hero s welcome after fleeing the state. bill: president biding giving a fiery speech in pennsylvania. important in pennsylvania not delaware. we ll explain. calling republican solution in search of a problem. president biden: 21st century jim crow assault is real, unrelenting. we are going to challenge it vigorously. while this broad assault against voting rights is not unprecedented, it is taking on a new norm. they are doing it in a fit they don t want signatures to be verified and basic integrity steps to be strengthened in the state of texas. there is no voter suppression. this is a lie being told over and over. they ll get arrested if they don t come back to the capitol when they hit ground in texas. dana: any hyperbole? president biden wants to double the amount of attorneys at the u.s. department of justice that spoke us on voting rights. doj official said the process is well underway. hiring is taking place there at the president s request. when he was in
requirements. also, more restrictions on mail-in voting. it also limits who can pick up and return a ballot. and remember, this is all in response to a lie, the idea that the presidential election was stolen from republicans, thousands of illegal votes cast, some massive fraud. a conspiracy theory that s been widely debunked for months. cnn s sara murray is in washington with details. sara, the florida bill, which is now law, already facing legal challenges. what can you tell us? reporter: that s right, it is already facing at least two legal challenges, and they target a number of the provisions that you just laid out there. i mean, one of the legal challenges goes up against these limits on voter drop boxes. another one goes up against this provision that actually prohibits organizations and volunteers from returning ballots on a person s behalf. and there s another lawsuit that says essentially this is voter suppression and this is designed to target black voters, lati
divided. tonight, we will answer questions from the american people. the president will answer questions from the american people on his first official trip since taking office. some of the questioners here voted for him. some did not. the president and i will not be wearing masks on this stage. he has been vaccinated. over the last several weeks, i repeatedly tested negative for coronavirus, as early as yesterday and this morning, as well. we will be keeping our distance from one another and the audience is limited, socially distanced and all wearing masks when they re seated. with that, i want to welcome the 46th president of the united states, president joe biden. [ applause ] how are you, sir? hey, folks. how are you? good to be back, man. it s nice to see you, sir. and you know you enjoy being home with the baby more. i do, yes. he s 9 1/2 months so i m very happy. no, no, everybody knows i like kids better than people. i saw a picture of you with your gran
is covid. 2021 began with a vaccine rollout, still has ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking to dr. fauci across the pandemic learning about his guidance and what to do if the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating because it is an interesting tenet of virology. the only way a virus can mutate is if you allow it to replicate. so when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3 to 400,000 new infections a day, the virus has an open playing field to replicate so much that it starts to mutate. that s when you get the dangerous mutations. so one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in this country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking, the distancing, the avoiding congregate settin
rollout but it s still ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking with dr. fauci and his guidance and what to do with the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating, it s an interesting tenet of vierology, the only way to mutate is if you allow it to replicate. when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3,000 to 4,000 new a day, that s when you get the dangerous mutations. one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in this country is to double down on the public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another. the masking. the distancing. avoiding congregant settings. get vaccinated. the vaccination and public health measures will bring the level of virus down so low, you won t give it a chance to mutate. that s what you need to do. there s the other side of the coin. t