Loony lies, conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. Somebody that suggested perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon On 9 11, that horrifying School Shootings were prestaged, that the clintons crashed jfk jr. s airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American Families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen the party. Now, i would wager every one of you agrees with what i just said. But you have not heard this from the majority of gopers in congress. Here is the question. Is that about to change . Why might it change . Because i just read a quote from senator Mitch Mcconnell. Hes the guy who just said that. He just said it. The media is amazed at his amazing candor. Seriously . One, he is stating the obvious. Two, the only amazing thing is how long it took. And, yet, relatively, he is ahead of the curve. Because what is truly amazing is there is a retrumplican who actually thinks democrats drink th
Breaking news to report on the attack on the capitol last month. Sources tell cnn it has been recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a Capitol Police officer in the shooting of a rioter. The shooting remains under investigation. No final decision has been made. The Justice Department could make one in the coming days. Now to a separate investigation by cnn State Election data shows at least eight people facing criminal charges for their involvement did not actually vote. Donovan crowl is a member of a selfstyled militia and was removed from ohio rolls in 2020 for never voting. There is also no record of him voting in illinois where he was once registered. Jack griffith faces a number of charges. Including violent entry. Court documents state that he posted on the facebook the cavalry is coming. Election data from two states showed he voted in 2018 but he did not vote in 2020. There you go. They were saying the election was a fraud. Votes were stolen. They didnt e
for disease control. but while the numbers of people testing positive are at all time highs the number of people needing hospital treatment for coronavirus isn t reaching record levels. peter chin hong is a professor of medicine at the university of california. he says that despite the high infection rates, authorities are determined not to impose onerous restrictions on daily life. the us is really marked by wanting to continue with the economy. full force forward and not imposing any lockdowns. i think they are trying a multimodal approach with vaccines, testing, masks and limiting gatherings, but on more of an honour system, optional encouragement, gentle persuasion. i think that traditionally speaking the biden administration was critiqued for putting all their eggs in the vaccine basket, so with not enough testing and not enough of this preparation,
and certainly the white house will even say they don t have enough where they need to be. so what s the problem? some people say they think the biden administration put all their eggs in the vaccine basket and ignored other ways to beat back the pandemic. what do you think? well, i think there s been tremendous progress made. no question about it. you heard some of the stats that jeremy diamond just rattled off, but we re at 300 million tests per month out and available. we ve gone from 11 up to 11.7 million tests a day from 1.7 million. we have testing available in about 20,000 pharmacies that used to be 2,500 pharmacies, community health centers have tests. so there are two issues that i think the biden administration has been working on and doubling down on those efforts with the omicron wave.