If you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero.

If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals, over 95% of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all.

And so these vaccines are saving lives. They are

reducing mortality. Another Republican leader touting the importance and safety of the COVID

vaccines, trying to undo the severe damage that's been done by the malicious disinformation that has contributed

to now a fourth wave of the pandemic. It's real, and it is deadly for those who are unvaccinated.

Also had former FBI director James Comey famously said about his conversations with former President Trump, quote, Lurdy, I hope there are tapes.

Well, this morning, the Washington Post reporter is behind the bombshell book about the final days of the Trump administration.

They have tapes.

Carol Lenig joins us with those audio recordings of the former president.

That and a lot more to cover on this Thursday, July 22nd. But first, Willie will start on yesterday's

move by Nancy Pelosi that is being called unprecedented. Yeah, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

rejected two of minority leader Kevin McCarthy's picks for the select committee tasked with investigating the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. Now McCarthy is threatening a complete boycott. NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent, Garah Haight, has details.

A committee in chaos.

It's an egregious abuse of power.

Pelosi has broken this institution.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy withdrawing all of his selections for the January 6th special committee.

After Speaker Pelosi announced, she would reject two of his choices for the panel.

Republicans now call in the

committee a sham, while Democrats vow to push ahead. We have bipartisan forum we can proceed.

The speaker writing that her unprecedented decision to not seat Ohio's Jim Jordan or Indiana's

Jim Banks was necessary to protect the integrity of the investigation.

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