ribs. now that they have shortened the quarantine and isolation measures for everybody, i m a little less mad, though i do have some fundamental problems with what s going on right now, i think. look, i certainly don t want to pile on, but i think i m going to pile on a little bit right now, because i saw the attorney general in your state who opposes vaccine mandates said when he was asked why he opposed mandates. he told a reporter he doesn t believe the numbers anymore. your thoughts, and we don t want you to stop coming on television because i like to think there are still people out there who are listening, but, you know, does that describe a lot of what you hear and what fuels that frustration? it does. r.a.g., this guy has never met a scientific consensus that he wouldn t question. he s wrong on climate change, he s wrong on environment, he s wrong on everything, so it s no surprise he would be wrong on this. but for this guy to get on tv in
questions. she also says she s concerned about the corrosive politicization of the supreme court process which i also think anybody who has watched these hearings in recent years also wouldn t question. she said she decided only after a phone call with her this weekend. so sort of a last-minute game-time decision there. and she understands that, you know, some may view this as sort of a risky, political choice but it s a choice that she s willing to make. she went out and said it with words. mitt romney i felt like alluded to all of it in his statement. he did. but his was a little more sort of toeing the usual lines of well qualified. she s somebody a person of honor, he said. i don t expect to agree with every decision she may make on the court, but i believe that she more than meets the standards of excellence and integrity. you and i were talking in the break, that used to be the standard. but no longer, of course? all the supreme court justices were mostly along party lines
possible replacements, including nhl spors caster. the contestants and the writers are the star of the show. reporter: now asking the you wouldn t question, who will be next? that was nbc s emily akay da reporting. as we begin a new hour, the former president is expected to take the stage at yet another political rally in coleman, alabama, a city that just declared a covid state of emergency. plus, the u.s. is tracking potential terrorist threats from isis against kabul airport and americans trying to get there. and new reporting just into nbc news about how domestic commercial airlines are being recruited to help. and the descendants of two civil rights giants are going to join me to talk about the ongoing attack on voting rights in this country, martin luther king jr. iii and alejandro
biggest priorities right now? well, there s a suspect in custody, so basically who he is and what his network is like and who he communicated with as well as the three others, there s there is a discrepancy as to how many men are in that pool and how many women. but nevertheless, whoever is a suspect is going to unleash an investigation. both in new zealand and then australia next and then to see if they had any other international ties. that will be your physical investigation on the sort of, you know, internet signal investigation you re going to be looking at the radicalization process, how come this happened two years ago, what was going on and how and who else were they engaged with. i am very curious about the weaponry and the access to weaponry. i wouldn t question that here in the united states. did someone bring it over from australia? was it permitted? does someone have a background in military, law enforcement?
huckabee sanders. what s it like in that room? a sharp shift we ve seen in the briefing room behind the scenes in this white house is that previously you would always count on the associated press to be called in, in the briefing room first and count on a policy question and news of the day first. something this administration has done away with. so that s why you ll see them going to other outlets across the room and you never know if you ll be the first one to get called on. you have to be very, very prepared in this administration, because what if they come to you, it s your day. got the top question and every network in america, cameras are rolling. one of the things, michael, when i was in washington, there would be certain kinds of information that would be released by the white house, even though you re sort of, you know, trained as a journalist to question, there are certain things you wouldn t question. like put out a schedule and say, oh, the president s going to be here