Strategy. They ve removed over 7 million pounds of concrete and debris from the mound. They ve used sonar, cameras, dogs, heavy machinery. They ran into a building they were told could collapse. And they braved fire, smoke, torrential rain, and strong winds in the hopes of finding people alive. At this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us. To share this news with the families this evening who are still missing their loved ones was devastating. So the decision to transition from rescue to recovery is an extremely difficult one. A few hours ago, first responders joined officials on site to mark the transition with a moment of silence. The number of people killed stands at 54, with 87 unaccounted for. Every single victim uncovered is somebody s child, somebody s mother. Somebody s teacher, somebody s colleague. A classmate. A best friend. The mayor also noted that president biden, who visited surfside just last week, had called to offer more assistance. The presiden
[noise] chill bro. [noise] this is our house. [noise] the justice department also released new footage from inside the capitol. The rioters can be seen trying to force their way into the senate chamber, and taunting those officers who were trying to keep them out. More than 500 riders have been arrested in connection with what was essentially a failed attempt to keep president biden from taking office. Late today, the winner of november s election issued a statement it read in part quote, this was not descend. This was this order. It posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive. A sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. This past weekend, the men who lost november s election continue to push the very lies that fueled the january 6th insurrection. We won so much and then we had a rigged election. Democrats used covid to cheat, they illegally change the rules of the key states and mailed out millions, and millions of absentee ba
The cause of what happened. We had witnessed it firsthand. History is watching. Our children are watching. We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process. I am committed to doing that no matter what the shortterm political consequences may be. Among the possible consequences, liz cheney s removal as chair of the house republican conference. The party s third most powerful post in that chamber. She is now under siege and calling out trump. Today the second most powerful house republican has joined kevin mccarthy in backing the congresswoman stefanik of new york. President trump agrees calling stefanik a far conspire choice. She responded on twitter thanking trump for his 100% support. This afternoon president biden was asked about the implication of ousting liz cheney from her post in the house. We are in the midst of a significant mini revolution going on in the republican party. We badly need a republican party.
south and northern pacific states. this means demand for tests whether they re done in a lab or at home are skyrocketing. nbc news reports that amazon, wall green and cvs are restricting the number of test kits that each customer can buy. tonight, during an interview with abc news, president biden was asked about the testing shortages and defended the response to the surge. i don t think it s a failure. i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago six month as i go, two months ago, a month ago, i ve ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills, excuse me, 500 million test kits to be sent to anybody in america this wants them. nothing is good enough. look, look where we are. when last christmas emergency rooms were filled and serious backups in hospitals causing great difficulties, we re in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinated. those 500 million test kits are supposed to go out next month. meanwhile, there is hope in
as i was saying about pramila jayapal, this is just a continuation of last night s discussion. okay. as you know. at exactly this moment last night. she was on your show. full of optimism in the face of your pessimism, which is my favorite segment on the rachel maddow show and you just reported where the optimism stands tonight but the point that i didn t get to last night that i really want to get to is i think she is the she should lecture the rest of the house about how to speak publicly about pending legislation. sure, you might be angry at another democrat or another person who might or might not vote for the bill, but expressing that anger publicly at those people is the most unproductive thing you can do as long as the legislation is still pending. the diplomatic way that she talks about joe manchin publicly is what allows her to talk to him privately. which none of the democrats who kind of popped out angrily about joe manchin sunday and monday are able to d