comments pointed at florida governor ron desantis? it's "way too early" for this. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that's watching one florida man battle another. i'm jonathan lemire on this thursday, january 13th. let's start with the news. >> president biden is keeping the pressure on senate democrats to pass voting rights or change the filibuster. today the president will attend a closed door democratic caucus lunch at the u.s. capitol to push senators into backing the two bills, but despite his vocal support, the president still has an uphill battle to get senators manchin and sinema on board. every democratic senator would need to vote in favor of a change for the filibuster. this comes just one day after majority leader chuck schumer outlined his plan to make sure republicans can't stop him from bringing up voting rights. schumer wrote a memo to colleagues detailing a workaround to get the senate bills to floor for debate even if a final vote remains unlikely. the "associated press" reports by setting up that debate, schumer will achieve a democrat's goal to shine a spotlight to spur senators to publicly say where they stand. quote, we will finally have an opportunity to debate voting rights legislation, something that republicans have thus far denied. senators can finally make clear to the american people where they stand on protecting our democracy and preserving the right of every eligible american to cast a ballot. schumer said he wants a vote on a potential rules change no later than monday, which is, of course t martin luther king jr. holiday. speaking on the senate floor yesterday, minority leader mitch mcconnell gave a blistering rebuke to president biden's voting rights speech in georgia earlier in the week. >> look, i've known, liked, and personally respected joe biden for many years. i did not recognize the man at the podium. >> the president's rant, rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office. >> you could not invent a better advertisement for the legislative filibuster than a president abandoning rational persuasion for pure demagoguery. >> pure demagoguery. president biden was asked to respond to the comments yesterday and told reporters simply this. i like mitch mcconnell. it's a friend. they're strongly considering making high-quality masks available for all americans. it comes taf cdc said the n95 and kn95 masks offer the best protection against the omicron variant. at the start of the pandemic the agency did not recommend these masks because of shortages, fwu white house now says there's a stockpile of 750 million n95 masks. here's what cdc director dr. rochelle wolensky had to say on this yesterday. >> the cdc continues to recommend that any mask is better than no mask, and we do encourage all americans to wear a well-fitting mask to protect themselves and prevent the spread of covid-19. we will provide information on improved filtration that occurs with other masks such as n95, information the republican lick needs about which mask is the right one for them. most importantly we want to high litt the best mask for you is the one you can wear comfortably. >> the covid response team did not give details on how or when it plans to get the masks to americans. joining us now, political reporter for axios, sarah mucha. great to see you this morning. just now you're getting us these high-quality masks, but you also have new reporting on democrats' frustration with the biden administration's ohm con response. what do they wasn't to see happen? what did you learn. >> many are feeling fatigue from the omicron variant and the past two years and that includes members of the president's own party. in some ways they're publicly and privately urging people to do more on covid, which include as what we saw from axios last night, a letter from congress won elissa slotkin and also ryane. they're both representatives of the midwest. they say send manufactured k 95 masks to anyone in the country who wants one. this is off the back of a letter we saw from about 40 members of congress in both the house and senate that are urging the administration to expand rapid covid testing as the white house has responded, but press secretary jen psaki last week said that they acknowledge that they're behind where they want to be in a statement, and axios last night asked the white house. they said we're honest about the challenges we face and we're addressing them to members of congress. we ins people may be frustrated with them. and then they went on to list some of the praise they've received from twitter. >> there's also been some of talk about the need for possible additional covid relief bill. i asked the deputy white house press secretary about this yesterday. she sort of danced around the issue. the white house hasn't come out in favor of one or the other yet, but sarah, i want to ask you ahead of the martin luther king holiday with increasing pressure from the democratic base. give us an idea what you anticipate happening with the president's meeting up on the hill with democratic senators. we heard him use the bully pulpit the other day. is there any chance he can get manchin and sinema on board? >> that is the question. that is the evergreen question. can he convince senators manchin and sinema to go along with the democratic party? i expect what the president will do is give us a similar version of the speech he gave in georgia that we saw. it's stressing how important he believes his voting rights legislation is for democracy. you know, we saw senator schumer bring in the authors of the book, "how democracies die" just last week, they're in favor of supporting the demolishing of the filibuster. he'll lean into that and try to bring senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin to make that one-time change to the filibuster in order to help the legislation. >> manchin said he won't do that without some republican support. sarah mucha of axios, one of our new friends. thank you so much. we'll talk to you again. still ahead, rising prices and fewer items on the grocery store shelves. how long these shortages may last. plus, an alarming rise in covid cases for children, it's at an all-time high. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. e weather when we come right back. 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that's part of it. >> wearing the hot mike, marchand knew he had to be careful but couldn't help himself and slipped anyway. we take similar precautions here on "way too early." i'm on a seven-second delay. we head to meteorologist bill karins who's so foul he's on a 15-second delay. what's going on. >> we're quiet now but then we're taking the next winter storm through the country through the holiday weekend. today's your quiet day, a good travel day, no issues. the snow storm will begin to arrive in the northern plains we have the winter weather alert starting to come out. these will cover the eastern half of the country eventually. right now they're isolated. the area of snow will develop friday especially late tonight and friday moving down through the central plains. it looks like iowa will get a good deal of this. the first area of snow will really be confined from fargo to sioux falls and then the storm will dive to the south over the weekend. saturday we could get snow in oklahoma and arkansas. on sunday snow is likely. upstate south carolina, watch out the western sections of virginia and north carolina. for the east coast, it looks like a period of snow then turning over to sleet and then rain. so kind of a messy storm for you. the heaviest snow totals will be inland. right now the track looks like that red line, jonathan. when the storm comes up, that means the heaviest snow is in western pennsylvania and western portions of new york. so we'll watch the storm, but as of now, this is not a big snowstorm from d.c. to new york to boston. the higher totals would be further inland. >> all right. it's a holiday weekend for many. martin luther king day on monday. that will perhaps reduce the impact of a storm on commutes. bill karins, thanks so much. i know you'll be keeping an eye on that for us. still ahead, health experts are calling the covid vaccination rates among children in the u.s. shocking. >> meanwhile in nursing homes the omicron variant is causing cases to surge among elderly residents. i'll be joined by dr. kavita na. many the meantime why are you up way too early? 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>> it's interesting, jonathan. with parents it's a very different discussion i'm having. it's not i never want to get the vaccine for my child. people who are unvaccinated now at this point it's like, no, i've been fine, i don't want to get it. almost all of them to a person says, look, i'm not against vaccines for kids, but i'm concerned, it's too recent, too soon. i think parents have been hearing -- and it is true, jonathan, compared to the nursing home residents that we've been talking about, that the majority of children will have a varied or less severe form of covid, however, it's closing schools down. we're having problems with long covid. we have a lot of unanswered questions about covid. i've been urging parents to get the vaccine. reassuring data -- i want to say this -- comparing those who got the vaccine from the beginning going forward, we have not seen anything severe. most symptoms are mild, soreness of the arm and low-grade fever. what do you make of the omicron rates in the northwest, particularly the northeast? 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>> i think they're very concerned, democrats don't see how his approval ratings are going to tick backup, looking at inflation and his agenda is stalled and build back better bill is going nowhere in the senate. voting rights right now, yes, the big debate issue but that's also unlikely to pass. all of those things on the agenda coupled with the fact that inflation as well as this new omicron variant and people feeling like what's going to happen with their kids going back to school or having to stay-at-home. it's a lot of uneasy among democrats and you start to see that particularly in the house. you have more than two dozens deciding to retire instead of running again in the midterm election. >> emerging is a different kilt task for democrats to keep power in the house. before we get to the president's voting rights push on the hill today, let's do one more on the poll, this one about donald trump. some believes that new vaccine support, he's out spoken in recent weeks about it is a factor sinking support among republicans. what is your sense? do you think other factor in place and if trump were not to run in 2024, -- >> all signs pointing to donald trump running so far. he's raising money like he would want to and trying to stay active in the cycle. i think his push on the vaccines have been something. he's lashed out on that and lashing out on other republicans desantis for not saying he's gotten a booster or not. that issue over the vaccine is going to play out as long as we see the issue of covid remaining in this country. the president wants to take credit the work he did before he left office. that's something he stood by. ron desantis did have his speech. he laid out the contrast in washington where he stands. one of the leaders in the republican party and how is that even if donald trump does win whether or not it would impact his decision. >> he's one of the few who have said he would not bow out if the former president made another run. let's talk about the current president, president biden is going to head up to the capitol today to talk about voting rights. majority schumer is going to be force a debate and get people on the record. give us a sense of how today is going to play out and if there is any momentum at all for voting rights. is there any believes that something could get done? >> it's going to be a meeting that everybody is watching when he comes up this afternoon to speak with senate democrats. democrats have been meeting a lot with manchin and sinema. so far it does not appear any positions shifted here. as much as they're trying to use the bully pulpit of the white house and as much as schumer trying to put his full weight behind this office, it's hard to see how they come out getting the voting rights passed and how they would get support for change of the filibuster. this is all going to happen over the weekend. the timeline starting on friday and going into the weekend of course everything you mentioned there with the senate. we'll have an answer by the end of the weekend or monday whether or not schumer is going to put this to the right. >> anna palmer, we'll be sure to read that newsletter when it hits our inboxes. thank you so much for being here. thank you to all of you for waking up way too early with us on this thursday morning. 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