yes. president biden is the legitimate president of this country. so the remarkable thing is what he said in the longer clip is he said, i conducted my own independent investigation, and i ve just now reached the conclusion, which very conveniently happened after he won the republican primary, that in fact joe biden did win. this is a position that we ve seen other republicans make. blake masters in arizona is one example. sort of trying to walk back some of the positions that they took in a primary. but we haven t seen it this quickly after taking the position, pam. i think it speaks to the challenge republican candidates, they have to be in the election denial camp to win republican primaries, but then in general elections that position doesn t fly. so they re having to really in bolduc s case having to change on the run. right. and anyone who watches those two sound bytes can say that doesn t really fly. yeah.
we can show many sound bytes. i did several interviews with her where she talked about the fact they needed the resources. they needed resources, resources, of course, means money, cash, $190 billion went to the covid reopening schools fund to get them up to speed whether it be in the facilities at the school, everything that they needed, testing, all of that. 85% of that fund has been spent. 85% of the $190 billion not spent, not spent, thank you. 27% of it has been spent. you know what they re saying now? can t go back to school now because air conditioning doesn t work. what have they been doing with this money? cardona was interviewed by peter doocy the other day and he asked him a question that i had been asking to be asked, what happened to all the money to get kids up to snuff ready for school over the summer?
relished the opportunity to have their day in the court of public opinion. one of the more interesting issues, i think, probably playing itself out behind closed doors now is whether we ll get to watch this in real time, which i doubt. i don t think the committee wants to give bannon that kind of an opportunity. they ll probably want to make sure it s all behind closed doors and we simply see excerpts the way we have. i don t think there s been a trump a pro-trump or trump-aligned witness we ve seen live in front of the january 6th committee hearing thus far. bannon wants to be that person. i don t think he turns on trump. i think he delivers a series of sound bytes and pleads the fifth, but he wants it. this is exactly what he lives for. i will note that arizona election officials did note he would vote for trump over biden if he ran again even if, as he said, he was pressured in many different ways to overturn the election results. it depends on what you mean by pro-trump in this
the coming weeks. still they believe they ll be able to make their points because they have this video testimony. stepien has, i m told, been released from his subpoena to attend to this family emergency. we ll hear from his family attorney later this morning when he ll make a statement for the record. and we ll hear from him himself via the video testimony. thank you. dana, it does sound like we are going to hear from bill stepien one way or another. yes. and the notion of it being potentially unwieldy because the campaign doesn t know what he s going to say, that s now off the table. and what they have are clips from his private testimony where they know what he said. they know the point they want to make with those clips. they knew it going into this. so, they can pick out, forgive me, the best sound bytes, the most important arguments, the most important points they
shannon. and president biden changing his take on covid, from beating back the virus to learning to live with it. as i said before i m not going to shut down the economy, i m going to shut down the virus. i m not going to shut down the economy, i m going to shut down the virus and build the economy. today we are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus. john: byron york, the chief political correspondents for washington examiner . the message was in july of 2020, we need to learn to live with the virus. joe biden as you saw in the montage of sound bytes said we are going to wipe it out. who was right? well, it s not going to be wiped out. it all goes back to what president biden promised during the campaign. you just played it. he was going to shut down the virus.