he told her to kiss his part of his body. and i can tell you, being a little black girl from the east side of detroit, i would not take that standing or sitting. this is a perfect example, michael, of the breakdown of decorum in the congress right now, isn t it? well, incivility is now a fund raising magnet. i won t be surprised if rogers now fund raises on his bad behavior and things have changed even since when governor kasich was congressman kasich. the demonization of the other side of the aisle i think in part is due to the fact that they don t know one another. they don t socialize with one another. they don t have a cocktail with one another. and it s much easier to vilify someone from the other side of the aisle when you have no relationship with them. pretty awful what s going on right now. guys, thank you very much. there s more news we re following here. just ahead, a top u.s. diplomat now says russia has quote,
at a school board meeting in illinois. outrage and confusion after a judge temporarily halted the governor s school mask mandate, leaving school districts to call their own shots. what we really need is we really need good criteria where by which local agencies can actually make those decisions because otherwise, you have individual parents trying to gauge whether or not they should listen to the cdc or their school board and that s a really tough decision to make. nationwide, the american academy of pediatrics says cases among children are still extremely high, though they are falling fast. down about 40% from the peak two weeks ago. governors in delaware, connecticut, new jersey and oregon announcing plans to end school mask mandates. children are highly reliant on non-verbal feedback, looking at people s faces and that s how they help, they how they develop their social and emotional intelligence skills as well as cognitive skills. but the white house is still encouraging ma
the big ten gets a lot smaller and mitch mcconnell knows it. governor kasich, i want to revisit what mccarthy said about president trump in the days immediately following the january 6th insurrection. listen to this. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action by president trump. except to share responsibility, quell the unrest, and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. golvernor kasich, what happened to that kevin mccarthy? it seems as though like somebody took him out and gave him a narrative and he just changed his mind on everything. but i really like what gloria had to say about mcconnell believing this is not only
the truth behind that day. right now, there s just a few of us willing to tell the base voters the truth. there s a lot of people hiding in the sand because the truth is hard and it makes their life a little uncomfortable. i think we have to fight for the soul of not just the party, but the country. this is certainly not what republicans want to be talking about as we head into the 2022 midterms. they want to make that a referendum on the biden administration and they want to be unified with their messaging, not going against one another. so what we ve heard time and time again from lawmakers here on the hill, especially here on the senate side, is that they want to be looking forward and not back. good point. jessica dean up on capitol hill. let s get some analysis of what s going on. joining us now, our chief political analyst, gloria borger, john kasich, and cnn political commentator, the host of smerconish, michael smerconish. gloria, we re seeing two very different sides of