no reason to protect it other than you are going to try the throw the entire congress into chaos and nothing will get done. nothing at all will get done. and there is a lot the stake. i have also think we are going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally alter the filibuster. that remains to be seen. exactly what that means in terms of fundamentally altering it, whether or not we just end the filibuster straight up. bret: that s quite an evolution, ben. how different your attitude is when you move from the senate to the white house toward the filibuster you know and essential defense of american representative politics or just a nuisance to be wiped away. look, i think that what harold said is correct in the sense that progressives don t have a majority here. they don t even have anything close to it. and, yet, what this represents, what this massive spending package represents at this point is an attempt to try to satisfy virtually every progressive priority even in
bigger risk but i don t think they re being forced get the flu vaccine but a lot of hypocrisy and things that don t make sense, still ahead, support drops for joe biden, it s vital in the next presidential election and going public with views about writing and a lot of backlash but this is next.
texas governor greg abbott saying, quote, texas can do this. our producers can easily produce that oil if your administration will just stay out of the way. don t make us dependent on foreign sources of energy. here to weigh in, laid off keystone xl pipeline worker, lynn allen. good morning to you, sir. so the buy done add medicine biden administration is saying foreign oil producers, you ve got to pump more. governor abbott saying we can do this at home. what s your reaction. good morning, young lady. thanks for giving me a voice this morning and i promise you right now, greg abbott is right. texas can absolutely flood the united states of america with oil and this administration they got right now is hurting so many oil and gas workers, it s not even funny. our families are suffering and yet he will go to the foreign nations over there and buy oil? that don t make sense. what s wrong with this administration? what s wrong with it?
sticking to a lot of legacy policies that don t make sense, that is ignoring natural immunity and requiring even ver young kids to wear masks despit any evidence that the best evidence we heard was the quote unquote some people have been vaccinated have transmitted the infection. i d like to know if that is one ten, or 100,000 people. we need more data to support what they said peart. the data coming from the cdc does not seem to be up-to-date. for example the white house and congress renewed mask mandates, apparently washington, dc crossed over into substantial territory. it if you look at the cdc transmission rate, it lists washington, dc and the surrounding area is moderate. how our people to know? to keep cases no longer the it the number of new hospitalizations for covid illness, not into hospitalizations with an incidental positive covid test on pcr, which can detect one
i don t think that colombians, military, would just get in the country. it is obvious. just get in the country and kill the president? where did they ketget the car, did they get in the country? there is a lot of things that don t make sense. so we believe that they are mastermind behind that crime. reporter: and of course of the 28 suspects involved, all are foreign nationals, 26 colombians, two haitian measures. and we should get more information tonight. there is going to be a press conference around 6:00 p.m. local time, the first held by authorities here in a few days and we are expecting them to break news about the status of the investigation because that is news that everyone here in haiti is desperately awaiting