While on Capitol Hill, major fireworks over the origins of the pandemic and questions about bringing back those Mask Mandates. State to state. We begin tonight with congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram live on Capitol Hill. Good evening, chad. Good evening, bret. Democrats In Washington heralded the texas democrats saluting them and parading them around town like heros in their quest for Voting Rights. These folks are going to be remembered on the right side of history. The governor and the republican legislators will be remembered on the dark and wrong side of history. They brought their fight to washington but they also brought covid are. At least six texas democrats have now tested positive since they fled austin last week. An aid to House Speaker Nancy pelosi tested positive along with a white House Staffer. That came after a reception with the texas democrats. It raised concerns about covid at the capitol. Heres the math, the break through Infection Rate for those vaccinated i
prepared. that must have been the way you were in school. dana: oh yeah. when my sister was born four years younger than me i wasn t allowed to go to school that day. when my parents came home they were excited. my first question was why didn t i get to go to school today? i still love my sister, angie. she is the favorite child. bill: i consider this a classroom every day. it is a school and we re learning and going through it together, too. good morning. dana: get me a gold chart system. i respond well to that. work on it. bill: also expecting president biden to take more executive action today and every day for the first week. this afternoon he will address racial inequity, dana. dana: we ll hear more about that. kristin fisher reporting live from the white house. how is it going this morning? good morning. every day this week has a theme. yesterday it was all about buy american. today it is about racial equity. president biden is going to be speaking about it
nobles and mike warren, we have learned that the committee subpoenaed short a few weeks ago. but that unlike some other trump officials, he s not fighting the subpoena. and, anderson, short s cooperation is a significant development because he is, as you say, a firsthand witness to so many critical events. he was with mike pence at the capitol on january 6th. he was also in the oval office on january 4th when former-president trump tried to convince pence not to certify the election results. so, um, all of these things our sources say add up to one thing. short s assistance signals a greater openness among pence s inner circle with one source telling me the committee is getting, quote, significant cooperation with team pence. just for context, short is considered one of pence s most loyal aides. it is hard to imagine that mark short would cooperate with the committee without pence s blessing. so, i mean, this is kind of a new divide in how the former president s team is dea
trying to talk, to you like jeffrey, rosen who is donald trump s former acting attorney general have, complied they ve actually given testimony. there been reports that former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows is quote engaging, with the committee. and this is all happening of course is the former president himself is now filed a lawsuit, as of yesterday, claiming executive privilege over the documents related to the, insurrection even though he is no longer the executive branch, and the current executive, that would be joe biden, has pointedly and formally refused to assert privilege, on donald trump s behalf. but, that lawsuit, as frivolous it may, it least has the trappings of a formal legal objection, that s different than was steve bannon is doing, steve bannon is basically just, thumbing his nose at the committee, refusing to comply with anything they, ask inciting trump s contempt of claim that executive privilege. , quote if at such, time you reach an agre
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