On it. Congressman Adam Schiff the head of House Intel joins us live. In the covid crisis today, to mandate or not no mandate. In the last couple of minutes, new York City is about to announce vaccines will be mandatory for all City Employees, including teacher, Police Officers, firefighters, all of it as millions of Health Care workers are out this morning, calling for vaccinations to be required in their field while another big city reimposes a Mask Mandate. Will the federal government do the same . Im hallie jackson. We start in washington with leigh Ann Caldwell on Capitol Hill. Leigh ann, Brand New Reporting On who is giving opening Statements Tomorrow and who else Speaker Pelosi is considering adding to the committee. Reporter good morning, hallie. Representative benny thompson, the top democrat on the committee is giving an Opening Statement Tomorrow and so is representative Liz Cheney, a republican who is on this committee, of course, shes his pick by Speaker Pelosi. Another me
Forward to your Town Hall Sean cant wait to see it. Thanks laura have a good show. Im Laura Ingraham this is the ingraham angle. We have a lot to get to, Senator Lindsey Graham Glen green walled hanson plus a hilarious seen and unseen. But first, liar liar. Thats the focus of tonights angle. This weekend it became obvious that the biden administration is just losing control of its covid narrative. Remember, it was just about two weeks ago now that President Biden was close to declaring independence from the virus. But now, the White House is grappling with a new reality that threatens any chance of a real recovery. Now, of course, the focus on the Delta Variant and the misplaced emphasis on Tracking Case Numbers instead of preventing serious illness is coming back to bite them. The Control Freaks in La County are reinstituting mask mandates. Masking indoors must again become a normal practice by all regardless of Vaccination Status so we can stop the level of transmission we are curren
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Draconian new Voting Restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help. To ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on Voting Rights that no state thats the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united States Senate right now basically because of one democratic senator named Joe Manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. Theyve met with White House officials up to and including the Vice President , kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families and away from their jobs and businesses. Away from beloved theyre likely to be staying away for weeks to continue to press this case and to make sure that theres no quorum at home. Like i said, they are literally facing arrests when they do go back to texas. And now six of these texas democrats have tested po
Capitol, by leaving the state, so theyre beyond the reach of texas Law Enforcement, these democrats are preventing a quorum in the State Legislature back home, which means that in very practical terms theyre preventing texas republicans from passing draconian new Voting Restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington, d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help, to ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on Voting Rights that no state can fall below. That of course is the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united States Senate right now. Basically because of one conservative democratic senator named Joe Manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. Theyve met with White House officials up to and include the Vice President kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families, away from their jobs