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from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." developing this hour, the white house is working to get its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through congress as it now heads to the senate this week. senators on both sides of the aisle are giving insight into how they plan to approach it as we watch to see if it can pass. >> we need to get the massive covid bill passed, and we know that we're going to have to do it without any republican support. >> there's an easy answer to this which is let's make it bipartisan. covid relief has never been a partisan issue. it just doesn't make any sense. a number of things in here that have nothing to do with covid relief. it's not targeted. >> meanwhile, in just over two hours donald trump will make his first appearance since leaving the white house when he gives a speech at cpac. that statue creeps me out all the time. according to experts trump plans to declare the republican party is united and attacking joe biden calling his first month in

office disastrous but as the conservative conference puts a spotlight on trump some republicans say it will take a different approach to win elections. >> we've got to win in two years. we've got to win in four years. if we do that, we'll do that by speaking to those issues that are important to the american people, and there's a lot of issues important to them right now, not by putting one person on a pedestal and making that one person our focal point. >> and as he faces scrutiny over undercounting nursing home deaths, another allegation of sexual harassment is now being leveled against new york governor andrew cuomo. the "new york times" reporting the most recent account from a former aide. this is the second claim the governor is facing this week. governor cuomo is denying the allegations, and his office says it's asking the state attorney general and chief judge to appoint an independent investigator to examine the allegations ant the white house weighing in a bit earlier today. >> first, president biden has been consistent that he believes that every woman should be heard, should be treated with

respect and dignity. charlotte should be treated with respect and dignity and so should lindsay and there should an independent review looking into these allegations, and that's certainly something he supports and believe should move forward as quickly as possible. >> with more on the hours etop stories a trio of correspondents with a welcome towel. first let's get to ally vitali. apparently you have more of what trump will say in just a few hours. what do you know? >> that's exactly right. we need to caveat this with a grain of salt that i've seen a lot of speeches written tore trump over the years that don't get delivered the way they are written and that's because when the president gets in front of a friendly crowd like the one he'll in front of here, he tends to veer off script and start airing other grievances. what i'm told though this speechd is planned as a future and forward-looking look at

trump's role in the party. i can walk you through some of the excerpts i was just given and some include trump will stand before cpac today to declare the incredible journey we began together four years ago is far from over, sort of coming short of declaring his real intentions for 2024 but definitely continuing to stoke those rumors that he'll be back on the ballot four years from now, three years from now rather. another excerpt says we're gathered this afternoon to talk about the future of our movement, the future of our party, the future of our beloved country. our party there really stands out to me. there had been some talk about would trump leave the republican party and start his own. i've seen polls and frankly have some republicans in washington that say a good portion of trump's base would follow him to whatever party he found himself in. when you see him use words like our in the speech indicates that he's probably staying with this republican party which if you look at cpac he's real made this conservative movement in his

image. just moments before you came to me, alex, that golden trump statue that you showed at the beginning of your show was actually rolling down the street here behind me at cpac. i will say though, trump is going to be explicit here when he says that he believes this is a republican party united. you showed some of the sunday shows. it's very clear that that's just not the case. listen. >> in terms of what is our vision for the future, certainly not united? i think we're a party that's been for too long peddling in fear, and i think what you're going to hear from the president at cpac today is self-congratulations, no ability to recognize the fact that we've lost the house, the senate and the presidency because of donald trump and you're going to see a lot of fear. >> and you know what else you're going to hear from the former president today is not just taking on democrats like president biden which he's definite licks pected to do but also taking on republicans who have not marched in lockstep with him while he -- in his

ending days in office but also before he left, after he left office. take, for example, congresswoman liz cheney, the number three house republican. we know that she's been vocal about the fact that she thinks the party should begin steering away from trump. folks like senator bill cassidy on the sunday shows this morning also voted to impeach the president, to convict the president. he's someone who could easily come up here. this is going to be an airing the grievances that is frankly bipartisan from trump's perspective because as has long been the case in trump world, you're either with him or you're against him. party be damned. >> can i just say i'm read something from the politico playbook saying former president trump's advisers have been agonizing for days over a puzzle one could not solve for five years, how to get him to stay on script in front of rowdy supporters cheering on. here's three points. please don't talk about your belief that the election was stolen. please don't gripe about how he thinks he was utterly blamed and

wrongly blamed for january 6th. please don't dwell on your beefs with mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy. >> yeah. >> those are things you get to listen for and let us know. alli vitali. thanks so much. >> partisan? >> reporter: yeah. well, and they weren't able to pick up any republican support which is something they said they would do from the very outset of this. white house officials have tried to change a bit the definition of bipartisan, us in washington have considered something to be bipartisan if it has republican and democratic members of congress on board. now they are saying that because this has widespread public support that makes it bipartisan. here's what press secretary jen

psaki has said this morning. >> the president has been open to hearing ideas to make this work better. we need to help people bridge through this period of time, get them direct checks, reopen schools and get more vaccines in the arms of americans. we've not seen a substantive big proposal in response back from republicans. this is the scope of the problem and the scope of the kind of package that needs -- we need to pass to address that. >> now she also pointed out a number of republicans who have been brought to meet at the white house. we know that there was a meeting of republican senators early on in this process where they then put in a counterproposal for a covid relief package way lower than what the white house was looking for. when we talked to white house officials after that meeting it really seemed that they felt republicans weren't seriously willing to negotiate with them and that they realize they could go through this reconciliation process and get this done without republican support, that they didn't need to negotiate

themselves down on this one because they could do it with just democratic support. going forward they are not necessarily going to have to do that. they will have to get republicans on board if they want to get this infrastructure plan through which is the next on the president's docket, potentially immigration, maybe a $15 minimum wage. they are going to have to bridge this gap more with republicans but to alli's point a moment ago they will be negotiating with a republican party that doesn't have a real clear identity, doesn't have clarity in what issues they stand for and so far hasn't been able to real crystallize around what their opposition is to this current bill. >> okay. thank you very much. comprehensive report there as always from you, shannon. appreciate that. let's go to shannon to von hilliard. fbi director fistier wray will testify on tuesday about the capitol attack on january 6. what do we expect to hear? >> reporter: this is a big hearing for the fbi director on tuesday in front of senate

judiciary committee because dick durbin, the chairman, his outline to the letter christopher wray that he wants a better understanding of the resources that have been made available to law enforcement inside of the justice department to better investigate and have a true understanding of the threats that white supremacists in these militia groups that attacked the capitol just two months ago have, and that is why on tuesday i think you'll be looking for christopher wray to address additional questions that also relate to the fact that the night before that insurrection on january 6th it was one of the fbi's field offices that put out a nationwide bulletin, yet at the same time the chiefs of thed th hill that they never saw the alerts, that the hey letters never got to them fanned there was such serious intelligence concerns why was there not a phone call from the fbi director, someone within the captain themselves. i want to let you hear from

congresswoman who you actually just talked to earlier this afternoon about an additional threat that just this week the capitol police acting chief told lawmakers, a few lawmakers on capitol hill, about concerns about, quote, in her words, individuals who were involved on january 6th to quote want to blow up the capitol and kill as many members as possible yet at the same time that message hasn't made it to every member of congress. take a listen. >> we have not been briefed on the next threat. members of congress like myself continue to read these threats online and there's been absolutely no briefings on what to expect either next thursday or, you know, the next threat after that. >> congresswoman norma torres's concerns speak to the fact there have been more than 300 individuals charged by the

department of justice at this time in the january 6th attack. at the same time there's a great many individuals who have not been identified, including one man who the fbi says they have video of but they have not been able to identify him by name but they believe that he was potentially complicit in the death of u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick. again, there's still much outstanding from that january 6th attack and concerns up on capitol hill about what is to come ahead of this tuesday hearing. >> okay. vaughn hill yard line, thanks so much for that. joining me washington congresswoman jayapal. always glad to see you. welcome back to the show. let me ask you about your thoughts on trump's expected speech at cpac today. you've heard some of the excerpts obtained by nbc news, that he'll attack president

biden quote saying none of us imagined how pad they would be and how far left they have gone and joe biden has had the worst first month of any president in modern history. want to respond to any of that. >> look, alex, first of all, it's great to see you. he hasn't learned a darn thing, and this is what we knew all along. he had no remorse around his role in inciting the insurrection. he has no ability to think about what it really takes to unify the country, and i know that he is going to continue to use all the political divisiveness that he's used for the last several years. i think representative kinzing engineer said it perfectly. he'll use fear and attack people, not only his own party but people who voted for the constitution to impeach him and refused to go along with his idea to overturn the election from the republican party so this is what we expect. i'm frankly just so happy that we have president biden.

we don't have to wake up to donald trump every day and this country is moving forward as difficult as this time has been. >> it's as if we're trying to wean ourselves from him. you know what it's interesting that your comments actually sync up with some of president trump's advisers saying meese don't go into certain areas and i found it interesting that the suggestions they are saying is please don't go there, sir, please don't go there. do you think that this is going to be one election grievance after another, and even some element of incitement here for the crowd? >> yes. he can't resist it. those advisers, those same advisers have been saying that to him for the last four years and he never listened, and i don't think he's going to listen today because this is his post-presidency debut, if you will, and i think he's going to use all the same tools that he used for the last four years despite the fact it was really donald trump who lost the election not only for the white house but lost the senate and,

you know, i think that people have to understand that the republican party is making a choice as they refuse to convict him, they refuse to do anything about all of his actions along the way and like i said i think we just have to focus that we have a president biden. ople out there who want to move away from donald trump and want to see their futures improve. >> yeah. i'm going to turn now to the capitol attack. before i get to my question though, you know, we think about the terror, the devastation of our democracy, the death of that day, and i think about you, my friend, because i think about the fact that you were corralled for safety into a room with a bunch of your colleagues, many of whom who were republicans who refused to wear masks and you got covid, and i don't think i've spoken with you since your recovery. how are you doing? >> thank you, alex, yes.

it was a terrible day. destruction of our democracy. i was trapped in the gallery with other members of coming. we've all been dealing with the trauma of that, frankly and then, of course, getting covid the very same day and then my husband getting it from me as well so the two of us both having had it. we're mostly recovered now. i will tell you that i don't think that this is a quick recovery for a lot of people so even if you get through the worst stages of it. it took at least six weeks to get my energy back and i still don't feel like i'm fully where i was pre-january 6th, but blessed because so many other people have died, lost family members and friends and are still suffering. >> yeah. well, i'm sorry you're struggling to any degrees, but you look great so there's that. so as we talk about the capitol attack, the acting capitol police chief is warning that extremists want to blow up the

capitol when president biden addresses congress. how concerned are you about threats like this? do they worry you because you think about january 6th and i think, josh this, could happen again or do you think there will be enough security in place to make sure that it won't be anything like that? and by the way, you might have heard part of my conversation with norma trerks one of your congressional colleagues from california, she says she hasn't been told anything about this yet. >> norma is exactly right. representative torres is exactly right. we've not been told anything. we read about this in the paper when the testimony was happening or heard it, you know, as it was happening so i do think we're all feeling very nervous about whether or not whether any of our systems work so i do think obviously we still have the national guard here and we still have the fence up, and i think that that piece is there but the fact that intelligence doesn't get to capitol police or intelligence doesn't pick up the phone and call capitol police,

the fact that capitol police couldn't -- i mean, they must have been sleeping if they didn't see all the things that we were seeing in the days leading up to january 6th so there are too many unanswered questions. not enough information to members of congress. not enough, you know, details about exactly what happened so that we can fix it for the future, including for the state of the union and other threats. >> well, it's still focused. congress held the hearings last week to get to the bottom of the security failures at the capitol, but let's all take a listen to what republican senator ron johnson said at one of them. >> to me the marchers were elderly, overweight and frail and he describes four different types of people, plain clothes militants, agents provocateurs, fake trump protests and then disciplined uniformed column of attackers. these are the people who probably planned this.

>> so the fake trump protesters there. why do elected officials keep engaging in disinformation campaigns? how does that work against efforts to prevent any sort of repeat of january 6th? >> that was a disgusting display from the senator. the reality is those have all been disproven. they are false, he is continuing to incite in people for them not to understand the gravity of that situation. why is he doing that, alex? he's picking politics or his version of politics over the constitution. he's, you know, flying a trump base that is out there that still believes in some of these conspiracy theories and -- and false information and misinformation out there so it is very difficult to take this on when you have people with a platform like a u.s. senator does and he, you know, talks about those disproven and

misinformation in that -- in his platform on the hearing. it was very troubling to hear. >> all right. let's switch gears to the covid relief bill. there's a grim outlook in the senate as you know for the minimum wage aspect of it. do you think that it could be salvaged and if so how? >> well, alex, i still believe, and first of all i'm so proud of the house for passing this $1.9 trillion covid relief package with a $15 minimum wage in it, with the survival checks at the same levels that we passed in december, and -- and, you know, i think that when it comes to the minimum wage, we have to understand that it is absolutely tied to covid relief, number one. number two, we appreciate the parliamentarian's ruling, but it is just an advisory opinion, and there is precedent in our history for -- for the senate and for the white house to overrule that parliamentarian's

opinion. hubert humphrey did it in 1967 and 1969 and rockefeller did it in 1975 i think it was, and so this is something that because it is about providing essential relief to 27 million of the lowest wage workers, giving a raise to those folks, lifting a million people out of poverty, and when we think about addressing racial equity, alex, you know the president has said and i believe that he's so concerned about racial inequity in this country. remember that 31% of black workers are going to get a raise if we pass this $ 1/5 minimum wage. 26% of latino workers are going to get a raise, and 60% of women are going to get a raise, so i think this is a really critical policy for us, and we're not going to be able to explain to the voters the procedural reasons why we couldn't pass 15 so i believe we should pass it

in the senate. we can say thank you to the parliamentarian and we can still make the decision that we promised to 27 million workers across the country. >> one more question as you mentioned racial equity. 13 of president biden's cabinet nominees are still awaiting confirmation and among them awaiting is "huffington post" who have -- are members of color who have faced higher opposition? >> we need to value these nominees for their experience and expertise and not things they have said. there's a real hypocrisy to some of the thingsration issues against candidates of color. when you look at their record of approving trump nominees who had far less experience and really weren't qualified at all for the job. these nominees are talented, experienced. so happy to see that senator

manchin is going to vote for deb hollande. i'm so excited about her and excited about javier becerra. i think these are important candidates that have tremendous experience and should be evaluated based on their experience. >> okay. well, amen to all that, washington congresswoman jayapal, it's good to see you. no hard feelings or is this a case of grin and bear it? a former top aide to former vice president mike pence talks to me about this headline next. t mikee about isth headline next zon eng, part of the team that built 5g right, the only one from america's most reliable network. we designed our 5g to make the things you do every day better. with 5g nationwide, millions of people can now work, listen, and stream in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities where people can use massive capacity, we have ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. this is the 5g that's built for you. this is 5g built right. only from verizon.

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vaccine now or waiting for another vaccine, i would take whatever vaccine would be available to me as quickly as possible. >> joining me now is olivia troy, director of the republican accountability project, a former top aide to former vice president mike pence and a former white house coronavirus task force member. you're a busy lady. thank you for making time to join me, olivia. >> hey, you know, when you part of the task force, did you think that there would be three vaccines ready and approved now? >> we always hoped that would be significant progress made. i know the scientists wer hones amazing, an amazing and great achievement and so grateful to these dedicated people who have done everything that they can to continue pushing the vaccines because we need all of them. we need every tool in the tool kit available to us during this time to get past this pandemic and get to a better place. >> yeah. i've got say i love the picture of dr. fauci behind you over

your shoulder, it's great. i've got ask. how do you perceive dr. fauci's treatment in the biden administration versus that in the trump administration because it seems on the surface like he is the leading voice of fact and reason these last few weeks? >> it's been amazing to see him empowered. it's so great to see him be able to just speak freely, to talk the science and, you know, he ultimately is the adviser and it's up to the policy-makers to decide what they are going to do with the science he presents and the data and the facts but it's so incredible to -- to have someone in office that's allowing him just to talk to americans and speak freely and talk about what this virus is and how we're doing on it and how things are evolving. i think it's important to have his voice out there telling people what -- don't let your guard down. keep doing what you're doing. we've got a ways to go and so we can't kind of get complacent, but, you know, also be hopeful

because we do have vaccines now and we're getting there. >> yeah. we're getting there. okay. let's switch to cpac. that's where, of course, formerly president trump will be speaking soon, and according to excerpts on taped by nbc news ahead of his remarks trump plans to say the journey started is far from over and will also attack president biden. do you think donald trump has any chance of staying on script? >> donald trump is never capable of staying on script so i'm sure his advisers are having a slight panic attack as the hours approach when he's going to take the stage because that is usually the people behind the scenes worrying what he'll see and how detrimental it will be and what kind of cleanup is required after it. i expect this speech to be one big promulgation of doubling down on the big lie and push the

election fraud narrative and attack biden and his immigration policies. he'll come out swinging. >> yeah. >> he doesn't have twitter anymore. >> exactly. >> he hasn't been able to vent repeatedly. >> yeah. >> so this is his opportunity to get it all off his chest. >> yeah. i'm with you there. i think that's what we should expect here. so far at cpac we've seen several panels furthering trump's claims of election fraud. >> over the last five years virtually everybody is registered to vote and ballots are just flying out everywhere. >> as many of you know there were indices of fraud out in arizona, and yesterday a federal district court judge allowed the state legislature who has supremacy over the maricopa county board of supervisors to access the dominion machines and the ballots. >> but i guarantee you georgia is not blue, and what happened

in this last election was solely because of a horrible secretary of state and horrible decisions th >> so these panels, olivia, come as "the daily beast" is reporting trump prefers to give his endorsements to 2022 candidates in the mid terms who never conceded he lost 2020 elections. how do republicans combat this when so many people in this party keep standing by these lies? >> i think it's up to the voters. i think the way you combat it is you take a stand against it and vote against it and that's what's going to matter the most. that's why i'm actually passionate about the republican accountability project because it's going to matter in these primaries to back more principled candidates and real take a stand against so many of these more extreme voices that are going to be -- that will behave in this way that are fundamentally dangerous to our country. >> you mentioned principled candidates.

cpac puts trump on center stage, right, but it's interesting to note that the republicans who aren't there like liz cheney, mitt romney, nikki haley, is it any coincidence in your mind that these are all people who have spoken out against trump? mean, what does it say about the party that there's no platform for them at cpac? >> well, cpac has always kind of been seen as sort of like the fringe movement of the republican party, right this, kind of conservative forum where you get a lot of people with the pins and the gop elephant regalia but this cpac this weekend has been different. people call it the "star wars" cantina, i don't want to use that because i'm a "star wars" fan myself and i don't want to offend "star wars" fans out there because this weekend i think was different fundamentally because what they are saying on stage are lies and these are lies that are actually dangerous to our democracy.

like this isn't -- this isn't pushing some policy platform of the usual anti-gay or things like that. this is even a more dangerous offense. it's doubling down on creating division and doubling down on our erose garden at the basic fumes-of-fundamentals here of what real matter in this country and so i think you don't see a lot of these more moderate voices there. one, i actually -- i would worry about their well-being if they were in attendance at this convention. >> yeah. >> but because -- because they are not welcome there. this isn't a forum that wants to hear the truth. this is a forum that -- this is no coincidence this is happening at the time you're having a white nationalist convention happening in conjunction with it and some of the speakers are speaking at the other convention as well. >> got to ask you about your former boss because trump is also apparently finding some

sfrpt his former vice president mike pence. he's got "vanity fair" rather saying pence hashors no hard feelings towards donald trump and reportedly plans to launch an organization defending their record together. so since you used to work for pence, i want to ask you do his actions here surprise you at all, and how much is this about shoring up pence's reputation and that donald trump's rep is just along for the ride? >> you know, dwrm shocked to see mike pence continuing to speak so fondly of trump and continuing down this path. i mean, this is someone that tried to have him killed basically, right? and threatened his family while it was happening, but i think in mike pence's calculus he realizes that right now trump is fundamentally representative of what the republican party base is and so he's looking at his

political future thinking he has no room or space to speak out because when you do, that machine turns own and we're watching that happen to people like liz cheney and adam kinsinger and other individuals. new york governor and drew cuomo is under fire facing sexual misconduct allegations from a second aide. more next. second aide more next. and enjoy fresher smelling laundry for up to 12-weeks.

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one to select the raw. he originally suggested that a review be undertaken by a federal judge. joining me now is susan dell percey, republican strategist and nbc political analyst and let me add to your title someone who used to work for governor cuomo. you were gone from the network for the better part of the year, correct? >> right. >> because you were working in tandem with him. him a democrat reaching across the aisle to you as a republican. what -- what's your take on the allegations? i know for a fact you were never approached because you would have said something to me. we are friends. >> we are. >> that's a fact, but when you think about the allegations, how disturbing are they to you? >> well, first let me say when i first heard of them i was shocked. i had never -- not only had i never experienced it, i have never seen -- i had never seen any hint of it, whether it's in gest or something serious so i

was floored, but that being said, they do have -- these allegations do need to be investigated and the fact that at one point the governor thought that he could control the situation and name his own investigator. >> should he not have done that? >> is that not a move that he can make under these circumstances? >> well, i mean, the governor likes to control a situation. it's one of his traits, very controlling. we saw it with the moreland commission, the anti-corruption commission in 2014 where, again, he said my commission. i can create it, i can disband it. this is a place where he has to fully cede control to an independent investigator. it does make sense that it's going to the attorney general. frinkly new york's system is very complicated and the ethics commission which typically would have investigated this kind of situation is actually appointed

by the governor so it was deemed inappropriate, but it is time for the governor to hand over that power and that control to the investigation. let's also not forgot that given his style of governance he has not made a lot of friends over the years. he has forced a lot of relationships and had them be, you know, meaning he's dominated them, but he does not have a lot of friends in the state legislature or otherwise, so it is not like we see a lot of people coming to his support either. >> and, look, he's coming to his support. definitely denying the allegations and to your point they need to be heard properly and this independent review must be conducted but it came as a shock to you. came as a shock to me. i think it came as a shock to a lot of people for any number of reasons. how about him. do you think that he perhaps didn't expect the reaction that came after these allegations despite being so experienced in politics, despite know, you know, the way of the world here?

>> that's a really good question. i think he was probably very surprised burr, again, the governor is someone who grew up in politics. >> right. >> literally at the knee of his father, so he is kind of what we call, you know, like an all time political operator so what was maybe even acceptable in the -- in -- 20 years ago, 10 years ago, this is a different environment, and you need to adapt to it and you have to be very attentive to it and if you can't you're not in position to lead this it. >> what do you think the political fallout is going to be for him? how bad might it get? >> it can get very bad. it's this coupled with the nursing home situation, coupled with defiance of andrew cuomo, no one toss it like him, and i think it's going to be -- i don't want to say the cover-up, because i don't think there will be one but his actions and attitude of digging in hard and

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nominees go forward is -- this is a bit in the weeds but the nominees asked for a cloture vote, an extra hurdle to get through to get senate confirmations. republicans have asked for cloture votes for three nominees, all of them nominees of color and one, miss granholm who is white, but that is a process that slows things down a little bit. that's one of the things they point to, but if you look at who is getting attacked the most. you saw in the veryarly days homeland security secretary mayorkas and then things shifted to neera tanden and deb holland and gupta and clarke and one thing they all have in common is they are nominees of color.

it's not that the white candidates don't have issues in their past and they are not been rising to the level. >> what about republicans, what do they say about the accusations? >> they say, look, this is absurd. there's no sort of unconscious bias going on here. this is just -- these are the nominees who have issues in their background. but, you know, one of the examles that one person pointed to, even on tony blinken, the -- the confirmed secretary of state, i mean, he had business dealings in china. this is an issue that republicans care quite a bit about and it was something that came up in the hearing but it wasn't enough to like invoke a cloture vote because it wasn't really like enough to startle people whereas you have the nominees of color deb holland and vanita gupta and neira and it whoen have said partisan things and that's enough to say, holdon, we've got to look much more closely at these nominees. >> i think even more than just

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you know, he hasn't said where he's going to go, and they have -- they have clashed in the past, so it's -- it's a possibility. you know, it seems like there is -- there's still talks going on for neera's nomination. she is going to be meeting with senator murkowski on monday it's been report and that seems to be the larger hurdle. i do think if, you know, meeting with murkowski does not go well for miss tanden, the nomination -- it's hard to seat white house continuing so it's hard to see it even coming up to a vote, you know, if it's clear if that sort of last chance of a vote is not there. >> yeah. okay. annie li nskey, thanks for keeping an eye on all of this stuff. it's important. >> you've heard about vaccine line-jumpers but what about those getting vaccines to underserved black hand latino

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