The texas democrats plan to spend their time here in the Nations Capital instead pushing for federal Voting Legislation to protect voters. It is a dramatic yet effective move that the National Democratic Party would do well to try and pay attention to, seeing as they only have a few more weeks until the senate goes on a monthlong recession taking what could be americas last chance to salvage free and fair elections with them. In a statement, the Texas House democrats said, quote, we are living on borrowed time in texas. We need congress to act now to pass the for the people act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to protect texans, and all americans, from the trump republicans nationwide war on democracy. The Lawmakers Risk being arrested. Absent lawmakers can be legally compelled to return to The State capitol. To that end the texas republican speak said, quote, the Texas House will use every available resource under the Texas Constitution to secure a quorum. Democrats are protesting
President. So what bewill be the topics of conversation . Not all friendly, right . Sure. I mean, we are going tO See President Biden Meet Facetoface for the first time with british prime Minister Boris Johnson. They have spoken twice on the phone this year early in january. Just a couple days after President Biden took office. Then again in march. But this will be the first time theyre speaking facetoface. The theme of President Bidens entire European Tour is to reestabilsh the point that democracy matters. Reestabilsh these alliances that really have frayed in the era of President Trump. The interesting thing about this meeting is he was a key trump ally. This certainly underscores the fraught relationship here. Aides say it is a new day. A new relationship. There is much in it for both sides to have a productive relationship. One of first things theyre going to do in a matter of moments here as joe and Jill Biden make their way tO See the johnsons, theyre going to review the atlanti
. pete: welcome to fox & friends an this sunday january 12nd year of our lord. we ask and you deliver. lawrence, you re in for will this morning. rachel, i see you digitally now. last i saw you it was 2:00 a.m. in nashville. usually a bad thing. but in this case it was a good thing. rachel: it was such a good thing. lawrence, it was great seeing you over there in times square. i have to say i wish you were with us in nashville. lawrence: me too. rachel: it was so much fun. everyone was ready to party. everyone wanted to elect pete president. it was so much fun. originally i was supposed to be in nashville. then the producers called an audible and sent me to times square. i had a great time. i thought the kid was missing out on all the fun with all of our friends and audience who we consider our family. that is me dancing in times square. if london breed was going to feel the spirit i would feel the spirit out there in times square rachel: i m going to say this about nash
but one thing is clear. the far right is already lionizing rittenhouse and taking the verdict as a sign vigilante violence will be tolerated. and that s something we all must fight against. it s why in my capacity as founder and president of the national action network, i traveled to glenn county, georgia, this week to offer my support to the family of ahmaud arbery, an unarmed black man shot dead by another group of white men who sought to take law into their own hands. closing arguments in that case begin monday and we have ahmaud s mother and lawyer tonight. we ll also hear from jacob blake sr., whose son s shooting by police sparked the protests in kenosha that led to the rittenhouse case. but before that, i want to highlight a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dark week. on monday president biden signed the more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. i was there at the white house for the ceremony and my capacity as the head of national action network. t
about the preserving of the true democracy. case in point, senator mitch mcconnell and house minority leader kevin mccarthy, who ditched the responsibility of holding donald trump accountable for trying to steal the election, he clearly lost. msnbc opinion columnist a brown laid it out this way, quote, for a brief moment, then new york times reported thursday, mccarthy and mcconnell fell into full alignment on trump. and the days immediately following january 6th, both men expressed the belief that trump was at fault for the assault that he couldn t be allowed to remain in power. but they re anti trump s stance is collapsed in the face of opposition from their own members. gop members tearing at the fabric of the scared experiment extends well beyond washington. this week, michigan s republican party endorsed a trump backed election denier as secretary of state. it s a role that oversees elections. so we know that republican leaders are doing, and how low they will go for t