plus, facing death threats against herself and her family, a florida school board member is standing up, telling the world enough. and this hour she s with us to say it again. and from boosters for adults to the possibility of vaccines for kids, congresswoman scheyer is the first pediatrician elected to congress. she s going to talk with us about it all. that s all ahead right here on american voices. all right. tonight we re going to start with january 6th. we begin this hour with new signs that trump s hold on the gop remains strong. despite being impeached twice in just one term, we are going to talk about it all. for proof, look no further than the virginia governor race between glenn youngkin and democrat terry mcauliffe. the governor s race, quote, reflects the complex balancing act between trump and youngkin and could emerge as a model for other republicans who face competitive campaigns in 2022. so what tight rope is forcing youngkin to walk? on wednesday at a ral
president biden, and saying that he was 14 and soon any wishes him a speedy recovery. we ll keep you updated on the story as it develops. right now i want to turn to a meeting that was supposed to stay behind closed doors, but ended up on the pages of the washington post today. quote, in a private speech at the donor retreat for the republican national senatorial committee, trump cast himself as a gop xavier, saying he had brought the party back from the brink of disaster, and helped republicans hold seats on capitol hill. according to a recording of the event obtained by the washington post, trump then railed against republicans who had spoken negatively about him, naming senators mitt romney, and ben sasse, and urge the party to stick together with trump as the de facto leader. they cheat like hell, and they stick together, trump said of democrats. the republican parity has to stick together. by stick together, what donald trump means is stick to him, with us strong subte
five-year-old daughter s bedroom window while she was trying to read her a bedtime story, how they brandished weapons and how her daughter asks at least twice a week, are the mean people going to be outside again. it s a minority of people, for sure, that helps me but that s not an enough to help a woman who ran for elected office to make a difference in her school district to have really dark days, here is what s she told lawrence. it just takes one a person to terrorize you. and when there are no consequences for it, it becomes the norms, it becomes acceptable. how do you think that happened? you know, i know exactly the moment it happened, this was the moment. it was the moment i knew that donald trump was changing and breaking us and our politics. she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions, and you know, there was blood coming out of her eyes. blood coming out of her wherever. that was in 2015 after his first republican primary debate, describing mod
president biden returning to washington moments ago after spending the day in connecticut trying to sell his massive spending bill. that bill, along with much of the president s agenda, stalled tonight. yet, biden says he s still optimistic. i told you before what my neurosurgeon years ago said when i had that an eurysm. he said your problem, senator, is you re a congenital optimist. but i m convinced we re going to get this done. i m convinced we re going to get it done. we re not going to get $3.5 trillion. we ll get less than that. but we re going to get it. and we re going to come back and get the rest. well, the problem right now for the president is that these negotiations over a $3.5 trillion spending bill aren t just holding up that bill. they re actually holding up the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. a bill that passed the senate with 19 republican senators onboard. that s epic. it s amazing. and yet, they can t get the thing passed. it s a bill pro
excellent care. for more now let s go to our chief medical correspondent, sanjay gupta. he is still in the hospital, we understand. what are we supposed to make of this? he went in on tuesday. i ve spoken to members of his staff and also to his doctors. he was not feeling well all day tuesday. he was in california for an event related to his foundation, was not feeling well, was taken to the hospital, university of california irvine. at that point was tested. as you mentioned, not covid-related. also seemingly not related to his heart. he s had heart surgery, as you know, in the past, including a heart operation in 2004 and a stent in 2010. what they think is going on with the former president now is a blood infection. sometimes known as sepsis. what they are saying is he is responding well to antibiotics, he s been increasingly mobile, able to get up and around. he was joking with hospital staff, seems to be in good spirits. they say they ll continue those antibiotics at l