survivors. former fbi director louie free. they both have written letters of support for you. i want to take a moment in light of your closing statement from this round to tell you that your work and your life has been recognized across the board. this array of letters of support speaks to fairness and honesty in the way that you ve dealt with your legal profession and your public service. without objection, i ll introduce these letters of support for your nomination into the record. now we re going the take a lunch break. i m going to declare, i guess i have the power to do that now. we ll return at 1:40 and the first person up will be from the sovereign state of louisiana, john kennedy. we ll all await his contribution. let s stand in recess. all right. welcome to a very busy monday. it is meet the press daily. i m in for chuck todd. so much happening right now in washington. you were just watching the hearing for judge merrick garland s confirmation. they have just tak
happy president s day and welcome to meet the press daily. we re going to begin this hour with a simple question. less than 48 hours after donald trump s impeachment acquittal, what s next? what s next for the republican party? what s next for president biden s agenda and what s next for the american people? 7 republican senators voted to convict donald trump of inciting the january 6th attack on the capitol. six of those seven will not have to face republican primary voters for at least four years. lisa murkowski is the only one up for re-election in 2022. as we saw, for the handful of republicans who joined with democrats in the house to back impeachment, there are repurr repercussions at home. richard burr will be censured tonight. the majority of the republican senators and much of the party s rank and file are standing by their man and it appears the trump and trumpism will remain a dominant force on and off capitol hill. he and his colleagues are working with presiden
daily briefing this hour. chuck schumer announces the senate has finally, nearly a month after the georgia senate results has finally reached an agreement to give democrats the gavels in this 50/50 chamber. public health officials at the white house strike a cautiously optimistic tone at this morning s covid briefings as cases and hospitalizations decline but warning about what lies ahead remain dire. we ll speak with one of the white house top covid advisers about the road ahead, coming up. well, welcome to wednesday. it s meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. wednesday s have been pretty consequential. the sources confirmed that house republican leader kevin mccarthy that they will take her off of one committee if they put a resolution not to strip her of all assignments. a moment ago the the democratic majority leader rejected the offer saying the house will vote tomorrow on the resolution about stripping her of all of her committee assignments even though it will se
eastern front lines. scott mcclain has more. there s fears of a high casualty count after russians accuse d dropping a bomb on a school. the russians were fighting with unarmed civilians when they dropped that bomb on the school in the village which is about seven miles west of the front lines. 90 people were thought to have been taking shelter there at the time the officials says that 30 people had been pulled out of the rubble . heavy fighting had been taking place the the strike will bring back memories of the bombing of a theater in mariupol where hundreds of women and children were taking shelter. some 300 people or more were thought to have been killed there. it has been taking russian shelling for weeks now. they got out 49 people, including eight children by train to western ukraine but clearly, not every one had left. so sad. as we learn more about the attack on that school, we re getting rare bit of good news. a top ukrainian official says all women, children and
bloody. the military governor claiming about 200 se0 civilians remain trapped. the complex, authorities are doing everything they can to get people to safety. russian shelling and assault does not stop. civilians still need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling, bombing and constant death nearby. he didn t say how many people left on thursday. only that evacuations are ongoing. the red cross says more than 300 people believe to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived on wednesday. wounded soldiers are dying in agony. reporter: this is the last bastion of ukrainian resistance. the steel plant under what a city official calls nonstop shelling and assault by russian forces. the commander saying fierce combat is ongoing. he says russian forces breached the compounds barrier. the commander begging for transport of the bodies of soldiers who died. pl