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the president s tone changed on voting rights legislation in just the last 48 hours. i m making it clear, to protect our democracy, i support changing the senate rules whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. i hope we can get this done. iechl not sure. but one thing for certain. one thing for certain. like every other major civil rights bill that came along, if we miss the first time, we can come back and try it a second time. we missed this time. we missed this time. president biden knows that without filibuster reform, a new bill for voting rights just isn t going to get done. that s the reality here. and what that means is republican states nationwide are going to keep doing what they ve already been doing, passing laws that make voting harder. for example, drop boxes became an incredibly popular way to vote back in 2020. but then georgia passed a law last year that limited both the number o ....
you re believing is bs. for some reason i had an image walking with caw boy boots talking about i m the law in these parts. that was my immediate image. you know what? think about it. the problem is it was never about what common sense and logical. that s the frustrating part. it was never about that. because you know it was going to be spun. now suddenly it s going to be a criticism of this doj being political, and that wasn t the case before for the prior doj and attorney general. it s sometimes i think the point is to frustrate, and so the arguments come out, don, they re like, well here s the explanation for why this is. i might think, you know, the point is to frustrate because logic has shown its face since january 7th. yes. but today with the charges from these are the proud boys or the oath keepers, right? the oath keepers. these are the oath keepers. i don t think there are oath keepers blm and antifa and so on and so forth. they actually criticized t ....
and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the january 6th select committee raising the stakes. asking the house minority leader to meet with them. offering up two specific dates for his testimony, and here is their letter tonight to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. they write, quote, we request we write to request your voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump. so, it s about five and a quarter pages here and the committee lays out, in excruciating detail, mccarthy s central role in their investigation. here on page four, the letter notes that the committee has obtained, quote, contemporaneous text messages from multiple witnesses identifying significant concerns following january 6th held by white house staff regarding president trump s state of mind and his ongoing conduct. and the letter says, it appears that mccarthy and trump, during that time, had one or more conversations one o ....
we start tonight with the central question now before the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. did former president trump orchestrate a criminal conspiracy to steal back the white house? and if so, who knew of the plot, and who helped him try to carry it out? the committee is hoping to get closer to the truth this week with plans to ask former vice president pence to voluntarily meet with them. i would assume that he will cooperate because he understands it s everybody s legal duty to do so, and it s really a civic obligation to do so. so the vast majority of people we ve approached have been participating and cooperating voluntarily, and i think and i trust he will fall into that category. house speaker pelosi also sounding optimistic that pence will cooperate. do you think it s important for the january 6th select committee to hear from the former vice president? i think that they ve gotten good cooperation from the vice president ....
plus, new details about novak djokovic s health before his trip to australia, as he waits to learn whether he can defend his grand slam title. details in a live report from sydney. and russia helps the president of kazakhstan restore order amid signs he is making a power grab following deadly anti-government protests. and we begin in the united states, where the rampant spread of the omicron variant is hurting health care and education. in chicago, a standoff after the teachers union voted to teach remotely while the city wants in-person learning. on saturday, the mayor of chicago rejected a new proposal from the teachers union. but as they battle it out, classes have been canceled, meaning many kids are now stuck at home. meanwhile, a record number of children under age 5 are in hospitals, infected with the coronavirus. and the numbers you see there represent the number of kids under the age of 5 per 100,000 in the population who are hospitalized. and with the fa ....