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Loans are -- payments are supposed to resume soon. there are things that georgians want for themselves, for their families, and for their communities. and the right to vote is preservative of all of the other rights that we have. and it's necessary for all of the things that we're fighting for. >> thank you for being with me. i so appreciate your time. >> thank you. thank you so much for having me, jose. >> thanks. still ahead, kids in the nation's second largest school district going back to school today, despite the highest-ever covid rates among staff and students. ten times what it was b...

Happen, yes, republicans are against it, but democrats are against it, too, and joe manchin and kyrsten sinema will shoulder a lot of the blame, when in reality, the white house understands the reality on capitol hill that this isn't going to pass, but they have to show a fight. it's an unenviable situation for the white house to be honest with you to have to get into and lean into a fight that it knows it has absolutely no chance of winning in any time in the near future. >> jake sherman and carol lee, thank you for being with me this morning. fascinating conversation. appreciate it. still ...

President's to-do list like voting rights. >> we have run-away inflation eating at people's money and the threat of china in the pacific region, russia on the verge of innovating ukraine. instead of focusing on that, they're giving speeches about a problem that doesn't exist. >> look at the last couple months, president biden failed to contain the pandemic as promised, he failed to advance his social spending plan, the build back better plan. now democrats decide to try something different with voting rights. charles? >> martha: thanks, peter. covid the focus today on capitol hill. the cdc dir...

New daily cases since the pandemic began, more than 162,000 on friday. the netherlands is relaxing some of its covid restrictions. nonessential stores, hairdressers, beauty salons, and other service providers will be allowed to reopen on saturday. the prime minister says it's a big step. it's also, he says, a risk. and i'm joined now by cnn's melissa bell in paris. melissa, when you think about it, europe still grappling with omicron, and it's not peaked yet in most places. >> reporter: it's not peaked yet, and you mentioned the netherlands a moment ago. what the health ministry explained is...

A mess. and of course that's to be expected almost in the covid times. nobody really knew what the roadmap was in order to handle the rise in covid infections, to try and keep it out of our borders, our borders were shut down. effectively australia was closed for two years, and this was supposed to be the coming out parade. unfortunately the omicron variant is now ripping through australia in every state and territory. but what we've seen in the past two years is real agitation between the federal government and the state government of victoria. they don't agree with each other ideologically, ...