country now supports a vaccine mandate, according to our most recent nbc news poll. mike memoli is in minnesota ahead of president biden s visit to talk infrastructure. also with us is washington state secretary of state dr. amir shaw and also with me is dr. zeke emmanuel from the university of pennsylvania and he s also advised president biden on covid both during the campaign and since in office. mike, i want to start in minnesota with you. what s interesting is there is a choice the white house could make. essentially all of their current problems that they re trying to deal with in this country, inflation, it s about covid. covid itself, it s obvious. the supply chain. we can go on and on. it is all through the prism of covid. are we going to see more of that front-facing messaging out of the white house now considering with omicron on the horizon?
what s he trying to hide? is there a problem with trump being here? is he embarrassed? well, trump, of course, keeps spreading the big lie that he won the presidential election which, in turn, fueled the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. we are now learning the house committee investigating the insurrection is planning to subpoena a former member of trump s legal team, conservative lawyer east man has talked about the scheme to persuade then vice president pence to throw out election results and declare trump the winner. at least five members of the former administration have spoken to the committee. meanwhile, the biden administration has tapped a republican to lead the department of homeland security s efforts to protect against election interference. washington state secretary of state kim wyman has repeatedly denounced trump s lies and this comes as state and local election officials and their families are intimidated, threatened, as well as terrorized.