stuck in long lines in the cold to get tested ahead of christmas or finding that tests are sold out at stores everywhere. and though he wishs he had ordered the tests earlier the president defending his handling of the crisis in a sit-down interview with abc news. if you go to the pharmacy we hear this over and over again empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure? president biden: i don t think it s a failure, i think you could argue we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, i ve ordered a half billion of the pills. 500 million test kits that will be available sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. peter doocy has more from the north lawn. hi, peter. and there are some new signs in the press area that say either n-95 or kn95 masks are required. a new measure to try to keep this new variant in order. but it hasn t always been like that. let me ask you about what you said on july 4th. i know you remember it well.
from my life during covid? among other things, cufflinks. and so imagine my stress when i went for this anchor man shirt tonight and it was a cufflink shirt and i had no cufflinks and, you know what did you do? the thing is, you know, brian s not working in the building, and so mr. cufflinks isn t here. and you know, kornacki can t help you in a wardrobe distress situation, right? so i don t know if we can get this, but sterling brown in the control room might get the paper clips that are dude, we can at least upgrade you to binder dlips. those might be better. i m blaming brian for not being here and being able to rush in some manly cufflinks for me when i needed them. i am going to rush ship you some of those dice, you know what i mean? yeah vegas. get me some vegas cufflinks. that s what i want for christmas. there you go. on my way. on my way. well done. my resilient friend. thank you, rachel. thank you very much. well, in june our first guest receiv
committee, and it is from the republican staff. it is five pages, the republican staff. i will be concentrating on this report tonight, rachel. you have done a masterful and thorough job on the big fat one that s really important. this one is of its own importance for different reasons. it is stunning. it really is a stunning document, and it s the report i guess maybe no one else will pay attention to, but it does have something work noting in it. neil katyal is going to join us. i m looking off to the side because i m looking at my notes today. they say trump was trying to make sure stuff got investigated, quote, in a thorough and unbiased manner. i wrote in my notes, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, lol. so i just amused myself with that report today, but you actually tearing it apart is going to be fantastic. it reads as though as if it was written by a staff full of jeff clarks. wow. go, lawrence. go get it. go get it! thank you, rachel. the staff from the senate judic
hmmm doesn t look like they are stopping the flow. in fact, let s take a quick look at what is stopping the flow means to them. according to the washington post, not only did border apprehensions rise more than 30% for two consecutive months, but a record number of families crossed. that s right. a record number. maybe k.j.p. was talking about stopping the flow of specific people like ms-13 gang members, registered sex offenders, maybe that s what she was talking about, or child rapists? or maybe she means smugglers who assault officers? no? she couldn t possibly have meant that. maybe she means the bad guys that are stopped and only fine upstanding citizens that are flowing into our country. maybe that s what she meant. elementary school student was killed and more than 20 others hurt when their bus was struck by a minivan. the driver of the van produced a license from mexico. which was determined to be nonvalid valid immigration status. or maybe, just maybe, kjp m
collapsed into what i thought was a beautiful pile of rubble. what this means for hunter biden is that he went from a sweetheart deal to a real poison pill. i mean, he this is going to expose him across the board. laura: then about 100 miles south on capitol hill, we watched as questioning in two different hearings exposed government lies, dissembling and concealment again about what is happening at our border and in the skies above. we are going to tell you about both of these stories coming up. and, later, a disturbing episode involving senator mitch mcconnell today that s raising serious questions about his health. in the string of do you want to say anything else to the press? go ahead. we ll take him back. laura: thankfully the senator is said to be okay but concerns linger. but, first, we start at a federal court in wilmington, delaware where a brazen move by hunter biden s attorney showed just how accustomed to special treatment the president s son re