resolve to get it done in the new year? i ll request bernie sanders and pressley next. plus damning texts shed new light on the push to overturn the 2020 election, one of two republicans on the january 6th select house committee congressman adam kinzinger on where the investigation goes from here, ahead. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is expecting to get covid. once again americans are waking up to news of postponements and cancellations, sports games, theatrical performances, holiday parties, schools, family plans, as covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising again throughout the country. hospitalizations and deaths especially hitting the unvaccinated. new york city and washington, d.c., both reported two days of record high cases and health experts are warning of a tough month ahead. still the world in 2021 is different than it was in march 2020, officials say they are better prepared for the surge, they point to vaccines and boo
resolve to get it done in the new year? i ll request bernie sanders and congresswoman ayanna pressley exclusively next. plus damning texts shed new light on the push to overturn the 2020 election. one of two republicans on the january 6th select house committee, congressman adam kinzinger, on where the investigation goes from here, ahead. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is expecting to get covid. once again americans are waking up to news of postponements and cancellations, sports games, theatrical performances, holiday parties, schools, family plans, as covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising again throughout the country. hospitalizations and deaths especially hitting the unvaccinated. new york city and washington, d.c., both reported two days of record high cases and health experts are warning of a tough month ahead. still the world in 2021 is different than it was in march 2020. officials say they are better prepared for the su
We can t do it without vaccines, jake, but we can do a lot more with other things, and testing, for example, both yourself and your family when you re getting ready to do something, go out into the community or have people over to your own house, and that s the reason why we re stressing and part of the president s winter plan is expanding greatly the availability of testing for people, particularly the point of care that you can do yourself and get a result in 15 minutes. okay. so it s more than one thing. it s a comprehensive approach. got it, dr. anthony fauci, thank you so much. merry christmas to you and your family and best wishes for 2022. i hope we put this pandemic behind us. thank you very much, jake. thank you for having me. do mask mandates unfairly punish those who are vaccinated? we ll talk to one republican governor who says yes, next. and some huge news today, senator joe manchin says he will
Saying let s figure out who got the most votes and declare that person president. it was everybody with this new kind of scheme and trick to get around the constitution or to use a technicality of the constitution, and i think we have to sometimes step back and say i do believe there are probably some real, did we break the law questions here, but bigger than that in my mind what does that say about the future of democracy? do we truly believe in it or is it all about win at any cost? the committee released remarkable texts sent to former chief of staff mark meadows while the capitol was under siege he gave to the committee. they came from politicians, fox personalities, even the president s own son pleading with meadows to get then president trump to call off that mob. explain why these texts don t just make for dramatic reading but are materially relevant to your investigation. so it s materially relevant for a number of reasons. obviously we have a trail of
Biden s request last month to trust him to get all 50 democrats to pass the bill and push forward on the infrastructure bill. joining us now democratic congresswoman ayanna pressley of massachusetts. you were right. let s get your reaction to the news joe manchin said he will not build yes on build back better. jake, to be clear, my lack of trust was about senator manchin. he s continued to move the goalpost. he s never negotiated in good faith and obstructing the president s agenda, 85% is still left on the table. in obstructing the president s agenda, he s obstructing the people s agenda. i was listening to his interview earlier today, and he said it s a mammoth bill. you re right, it s a mammoth bill to address mammoth hurt to lower the cost of elder care, childcare, prescription drug cost, the child tax credit, which is so critical in