Tomlinson has the story. People in the nation s capital are on edge following a shooting in an upscale neighborhood while many were dining outside and sent patrons scrambling. The d. C. Police chief visited the crime scene. I m mad as hell about this and i hope you all are, too. We want to help people, yes, we should, but you cannot coddle criminals. You cannot. Chief, are calls to defund the police helping you? i don t think that those calls are helping. D. C. Police released this video showing two suspects wanted in thursday night s shooting getting away in a getaway car. And they called it a war zone. Violent criminals are not staying locked up. I see people doing violent crimes and i see them back in the community. And it breaks my heart. We need police now. We don t see them on bikes, we see them in cars. Just last month, the mayor bowser wanted to cut funding for police and now she says she wants to see the department quote, use any overtime necessary to stop the recent spike in
Hello. Thank you for joining me, i am fredricka whitfield. They re looking to slow the coronavirus surge largely blamed on people yet to get vaccinations. Discussions between the cdc and fda are now ongoing over whether to revisit official federal mask guidance, but the delta variant is already reigniting the fight over face coverings. The latest battle brewing in missouri where the state attorney general is vowing to sue to stop a mask requirement set to take effect in the st. Louis area monday. New cases are now trending upwards in 49 states. In louisiana, the governor is taking steps to keep new infections low in his state, which is among the least vaccinated in the nation. Suzanne malveaux joins me from jefferson parish. Suzanne, what more are you learning? reporter: fred, it is actually a good sign at the mall. It opened minutes ago. We have seen at least seven people go into the popup vaccination site. It is a pilot program and already we are seeing some enthusiasm around this. T
Election system. Republicans call it enemy number one. That s where we start. Good morning on tuesday. I m bill hemmer. Dana: your friend number one. I m dana perino, this is america s newsroom. Gas issue. Is it necessary? if you can t get gas it s an emergency. Right about that. It hasn t been resolved and a big story today. We ll be back in a moment. Dana: the senate rules committee set to battle it out over one of the democrats top priorities an hour from now as republicanled state legislatures push their own bills. Democrats say they are meant to restrict access to the polls. Let s begin with chief washington correspondent mike emanuel. Hi, mike. Quite a fight ahead of this bill labeled s1. Top priority. The hearing will feature chuck schumer and republican leader mitch mcconnell. Quite rare. The two did it back on march 24th t. Previous time was seven years ago in a fight over campaign finance. Schumer and mcconnell will square off again today as senators prepare the democrats c
later in the program for that. dana, awesome to be with you this past year. i look to many more. dana: me, too. all right. a new gallup poll shows the gop holding a 5 point edge in support among americans, a 14-point swing from a year ago giving republicans their best lead since 1995. bill: we have reaction from two of the best in a moment. reince priebus and jim messina standing by. we start with mark meredith. a year ago republicans were facing bleak poll numbers. today a much different story with gallup reporting the gop seeing a huge surge in support over the last year. good news for republicans comes at democrats expense. 13 polls throughout last year asking 12,000 adults asking how they saw themselves leaning. fourth quarter the republicans had a lead. a huge shift from the start of 2021. republican party officials tell us they aren t surprised. we viewed this as a direct correlation between joe biden and kamala harris s failed policies coupled with the democra
look at what we can expect in 2022, midterm elections are coming, there are economic challenges at home. the world stage is always fluid and unpredictable. president biden beginning his second year in office, i can not think of anyone better to help us usher in the new year and reflect on what we ve learned in the old one than martha. the host of the story. one of my favorite people in the world, her favorite college football team has a new head coach. she may want to talk about this too, happy new year, martha. martha. martha. trey happy new year. trey: is there anything in 2021 that caught your attention because you think it received too much coverage or under played a little bit? the thing under played we spend so much time covering politics. and the back and forth over numbers, i think about build back better bill and it is always a battle over the number. and not enough of a battle about what is best for the american people, what is fundamentals of underlying bill ar