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week as part of a congressional delegation. and we begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. right now, the biden administration s website to request free at-home covid tests is up and running. americans can visit covidtest.gov to place an order for four tests to be delivered to their door by the united states postal service. the administration also says it will begin distributing 400 million n95 masks from the national stockpile to thousands of locations across the country. joining me now is nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla. also with us is dr. joseph varon, the chief of critical care at united memorial medical center in houston. thank you for being with me. heidi, you spoke exclusively with the new testing coordinator at the white house. what did he tell you about what he can expect from this new program? reporter: jose, i just wanted to point out that the reason why these new programs are so significant is that for the first time, the federal govern ....
election directly departed, individuals like jenna ellis, sidney powell, and a communications and legal specialist, boris epshteyn. the subpoena issued subpoenas for documents and depositions for people according to the committee that advanced unsupported election theories and lies. they want the documents by february 1st, they want testimony and depositions by february 8th from all four. the new letter from the committee outlaid, says he promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of trump. giuliani gave many public statements, press conference, interviews in his advocacy for trump. he was at the center of both trump i am impeachments. after the election loss when it was established that donald trump lost the election, when the supreme court hadn t taken cases on merits, giuliani remained in public and before state bodies and other local municipal type meetings where he continued to promulgate election fraud lies before basically whomever would have it. the committee a ....
outfront. tonight, putting it on the table. president biden and vice president harris using martin luther king day to pressure their own party hours before the senate likely takes up voting rights legislation. they are making the case that the saving democracy justifies the end of saving no democracy justifies the means of blowing up the filibuster. attack on our democracy is real from the january 6th insurrection to the onslaught of republicans anti-voting laws. today, our freedom to vote is under assault. despite those warnings, voting rights legislation is most likely destined to fail. the bills are nowhere close to the 60 votes needed in the senate. and martin luther king iii shaming democrats today, saying opposing these voting rights bills means opposing his father. tweeting, quote, i will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father s dream. i do not want to see photo ops of elected officials if they are not willing to put voting rights over the filibu ....
the country. as more americans identify themselves as republican over democrat for the first time in more than two decades. hello, i m john roberts in washington. and sandra, happy anniversary, who thought a year could go by so quickly. sandra: it flew by, great to be with you throughout and we kick off another year here. sandra smith in new york. nine-point advantage for democratics in 2021, to a five-point advantage for republicans by the end of last year. dramatic swing, the republican s largest lead in the category since 1995, and tracks with the sinking approval of president biden s job approval amid crisis. sandra: mark, gallop is saying, it s too soon to pop the champagne, what are you saying? that s what they are saying, the surge in support for republicans may have slowed down in december, a look to see what the final numbers look like. either way, the latest report is providing some fascinating insight into how americans feel politically speaking. gall ....
later in the program for that. dana, awesome to be with you this past year. i look to many more. dana: me, too. all right. a new gallup poll shows the gop holding a 5 point edge in support among americans, a 14-point swing from a year ago giving republicans their best lead since 1995. bill: we have reaction from two of the best in a moment. reince priebus and jim messina standing by. we start with mark meredith. a year ago republicans were facing bleak poll numbers. today a much different story with gallup reporting the gop seeing a huge surge in support over the last year. good news for republicans comes at democrats expense. 13 polls throughout last year asking 12,000 adults asking how they saw themselves leaning. fourth quarter the republicans had a lead. a huge shift from the start of 2021. republican party officials tell us they aren t surprised. we viewed this as a direct correlation between joe biden and kamala harris s failed policies coupled with the d ....