Totally different take . Yeah. Why not . In our current climate, you know his you know the rights going to believe him. You know hes going to go on. Hes going to say, i was going to work from home. And how dare they . They dont care about anything and the medias the worst. I should show you my texas messages from last night because this was breaking and we were trying to get it confirmed during the 11 00 show last night. And i said, hes going to say i escorted my family there and make sure they were safe, and then i came back. Then, boom, thats what happened. Even if this is the problem with where we are is that you know hes not telling the truths. He knows you know. And as long as he does it with a straight face and keeps telling the same story, ill tell you what the headline was for me on that. You know how i am about the family i choose, right . How much i love you and what the bond means. Can you imagine people who you are close enough to to invite on vacation going bad on you and leaking your texts to the media . Well, yeah, i can emergency that because hes got to rethink the circle of trust. People were trying to send them to me, so i cant imagine. Listen, you have okay. So you have ted cruz, his wife, according to the New York Times ill say that trying to get members of this really rich neighborhood in texas, in houston, to go on a vacation, which they later blamed on their kids. You see it there on the Text Messages. Were having trouble. Our house is freezing, what have you. Oh, hey, were going to go down to mexico. Were going to go to cancun, and the hotel rooms are there, whatever. Again, according to that reporting. And then to turn around and blame the kids. Well, he went to cancun. Fine. He went to cancun. His wife, an accomplished woman, cant travel with the kids by herself . Youre going to go and first, overnight trip, trying to that didnt work with a big you know what bag. That was a big bag for overnight. I dont have that bag for a weekend. I dont have that much clothes for a week when im going to the beach. And then people found out it was going to be sunday. I mean theres so much wrong with that. Yes, hes not a local official, but he has pull in washington. He can move people. He can get to people. He can get to the right people. He can show he cares. He can show he cares. Thats all. Ill lay it all out for you coming up. I got yelled at by the team tonight because i was like, i dont really want to give this that much time. Why . Because texas is in so much trouble. Theyre in a world of fire and ice there. We showed san antonio, an apartment complex going down because they dont have water to fight it. Its an example of the obvious. Heres what my problem is. Im telling, you don, look on social media. If youre on the right, whats the big deal, and then a comma, and then they come right at you. And on the left, they want cruz out. Theres such myopia. If the persons on your team, you have one feeling. If theyre on the other team, its you know, its thunderdome. Yeah. I just dont know where it gets us. For me, its dont be a hypocrite because he criticized remember the mayor of ofaustin. He criticized the governor of california. You remember the mayor of austin who went to cabo because his daughter was getting married . Sure. If youre using ted cruzs rationale, wasnt that guy trying to be a dad as well . Yeah. To get his daughter married . Im just saying. The rule for thee but not for me. We know all the hypocrisy stuff. Im just saying its so obvious, and then he goes on the mothership tonight and he gets a pass. Ive got that for you too. You got it all, d. Lemon. Ill be watching because i love you. Just remember, people. Remember, chris, when i called you, and i said, chris, i cant go on my vacation for thanksgiving. Why . Because there was a travel advisory, right . I didnt go. Youre not a senator yet, though. But still this guy took an oath to be there for the people. Yeah, youre right. I love you. See you later. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. So were going to get to our Breaking News because people are still in dire straits. The situation is improving but its going to be a long haul for the folks in texas. More than 300,000 people are still in the dark, and theyre freezing tonight in texas after some of the coldest weather in decades knocked out many of the states power plants. But now some 13 million texans are running out of water. Can you imagine . Houston, austin, san antonio warning residents to boil their water. Hospitals, Fire Departments running low. The department of health and Human Services declaring a Public Health emergency in texas. And in the middle of all this, theres senator ted cruz and his really, really bad decision to take a trip to cancun in the middle of a disaster in his home state of texas. Stopping by Sean Hannitys show tonight to get a pat on the back. I think you can be a father and be the senator of texas all at the same time and make a round trip, quick dropoff trip and come home. Well, sean, thats right. Okay. But his story is unraveling tonight as he admits. It was never supposed to be a oneday trip to drop off his daughters. That was a lie. You really just have to watch it. Here it is. We left yesterday. The plan had been to stay through the weekend with the family. That was the plan. I started having second thoughts almost the moment i sat down on the plane because on the one hand, all of us who are parents have a responsibility to take care of our kids, take care of our family. Thats something texans have been doing across the state. But i also have a responsibility that i take very seriously of fighting for the state of texas and frankly leaving with so many texans were hurting didnt feel right, and so i i changed my Return Flight and flew back on the first available flight i could take. I couldnt take a morning flight because the current restrictions require a covid test. So i had to get a covid test this morning before i could get on a flight back. So i took the first flight i could get after getting the covid test and testing negative. Hmm. Maybe lyin ted that was maybe the right moniker for him. So he admits it was never supposed to be a oneday trip. He admits he realized it was a bad day right around the time people started taking pictures of him and shooting videos. And his excuse for not getting on the very next flight was that he had to take a covid test, which is kind of whats going to happen when you take a vacation in the middle of a pandemic with your kids and your wife during the middle of a pandemic. Good fathering. Good parenting. Come on now. The senator slinking back to texas tonight. You see him here. Hes onboard his flight in this exclusive video from a passenger to asked to remain anonymous. And here he is getting off the flight with a police escort. By the way, if cruz wasnt traveling, those officers might have been assigned to help people in the community who really need it, except theyre escorting him to and from and through the airport. A source telling cnn that some senior aides didnt even know the senator flew down to mexico with his family until the pictures turned up on social media. But the texts from the senators wife, heidi, well, they tell a different story. The New York Times is reporting that she texted friends and neighbors just yesterday saying this. Their house was, quote, freezing and suggesting a getaway until sunday at the ritzcarlton, where they stayed many times. Ill tell you why im pointing that out, the ritzcarlton, why i said it that way, noting that the room rate was 309 a night and saying theres good security. And on top of that, now ted cruz has blown up his explanation that the trip was just about being a good dad, and i quote here. With School Canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, i flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. Sure. What good dad wouldnt drop his kids off at a Beach In Mexico in the middle of a pandemic while the people he represents are freezing in their homes and lining up for food and water . What dad wouldnt do that . Come on. There are people all over texas, Hundreds Of Thousands of them, who would love to take their kids someplace warm. On this show tonight, we have two families with eight children between them who would have loved to have gotten them someplace warm as quickly as possible, someplace safe, someplace where they have drinkable water, a bathroom that they can use, heat. Instead, Hundreds Of Thousands of people are trapped in very dangerous conditions, and their elected leaders are talking out of both sides of their mouths, like when ted cruz said this. This was just monday. Dont risk it. Keep your family safe and just stay home and hug your kids. I mean you cant even ted cruz, who says stay at home and hug your kids. I want you to meet ted cruz. Will you meet ted cruz, who flies his daughters to mexico. Not a good look. Kind of what the whats the word im looking for . Hypocritical. Kind of like the hypocrisy the senator was so about when it was a democrat, austin mayor steve adler went to mexico in december after hosting his daughters wedding. He criticized the mayor of austin for going to mexico. But then ted cruz goes to m mexico. While the cdc says travelers should avoid all travel to mexico. Hes an elected official. Avoid all travel to mexico, senator elected by the people. Cnns kfile dug up a bunch more examples of ted cruzs do as i say, not as i do attitude toward other politicians taking vacations, telling thengovernor Chris Christie to go back to the beach after the outrage over christies trip to a closed state beach with his family while new jerseys government was shut down, criticizing former president barack obama for spending what he thought was too much time on the golf course. If only the terrorists attacked a golf course. That might actually get the white houses attention. Holy cow. I mean how dare he play not even as much golf as donald trump in eight years as donald trump played in four. Wow. How dare he . I wonder why he criticized him. Criticizing the former president for playing pool. Apparently playing A Game Of Pool is a higher priority for this president than it would be to go and see the humanitarian crisis hes created. You forget theres always videotape or a tweet. And theres more. Ted cruz accusing the thenpresident of not being focused on people who are hurting. He is not focused on the people who are hurting, who are paying the cost for his failed policies. Its like looking in a mirror, isnt it . And then theres ted cruz, the martyr, who says, lets not take any recesses. Lets work every day. Its crazy that wed be taking a recess. There are a bunch of us, myself included, that have been urging Leadership Back from january, lets not take any recesses. Lets work lets work every day. Lets work weekends. Lets work till we get the job done. Maybe that doesnt mean during a crisis in your state where people are freezing with no electricity and water. So i mean he didnt specifically say that, so well, not every day, i guess. You know, not while its freezing in texas and balmy in cancun. Like i said, do as i say, not as i do. People in trouble rely on their elected officials to help, to be there on the ground when disaster strikes. And ted cruz used to know that, or at least he seemed to in this campaign ad. When disaster struck, texans came together, helping each other. Everyone doing their part, like ted cruz, who brought home billions in Disaster Relief and passed Emergency Tax Relief for those hit by hurricane harvey. No official, state, or federal has been more involved in the recovery of gal very stop county than senator ted cruz. When the hurricane hit, you stood up for texas, and ted cruz stood up for you. Im ted cruz, and i approve this message. So much empathy. A man of the people. You know what standing up for the people of texas . How about being there alongside them, senator . Helping to get water to desperate texans, like these folks in houston lining up for water from a park spigot. How about helping local governments coordinate with each other, working to get more resources from washington . You know washington very well. Thats where you are. Thats where you work. You can help. You know a few people there. You know, do the kind of things that ted cruz was elected to do. Yes, a u. S. Senator who represents texas, and the people of texas have a right to expect you to have their backs. I want everyone to remember that this is a man who loves calling out elites and libs. Thats why i said ill tell you why it was a ritzcarlton. Elites. Elites. So i guess flying off to mexico to go to the ritzcarlton while everybody suffering, thats not elite. Did the elites make you do it . Maybe it was the squad. I dont know. Those Text Messages from the New York Times Show Heidi Cruz trying to get their neighborhoods from one of the richest neighborhoods in houston to go to a country the cdc says travelers should avoid. Talk about america first. Did they go to miami . Did they go to ft. Lauderdale . Did they go to the keys . Did they go visit maralago . Nope. Not america first. Mexico. We all know that were in the middle of a pandemic. Why are they even traveling at all and then trying to blame it on their kids . You call that being a good dad . Its not what i call being a good dad. Its infuriating. Its hypocritical. Again, maya angelou said it. When people show you who they are, believe them. We shouldnt forget in all of this, though, its really about Hundreds Of Thousands of people who are freezing in their own homes with no power, pipes broken, 13 million running out of water, people lining up in a park to get water. How long will all of this go on . Were live in texas for you. Thats next. Wanna build a Gaming Business that breaks the internet . That means working night and day. And delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for peace of mind. Your books are all set. So you can finally give john some attention. Trusted experts. Guaranteed accurate books. Intuit quickbooks live. Danafarber Cancer Institute discovered the pdl1 pathway. Pdl1. They changed how the world fights cancer. Blocking the pdl1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. Pdl1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. Pdl1 saved my life. Saved my life. Saved my life. What we do here at danafaber, changes lives everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. Texans without power since sunday. The misery gets worse, though. Millions either dont have water or they have to boil it before using it. And some of them using snow as well, boiling snow just to be able to flush their toilets. Cnns ed lavandera joins us live tonight in dallas. Ed, good evening to you. Thanks for joining. Hundreds of thousands of people still remain without power. More than 13 million are dealing with water disruptions. This crisis is far from over. Give us the latest, please. Reporter it is far from over, but it has really changed dramatically since we last talked to you last night, don. Remember last night we were at about 1. 8 million households without power. That has dropped to under 350,000, probably around the 300,000 mark at this point. So that is an improvement. And officials with the state Power Grid System say that none of the outages that remain is being caused by problems at power plants across the state. However, that means it might take a little bit longer to get those homes back online because were talking about power line damage, the physical damage left by the winter storm. And as you alluded to, the water issue is really a problem all across the state. Some 13. 2 Million People affected by water issues across the state. Thats half the population of texas. So its hundreds and hundreds of Water Systems across the state affected by Water Pressure issues. You can see plumbers driving around all over the state as they scramble to fix these situations in every corner of the state, don. Ed lavandera on the story for us. Ed, we appreciate your reporting. Be safe out there. I want to bring in now judge lina hidalgo of Harris County, texas. Judge, thank you so much. I really appreciate you joining us. How are you doing there . Thank you. We are cautiously optimistic. You know, millions of folks here in Harris County are home to houston and 33 other cities. And many spent four nights without energy, without power, without water. Just incredibly difficult circumstances, including many of our Emergency Managers and Emergency Workers families here. Now as your correspondent mentioned, we have gotten the bulk of the power back, but the cascading effects of that power loss and lack of preparation on behalf of the state Electric Grid Manager is has shown itself. Yeah. Particularly on the water issue. I want to talk about that because there is a hard freeze warning in houston tonight, judge. Millions of people across texas are under a boilwater advisory. Are you worried more people could die . You know, weve been so busy responding to the emergency and the crises within the crisis that we havent had a completely accurate count of the deaths. But i received an update just very recently upping the number of deaths from hypothermia. I think thats a you know, certainly an undercount. Its possible to see more impacts. Its definitely very tragic. Its possible that the power will be back out somewhat. But the recovery, the water issues, getting Water Pressure back to our hospitals, getting people back up to speed after all so much suffering, those impacts are going to be felt for a few days. Its been a very traumatic crisis for folks. Yeah, youre still in the middle of it. It takes some time to assess really just how much damage and what the human toll and the health toll and the toll in lives that could come out of situations like this. I want you to check out this video. People lining up in houston to get water out of a spigot in a park. This is the United States of america. How is this acceptable, judge . Its not. Its absolutely not acceptable, and its not acceptable to the community. And we were going to need answers after this. It doesnt make sense that a state in this country is not able to prepare for tough weather that we knew was coming, for tough weather the Energy Infrastructure elsewhere can sustain. And so we need to figure out what went wrong in the way that the Texas Energy Grid is run. Who ultimately created that legis legislation, that setup, and whats going to be done to change it. But right now theres a lot of work to do in response and in recovery. Listen, you need help from wherever you can get it whether its local, state, or federal officials. What was your Immediate Reaction when you heard that senator ted cruz flew off to cancun with his family while the people he represents suffered . I obviously saw the news story with everyone else. I dont want to comment on it. I just dont have room for politics in my head right now. Ive still got a lot of people struggling just to be able to find drinking water. Ive still got hospitals that im fighting to bring back online, First Responders who havent been home in many nights and have struggled to keep in touch with their families. But of course, you know, i i watched it. And what you said right there says plenty without commenting on the politics of it. There are lots of people hurting. Thank you, judge. I appreciate you joining us. Best of luck to you. Please come back and update us. Thank you. Thank you. They lost power. They lost heat. They lost water. And they resorted to burning the baseboards of their home to stay warm. Just one example of what people are dealing with. Im going to talk to a texas Family Weathering the storm. There they are live, right after this. In aurora. doorbell rock on. Tonight ill be eating lobster thermidor au gratin. Really . Shyeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. Make it two calzones apps are used everywhere. Shyeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. Except work. Why is that . Is it because people love filling out forms . Maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Or sending corporate their expense reports. Ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. By empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. To learn more, visit paycom. Com so the people across texas are struggling now for nearly a week, not only to keep their families warm but to have enough to eat and clean water to drink. Tough on parents but extra tough on the children, confused about whats been happening so far for so many days. So john mayes and john milton blackburn are trying to keep it together for their children during this crisis, okay . They join me now to talk about their familys experience, and what a cute family they are. Thank you so much for joining us. John, you and your husband, three kids we see there. Since sunday, youve had no heat. Youve had no water. Your pipes burst. I see the electricity is back on now finally. Tell me what this whole ordeal has been like for your family. Well, it was its been kind of stressful. On sunday night when the power started flickering, there was a little bit of concern there. But by the time monday rolled around, around 9 00 in the morning, the power went off, and it didnt come back on. And it started getting later in the day, and the house started getting colder. We started getting concerned, and by nightfall, we had to clean out the fireplace, which i dont think weve used in years, and made a little warm room in the middle of our house trying to stay warm. So you tried to stick it out in the house, i am told. So you stayed warm. I saw some pictures there. Did you did you rip Cabinet Doors off, and did you use actual the actual baseboards, the floorboards of your what did you use . The baseboards of the house. They were easy to get to. You could break them easy, so we didnt need any special tools. You know, we just had to stay warm. It was either that, or we were going to go after the dining room table, next, you know. We just didnt know what else to do, so that was the best we could come up with for the night. But were thankful we made it through. We kept ourselves warm. We stayed together as a family. So the pipes burst in the walls, is that correct . They did. And luckily it was we heard it, and as soon as we heard the water gushing, i keep a water key in the front closet. So i ran out and turned off the water at the street. But after we had no power and no water, the house was cold, and wed already burned through everything we had, we drove up to our church and stayed in the gymnasium. Yeah. And luckily they had power up there. So both of you are john,. So you said i got to get my kids out of here and get to a shelter. You know, we had to make everything positive for them because its like the night before when we were here on monday and it was cold and we had our house basically burning in the fireplace in front of us, she was holding my hands because she was scared at that point. Because once it got dark, thats when it started getting real for them. So once we got to the church, we kind of just had to keep letting them know weve got to pray for other people. We had to and we were contacting people while we were there. Hey, were here. If you need to, come here, and well stick this out together. And we just made things fun for the kids so they didnt stress out. I mean im a person that when im faced with challenges, i put comedy in a lot of things. So without them knowing, we played out the little the shining, you know, in the gymnasium. I have a video riding around on a bicycle and her acting like one of the crazy twins. Just fun stuff for all of us trying to get through it. So youre holding josie is with you. Josiah is with the other john, and aidan is in the back in the middle. Did your dads make were you scared . Did your dads make you feel safe . Yes. Yes to what . Yes to what . Yes, were you scared, or did we make you feel safe . Yes, we were scared. Aidan, how worried were you guys . How worried were we . Yeah, because it had to be cold. Yes. It was freezing. We were really worried that the lights wouldnt come back on and the heater and the a. C. And stuff. And when the water pipe burst, we were worried that it wouldnt be able to work out, and we wouldnt be able to have any water. Yeah. We had to boil snow. You had to boil snow . Filled up the bathtub with snow. We just had snow coming in the house everywhere and melting it and filtering it and doing everything we could. We were very fortunate we had a neighbor bring us some water as well, but we just had to keep things moving ahead because we didnt know what was going to happen. So lets talk about anything you want to say, josie or josiah because aidan got to do all the talking. You want to Say Something . No . Okay. Listen, john mays, you say that texas leadership must change, that your State Government has failed you and Governor Abbott because he first blamed the Power Outages on wind and solar energy. Now he says that he takes responsibility. Whats your reaction . Im glad that hes taking responsibility. It was frustrating. I can tell you when were sitting in the cold in the dark and you dont have any water and youre burning your house, you feel kind of abandoned and left out, and thats what i was feeling. I can tell you in turn, though, ive been very grateful. Our local community here and the mayor of carrollton was quick to open up Warming Centers and communicate to all the people here locally in our community and all of our friends and family have reached out to us. And weve reached out to them too. Weve all pulled together and helped each other. I mean if anything, this has been such a wonderful Learning Lesson for us on how Important Community is and how important it is to Stay Together as a community. But you still need water, right . You still have no water . I was able to thank goodness i had a handy dad that taught me well, and i was able to cut the wall open and find the burst pipe. We tore down quite a bit of sheetrock, but we finally found it, and we cut the pipe and capped it. So at least we could have some water tonight. So were very grateful. So you tore into your walls and you tore into the baseboards, so you got a lot of repairing to do. You got a lot of handywork. Thank you, john. Thank you, jon. Thank you, aidan, josiah, and zw josie. Im glad that youre safe and looking out for each other in the community. Thats the way it should be. Be well. Absolutely. Bye. Bye. Very have Breaking News on the Pfizer Vaccine that youll want to know. One dose may be enough. When you drive this smooth, you save with allstate. Youve never been in better hands. Allstate. Click or call for a quote today. At jackson hewitt, we offer safe and easy ways to file with a skilled tax pro. Securely drop off your documents, have them picked up, or upload them, and work with a tax pro online from home. Safe and easy ways to file that work around you. Tonight, ill be eating the al pastor burrito from Boca Burritos right here in aurora. doorbell rings excellent as a local access show, we want everyone to support local restaurants. Right cardi b . Yeah eat local trill sound so right now we need two doses of the coronavirus vaccines to be effective, but theres Promising New Research about the Pfizer Vaccine. Lets discuss with William Hassle Teen a former professor at harvard medical school. Thank you so much. Its good to see you, sir. By the way, hes the author of variants the shape shifting challenge of covid19. Again, so good to see you after introducing your book. So theres a new study out of its out of israel and published in the lancet medical journal. It found that the Pfizer Vaccine, 85 effective after the first dose. They looked at 7,000 Health Care Workers who got the vaccine. So tell us what this means. Good news . Not necessarily. Im you know, weve seen hope versus reality many times. Our government, our Government Experts dont recommend one dose only. The company doesnt recommend one dose only, and i personally would say its taking a risk. We know these variants are ready to pounce, and it does protect one dose for a while, but it doesnt give you full protection, and it may not last very long. And the moment it weakens, a variant can come in and get you. I dont think we should keep putting hope against reality when we know that weve kept on doing that and we have 500,000 Dead Americans to show for it. So im not a big fan of one dose. Yeah. So the white house says that weather is causing delays in Vaccine Shipments and deliveries, and the country is seeing a small dip in the average number of doses getting into arms. Do you think that well be able to make up lost ground that happened over the last week or so . You know, this administration seems committed to getting as much vaccine into peoples arms as the industry can make, and theyre helping do that by supporting the local government with federal resources. The more we can do that, the Better Things will go. And i think by the time the first 100 days is over, well exceed the goal that has been set. Id like to see and wed all like to see a lot more, but i think that they can make up for lost time. So, professor, haseltine, if someone is having trouble getting their second dose because of these delays, is it okay if a few extra days go by, or do they have to start all over . No. A few extra days is fine. And even you know, you can wait a long time. Its that period between the two doses, the Lodnger You Go Befor you get your second dose, the immunity you have starts to decline. It may never be what it should be, and it declines somewhat. And thats where the variants can come in and take advantage. We know that were in the midst of a wave of variants. There are five variants at least and probably more in this country spreading, and we know how fast they can spread. In great britain, they were a small fraction of the viruses at the beginning of the year, and theyre almost all the viruses today. It can spread very fast. And theyre more dangerous. They are more lethal. They spread more rapidly. Weve just learned something else. That one of the reasons for that, at least for the british variant, is it lasts twice as long in your body. It gives you twice the chance of getting sick and twice the chance of spreading it. So these variants are nothing to fool with. This virus is a dangerous, wild beast, and you give it a chance, it will get you. And so thats why i think weve got to be really careful with a onedose strategy. Professor haseltine, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Youre welcome. Thank you. And thanks for that great show just before me. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Well see you soon. Be safe. A Top Republican paying a visit to the former president in florida as he snubs another. Were going to tell you whos who, next. So what do you love about your always pan . Its a kitchen magician. Have you ever seen a pan cook three things at once . So the former ambassador to the u. N. And possible 2024 president ial hopeful Nikki Haley Learning The Hard Way what happens when you cross donald trump. Cnn learning the former president snubbed haleys maralago meeting request. The two havent spoken since she said she was disgusted by trumps actions during the insurrection. She claimed in a wall street op oped yesterday that praising trumps record and criticizing his conduct is not having it both ways. So joining me now is cnn senior political analyst john avlon who can hopefully explain this logic to me. Nikki haley, like so many other republicans, trying to have it beth ways, despite what she says. Is that never going to work with trump . Not with this cat. I mean, and nikki haley is seeing that, right, where other, you know, representatives like Steve Scalise are going to kiss the ring, if youve criticized donald trump hell freeze you out. Youre either with him or against him. Theres no reasoning. And against the backdrop of an attack on the capitol this shouldnt be a tough call. Rational human being whos a trump supporter would say i support what he did in terms of policy but i condemn what he did in inciting an insurrection. Not big enough. Youve got to buying into his buying lie right now, which is b. S. Haley tried to batch things up by blaming the media in the gop divide. The divide is real. Number two House Republican Steve Scalise met with trump yesterday with someone close to Mitch Mcconnell says he will never bend the knee. Gop is full on Identity Crisis right now. It is, and theyre choosing sides in this gop civil war. Its stunning to see senators like ron johnson take a whack at mcconnell. The fact that the State Parties are, you know, censuring senators and congressmen who had the courage to stand up and condemn an insurrection doesnt surprise me. But to see senators turn on people when they realize that this is a choice between truth and lies. This should not be a tough call. If youre proactively choosing to still suck up to the big lie then youre clearly part of the problem and youre on the wrong side of history, even if youre looking for a shortterm bump from the donor class, its ridiculous. John, republican lawmakers in georgia trying to push an Election Bill that would limit absentee voting, ban early voting on sundays, a huge voting day for Black Americans who attend souls to the polls events. Is this a blatant attempt to suppress the black vote . Yes, you know the history of rolling back Voting Rights and restricting access, particularly in the south, this isnt a tough call but its part of the gop legislature. Look, you know, the republican elected officials down there who run the elections said this was a clean election but this is whats known as Conspiracy Boot strapping. The big lie of Election Fraud is used as a pretext to push election voting restrictions. That are really about make it easier for republicans to win in a state thats trending purple. The head of the Gwinett County gop gave the ghost away, saying if we dont change these laws we dont have a hope of winning. Theyre trying to ram through this bill, and its nothing but suppression. Wheres the bill right now . Well, theyre going to try to apparently push it through in a session tomorrow. Well see if they succeed in it. Thats one of the things theyll do, put in a 48page bill and tray to ram it through. Making early voting not applicable on sundays, a direct shot at souls to the polls. Dont need to know a ton more than that. John avlon, appreciate your time. Be safe out there. A lot of snow today in new york. Thank you. 100 million from the south to the east coast at risk for a deadly winter storm. Were live in texas where millions are facing a water crisis on top of a power crisis. Stay with us. [ could have been me by the struts ] hey, mercedes . How can i help you . The 2021 eclass. Motortrends 2021 car of the year. Covids still a threat. And on reopening schools, we know what happens when we dont put safety first. Ignore proper ventilation or rates of community spread, and the virus worsens. Fail to provide masks or class sizes that allow for social distancing, and classrooms close back down. A successful reopening requires real safety and accountability measures. Including prioritizing vaccines for educators. Parents and educators agree reopen schools. Putting safety first. So heres the Breaking News, President Joe Biden speaking with Texas Governor greg abbott about the storm, Hundreds Of Thousands of people in texas still without power tonight, bundling up to fight off another fight of freezing cold it happens and adding to the misery, around 13 million texans are facing a water crisis. Either they dont have water due to broken pipes or lack of Water Pressure or theyre being warned to boil water before they use it. And senator ted cruz returning to texas tonight admitting that flying to cancun