impeachment. a republican congressman from new york will discuss this and more since his first tv interview since he announced he is exploring a run for new york governor next year. john: first, brian, this is billed as a coronavirus news conference. i am not sure you would expect cuomo would make a big announcement on stepping down as he is about to brief on covid-19. i think that s right. new york is run by a democratic state legislature. there is a ton of pressure on the democrats to speak out against cuomo on the sexual harassment as well as the nursing home scandal. it has been a mixed reaction. this is the first time he will be speaking since he gave that written apology amid allegations by 2 former aides. in that written apology he said he was sorry that his playful jokes were misinterpreted by these women. the last time we saw a press announcement made like this, he had a power point presentation ready to go and spoke for about 45 minutes defending his administrat
loses the quarter finals to an outsider. barty. in the us, president biden s made his first official trip out of washington since taking office. he flew to the state of wisconsin for a nationally televised town hall event. he took questions directly from voters, as he lay out the case for his first major piece of legislation a coronavirus relief bill worth almost $2 trillion. watching that event was our north america correspondent, peter bowes. what did you make of the event? this was a very wide ranging event in terms of the questions asked by americans and it is significant because it is the first time president biden has put himself into this kind of forum since entering the white house. almost half of the questions were devoted to the coronavirus and president biden placed at by the end ofjuly all americans who choose to have the vaccine will be able to do that. on further questioning, he acknowledged that at that point not everybody would have necessarily had the va
we start with a battle in the skies. they say all s fair in love and war but should that extend to pandemics too? that s the question at the heart of a legal dispute brought to the eu s general court today. governments came to the rescue of embattled airlines when it became clear that planes would remain grounded in order to do so, normal rules around state aid were loosened. a scheme in france was created to allow national airlines to defer taxes. rya nair says thats unfair. does it have a point? let s put that question to the expert. professor steven peers at the school of law, university of essex. what do you think about this? does ryanair have a point? in normal times they might have a point but of course these are not normal times and if this is the first test in the eu because of the special rules that were drawn up to allow more companies to be bailed out because of the coronavirus. it is a bigger he should not only for our industry but for other industries as well bec
they can t handle. the buildings are not made to withstand these kinds of temperatures, and we re seeing that play out in the fact that people are trying to stay warm however they can. people have been sending in pictures of the thermostats inside their homes, and it s heartbreaking. one reads 45 degrees. i spoke to another gentleman who had to move his wife across the street in the snow after it dropped into the 30s there into a neighbor s home because they were the only ones that had a fireplace. that s up here in dallas. in houston, they re also breaking record lows as well. we had a chance to hear from the county judge in harris county on the state of really this frigid disaster playing out. take a listen. demand is up right now. a lot of the plants, the production plants, are down, and that is natural gas, all sorts of production. in order for the texas power grid not to fail, there has to be a balance between the two. the weather is going to go away in a couple days.
almost all republicans voting for her. denouning qanon i don t know if i say it right. i don t even know what it is. my guests this morning, republican bill cassidy of louisiana, and democrat adam schiff, the lead manager from the last impeachment. plus covid cases dropping. the numbers have stabilized. we re holding our breath a little bit, hoping it stays that way. the lowest totals in months. when can we open schools and of a threat are those new variants? if they do become dominant, we may have to upgrade the vaccine. that s exactly the direction we re going right now. i ll talk to dr. anthony fauci this morning. and democrats decide to go it alone on covid relief. i m not cutting the size of the checks. they re going to be $1400, period. joining me now is anna palmer, michael steele, maria teresa kumar, and david french, senior editor of the dispatch. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. announcer: the longest running show in television history