time and put a pause on answering lawmakers to fill the report question the doj. anything you personally apologize for? we did not do a good enough job dispensing information and i take total responsibility for that. the void we created further the confusion. todd: late last month the state department of health reported there were nearly 9000 covid-19 nursing home deaths in new york, the attorney general s report finds the deaths were nearly double that, close to 15,000, cuomo blaming nursing home staff are bringing covid-19 into the facility. staff walking into the nursing home were asymptomatic because the national experts told us you could only spread covid-19 if you had symptoms. that is covid-19 got into the nursing homes. of you to his comments disturbing a lot of people. interesting has been outspoken about the controversy. he lost both her in-laws to covid-19 while in a new york nursing home. your reaction to the press conference. i m astonished, passing blame
everybody was so happy, people were loving and hugging and it was a fun day. imagine winning the super bowl, must be off the charts. must be nice. good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. jillian: thank you for joining us. in a few hours, the second senate impeachment trial for donald trump begins after both sides of the aisle agree to a speedy process. todd: griff jenkins has more on the schedule and rules. reporter: we will witness history, the second impeachment trial, incitement of insurrection. senate majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell agreed on a framework double-click something like this starting at 1:00 pm, it kicks off in four hours of debate, divided over the constitutionality of the trial followed by a simple majority vote to proceed at which point starting at noon tomorrow house managers have 16 hours to make their case followed by 16 hours for donald trump s legal defense was ultimately majority l
that is the idea of unity. if you could talk a bit about what you see as unity being. there are some people defining it as being bipartisan. others are what some people define by some poll might believe, or perhaps it s 50 plus one, or 50 plus two, or 75%. given it s such a key part of your message and your promise, can you talk more about what is unity as you define it? i think it makes up several of the points you made. one can unity requires you to eliminate the vitriol, make anything that you disagree about the other person s personality or lack of integrity, or they re not decent legislators and the like. we have to get rid of that. i think that s already beginning to change, but god knows where things go. number one. unity is also trying to reflect what the majority of the american people, democrat, republican, independent, think is within the fulcrum of what needs to be done to make their lives and the lives of americans better. for example, if you look at the data
voted to impeach him censured by their own state republican parties. and among them, wyoming congresswoman liz cheney whose district was paid a visit by trump sycophant, congressman matt gates, on thursday. i think throughout the country right now there are folks in the maga movement who reasonably feel a little down trodden. maybe there s not a home for them anymore in the republican party. so i m here to be the mast head for the america first movement. there s basically two things that liz cheney has done in the united states congress. frustrate the agenda of president trump and sell out to the forever war machine. highlighting trump s iron grip on the gop, on saturday, gates posted a photo of himself at mar-a-lago. besides hosting gates at the florida mansion that trump may not even legally be allowed to live in, trump s also been in touch with florida congresswoman and noted qanon devotee marjorie taylor greene. according to her tweet, he threw his support around th
started so well last night with majority leader schumer. there are so many i think people learned about budget reconciliation and all that stuff about ten years ago with obamacare suddenly, parliamentary procedure. rachel, i think we re going to have to know a lot more based on what i saw on the senate floor today. so we ll be doing a little more of that tutorial, but people, it should take it easy. you can always rewind this video and kind of go over it again, you know, what was that that they just said? and i have a feeling we re going to be talking about this stuff all year. so you don t have to learn it in one night. well, i feel like we have the big advantage over everybody else trying to explain this stuff because we have you and you re the only person who can explain the senate stuff like it s an episode of law and order where you re hanging on every word to find out how it ends. like you get the poetry of this stuff. and i ve learned most of what i know of senat