Known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three, and could be four, and perhaps two, but we picked up a lot. Most like ly the number is thre, and you people probably know that better than i do at this point, because you looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In years a president s party has only
acquired eight cumulative seats averaging one per decade, and so if we picked up two, three, four, that is a big percentage of that number. So in the last 80 years, you think of that. Only eight seats. In President Obamas first Midterm Election, he lost six senate seats, include ing ing i deep blue state of massachusetts. Republicans captured at least four senate seats
nonetheless good to be back together with you. dana: you weren t the only one, bill. 3% of the labor force up to 5 million workers were forced to stay home as well. that s a huge chunk and schools, your businesses, hospitals, factories, across the board. bill: and you have significant issues that so many people are still dealing with, the issue of testing kits, the issue of therapeutics. all of that we re two years into this and there are still issues front and center for us today. talk to the doctor about that coming up. dana: also covid treatments in short supply the fight against the pandemic appears to be going woke. the fda issues new guidance healthcare providers can consider race or ethnicity when administering potentially lifesaving drugs. marc siegel what you need to know. mark meredith has details on this. good morning. bill, welcome back. president biden due back at the white house in the next few minutes. he was at camp david for the
i don t i really don t understand you. reporter: how would you focus on trade trade with japan? we re dealing with japan on trade. japan has t a great country. you have a great prime minister. we had a very successful election. he s a very good friend of mine. he s one of the people i m closest with, and but i tell him all the time japan does not treat the united states fairly on trade. they send in millions of cars at a very low tax. they don t take our cars. and if they do, they have a massive tax on the cars. i m not blaming japan. i m blaming the people that were in charge of the united states for a allowing that to happen. we have close to a $100 million trade deficit with japan. don t feel lonely. you weren t the only one. reporter: thank you, mr. president. first one, secretary pompeo s
all the parties involved, looked at the evidence, e-mails he sent, looked at other documents, and came to the conclusion that there was sexual harassment involved, that the young woman was very credible, and my recommendation to the senator was to fire him. and i was overruled. you weren t the only one who recommended who believed this was the right avenue to take. correct. well, you know, there were a few people involved in the investigation, so to speak, but people involved in it believed he should not be working with our campaign. she overruled you personally. i was overruled, yes. what was the reasoning behind not taking your recommendation on that? i really don t want to divulge my private conversations or my private counsel to hillary clinton, suffice it to say i believe in a zero tolerance sexual harassment
evidence, looked at e-mails he sent, other documents. i came to the conclusion that there was sexual harassment involved, that the young woman was very credible. my recommendation to the senator was to fire him. i was over ruled. you weren t the only one who believed this was the right avenue to take. correct well, you know, there were a few people involved in the investigation, so to speak. people involved in it believed he should not be working in our campaign. so she over ruled you personally? i was overruled, yes. ultimately strider didn t even go to the counseling that was a part of his docked pay, pay commensurate with a demotion, has to go to kouns counseling and he didn t go to counseling. you were gone at that point. who made the decision on instead