the afghanistan debacle unfolding, it s obvious we have no one in our government competent enough to manage the situation and answer simple questions. in fact, i am finding the more joe biden speaks on, this the less reassured we are. his top pentagon brass are no better. they dazzle us with inaptitude. from covid to kabul we will hit all angle s tonight. but first meet joe biden. that s the focus of tonight s angle. president biden may sit in the oval office today, but it s worth remembering for most of his political career he s been an unserious laughingstock. up until 2020 his own party never took him seriously as a presidential candidate. his first failed bid was in the 1988 election. but he only ended up providing fodder for johnny carson back then. when biden trying running again in 2008 he was almost totally ignored. his most memorable moment was insulting the man who would win the democratic nomination. [inaudible]. laura: in 2016 the democrat party never consi
your grocery shopping is costing you more and giving you less. talking about inflation. emphasize boxes used to have 19 ounces now they have a bowl of cereal. it is a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the kind of economy we are going to see in the future. has the ball. looks up into the stands sees the youngster in the red shirt and gives him the ball. ladies and gentlemen, that is what it is all about. get ready get ready. get ready get ready it here i come get ready. brian: i thought we were going to hear the whole song waiting for joel s cue. i thought we were going to get the lyrics. steve: we could hear the whole song. we need to be quiet for a little bit. brian: i don t know. but the message is well taken. we are ready. and by the way, doesn t that remind you seeing that little kid in the reds uniform get a ball from the reds that could be a young bill hemmer. because he was a sports guy growing up in the area of big red. steve: that s what
come on. come on up. pull, pull, pull, pull. once i smashed the windows is when i saw him having a citizen, so that s when i realized, okay, he s not going to be able to get out. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this saturday. you are in the cnn newsroom and it s great to have you along with us. well, president biden tonight is not holding back, slamming a republican voting bill in texas that is set to pass this weekend. in a statement he says, it s part of an assault on democracy that we ve seen far too often this year and often disproportionately targeting black and brown americans. it s wrong and un-american. in the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder for every eligible voter to vote. cnn s diane gallagher is live in austin. if you would, diane, tell us what all the outrage is all about over this bill. reporter: pamela, i just want to sort of give this here. the sponsor of this
through loud and clear, if it hasn t already, the extent of the january 6th riot on capitol hill and the former president s role in all of it. an impeachment trial set to start in just three days time, but donald trump s lawyer says that he has found the real villains in all of this. the democrats. there s an awful lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the street cheered on by democrats throughout the country, and many of them in washington using, really, the most inflammatory rhetoric it s possible to use. when you have the president of the united states give a speech and he says you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in congress, he s all of a sudden a villain. so, while the previous president s preparing to defend the indefensible, the current one is trying to solve the crisis that he left behind. from new efforts to get more vaccines to all americans to the push for covid rel
he said this patient in question had received two shots of the moderna vaccine but no booster as of yet, and is experiencing mild symptoms. fauci offered this to those who might be holding off on betting that booster shot. people say, well, if we are going to have a booster-specific vaccine, should we wait? if you are eligible, namely 6 months with a double mrna dose or two months with the j&j, get boosted now. we may not need a variant-specific boost. the mistake people make is to say, let me wait and see if we get one. if you are eligible for boosting, get boosted right now. tomorrow the president lays out his strategy to try to control and contain this variant as we head into the colder months. nbc news among those reporting he is going to extend the fed mask mandate for public transportation into mid-march. there is much more on the potential impact of this new variant just ahead in our hour. also tonight, the january 6th committee is keeping the pressure on witness