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reports in washington. the omicron wave is putting pressure on hospitals, schools and businesses to stay open. with millions of new positive coronavirus cases in recent weeks, and the 7-day average for covid related deaths the highest in three months. the president making the case in georgia tomorrow in georgia on voting rights. i ll speak this hour with the president of the naacp. a new york city community is reeling after a devastating sunday fire in the bronx. killing at least 19 people including nine children and sending dozens more to the hospital. fdny officials believe a malfunctioning space heater was the cause of one of the city s worst fires in decades. a similar fire killed 12 people including eight children in philadelphia last week. and u.s. and russian diplomats have laid out the dramatically different positions. u.s. officials are openly skeptical of russia s desire to find compromises and russian officials are bristling at what they say is a lack ....
the looming and existential threat to our democracy. new laws are being written, not to protect the vote, but to deny it. not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it. not to strengthen and protect our democracy, but because the former president lost instead of looking at election results from 2020 and saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes, the former president and his supporters decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections. it is wrong. it is undemocratic. and frankly, it s un-american. and he s taking his voting rights push on the road. the president and vice president harris are heading to georgia on tuesday, to specifically speak about the need for federal voting rights legislation. but several georgia-based voting rights groups are saying the duo should stay home. issuing a statement that reads in part, quote, such an empty gesture, without concrete action, without signs of real tangible work ....
down the economy as he toted the unemployment rate dropping to a new pandemic low. i hear republicans say today that my talking about this strong record shows that i don t understand, i don t understand a lot of people are still suffering they say. well, they are. or that i m not focused on inflation. malaryk. t they voted against the legislation that made it happen. i refuse to let them stand in the way of this recovery and my focus is on keeping this recovery strong and durable, not with standing republican obstruction. the president taking on the gop on the economy as he is facing skeptical conservative justice on his, justices i should say on his covid plan and vaccine mandates for large businesses. that as the republican party seems to locked into a never ending game of how low can you go? is exhibit a. ted cruz. who is now trying to backtrack after getting caught doing something that seems to be a cardinal sin in today s gop, telling the truth. we are approa ....
you. and the white house plaguing defense thursday with several members of the president s health advisory board urging the administration to scrap the pandemics strategy and embrace the new normal of living with covid. the white house press secretary responded when questioned by jacqui heinrich. growing backlash growing against the president and vice president for speeches commemorating the capitol riots one year ago. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. december 7, 1941, september 11, 2001, and january 6, 2021. the the bream team is standing by live with in-depth reporting on capitol hill but we began with a big friday team on tap, white house correspondent with arguments in the fight against the biden administration s vaccine mandates kevin corke, good evening. good to be back with you. the case in court has been argued by some and really about the extent of government power over ....
president trump. for the first time in our history a president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the capitol. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he has done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interests as more important than his country s interests and america s interests. and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution. on that dark day a mob of angry trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. it was two months after trump lost the election. trump spent weeks, months refusing to accept the results, challenging them every way he could, in court, on air, on social media, through intimidation of public officials, and private and publicly. trump told his supporters, come to d.c. on the day the electoral votes would be officially counted in congr ....