do not puff out your chest and say we re going to make norfolk southern pay, we get that, help us now. ashley: alexandria hoff has more, good morning. alexandria: there is no plan for the president to visit east palestine. the trip to virginia, glenn youngkin says it is time for leaders to lead and his state does not need the appearance. joe biden has been to ukraine and now virginia, he has yet to go to ohio. go where people have health concerns driving them to worry about not just the day-to-day impact of this horrific train issue c, but the long-term impact with cancer threats, etcetera. alexandria: latest poll shows 33% of voters approve of president biden s handling of the derailment. the impact is still being felt. hazardous chemicals were released and one man told a strange, heartbreaking story. he says since the explosion, his voice sounds like he inhaled helium. there is no one in town to run toxicology to find out which they are, my voice sounds like mickey
twisters cited. gusts of winds reaching 114 mile-per-hour. when you are standing for our values you stand up against assault. woke ideology in the sunshine state publicly sparring with disney over presence rights you got woke ideology taking over some institutions. a group of grannies giving rihanna a run for money as they recreate halftime show now shining bright like a diamond. some critics suggesting they outperformed rihanna tonight is the night we will fight until it s over put our hands up like the ceiling can t hold us like the kreiger can t hold us. griff: you are looking live at nashville, tennessee. hands up, look at that gorgeous pete hegseth s hometown now there. joining pete and ainsley on this monday morning as we kick things off and ainsley, i don t want to put you in the middle of a fight. pete and i were talking about those grannies they didn t just recreate rihanna s super bowl halftime show they took to the next level. pete didn t like. it i
joked out communism in korea a crawled through the jungles in vietnam and battled in the hot sands in the middle east. greatness was everywhere in america because greatness was rewarded. if you wanted to go to harvard or yale, you had to be at the top of your class. they demanded greatness from their students. if you wanted to walk the runway at fashion shows and have your face plastered on magazines and billboards you had to be in at this point top shave. not enough to make somebody stop in their track. if you wanted to run nasa, ibm or exxon you had to be the best in the business. they demanded greatness from their employees and that demand formed generations of excellence. the weak were weeded out. the strong were rewarded with money and status and a sense of fulfillment in our society doesn t have standards anymore. everybody gets a trophy. not allowed to judge anybody. nothing is taboo. the people we revered yesterday are despised today. weakness is rewarded and strength
embarrassing, pennsylvania democrats elected a dead man. they knew they were doing it. they did it anyway. this would seem to defeat the idea of representative democracy, which is that you vote for people so that they can represent you. but party leaders in pennsylvania were not embarrassed. they were proud, quote: well we are incredibly saddened by the loss of representative tony deluca they said in a statement. we are proud to see the voters show their confidence in him and his commitment to democratic values by reelecting posthumously. in other words, electing a guy who can t possibly represent you is not an offense against democracy, it s the essence of democracy. now, it s not a typo. they put that in a press release and actually makes kind of sense when you remember it was also in the state of pennsylvania that democratic party leaders backed a senate candidate called john fetterman long after he had suffered a massive stroke and could not longer talk or communicate cle
that historically thinking would mean democrats is should lose the house in november. there have been only three exception since the 1930s. 1934 after fdr passed the new deal, 1998 after republicans overdid the lewinsky scandal and 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11, which makes this moment so, so, so interesting because we could be in for another exception to that rule, at least partially. while holding the house is still going to be tough for the democrats, the senate suddenly looks a lot better and it is not just democratic spin. here was republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday. i think there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. senate races are just different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. quote, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. he did not mention names but our friend at punch bowl news say it is an implied dig at former president donald trump who played a key role i