they re actively seeking a viable candidate to challenge cheney in next year s republican primary in wyoming. the trump loyalist expected to replace cheney is the number three house republican. representative elise sstefanik. kn after more than a year we appear to be turning a corner. reporter: we sure do, wolf. here in california early january, this were more than 20,000 people in the hospital fighting this virus. today fewer than 2,000. as the governor just tweeted, turns out the vaccines work. turns out the science works. broadway tickets back on the things are only going to get better other summer. i feel extremely optimistic about where we re headed. reporter: the covid-19 daily infection rate across this country, the lowest it s been in seven months. the models projected a sharp decline in cases by july 2021 and even faster decline if more people get vaccinated sooner. reporter: vaccinations the only number going the wrong way right now. average daily doses do
him, along with contact information about u.s. senators and representatives. amid all of this the house speaker nancy pelosi now says efforts to address security concerns are being hampered because, quote, i m quoting here now, the enemy is within the house of representatives. referring to the words and actions of some republican members. let s go to our cnn crime and justice correspondent vshimon prok prokupecz. tell us about the moves tounbelg on at the u.s. capitol. reporter: it s clear, wolf, a lot is going to change at our nation s capitol of the january 6th insurrection. one of the things that s being suggested by the acting police chief is permanent fencing across the capitol. the capitol has been an open it s been open for people to walk through and open field, a sprawling complex that people can get close to. well, now the acting chief is recommending that that change. in a press release she said, in light of recent events i can say vast improvements to the ph
tru trump s baseless conspiracy theories about voting fraud have devolved into an exercise into delegitimizing the election. chris krebs, the cyber security chief donald trump fired for accurately declaring the 2020 election secured. here he is with our own katy tur begging his party to take a stand. what we re seeing is a coordinated effort to intimidate republicans from speaking up and accepting the outcome. i spoke up. i defended the constitution, i put country over party and i suffered the kwoconsequences, you ll still suffering the consequences on a daily, hourly basis. i d do it over again, though. i don t know why others aren t. i suspect based on my experience in part they are, you know, they don t want to be put in this position but there s also the political implications and political suicide as i ve heard some say by coming to speak up. it s just time to get past this. this has to stop. everyone republicans need to stand up for the country. some of the dang
go for it. bill: makes you think about election night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3/10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. this is the payoff. dana: a lot of republicans didn t show up to vote. that s what happens. more on this with newt gingrich in a moment. griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone? i think they are. dana. happy friday. looks like a purely partisan path. history was made when vice president kamala harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the $2 trillion relief plan. the yays are 50, nays are 50. the senate equally divided. the vice president votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. this after 15 hours of vote-a-rama the republicans forced a majority to add amendments. more than 850 were filed. in the end 41 roll call votes were taken. among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. another blocking illegal immigrants from g
we ve learned that house gop leader kevin mccarthy is expected to meet tonight, very soon we re told, with congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who is under a lot of fire for spreading conspiracy theories and extremist social media lies and posts. among those criticizing her, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, who slammed what he called her looney lies saying they re, quote, a cancer on the party. meanwhile, both sides have filed pretrial briefings just ahead of former president trump s upcoming impeachment trial next week on the floor of the u.s. senate. they say trump s blame for the attack on capitol hill is, quote, unmistakable. trump says the senate has absolutely no authority to try an ex-president. lots going on. let s given with our coverage on capitol hill. manu raju is joining us now. republicans are piling on marjorie taylor greene ahead of her meeting that s coming up, we re told, fairly soon with the house g op leader. yes, senate republicans are piling o