afraid of donald trump s base to be more concerned for our democracy, our constitution, the american government and the body of the senate. we were never going to reach 67 votes in the senate without mitch mcconnell voting guilty, so he went up on the floor afterwards, he basically gave the speech that jamie would have given to the senate and tried to justify his vote for acquittal. i think mitch mcconnell s speech got a load off his chest obviously, and you put a load on the back of the republicans, that speech you will see in 2022 campaigns, so i like him, senator mcconnell, he worked well with president trump and i think his speech is an outlier regarding how republicans feel about all this. what does all of this mean? we are nearly a month into the biden administration, and his predecessor just got acquitted for the second time. donald trump has won, at least for now. there s a growing push from some former members of the gop to retake the party, and others are cons
impeachment. seven republicans joined the democrats in voting guilty. mitch mcconnell was not among them. there s no question that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoing the events of the day. senator lindsey graham responded to the speech this morning. i think senator income connell s speech got a load off his chest but unfortunately put a load on the back of republicans. that speech you will see in 2022 campaigns. he worked well with president trump. his speech is an outlier regarding how republicans feel about this. covid-19 continues to spread but appears to be slowing down. covid cases and hospitalization rates are the lowest since november and the daily vaccination rate increase. nearly 53 million have been administered. the u.s. finalized a deal with pfizer and moderna for 200 million more doses. the u.s. is expected to hit a half million deaths within the next few days. we begin with covid relief. congress is free to focus on presi