democrats. it s a big problem for the country. when i watched what president biden did in atlanta, a devicive speech he gave in atlanta to try to push the voting rights legislation, i thought if you can t figure out a way to put forward legislation that senators like mitt romney, people who voted to convict donald trump, if you can t figure out a piece of legislation that will unite people of good will around the cause, you ve got a serious problem. republicans of good will need help from democrats of good will because that s the coalition that will matter for the 2022 election and the 2024 election is bringing those people together to conduct these elections fairly, securely, and appropriately. yeah, we could all use a little more grace,ly say. chris, thank you for being with us tonight. you bet. and when we come back, a reality check with john avlon on a little noticed effort to take power away from independent voters in america.
elected a new chairman. someone who has expressed support for post master lewis dejoy. what is the white house position on the persistent delivery that the post office is receiving anecdotally and dejoy s current place as post master general. does he deserve to have that role? i love anecdotal data. going back to the holidays, 97 or 98% of packages from the postal service were delivered on time. there may be anecdotes from those 1 or 2%. that s 98% across the country. we have expressed concerns in the past about dejoy s leadership. it has not changed. ly say and i know this has been raised and i m going to use it as an opportunity, many members of the postal service including
smaller percentage of cases being omicron than the previous week. so what they told us last week was that 73% of the new cases rr omicron, and now they re saying it s 58%. now,ly say that the cdc has been clear that there s a large margin of error here. this is not an exact science. but interesting to see that it s not sort of taking off the way that people thought it might, at least according to these numbers. elizabeth cohen, i appreciate you. thank you so much. as you know, the covid surge is leading to long, very long testing lines from new york to austin to milwaukee, people spending hours waiting to just get tested. cnn s leyla santiago is live at a testing site in miami where, yes, people are waiting hours to get tested still. leyla? reporter: amara, we just got new numbers at the site where i am right now, one of the busiest in south florida. they tell me that they tested about or they administered about 9,000 tests here, 60,000
show u.s. leadership at a time when he doesn t necessarily have all the goods to show, but he has some commitments that he says he can deliver on in the weeks ahead. robert gibbs, before he left the country, president biden, again, trying to light a fire of sorts under progressives to get this deal done before he left. didn t happen. the infrastructure bill still hanging in the balance as a result. what s the risk here for democrats? robert gibbs, with these self-imposed deadlines, especially when they continue to not meet them? well, i think the biggest risk is the longer this takes, the mesier it looks. passing big legislation gets messy, and so i just think that the longer this goes, the more likely the process has become the story and the less likely the substance does. ly say, and i think ali hit the nail on the head, i think there s significant trust issues between the house and the senate. but i think if you look at the
naturally. so he wants the democratic elector rate jazzed up a little bit into how do you get that? you do it through legislative success. it is not the main reason to get the bill, and they want, they have a moral case for passing the bill, a political case for passing the bill, but he is saying look, i need something done, infrastructure bill or some progress on the reconciliation bill. and they will make sure that my voters are not depressed going into it. so he is saying get this done, get it done, get it done. ly say in our polling and i will leave it here, what is remarkable to us is that, you know even though democrats have passed these issues including the republican plan early on, the voters are not yet realizing or crediting them with it. we found that people did not