because it can t hurt. a quick thing tieing it together. this is about trust. it s about a sense that you can trust the institutions and the government. what trump has given you there is a chance to say this is us and not me if you are biden. right. it was american ingenuity and it was our scientists. yes, it happened on trump s watch. he s saying no to the anti-vaxers who are booing him. if that saves one life out there, i will take it. and perhaps there is some hope in there that all the lies that are festering on facebook can perhaps be you know not listened to by those who live on facebook if they are listening to trump,
up the biden s agenda. how can the moderate/centrist of the party be trusted by progressives. we heard the last few days simply unloading on him. well, i think that when manchin said earlier or implied earlier that a lot of the protests directed at him had a big impact on his thinking here. you can t overstate that and the people who tried to block his car and followed him to his house and following sinema in the bathroom. they felt threatened and under attack. i think that and if you talk to the people around senator manchin and sinema, that did have a big effect on these discussions. there was a piece released
previews the president remarks. it is not a speech of locking the country down, this is about the benefits of vaccinated, the steps we ll take to increase ax access and testing and the risk posed to unvaccinated individuals. president biden is directing 1,000 members of the military to held hospitals of all staffing and equipment and appoint fema to set up over flow operations at hospitals at capacity. hopefully we don t get to that point. the biden administration is preparing to start shipping 500 million free at home covid tests to any american who wants one starting next month. so jonathan lemire, do you have any more intel on what the president is going to say tonight? the feedback that he s showing
jonathan lemire and reverend al sharpton is still with us. we have new york times reporter, jeremy peters. we hear christmas music and steve ratner. washington bureau chief from usa today, susan page is with us at this hour. great to have you all on board. great group. president biden will deliver his speech this afternoon on how his administration plans to slow the surge of coronavirus cases fuelled by omicron. jen psaki says the speech is not about lockdown but about the benefits of being vaccinated. they ll start to ship 500 free at home covid tests to every
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