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we have special treatment behind the scenes. jedediah: i noticed a change. will: can i just say how dare he? the first day they put a blow dryer on my hair, the first day. jedediah: i did notice before we went on the air, sometimes we see each other for a second and i said did he get a haircut? what did he do? it is a win for you. jedediah: i will take on a teleprompter. pete: we begin with an overnight victory for religious freedom, the supreme court ruling california cannot enforce covid restrictions on in-home religious gatherings like bible studies and prayer meetings. jedediah: this overturned a ruling that upheld gavin newsom s limit on people attending a gathering. jedediah: to do other activities like shopping, the state cannot limit at home religious gatherings. we have more on this decision coming up later in the show. jonathan will let us know what he thinks of that ruling from the supreme court. heading into the presidential election, joe biden was reluctant ....
correspondent. i wanted to be part of the best of the best in cable news and journalism and as a native atlantan this would be my hometown team. little did i know i would not only go on to fulfill that dream, i would flourish in this environment and land my own two-hour show in the afternoon at the age of 31. for a decade i have never taken for granted the enormous responsibility and privilege i ve had to work with some of the most talented producers and photojournalists and correspondents and anchors out there as we have covered our era s urgent and most important stories, conflicts, terrorism, environmental and natural disasters, the wrath of gun violence, human interest stories, royal weddings, my person woman series, the social justice movements that define our culture and a pandemic that changed the world, and politics, lots of politics. you have been here with me every step of the way. never more so than when i was incredibly sick with covid last year. i am so ....
some really concern concerning images, as you can see here, from the streets of tampa. many people crowded together, this weekend, with very few masks. and there are concerns super bowl parties could lead to a spike in cases. this, as the u.s. has surpassed 27 million known cases of coronavirus. and now, the new worries about the covid variants, first identified in the uk. a new study finds cases of this variant are increasing, rapidly, here, in the u.s., and significant community spread may, already, be happening. now, president joe biden calls the pandemic a, quote, national emergency. and criticized his predecessor s handling of it. take a listen. a disappointment was when we came into office is the circumstance relating to how the administration was handling covid was even more dire than we thought. the trump administration. we thought that it indicated there were a lot more vaccine available. and it didn t turn out to be the case. so, that s why we ve ramped ....
becomes the courtroom as the targets of the insurrectionists, some with emotional wounds still raw, decide donald trump s fate in his second senate impeachment trial. not only did trump s endless misinformation campaign spark the deadly insurrection, but the washington post found that it s also cost taxpayers, you and me, more than $500 million in security, legal fees, property damage and more. on friday, one of trump s two lawyers revealed on fox news that they plan to blame the insurrection on who else, but black lives matter protests which, i should remind you, an independent analysis found were 93% peaceful. and, according to the fbi, some violence was partly coordinated by, you guessed it, white supremacists. there s an awful lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the streets cheered on by democrats throughout the country. and many of them in washington using really the most inflammatory rhe ....
how are you doing, will? super bowl weekend. will: right here. good morning to you both. that s right. i m live here in tampa. super bowl lv. i know you are very excited about that jedediah. we will get your picks later. we know you will change the chiefs or the punxsutawney. for now a hometown battle in tampa. hometown bucs look to be pretty popular, pete. pete: what s the feel? you are there on the ground. it s a little bit different everything is a little bit different what s the vibe in tampa? will: it s excited because there is a hometown team for the first time playing in home stadium for the super bowl. it s tampered by the bittersweet relation what would it be like if it were a normal year. street packed and cash registers ringing they recognize it s a little down from expectations. pete: absolutely. jedediah: i know you are waiting for my pick. i m waiting for yours, will cain. i had a conversation about it yesterday. you know what? i m going to wait and hold m ....