clyburn is not.thank you. >> thank you that means a lot. >> maxine smith was my friend and her picture is on my wall outside. and she was a wonderful woman and treasured for many, many years. thank you for remembering her. our next witness is doctor dejuan doctor reese is associate director of the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture. she rings more than 30 years of knowledge and experience in the field more than ten years in the national museum of african-american history. the inaugural permanent exhibition which you see the secretary's research curators resume freedom sounds served as executive committee chair the institutional group of the smithsonian wrote the initiative in 2019. gets a phd from nyu, masterson university of michigan undergraduate degree. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. chairman nadler, ranking member jordan, chairman cohen, ranking member johnson and members of the committee. twenty thank you today for giving me the opportunity to

clyburn? i think you have a wonderful opportunity to remind people that the proposals so it is a hymn, not as an anthem. >> absolutely. >> to beat that little drama in public. we never separated ourselves. >> absolutely. thank you. >> used that as a teaching point. i'm an old teacher. unit is that as a learning moment. >> thank you to all the witnesses and members of the committee who participated today. that will conclude our hearing and the witnesses, you might have some questions in writing which people can do up to i think we have five days to submit questions and there may be some send to you with a request that you answer them in five legislative days. with that, the hearing is adjourned. >> thank you. chuck schumer spoke on the senate floor calling the republican national committee statement the january 6 attack was legitimate political discourse as plainly dangerous. the new york senator also said it puts us on the road where our democracy is at risk. of the minority leader also spoke

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clyburn has been discussing the merit of childs as a nominee.nce the conversation and since the news came out, both senators said favorable things about childs. senator graham said he couldn't think of a better person to be considered to serve on the supreme court. you know well that bipartisanship is rare, and it is incredibly rare for republicans to say something positive about anything president biden puts forward personnel wise or policy wise. so this suggests that someone like childs could have bipartisan support and maybe even get more than 50 votes needed to be confirmed. >> certainly bipartisanship rare indeed, despite the president's hopes. the gop has largely said no. one more here, give us a 30,000 foot take about the politics around the pick. we know that biden's poll numbers aren't great right now. he's had some setbacks with the virus and inflation and so on, although some encouraging trends with both in recent weeks. tell us how the white house and democrats at large are viewing the supreme court pick as a chance to build some mom

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clyburn thanks we should make it a little longer pretty okay 30 minutes?>> there will still be votes left but i think you have got time for about 12 minutes of questions. if you would like to take it now actually get the vote. >> thank you. that might be tight but will go ahead and start. >> it when it don't keep the witnesses here too long. >> would normally recognize myself i will yield to other people for my time. and i recognize mr. nadler. >> thank you, mr. chairman. can you discuss how connectivity not just for african-americans? >> absolutely, thank you very much for your question. i think the issue of community is born in the history of the lyrics of the hymn and what it means. and it match so nicely on here. it's wonderful to have it clarify it was called a hymn from the beginning. to get this correct is so many times they called in anthem i really appreciate what the house resolution is doing to say that it is a hymn. i think the hymn makes it do many things which is a song of praise many areas around the world and religious setting. is something

clyburn has a lot of power and believes she's the right person for the job.hilds is the most moderate, the most centrist of the folks on the short list right now. she has a history of ruling against criminal defendants, of reeling against civil liberlibe, of ruling for management against labor. i think lindsey graham looks at that record and says, okay, this is someone i can work with and maybe someone who will go -- to the conservative time from time to time. he's setting this up quite nicely for himself. if biden nominating jackson or krueger or someone else, lindsey has the option of saying i already proved that i was willing to be bipartisan. i said i'd vote for michelle childs, but unfortunately the white house did not heed my call. so i think there's some savvy politicking going on here, but i don't think it's working on joe biden. it appears that the white house has gotten clyburn to back off a bit and admit that this is not an ultimatum, that he would be happy with other candidates. and i don't think that biden is going to pick childs simply because l

i think jim clyburn is important here. i don't think lindsey graham is important.partisanship. i think that judge childs is not the only one who could get bipartisan support. first of all, judge jackson has been before the senate judiciary committee three times already from when she was on the sentencing commission. when she was on the district court and on the d.c. circuit. she has been embraced by democrats on the senate judiciary committee and some of the republicans on the judiciary committee. >> including lindsey graham. >> exactly. and leona kruger has a record that is more moderate that might draw bynum support, too. i think what lisa murkowski says has a little more breadth than what lindsey graham says. he went to her, he presented her to the senate. >> the big issue for not just for clyburn, but perhaps for some other republicans like graham and scott is judge childs' background. she is not from an ivy league school, like many of the justices who currently sit on the supreme court are. that is all good and well. you also have the back tropical of a lot of

whip clyburn, what is your reaction to senator graham?e jackson the confirmation to the d.c. court of appeals and now saying her nomination means the president has been captured by the far left? >> well, i don't know anything about the far left. i'm often put to the far left by a lot of my colleagues. then i pick up some source and it says that i am not progressive enough. others say i'm moderate. i don't know what i am, but i know who i am. and i think that this is an outstanding nominee, and i would vote that my friend lindsey graham will come around to support her as he did before. >> uh-huh. all right. switch gears and talk about the state of the union on tuesday. the president goes in to his first state of the union with approval rating at 37%, according to the latest "washington post" poll. where the president's speech be the reset that he needs? >> you know, jonathan, i never keep this book far from me. >> hmm. >> this is truman. i keep the book around simply because i believe strongly that president biden, and i have written about

house majority whip jim clyburn of south carolina. we showed you a letter that he and his colleagues wrote to merrick garland, it was to the attorney general. the graphic we showed you didn't quite indicate that. so we apologize for that. >> a week ago we said that the archives from the trump administration were ripped up and taped together. there were a pile of documents that they didn't bother to make hole and since then there was information that trump mishandled. the national archives recently arranged the retrieval of 15 boxes of documents that trump improperly brought with him to mar-a-lago. among them were beautiful love letters, trump's words, not mine, that he received from kim jong-un. also was the hurricane dorian map, you'll remember the famous map that trump dread with a black sharpie over on the left side, true pettiness that deserves a spot in the museum of modern b.s. "the washington post" confirms there were top secret and classified documents in those boxes. while was unclear how many classified documents were among

i think before congressman clyburn started to advocate for judge childs, there was an assumption hereheavy favorite in this process would be judge brown jackson out of washington, but childs is a strong candidate at the moment in part because of clyburn's advocacy on her behalf, but also as you note because of senator graham and the possibility that she could attract potentially some other republican senators for support. remember, biden's nominee is going to need 50 votes, plus one, in the senate, in order to be confirmed to the supreme court, and there are only 50 plus one democrats to play with. so the possibility of having support from a couple of republicans could really be helpful to biden and the white house. >> and those interviews are expected to -- those in-person interviews are expected to come pretty quickly, phil, because he has said he wants to do this nomination before the end of the month. he's got the state of the union on march 1st. >> that's right. >> i'm sure he'd be very happy to have a big announcement before that that he could talk about in that big speech. >> t

>> brennan: congressman clyburn joins you now. good morning, congressman. >> thank you. good morning. >> brennan: how important is it for president biden to have this vote for this choice to be bipartisan. >> this is beyond politics. this is about the country's pursuit of a more perfect union, and this is demmontrative. let's have a debate. let's talk to her about her rulings and her philosophy. but in the final analysis, let's have a strong bipartisan support to demonstrate that both parties are still in pursuit of perfection. >> brennan: congressman, you spoke very passionately the last time you were on this program, about your first choice, a south carolina native michelle childs, and you said it was important because she went to state schools. judge jackson went to harvard, an elite institution. does that affect how you see this? is it less powerful because of that? >> it is mor traditiona more tr. there is no question about that. it means we'll continue that tradition. i am one, as you can see, that is not so much for tradition. i want us to break new ground as much

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we'll talk about president biden's historic supreme court pick with south carolina congress james clyburn is all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪♪ >> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." the reality of a european capital city being bombed by russia as the war in ukraine rages is still hard to fathom. the situation is getting more dire by the hour as the russian military surrounding most of ukraine tightens. but ukrainians are literally fighting in the streets to defend the key cities of kyiv and char kharkiv. in the past 24 hours the u.s. and allies ratcheted up financial pressure on putin with massive sanctions. and in return for those tougher sanctions, putin has put his nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. cbs's david martin is here for more on that, but first we begin with charlie d'agata in kyiv. >> reporter: good morning, margaret. the ukr ukrainian president has accused russia of potentially targeting civilians in another night of airstrikes in the capital. but russian troops have run into fierce resistance as ukrainian forces hold ground and no major city

clyburn, the republican party, the party that is most enthusiastic about keeping alive those processes of upward mobility, which have served an awful lot of people who came to america as bereft as the blacks were after the 13th amendment was passed? >> oh, there's absolutely nothing wrong with black people as individuals ting advantage of any individual remedy that may come from the republican party or the democratic party, for that matter. but it seems to me that it's the democratic party that has come forward with those group remedies, such as the voting rights act. >> i know you stay out of politics as the secretary of the smithsonian. you work with congress, whether it's controlled by republicans or democrats. and throughout your book, you reference, you know, this experience of building the museum relied on support from both republicans and democrats. can you give our viewers any confidence that this kind of bipartisanship that you experienced in the construction of the museum can extend to other debates? >> i think the creation of the museum is the best example of what happens wh

. >> we have congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. he is the man, the majority whip, the man who extracted this promise from candidate joe biden when he was on the campaign trail and ultimately helped him win the election after getting key support from clyburn in the state of south carolina. so, this is an important campaign promise that president biden has delivered on. we will talk to clyburn about the significance of this historic decision and judge ketanji brown jackson is expected to get confirmed. >> you can see the copvir session on all of her interviews on "face the nation" at 8:30 this morning on kpix 5. >>> still to come, an unusual discovery in a shipment of produce from southern california. what custom agents said, they found. >>> a woman who lifted her siblings after hard emotional times are now helping others with their nonprofit. students rising above. coming up next on kpix 5. before calling the new mcplant a mcdonald's burger, we had to make sure of a few things. first, we needed to be sure it looked like one. then we

jim clyburn was pushing for a different pick, judge j.lle childs but learn it will go to judge ketanji brown jackson. that is the president's pick, of course, a bit of a blow to jim clyburn but he will forever have his mark on the process as the person to push the president to announce he will pick a black woman. >> she's been confirmed twice and this will likely be a rockier road. some republicans have already criticized the president's process on this, but do they expect her to be confirmed relatively easier? >> reporter: i think they do. look, the fact she has received the support of three republicans certainly is a positive sign but we know all along that this president, this white house has said that while bipartisanship is something he would like to receive for his pick here, it is not a must do. it is not something he feels he has to have. yes, he wants his choice, he wants ketanji brown jackson to get the support across the aisle but it's not something that they have to have given the current balance in the senate. the president f

. >>> lawmakers jim clyburn and joaquin castro will join us to discuss the next steps for the u.s. response. >>> also this morning, states are quickly moving to drop mask mandates as the nation enters a new phase in the fight against the coronavirus. meanwhile at the supreme court, justices cleared the way for alabama to use its new election map, that voting rights advocates say disenfranchises black voters. nbc's pete williams will join me with more. >>> and happening just outside u.s. borders, we're taking a closer look at the remain in mexico policy, back in effect, despite president biden's opposition to the policy. >>> and we begin with the latest developments in the escalating tensions between russia and ukraine. a western intelligence official told nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, the russian military buildup is not slowing down and that it appears less likely to be a negotiating tactic. the official also said russia should have the forces it needs for a complete takeover of ukraine in the next two to three weeks, if it chooses to go down that path. but t

it's been interesting that one of the candidates michelle childs being pushed by majority whip clyburn mean, i will call it opposition research. look at some of these headlines from the last several weeks about accusing her of being anti-labor, talking about a sentence of 12 years for someone selling weed. there is some discontent in the democratic ranks and whip clyburn tells the "washington post" i always said it would be a plus if biden were to pick michelle childs but it's not a must. i don't believe in ultimatums. i may be disappointed for the rest of my life, but i'm not going to give an ultimatum. so is this the end, maybe, for michelle childs? what does it signal? >> right now the white house is saying that they're open to all potential choices and michelle childs is one of them, she may not be the front runner but something they are considering. she is a very contentious choice among democrats who who believe she might be weaker on more of the progressive issues. she is the one that could possibly break that consensus issue, she not only has the backing of someone like jim cly

james clyburn, we have heard from, the house whip, biden ally. a president who seems to want to come up with ways to be bipartisan? >> absolutely. you think about the relationship between james clyburn and joe biden, don't forget, joe biden was essentially counted out before he went to south carolina and james clyburn mobilized the african american community for joe biden. they have a special relationship not just from the past but from a 2020 election. i think the reason tim scott and lindsey graham is attracted to this nominee is because she goes beyond african american diversity on the bench. besides being highly qualified she went to public school, which thus far we have very few supreme court justices in the modern today with that on their resume. she represents the south, which is missing. when we have things such as diversity and there's an importance as to where it is from and how it dictates your mindset. i think joe biden is thinking about he needs votes, especially with senators manchin and sinema, you know, reveling in their 15 minute

george has to recalibrate his ratings but clyburn is now number two.hat's only because the roosevelt had 2 presidents and they got a lot of numbers . >> where are the items? >> there about four or five of the peter out in the last century or two but clyburn's starting 1797 almost every generation there's been somebody in public office so she had this great sense of history but she had grown up with her mother and she even said it. my mother remindsme of dolly madison . she said because she saw these women like lady bird johnson, betty ford. pauline gore who were these important influential figures in washington but behind the scenes so that gave cokie a sense of what women had always played before this and there's a great story when she decided after house staff, she never asked for this but the opportunity to go from backstage to center stage as a member of congress she decides to run and calls her lifelong friend, maybe her closest friend lady bird johnson to say i want you to know i'm running for house seat and i want you to know from me before you

clyburn: i thank the gentleman. i know that the speaker is in consultations with the attending physician on what the protocol for this year might be. in the weeks ahead, as we approach the date, the attending physician will make recommendations based on the current state of the pandemic. all of us are very pleased with what we are hearing about the pandemic. that it is moving in a very favorable direction and i'm sure the attending physician will take all of that into account when he establishes the protocol for the state of the union address. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman. hopefully as we talk about the broader issues relating to opening things back up, hopefully we can get the house fully operating again, ending proxy voting, getting committees to meet in person again because across the country you are seeing more states open, more communities open, businesses open. and if you just look this past weekend you had red states, blue states, california you had the n.f.c. championship game, 73,000 people were in so

clyburn: oh, i got a lot of time. i'm going to yield some time to sheila jackson lee who wanted to participate in this hour and i assure you, mr. speaker, 23 minutes may not be enough for sheila, but that's all we got left, sheila. i'm pleased to yield to you. ms. jackson lee: i'm delighted, mr. whip. you are a resident historian. i'm trying to get my poster boards here. hopefully -- mr. clyburn: your posters there? ms. jackson lee: yes. hopefully they're coming. let me not lose the time and step over here. first of all, let me acknowledge just a stunning and very pick of toll and important black history message that our whip has given, but really he's our historian. and i certainly want to pay tribute and give credence to the great work that he has established here for us. and i want to build on -- it was so powerful to be able to reorder the critical race theory to critical race fact. i just want to reinforce that, everyone knows and it has been for decades that critical race theory is an aspect of graduate teaching

congressman james clyburn of south carolina. good evening. that voter on the board of directors for the league of women voters. she knows the rules. it still took 28 days and three tries to get a ballot. we're seeing these issues from the texas law and it is only one of the 19 states ha passed laws to restrict voting in 2021. how much disruption could the laws cause in the midterm? >> thank you for having me, don. it's going to be chaotic. no question about that. i have been on the phone earlier today as well as some virtual meetings with the all over the country. we're organizing now. to fight this kind of suppression. we know what they're doing in texas is designed to be able to deny voters the right to vote. we know that. what we're going to be doing is putting a back up for the all people to get acceptance. we are going to have a place for them to come to and make sure we do in person voting for all those who get rejected. you shouldn't have to go through this. this is a democracy. dependent upon the free and right to vote. anybody that i

jim clyburn obviously loved her, too. he wanted that pick. but i expect they will get the 53. think that's what she'll get before. always dangerous to make predictions but i'm putting it out there. >> we have much more ahead on our world lead. the white house just announcing plans to sanction vladimir putin himself. how might that affect the war in ukraine? plus, the cdc just announced a change to masking guididance. g our bottles to be 100% recyclable, inclcluding the cap they're e collected and separated from other plastics, so they can be turned back into material that we use to make new bottles. that completes the circle and reduces plastic waste. please help us get every bottle back. as a professional bull-rider i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 665 dollars. hey tex, can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record. yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty,

while he doesn't have a vote, south carolina congressman jim clyburn has a voice.e's using it to pressure the senate to give supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson a chance. he wanted biden to nominate south carolina judge michelle childs as did south carolina senator lindsey graham. he calls the pick of jackson a gift to the far left. which is absurd. especially considering he voted to confirm her last june to the appeals court. clyburn now working to change graham's mind. >> i don't know anything about the far left. i'm often put through the far left by a lot of colleagues. i pick up some source and it says i'm not progressive enough. others say i'm moderate. i don't know what i am. i know who i am. and i think that this is an out standing nominee. and i would hope that my friend, lindsey graham will come around to support her. as he did before. >> joining me now. chancellor professor of law at the university of california irvine. and host of on the issues with michelle good win. former u.s. attorney and university of alabama law professor. joyce. you have c

i think one of the messages he is sending is, you owe a whole lot to jim clyburn, president biden.e you have two republican senators, and probably two republican votes for michelle childs. if she is your nominee. judge in south carolina. so the native daughter argument is being made in a very strong way. that said, the president does not need republican votes to confirm his nominee. and i suspect we will certainly look at judge childs. but he will also look at judge brown jackson. and others who are named as candidates. and who are seeming to be very good candidates as well. as michelle childs is a good candidate. so whether it is contingent or not, i think he is more hinting that, than saying that. >> there are several republicans though bill, who have voiced objections to biden 's commitment to nominate a black woman. ted cruz called it offensive and insulting. one of those network contributors, our friend michael steele, had a pretty powerful response to those objections today, take a listen. >> you've got in front of you, a group of women, who have survived a whole lot of crap

take a listen to congressman clyburn. >> i thought he had chosen well.personally involved with another candidate, from my home state, but i can, i think he does well with judge brown jackson. she is an outstanding judge and i think will make an outstanding jurist. >> we know that president biden wants to get bipartisan support for his supreme court pick. it's an historical pick. the first black woman who would serve potentially on the supreme court. senator chuck schumer, the majority leader, said that he also is hopeful that there will be bipartisan support for judge jackson. as for judge jackson, her next steps are going to be, we're told, meeting with some senators next week on the hill, including in person. >> thanks so much. >>> up next, we will go live to poland, where thousands of ukraine wran refugees are arriving. after fleeing for safety from the russian invasion. ving after fleeing for safety from the russian invasion (naj) at fisher investment s, our clients know we have their bacst. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? (na

there was a pretty overt campaign, i would say, by jim clyburn to do that.of that? it seemed like there was a lindsey graham clyburn attempt to push her that i don't know, what do you make of it? >> i mean, we're democrats, right? democrats don't know how to do this any other way than having internal strife and battles. i try not to pay too much attention to the internal divisions. one of the things i'll say and i wrote about this from the nation is that while i do think that in general the supreme court and courts in general are not diverse enough in terms of professional backgrounds, in terms of educational backgrounds, i think that's a really strong point and a strong point in childs' favor in fact. however, for this appointment, i would not denigrate the women who did go to the elites ivy league school for this position than no other reason than going to elite ivy league school is a way as minority and black woman you protech yourself from the baseless attacks that we know conservatives will make about their intelligence andbrown-jac better on a test tha

member the words of democrat james clyburn about climate? never let a crisis go to waste. was used for fan -- to fast-track mandates of no other time in history. they even changed our election laws and used it to test us to see how much liberty americans were willing to give up. frankly, i think even the left was surprised by just how much liberty we were willing to surrender. they will never stop trying to steamroll conservatives, folks like you and me. today, we face a new kind of people. the battle for freedoms in that when he first century is as much spiritual warfare as it is political. do you believe that? absolutely. when democratic members of congress literally vote against saving the life of the baby that somehow survives a botched abortion, my friends, that is people. when joe biden and kamala harris the green light to illegals when they know their children will be trafficked and assaulted by drug cartels, my friends, that is people. in america, we have turned our backs on the bible and the constitution, and we have lost our moral compass. but today, don't lose h

we also heard jim clyburn supporting her as well.in the past. despite the partisanship we see in washington today, is there really any concern that there may be some pushback from republicans here? i believe we lost, there we go. we couldn't hear you. >> i was going to say, there will be pushback from republicans on the right, especially those, many republicans in the senate who were looking at potential 2024 presidential campaign. but the best indication of whether somebody can get bipartisan support is whether they've had it in the recent past. just a few months ago, as manu indicated, she got affirmative votes from lisa murkowski and lindsey graham. i'd be surprised if lindsey grahams turns around. supporting someone from his home state but a large african-american constituency in south carolina, a source of pressure for him. ketanji brown jackson also got the supreme court from every senate democrat. she's on a very smooth track at least as it appears at this moment toward getting confirmed, something that white house considered

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clyburn? think you have a wonderful opportunity to remind people that the proposals so it is a hymn, not as an anthem. >> absolutely. >> to beat that little drama in public. we never separated ourselves. >> absolutely. thank you. >> used that as a teaching point. i'm an old teacher. unit is that as a learning moment. >> thank you to all the witnesses and members of the committee who participated today. that will conclude our hearing and the witnesses, you might have some questions in writing which people can do up to i think we have five days to submit questions and there may be some send to you with a request that you answer them in five legislative days.

if any of you all know jim clyburn, you know that he loves telling the story of hearing eliza briggs and little little claritan county, south carolina. you know without hearing analyze a briggs filing a lawsuit in 1949. there would be no brown versus the board of education of topeka, kansas. it was the first case filed in that landmark collection of cases. and so i just want you to as we as we're in this very weird convergence of historical events at this time. just sit back and think how far we've come and you'll get a really conflicting answer, but you'll get one that i think will motivate you to do what john lewis said, which is to continue to step one to the pages of history. you'll realize that when you ask yourself that question you realize that we've made progress anybody who tells you we haven't made progress in this country is just lying to you no matter how dark it gets. you understand that we've made a great deal of progress in this country. but the challenge for us is understanding that we still have yet a ways to go. and for the young people the students those who are th

house majority whip james clyburn of south carolina testified on the bill to designate the song is a national hymn. the committee on the constitution also heard from scholars and academics who talked about the song's importance and historical significance. at the hearing is about one hour and 50 minutes. >> without objection the chair is authorized to recess at any time. the hearing on examining the significance of every voice. one that increasingly has that a central place in american culture and begin the commemoration of black history month and the continuing cultural importance and the origins of the context struggles against the racism and equality and was later forced by jim crow laws and the social norms as well as the human nature. and the bill that designates this particular song or hymn every voice is a national hymn. it wouldn't replace the star-spangled banner the national anthem for a repertoire of songs. today we find ourselves going through the latest round of the national debate about what it needs to be. new counsel as a part of the story. this debate overlays what t

we've seen jim clyburn making a big push for j. michelle childs. lindsey graham even backs her.o much into that. i wouldn't read too much into whether the president feels he needs republicans on board. he doesn't. i'm sure they would love bipartisan support, but the president is going to be picking a supreme court nominee whatever it takes. bipartisanship would be nice, but is not a must >> the new week had a stroke. there's a very thin majority there. >> math is math. the 50/50 split we've seen when it comes to president biden's economic agenda and his inability to pass the build back better, you anonymity is almost impossible to get on anything. to agree on a restaurant, not to mention a trillion dollar measurement. when it comes to the supreme court, i thought it was interesting that you saw clyburn a key ally of president biden saying that we need republican votes. i can do math too. i think you might see that happening here. lindsey graham has voted not just for judge childs in the past, but for supreme court nominees of the other party. he's long been of the position -- re

congresswoman ayanna pressley, jim clyburn, and congressman jones sent a letter to attorney general merrick garland, asking the doj to aggressively increase its efforts to protect voting rights, particularly for voters of color. earlier today, congressman clyburn told msnbc why they're increasing the pressure. >> we think that congressmen do a lot of things, but we have to defend upon the justice department to enforce the law. we think the attorney general needs to step in and let it be known that if the justice department is not going to be quiet when this is going on, you can't wait until the elections are over, and then litigate the cases. when you look around, you have people in office and they're there, i guess the president of the united states. >> let's go back to the breaking news and bring in nbc white house correspondent mike memoli and aaron mclaughlin. ukraine in the capitol city of kyiv, welcome to you both, mike, we're going to begin with you. what are you learning about president biden's conversation with president putin that wrapped up 45 minutes ago. have you gotten a reado

she has the support of congressman jim clyburn and senator lindsey graham. >>> well we shalls are pouring if for queen elizabeth, who has now tested positive for covid. the 95-year-old is in isolation but is planning to do some light work while she recovers. the queen has been dealing with health concerns recently including a stay in the hospital last fall, and he's using a cane, recently telling her guests she can't move. >> i think there is concern for the queen primarily because of her age, but also because i think this announcement comes after a spate of several months where she has been unable to carry out her duties as she would have liked because of various different forms of ill health. back in october, she was forced to cancel several engagements when doctors advised her to rest a sprained ck eer recently walking using a stick to stand and walk. >> the palace says the queen is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms. she's believed to be vaccinated and boosted. >>> new york is delaying a covid vaccine booster mandate for health care workers. it was supposed to take effect today, but