that they need to hear could end your political career and we re seeing that in play. seeing that at play. 15 states have vaccinated less than half of their population. all by one have republican governors right now and again you hear time and time again for most of these republican governors, most, not all, there are exceptions and i apologize to them. essentially i would like you to get a vaccine, that s your choice, and if you don t like a mandate why not aggressively advocate. i mean, it s a careful calibration that i think actually lines up directly with margaret s point. the interesting thing as we ve seen in the white house get more aggressive. let s keep in mind, for the better part of the federal strategy over the course of the first six or seven month they wouldn t touch mandates or requirements which they make it clear it s a mandate, not a requirement. one, it s very effective and it tends to hold fairly well and the question when you look tat through that lens is is it
response from this group of individuals that have been speena by them for information. john. fascinating few days ahead as i said, a very important search for the truth. ryan nobles, kicking this off in studio. francisco chambers of mcclaech and cnn s mille mattingly and margaret tallos of axios. let the committee build the history, that s fine, but why don t you all stop talking about this and stop talking about donald trump, sorry. this is donald trump this weekend in iowa. listen. first of all, he didn t get elected, forgot that. when you hear the numbers of swing states, there was no reason to concede. they should have conceded. mitch mcconnell didn t have the courage to challenge the election. he should have challenged the election. donald trump is on that stage with chuck grassley who is running for re-election election, a senior member of mitch mcconnell s senate republicans, on the stage with a republican member of congress, the electoral college comes to the house first
meetings with senator sinema. my colleague kaitlan collins said he spoke to senator manchin by phone. there s been a series of meetings over the last several days and they were expected to continue at least by phone over the course of the morning. one thing to keep in mind when it comes to how the president approaches this moment in time he has implicit trust in speaker please, and he s never going to go in a different direction than she s going. she s made very clear for the morning the direction she s heading and the white house is not going to verge from this point but they are also very clear about where things stand. keep us posted if things happen in the hour i hear. with me is politico s heather keagle and margaret tallos of axios and npr s asma hallett. capitol hill is your beat. let s listen to the speaker. first bringing a bill to the floor to keep the government knowing and then bring the infrastructure bill to the floor knowing members of her group