Dont tell lawrence im jealous. Rachel, youre so terrible at jealousy, because what you did was tell the biggest possible audience in the world, the Rachel Maddow audience, whats happening tomorrow at 10 00. Thats not what youre supposed to do your jealousy. Thank you very much, rachel, really appreciate it. Heres the truth. I am super psyched for you. I am very, very excited about speaking to joe biden as president for the First Time Ever and for the first time for this network. But the truth is, ive been speaking to joe biden for, you know, over 25 years. Its not going to be completely new. What is incredibly exciting for me is dr. Kizzy corbett, who you mentioned. She practically made the vaccine that is in me and ill be meeting her for the first time. She was 34 years old when she did this work with the vaccine. I am going to be totally intimidated and scared and nervous, so watch just how i mask, if i can, how nervous i am talking to dr. Corbett. It will give me a little bit of the what the jealous part of me is looking for, like, oh, lawrence has really got a lot to deal with here. Ill get to see if you look a little head up there, i can take a little bit of that home with me. Lawrence, i am super proud of us as a network that you are doing this tomorrow. I cant wait to see it. Anything i can do to help out, anything you would like for me to jump in for, im ready for you. As i pass the word to you today, send me questions. Send me questions. I will. I will. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, tonight on the floor of the house of representatives, Republican Congressman liz cheney who expects to be banished from the leadership of her party tomorrow rose to describe the crisis that american democracy faces now. Today we face a threat america has never seen before. A former president who provoked a violent attack on this capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive effort to convince americans that the election was stolen from him. He risked inciting further violence. Millions of americans have been misled by the former president. They have heard only his words but not the truth as he continues to undermine our democratic process, sowing seeds of doubt about whether democracy really works at all. Democrats in congress are trying to legislate a guarantee that democracy really works. Theyre doing that with a bill that they call the for the people act. Each bill introduced in the senate gets a number, and the Majority Leader gets to decide that number. The Majority Leader decides who gets the most important number, which is number 1. Chuck schumer gave the for the people act the designation of number 1, Senate Bill Number 1, s1. Today the Senate Rules Committee considered amendments to s1 and voted on the bill. It was a 99 party line tie. The senate takes a Majority Vote to send the bill from the committee to the senate floor, but Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has the power to bring s1 to the senate floor even after only a tie vote in the rules committee today. On the day, this day, that the Senate Rules Committee voted on nothing less than the future of democracy in america, republicans in arizona became the latest state to pass legislation that will make it more difficult to cast a vote in elections in that state. Arizonas republican governor doug doosey signed the bill into law this afternoon immediately after it was passed by arizonas republican controlled senate. Both of arizonas Democratic Senators mark kelley and Kyrsten Sinema have signed on as cosponsors of s1, the for the people act, which would prohibit the kind of voter restrictions signed into law in arizona today. The sponsor of s1, senator jeff merkley, is a member of the rules committee, and at the markup of the bill today, senator merkley said this. The for the people act is a culmination of years of countless work, recommendations on the need, the issues that need to be addressed to ensure every american access to the ballot box. Many rules have been adopted in blue states, in red states, in purple states alike, and they are broadly popular with a majority of americans, both democrats and republicans. You know, seeking to block groups of americans from voting, its a crime against the freedom of americans. Its a crime against the rights of americans. Its an assault on the founding vision of our we, the people constitution. To thwart such schemes, such plots, we need National Election protection standards. Standards to protect the freedom of every american, the right of every american, to fully participate in guiding our nation. Mitch mcconnell tried to tell the rules committee today that it is now the democrats in the senate who are trying to rewrite Election Laws to their advantage, not republicans in state legislatures. We all learned early in life, if you can write the rules, you can win the game. If you can write the rules, you can win the game. Chuck schumer pleaded with republican members of the rules committee, including Mitch Mcconnell, to do something they never do consider the eyes of history. In democracy, when you lose an election, you try to persuade more voters to vote for you. You dont try to ban the other side from voting. Thats what orban does, thats what erdogan does, thats what dictators do. So what are my republican colleagues in the senate going to do . These laws carry the stench of oppression, the smell of bigotry. Are you going to stamp it out . Or are you going to allow it to be spread . I plead with my republican colleagues, think twice. I plead with leader mcconnell, think twice. The eyes of history are on all of you. Where are you going to stand . Think twice, please, my republican friends. Think twice, leader mcconnell. President trump told a big lie, one of the biggest ever told. We are all know that, every Single Person in this room knows that. Every Single Person, and its taking root, this big lie is taking root in our country, not just in the minds of his voters but in the laws of the land. When you perpetrate when you perpetuate or tolerate lies about the election like this, you erode our democracy. Leading off our discussion tonight, the sponsor of s1, democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon. Thank you very much for joining us tonight, senator. I know this is a very important day for you, when your own bill like that, an important bill, comes before the committee for a vote. I want to go to something that we just heard Senator Schumer say. He said to that committee, to everyone in that room, that everyone in that room, meaning Mitch Mcconnell and every republican senator knows that donald trump is telling a big lie about the election. Did any of them counter that . Did any of them debate that and say, no, donald trump hasnt told any lies about the election . No, not at all. They didnt push back on schumers comments in any possible way. Schumer was absolutely accurate. Every senator in that room, democrats and republicans, understand this big lie, and yet they are following a path to essentially continue the assault on the capitol by proceeding to try to enable states to block citizens from voting. On january 6th, it was about burning the ballots for 80 million americans, now its about preventing millions of americans from voting by allowing state after state after state to erect barriers that prevent targeted communities from being able to participate in american elections. The goal that youve brought forward, you have 49 cosponsors in the senate. Thats an extraordinary achievement in and of itself to get that far that quickly. Joe manchin is the only senator that hasnt signed on to it. Do you have any sense of joe manchins view of this legislation and why he has not signed on to it . Well, joe has made it very clear that he wants to explore issues about how the bill is implemented, the ideas and concerns of Secretary Of State from across the country, make sure were really tackling the issues that need to be tackled, so hes in thoughtful consideration. And it is a deliberation the senator is entitled to as well and should be engaged in. I think what we proposed today was a managers amendment that gave enormous amount of adjustments based on that feedback from secretaries of state and local election officials, and the republicans turned it down, voted on a party line basis. We dont want to have improvements recommended did i secretaries of states across this country, we want to kill it. It really comes down to three core issues in this bill. Keep billionaires from buying elections. Give every american full access to the ballot. And stop the gerrymandering that destroys equal representation. Thats the battleground. Lets listen to what Senator Klobuchar, who is the chair of the committee, had to say about the Campaign Finance components of this. The secret money is flooding our elections, denying voters a right to know who is trying to influence their vote. Spending for the 2020 Election Cycle was approximately 14 billion. Thats more than double the 2016 Election Cycle. And while more than 98 of americans who made political contributions last year gave less than 200, those who gave donations larger than that accounted for nearly threequarters of all contributions made. We need to take these threats to our democracy head on with immediate action to Restore Americans confidence in our political system, and thats exactly what the for the people act does. Senator, in the past, this would be considered two different pieces of legislation, Campaign Finance reform was always one discussion and one kind of legislative vehicle, and Voting Rights were always another discussion in another kind of legislative vehicle. Why have they been combined here . Well, this is about election protection. And you have to address the money side of this and you have to address the access to the ballot side, and that third point, you have to address equal representation. So these three things all work together. When you put anything through the senate, its extremely hard to do on policy, and so if we were to try to have three separate bills, it would be an opportunity for it to never get done. We want it to get done, it has to get done, and these three things are connected, they support each other. Theyre about the big things americans say they want fixed. A supermajority of americans say absolutely address these things. Were talking republicans, democrats. They do not want billionaires buying the election. They do not want party groups banning them from the election. We got past that in 1865. Thats half a century ago, yet were deep again in trying to prevent College Students and Native Americans from being able to cast a ballot. Lets see what Stacey Abrams said about this situation today. I think the more we watch these states undertake the issues of the insurrection on january 6, the more likely we are to see a response on a speller federal level. This is not the first time the federal government has had to step in and reaffirm who we are as a nation, and my hope is as this process works through the senate, we see the return to just the fundamentals. Senator, so far there are no republicans who see it your way or see it Stacey Abrams way. How would this Legislation Move in the senate since it cannot be included in a Reconciliation Bill . Well, so well go to the floor either by the Senate Voting by simple majority, and thats 50 votes plus the Vice President to pry it loose from the committee, or by coming through the Majority Leaders Office through a rule called rule 14 which is a very common way of putting issues on the floor. And then were going to be immersed in an extended debate in which i anticipate there will be 100 amendments considered. Out of that debate, in the end, we have to come together and say this has to pass. If we cant bring any republicans to join us, and Mitch Mcconnell has been very clear that basically republicans are barred, they are barred from trying to ensure that every american can vote. They are barred from even entertaining the thought that maybe billionaires shouldnt be able to buy elections. And theyre absolutely barred from gerrymandering which gives them a 15vote in the house, and maybe they can get a 25vote in the house by savagely attacking equal representation. So in the end its very unlikely well have a single republican join us. I certainly hope we will. But then 50 democrats will have to figure out how to get this bill passed one way or another. Senator skbref merkley, thank you very much for starting us off tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. Coming um, you have caused this. Thats what senator mitt romney said to senator hawley during the attack on the Capitol By The Trump mob when those senators were hiding out from that mob together. Tonight liz cheney said what senator hawley and the cheerleaders of trumps big lie can never say. Thats next. Trumps big lie can never say. Thats next. N his game. Onceweekly trulicity lowers your a1c by helping your body release the insulin its already making. Most people reached an a1c under 7 . 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Thats what senator mitt romney said to senator Joshua Hawley in an emotional confrontation while senators were hiding from the trump mob that invaded the capitol on january 6. New reporting in the Washington Post says that mitt romney, who is as mildmannered as any senator in history, erupted at josh hawley. Thats the word they used, erupted. Another mildmannered former republican senator, John Danforth of missouri, told the Washington Post, i feel very responsible for Josh Hawley Being in the senate. I feel terrible about it. Josh hawley played a central role in creating, if not the darkest day in american history, one of the darkest days in american history. Senator danforth, who discussed his regrets about josh hawley on this program in january, said that encouraging Joshua Hawley to run for senate against our next guest, senator Claire Mccaskill was, quote, the greatest mistake of my life. Josh hawley said he used to read pulitzer prizewinning columnist george will religiously. George will wrote that senator hawley, along with ted cruz and donald trump should be forevermore shunned. Each will wear a star scarlet s as a seditionist. Tonight liz cheney and george will who calls them seditionists will say what they can never, ever say. The election is over. That is the rule of law. That is our constitutional process. Those who refuse to accept the rulings of our courts are at war with the constitution. Our duty is clear. Every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. Joining our discussion now, Claire Mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri and msnbc political analyst, also with us senator glover, professor at Princeton University and msnbc contributor. Claire, what it must feel like to read his deepest regrets at defeating you through the Election Campaign with josh hawley. Danforth revealed by the Old Republican Party in my state, someone who refused to campaign against tom eagleton because they worked together on many issues that were important in missouri when they were in the senate. And he and i had worked together on some Campaign Finance issues. Hes a believer in limiting dark money into politics. Hes not a fan of the Citizens United decision. So it is sad. But i will say Jack Danforth said january 6 was one of the darkest days in history. Tomorrow will be one of the darkest days for the Republican Party in this country, because what theyre going to do, lawrence, is theyre going to oust a leader for the grievous sin of telling the truth. Any moral ground they thought they had, whether it was on issues of integrity or morality or faith, theyre gone now. Because its not that she voted to impeach trump, because they voted to keep her as a leader after that. Its because shes refusing to participate in the fraud being committed, the dangerous fraud being committed against our country right now. And shame on all the republicans that are going to participate in what will be, i think, looked back on as the low point of a Republican Party that is shrinking by the day. Professor glover, liz cheney did something so rare in our politics. She is a partisan republican and certainly a staunch conservative, and she gave a speech on the floor of the house that no one on the democrac side of the aisle could disagree with and possibly only democrats listened to. Well, i think thats absolutely right, lawrence. One of the interesting things, and no matter what i might think of liz cheney in politics, we have our disagreements, we have our arguments within the frames of our democratic commitments. That our commitment to democracy, those background agreements, make possible the condition for our disagreement. What she has done over the course of her career has in some ways fertilized the soil that made trumpism popular. Now that trumpism has come in full bloom and they have evidenced a resistance to those background commitments, she has drawn the line. And thats really important, because even though we may disagree, that disagreement is predicated upon our commitment to democracy as such, but we have political actors on the scene today, lawrence, who are not committed to democracy at all. They are only committed to the relentless pursuit of power. Lets listen to more of what liz cheney had to say on the House Chamber tonight. This is not about policy, this is not about partisanship. This is about our duty as americans. Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president s crusade to undermine our democracy. Senator mccaskill, Senator Mccarthy kept saying, i just wanted her to stop talking about. If she had stopped talking about it, she could have stayed in her position in the house. She said, stay silent and emboldening the lie emboldens the liar. Liz cheney could not remain silent. Everyone who has remained silent is complicit, every single one of them. I believe if i were a journalist that, you know and you know, lawrence, over in the senate the journalists all hang out by the tram as people go back and forth to the capitol for votes. If i were a journalist tomorrow, i would try to catch every single one of them and ask them how they would have voted on liz cheney. None of them will have the courage to say how they would have voted, theyll say, that was a house decision. This is really unbelievable this is happening. And, by the way, she has a more conservative record than the woman theyve picked to replace her. She has the more rock solid i mean, im with eddie, i dont agree with a lot of liz cheneys policy positions, and shes going to be replaced by someone more moderate than she is. So what is this about . This is really just about the former guy, insisting that if he is going to help these people and lead a shrinking base in a shrinking Republican Party, liz cheney has to go, and they say, yes, sir. They report to maralago and they say, yes, sir. They kiss his ring and they come back and they are complicit in the big lie. Professor glaude, the image Senator Mccaskill just gave us, theyre allowed to chase the senators a certain amount of distance and theyre allowed to chase them down a hall bay hallway asking questions, and we just saw four years of trying to fritter away what donald trump has tweeted. They say, i didnt see it, i have to go to this meeting down the hall. They now will be running away from the question of what do you think of what liz cheney just said . So both sides of this issue make those republican senators run away from answering to either side of it, the trump side of it or the Liz Cheney Side of it. Well, i think the evidence is clear that the Republican Party is running major deficits encouraged that there is a complete absence of statesmen and stateswomen on that side of the aisle. But i want to be careful here. I think its important for us to isolate and to, in some ways, describe the problem as trumps im losing my language here as trumps kind of lord, have mercy, lawrence trump trafficking in the lie. Thats important. But the lie is tethered to a set of resentments and grievances and fears out in the american public. And if we dont understand the relationship between the lie that trump traffics in and the Republican Party trafficked in and those fears and grievances and resentments that are circulating in the american public, then were going to think of this as a Political Drama with just these particular actors and not see these Underlying Forces at work in our politics. I apologize for stumbling. And what liz cheneys force in the face is silence is trafficking in the lie. Professor eddie glaude, Claire Mccaskill, thank you for our discussions tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up more with what senator merkley calls, quote, a crime against the rights of americans in the republican state restricting the rights to vote in their states. Well speak to former attorney colin allred who is now texas congressman colin allred. Thats next. Man colin allred thats next. Theyre 22 million prescriptions strong. 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Lets get you to the exhale you didnt know you were waiting for. Lets get it. Together. So we can be together. Lets get to immunity. Nows your moment to get vaccinated. Stacey abrams is trying to take the politics out of the right to vote and access to voting in this country. What is so important is that we not relegate this and be so reductive that we think about this as a purely political issue. No matter our intent, the undermining of democracy is dangerous to everyone regardless of their party, and thats why its so urgent that we stop treating this as a binary conversation between republicans and democrats and start treating this as an issue of citizenship versus partisanship. Arkansas, georgia, idaho, indiana, iowa, kansas, kentucky, wyoming, utah, and as of today, arizona. Ohio republicans hope to join that list. Republicans in the Ohio Estate Legislature introduced a bill that would increase i. D. Requirements for mailin ballots, reduce the number of days of early voting and restrict the number of balance locality drop boxes. Joining us now is democratic congressman colin allred of texas. He is a former ving rights attorney. Colin, thank you so much for joining us tonight. It must be busy for you behind the scenes in congress these days because House Members will constantly want to turn to Voting Rights attorneys and Voting Rights experts. You can tell them from your experience in the field whats going on here. What is your reaction to where it stands tonight as of these 12 states and whats coming, possibly texas might join them soon . Well, texas will join them soon. Thank you for having me on, lawrence. This is one of the most dangerous periods for our democracy in our history, period. We had one of the worst attacks on our democracy on january 6. I was on the house floor when that happened. And now we have state after state after state advancing creative and new laws to try to make it harder to vote, all to support the big lie. And, you know, this is so concerning to me because there is no legal strategy that is going to be able to challenge and successfully beat these laws in all of these states. Most of these laws, if we dont do something at the federal level, will be in place when we go to vote in 2022. And im concerned about what thisportending for 2024 and the Republican Party would try to overthrow if they start establishing these laws. The for the people act, the bill we were discussing with senator merkley, s1, the Brennan Center has analyzed each of the restrictive voting bills pending in the states and it would foil State Efforts to manipulate voting rules to exclude eligible voters or dis. They need to set standards so it is not so radically different from state to state. Were Setting National standards for vote by mail and more importantly, National Standards for voting citizens. Particularly black and brown voters, and young voters, too, many of these laws are aimed at young voters, are extremely difficult. We cant allow that to happen. I dont know what the senate is going to have to do. Youre a senate guy, lawrence, im a house guy. But they have to find a way to make this bill into law because we need to have National Standards to protect our democracy. I agree with Stacey Abrams. Its not a partisan issue, its an issue about our democracy. It got a little personal today in the Senate Rules Hearing committee when Senator Klobuchar addressed senator cruz. Lets listen to this. When, in fact, you, senator cruz, not all of your colleagues here today, you were Contesting Theie electoral college. You were leading one of the leaders on the effort to say that the Election Results were not correct. And so you wonder why we want to make sure that people have the right to vote. And you see there in that shot that your texas senator cannot even look up and face what is being said to him, which is absolutely true. No, he cant. And, you know, he has bragged recently about leading the insurrection on january 6. I agree with what was said earlier, they each should have a scarlet s everywhere he goes as a seditionist. The biggest part of the politics, lauren, isnt between the parties and idealogy. Its between the folks who believe in democracy and those who dont. We need support for folks who believe in democracy in the form of legislation that prevents these states from putting in place these laws, prevents folks like senator cruz who clearly has no interest in our democracy and is only engaged in promoting himself and, of course, promoting the big lie, for being in charge of being put in power and thats how our democracy works. 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We appreciate jeff in taking all of our complaints over the past two months. Hes been remarkably helping us resolve all of this. I also want to give jeff saenz a shoutout for helping us get vaccinated. With that the president announced a new plan for free rides to Vaccine Sites. To ensure that transportation is less of a barrier, from may 24th to july 4th, uber and lyft are both going to offer everyone free rides to and from Vaccination Sites. I think that is really stepping up. Joining us now, dr. Covina patel, the director in the obama white house, and marie teresa. Marie, i want to begin with you because i want to talk about the politics we just saw. Those three governors thanking the president for the coronavirus policy dealing with the states, clearly working together with the president in a way that Washington Republicans never even dream of. Well, what joe biden is reminding the American People is once someone gets voted in and steps into the oval office, they are everybodys president , every single american, regardless of political stripes. So this is him reaching out very specifically and highlighting the republican governors who are struggling with Covid Vaccination and hesitancy as so many other governors are demonstrates that joe biden is absolutely the man of the people. He is the american president. And after four years of donald trump where he failed to do that, to demonstrate that he was unifying and speaking for everyone, its a refresher to see someone stepping in and understanding what that oval office means, lawrence. Dr. Patel, we seem to have switched from the january, february, march, april, i guess, desperate attempt by people who were eligible for the vaccine to struggle to try to get an appointment to get the vaccine. Now we are struggling to get the vaccine to the people who seem harder to reach. Yeah, lawrence, thats right. We knew this point would come, that the demand would decrease and the supply would increase. I think what was, you know, left in question was then what . Were saying down these Vaccination Sites and putting them in clinics and pharmacies that the president more feels Like Community presence. But then what . What do we do with antivaxers. I dont know if theyre even hesitant. Theyre okay because theyre doing the wait and see approach. They havent felt that candid emergency. Im still wearing a mask outside because i still feel kind of shamed not to, but were still in between whats normal and whats not. I think that will get clearer over the next several weeks, certainly with the president s july 4th kind of milestone, i hope that we can turn a corner with numbers of vaccines, 12 to 15 getting vaccinated certainly helps. Marie, i know you had an experience with your mother, some of the harder to anticipate components of what we are genuinely calling vaccine hesitancy. Yes, lawrence, in the middle of december, my mother, who runs a health care office, when they told her they were took me seve out why, she had been targeted through whatsapp, saying it was Technology Never used on humans and it was all in spanish. And it was by someone who was claiming to be a pharmacist from el salvador. We ended upsetting up the latino disinformation lab, because what we were learning that what is targeting the community is supposed to create a distrust in government. And if you dont trust your government to keep you safe and healthy, you are going to distrust your vote to go out and vote. Its the most morbid Voter Suppression that we are seeing to date. And they are targeting the extreme right, saying look, you cannot trust biden with the vaccine, you will have to go out and vote in the mid term to get him out. Its interesting to watch from the outside, and recognizing that this information is dealing with the most, you know, the most sacred part of our lives, which is our health and safety, and our communities, so we will continue getting thesing information. I finally got my mother to get a vaccine. We had a family reunion, after 13 months of seeing her, and it was a beautiful moment and i want more americans to experience that, because it allows us to get to what the doctor was saying, a level of normalcy that we desperately so need right now in the country. Dr. Patel, that is multimonth conversation in a family about the vaccine, that is how long it took to get that one vaccination done. Its a conversation we have to all be willing to join. That is right, lawrence. It takes time. This last kind of 150100 million people, including 10ss of millions of adolesents, where 1 in 3 parents are saying they want to vaccine. That means 2 out of 3 families dont want it. The only way to over come it is not by shaming them, not by creating bright lines and saying, you cant come in, but to welcome and understand and its taken me, on average 23 visits with patients who are just reluctant to convert them, and the conversion really is remarkable because all of a sudden, they say, oh, i dont know why i did not do this before. But it takes time, and lawrence, i hate to say it, in health care, time is money, time is something we dont have a lot of. Its a ground game now. Slogans and campaigns can help, but its one on one to get it done. And time is also a risk. You are worried the entire time your mother was not getting the vaccine you are worried that shed get covid. And she was 70 years old and she is going to say, why did you say that. She is older and thats the challenge. You find the challenge particularly in Immigrant Communities where english is not the dome nantz language and they are getting inundated by disinformation, not just from the United States but across the border. We are needing to do it, and we are learning that, young people, are vaccine hesitate ant and they are getting their information from not doctors but from their older family. So, its going to be very much an individual conversation that we have with our loved ones so we can see them hug them, and get back to normal. Dr. Patel and maria, thank you both very much for joining our discussion. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you. We will be right back. [truck horn blares] vo the subaru forester. Dog tested. Dog approved. Ive got the brains youve got the looks lets make lots of money youve got the brawn ive got the brains lets make lots of uh uh uh oohhh theres a lot of opportunities with allstate, drivers who switched saved over 700. Saving is easy when youre in good hands. 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The vaccine you are taking is developed by a africanamerican woman, this a is just a fact. The year barack obama was elected, dr. Kizzmekia corbett graduated and then received her ph. D. In micro biology and immunology and then worked on vaccines in the National Institutes of health the year biden was elected president the thing that you i want people to know, they should trust it, they should trust the vaccine works and its safe. Amazing Kizzie Corbett will join us for the special hour of vaccinating america. I could spend the whole hour listening to dr. Corbett tell the story of how a little girl growing up in hillsboro, North Carolina in the 1990s grew up to be one of the worlds super scientists who was now saving hundreds of millions lives all over the world. And i could listen for the whole hour to Kizzie Corbett, describing the drama that unfold odd the friday in january, when the sequencing of covid19 was published and she adapted a vaccine she had created to covid19 over that weekend. But we will not have time for it all tomorrow night, because she will be sharing the spotlight with president joe biden. Right here, tomorrow night, 10 00 p. M. , President Biden will get the first word and dr. Corbett will get the last word. That is tonights last word, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams starts now. Well, good evening and again day 112 of the Biden Administration and just a few hours ago, wyoming Republican Congress woman liz cheney came to the house floor an empty chamber except for one other republican to deliver a powerful warning to her party and to their country. It wont save her from whats happening to her tomorrow. In fact its more of why she is getting replaced as head of the Republican House caucus. Because she wont go along with the lay that trump somehow won