menendez about context charges. trumps allies try, perhaps successfully to continue to run out the clock on this investigation. well come to meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. as covid cases rise, the biden administration is struggling to sell and implement the vaccination soft mandate. as early as today, the senate is expected to pass legislation that would attempt to revoke the white house s vaccine and testing mandates for private sector workers. at least two moderate democrats are expected to join with all republicans to pass that bill. the white house told reporters president biden plans to veto the legislation if it actually reached his deck. it comes as more than a few prominent democrats in congress and one at the state level, a couple governors, appear to be souring on similar vaccine mandates. the administration is facing another legal setback as a judge blocked the president s mandate for federal contractors. right now all three of biden s vaccine mandates for
replied, quote, i love it. there s also a january 5th email about having the national guard on standby. it could have been succeeded if not for some republican and state local elections officials joining democrats in refusing to overturn the will of the voters. in a most-read piece in the atlantic, martin gelman writes, for mothers a year now republicans have been building an apparatus for election theft. elections officials in arizona, texas, georgia, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, and other states have studied donald trump s crusade to steal the election. some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which results to certify and which to reject. they are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last november, aiming to replace them with exponents of the big lie. they are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the
Us in avon, colorado. go check out meet the press reports on peacock. he and we did a whole thing on this issue of the fight over water out west. so please check it out. thank you for being with us this hour. we re back tomorrow with more meet the press daily. msnbc s coverage continues with katy tur right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. the january 6th committee says it has no choice but to move forward with a criminal contempt referral for mark meadows who has stopped cooperating. we are also learning the committee has a text exchange from november 6th, 2020, which shows an unnamed member of congress apparently discussing with meadows a plan to appoint, quote, alternate electors in certain states. the unnamed texter says the plan would be highly controversial. the committee says meadows