rate. as i hear alabama might be one of the most unvaccinated states in the nation. also over the weekend, republican congressman glen rothman refused to say whether he s been vaccinated because he doesn t want to, quote, take sides on the issue. and despite the fact that masks prevent the virus from spreading, senator rand paul tweeted out this video to his followers last night it s time for us to resist. they can t arrest all of us. they can t keep all of your kids home from school. they can t keep every government building closed. no one should follow the cdc s anti-science mask mandates. to be clear, the cdc isn t forcing anyone to wear masks. they don t have a police force. there is no cdc mask mandate. some states and businesses and cities are issuing requirements based on cdc guidance. that s a distinction paul clearly knows but doesn t care
the truth out. if he called a press conference tonight and said, we ve been lying, but we have to get to the vaccinations. he could be almost like a uso celebrity, he could be the bob hope of vaccinations if he wanted to. but he doesn t want to. he wants chaos, he doesn t want to be a good person. it s clear we re going back to the troubled area we were in last year, and it will take leadership in the right. we have good leadership in the center left from biden and from the left. and center right, even. but we re not getting it from the right. if i could pray for him to do it, i would. but i don t think he s going to do the right thing. you talked about the patriotism in the book, from being part of public service and around it, and part of the
cooperates truthfully. if he doesn t want to, that s his call. if he wants to take valuable information inculpating others to jail with him, that s his call. i complete low agree with harry, by the way. i think the signals that we discussed earlier are in fact weak signals, not strong signals. there are strong signals of a split in a defense camp, but the fact that you have an independent lawyer is not one of them. chuck, what do you make of the disentangling from the trump organization? i believe earlier in the week we learned that his name had been taken off 40 trump entities, subsidiaries. today david farenthold reporting that he s been removed as a trustee. is that indicative of anything other than getting your ducks in a row to defend oneself? i don t think it s a big deal either in the following sense, nicolle.
the rhetoric. joe biden said that he was laughing too. listen here. look, he has made clear that dashed out the answer is i believe he is in the past essentially acknowledged that he was that there were certain things he would do or did do. a long pause there as president biden figured out exactly the right words to say. he doesn t want to, in to this summit tomorrow with a lot of bad blood. obviously there s a lot of tensions between united states
civil rights is more important than protecting the voting rights these two pieces of legislation are meant to protect. i don t think he debated it for a second. aoc s contention that the senator is, quote, are manhattan sizing the notion of bipartisanship thinking that we can have bipartisanship with this iteration of republicans compared to the iteration of republicans years past where bipartisanship wasn t a dirty word. it wasn t and for a long time, the voting rights act reauthorsing was a very bipartisan thing. but i think, again, the history has shown particularly with the use of filibuster, there have been partisan. they re not always partisan. sometimes they came from southern democrats trying to block voting rights. joe manchin is a smart man. he knows what the bill would do. he doesn t want to support the bills. if he wanted to, he would find a way to do that. he doesn t want to.