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voting rights legislation. senator warnock's whose state was at the center of calls by trump was on the floor. watch. >> we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. since the january election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country from georgia to arizona, from new hampshire to florida. using the big lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. the same big lie that led to a violent insurrection o...

$14 billion for vaccine distribution, and expanse of the child tax credit that experts say could cut child poverty in half. and the $1400 direct stimulus checks. a promise that won back the senate for the democrats. he will address the public in the next hour no doubt to champion the success of the deal. he will announce another big deal for 100 million additional new doses of the johnson and johnson vaccine. enough to vaccinate roughly one in three americans. an advisor credited a historic partnership between johnson and johnson and murk. >> today they will direct jeff and the healt...

the president will announce the u.s. is buying another 100 million doses and bring you his remarks live when they start. moments ago, the senate confirmed merrick garland to be u.s. attorney general by 70-30 with republican leader mitch mcconnell voting yes after he spent close to a year blocking garland's 2016 nomination to the supreme court. earlier today the senate confirmed marcia fudge who last vote as a member of congress would be passing the relief which cull if i mated in this moment on the house floor. >> yay are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. >> joining us no...

We need proper context. this is the right move. areas where there's high viral transmission, mask up even if fully vaccinated to prevent this transmission from occurring. this is a slight pivot, not reversal. >> tell me about the delta variant. are we seeing viral loads for people with symptomatic covid and delta variant, are they just put it in perspective from the original i guess alpha, b 117 and original covid. >> well, so chuck, what we are noticing, say this as a lung doc, it is stickier. for all of the viewers wondering what does contagious mean, it has modifications to outer portion of...