Slave. He is of course one of the greatest americans of all time. His Auto Biographies about life as a slave and his struggle to become free, in addition to everything else he did in his life, those written works are some of the most influential written american accounts of anything on any subject. In narrative of the life, which is the most widely read of the three of his three autobio graphical accounts but also in the subsequent ones he wrote as well including the next one by bondage and my freedom, one of the most harrowing things he describes about his life is a yearlong period where the man who owned him as a slave decided that young Frederick Douglas was encourageable. He decided that Frederick Douglas needed, in effect, to be tamed, to be broken. And so he shipped Frederick Douglas off to a man literally known as a Slave Breaker. The Slave Breaker was named Edward Covey, covey. This is part of how Frederick Douglas describes him. He says, quote, i have now lived with him, meani
The man who knows a thing or two about that joins me as well. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the Press Daily and im chuck todd. The president is expected to speak from the uk this hour about sending vaccines to the international community to try to stop this pandemic. Well bring you those remarks when they begin. Well begin with the Fbi Director Christopher Wray, testifying before congress for the first time today since a bipartisan Senate Report faulted the Justice Department for a series of procedure failures. Weve seen lawmakers knock wray on the issues leading up to the attack. Its hard to tell whether Fbi Headquarters merely missed the evidence, which had been flagged by your Field Offices and was available online for all the world to see, or whether the Bureau Saw the intelligence, underestimated the threat and failed to attack. Neither is acceptable. In the weeks leading up to January 6th is simply baffling. Did the fbi have information about the violent threat that occurred on
president trump. for the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he has done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interests as more important than his country s interests and america s interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. on that dark day a mob of angry trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. it was two months after trump lost the election. trump spent weeks, months refusing to accept the results, challenging them every way he could, in court, on air, on social media, through intimidation of public officials, and private and publicly. trump told his supporters, come to d.c. on the day the electoral votes would be officially counted in congress, j
welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world to peter doocy at the white house with the latest. peter? this all fits together. the white house wants a transformational human infrastructure package worth several trillion dollars at the same time that the supply chains are all backed up. a few minutes ago, i asked in the briefing room how it s all going to work. president biden does not want to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year. but there s a new fox poll that finds 83% of registered voters are noticing bills for groceries and everyday items increasing. how is that any difference than a new tax? you know, we are dealing with a historic and evolving pandemic that is impacting our economy. we have seen it for the past 1 1/2 years. that s what people have been dealing with. it s having an outside impact on our global supply chain, this is why we re trying to pass the president s domestic economic policy. behind the scenes democra
this is just a few blocks from the white house in washington after republicans once again blocked and brought a compromised voting rights bill to the senate floor for debate. and democrats are in the final stages of negotiations on that scaled back version of the social policy agenda. the white house signaling the plan has been reduced to two trillion dollars. gas emissions are also on the chopping block. today the committee is going to decide if they should prosecute steve bannon for not showing up for his subpoena. merrick gar land at a hearing today is not tipping his hand. the house of representatives votes for referral of the contempt charge. it is a decision consistent with principals of prosecution. there is booster shots from moderna and j&j recipients. and also backed the option of mixes and matching. we re following all of these stories today, and joining me now is weekend today co-anchor kristin welker and garrett haake. they are raising taxes on the wealthy and