george wallace. george wallace? if you tonight pass the laws he wants, you re bull connor. he compared listen to this a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. how profoundly unpresidential. look, i ve known, liked and personally respected joe biden for many years. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. martha: strong words there from senator mcconnell. senators thune and tim scott hear with their reaction. let s begin with senator thune, the number 2 ranking republican. senator, good to have you with us today. i think i m going to remind everybody, the comments that senator mcconnell was referring to yesterday from president biden. let s take a look. i ask every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor? do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis? martha: comparisons i would ass
todd. i m carley shimkus. griff has more on democrat efforts to ram through the partisan agenda. asterisk matt, good morning. good morning. walensky and dr. fauci are expected to be grilled on the administration s recent guidance on prioritizing treatment races. certain races chose not to get vaccinated or at higher risk, however, he does not approve of administration using race to decide who gets testing or care. clear data showss race is independent risk factor for dying from covid. we shouldn t be using race to decide who gets treatment. the cdc faces its own confidence crisis, intensifying backlash over the cdc back pedaling and issuing confusing isolation guidance fuelling rampant spread of misinformation that made it up to the high court. justice sotomayor catching heat for making a wildly inaccurate claim and the white house refusing to correct the record. what do you guys think about sonia sotomayor false claim 100,000 children are in serious condition, many o
pandemic just because it s worldwide. it s not slowing up very much. i m confident we re on the right track. the american public is scrambling and showing signs that they are fed up with the management. our frustrated constituents cannot find rapid tests when they need them. tests are hard to find. they re costly. people are unable to find the at-home tests in pharmacies, online. people cannot find a test. i m getting texts as we speak saying we re not getting tests. you ve experienced that, too. senator rand paul was in the hearing today. he s on that committee. we saw another spirited exchange with dr. fauci that is getting attention. we ll talk to him about that. the responses is tests will be in the mail soon but omicron could be gone by them. first to chad pergram. hi, chad. good afternoon. the leading republican on the senate health committee warned of a tough hearing today. i m at the end of my rope. i think you ll see today most of my colleagues are as w
were pressured and intimidated after the last presidential election that they should, effectively, falsified the results of that states election. it was a year ago, january 3rd, last year, when the washington post published this shocking audio reporting of an extraordinary hour-long phone call that then president trump made personally to georgia s top elections officials telling him that he needed to find exactly the number of votes in the state that would allow trump to falsely be declared the winner there. now, in georgia as in every state in the country, pressuring election officials to interfere with the lawful administration of an election, pressuring election officials to change election results, that of course, is a crime. the state prosecutors office in fulton county georgia opened that investigation under georgia state law. pressuring or intimidating election officials is a georgia state crime. it s a crime in every state in the country and of course it s also a fede
country, where we want to go as a country and to be known for and how he want history to remember us, our nation as been tested many times we fought a civil war, we have fought in world wars, had presidents and presidential candidates assassinated. attacks on congress and members of congress, periods of pain as our brothers and sisters fall to be equal, full participants in this experiment calls america, many of us lived through the attacks of september 11, and octobers of terror acts of terror, domestic and otherwise. here we are the united states of america. tonight i want us to to what great nations do, what great people do, look at where we have been, look at where we are, and most importantly look at where we want to go as we seek a more perfect union. we begin with chuck hagel former secretary of defense of the great state of nebraska. mr. secretary, you represented the united states on the world stage. when you look at that stage today, what givens you cause for opti