neighbors. it s law enforcement officers and that the house did not convene to pass that bill, which passed the senate unanimously almost a month ago, coons-cornyn is a shock to me and i hope it passes tomorrow. bret: mara mentioned, brit, the judge in wisconsin. there is also this judge whose son died after getting threats and she was on with john roberts this afternoon. take a listen. i always knew that threat was somewhere behind me. i always thought about it but the day my son was killed in our foyer, the day my i watched my son s life fade away, now, now i know that it s right here. it s right, front and crencht but i will tell you right now, mark and i don t worry about ourselves. our lives is pretty much set in stone at this point. i worry about all the judges that want to do one thing and
bring in our panel. guy benson, political editor at town hall.com. host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. mara liasson national political correspondent of national public radio. and syndicated radio host hugh hewitt. mara, they are making a point to get everybody on this vote but there is not movement here. so, politically, is that to run on it later? what is the play? i think politically it s to get everyone on record so they have to vote on how they feel about these underlying issues. right now, the only possible and i think it s a very slim possibility legislative vehicle is a bipartisan effort to reform the electoral counteract, that s a very old law that left pretty vague and fuzzy what the actual role of the vice president was in terms of certifying electors and what congress can do when they get the slates from the state. maybe something can come of that there is a bipartisan group
filibuster back door flip jack that they have got going. bret: mara, the president is going to have this news conference. it s first in a while. i think second formal news conference. first this year. and he will tout what they sees a the successes, right? we heard a little bit from jen psaki today. what do you think? oh, i thought you were going to play jen psaki. [laughter] bret: that s all right. look, he is going to get tons of questions about all the things that are going wrong, the two biggest things that are out of his control, covid and inflation, which i would argue are the two things that democrats fortunes will most depend on. and then there is going to be all these things that he wanted to pass but couldn t pass. voting rights, which we just talked about, build back better, which is something he wanted to, so they are going to focus on the covid relief bill and infrastructure, yes, he got some things done. he set expectations so high and the democrats raised expecta
happening. bret: guy, this is going to be something to watch this news conference tomorrow and covid obviously is a big topic in how this administration has dealt with it from what he said as a candidate. sure, shut down the virus which has not happened and i am sure is he going to come out there and tout the fact that they rolled out the website and mara is hearing of the same things that i have. my siblings put in their order for their free tests from the government. the problem is one of those siblings had covid over christmas and we couldn t find tests because they were selling out everywhere. this feels like extremely late to the party here when they were warned months in advance to the holidays let s do some testing reported in vanity fair and elsewhere and they rejected that plan. some point americans will get these four free tests they say 7 to 12 days from now. people symptomatic now and get the test it will be over by the time they get these the tests actually come in a
situations dr. walensky said. this comes, obviously, as the administration gets ready to roll out this website, mara, for covid tests and that s always a little hairy because we saw the last administration rollout of the website not go too well. right. are you talking about the obamacare website? bret: obamacare, yeah, sure. yeah. because, i anecdotally i have heard people that tried that website today and it worked. they ordered some tests. we will see if it continues to work really well. but this is the thing that the white house has been kind of inexplicably tardy on. why they couldn t have gotten tests to people sooner is unclear and the irony is that testing is the one thing in this entire pandemic that has not been politicized at least not yet. nobody is against testing if people want to do it. so, they are trying to get this