not trying to find facts. howie: i ve got 20 seconds for you to respond. i m sorry, i have a technical problem. i m not able to hear. howie: let me pick it up by saying i do think the media have to acknowledge that the hearings helped them politically, doesn t mean there shouldn t be an investigation. by the way, this is headed in a direction where now we have the justice department officials, in which donald trump in the final weeks told an official at the department just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and we ll be hearing a lot more about that. up next, the white house and the hill moving toward a back from the dead infrastructure deal and the president giving mitch mcconnell some credit? good morning, mr. sun. good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i m gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i m gonna get this place all clean. i ll give you a hand.
a bipartisan win. well, after months of gridlock, mitch mcconnell was one of 17 senators backing a test vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. joining us now, mike emanuel. between mitch mcconnell voting on this thing and taking off pro-vaccination ads on kentucky radio stations, he s getting good press which is rare for the republican senator leader. most media folks don t care for mitch mcconnell. he s not a sound bite machine. he tells you exactly what mitch mcconnell wants you to know and not flowery sound bites. they see him as an obstacle to the joe biden and chuck schumer agenda. when he is one of 17 to start the infrastructure package and is pushing americans to get vaccinated, a moment of good press for mitch mcconnell. we ll see how long it lasts, howie. howie: mcconnell doesn t famously care for what the media
thinks. this package could collapse on infrastructure, it s not really paid for. after months on life support the president is giving press is giving president biden a lot of kudos because he campaigned on the idea of working across the aisle. this plays into the narrative that president biden likes out there and his white house team likes out there that he can reach across the aisle, he can work with republicans and so 17 is a significant number. let s give him credit on that. after covering capitol hill for a decade i will tell you nothing is done until it gets to the president s desk for his signature. so this could bounce around some more. there could be some more obstacles. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez today threatened that basically if the t senate doesn t pass the $3.5 trillion democratic progressive wish list that there will be no bipartisan infrastructure bill getting through the house and so we ll see where it goes from here. howie: the 17 different ways this co
3-0. [cheers and applause] and americans were happy about it. howie: news max host grant cinchfield said he s happy the men s basketball team suffered a loss. i found myself t rooting against, not just may began rapi megan rapino but the collection of overpaid warriors are very hard to root for. howie: was the conduct of these soccer and basketball players in tokyo so egregious that media people and a certain president should openly root against the american players. i m not surprised that it happened this way. i think it s a symptom of a larger issue, right. the women s soccer team and others have done certain things to protest, they re protesting police brutality or certain