birthday. he s also an msnbc political contributor. jake, republicans aren t the only ones who are roadblocking that are facing democratic senators. we re talking about, for example, manchin and sinema. they ve always been brought up, and have said they are opposed to changing the filibuster? here s what schumer said on joy reid i m sorry, excuse me. here s what senator schumer said on joy reid last night about efforts to get them onboard. we are having active discussions with them, several a day. i just spoke to senator man c.h.i.p. three or four hours ago. and even over the holiday break, the new year s and christmas break, we ve been talking constantly. we ve got to start pressing them and pressing them and pressing them until they do. there is too much at risk here. if obviously they were saying yes to us, we wouldn t have to worry about this. jake, obviously, the fact that they haven t said yes to them continues. thank you, jose, for the
will make its own independent decisions and all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law, period, full stop. how do you reconcile these two? well, this is a great teachable moment. after the trump era, it s really important that we have presidents who do not try in any way to influence doj when it s making a decision about whether to indict a criminal case. it s easy to understand what was animating biden s concerns here. he understands that there has to be some mechanism for congress to enforce its subpoenas or congress, in essence, becomes a toothless tiger in exercising its oversight authority, so i think this is an opportunity for him to go back and clarify what he meant and reinforce understanding in the country that decisions about prosecuting criminal cases have to be made in doj on the basis of the law and the facts and no extraneous political forces. jonathan, i want to play some sound from congressman adam schiff who was on with joy reid last night.
put people in the position of dying from a disease they don t have to die from, oh, my god. as a fan, as a hip-hop fan, as somebody who is your fan, i m so sad that you did that. hi again, everyone. it is 5:00 in new york. that was our friend and colleague joy reid last night calling out vaccine disinformation being spread by the popular iconic recording artist nicki minaj, because when we know one in four hospitals in the united states right now reporting that 95% of their icu beds are full. when we know that the three vaccines in use in this country are collectively 86% effective at preventing any hospitalization at all from covid. when we know that you are 11 times more likely to die from covid if you get it and you are unvaccinated. when we know all of that, when an iconic performer like nicki minaj raises doubts about the safety of the vaccine that could save you from dying, the statements have to be challenged
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