Elliott about the history of africanamericans in dmong the 19th century and a sea of artifacts from the house collection. The story of how africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one a lot of people are familiar with. We actually have 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house. 2 in the senate. Largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals, because they believed in the equality of africanamericans, and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house, like thaddeus stephens, who was chairman of the ways and Means Committee and a very powerful leader. Also people like henry winter davis. Washburn. In the Senate People like Charles Sumner and Benjamin Wade and they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration to not only
Go for it. Bill makes you think about Election Night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3 10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. This is the payoff. Dana a lot of republicans didnt show up to vote. Thats what happens. More on this with Newt Gingrich in a moment. Griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone . I think they are. Dana. Happy friday. Looks like a purely partisan path. History was made when Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the 2 trillion relief plan. The yays are 50, nays are 50. The senate equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. This after 15 hours of votearama The Republicans forced a majority to add amendments. More than 850 were filed. In the end 41 roll call votes were taken. Among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. Another blocking Illegal Immigrants from getting Stimulus Checks as we
Donald trump rejects democrats requests for him to testify at his Impeachment Trial. The question is, will the senate issue a subpoena . And Johnson Johnson asks the fda to okay its singleshot Covid Vaccine. With demand high and supply still short, the question is, how long will it take to get this third u. S. Vaccine on the market . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early, the show that has had plenty of practice factchecking false claims. I am kasie hunt on this friday, february 5th. Well start with the news. Well begin with the unprecedented move by House Democrats to strip congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene from her committees and her pretty unprecedented comments as a congresswoman. It came after house gop leadership failed to take action in response to her inflammatory social media posts and sprea ing violent Conspiracy Theories. 11 republicans joined democrats in backing greenes removal from her committees. 199 republican lawmakers voted no. Speak
Await the hearing, what critics call Catch And Release. We have specifics tonight from los angeles. Customs and Border Protection says because of that steady increase in apprehensions, mexicos reluctance to accept more deported families and covert restrictions here, some facilities are at maximum safe capacity. Therefore, it says, per longstanding practice, the Long Term Solutions are not possible. Some migrants will be processed for removal, provided a notice to appear and released into the u. S. To await a future immigration hearing. This is needed to avoid keeping migrants beyond what court orders allow, right now the Border Patrol is stopping some 3,500 migrants per day trying to enter the u. S. A former dhs director chad wolf calls it a perfect storm likely to get worse as smugglers and families exploit the situation. Its a Significant Development they arent taking certain family units back under title 42, that is very concerning because if youre just doing that in one or two sect
The Ingraham Angle from washington tonight. Just tonight Defense Secretary lloyd austin announced each branch of the u. S. Military will schedule a 60 day standdown to allow each service to have needed discussions on extremism in the ranks. We will talk about this in same course of action with ron desantis and Newt Gingrich and moments. But first, no ransom for Hostage Takers. Thats the focus of tonights angle. This week, i reminded why a Record Number of americans turned out to vote for donald trump in november. Like Tens Of Thousands of people would show up at his rallies and wait for hours and extreme heat and bitter cold. They stuck with him during Shame Impeachments and the mueller investigation. They did all this because to them, he was a lasting standing between their families in the leftwing mob. Before trump, conservatives had become used to milquetoast Establishment Republicans whose first instinct is to buckle when criticized in the New York Times or washington post. Even th