now to what we mentioned at the top. senator mitch mcconnell s repudiation of president biden s remarks in atlanta yesterday concerning voter reform and a change to the senate filibuster. as aggressive as president biden s speech was, senator mcconnell s pushback was pretty much as firm as he gets on the senate floor grernl correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill again tonight. profoundly, unpresidential. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell on fire. the president s rant, rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect and beneath his office. mcconnell berated his former senate colleague for kowtowing to the left on voting rights. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. president biden ignited mcconnell s ire after a rally in georgia to support voting
this comes as the covid pandemic surge is putting enormous pressure on the u.s. economy. also tonight a scathing rhetorical attack on president biden from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell who said he didn t even recognize his old friend yesterday. what was yesterday? president biden s fiery speech in atlanta about voting rights and the filibuster. at one point in this speech, the president said whoever opposes that legislation, no matter the reason, can be compared to racists and segregationists of the past. chad pergram has that standing by but we start with today s economic news. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. people waiting for prices to go down are going to have to wait a while because white house officials are saying that prices are going to moderate over the course of 2022. the year that just started. and around here they are conceding that projections about the economy, recoverin
thing that may be driving the coverage many prominent and vaccinated media figures have gotten only chron. i m so tired of being tired and afraid of this, i am. we all have got to figure out how we can live our lives and navigate it code trump voters or southerners or anyone really at large looked down upon. and i think that is the real shame. there is emerging media consensus that we have to learn to live with the virus as the deadliest risk. the challenge for president biden is being portrayed in the press as clinging to all policies that no longer match the moment. bret? bret: howard, thanks. former senate majority leader harry reid is being remembered by friends and colleagues tonight as he his body lies
and tomorrow we are told to expect an update from president biden about the white house s covid-19 response. and we will be listening to see if he is updating the language that he uses. remember, it started out as we re going to shut down the virus. and then i recently asked him whatever happened to that and he said well, we have to beat it back before we shut it down. but, in the weeks since, covid-19 has spread faster than ever. bret? bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn. thanks. let s see how the inflation surge is affecting americans like you all across the country. senior national correspondent rich edson is here in the washington area at a grocery store tonight. good evening, rich. good evening, bret. and throughout the washington, d.c. area this week, we had plenty of reports and are seeing some pretty empty grocery store shelves. entire sections of salad, meat, eggs, for example, were bare, pretty tough if you are on a keto diet. grocery store workers in the area we s
rights legislation. the president hounding moderate democrats to alter the fbi just to pass those bills. i support changing the senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed, to prevent a minority of will senate blocking action on voting rights. the president pointed to the capitol riot as justification for approving. attempt at a coup. the with the right may have been the most offensive of all. talked about domestic enemies? rhetoric unbecoming of a president of the united states. mr. biden is trying to push democrats, like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. into supporting a filibuster change exclusively for voting rights. still democratic leaders haven t converted their target audience. we are trying to come to a place. we re not there yet. but at least one moderate democrat is on board.