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That allowing conspiracy theorys and hateful speech to fester on their platforms for years had a role to play. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said the government is actively monitoring new variants, including one from the uk. Right now, the data indicate that the uk mutant is still quite sensitive to the antibodies that are induced by the vaccine. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good saturday morning to you. More members of congress now say that 11 days...

Those republicans at the white house just before the president left for mar-a-lago meeting with cipollone about that role potentially involve them presenting a minority response to democrats, the house managers yet to be named by pelosi, would present the articles of impeachment. president trump here in mar-a-lago is growing increasingly agitated about the uncertainty surrounding details of the senate trial and caught in a standoff between congressional republicans and democrats as speaker pelos...

>> reminds you how the territory is so uncharted in so many ways. mcconnell weighing moving ahead without support of chuck schumer by going to the floor on a rule that would be approved then by just a majority. 51 senators. sources say mcconnell prefers, though to cut a bipartisan deal with schumer. prefer to do that. tim, if mcconnell did go ahead, though, without democratic support, how unprecedented would that be? >> this is the first time that the -- that congress has been divided between th...

Thrashing a house of rejection, a performance for the next election. interesting to tims point there. so many other people during, or the other two during impeachment got nor presidential. do you think president trumps actions around the impeachment talk are all a performance for the 2020 election? >> 100%. he is portraying himself as a martyr. hes going on and on. you saw it in the tweets about nancy pelosi just in the last 24, 36 hours. using it as another juncture, stage to say im uniquely pe...

I see it as a partisan procedure, im not an impartial juror. to trust mitch mcconnell, very different than trent lott in the clinton era, to trust mitch mcconnell to address a question honestly down the line if you just let to go forward is quite disingenuous. >> interesting to hear from lisa murkowski earlier in the week saying she was concerned about their coordination between the white house and mitch mcconnell and also people speaking out on both sides of the aisle, you all on both sides nee...

The case. during ronald reagans period in office, the white house did try to catch up with the truth about the presidents condition, but it took a while. after he was unfortunately shot, the white house didnt really share the extent to which he not only nearly died but how deeply weakened he had been by the incident. fortunately for all of us, he came roaring back. but the white house wasnt straightforward about it. weve had instances in the case of john f. kennedy where the white house doesnt s...

Time. the people that were transporting him were told not to tell they were moving him until he arrived at walter reed. the president himself tweeted that he did undergo the first part of his physical exam and hell complete it next year. i also asked the white house press secretary stephanie grisham about why the president was not able to do the full typically four-hour physical exam during this weekend, because she cited this free weekend that the president had. she did not respond to that ques...

The importance of this timing of this weekend and the president, you know, getting this exam unannounced in the midst of an impeachment inquiry. there may be no correlation, but one cant ignore the fact that it is happening unannounced but with some level of urgency that it has to happen this weekend. >> fred, i dont know. i just hope the president gets better. one of the things were discussing a lot when we talk about impeachment these days is the poisonous character of conspiracy theories. wer...

The torch was passed to a new generation who was focused on what the future would bring. >> resonating words about the most beloved american president. joining me right now, cnn presidential historian tim natale. tim, good to see you. jfks historic election was march 5, the sense of hope and optimism. actually, it turned out quite differently. what were some of the challenges? >> this particular episode tonight is the story of 1961 which begins with such promise and hope, and really is a time of...