shannon: there has been a lot made of the fact that supposedly they are vaccinated they had a number of cases. other cases from that. white house, house speaker s office. the speaker said get vaccinated even though apparently her staffer was fully vaccinated. she said wear a mask. this push for vaccination continues. and andy mccarthy writes saying basically who wasn t that undermined the confidence in vaccines? he points to the campaign season with president biden and vice president harris when they were candidates for a dispersion hub vaccine was coming together. he said if the president and democrats want to understand the vaccine challenge they might consider step away from social media and taking a look in the mirror. leslie, to that point that the president was speaking about, facebook being to blame. they didn t really like that and they had a serious pushback as well. and the president went back on that and was talking about 12
georgia. he was basically begging barr to come out and to do it. and in a quote i put in there, he said i look around. you re the only one who can do it. what s interesting, erica, barr was the one who told me about this first. i went back to mcconnell. mcconnell does not dispute any of this. he acknowledges it. mcconnell eventually came out and said that joe biden was the legitimate president-elect, but it wasn t for another couple of weeks. mcconnell stood on the sideline throughout the month of november and didn t come out until december 15th after the electoral college results were certified. he was privately pleading with barr to come out and do it. in the exchange barr says will he do it at the appropriate time but one of the reasons he wants to tell his version of the story, he has been widely seen as a trump lackey who politicized the doj, saying it was advantageous to one
these allegations, came out on december 1st with that bombshell conclusion that there was no widespread fraud. mitch mcconnell, who wasn t saying it publicly at the time either, but as i understand from this account, mitch mcconnell was also pushing him behind the scenes for very specific reasons, right? this is really something. and bar candidly bar told me this, that mcconnell had been pleading with him to come out publicly to bat down the president s false allegations. and in making this plea to barr in november in advance of coming out december 1st that mcconnell was totally up front as to why he wanted him to do it. he said, look, i can t do it, because i need him, meaning donald trump, i need him in georgia for those two run-off elections. mcconnell didn t want to infuriate the president as he was trying to get the president to campaign for the senate candidates in that run-off in
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in which chadwick boseman would receive a posthumous best actor oscar for ma rainey s black bottom, only for plans to go awry when anthony hopkins, who wasn t at the ceremony, unexpectedly won for the father. what do you do for a living? erm, i look after other people. other people? yeah, myjob is to help people who need help. sounds like one of those guys you re always trying to dump off on me, dear. hopkins plays anthony, father of olivia colman s doting daughter anne, who s struggling to manage her dad s dementia. anthony accuses anne of wanting to get him out of his flat so she can take it over for herself. i m not leaving my flat! but it soon becomes clear that past, present and future are colliding in anthony s mind, leaving him uncertain as to where, when, and even who he is. what is this nonsense? what is that? what are you talking about? where is she? i m here.