Our next recipient award is Deanna Chavez 7th grade clapping. i like to think of might have that gives tough love to students i helping hold them accountability to reach higher and higher process im also having in my heart and offer them love and support. And in terms of the academic style i want them to be independent and help them and provide them with tools to go and analysis and investigate on their own and feel successful i think the key is having a lot of patience and participation clapping. and last but not least our High School Teacher of the year michael spur ran. Im in a certain stage bending by the time i am done teaching i follow them through high school and some beyond and proud of what theyve done and being a part of that it is important it makes us a successful teacher is one that cares about the outcomes for students and helping them overcame the difficulties in their lives and being able to set them open a path they might not have been on. My congratulations clapping c
Support for washington, d. C. Statehood. Nancy pelosi, the house speaker, talked about the bill last week. I thank you for asking about it. Because this is really central to the integrity of our government. Harris Senate Republicans blocked the legislation last time it was introduced with Mitch Mcconnell saying the left wanted to change the rules of american politics to benefit one party, end quote. However, now democrats are in control and Tucker Carlson is sounding the alarm. January 6th we had a riot at the u. S. Capitol. Why did that happen . It happened because millions of American Voters were convinced the last election was not fair. They saw the radical increase in mailin voting, millions did, and it corroded their faith and the publics faith in our systems of election. They were enraged by that. Some of them exploded. According to democrats, the lesson of that terrible day is that we need more mail in voting, we need more ballot harvesting, more corruption that will unite the c
Will be taking later today for equity in housing. Mitch mcconnell has agreed to a powersharing move the will allow democrats to take charge of committees now that theyre the majority. Last night the nienhouse managers walked the article of impeachment into the senate deliver to the senate through corridors taken over by a mob of rioters only three weeks ago. In just a few hours the senators will be sworn in and agree to hear the evidence impartially, but a growing number of republicans have spoken out against even holding the trial. Kristen welker, kasie hunt, and Washington Post senior washington correspondent phil rocker and chuck rosenberg, former senior fbi official and u. S. Attorney. A busy day, kristen, on the senate, the cabinet, Racial Equity policies to be unveiled and briefed shortly by susan rice and jen psaki. Reporter absolutely right, andrea. As you pointed out at the top of the show, this does fit into one of President Bidens key Campaign Promises to take action on Raci
Opportunities and addressing covidrelated racism and discrimination targeti ing asia americans. The filibuster is still alive, but there is no paper commitment from the democrats not to try to do away with it down the road a bit. The new president plans a speech on battling the pandemic this afternoon. The biden team now says midmarch is its goal for signing a big new covid19 relief plan into law. That is an ambitious timeline, anyway, all the more so with an impeachment trial on the horizon set to freeze the senate for most of february. A ritual step in that process a bit later this afternoon. Senators take an oath to service jurors in the second impeachment trial of donald j. Trump. Lets get straight to the white house and begin the hour with cnns phil mattingly. Phil, one week into the biden presidency and another busy day at the white house. Reporter no question about it. Obviously you have the racial inequity actions. The president spoke about it quite often on the campaign trail.
Equal treatment by our government, if the heart of countless laws passed with welldeserved fanfare by our congress over many decades. That right is inscribed on a monument on our National Mall to the reverend Martin Luther king jr. Who would be shocked and disgusted if he watched susan rice on television today. Susan rice is joe bidens chief domestic policy advisor in charge of changing our country to conform to the orthodoxies of the Democratic Party. How do susan rice plan to do that . Going forward, she announced this afternoon every agency in the u. S. Government, the government that is the largest and most lavishly funded organization in human history, every one of them will place equity at the core of its policy design, specifically in for the benefit of marginalized communities. It was carried live by news outlets but as far as we know, not a single one of them paused to ask what exactly she was talking about, and they should have. The federal government is above all an enormous