and when he sees reporting like that, the effect on him is to encourage him to keep doing this. so, he s soaking up the adulation, but he s also reveling in trolling the gop, at least the part of it that isn t on board with him. yes, the trolling is very familiar, and that slogan make america great again, again, it doesn t sound like he s even trying. but the signs at this rally were saying save america. that is just the most orwellian thing i can think of. america was saved from him after his efforts to overturn the election didn t work out. well, he really is kind of babbling and incoherent, but that s what people show up for. so, when he says make america great again, again, you have to ask, well, if he did it the first time, it really wasn t a very good job.
change proposals first and foremost. senator manchin is a whole other situation. he s being vague in part because he doesn t want this bill to pass now. he has said over and over again that there is no rush, it s not necessary, and he told me yesterday that he has concerns about the country moving to an entitlement mentality with this legislation. and in large part, he just isn t on board with this yet. there are two different pressure points that you have to put on these members separately. they are not a monolith, jeff. lee ann, let s talk about the looming shutdown and the government fight. texas senator ted cruz says he s willing to step in and block schumer s attempt to raise the debt ceiling for something called unanimous consent. we re going straight into the legislative weeds here, lee ann. what s happening here? i m getting out my senate
to show his troops that it was safe, and actually, that was incredibly dangerous compared to the vaccines we have now, which are incredibly safe and effective, and the combination of using the vaccines and the non-pharmaceutical interventions are our best way out of this. anyone who isn t on board with that is not participating in the best citizen ship that should exist in this country and that is going for every single one of those including the governors. so david, all over and i know some states it is different, but, you know, people, americans support people and vaccine mandates and businesses really want it, right, because it s procapitalists because they don t have to worry about other protections and of course, the governors themselves fighting it have mandates themselves so it s hypocritical however, they decided coming out and saying this and fighting biden is the
he s holding off senators calling for a trial. assuming a senate trial does happen. senators running for president will have to balance serving as impeachment jurors with precious time on the campaign trail. the iowa caucuses are around the corner. with me is one of those senators working hard in iowa hoping her debate performance helps there. amy klobuchar is democratic candidate for president, also a member of the judiciary committee in the senate. so, senator, you have said that you and your fellow democrats should do whatever it takes to push for witnesses in the senate trial, but as you know, the senate majority leader, mitch mccobblm mcconnell, isn t on board. i think there will be an agreement and this trial will go forward.
steve: right. and mitch mcconnell has said he will support any gun legislation that the president says he will sign. he will go forward with that otherwise, if the president isn t on board with something, he will not bring it up to the u.s. senate. brian: we will see where that goes. 13 minutes before the top of the hour. hey, carley. carley: i have a story a lot of people are going to be interested. in nearly 420 million facebook users may have had their phone numbers exposed. that includes about 133 million people in the united states. according to tech crunch, the information was on a server that was not password protected. the breach is the latest in a string of privacy issues with the social media site. a facebook spokesperson says the data set has been taken down. and we have seen no evidence that facebook accounts were compromised. a named after the president of the confederacy will be renamed today. jefferson davis highway in arlington, virginia will be known as richmond highwa