capitol hill despite rising cases. more than a dozen lawmakers announced breakthrough cases in recent weeks. unlike the house, the senate has not imposed mask mandates. cnn s sunlen serfaty live on the capitol, you look around, you see people walking around without masks. reporter: that s right, john. it is very alarming, you know. d.c. has seen a huge surge in positive cases as well as up here on capitol hill. dozens of members and staffers testing positive. and we have observed numerous senate republicans walking around without their masks. now senate republicans gathered for the weekly in person caucus lunch yesterday. they did hold it in a larger room than they normally do, but cnn observed over a dozen senate republicans walking in these hallways, into that lunch, without their masks on. this, of course, comes as the capitol physician on capitol hill has been ringing the alarm bells, saying that cases up here on capitol hill has skyrocketed,
brought it to them and use psychological manipulation to lure them into it. the informants would do everything possible to agree with it and then, the fbi would announce we found this plot that was the fbi s plot in the first place. so the only unanswered question that committee should be asking between the weeping is: what role did the fbi have in terms being imbedded in the 3 groups they claim plotted this attack on the capitol? did they allow it to go forward. the fbi admitted we need citizens in fear to increase our budget and surveillance authorities. the one relevant questions about january 6th that hasn t been answered is the one that the media anden the congress declard off-limits to ask. tucker: they hate it. in fact, republican members of congress were given instructions by the leaders not to push the fbi. mind blowing. we should push. glenn, great to see you.
republicans forced a conversation with the capitol physician on capitol hill. you know what we learn today, tucker? he based his decision to re-require members of congress to put masks on again based on a study that is unpublishedre based on a vaccine in india that is not proved in the united states. on that basis he decidedte yesterday to say, okay, we will restore a mask mandate on the house of representatives s floor. i asked a simple question, our job as representatives of the people is to stand up and represent them. when you say we have to wear masks. we are sending a signal for our country to be in fear.al for our kids to have to be in the corners as i said this morning on the floor. i am watching texas get decimated with opioid and fentanyl. in texas we have a hotel filled with individual whose came here illegally that catholic