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House. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. it was a very very big day for the future of american democracy. we will get that significant action in a moment. but before we do, just give me a second here to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. because i think honestly i think it's been obscured by the sabotage and the disinformation and of course the violent insurrection unlike anything we've never really seen before in the history of the country stocked by the former president. but remember last november, right? once in a century p...

Of the vaccine. so that group -- >> that's interesting. >> you're absolutely correct chris. you're absolutely correct, we need to focus on the 18 to 26 year olds because that's the group that in england you're absolutely correct and you look at the delta variant that is now surged in england and it's predominantly among younger people so it's kind of a mixed bag. if you look at the totality of the picture the emphasis on vaccination that president biden has made has been quite frankly overall very successful. we're almost at the 70% vaccination with one dose of the dose. we reached the 4th of ...

This is the first step and i have said there is no excuse not to come to the table and hammer something out. it's called legislation. nobody gets everything that they want, but there are some things that have to happen. they have to happen given what is happening in the states. we know that we need plea clearance provisions and we need the law john lewis voting rights enforcement act and vince back then we also know we need protections for early voting, for absentee voting. we need a law that keeps jurisdictions from allowing you to stand online for nine hours and not be able to get water whil...

Worryingly like a kind of vaccine sealing in many parts of the country. doctor anthony fauci is the chief medical adviser for biden, director of infectious diseases at the national institution of health. earlier today, he warned that the new delta variant as the greatest threat to eliminate covid-19 in the united states and he joins me now. let's start with that right now. a few months ago, i started taking up a kind of fairly bullish better on covid because the vaccines look so efficacious and particularly as the point i got better, it really felt like ok. the first time i started to feel bar...

That's very encouraging. >> right. >> final question -- >> that's what we're doing, the criminal code trials are ongoing right now. >> final question for you, how far is the mrna technology viewed it scale. how transformational is that? i keep reading incredible new avenues of research for other vaccinations that might happen on that platform. >> absolutely it's transformative chris and it's been highly successful with covid-19 and right now even as we speak investigators are applying it to hiv vaccines, to malaria, tuberculosis, to influenza and even to cancer immunotherapy. so right now, it'...