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republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. >> and asked the question whether theyre smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. youve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesnt seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republicans political neck an open border for the next eight months and...

Hannah Smith, the former owner of Gemini Bakehouse in Los Angeles, will join Tillies in Dripping Springs to oversee operations for the pastry program.

>> saving freedom here in america. >> there you go. >> willies, too. one thing vladimir putin is not, loaded. plead read willie geists book of the same name. >> what an obscure reference that is. >> i love that book, man. i love that book. >> okay. >> we need to get the 18th, 19th reprinting, willie. >> its a deep cut. thank you, joe. >> it is a deep cut. richard, were going to talk about the war here. by the way, i am downloading as we speak here a book that you recommended. >> oh. >> audiobook...

The door with howard and sit down, its all fair game. >> oh dear. >> often, as an interviewer, im jealous that howard is allowed to ask the things he gets away with asking. he always elicited the best answers. music interviews, he had eddie vedder on. it was an old one. doesnt matter. can you pull down the guitar behind you and play this song? it brings a tear to your eye as the guy talks. he elicits things from people no one else in the media does. he has for a long time. he is the best intervi...

Ive never been to that vacation. my house doesnt look like that. all those things that cause the problem, you can put some regulations, maybe you tweak the algorithm, but the point of instagram is those photographs. what can a government do about that? >> we can require transparency, willie, into those black boxes, the algorithms. the 600-pound gorillas in those black boxes that are driving the destructive content to children. in fact, possibly to your daughter. you say you think youve kept her ...

Lets get to our other top headline this morning. willie has that. >> yeah, its what we were talking about the top of the show. a reversal of a deal made last week with the january 6th select committee in the house, former white house chief of staff under president trump, mark meadows, announced through his attorney he will not appear today for his scheduled deposition. committee leaders immediately threatened a vote to hold meadows in contempt of congress, arguing he has no grounds for refusing ...

People that have to face, you know, basic -- account for basic needs. >> right. >> food, shelter, security. here, were talking about, you know, some minor infringement on personal -- i wouldnt even say it is a minor infringement. it is a community service. >> right. >> it is a community good. >> by the way, how many vaccines do you have to have when youre in the military? how many vaccines when you go off to combat? >> anthrax was five alone i think. nobody complained about that. >> ouch. >> nob...

Span bath? the vaccines are working. if you were around everybody who has been vaccinated, man, theyre working. >> willie has breaking news on that. >> on that topic, pfizer announced lab studies show a third dose, the booster of their covid-19 vaccine, neutralizes the omicron variant. that is incredible news. >> wow. >> great news. >> amazing. >> we havent heard from moderna on this question. if you have the pfizer biontech vaccine, the third dose, getting the booster neutralizes the omicron va...

Versus those -- i mean, those numbers, for now, are born out for everybody to see, even those who were perhaps a bit skeptical. they now see it, thinking, i can live if i take this vaccine. id rather live. >> what are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? >> right. >> willie, when you see time and time again, willie, that time and time again that nine out of ten people that are in the emergency room are unvaccinated, at some point, that catches on, even to the biggest vaccine skeptics. it...

There was an insurrection against the united states government. and we tried to have a bipartisan, bicameral investigation, and republicans on the hill blocked it. now, were trying to have an investigation to get to the bottom of this insurrection and who is responsible. they are still blocking it. and this, willie s why we have a justice department. to pick what helene said one side further, we have one side playing checkers and the other side kickboxing. its just not -- you know, you can go li...