criminal systems in russia, china and elsewhere. and another good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports and we ll begin this hour with breaking news. the white house announcing just now a record $31 million americans covered by the affordable care act. president biden revealing a brand new video of a conversation he had with former president obama as they marked the achievement. joe biden, we did this together. we always talked about how if we could get the principle of universal coverage established, we could then build on it, and i just want to say how proud i am of what you ve done now with the american rescue plan. when we opened up the enrollment period again, and reduced the cost, 1.2 million people signed up on top of the 30 million and look how many times they decided to feat your legislation? how great to see those two together again. we ll have more on that in just a moment. another talk
for your business. they re coming for your game or event in your hometown and they re coming to cancel everything from sports to how you make a living. emily: you are watching out numbered. i m emily compagno. host kennedy on fox nation, tomi lahren, senior editor of the federalist and fox news contributor mollie hemingway and joining us today at town hall political editor and host of the guy benson show on fox news radio, guy benson. a welcome i d like to start with you on this, you heard in the intro that taking with a all-star game out of georgia is estimated to cost $100 million in local revenue for those businesses. it s estimated that almost 50% of black and brown owned businesses in have closed for good and we know the population of atlanta is about 55% of black america, and in a customer the upcoming masters are being held, that the population is also 55% so my question is how is this a boycott over purported black and brown disenfranchisement that disproportionat
we as a nation spend the best part of the year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place. since then, party bosses have recorded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents. at best, it s a compromise. at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president as his superfulous excellency. i think the quote that wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit. what does the vice president do? you would get a shrug of the shoulders. people would be asked, who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we formed this nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and some years, was described in all kinds of ways, most of which meant inconse
best part of a year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin when the constitution was written said we should refer to the vice president as a superfluous excellencely. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do? i think you would probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if
court. the biggest issues like voting rights and reproductive rights and like we found out this week, affirmative action. now joe biden will make his mark on the high court with news that justice steven breyer plans to retire at the end of his term. he refuses to tell about his intentions, and it means president biden has to nominate someone on the court. it gives him an opportunity to fill that seat for decades to come and to make good on his promise. i m going to make good and get a black supreme justice on that supreme court. no joke. no joke. they offered no specifics from justice breyer. among them, nominee johnson. she was confirmed with the support of all 50 democratic senators and three republicans, susan collins, lisa murkowski and lindsey graham. justice leonore kruger, associate justice of california supreme court, michelle childs, u.s. drikt judge south carolina, leslie abrams gardner and sherri lyn ifil of the naacp legal defense fund. we should be prepared f