libertarian national committee arvin for a former pennsylvania state senator bruce marks thank you all thank you. europe is moving closer to introducing controversial vaccine passports with greece and italy saying the scheme could provide a way out of the current restrictions some other european union member states do not agree however as peter over explained. as the e.u. looks to present a united front when it comes to the fight against covert 191 measure we could well see coming in sooner rather than later of backseat passports as more people are vaccinated the documentation in mutual recognition or vaccination become of up most important though it is premature to envisage the use of vaccines it if it gets for other purposes than health protection and a your approach may facilitate other cross border applications of such that if it gets in the future the idea certainly isn't to everyone's taste but the loss of another summer season would be unthinkable for nations whose tourism industries of already being ravaged by coronavirus so covert passports may be the only way to go greece isn

carrie harrison syndicated radio host harrison's reality check and a vice chair for the libertarian national committee thank you very much. thank you . now here's a quick recap of today's developments congress has now resumed its session confirming joe biden as the winner of the 2020 election that's after the national guard was forced to clear the capital of pro trumpet protesters who had earlier stormed the building police say a female protester died of her injuries after being shot inside the capitol during the riot president elect biden gave an emergency address saying this is not a protest but an insurrection he called on trump to demand an end to the siege and trump himself posted the video online calling on his supporters to go home peacefully but his twitter and facebook accounts have since been suspended for breaking their rules earlier trump had addressed a rally in washington and again said he would refuse to concede defeat in the election also called on his vice president mike pence to reject the election result something the vice president refused to do. now to get wider perspective on wha