i ll speak with biden backer and the wife of the late john mccain, sidcindy mccain, next. plus waiting to exhale, vaccination rates are starting to slow. how could the u.s. make the case to those who are hesitant to get the shot? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is trying to build bridges, literally and figuratively. president biden s multi-trillion dollars plan to expand social safety nets are being put to the test in a congress more divided than at any time in modern history, as polls show a majority of americans do nonetheless want to political leaders to prioritize being bipartisan over achieving everything they want to accomplish. for many in the republican party, the focus is else with. too many continuing to embrace the culture of lying about biden s proposal, about the ele election, about the vaccine, about the insurrection and publishing fellow lawmakers that don t demonstrate adequate fealty to president trump and booing the republic
squad where we re just attacking members of our own party instead of focusing on solving problems or standing up and having an argument that we can debate the democrats on some of the things that the biden administration is pushing through. this morning on cbs, republican congressman adam kinzinger, who voted to impeach trump, like cheney, compared the republican party to the titanic, a ship that is sinking fast. right now, it s basically the titanic. we re like in the middle of this slow sink. we have a band playing on the deck, telling errand it s fine, and meanwhile, as i said, donald trump is running around trying to find women s clothing to get on the first life boat. joining me now, oliver knox, a national correspondent for the washington post, and anchor of the daily 202. also with us, democratic strategist juanita tolliver. oliver, liz cheney s decision not to peddle donald trump s lies have put her at odds with her own party. it might feel like a shift within
subservience of trump. did he say some people are more concerned about the election than you are? no. look and controversy over another police shooting in north carolina. they run up to his vehicle shooting. no. as the department of justice mounss a major investigationin police and big new developments on the usualfor america to help vaccinate india and the world. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, today we have one of the most consequential announcements in the country in the last decade, i speak of course of the census results. one of the most important undertakings we do in this you know can. making sure every single american is counted so we know the total population and then we use the data to make all sorts of big decisions based on the results from budgetary decisions to reputational ones. for instance, the number of congressional representatives a state may have in congress goes up or down depending on on the change i
risk of blood clots. the cdc director now has to sign you have. i just interviewed dr. fauci, and here is what he said. well, the j&j vaccine is clearly a highly efficacious vaccine. and i think the pause, which some people may have taken as a real condition, the pause should underscore how seriously we take safety because the risk of this is extremely low, very, very low risk of this adverse event. and the fact that the cdc and the fda originally paused this should underscore to everyone that we take safety very, very seriously. so when a vaccine is let out again to be able to be vaccinating people in this country, you can rest assure that that s a safe and efficacious vaccine. as officials work to combat vaccine hesitancy, gop senator ron johnson is undermining it. the science tells us that vaccines are 95% effective. so if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor hooz one or not? you got a vaccine and science is telling you it is very, ve
believe strange things. plus as donald trump tries to sneak back onto twitter, did federal regulators just put an end to his latest financial swindle? and senator sherrod brown on the biden agenda and the faux populism as republican colleagues in the senate when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. new york congresswoman elise stefanik is now poised to take the number three position in the republican house leadership. she s actively campaigning against the current house republican conference chair liz cheney, and she already got the endorsement of donald trump. and you have to give stefanik some credit in the same way you have to give trump credit, which is this. she understands what the republican party is and what its base wants. she understands the trajectory of conservatism. she got onboard with it early. a few months ago after the election, i wrote this piece in the atlantic, saying the republican party seemed to be moderating o