Lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence good evening. The strange standards of republicans in the House Of Representatives and what it takes to change anything there rachel, we are joined tonight by Secretary Of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and he, of course, is the point person in dealing with the congress on getting this, what i thought, what i thought an hour ago, was a giant Infrastructure Bill passed biggest one in history and then i watch congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez with you say its not big enough. And i worked on the Infrastructure Committee in the senate, the Environmental Public Works Committee before the finance committee. So these are big numbers to me and i waited with suspense as she rolled out what that number should be, and she thinks joe bidens 2 trillion should be 10 trillion, and well find out where Pete Buttigieg thinks the Compromise Point is between those two. Yeah, i mean, she is basically saying, if we spent 2 trillion on the covid relief bill, and m
But this news about the Rachel Maddow show being the Highest Rated show on all of Cable Television, not just cable news, but all of Cable Television is worth mentioning just this one more time. And i have to include a thank you to you, rachel, because thanks to your enormous ratings surge, as usual, you have held us up as the number tworated show on msnbc, entirely because you say good evening to me every night. Thats it. Thats the whole reason im sitting here at number two. Lawrence, if you want to kill me on television, you could probably come up with a more direct way to do it. If you just want to kill me by blushing, this is going to be a painful thing for all of us. The thing i do have to check though is im not sure if below deck was running new episodes during this last ratings period. So, all of cable news, if it includes below deck really is a miracle. Its an amazing achievement. Well we all learn to be humble in our own ways, lawrence. Thank you very much. Im about to leave no
Surge, as usual, you have held us up as the number tworated show on msnbc, entirely because you say good evening to me every night. Thats it. Thats the whole reason im sitting here at number two. Lawrence, if you want to kill me on television, you could probably come up with a more direct way to do it. If you just want to kill me by blushing, this is going to be a painful thing for all of us. The thing i do have to check, though, is im not sure if below deck was running new episodes during this last ratings period. So, all of cable news, if it includes below deck, really is a miracle. Its an amazing achievement. We all learn to be humble in our own ways, lawrence. Thank you very much. Im about to leave now. Let us never speak of this again. Goodbye. Thank you, rachel. Well, we have good news tonight, and i mean much bigger good news than msnbc ratings. We have great news. We have the best news that we have delivered to you about the covid19 pandemic since we began covering it a year ag
Have survived that horrific car crash. He is awake. He is responding today after surgery. Surgeons inserting a rod into his tibia. Part of his leg and pins and screws into his right foot and ankle. More on what led to the crash in a moment and also what his future might look like. First, huge news today in this countrys vaccination efforts. The fda says Johnson Johnsons covid19 single shot meets the requirements for the Emergency Use Authorization, and the drug giant just released new data. Start there. The fda acknowledging for the first time that the vaccine is safe and effective against coronavirus, and data hinting it might prevent asymptomatic infections. Fda officials meet friday to consider the Emergency Use Authorization followed monday with the cdc, which means, this vaccine could be ready to roll out next week. Johnson johnson has pledged 20 million doses, but says it is prepared to immediately ship nearly 4 million doses as soon as it gets approved. Today the white house say
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