame facebook and twitter, say they're being silenced. and their supporters start to take things out of hand in a way that makes the other side fear for their safety. so, this is prim...

Joining us now with a look at axios a.m., political reporter for axios, hans nichols. hans, axios recently interviewed secretary of state antony blinken about covid-19's origins and our relations with china. i want to show everyone a little bit of that interview with mike allen. >> mr. secretary, what are the implications if beijing is found to have been covering up a wuhan lab leak? >> we have to get to the bottom of what happened. there's accountability, but from my perspective, the most important thing and the most important reason we have to get to the bottom of this is that's the only way...

Joining us now with a look at axios a.m., cofounder and ceo of axios jim vandehei. good morning, jim. what is the axios one big thing for this morning? >> my, how the mighty fall. so you know, donald trump shut down his blog because it wasn't getting much traffic. we worked with this company called news whip, which looks at how much interaction different types of content is getting on social media, where almost all information consumption is done. and it turns out the reason he shut it down is that his average post on that blog was getting about as much traffic as a run of the mil story on the...

Important summer weekend since the advent of the summer movie season. it will tell all the naysayers besides having all that great content available at home, there's nothing like that big screen experience. >> reporter: three major chains are all dropping mask roirnlts for fully vaccinated moviegoers, but say they'll still keep procedures like seat blocking and enhanced cleaning in place. so leave it to a little movie magic at the box office to offer hope for a hollywood ending. >> our thanks to nbc's steve patterson for that report. joining us now with a look at axios a.m., someone often mi...

Joining us now with a look at axios a.m., cofounder of axios, mike allen. mike, tell me, what is the axios one big thing for this morning? >> happy friday, alicea. the axios one big thing is biden's new bargain. yesterday, we got a little preview, maybe looking ahead to 2024 and a biden re-election race. yesterday in cleveland, we heard biden use the expression the new bargain. now, why does that matter? that's an obvious illusion to fdr and the new deal. we've heard president biden talk for a long time about his plans in the sort of grand, historic sweep, thinking big, big, big, like fdr and ...