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Directly to something that gabriel sterling told me last night on our program on peacock. he's the chief operating officer for georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger. mr. raffensperger oversees elections across georgia. i asked him about fulton county in our conversation. here's part of what mr. sterling said. >> look at june and the primary election, there were thousands of georgians, thousands of democrats, probably hundreds or thousands of republicans that were disen franchised by the incompetence of the office, unfortunately, in a very stressful time of covid. i'm not going to di...

And we're sort of seeing the tip of the iceberg here in the hospital, but for whatever reason, more young people are falling ill with this delta variant of the virus. >> that's got to be hard to deal with. how are your doctors and the parents that you serve handling all of this? >> you know, joshua, we were already dealing with a major academic of another virus, rsv, a respiratory virus that we ordinarily see during the wintertime, so we've seen a huge surge in cases of rsv over the summer, completely unprecedented. and have covid on top of this, it's filled all of our icu beds. we literally h...

Can slow down progress for the american people. that's what's happening, but we're going to get through it and get this done. >> and when she says "a handful of senators" there, joshua, it's the senate. all it takes is one. and we're seeing that once again here. in this case, it's senator bill haggerty, who says this should go through regular order. that just means it's going to take longer. what senators right now are right to do is hammer out a way to truncate this process a little bit, pick the amendments that they would like to move forward on, things like moving covid funds that haven't b...

That's it for today. i'm alicia menendez. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern for more "american voices." but for now, i'll hand it over to joshua johnson. >> thank you, alicia. tonight, the $1 trillion infrastructure bill is one step closer to becoming law. one senator stands in the way of a final vote. so how soon can we expect one? elections in the atlanta area could be under new leadership, through a process that georgia republicans have started. last night, i spoke with one of georgia's top election officials. tonight, fulton committee chairman rob pitts gives his res...

Reason, more young people are falling ill with this delta variant of the virus. >> that's got to be hard to deal with. how are your doctors and the parents that you serve handling all of this? >> you know, joshua, we were already dealing with a major academic of another virus, rsv, a respiratory virus that we ordinarily see during the wintertime, so we've seen a huge surge in cases of rsv over the summer, completely unprecedented. and have covid on top of this, it's filled all of our icu beds. we literally have not had an empty bed in our intensive care unit for weeks. and a number of other ho...