public that they are shutting down government because they don t want people to get vaccinated. why don t you go ask them. this is so silly. this is so silly that we have people who are anti-science anti-vaccination, saying they will shut down government over that. and they re asking me what is our message. our message is we have to respect governments, and we have to respect science, and that is what we are doing. tonight, the shutdown was averted once again when democrats in the house and the senate once again did the responsible thing, and passed legislation to fund the government until february 18th. today, the biden white house announced an aggressive new strategy to fight covid this winter and the new variant has more cases of the new variant were identified today in minnesota, colorado, new york, and hawaii.
this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi seemed to be losing her patience. how do they explain to the public that they re shutting down government because they don t want people to get vaccinated? why don t you go ask them? this is so silly. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and punchbowl news founder john bresnahan. ali, this is a group of republicans led by senator mike lee. this is a small group of senate republicans, katy, yes, because republican leadership and most of the other senate republicans we talked to say there s not the political appetite or upside for them to go into a shutdown over this measure. look no further than what senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said this morning. yeah, we re not going to shut the government down. that makes no sense for everyone, almost no one on either side thinks that s a good idea.
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mimicking us, i don t feel no ways tired. and i m thinking is this how you speak to us as black people? have you lost your mind? are you crazy? this is what they do. and the fact that they are coming to our churches, they don t got white churches and do this. they come to the churches and do this. the purpose of church is worship god. is he listening to what you are saying. are you giving the other side a fair shake? are you inviting both candidates? we don t need this kind of stuff? are you encouraged after you hear this so that you can continue worshiping? why don t you go do that somewhere else. go peddle that somewhere else. there are enough black voters who are saying to themselves this is crazy. this is nonsense. this is not uplifting. this is not invigorating this refreshing. steve: i wonder if joe biden s irs will look into that? i don t think i m going to hold
fox news primetime hosted by brian kilmeade. he has a morning show, too. brian: right. bret: it starts in 15 seconds because that s how much i like this show. i wanted to give you extra. brian: bret, i have a quote can i throw one out? bret: yeah. brian: quote from bret baier this is the voice in your head. i will really miss tossing to brian at the end of my show next week. is that true? can you back that up. bret: that is true. i will back it up. brian: thank, bret. good evening, everyone, this is fox news primetime. brian: i m brian kilmeade. word is we might be hours away from getting another national mask mandate. last week it happened in los angeles. let s see how they handled it. antimaskers. great. you guys are real scientists. hey. scientists, right? why don t you go [inaudible] kiss the virus and see what