today. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us now from cornwall, england. let s start with the vaccines. the president says this half a billion doses come with no strings attached? reporter: yeah, that s kind of been the white house s line as they ve been talking about what their vaccine sharing plan is going to be, because that s obviously a jab at other countries that have tried to trade political favors for sharing vaccines, but this does come amid some questions and even some criticism of what was the actual u.s. s plan going to be. that is what world leaders wanted to know and the white house knew that they should have expected president biden to get pressed on that by other world leaders as he is on his first trip abroad, and so that s why i think this timing of this announcement is certainly no coincidence with the president announcing that the u.s. has bought and is going to donate half a billion pfizer vaccines. now, a lot of those are going t
totally. have a good show. i ll see you soon. thank you. thanks to nicole, and thanks to you for joinings. this is the beat. i m ari melber. we re tracking several stories. the january 6th committee dropped new evidence today. you might be thinking, wait, why wouldn t they include it in the hearing? but they had so much stuff, like what you see on the screen, that didn t make the hearing. this is a draft of trump s speech the day after. because he was crossing out any reference to prosecuting those blatant lawbreakers. and then there s this new testimony. do you recognize what this is? it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day. do you recognize the handwriting? it looks like my father s handwriting. it looks like here he crossed out that he was directing the department of justice to ensure all law breaks are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, we must send a clear message, not with mercy, but with justice. legal consequences must be
Employees getting birth control coverage. he s one of the classic people i feel like that is going to be so awful so he can hate you first so that he doesn t have to deal with people not liking him, because he s incapable of being likable. the clip from that turning point conference and he had his anderson cooper shirt on trying to look all hardass, it s like, what s happening? the fact that anybody bought a fist bump from a guy in a red tie, in his suit, it s like, oh, my goodness, you and your dockers and suit and solidarity it s sort of like if the insurrectionists were the worst theme park in the world, which i feel like they created, like a racist, white supremacist theme park, josh hawley could be their mascot. you know, just wandering around in that suit and doing that. you re mentioning the way that so much of this is
saturday night live about me. that s that s, like anyway how unpleasant was that? did you see it? did you watch it? i actually did not watch it. i sort of read transcripts and i guess i saw a little youtube of it. you know, i try i ve, you know, one thing about all this is i ve never thought of myself, even when i was a prosecutor, as someone who was a particular hardass, who was someone that wanted to punish everyone to the maximum extent of the law, and also, you know, as a journalist, i have been aware that, you know, not every crime deserves the death penalty. so, i don t think there s a lot of hypocrisy involved in a claim for leniency on my part. but it is true that, you know, people had fun with this, and i am enough of a person in the world to know, you know, people were going to have fun with it. on that note, even o.j. simpson took a swipe at you. and you know, i think that it could be unpleasant to be the butt of jokes, obviously, and so i m wondering if you