And Jane Mayor on the original Dirty Trickster who normalized trump. Then, the fierce urgency of now for the biden agenda. Why republicans are closer to controlling congress than you think. And are we all good with Jeff Bezos buying a half billion Dollar Yacht while amazon pays little or no taxes . Ill ask Senator Elizabeth Warren. All in starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. Republicans are officially canceling their number three person in house leadership. Congresswoman Liz Cheney of wyoming, for the simple and irredeemable sin of just telling the basic truth about what happened in the 2020 election and who was responsible for inciting a violent insurrection against the peaceful transfer of power. House Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy made the announcement this afternoon, writing to his caucus, republicans should anticipate a vote on recalling the Conference Chair, Liz Cheney, this wednesday. Mccarthy went on to attempt to justify expelling cheney because she w
Chris hayes. Republicans are officially canceling their number three person in house leadership. Congresswoman Liz Cheney of wyoming for the simple and irredeemable sin of just telling the basic truth about what happened in the 2020 election and who is responsible for inciting a violent insurrection against the peaceful transfer of power. House Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy made the announcement this afternoon, writing to his caucus republicans should anticipate a vote recalling the Conference Chair, Liz Cheney, this wednesday. Mccarthy went on to justify expelling cheney Because she will not endorse the Big Lie. Quote, unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate. All members are elected to represent their constituents as they see fit, but our Leadership Team cannot afford to be distracted from the important work we were elected to do in the Share Goals we hope to achieve. Sure sounds like theyre canceling her over a thought crime, doesnt it . Now that comes a day after mccart
chinese spy known as fong-fong. she spent four years trying to infiltrate elected officials. in moments, republican mike turner on the intelligence committee efforts to remove the democrat congressman, but we kick things off with our chief washington correspondent mike emanuel live in d.c. good afternoon. good afternoon. the vote in the house could come any time now. kevin mccarthy is pushing to have eric swalwell removed from the house intelligence committee. i want all members to ask this one question, should a member that can t get a security clearance in the private sector sit on the house intelligence committee? think about that for a moment. the house judiciary chairman fired back saying this could happen to any politician. we all have hundreds of people in our campaigns, hundreds of people. can we verify any of them? do we know everybody s association? do we know whether someone in the campaign is a spy or a thief or whatever? do we do a police investigation, a
i m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days in our administration, we ll have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow americans. that s weeks ahead of schedule. the president says eight weeks ago, only 8% of seniors had received a vaccination. today 65% of people age 65 or older have received one shot. 30% are fully vaccinated. he continues to believe there will be enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. so the white house says that s part of the reason why it s finalizing plans of sending millions of doses to mexico and canada. that vaccine important to note is not approved for use here in the united states. our first priority remains vaccinating the u.s. population and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step. we have seven million release able doses of astra zeneca. we re working to finalize plans to lend them to mexico and 1.5 million to canada. so the bottom line, charles, president