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public servicealong with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy . >> here are some of the headlines dominating at newspapers out of washington. we begin with the supreme court's decision yesterday to rule against president biden's vaccine mandate for large employers but allowing his mandate for healthcare workers who receive medicare and medicaid funding. and then there was the voting rights push this week in washington by the president. yesterday it crumbled according to the new york times when senator kristen sinema came to the floor and said she would not support changing the rules for those two pieces of voting rights legislation. we also had talks between us and russia happening this week in switzerland, in

brussels. the headline in the washington post says russia says no ground for further security discussion . happening on capitol hill this week the january 6 committee asked for representative kevin mccarthy's cooperation.he rejected that and then also in usa today they note that the january 6 committee has subpoenaed social media companies as it seeks the role of disinformation in the capital attack on the voting rights legislation let's hear from senator kristen sinema of arizona on the floor yesterday before president biden madehis way to capitol hill . talk to democrats behind closed doors to try to encourage them to change the rules . here's what she hadto say . >> consider this. should we take a partyline v response to every problem we

face in this body, every action taken to protect the cherished value that led usto more division ? not lessth. the impact is clear for all to see . the steady escalation of. [bleep] for tat in which each new majority weakens the guardrails of the senate and excludes input from the other party. furthering dissent and anger amongst this body and our constituents at home.and the currents increased use of requiring culture for traditional nominees under president george w. bush led to similar tactics by republicans under president barack obama . in 2013 decision by senate democrats to eliminate the 60 vote threshold for most judicial and presidential nominations led directly to a response in 2017 by senate republicans who eliminated the threshold for supreme court nominees. these shortsighted actions by both parties have led to our current american judiciary

and supreme court which as i stand here today is considering questions regarding the mental rights americans have enjoyed for decades . eliminating the 60 vote threshold on a partyline with the thinnest of possible majorities to pass these bills that i support will not ll guarantee that we prevent demagogues getting into office. indeed some who undermine the principles of democracy already been elected. rather eliminating the 60 vote threshold will simply guarantee that we lose a critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy breaks in the years to come. it is clear that the two-party strategies are not working. not for either side. and especially not for the country. >> the headline following

kristen sinema's speech in the wall street journal, outlook them for election bills passage. the reaction from martin luther king's family is one of criticism of senator trent. the family plans to yrleave the voting rights march on martin luther king day. the family of martin luther king will lead a march in washington dc on monday calling on lawmakers to pass federal standards for elections even after those efforts hit a big setback on thursday. martin luther king junior the third putting out a statement in the hill, to out part of that statement and he said history will remember senator sinema unkindly and he also said in his statement while senator sinema remains in her optimism black and brown americans are losing their right to vote. and martin luther king the third will be discussing the

voting rights legislation today at 11 am eastern time and we will have coverage of that here on our website. and you can also download our free video mobile app. the president yesterday had senator sinema and senators manchin at the white house after you went to the hill and after the senate bill was on the floor. the white house says that the president hosted senator mention and sinema for a respectful exchange of views aboutvoting rights . president biden talked to reporters after meeting with democrats behind closed doors and here's what he had to say . >> i hope we can get this done. the honest to godanswer is i don't know whether we can get this done . is this mike on western mark anyway, i'm not sure either. i hope we can get this done

but i'm not sure. one thing for certain, one thing for certain. like every other major civil rights bill that came along, if we miss the first time, we can come back and try the second time. we missed this time. we missed this time and the state legislative bodies continue to change the law not as to who can vote but who gets to count the votes. count the votes. it's about election subversion, not just whether or not people get to vote. who counts the votes that's what this is about and that's what makes this so different than anything else we've ever done. i don't know if we can get it done but one thing, as long as i am a president and as long as i'm in the white house, as long as i'm engaged at all i'm going to be

fighting tochange the way these legislations move . >> president biden after meeting with democrats and senator kristen sinema saying she rwould not support changing the electoral rules. what was the top story of the week in your opinion? john in brooklyn, democratic color. are you there? i've got to push the button there you go. go ahead . >>. >> caller: i want to know why they can't just changethis filibuster and change it back . the two senators, why are there no questions, recall rethem or do something. the same laws that could have made their states, why don't democrats make the same laws to the next state? i hope somebody can answer these questions for me.

>> steve, good morning. >> caller: i'm concerned about president biden being as weak and morally incorrect as he is getting up and saying republicans being against this bill is a voting rights bill . and calling them racist. can you believe this? i guess my second query would be how do you do that if you don't have the media carrying water foryour site every day ? that's what makes me to about the elite liberal media because they live to minorities every day by telling them that white society is out to get them and all white people are racist. they generalize, they get

history all wrong.three quarters of the south never even owned slaves they want to apportion the plan for slavery of all white america 107 years later. it's amazing to watch. it's if it wasn't so tragic it would be humorous. >> we heard from senator democrat durbin of illinois. the report was that he thought president biden's speech in georgia went too far. maybe that that isolated a few people. peggy noonan is writing in today's wall street journal fight in georgia speech is a breaking eepoint he writes. does it self was aggressive and temperate, not only offensive but meant to affect peoplewho think there's only the democratic party in americaand that's it . everyone else is an outsider to be disparaged .

it was a mistake on so many levels. we learned spring hill florida, democratic color. >> good morning. good morningamerica out there. i want to o make a point . i'm not a politician and i'm sure there's smarter people, can you hear me? so we can be united, people say we should have a third party. here's what we need to do. let's have one party and hire the most smart people and fauci isn't going to be one of them and we can run this country and we can all be united. where all americans and if you don't have two opposing teams you've got one team. all for one, one for all and then we can decide what this country needs and work on getting this country back up and running.

>> you think there could be a consensus in this country on who is the smartest? >> it's not hard to figure out. if i can sit here andthink of something that would work , we're never ever going to be united. as long as you got biden and the democrats putting us against one another, i'm a white man but i don't like being called racist and it's not fair . we're not out to suppress voting. there is no voter suppression at, i'll tell you that right now. show me somebody said they couldn't vote in the last election. show me one person. all you've got to do is very simple. i'm 70 years old. watch down there and vote. it's your patriotic duty and this needs to change. my message to all the democrats out there, you enjoy your five minutes of fame because guess what? hell is coming.

>> in columbus ohio, independent. >> that speaker just h summarized the trouble this country has. first of all we do have one party, the democrats are the conservative wing of it and the republicans are the fascist wing of it. the filibuster is illegal. it's an example of that this country has never been serious about democracy. the dogcatcher whoever wins the most wins. only in the senate do you need 60 so the filibuster itself is nondemocratic, nonconstitutional and it's an example of the total oppressive dynamics that the senate frankly hears so encouraged at the end this filibuster with this vice president. lastly african-americans of which i am one, this should let you know what you stand for arizona awest virginia and in general the limits of what they call voting and in a constitutional republic to

protect ourrights . >> senator sinema hurt visit state will get a visit from president trump. he heads to arizona where gop candidates are eager for his backing this saturday. again that's rollcall.com. sean in lakeland florida, independent, good morning. >> i think this lady from arizona is kind of write. but it's different. i think that if you want to do something with the vote, just got give everybody free voters ids and it will calm things down but my other point is that this system, i've got two suggestions. one i think you all should maybe have a third party come on and have been kind of do this because what's going on basically is you've got these people with these jerseys on. and you've got one side says something and the other side,

all theyhave to do is go against it .they never have to offer any kind of solutions so when it's like that, it does go. [bleep] for tat. you did this so i'm going to do that against you. there's never anybody there to offer any kind of real solution or resolve to anything. that's why nothing gets done. and then you have in the backside or the back corner of this you have the money people who are pushing both sides to make it like the guys, the people that called it. you have people call in and say i'm not racist and i'm not this and you have other people call inand saying these people are racist . i don't believe that the majority of america is racist but it is racist stuff that goes on. i'm a tblack person. i've experienced it my whole life. it's like people say there's no one racist but i grew up and i'm not that old. i'm only 45 years old but when i was going to school people was walking by in their big trucks with their

flags on sitting at me when i'm walking to school as a kid. don't tell me that it's not racist stuff going on in this country at the same time i drive trucks. i was stuck in nevada for christmas and i got literally walked in and saw me and said come to the house and have crabs with us so it's not like this everywhere but the thing ispeople need to take these jerseys off . just because you like things that conservatives do conservatives are all right. vote for the people, quit voting for the jersey. >> john, i heard your point. we're getting the top news story of the week. many of tyou noticing the voting rights debate but there's also the supreme court vaccine mandate ruling. tensions with us russia, january 6 election committee and their reach to

representative kevin mccarthy wanting to talk to him and him not saying he will not cooperate with. those are some of the e headlines in the newspapers today. what is your top news story of the week? stephen dennings has been covering washington for many years writing distinctly and to biden's headwinds, mention says bbb to rewrite. again, potus sinks the ocean backs rules world will not helplarge employers . omicron cases store. at seven percent inflation, and it goes on. phoebe dennis covering washington. on the supreme court ruling, they rejected the workplace mandate rule which was issued november 4by the occupational safety and health administration . it requires workers and

businesses with at least 100 employees to be vaccinated or tested weekly and impacts more than 80 million workers nationwide. the healthcare worker vaccine rule which supreme court kept in place was issued november 4 by the centers for medicare and medicaid services and it applies to more than 17 million care workers . president biden reacted by to the ruling by the supreme court in a statement. i am disappointed that the supreme court has chosen to block commonsense life-saving requirements for employees at large businesses that were grounded clearly in both science and the law. the emergency standard allowed employers with prior vaccination or to workers to refuse to be vaccinated so long as they were testing once a week andwore a mask at work . very modest burden. the court has ruled my administration cannot use the an authority granted by congress to require this measure but that should not stop me from using my voice.

as president to advocate for employers to do the right thing to protect americans health and economy. sophia and the bronx, republican. what's your top story of the week ? >> caller: good morning greta . my biggest one was january 7 221, at 2:30 4 am, i bend down and kissed the ground. that was his last tweet. our past president. he makes me cry. from the day one and that was the one that made me call in. the second one is the propaganda machine fox and one american news and the other one, they try making people the same way but chris

wallace left after 18 years with was a good journalist, a good reporter. shepard smith, he got fired. now they are so miserable. we're going to be fine. whoever's going to run but i know mister trump, he is not going to run. he's finished. he is broken brain. he is done so let's have peace and we will. our prayer is coming, thank you greta. >> on january 6 attack here's the new york times. leader charged with can sit assistance see in the january 6 investigation. the fbi has arrested your roads, leader and founder of the far right both keepers militia and charged 10 others with seditious conspiracy

over what prosecutors said was there a wide-ranging plot to storm the capital on january 6 and disrupt the certification of vitamins victory. it was a major development in the sprawling investigation of the capital attack. he and the other both keepers are charged with sedition among the more than 700 people accused of taking part in the assault. npr noted this morning that seditious conspiracy carries a sentence of 20 years. danin michigan, independent, good morning . >> this is dave, good morning greta. on the voting system that we have today. i believe everybody's with our society today, when it comes to voting whether the right or left side we get so many at the last minute decisions that we've got to choose over each one.

well, a third-party system would work well. i think if we had if you only vote for one, a third-party system and i would trade the electoral college as it goes like this. you have a ri boat and a di vote. you can only vote once and onlyvote for each other. that'sa third-party system and i think it would bring everybody together . that way everybody , most states like electoral college they would be able to see what's working the best for that particular state. then you will have your say thank you greta . >> hi joanna. converse indiana. >> i think they missed appointments again. not just the democrats, republicansbut everybody .

it is about voting count, not that you cannot vote, it's how they're going to count the votes. they changed that and that's what they want to get past. they can't get that past, okay? if we can't get the count to be equal like it was the last time, i'm sure the population will rule out any and all, whatever we want as americans . we don't have to come together in a third-party. we just have to vote and make sure the vote is counted right. now, this happened once before and it's when they tried to pass a bill that would take the gun that

shoots 30 rounds in a second out of the hands of the public and put it back where it belongs with the army. now all they can tell you is they're coming after your guns. that was not the bill but yet they keep pushing these buttons of people to get them to be against whatever they don't want to before. and i'm tired of not hearing the other side. we should be out there speaking about it and trying to get the people to understand what we are actually voting on, not what the talking points or the button pushers can do. >> host: all right joanna. mike, republican, your next. >> i would like to say i'm a lifelong republican.

i think in the category i guess of being a white male but what i have seen go on with the oath keepers, with the storming of the capital. i think it's ridiculous and i think there's a silent majority, i hope majority out there of republicans who see this as an cost on our system. a system that allows it to be what it is . and unfortunately, trump does bring some good things to us as far as some of the policies, but he is more about himself than he is about the party. and i would appeal to moderate republicans to speak up as this comes down because i fear it's going to tear the republican party apart.

>> and mike on january 6 committee in the house wants to talk to minority leader kevin mccarthy about his communication with the former president on january 6. from the washington post editorial team they subpoena him and this is what they write. mister mccarthy likely has direct knowledge of president trumps state of mind on or around january 6 as well as details from close to overturn the election results. the minority leader spoke with mister trump during the rights and reports just ignore mister mccarthy's pleas for. here's a quote. i guess these people are more upset about the election then you are you reportedly said to kevin mccarthy. it is doubtful mister mccarthy's testimony would be flattering to mister trump which might jeopardize the money minority leader's chances of becoming speaker

republicans regain their house majority of the name mister mccarthy is more than justified. these minority leaders is important witness it would be a poor investigation if the committee failed to compel his testimony. quote, he's clearly trying to cover up what happened liz cheney said wednesday. he has an obligation to come forward. >> he's going to break give a brief update to all of you at the top on all the important work that fema is doing to help us fight the pandemic. she will take a fewquestions and we will proceed with the briefing from there.we will try to get around to as many people as possible . good afternoon everybody for good morning. yesterday secretary austin and i were able to brief the president on the tremendous work beingdone to support our hospitals . at ima we been part of this