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Affect that getting done or what's getting done on the hill there. how does it impact other parts of the way our government is functioning right now? >> both house and senate being out couldn't have come at a better time since this wave seems to be picking up steam. a lot of these congressional delegation trips overseas like speaker pelosi was supposed to go to japan and taiwan. that will have to be rescheduled. there were our trips planned to ukraine to the war zone region that we're having to watch to see if that is still very fresh in my mind, as i'm sure it is in yours. the senate, in a 50...

The pandemic spread last year of nancy pelosi rejecting of some republicans created proxy voting stay home and avoiding travel, members of congress infected and didn't want to spread the virus elsewhere in congress. folks immunocompromised and didn't want to travel or spreading covid around their constituents. more than 150 lawmakers are proxy voting. pelosi is expecting to extend this. it has fundamentally change the way congress works. you have been on the hill for some of these works, it can last for hours of the entire house, talking and negotiating. all of that is gone now and less meetin...

Capitol complex, and one other point that i want to bring up here is that republicans have also been a lot less transparent about their vaccine status and their code of diagnosis. we reported bill posey who has been critical of proxy voting and has spread vaccine misinformation, he's actually been using that proxy voting system in the last few weeks of last year and told gop colleagues because he himself had covid but he did not publicly disclose that so it just goes to show that the cases in congress could be even greater than we know. >> and we could use say a unified example from the congre...

Territory, so i will give it to him. lawrence, sorry. >> if you had given me another 20 seconds, that would have been helpful. rachel, you just broke that news about senator schumer. they actually kind of had to delay this until next week because of snow in washington, and one of the democrats is out now with covid, and that's a vote that senator schumer would like to have, which he hopes he can get on tuesday of next week. so we'll be watching the rest of the voting rights drama play out on tuesday. >> lawrence -- this is a technical matter, but i know you know. there is, because of covid, th...

Sell on this. speak of course it doesn't work. we just use the term "antidemocratic." nancy pelosi has allowed proxy voting, kicked republicans off committee, won't let jim and i serve on the select committee. they are trying to make d.c. a state, trying to end the filibuster, trying to pack the united states supreme court. and they're trying to get rid of executive privilege. by the way, this january 6 committee altered evidence. altered evidence and lied about it to the american people. but somehow it's republicans and donald trump who are a threat to democracy. the american people are so fe...