Understanding just how bad the Coronavirus Pandemic is once again. It is been one month since President Biden said this. Today were closer than ever to declaring our independent from a deadly virus. But the reality one month later is alarmingly different. Take a look at these maps. One month ago, this was the level of Covid Transmission across the country. Now, watch the wave of red symbolizing high levels of transmission a wash across the states. This is what it looked like two weeks ago and this just one week ago. And here is today. Red washed over the majority of the country. We are nowhere near breaking away from this virus. We are, in fact, being held hostage by it. Here is how one front Line Nurse put it. Were a year into this and people still are making the same mistakes over and over again. And it was bad enough the first time around when it was all still new and you could at least the country ask nearing over 100,000 covid cases per day. Dr. Fauci warns that could double if we
Direction it could lead to either the tyranny of the majority, or the tyranny of the minority. In hindsight, their design was a success. The Electoral College has continued to promote stable and fair elections throughout american history. But unfortunately, today too many americans have forgotten the genius behind this design. Frustrated by the results of the 2016 elections, they tried to undo the electoral College Something called the national popular vote movement. That movement is a threat that should concern all americans, because it was fundamentally it would fundamentally change the way we elected president and destroy the safeguards the Electoral College provides. 15 states and washington, d. C. Have already signed on to this dangerous agreement. As a threat to our republic. Our special Guest Today is the honorable jim inhofe. Senator inhofe has represented oklahoma since 1994. He serves as the ranking member of the senate armed services committee, where he plays a key role in e
Designed it this way. They wanted to strike a critical balance between the people being able to choose their leader Washington Journal and states having proper representation in the process. The framers realized that if the pendulum swung too far in either direction it could lead to either the tyranny of the majority, or the tyranny of the minority. In hindsight, their design was a success. The electoral college has continued to promote stable and fair elections throughout american history. But unfortunately, today too many americans have forgotten the genius behind this design. Frustrated by the results of the 2016 elections, they tried to undo the electoral College Something called the national popular vote movement. That movement is a threat that should concern all americans, because it was fundamentally it would fundamentally change the way we elected president and destroy the safeguards the electoral college provides. 15 states and washington, d. C. Have already signed on to this
Regular gallon of gas. That has drivers fuming. Steve harrigan is at a Gas Station in atlanta with the latest in georgia. Steve . Charles, the pipeline is fully functioning but hasnt made a dent in the problems in georgia and elsewhere, especially the southeast. In georgia, 50 of Gas Stations had no fuel. That was worse in North Carolina. Worse in washington d. C. The White House has come out to say that they expect problems largely to be solved within a matter of days. When you talk to drivers, theres a real mix of anger and confusion. I saw the Gas Pump and i pulled in. You spent a lot of time. Yeah. Its ridiculous. Having our infrastructure completely be unprotected from Cyber Security is ridiculous ander with decades behind most other countries. That woman was looking for gasoline for two days. She saw a Tanker Pull in here and followed it in. Prices average across the nation now 3. 04. That is up more than 10 cents in the past week. Charles, back to you. Charles steve, thanks very
quote, sullen and unsmiling political hack, this after the senate minority leader delivered that scathing floor speech blaming trump for his role in the deadly capitol riots. of course, that s after mcconnell voted to acut. we ll talk tons more about that and the feud and what it really means for the growing divide within the republican party, but, first, we re watching the white house this hour. the president and vice president are meeting with labor leaders to discuss their economic plan to combat this pandemic, and they are calling it the american rescue plan. cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins me now. kaitlan, march 8th i know is the deadline to get this thing passed. what does the plan address specifically? reporter: well, that s what biden was talking about last night, the deadline for when he want to get this actually on his desk, the final text of it, so they are still crafting it to what it s actually going to look like. we know what he pro