ask pence to appear voluntarily. the panel's chairman, bennie thompson, quote, you could expect that before the month is out. tonight one member of the committee explained why pence's information is critical for their inquiry. >> he would have, i think, very undoubtedly relevant testimony for us about that pressure campaign. he would be in a better position to speak to it. all the efforts to violate his constitutional duty to count the votes and instead reject votes without basis. as the chairman indicated, we intend to extend that vision fairly soon. so let's hope he'll do the right thing. >> chairman thompson says they are also focusing more intensely on the role some members of congress played ahead of january 6th. >> we have information that members hosted people who came to washington on that day in their office. we have information that before the actual certification, people came earlier, were given tours in the capitol. we have pictures of members taken -- taking pictures with people who came to the rally. there's a smaller subset of members that have been identified who probably did more to encourage the stop the steal part of coming to washington that we'll continue to work on. >> meanwhile, omicron-driven covid cases soaring at a relentless pace. cdc data shows we're now seeing an average of over 600,000 new cases a day. the most of at any point in the pandemic. according to "the new york times," covid hospitalizations have increased more than 50% over the last two weeks. although at a slower rate than rise in new cases. this comes as a supreme court heard challenges to one of the biden administration's main pandemic-fighting strategies, vaccine mandates for companies with more than 100 employees and for some health care workers. republican-led states have largely objected to those mandates. later today the court's conservative majority appeared skeptical of the need for vaccine requirements. the while liberals pointed out the ongoing public health crisis. >> are you still really asking this court now, today, to issue a stay? there are three quarters of a million new cases yesterday. >> the hospitals are today, yesterday, full almost to the point of the maximum they've ever been in this disease. >> is a vaccine the only way to treat covid? >> it is certainly the single most effective way to target all of the hazards osha identified. >> late today, the white house announced it has finalized the first contracts related to the 500 million free at-home covid tests that president biden promised would be available by mail. this morning the president was asked if he thought covid would become a permanent part of our lives. >> i don't think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we're dealing with it now is not here to stay. we have so many more tools we're developing and continue to develop. that'll contain covid. we'll be able to control this, the new normal is not going to be what it is now. it's going to be better. >> the president and first lady, jill biden, spent part of the day in colorado getting a firsthand look at the damage from leak's devastating wildfire near denver. this was also the day speaker pelosi announced that biden's first state of the union dress to congress will be march 1st. it has not been that late since 1934. with that, let's bring in our guests on this friday night, franco ordonez, white house correspondent for npr, saint oxney, civil rights decision of the justice department, and dr. ack tar, university of arizona college of medicine, phoenix, and he works in emergency rooms in pennsylvania and florida. good to see you all. franco, i want to start with january 6th. if the committee is nearly ready to ask pence to come in and they are signaling coming public hearings, can we then conclude that they are even more committed to getting this inquiry done as soon as possible? >> i think that is a very fair assumption. i mean, mike pence -- i mean, it's not like you can get much higher up the food chain than the former vice president. he's obviously got a lot of critical information that the committee -- that the panel wants to know. adam schiff was just there talking about some of the behind-the-scenes knowledge that vice president -- former vice president pence would have, that the panel obviously wants to know. also, pence could talk about, you know, those critical few hours when the attack was going on and what trump was actually doing, what type of communication they may have been having between him and the president and/or his staff and the white house staff. i do think there is a sense of caution, though. pence is obviously someone with some great political ambitions. he is acting as a presidential candidate traveling across the country to battleground states, new hampshire, iowa. so i do think there is a little bit of wait and see of how much pence will actually participate and contribute because he does not want to turn off trump supporters entirely. that said, many people feel that he already has done that and he might as well defend the constitution and do what he did on january 6th of last year again. so we'll see. >> cynthia, what about the fact that the committee is interested in pence tell you right now? >> it tells me they're zeroing in on the coup itself and not just focusing on on the entrance into the capitol. here they are poised to probably subpoena jordan perry, navarro, looking pretty hard at giuliani, some of these other people, and now they're going to talk to pence. they have been very polite about first asking and then later doing the subpoena. i would find it hard to believe they actually subpoena pence because of his stature as a vice president, but certainly the other congresspeople who participated in this coup attempt should be subpoenaed and should be subpoenaed pretty soon. >> did you find it interesting, cynthia that when congressman thompson was talking about members of congress who may or may not have participated, he seemed to be tiering them, people who were giving tours, people taking pictures, but there were people who did more than that. >> right. somebody gave tours to the point where congressman clyburn's private office was known. so there were definitely different levels of tours. you know what it's like in congress. somebody is knocking on the door and people are taking pictures, and then there's tours by low-level staffers, and then there's tours by congresspeople. and then there's people participating in the actual coup attempt. you know, this week on msnbc in a great interview by ari melber, peter navarro basically admitted whole thing. he said we had a whole system. we had 100 members who were participating and they all were going to agree on how we were going to fight back and not certify this election and try to throw it to the states and then eventually back to the house of representatives. he called it the green bay sweep. so we basically know the outlines of the coup and it's just up to this committee to get the information out because apparently the justice department is waiting for them to do it first. >> to that point about information, cynthia, here's january 6th committee member adam kinzinger earlier today. >> either the president probably in his best-case scenario was totally incompetent, totally indecisive and absolutely abdicated his responsibility to defend the constitution, or -- and this is where we can get more information -- you know, he was part of this, part of understanding what was going to happen. that's why the days leading up to january 6th in terms of him specifically what did he know, who did he talk to are so important. what did he know? and i think that could be really the defining moment between is what he did criminal or is it just terribly incompetent. >> either way, not exactly a flattering portrait of the former president. what does his committee need in terms of information to make any sort of criminal referral? >> they need to know about his conversation s with the other people in that war room at the willard hotel. they need to know what exactly was he doing about pressuring pence to abdicate his responsibilities and refuse to take the electors. they need to know exactly what he was thinking when he was calling down and demanding more votes in georgia. see, the temptation is to focus only on the january 6th. but that's not really it. it's the whole umbrella of activities. it's the pressure in arizona, the pressure in pennsylvania, the pressure in michigan, the pressure in georgia, and what was happening with the electors. that's why it's so important to have a grand jury investigation on everything to bring it in so that all of the information comes together and we can really determine whether or not there was a conspiracy to overthrow and overturn this election. and the only way we're going to know that is if we have a full grand jury at the high levels, not low levels, not the half wits who came into the congress with nordic hats on and weird makeup. what's important is not those people. what's important is the plan to refuse the will of the voters of the united states of america for the first time in the history of the country. or at least since abraham lincoln. that's what we have to get it. >> doctor, turning to the pandemic, what are you seeing in your hospitals in terms of treating covid patients? >> well, unfortunately it's actually worse than i've ever seen it. the e.r.s are busting at the seams. we've got people lirgt standing outside. we're practicing waiting room medicine because we can't get an emergency department itself. we've been dealing with this pandemic for a couple years now. the amount of patients coming in is more than i've ever seen in the emergency departmentsment people are talking about how omicron is milder and it is anecdotally as well. big data is better than any anecdotal experience, but when you have this many people getting sick, when you have this many people getting infected, if it's slightly milder, it's still going to cause a ton of hospitalizations because almost everyone is getting infected. it really seems to be a huge scourge. we can barely fit patients even in the waiting room, forget the e.r. i've never seen it like this. >> franco, what have you been hearing from the white house about the current surge in cases? >> they're obviously concerned about the surge in cases. at the same time, they're trying to say that they have a handle on it. but as the doctor says, i mean, so many people are feeling this. they are concerned. the president likes to say that they have all the tools to control this, they are pushing the 35 million unvaccinated americans to get their shots, and he's saying that things are not like they were back in 2020. you know, a lot of people are feeling like it's deja vu as they're racing around trying to get tests, trying to get to testing sites, waiting in line for testing sites. as the doctor said, they're seeing hospitals strained. but the president says that things are much, much better than they were. but it is hard to feel that when things do not feel normal at all. they feel very strained and feel very dangerous. my kids are not in school right now. they are learning virtually. i'm very hopeful that next week they will be back in school, but i think that is kind of the reality of the situation right now. in the briefing room, the white house is getting questions about whether they lost control of this virus. so they got a lot of work to do. >> you know, cynthia, it strikes me that the employer vaccine mandates are a key part of the administration's strategy in fighting this pandemic. your takeaways from the supreme court's arguments on vaccine requirements. >> well, first of all, know that to get into the supreme court, you have to pass a test, a covid test, and very few people are allowed in. and then everybody has to wear a mask, and the justices, most of them are wearing a mask. they have a set of workplace rules that protect themselves from covid that they apparently do not think american workers deserve as well. i mean, what happened today was that the osha regulation, which osha is charged by congress to protect people, workers, their health and safety from hazards. osha tried to do that and with the help of the biden administration who is the duly elected government and with supreme court precedent. we have three prongs supporting this mandate. but the supreme court -- here's my lecture. elections have consequences again. the conservative members of the supreme court had a different agenda, and that is an agenda to dismantle the administrative power and regulations and the administrative state. and so it looks like they're going to overturn this vaccine requirement. and i find it tragic because i know many people will die, and i would defer to your doctors on that. but it does seem that the politics carried the day. the problem, of course, the bigger problem in addition to the tragedy of all the deaths that will come is that it hurts the credibility of the court. the more political they become, the fewer people trust them to be apolitical. and it's a cycle we can't seem to stop. and i don't know how we're going to stop it, but one way we're going to have -- the only thing i can say is we need justices that don't exercise their political views and instead just follow the law. >> doctor, what do you make of the mandates amidst the staggering rise in infections? >> the science of it is that vaccines clearly work. i'm obviously not a scotus expert. i mentioned earlier and maybe it's not politically correct to say, but it seems like administrations for decades have had carte blanche to invade other countries, bomb other countries, and children dying from bombings and the supreme court doesn't get involved in that. and yet when it comes a vaccine that can help save so many lives, the supreme court is involved. again, i'm not a legal expert and vax mandates are apparently different from explosives in other countries, but i am a physician, and i can say this. wars and bombs kill people. science and vaccines save people. it's simple as that, and hundreds of years from now when people look back, they won't think about, oh, was scotus acting constitutionally? they will look at us as a country okay going to wars but not okay with saving lives with something as simple as a vaccine. that's what i can say as a physician. >> franco ordonez, cynthia alksne, thank you all. some high-profile democrats trying to sway joe manchin to help change senate rules for voting rights, is it diagnostic work? i'll ask don callaway and tim miller. can one speech make a difference? i'll ask historian douglas brinkley if blasting trump for overturning the election can reset the biden administration before the midterms. 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and, two, a question i often ask myself f oprah can't do it, who can? >> i mean, oprah can't hurt, i guess, right? look, i think the question with manchin is this. the democrats, you know, have to come up with something that manchin can take back to his own voters in west virginia and sell to them, or at least feel good about selling to them. i don't know that oprah is it, right? does that mean some sort of trade? can he bring over a republican or two and say, hey, we did a compromise, he wanted to push me to the extremes and i'm coming back with something sensible. they got to give him something he can sell in a state that voted 70% for donald trump. the other thing i have is that all this pressure shouldn't be on joe manchin. you know, the republicans cannot continue to get left off the hook and the democrats got to put pressure on republicans. there's a very small window here from now until november where there is at least a modicum of normalcy in the republican senate caucus. there are a lot of extremists, there are a lot of folks who have gone loon along with trump, but there were seven republican senators who voted to convict trump. there are a handful that are retiring, the old guard, your traditional republican types. once those folks are gone, they're going to be replaced with crazy magats. the democrats should be saying what can we sell to them? is there a way we can fix it and make changes, bring back the civil rights act? maybe that's a pipe dream, but there needs to be a track b to this, instead of having all your chips on someone that represents a red state. >> also talk about miscontraceptions around voting that surfaced. in a focus group discussion "the new york times" did with republican voters, one of the voters said, quote, the right to vote thing, i've never been turned down to vote, just show up and go on vote, but this mail-in ballot thing, that should end right away. isn't that the problem that voters have to jump through hoops and wait in line? >> that's absolutely the problem. voting access is not equal and, frankly, has never been equal across this country. when you look at long lines, when you look at voting not happening on saturday and in the middle of the work day, it's tantamount to a poll tax. that's the idea of what ballot box expansion is trying to get at. the person who gave that quote to "the new york times," unfortunately, embarrassed himself or herself. it was probably a dude. dudes generally say dumb stuff like that. this is someone who doesn't understand a robust voting rights platform. unfortunately i don't think that i don't think this is a circumstance where oprah, barack obama are going to get the job done. that's simply not who joe manchin responds to. i know i switched topics there, but i agree with tim there's 99 other senators who need to be pressured to make this thing come home for joe biden and his agenda. >> i invited you to switch topics and, to your point, it was indeed a dude who offered that quote. tim, the "times" did a focus group with democratic voters. when asked how would you characterize the health of our democracy, they said things like, in the icu, it's a pandemic and it's in critical condition. poisoned. are these voters more in touch with the urgency of the moment than senator manchin, senator sinema? >> i think they're really in touch with the moment. you know, i think that they are right. i think the problem is if you have -- i'll put sinema in a different category because she erupts purple state. i don't think she has good political excuse on this front. if you're looking at manchin, rather than psychoanalyzed him, the that group doesn't have an urgency about the end of democracy. that group has support for a maga autocracy right now. that's why democratic voters are concerned and they rightly should be. and so the question is, they respond to people? the democrats have to be the responsible ones, but that's the reality right now. how can the responsible people come up with a pragmatic solution that can bring manchin on board, some of these republicans on board, and then pressure and attack like joe biden did yesterday the ones who are putting our democracy in threat. that is the path forward here, you know, rather than just, you know, sort of hoping for the perfect and wagging your finger at joe manchin if he doesn't come along. that's not going to survive an urgent crisis. >> if democrats understanding that a majority of republicans are not going to come to the table on this f they can't get any major voting rights form passed, what happens? >> we have a cacophony and a complete mixedup situation in terms of actual state voting procedures going into these midterms. we would have a patchwork of state voting laws that are going to lead to absolute chaos going into this november midterms and even the primaries that lead into the midterms where you have had multiple, i think, 31 or 32 states pass voter suppression laws, making it more difficult for people to vote where there's no clarity whatsoever about that procedurely. even without the john lewis voting rights act or the other voting rights act there throughout last year, no excuse for joe manchin or other members of congress to take a look at the freedom to vote act which brings uniformity of those to what will be an "a" chaotic election season in 2022 without it. >> don and tim are staying with me. coming up, the latest example yet of who's really calling the shots at the gop when "the 11th hour" continues. we're inspired by our circle. a circle that includes our researchers, driven by our award-winning science, who uncover new medicines to treat mental illness. it includes the compassionate healthcare professionals, the dedicated social workers, and the supportive peer counselors we work with to help improve - and even change - people's lives. moving from mental illness to mental wellness starts in our circle. this is intra-cellular therapies. 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"the new york times" described the overall aggressive posture of the speech as a shift in the administration's approach. do you agree, and if it is, will it make a difference? >> alicia, it's better i don't talk about ted cruz. it's a family program and that was a humiliating program last night. i might have liked it a little took them so we'll leave that there. as far as joe biden is concerned, i do think it was a slight pivot. and i think it was a good pivot. this is the deal. for one year joe biden has been so prudent and so reserved when it comes to the former president, a former president that tried to stay in power against the will of the people and sicced a mob against him at the capitol. joe biden has done everything he can to issue an olive branch to the right, working with them on immigration and the covid relief bill and he has no credit from a lot of the folks in the mainstream press, gotten zero negative credit on the right that they still call him divisive. it hasn't worked politically, so joe biden tried to live up to the promise of his campaign to unite the country. he's still going to try to do that, but he's also got to call out the republican party for what it is and call donald trump for what it is. you can't let big moments like this go by. and i was happy he spoke very clearly about just the unconscionable and undemocratic behavior of trump and his enablers yesterday. and i hope that he doesn't obsess about trump, obsess about the past administration. he has to focus on making lives better for people. but at the same time, from time to time i hope he continues to remind people just how dangerous the other side is at this point. >> right, his decision to never say his name seemed like an effort to sidestep that obsession. i want you to listen to a portion at the president taking aim at trump's cup pablt. >> here's the truth. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he's done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interests as more important than his country's interests, than america's interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. he can't accept he lost. >> don, the choice to do this, is it an implicit acknowledgment that trumpism isn't going away? >> yeah, very much so. and i think we know that. i think joe biden has to use yesterday's anniversary as a platform to be the voice of reason in the room and to remind people that he was brought to the presidency to speak about stability, as for order, and a big part of doing that is calling lies lies. you know, the fundamental thing is that the folks who are continuing to push the big lie are not doing it to analogies analyze the 2020 election, they're doing it to sow seeds of doubt. it's important for him to reclaim the narrative, to begin to reinform everybody at the start of the new year and at the one-year anniversary of him taking office that this was a lie and we as people of good sense and good faith know the fundamental difference between the lie and the truth. you have to start by shaming the devil and calling him a liar when you have the opportunity to do so. >> don, before we go, i'd be remiss if i did not acknowledge today a big loss for the civil rights community. >> today we lost the great professor lonnie guinier, a champion among voting rights. she was the first person to say that it is civil rights act, the voting rights act of 1964 and '65 didn't go far enough, that it left us still vulnerable to trampling of the rights of minority communities, not just racial minorities, but any type of minority communities across the country. she was an absolute champion of civil rights, of voting rights, and we'll never forget "the wall street journal" called her quota queen. but she nonetheless reigned as a champion, author, scholar, and fundamentally as a thinker who pushed this country forward in terms of fundamental civil rights. she was a giant among the intellectual community. a massive loss for harvard and people around the country. >> don callaway, tim miller, thank you both. coming up, presidential historian douglas brinkley on whether we witnessed a pivotal moment this week for the biden administration. when "the 11th hour" continues. where auto insurance now costs less. ♪ now save more with allstate. you're in good hands with allstate. call a local agent or 1-888-allstate for a quote today. ♪ ♪ ♪ "how bizarre" by omc ♪ no annual fee on any discover card. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ no annual fee on any just two pills for all day pain relief. aleve it, and see what's possible. and also try alevex topical pain relief. age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision loss. and if you're taking a multivitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece. preservision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. 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>> for the first time in our history, a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. i will defend this nation and i will now no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. >> yesterday's speech set the tone of the new year for president biden. susan glasser writes this in "the new yorker." quote, it was a powerful speech, an angry speech, a necessary speech. it was also a speech that biden wanted very much not to deliver. because doing so meant acknowledging that, although trump may be out of office, trump and trumpism have not been ban i should, but live on as the dominating unpleasant reality of american political life. whether or not biden uses trump's name, it is hanging over his presidency. with us tonight, presidential historian douglas brinkley, also a professor of history at rice university. his most recent book is "american moonshot." douglas, was yesterday's speech a reset for this administration? >> without question. i will stand in the breach. that's going to be remembered. that's the best speech joe biden has given as president. he showed a kind of fury and a passion and a love flash flood -- for country in that speech. he made it clear that trumism is a threat. he mentioned his predecessor 16 times, not by name, but it was implicit, that donald trump is a dark force going across the land, and he is going to stand in that breach and fight it off, even if it makes him a one-term president. that's the kind of gut that people need to see about joe biden, that he's not going to be intimidated by ex-president trump or his supporters. >> douglas, here's eugene robinson's column in the "washington post." quote, to survive in today's republican party, officials and candidates cannot afford to angry trump and to avoid trump's wrath, they cannot forcefully reject that it was stolen. biden has to lead for fight for truth and democracy. losing is not an option. is there an "a" historical comparison here to a president that's overseeing a crisis like a pandemic while also confronting a persistent figure like trump and his followers? >> well, with the pandemic, woodrow wilson had to grapple with that while we were going into world war i and sent soldiers abroad. he didn't want to call the spanish influenza a pandemic. you see the difficulty biden has because how does joe biden get ahead of covid? i mean, everybody's angry. flights are being canceled, people aren't sure whether their kids are going virtual or in class and is there another booster? it's confusing out there. so you see joe biden low in the polls right now, but it doesn't mean that people really dislike him. i think there has been a calming effect to biden in the white house, and i think his greatest asset in history is i'm not donald trump. what is donald trump? donald trump is a benedict arnold figure. donald trump is joe mccarthy. donald trump is aaron burr or la ruche. biden has an opening here to see i'm the custodian of american democracy and not be so worried about getting every little deal done on capitol hill, but assume a mega leadership biden, that he is the defender of what we hold near and deer many americans don't see the attack on january 6th as significant. what is the risk if americans become more desensitize today what happened on that day? 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