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Affect that getting done or whats getting done on the hill there. how does it impact other parts of the way our government is functioning right now? >> both house and senate being out couldnt have come at a better time since this wave seems to be picking up steam. a lot of these congressional delegation trips overseas like speaker pelosi was supposed to go to japan and taiwan. that will have to be rescheduled. there were our trips planned to ukraine to the war zone region that were having to wat...

The pandemic spread last year of nancy pelosi rejecting of some republicans created proxy voting stay home and avoiding travel, members of congress infected and didnt want to spread the virus elsewhere in congress. folks immunocompromised and didnt want to travel or spreading covid around their constituents. more than 150 lawmakers are proxy voting. pelosi is expecting to extend this. it has fundamentally change the way congress works. you have been on the hill for some of these works, it can la...

Capitol complex, and one other point that i want to bring up here is that republicans have also been a lot less transparent about their vaccine status and their code of diagnosis. we reported bill posey who has been critical of proxy voting and has spread vaccine misinformation, hes actually been using that proxy voting system in the last few weeks of last year and told gop colleagues because he himself had covid but he did not publicly disclose that so it just goes to show that the cases in con...

Territory, so i will give it to him. lawrence, sorry. >> if you had given me another 20 seconds, that would have been helpful. rachel, you just broke that news about senator schumer. they actually kind of had to delay this until next week because of snow in washington, and one of the democrats is out now with covid, and thats a vote that senator schumer would like to have, which he hopes he can get on tuesday of next week. so well be watching the rest of the voting rights drama play out on tuesd...

Sell on this. speak of course it doesnt work. we just use the term "antidemocratic." nancy pelosi has allowed proxy voting, kicked republicans off committee, wont let jim and i serve on the select committee. they are trying to make d.c. a state, trying to end the filibuster, trying to pack the united states supreme court. and theyre trying to get rid of executive privilege. by the way, this january 6 committee altered evidence. altered evidence and lied about it to the american people. but someh...

Representatives, she is involved with those things. but when the were you ready? fbi knew people were coming, norfolk office knew, nypd knew they gave that idea to fbi director wray who seems to be sleeping on his job. the memo was on his desk for 4 days, he never got around to it. but, donald trump offered the national guard. ? you offer the national guard, to protect the capitol building, then how you can be responsible for a quote, unquote insurrection? >> it makes no sense. but nothing the d...

Protect the house of representatives, she is involved with those things. but when the were you ready? fbi knew people were coming, norfolk office knew, nypd knew they gave that idea to fbi director wray who seems to be sleeping on his job. the memo was on his desk for 4 days, he never got around to it. but, donald trump offered the national guard. ? you offer the national guard, to protect the capitol building, then how you can be responsible for a quote, unquote insurrection? >> it makes no sen...

The nerve to say that it is republicans and donald trump wh has give me a break. people are so sick of their baloney. i think a big changes coming this fall. >> vladimir putin is the one that because the proxy voting you have to understand that. its putins fault that no one is voting in person. i want to share something pelos said today about the ukraine. watch. >> now our focus is on ukraine. for economic as well as financial assistance. its important we get that out right away. >> it took a ma...

And according to the "l.a. times" and congress when he is proxy voting while sitting in a car in the capital parking lot doing an online interview about his new book. he wants remote voting to be permanent. how many times have you voted multiperiod. >> zero. we need to make everybody show up for work again. as jordan said, theyre giving it all across the country, congress needs to lead the way it not be the very last to do it . >> have you voted by proxy? >> it now, i havent. and the folks i get...

Last year.g to the "l and according to the l.a. times, california.a congressman roy ocana used proxy voting while sitting in a car in the capitol parking lot doing an online interview aboutw his new book.an i mean,ts he wants remote votin, by the way, to be permanent gentlemen. you votedimes have remotely scali? how many times? >> zero law. we need to end this make congress work again, make everybody show up for work again. as jordan saidid, theyre doing it all across the country. congress needs...