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I hope every member of this committee will work together to see these important reforms enacted into law. Thank you. The young lady yields back. Mr. Carol, you are now recognized for your testimony. Good morning. [ inaudible ] could you pull your mike and make sure the red light is on . Were having trouble hearing you. I apologize. Thank you. Thank you Chairwoman Maloney. Todays hearing is about looking back at and what and appropriately holding responsible those who committed horrible and wrongful acts. It is important that we do that. But its also important as we look back that we focus on what is happening today, what is happening now. The Coronavirus Pandemic of the last 15 months has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Thankfully, we are now recovering and america is healing. We now need to turn our collective focus to the ongoing and worsening crisis of addiction and the resulting fatal overdoses that have killed what might be 100,000 people during the same
Dejoy is grilled on capitol hill as Democrats Push President Biden to pave the way for his outster and he says get used to it. Welcome to wednesday. Republicans united in opposition of President Bidens covid relief bill they have dealt themselves out of the negotiation. Democrats have no room for error if they want to pass it. Its democrats debating with democrats. Major questions remain in snats where some rival factions in the Democratic Party are battling over how hard they want to push for an increase in the minimum wage as part of that covid relief bill. Party leaders say Chuck Schumer is begging democrats to hang together on this one. Hes begging all of us despite any differences with any one section of the bill that we language together in is the Signature Provision of the Biden Administration in terms of dealing with pandemic and the economy and we need to stick together. Thats it. The senates parliamentarian could decide today that it would violate the rules to raise the minim
It is i think it may be behind us. Yeah, i mean, thats the thing i worry about, don, is that they seem to have cracked the code. You know, like safe crackers. Theyve opened up the vault and found the mother lode. How they can overturn an election by going through the state election results. And you can control that if you have secretaries of state in these various battlegrounds who are going to say okay, hold on, it shows joe biden won reelection, but were just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. I mean, we are really i think facing that reallife scenario. And then what do we do at that point, don . I think that is a crazy question to consider. But its becoming more real by the day. It was a wakeup call watching that. I can say Reality Check but i dont want to take that away from mr. John avlon. Kyung needs her own thing. Shes been doing great reporting. As all of our reporters on this. As you shall other kyungs great. Thank you very much, jim. Ill see you tomorrow
And found the mother lode. How they can overturn an election by going through the state Election Results and you can control that if you have secretaries of state in these various battlegrounds who are going to say, okay, hold on. It shows joe biden one reelection, well, we are just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. I mean, we are we are really, you know, i think, facing that reallife scenario. And then, what do we do at that point, don . I mean, i think that is that is a crazy question to consider but i you know, its its becoming more real by the day. Yeah. It was a wakeup call watching that. Or i could say Reality Check but i dont want to take that away from mr. John avlon. Shes been doing great reporting as all of our reporters on this. Thank you very much. I appreciate it, jim. I will see you tomorrow night. This is don lemon tonight. And um, well, so lets talk about something that is i think this is good for not i think it is good for this administration. It