trump organization. this is american voices. we kick off this hour with breaking news. senate republicans throwing bipartisanship to the wind, rejecting president biden s comprise on infrastructure. a counteroffer in which biden cut his own original price tag by half a trillion dollars. but republicans say the price tag is still too high, and today said no, leading the white house to release this statement. quote, the president put forward a reasonable offer in the interest of finding bipartisan common ground. the ball is now in their court to respond with a good faith counter-offer. it is a clear tell into the strategy republicans are banking on, at least for now. like president obama blocked all of biden s agenda and then there s you, the american people and your rights, which republicans on the state level appear obsessed with rolling back. across the country state houses in gop control continue to pass law limiting access to voting and they re passing laws restr
guilty of first and second-degree manslaughter. and i promise we are going to end this show on a happy note with moments of joy. and the real santa, the real one. so stick around for that. but we begin the reidout tonight with a status report on the american public. 2021, the year that was supposed to make up for 2020 has been a roller coaster, to put it mildly. it started with a limited audience capacity ball drop in times square, followed five days later by a violent attack on our nation s capitol. not by foreign terrorists, but by american ones. they even brought a noose to lynch mike pence with. and from the moment we saw these scenes of hundreds of screaming, in some case violent insurrectionists storming the capitol on january 6, defecating on the ground, beating capitol police with their own shields, we knew that nothing would ever be the same. for the first time in 245 years of u.s. history, a defeated president of the united states had refused to leave office with
d.c. recording a record number of cases. across the country, crushing lines for tests. it will be weeks before 500 million additional tests promised by president biden will be available. if you go to the pharmacy, we hear it over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure? no, i don t think it is a failure. we re nearly two years into the pandemic, you re a year into the presidency, empty shelves, no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it is so important, is that good enough? no. nothing has been good enough. but look where we are. we re in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinated. and some very good news. a new pill getting approval today, a day after the fda green lit pfizer s pill. new data from the uk bolster hope that omicron is milder, less deadly than delta. public health experts are also clear vaccines reduce spread, protect against severe illness, and a major battle is rampant, misinformatio