State history. Kathy hochul will succeed andrew cuomo, who was brought down by a sexual harassment scandal, resigning in disgrace. Let s begin with the coronavirus health crisis and specifically its worsening impact on the young. Amara walker is in fort lauderdale. There is a brewing battle between florida s governor and the school system in broward county where you are. Tell us about that. Reporter: the battle is over whether or not schools should be requiring masks regardless of vaccination status. Right now there s a total of three school districts in florida that are defying the governor s executive order that prohibits mask mandates. Broward county, leon and alachua counties. The state education commissioner sent a letter to all of these districts to tell them they are being investigated for n noncompliance and their salaries could be withheld as potential punishment. This mask fight happening amidst this backdrop of a dramatic surge in covid19 cases here in the state of florida.
election, they put pressure on officials in the states like georgia, arizona, and michigan, and it was officials in those places who stood up against the big lie. in michigan, the democratic governor and secretary of state protected the will of the people. now they re up for re-election themselves this year, and that s why republicans are targeting both of them because governor whitmer and secretary of state benson are standing in the way of the republican plans to restrict voting in michigan and undermine our democracy. michigan senator debbie stabenow made the case this week that the attack on the capitol and the ongoing attack on elections both demand a rsponse from us. the january 6th insurrectionists tried to overthrow our capitol, and their sidekicks in suits and ties are trying to overthrow our elections, and just as we shored up our security here to protect the people s house, we need to upgrade our election laws to protect people s freedom to vote. starting us of
suggestions that borisjohnson turned down an offer by his director of communications to resign, after it that emerged jack doyle was at the christmas party at no.10 last year, which would have broken covid rules. two sources told the bbc that mr doyle offered his resignation, but that mrjohnson would not accept it. this year s downing street christmas party has been cancelled. here s our political correspondent ben wright. besieged on three fronts his authority, competence and integrity under scrutiny. after a torrid week for borisjohnson, there is no sign the pressure on the prime minister is easing. for a start, continuing questions about a party held in downing street last december one of three gatherings now being investigated by the country s top civil servant. cabinet secretary is i m sure investigating all these questions, so we will see the results of that in due course. but last christmas i was spending my time getting trade deals over the line. we now know this
does the president have to counter act higher gas prices? don t have an announcement on anything to share at this time. you know, we re monitoring it. we re monitoring the prices and we re making sure that we have tools in our tool belt. okay. all that as the president faces absolutely brutal poll numbers. that came out earlier today. nearly 2/3s of the country, a usa today suffolk poll that says 2/3s of the country do not want this president to run for another term in 2024. nearly half say that he s done a worse job than they expected in the office. the numbers are worse among independents. 7 to 1 independent voters say they expected him to do a better job, be a better president than he is. the vice president not doing great either. as i said, usa today polling is bumping up at 28% for the vice president. so one of the questions obviously is what are they planning to do to turn this tanker around, so to speak? oil prices and gas prices keep higher and higher. here no
administration out of the hands of the house select committee investigating him. just a day before the committee meets, perhaps to take action against one of his former cronies, steve bannon, for defying a subpoena. the man who s expressed contempt for the entire concept of being held accountable by anyone for anything he did, something well, he did something else to come come to know from him. he went to court to try to get his way. cnn senior legal affairs correspondent, paula reid, joins us now with the latest. so, what talk about this lawsuit. what is going on? so, here, anderson, trump is asking the court for, at most, granting his request to block lawmakers from actually obtaining these materials. and at the very least, he is asking them to delay lawmakers from obtaining these materials, arguing that these requests are so broad, his lawyers need more time to review them. now, to support these requests, he argues that there is no legislative purpose to these requ