a crashed plane seconds before it's hit by a train, boom. the question is, did you just see that? it is way too early for this. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that has georgia on its mind. congrats also to the bulldogs. i'm jonathan lemire on this tuesday, january 11th. we'll start with the news. in just hours president biden will deliver a major speech on voting rights in atlanta. biden is expected to publicly push for a senate filibuster change to pass voting rights. previously he had endorsed reinstating the talking filibuster. he's expected to go further today, this as senate majority leader chuck schumer will force a vote on two federal voting rights bills this week. schumer says he will start a debate on changing the filibuster if republicans use it to block the bills. >> president biden will travel to georgia and make the moral case to the nation that the time has come to act to defend democracy and protect voting rights even if it means changing senate rules to restore the senate. if republicans refuse to join us in a bipartisan spirit, if they continue to hijack the rules of the senate to turn this chamber into a deep freezer, we're going to consider the appropriate steps necessary to restore the senate so we can pass these proposals and send them to the president's desk. >> the excuses put forward for this behavior are entirely fake. the supposed justifications are simply false. the senate democratic leaders are trying to use a big lie to bully and berate their own members into breaking their word, breaking the rules, and breaking the senate. leading democrats say they want to break the senate because of an anti-senator plot that's sweeping america. of course, this is totally fake. it does not exist. >> joining us now, white house reporter for "the washington post," tyler pager, a friend of the show to be sure. tyler, let's set this up for a second though. the president and the vice president kamala harris are expected to speak today. there are going to be voting rights groups there. stacey abrams seemed to be the widely accepted favorite. she's also not going to be there as part of a sort of seemingly she says scheduling conflict. some voting rights groups say, hey, we want to see more action from president biden rather than words. he's given some fire are speeches, but he's not been able to do much else. what do you expect to see as they way in on this growing democratic party? >> it's great to be with you this morning. i think the activists are likely to be disappointed again from president biden. i think we'll seem of that fiery rhetoric, white house officials previewing that saying it will be a continuation of the speech he gave on january 6th where he's expected to give a full-throated speech. but the key problem here is that there just aren't the votes in the senate at this point to either pass voting rights legislation in a bipartisan matter or enough democrats to endorse carving out or changing the filibuster in any manner to push through voting rights legislation with democrat-only votes. and so i think that's the big conundrum that president biden and vice president harris have. today when they head to georgia, it's figuring out what the path forward looks like. he said he would support changes to allow democrats to pass voting rights legislation with just 50 of them, but they don't have the votes from joe manchin or kyrsten sinema to do that. so i think the big question is how did this speech plot out a path forward to make some sort of change? right now all we've heard is soaring rhetoric and searing criticism of the other side, but i think the activists are looking for a path forward that will result in substantial change in voting. >> let's be clear here. the republicans have not offered any support. murkowski from alaska said she might, but that's it. there are nowhere near enough to get things done. let's focus on what can happen in the senate and what senator schumer hopes to do. there are other democrats who work quietly who have expressed resistance or reluctance of tweaking the filibuster for fear of what republicans could do with it if they could regain control of the senate down the road. how you do see it happening on the other end of pennsylvania avenue this week? >> i think that's an important point you make. they want to get the headlines to their opposition to changing the filibuster, but they're often taking the headlines from other colleagues who are more nervous to express their more conservative opinions about changing the filibuster. and so we've heard senate majority leader chuck schumer is going to push forward with trying to pass legislation to change the filibuster, and that is headed for failure. so i think what the big question is and what i think a lot of people are looking for from president biden today is what is he going to do to try to change this dynamic. how is he going to break the stalemate on capitol hill where any sort of voting rights legislation lives or dies, and they need the entire democratic block to get together, to change the filibuster in any way, shape, or form, or they need to start making compromises with republican senators. as you said, senator murkowski of alaska has expressed some opening to work with democrats, but that's not going to be nearly enough. she's not going to change the filibuster, and they would need ten republicans to go along with them. this comes on top of already failures on the build back better legislative agenda. this is potentially more difficult to push through congress, and it remains to be seen what president biden is going to door how he's going to use the bully pulpit, but also the power of the presidency to make progress on this issue. >> the president is certainly a longtime senator himself. his audience today, his former senate colleagues in any way. "washington post's" tyler pager. we appreciate you being here today. turning now to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of americans hospitalized with covid-19 has now surpassed anything we've previously seen. according to data from the u.s. department of public health and human services, as of sushld, there were more than 142,000 patients hospitalized with the virus nationwide, surpassing the peak reached on january 14th of last year. the surge in cases is causing a serious shortage of hospital staff. some hospitals are so desperate to keep nurses on the job, they're allowing them to work even if they have covid. >> we have hundreds of doctors and nurses now that have covid and are isolating because of that. there are many hospitals in the country that are simply on their knees, they are overwhelmed. >> california says doctors and nurses who test positive but are symptom-free can continue working without isolating. arizona and rhode island went a step further allowing health care employees with mild covid symptoms to take care of patients. other hospitals are keeping beds open because they don't have the staff to handle the patient load. health officials say that move is a last resort to ensure the proper care for current patients. health insurance companies will now be required to cover the cost of at-home covid tests. that will start this weekend. the biden administration announced the change yesterday. under the plan, private insurance companies would pick up the cost of eight over-the-counter covid tests per person each month. starting saturday, a family of four could get up to 32 free home covid tests per month. demand for tests remain high with many stores and pharmacies struggling to keep them in stock. the administration is sending out 500 million tests through the website starting this month. we've seen the cost of those tests skyrocket in recent days. school will be back in session for the third largest city in the nation. the teachers union and the board of education in chicago have agreed to end the teachers work action that saw school canceled for the last four school days. under the agreement, students will return to in-person learning starting tomorrow, this after teachers refused to teach over covid measures including lack of testing among students. >> on capitol hill, "the new york times" is reporting former vice president mike pence said with people familiar with his thinking is growing increasingly disillusioned with the voluntary idea of cooperating with the commission on the january 6th attack. he said they've taken a smart partisan turn by openly considering the potential for criminal referrals to the justice department about mr. trump and others. he is publicly annoyed that the committee is publicly signaling that it has secured a greater degree of cooperation from his top aides than it actually has. it could be a key to deciding whether to make a criminal referral of trump to the justice department. the "times" is reporting that today. committee chair bennie thompson told npr last week they'll formally request an interview with pence by the end of the month. who could have seen pence's reluctance coming. >> house minority leader kevin mccarthy is threatening to strip some of their committee assignments. in an interview with the outlet breitbart, he mentioned at least three democrats who would be removed from their roles. >> the democrats have created a new thing where they're picking and choosing who can be on a committee. never in history have you had the minority tell the majority who can be on the committee. if eric swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there's no reason why he should be given one to be on intel or homeland security, so that will not -- he will not be serving there. ilhan omar should not be serving on foreign committees. >> what about any committee for omar? 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>> good morning to you. it's real cold in the northeast. we're warming it up for you in the middle of the country. it's going to be one of the coldest days in about three years in the northeast. it's not record-breaking. it's been this cold before. it's just not been that way in three years. we've had a bunch of warm winters in a row. the number in the black is going to be the current temperature. the windchill is in the white. you know your eyes immediately go to northern may. windchill, negative 29. that's where the heart of the cold air is. it's getting better in areas like minnesota and wisconsin. as far as the northeast goes, d.c. at 14, new york city, windchill at 5. boston, you're in the negative numbers. this afternoon it's not going to warm up much. it's going to stay brutally cold from new york northward. d.c. is not too bad with a temperature of 29 degreesful tomorrow morning will be the end of it. single digits. this by far this morning will be worse than tomorrow. it actually warms up toward the end of the week, 30s and 40s. it's a quick shot of cold air and then it will move out. the middle of the country is already warming up, today back in the 40s in areas like st. louis. hang tight. 24 hours of this nonsense, and then we'll get a little warmer. >> we can handle that. bill karins, thanks so much. still ahead t high-stakes talks between u.s. and russian officials they ended amid the growing tensions in ukraine. we'll go live to moscow for the latest on the standoff. before we go to break, we want to know, why are you awake? 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what are you hearing? >> reporter: jonathan, good morning. luckily we have some fresh reaction from the kremlin press secretary in his daily briefing this morning that there's no real strong reason for optimism at this point. he, of course, noted the russian delegation did have some, you know, positive sense that the dialogue was professional, ongoing, but he reiterated that russia is not in this for, you know, dialogue for dialogue. they're very interested in the results. what are the results they're look for? let's have a listen. >> on the central question on it, my answer would be a flat and plain no, no progress. this is one of the may juror problems before us. i would say a lot depends on what happens down the road on this issue. >> reporter: ryabkov made this statement several times yesterday. we know that they're not going to go for this kind of agreement, russia continuing to insist there must be an agreement of some sort along these lines prohibiting nato expansion. we are at a bit of a deadlock right now. it's difficult to know where things go from here. >> matt, u.s. intelligence points to mixed signals at the border right now. putin has 100,000 troops. it was thought they would grow to 150,000 troops by now, but it happens. there are helicopters which could be a sign pointing toward invasion. if it's going to happen, it would happen in the next couple of months before the march muddy troops. we opened this segment saying russians are not going to invade. how credible is that? >> reporter: i think we can sympathize with the u.s. delegation now. sympathetic to hear. is it an escalatory game where you need to keep one-upping your brinksmanship or are they sincere about this? the helicopters moving in kind of bolster the idea they're planning for an invasion. they're trying to maintain maximum leverage and maximum options. they might take an off-ramp, but until they do that, they seem to want us to think they're going to invade. >> matthew brodner of nbc, thank you. still ahead, the cost of covid. plus, the inflation speculation has investors on edge. we'll get a live report from cnbc next on "way too early." l m cnbc next on "way too early. do you struggle with occasional nerve aches in your hands or feet? try nervivenerve relief from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. amazing. jerry, you gotta to see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks... gets a little old. ugh ♪ ♪making your way in the world today♪ ♪takes everything you've got♪ ♪ ♪taking a break from all your worries ♪ ♪sure would help a lot ♪ ♪wouldn't you like to get away? 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>> well, jonathan, good morning. yesterday really was a stunning trading session. we saw this major reversal and sentiment take place. early in the day we saw a continued selloff in those technology stocks that we've talked many times about, and also we saw u.s. treasury bond yields rise sharply, and then midway through the day we saw a complete undoing of those trades and ultimately the tech-heavy nasdaq index end hire and ten-year treasury yield ended the day slightly lower. this morning u.s. futures indicate a positive start to today's trading session. it appears to be continuing into today's session. investors will be turning their attention to jerome powell, a nomination hearing before the senate banking committee, and tomorrow, the u.s. inflation data that is certain to come through. >> we'll certainly be watching that. goldman sachs is saying it expects the federal reserve to raise interest rates four times this year, up from three last week. what's fueling that change. >> well, this is pretty big news yesterday. investors across the globe are trying to determine, trying to predict what the federal reserve is going to do this year. to start the year, goldman sachs came out and added a december rate hike to their forecast. they had previously been expected hikes in march, june, and september of this year. why is that? it seems to be the superstrong labor market data has made fed officials more sensitive to the risk that inflation turns out to be stronger than expected and less exstensive. lastly, furniture giant i key ha is seemingly ahead of the game here a little bit on dealing with the covid pandemic and they announced they're cutting sick pay for unvaccinated staff who need to self-isolate because of covid exposure and in some cases for workers who test positive. tell us about this move, and do we think other companies can follow suit? >> i kika like companies around the globe is struggling with mass staff absences and rising costs as a result. they've gone ahead with this adjustment in the policy. the company in doing so highlighted that throughout the course of the pandemic has not furloughed any staff, and those self-isolating had received full pay to date. this move is seen as fairly controversial because on the one hand it could insensitivity advice unvaccinated workers to finally get the jab. on the other hand, it could get people to test less because they're concerned they won't be able to afford the time off of work. we'll see if other companies follow suit. this is certainly a controversial move that's brought a lot of attention to ikea this morning. >> it's a sign of companies strugging across the world because of covid cases. still ahead, the leading effort by republicans in wisconsin to overturn the 2020 election results. mind you, it's january 2022. and as we go to break, a look at this date in history. 18 years ago illinois governor joe ryane commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his state's death row two days before he left office. >> their sentences all reduced to life in prison by governor george ryane. >> our capital system. today i'm commuting the sentence of all death row inmates, 167 of them. row inmates, 167 of them entresto is the number one heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists and has helped over one million people. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. well, would you look at that? jerry, you gotta see this. seen it. trust me, after 15 walks... gets a little old. i really should be retired by now. wish i'd invested when i had the chance... to the moon! ugh. unbelievable. despite senate minority leader mitch mcconnell's insistence that republican-led attempts to overturn the 2020 election don't exist, a wisconsin state judge has just ruled that a gop-led review of the election can move forward. we're well more than a year later. this despite the opposition of the democratic state attorney general. she denied the challenge on procedural grounds. stephen voss tells a local television station he has spoken to former president trump a half dozen times about the review. joining us now, alencia johnson. she's founder and head of the social impact agency 1063 west broad. alencia, thank you so much for being here today. we've been talking all morning about the president. he's going to georgia in a few hours to deliver a major speech on voting rights, and white house aides have previewed that he is going to push for at least some sort of change to the senate filibuster. now, that's no guarantee that it's going to happen. what do you want to hear from him today? >> well, i want to hear president biden be extremely forceful about how voting rights is one of the most critical issues of our democracy right now, as forceful as he was on the campaign trail battling for the soul of our nation. this is the soul of our nation. he's going to georgia where, quite frankly, it's ground zero. we recall that when georgia delivered the presidency for president biden and two democratic senators, the gop in georgia decided that things weren't going right, and they implemented partisan gerrymandering, they implemented partisan voter suppression that's going to make it harder for people to vote. we'll hear today president biden being extremely forceful about the freedom to vote act that will get rid of partisan gerrymandering, make voting a lot easier, expand early voting. we'll also hear from him talking about the john lewis voting rights act that will restore clearance, that will make sure states cannot discriminate when they're enacting voter lay laws, right? this is something that had partisan support years ago, decades ago. right now it does not. unfortunately it's become a bipartisan thing. you heard mitch mcconnell talking about it. you heard president biden saying if we cannot pass it, he'll consider other actions including rethinking the senate laws. >> so there's been going discontent among democrats who are saying that the president is offering too much rhetoric and not enough action. stacey abrams, she's skipping today. a bunch of civil rights groups have also said they won't attend. and others have said, hey, we want to see something real by martin luther king day, which is less than a week away, or you might not be able to count on our votes in the fall. what's your sense on these pressure tactics. >> i'm nodding my head because i completely understand. again, georgia is ground zero, the battleground. so many of these activists and leaders have overcome so many laws that suppressed their voting rights. i understand their frustration. we've been talking about voting rights for so long. we haven't seen any action. we need to see something in order for us to believe that we're going to do something about this. let's not get it twisted. we've been talking about this all over tv in addition to voting rights, what's happened on january 6th. that's because of the big lie, the voting that people are pushing against. activists are tired of overcoming voting rights tactics without pressure from the government to ensure that voting will be more -- excuse me -- that voting will be easier for people of color, for young people, for marginalized communities where these laws have been directly attacking. so i understand what they're doing. it's a pressure campaign. it's saying, hey, we need some concrete solutions. i'm hopeful that the senate will take up a vote on these bills so that we know where people stand and whether or not we should target the filibuster, which i'm sure we will have to. and these activists are saying if you want us to deliver again, particularly in the midterm, you havepresident's speech. vice president harris is also addressing the audience today in georgia and also on msnbc. >> alyssa johnson, we appreciate you being here today. come back soon. >> we ask all of you this question, why are you awake? 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