preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. there s no question, none that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. the people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. if president trump were still in office, i would have carefully considered whether the house managers proved their specific charge. mitch mcconnell said he couldn t vote to convict a clearly guilty donald trump because he s a private citizen. yeah, the same mitch mcconnell who has majority leader delayed the start of the trial until president trump became a private citizen. talk about having it both ways. house speaker nancy pelosi had some strong words to say about all of this gop gaslighting. mitch mcconnell had shut down the senate and was going to keep it shut down until right until the inauguration. so for him to get up there and make this i
challenges communities of color of up against when it comes to shielding themselves from covid-19. how do we fix it? america s immigration system. see for yourself the real-world broken policies. this is american voices. we begin with the one-month marker since the attack on the u.s. capitol. as of this hour federal officials say they ve tracked down and charged more than 200 people for their roles in the insurrection. while there s more to find and hold accountable, republicans are still evading accountability. democrats vow to keep that from happening, and are trying to deliver a gut punch to republicans through the official record, by recounting their stories of survival as extremist stormed the capitol. as the events of january 6th have still, burning in the memories of all of us, as well as millions, and millions, of americans across the nation. although some people would like to deny that it never happened or sweep it under the rug it continues to burn in everybod
pandemic. the biden administration is deploying 1,110 active duty service members, including teams from army, air force, navy, and marines to support five fema covid-19 vaccination centers across the country. the first team set to arrive in california in ten days. the biden white house also says it will soon utilize defense production act in several ways to procure equipment and supplies for pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap six companies to make 61 million at home covid-19 tests by end of summer, and built factories to produce raw materials needed for nitrile surgical gloves. a billion pairs a month. all of that means jobs. all of that should have been done a year ago. the biden administration also isn t ruling out using defense production act to aid in production of johnson & johnson s one shot vaccine which is currently awaiting emergency use authorization from the fda. that should come any day now. the federal government is set to ship 10.5 million vaccine doses a
authorization for emergency use. that means options when it comes to vaccinations. that s good. at the same time, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is holding her own news conference one day after she was kicked off her committee assignments for supporting over years violent rhetoric, dangerous disinformation. we begin with the economic news. christine romans, 49,000 or so new jobs. yesterday we had nearly 800,000 new unemployment claims. do the math for us there. where does it stand in terms of all these lost jobs? there s no historical precedent for this. you had 14.8 million people who told the government this month that they didn t have a job to go back to. the business they worked for was closed or was barely open but not allowed to give them hours. and a quarter of the people working say they re working from home. the virus has completely changed what is usually a dynamic labor force. this 49,000 jobs created was mostly in professional business services,
ties to extremists linked to the insurrection at the capitol still has room for liz cheney, a conservative stalwart, who had the audacity to hold donald trump accountable for the incitement of the riots in january 6th. also on the line today, who will have the fortitude to go on the record against the real threat, a conspiracy theorist in its own ranks. right now the republican conference is behind the closed doors ahead on a vote tomorrow to remove congresswoman greene from her committee appointments. a woman who is dubious about whether the attacks on 9/11 were real, endorsed calls to assassinate barack obama, nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton. house republican leaders kevin mccarthy, for one, is reportedly feeling torn at this hour between cheney, a former state department official, the daughter of conservative former vice president dick cheney on one side, and a member of congress, claire mccaskill refers to as the q aknown lady. reports of what went down inside the room.