elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it one of many things that need fact checking. i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard outside
do you see me? i m too big to be having a of>w a woman. whitant toe, skinny man. that can really do. there s nothing wrong with skinny men at all. but womeh . n like women likeo muscles. so i should head to the gym. all righthe gym?t, guy. oh. oh, it s the deep burn. since when is it a crime cri to be masculine? never. that sbe mascul human nature. you got to have a man and a woman and whatever. if you around, just lock me up. lo lock him up. it s funny because joe biden says he s puerto rican. puerto rican by then. so if he s puerto rican, i m irish. shame on him. and maybe his slippers. i was born in puerto rico, but that s about it. then nine puerto rican. maybe he s made in puerto re hunter. he got to me. that s his son. oh, okay. h i don t know, i. does that mean joe biden s a toxic man? joe biden is 100% garbage. that s not hyperbole. that s a fact. does joe biden deserve a second term? no. ,n t o. he didn t deserve the first
hundred folks inside of that ballroom last night, and so for donald trump, this is about trying to galvanize a republican base of support and continue in these months ahead while even signaling yesterday, suggesting that fani willis may be the next to indict him, suggesting that they should continue to apply pressure on other republicans to coalesce around him because this isn t just about him, but it s an effort to destroy the movement that he claims responsibility for creating. matt, trump s republican allies do insist the party will rally around trump, take lindsey graham, for example. they think it s going to be a lo lock on the nomination, if not the white house. is that what you see happening right snow? i definitely see the first part the republicans, at least the base and elected officials in this i think we ve seen through a sort of objective analysis of the polls over the last couple of weeks, the republican base is firmly behind him.
lo lock. let s get it done. this bridge has become a symbol of what s wrong with america s infrastructure and whether or not a bridge fix will happen before an infrastructure deal. the tennessee department of transportation tells me more bridge materials are set to arrive here later this month. but that means the work here could extend into next month. pete muntean, cnn, memphis, tennessee. we turn now to the pandemic and a growing debate over whether covid vaccines should be mandated for health care workers and hospital employees. there is a new fight brewing in houston, and cnn s cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen, joins us with details. what happened there? reporter: let s put this in perspective, these vaccines have been out for six months and this is the time that some employers are saying we want you to be vaccinated. giving you time to think about this and get this done but some employers, especially hospitals, where of course you re dealing
did at the beginning but this is donald trump at his rallies and what his audience chants about any woman he mentions. take a listen. the guards are gentle, he is walking out with big high fives. like to punch em in the face, i ll tell ya. in the good old days, this doesn t happen because they used to treat them very, very rough. and when they protested once, you know, they would not do it again so easily. we have some people, some rough guys like here and they started punching back. it was a beautiful thing. lock her up, lock her up, lo lock her up! i m old now remember off with his head at sarah palin rallies. tea partiers wi s with witch do signs. but now the republican party eye new meme is that democrats are a