She is, the breakout star so far of week one of the Biden Administration. And its not unusual because the Press Secretary is the one whos out there in front of the camera more than anyone other than the president. So, she has instantly taken command of that room, and it has been, as you said, you know, a kind of shocking gear change for us and welcomed gear change for us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire ad
Us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire administration. Its just basic accountability, which is basic small deed democracy, which is just something we were used to before. We lost it for four years, and now it just feels so radical to get back to it. I hope it never i hope we never take it for granted again. I think we have, for this year, a series of rachel and jen conversations coming up at 9 00 p. M. Interm
Cloud and rain. Behind it, quite a few showers, nine or 10 degrees but windy. Further south, some sunshine but quite chilly and it could be that fog lingering across the far south east. On thursday we see substantial change. A more vigorous area of low pressure will arrive to bring a windy day for all but very windy across parts of scotland with gales in the north and west and persistent and heavy rain for western scotland where we could see some localised flooding. Further south, some sunshine, its going to be milder. Temperatures io south, some sunshine, its going to be milder. Temperatures 10 ii degrees. It looks like it will turn u nsettled degrees. It looks like it will turn unsettled as well to thursday night and into friday with that rain sniffing there slipping south eastwards. Maybe not quite as windy but what you will notice on fridays how mild it will be, particularly for england and. Fridays thats a pretty wet across northern and western areas, sunshine will appear, a few s
protest? a riot? the makings of some scattered illegal violence? or do you see something worse. one of the most severe felonies against the u.s. which is now on trial tonight. do you see sedition? that is what federal prosecutors see and what some juries saw and have now convicted, and it s our special report for you right now. we are living through a test of accountability, the doj s effort to convict in these separate sedition trials two years out from an attack that might fade out of view for some people. today the doj demanding juries continue to face what it felt like, what happened, the facts of that day. seemed like they just took mike pence out really quickly. yes, they did. a moment i never saw in my life, these individuals just rushed through security. they are inside statuary hall. obviously this is a huge victory for these protesters. they have disrupted the system in an enormous way. i completely condemn the violence in the capital. i ve spoken to the
Muslims and arabs from muslim majority countries from entering the u. S. Betsy devos nomination to be education second advanced today. Very early this morning in the senate with a party line 5248 vote to move to a final confirmation vote set for early next week. Two republican senators, Susan Collins and lisa murkowski, have announced they will vote against confirmation, although both voted today to move ahead with the nomination. Live coverage on cspan2 of next weeks senate action. This weekend, on American History tv on cspan3, saturday evening at 6 00 eastern, on the civil war, author and historian Harold Holzer on abraham lincolns view on immigration and his efforts to court the german american vote early in his career. One in ten immigrants, one in ten, joined the Union Military as soon as they arrived. By lincolns optimistic calculation, the result with black enlistment factored in and even with the dead, wounded, captured and missing subtracted was a net gain for the military an