a live look at capitol hill, sandra, j.d. vance is going to take a stand on the senate floor. he's pushing a bill that would ban federal mask mandates to the end of next year. bill comes after a growing number of businesses and school districts are requiring americans to mask back up. we'll bring you vance's remarks as soon as that begins. and also an issue during the nomination fight as you have heard already come up. >> sandra: a group of people who do believe the masks work and protect them and they can certainly wear them. you know, this is an issue of mandating the mask and that's what we are likely to hear from him. he's going to make an effort to stop that from happening. we'll see where it goes. hunter biden back on the took as the special counsel says he will be indicted on a gun charge. this as republicans push for access to emails they believe the link, that link joe biden to his son's business dealings. jason chaffetz on that. new reaction to all of it. >> bill: sandra, the wait is over. the nfl returns to the field tonight. detroit lions at kansas city. brian kilm

i bring in ohio senator, j.d. vance. you've been scolded by the transgender disinformation czar senator. do you feel rightfully humbled? >> well, jesse my first reaction when i saw this video was that s & l had gotten funny again. i was sure it was a comedy skit and wasn't in on the joke and i shockingly learned this is a real person who does purport to represent the ukranian military which is almost entirely funded by the american taxpayer. the original video i was responsibilitying to this person this ukranian spokesperson says that anybody who engages in russian propaganda is going to be hunted down literally threat minimum violence against anybody who engages in quote russian propaganda but as you know jesse multiple american journalist have been accused of engaging in propaganda and multiple members of the united states senate. are we really funding a military that is threatening the free speech rights of people who disagree with the ukranian war effort? that is preposterous and gives lie to the idea this is all abo

ohio senator j.d. vance, his latest bill would prevental the federal officials from imposing mandates in schools or on airplanes. senator j.d. vance joins us with more. good to see you, senator. i remember also there wao ses the factor. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated if you getsafe the shot, you will never get covid. you'll be safe you' and never, ever infect another person. lie, lie lie and, lie again. so why would anyone trust these people? i don'pe f. y >> that's exactly right, sean,ac if you think back to the original the origins of the pandemic, these guys used mask mandates and vaccinet half mandates to effectively talk about half the country as second class citizens. they used these mandates to turn one half the country against the other half of the country. othe what all tyrants do.a week step back. just a week ago, donald trump, a video, very sensible video saying no more mandates. we're not going to the covid tyranny of a couple of years ago, democrats howled said in protest and said, nobod

joining me now is ohio senator j.d. vance been demanding this information from the biden administration for months. senator, the omb director sent you a letter saying this fund something critical to ukraine's success on the battlefield. what is their definition of success these days over there, senator? >> precisely the problem, laura. the president refuses to define success and refuses to actually tell us how much money we have to spend and how much time we have to spend to get to this success. >> this is a classic military quagmire. this is what we have been told for generations that we have to avoid a blank check that is unlimited, that sends money out the door without any obvious benefit to our national interest. my very basic question of republicans and democrats alike is, why are we being such a cheap date of the biden administration? if they are asking for another 9 billion. another 24 billion, you know, what's another 335 billion among friends. why don't we at the very least demand to know what that money is going to

ohio senator j.d. vance of his republican colleagues. >> i think it could backfire on republicans if we go further in the evidence. there are very credible pieces of evidence. we ninety know if there were true. there are credible pieces of evidence that suggest the president of the united states used his prior office to enrich himself and his family. if that's true, then certainly he should be impeached and whether it hurts us or not is not the right question. we have to follow the evidence. if we get too far ahead of the evidence the american people with penalize us. >> i agree completely with j.d. vance. this is an impeachment inquiry. unfortunate we have had to go here but the biden family, this administration and his legal team have blocked and obstructed us at every turn. yet we continue to uncover more findings, more evidence of wrongdoing by the biden family. so this is the next step. impeachment inquiry. we aren't talking about having an impeachment vote and not an impeachment vote. this is an inquir

fellow republican senator j.d. vancel together and expected to take the floor soon at any moment about his bill called the freedom to breathe act. critics have hit president biden today for ditching the white house masking rules. earlier this week he took off his mask at an indoor ceremony for a veteran. that was after the white house had said biden would wear a mask indoors because he had had close contact exposure to covid. the president seeming to find it amusing. >> president biden: explain to the press i've been tested again today. i'm clear across the board. but they keep telling me because this has to be ten days or something, i have to keep wearing it. don't tell them i didn't have it on when i walked in. all right? >> harris: he is so hilarious. a new op-ed argues a mask mandate has no scientific justification and nothing more than an unwarranted intrusion on individual liberty. as more school districts consider forcing children to wear masks for seven hours a day, statesmen should act quickly to protect them be

j.d. vances introducing a bill that would ban mask mandates across the country. he told fox, quote: this legislation will ensure that no federal bureaucracy, no commercial airline and no public school can impose the misguided policies of the past. the bill would also restrict federal government spending that would fund implementing any mask mandate. some scientists have advised wearing an n 95 mask properly and securely on individual level can help prevent transmission. recent covid accounts far less detailed than they were at the beginning of the pandemic. centers for disease control one week period in the middle of last month saw nearly 19% increase in covid hospitalizations. scientists say they are also watching a handful of new variants that may be better at evading immunity. new covid booster shots are expected to be available this month, bret. >> bret: first lady was twice vaxxed, twice boosted and i think she has had covid twice. >> i believe so. i believe this is her second bought with c

then, there's ohio senator j.d. vance of covid cases by pushing a bill to ban mask mandates. the so-called freedom to breathe act would prohibit any federal official, including president biden, from issuing mask mandates on domestic flights, on public transit, or in schools. or it would have, if it hadn't been immediately struck down by democrats, but hey, at least vance, like blackburn, signaled he'd endanger his own constituents for the sake of owning the libs. let's bring back my panel, rene, who is your pick, blackburn or vance? here >> here's the thing about republicans. there's always room for any given a number of them at the bottom of the barrel. this is like choosing between what you rather get stung by a horrid hornet or stung by a bee, this is what they, do it is all empty in, this it's all a lack of seriousness. these are absurd, things but i almost have to give it to marshall blackburn. because she took a bill that democrats and republicans, like that the president was on board with, and as you, said she hija

sherrod brown and j.d. vance advanced legislation that is just sitting there especially on the house side. the idea that republican member of the house has time to go down to a committee room and launch an impeachment inquiry over they can't say what it is over, they are hoping if they keep inquiring they will find something and don't have time to move the railway safety act forward tells you how screwed up the priorities are on capitol hill right now. >> bill: for those who need help will there be a public health emergency to help them live healthy lives. >> the president's executive order made sure they got the emergency support. the same e.p.a. that house republicans are threatening to shut down the government, they are holding norfolk suffolk accountable for the mess they made. we are there for fer the first hours of the situation and a lot of support for the people of east palestinian. the people i met on the ground, part of what i hear is that they want to -- they don't want to be defined by this. they also

well, let's talk about what's going on on the hill because you had senator j.d. vance through december of 2024. it did not go well for him on the senate. it went nowhere. he said in advance of that, democrats insist that they have no plans to mandate masking again. but if senate democrats block my legislation, they must be planning to reinstate mask mandates once again. the bill is very simple. prevents government from forcing to you wear mask on trains or public schools for the next 15 months. so, marie, is that what democrats are planning? >> no. and god bless the senator from my home state j.d. vance. his argument there does not hold up. nobody is talking about mask mandates. but, what they are talking about is right now we are in a wave. we have a covid wave in this country. we are not going to force people to wear masks. but i wish this issue had not become so politicized where if somebody said you maybe should wear a mask if you are immunocompromised or your family is. we are in a wave right now. we need to take extra precautions maybe when you are on public tran

when he is pointing out j.d. vancetions that they know are wrong. >> there are pieces about the elites making fools of the people that vote for them. an echo of what president joe biden did when he paid tribute to his friend john mccain. this is romney a few minutes ago. >> a wise wing of the republican party. i don't think we are going away. we wing talks about policy and issues that will make a difference. the trump wing talks about resentment and getting even and settling score and revisiting the to 2020 election. my policy is only going to be successful getting young people if we are talking about the future and that is not happening in that other wing. >> the trump wing of the party is dependant on lies. used to be rooted in a resemblence of the truth and now they are outright fabrications about the biden family, the border, the economy, the election. it is the right diagnosis but not the most blunt description of it. >> well, you know as i listened to that i am reminded of him going through the five stages of gri

some of you have kids in school, idea of masking, this week j.d. vancepass a measure to ban the federal from putting masks back into school and public transit. there are those who oppose it and say masks work and we have to use them. >> it goes back to trust, trust, trust and trust was broken by school board and school policies that refused to go back to school. it caused problems for a year. we are global outlier on school closure and masking. denmark did not mask, france said no one under 11. the cdc in europe says don't mask them in primary school at all. we are the outlier and citizens are demanding, you prove to us this is doing something. it caused damage lasts last time and peepiel are upset about it. >> shannon: there are all kind of other legal issues. one in new jersey, i talked about with governor youngkin, this is about students, schools, policies, parents want to be informed if there is change with regard to gender transition and that type of thing. a judge blocked their efforts and said statistical possibility one transgender student could

that number up nearly 30% from april of 2022 -- senator j.d. vance wrote a letter to jake sullivan asking him to clarify how much money that we sent to ukraine a, noted 31-billion-dollars discrepancy krom because talking about, north of 100 billion dollars, when people see north of a hundred billion dollars to ukraine not a dime to our borders to secure the border they get mad, so that is one of the fights going on right now. will money to ukraine be a factor when running out of money in america? >> it should be, and you know, maria i was a seal team come ander done a lot of operation never without a objective and plan i asked highest levels that are objectives in ukraine what is the plan? until an objective a plan i i don't think taxpayers should pay tailings money where is money going we are absolutely correct asking that it looks like going for pensions, going for other things rather than defense in ukraine, and but, i think we need to ask question the defense bill was takes that money out i think a small amount that was in there before the war, f

senators led by j.d. vance and others saying we want to re-examine this.ek we had admiral kirby from the white house on and we were asking him about the aid to ukraine and the attack -- the administration slow walking it to the point you wonder are you wanting to help them win decisively or lose slowly? >> that's exactly right. i am very frustrated with the slow pace in which aid has been delivered. we've done an enormous amount. no one can say otherwise. but it has always come late and not when needed and we are still holding back on systems like the attack em s. they can't sustain their forces in southern ukraine and crimea they need those systems. we should be moving on that more quickly. the reason we're facing this difficulty on capitol hill now with getting additional aid approved is because we didn't act more swiftly earlier. >> dana: quick question. can ukraine still win against russia in this war? >> there is no question in my mind that ukraine will win. ukraine's objective is to survive as a sovereign independent country and you can't take ukrain

it was on the floor of the senate yesterday with j.d. vance the senator from ohio.x debate you said you would have fired fauci. prior to that you said donald trump outsources government to anthony fauci during the pandemic. three days ago with huweish it he was asked about this and here is how the conversation was. >> why did you keep dr. fauci? >> no, dr. fauci was there. first of all he is a civil service and you aren't allowed to fire him. >> bill: when ron desantis says you didn't fire fauci and you shut down the country and it was a mistake. >> he shut down the entire state. he has selective memory. >> bill: what did you think of that, governor? >> well look, at the end of the day the leader has to take responsibility. i think it was pretty clear that fauci was misfiring and elevated to his pronouncements were viewed as gospel around the country and we rejected thought and when we reopened the state he criticized us. when we had kids to school. he criticized us. when we said no vacs mandates they criticized us. the results speak for themselves. i would note, do

republicans are pushing back against this push for more mandates, ohio senator j.d. vanceevent federal officials are imposing mandates in schools or on airplanes. senator vance joins us. good to see you senator. remember also the shaming factor. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. if you get the shot you'll never get covid. you'll be safe. you'll never ever infect at person. lie, lie, and lie again. so, why would anyone trust these people? i don't. >> saturdays exactly right, sean f. you think back to the origins of the pandemic these guys use mask mandates and vaccine mandates to effectively talk about half the country as second class citizens. they use these mandates to turn one half the country against the other half. that's what all tyrants do. step pack a week ago, donald trump issued a very sensible video saying no more mandates. democrats householded in proceeded test and said nobody is trying to bring back mask mandates. yet this week we see multiple instances confirming trump's these thais you have multiple entities within our government within the public heal

you know with a josh holley, with a j.d. vance shown in the senate you can set yourself apart from the crowd. and one wonders could romney not use these waning days to make romney a publicly principled standard. >> he's still going to be in the senate for a couple more years, and so we'll see kind of, you know, now that he has nothing left to lose, we'll see -- you know, we'll see what he does. but, you know, i just think it goes to show that there is no more decent faction of the republican party, right, and we used to kind of wonder at the on set of the trump administration why aren't the republicans speaking up, how do they live with themselves? you know, when is kind of the things that they say behind closed doors going to break out into the open? i think the answer romney has come up with, never, yeah. >> and in the meantime trump, putin, kim jong-un, and also elon musk. it's like a dc comics mount baddy -- >> and people are sick of talking about russia because the republicans have played a assort of jujitsu where they wined

meanwhile ohio senator j.d. vanceng action proposing a bill that would ban federal mask mandates through the end of 2024. >> this is coming back unless we stop it from happening. that's why i introduced this legislation and force the democrats to vote on it. >> what is the cdc recommending? people with symptoms or positive tests should mask up when indoors in public. >> harris: you know, that's interesting. how do they come up with ten days? can we just see consistent science like four years in now? i don't think it's too much to ask for. >> well, the cdc says they are just recommending it. it is not a mandate. they can't issue mandates. one thing is clear. the messaging is already clear again, harris, when we see just a slight increase in these cases. >> harris: the message is control. good to see you, griff. thank you. outkick host tomi lahren is here. >> going back to president biden. im he not a fan of masks. if there was ever a time to wear a mask and wear it and make sure you are wearing it around an 81-year-old

j.d. vance took a bill to the senate floor that would ban government mask mandates.opped that bill in its tracks. >> all of us lived through the experiment of masking. i don't want to subject people for the sake of nothing. let's learn from the mistakes we made instead of just doubling down on them. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s2738. the freedom to breathe act. >> reserving the right to object. >> harris: with that he sank it. some on the local level taking matters into their own hands. the city of huntington beach, california banned mask and vaccine mandates. >> it is important for our city to make a statement that says what happened in the past is not going to happen in the future. we will fight hard to make sure individual freedoms are respected. >> harris: that's important because otherwise they are left to their own devices and we've seen what they will do. marsha blackburn in "focus." first aishah hosni with more on this. >> good morning to you. republicans are watching what is happening across the country and no

in ohio, republicans like j.d. vance know that not getting it done could really end up hurting us. saying if the democrats are getting 100 percent of their voters engaged early and we are only getting half of ours engaged early there creates pressure on election day vote. as things happen as they invariably will it puts us republicans at a huge disadvantage. is he absolutely right about that. and glenn youngkin, the governor of virginia, has been very smart about this. he is launching a similar early voting effort. and it's desperately needed in the commonwealth. there is a critical state election this fall where every seat in the virginia legislature is up for grabs. well, the fact is republicans across the board. they can't sit around moaning about election changes or even what happened in 2020 as important as it was. they can fight them, but if they lose, they have to adapt, evolve, in order to win. and then they have to get power back. now, i believe we can grow this coalition. i think there are a lot of people in, no, new jersey, my home state of connecticut and oregon and eve

we have seen j.d. vance speak out on this as well.ouse members and senate members, there's a risk that as these things go on, often where the blame happens can shift. as house republicans have learned over the years, when you shut down the government, the country may think it's fine for a while, but the longer it goes on, they start to question some of those policies. if we have the strike go on for a long time, i think families are going to be in a real bind here, and we'll see if they turn on this or not. >> speaking at a closed door fundraiser in a packed broadway theater yesterday, karen. president biden had sharp words for donald trump. he said, quote, let there be no question, donald trump and his maga republicans are determined to destroy american democracy. he said in 2024, democracy is on the ballot once again. i know he really believes that. the message worked in 2020. do you think it's going to be as resonant this year or next year, rather? >> a thousand percent. look at what just happened in ohio when reproductive freedom

j.d. vance is calling out the president's unkept promise. >> joe biden promised he would visit east palestine. he has refused to visit. their own government and president who promised to show up didn't show up. >> rich: he blamed his busy schedule. an analysis shows the president has been out of office for more than 380 days since taking office. 40% of the time. this labor day weekend the president is at his delaware beach house. peter doocy with the politics of presidential vacationing live at the white house. peter. >> president biden has responded to some disaster areas, florida over the weekend, maui eventually but no east palestine and now we know why. he has been busy. >> president biden: i haven't had the occasion to go to east palestine. there is a lot going on here and i haven't been able to break. i was thinking i would go this week but then was reminded i have to go around the world, i'm going from washington to india to vietnam to -- so it will be a while. >> president biden insisted

time and tuberville is the tip of the spear, as we've seen other misuse this process as wel like j.d. vancetheir point that they're really angry about acts, and they would drop. it and they would realize they have to go in anothe direction. but this guy, i cannot fatho what the other republicans are saying to him on the floor about what he's doing, not jus to these military families, bu what he's doing to the republican party in the senate which, by the way, should be the least of our worries those people deserve the disgrace they've visited upo him. >> that's for sure and they all deserve some of the obloquy that we're givin to tuberville. you know, the whole, as yo know, is not specific to the rules. it's you deny unanimous consen in a body where that's wha move states along. and then takes an enormous amount of time and effort to work around that what's changed is the norms in the body, as you say in the past, if somebody wen over the line, off the rails both parties would wor together to make sure that you move past it it just doesn't happen now any idiot can braving th senate to a halt

they came up with the railroad safety bill in part proposed by j.d. vanceo you want to see happen? >> i just want to see federal support come in to east palestine. everyone is focused on the economic recovery, the businesses, putting in a new park but nobody is focused on the residents. we are here, we are still sick. we do have unmet needs. we need to have representation at this hearing that's coming up in east palestine when our politicians they come in they meet with very cherry picked groupings of the community. and it's not representative of most of us that are still suffering, still in hotels, still relocated. i don't care. this is not a red issue, it's not a blue issue. this is an issue of human lives and it can happen to every single person watching this that has a railroad track within 30 miles. you know, this is about human lives. at this point, i don't even care if biden comes. he has already insulted us. if he comes now, it will only be because he feels forced to come, which is not going to be genuine. just get us federal support. get us help. w

senator j.d. vance is leading gop efforts to ban federal mask mandates in schools on planes and public transit. democrats are keeping the bill from passing our communities must be able to take steps to save lives and keep people from getting sick or getting sicker. republican senator rand paul also shot down thursday from changing the senate policy that requires pages 16 and 17 year olds to have at least three covid vaccines in the antiquarians of the senate are not required to be vaccinated. but the young, healthy people at zero risk for death from covid are being forced to be vaccinated. there is no credible evidence that support a prohibition on requiring covid 19 vaccinations, testing or masking. the biden white house has not announced plans to reinstate a mask mandate. we're nowhere where we were before. if you need a mask that supply the supply of ppe will be there for you. the first lady also tested negative for covid thursday. she's been isolating in delaware after testing positive on monday . i

lastly, this week, you had a conversation with ohio senator j.d. vancee republican efforts to impeach president biden, suggesting they could backfire. tell us what he meant. >> so he is towing a very fine line. of course, he supports the effort to look into this impeachment inquiry, but he's a senator saying, look, we've got all of these other priorities. we should not go beyond what the evidence tells us about impeachment. he says, if you do that, then republican voters might penalize republican candidates in the next election. >> i think a lot of republicans are privately harboring the same concerns that vance offered publicly, and polling suggests he might be right. congressional reporter for "axios," sophia cai, thank you for joining us this morning. >>> thanks to all of you for getting up "way to early" on this friday morning and all week long. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> he doesn't like it when he's taken on directly and he's confronted. i'm the only one on that stage who is willing to raise my hand, besides hutchinson, who would say, i'm

. >> bret: ohio republican senator j.d. vance has also visited that site in recent months.t, he posted a video from leslie run creek. >> there is dead worms and fish all throughout the water. >> showing what appeared to be chemicals in the water there. >> sampling and monitoring still taking place at that location and others. the epa administrator advised the public to avoid those creeks in march. but is there anything new you know about those locations. >> well, the only thing knew i know is that true clean-up continues. if you go to east palestine now you will see giant vats where they are taking fulks water out of the creek bet, putting it in these vats and hopefully, over time the creek will get cleaner. if you talk to residents on the ground they still are worried if they go spend too much time in the creek maybe they will start to feel some symptoms, vertigo and other issues. >> bret: the ohio environmental protection agency says there is no indication to risk to drinking water in east palestine; however, the agency warn its data does not apply private wells and urges

this comes as ohio senator j.d. vance is fighting the return of masks, proposing a bill to fight the mask mandate to the end of 2024. >> this is coming back unless we stop it from happening. i introduced the legislation and force the democrats to vote on it. >> so, what is the cdc saying right now? hospitalization rates have risen more than 15% last week, so in the areas with high hospitalization rates or people who are positive or in close contact with someone positive, they are recommending that you simply mask up. >> hard to keep up with the cdc guidelines in terms of exposure versus positive cases versus potential exposures at this point. people have to pay really close attention if they want to be in keeping with it, griff jenkins, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> trace: the thing that baffles me, gillian, you look at the elementary school, rosemary hills elementary, it's only one class, right. so asking one class to mask up unless you are eating or drinking as if the virus goes away when you are eating or drinki

this is their line, down the line, josh hawley your colleague, and j.d. vanceridiculous. and clearly, you look at the amount of money that these ceos are making and senior executives, you look at the profits these companies, already this year combined, over 20 billion dollars in profit. what they workers are saying is that these are good times. and we sacrificed. we took butts in pay. we had a dual, double t of pay structure, as we went through the financial crisis. now, we are doing really well. we should be able to share in that. and i think that's why we see unions are gaining unfavorability all across the country. if you look at public opinion polls right now, the favorability is well over 16% of people who favor unions. that's the highest since 1963. and let's look at 1963. the average ceo made 30 times what the average worker made. today, it is 400 or 500 times what the average worker makes. the workers are saying, wait a minute! something is askew here. let's bring fairness to our jobs and to our everyday living. >> and since you mentioned, polling, gall

a lack of correlation between mandates and a reduction in student cases, prompting ohio senator j.d. vance to propose a bill that would ban federal mask mandates through the end of 2024. they use these mandates to turn one half of the country against the other half of the country. that's what all tyrants do in their even bringing the masks back at the white house after the first lady tested positive on tuesday in washington, griff jenkins, ktvu fox two news. well, a federal appeals court decided not to modify an injunction in a high profile lawsuit in san francisco about enforcing the law on homeless camps. in december, a judge temporarily banned the city from clearing out homeless camps. if there were no other place for the unhoused to go. city attorney david chu said he wanted to modify the order so that it would not apply to people who are voluntarily, voluntarily homeless, who refuse to accept shelter. but the ninth circuit court denied the city's motion to modify the court says it will address all other issues raised in due course. us secretary of state antony blinken is on an unannou

senators marsha blackburn and j.d. vance go head to head in our worst of the week segment.

with josh hawley, j.d. vance the senate that you could be individual and set your self apart from the crowd. one wonders, could probably not use the waning days to make more of a publicly principled stance? >> he will. yes, he will be in the senate for a couple of more years. >> to -- >> we'll see kind of now that he has nothing left to lose, we'll see what he does. but i just think it goes to show that there is no more decent faction of the republican party. we used to kind of wonder about the trump administration, why aren't the republican speaking up? how do they live with themselves? when it is kind of the things that they say are behind closed doors breaking out into the open? i think that romney has come to is never. >> in the meantime, trump, putin, kim jong-un and also elon musk. it's like a dc comics battey concave. >> people think they are sick of talking about russia because the republicans have played a sort of two tissue that they won about is so much to make it seem as if trump did not actually seek

and that's republican senator j.d. vance. he told ax i don't, "if we get too far ahead evidence, then yeah, i think the american people will penalize us." this is kind of saying out loud what is known, which is that there is not a ton of evidence yet. do you think that there's a risk here that the impeachment inquiry could backfire on republicans? >> yeah, there certainly is a risk. i mean, look at it this way. if i were to ask you, what was the clinton impeachment about? we'd say, monica lewinsky's blue dress. what was the first trump impeachment about? a phone call with zelenskyy. when you say what this impeachment inquiry -- it's not an actual impeachment yet -- is about? hunter biden. what hunter biden was doing overseas. in other words, there isn't any, at least at this point, there there. this is they find it in the course of this inquiry, i think that's a problem for republicans. i also think that regardless of whether they find it with an impeachment inquiry, it's going to increase the pressure on speaker mccarthy to

but he went after people like j.d. vance, josh hawley, ted cruz. saying josh hawley was one of the smartest people he knew and ted cruz was a close second, but he argued had they knew better than some of the arguments that they make publicly when it comes to the constitution. really, really fascinating way to sort of announce that you are retiring from the senate given the fact that he really unveiled and pulled back the curtain on what has transpired over his time. >> and interesting that he said he is not leaving the party and he won't sit on the sidelines or on the beach i think he said, so it will be interesting to watch when he is not in the senate, how does he influence the future of the republican party. lauren, thank you. >>> and now to a different scene, white house officials preparing for what they are calling the next chapter in bidenomics. president biden will deliver a major economic address contrasting will his vision with republicans. his administration says that that plan has failed working families. but cnn polling shows 58% of ame

still, democratic senatoreth markey killed the bill by his republican colleague j.d. vancef public health officials, strategies can be adopted, using masks that reduce the likelihood that more will die, we should give them that freedom to make those decisions. >> well, huntington beach city council in california voted to ban universal mask and vaccine mandates quote individuals whether city hall or private sector should have a right whether to choose a mask or get vaccinated or boosted. and the fda could green light new covid boosters as soon as today and if approved, they are estimated to cost over $100 a dose. ainsley? >> ainsley: all right. thank you so much. well, this morning we are having breakfast with our friends live from this amazing restaurant. it is call the machine shed. there are six of them. this is the urbandale, iowa location. let's find out how voters feel about the covid mandate and how it's going to effect their vote in 2024. so, let's walk back here. good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> ainsley: hello. tell me your name? >> i'm patty. >> ainsley:

with a josh hawley, a j.d. vancebe an individual, you can set yourself apart from the crowd. and one wonders, you know, could romney not use these waiting days to make more of a publicly principled stand against the party? >> let's see if he will. it because he still want to be in the senate for a couple more years. >> yes, two years. >> so we'll see kind of now that he has nothing left to lose, we'll see, you know, we'll see what he does. but you know, i just think it goes to show that there's no more decent faction of the republican party, right? >> yeah. >> and we need to kind of wonder at the onset of the trump administration, one of the republican speaking of? how do they live in themselves? you know, how, how, you know, one is kind of things that they say behind closed doors going to break out into the open? and i think the answer that romney has -- >> never. >> yeah, never. >> and in the meantime, trump, putin, kim jong-un, and also elon musk. it's a dc comics mount battey conclave. >> and think, people are si

a lack of correlation between mandates and a reduction in student cases, prompting ohio senator j.d. vancee a bill that would ban federal mask mandates through the end of 2024. they use these mandates to turn one half the country against the other half of the country. that's what all tyrants do. and they're even bringing the masks back at the white house after the first lady tested positive on tuesday in washington, griff jenkins, ktvu fox two news. well, the start of the school year brings all the usual concerns about sickness spreading in the classroom along with a relatively new issue of covid. let's talk more about keeping children healthy and their classrooms free of illness by welcoming doctor shonda johnson, pediatrician at kaiser permanente oakland medical center to the nine. thanks for being with us again, doctor. good morning. thank you so much for having me. it's great to have you. a lot of parents are sort of on edge if their little one gets sick. i think the number one concern is how do we know if it's a cold versus covid? excellent question. and as you said, you know, kids ar

j.d. vance's. on one level, i hope he enjoys his retirement.t, that the republican party will be diminished and radicalized with his departure. >> juanita, it's not just mitt romney. just today, david ignatius of the washington post wrote a column called, quote, president biden should not run again. and his argument is that the presidents age is a big concern for voters. i am not trying to be ageist in any way. but he is saying, voters care about this, whether it is politically correct or not. what do you think? >> i think voters do care about. it poll after poll has shown, i think, even recently -- a quinnipiac poll show that 61% of voters are interested in an age cap for seeking the presidency. so, it's not going away. i do think, for the 2040 2024 race, though, especially for the democratic party, this election is set between president biden. even with his opinion column column, i don't expect the party to change course in any way. but what i do think they should do is really confront this head head on. really emphasize the effectiveness of

i don't know that i can disrespect someone more than j.d. vance, it's like, really?, making a calculation, putting politics above the interests of liberal democracy, and the constitution. and then he says this, a very large portion of my party, really does not believe in the constitution. at this point. >> matthew dowd, is he just shouting in to a dark tunnel? >> well, i think if he is standing in the republican caucus room, he is shouting into that tunnel. although i think it's an important voice for somebody that, was the republican standard bearer in 2012, and has been a leader in the republican party, is a very conservative member of the republican party. for him to say that, i think it's important in america writ large, but not necessarily the republican park. >> two who though? important to who? >> well i think it's important that people get the signal. so, democrats are already going to be lined up in this situation, and that's going to become partisan. so, swing voters out there, who need some -- from somebody, they don't trust either side. somebody like mitt

. >> last week, senator j.d. vance sent a letter to secretary statevanc anthony blinken asking who the hell this person is and who why u.s. citizen is acting a spokesperson for a foreign he, government and why he she and or it keeps going onlinehe and saying crazy things. i mean, who does sarah think shwhes thinge is. >> joy baker. at >> so vance wants to know what we want to know. who is this clown? why is an american acting as a spokesperson for the ukrainian military? and who's paying for all this? giviwhy he keep giving me flashbacks of my eighth grade lunch lady. now i clutch my privates when i hear the words tater tots. this cuckoo clock responded to the senators inquiry with yet another deeply odd video while in ukraine, we are fighting for global liberty and the ideology of victory. too many in moscow and across the world are still caught up in focusing on the tired trope of gender chaos. >> sorry, champ. this statement about gender chaos might carry more weight if it wasn't coming from a guy named sarah.r ch i

. >> well, speaking of josh hawley, romney, he went after folks like j.d. vance hawley, and a few others. he described a large portion of the gop that doesn't believe in the constitution, and he acknowledged that they were powerful. and that if he truly thinks they represent a massive threat to the country, why not stay, and fight? why surrender your seat, so possibly another radical maga stooge? because you know they are going to vie for your seat in utah. >> well since tom agreed with me, i will agree with tom. i think he sees no future to change the senate, or to be honest, to change his party. yes, are there a few senators left in the republican party, old-timers publicans, who believe in policy, they have low taxes, free trade, all of the check the boxes? sure, but that's not where the energy of this party is. and you're absolutely right amen, kari lake, who we all know from arizona, let's just doing a fund-raiser in utah, this week, for one of the people seeking to replace mitt romney. the maga people already have, they are salivating at the seat. so it is

so my question to you, senator lee, is people like you will come on or maybe josh hawley or j.d. vance,peopll but we have 40 or sojosh haw more senators and they rarely come on to talk about these of issues. and most of them will say, oh, no, we can't shut down the government. nobody wants to shut down the government, but we actually want to cut government toby, period. th and where it seems like he's helping biden.his? >> exactly. it's a false choice. it's the false choice that helps biden, that helps the democrats every time. and it's the false choice that says either you vote for this bill and this bill is the one that they've presented to you. it's been presented i call itprn the law firm, the law firm of schumer, mcconnelit's beel, y and jeffries. and they come together with a handful of they write a bill scr in secret in the dark of night. they commcconnele to us at the y of the spending process, within mayb gdark of e 48 hours of a s. and they say, here you go, you're not going to have time to read it or debate, discuss g. it. it's all amended, it's criminal. yohave time to rea

universe but as romney also says, at the end of the day what are people like ted cruz, josh hawley, j.d. vancet mean and the broad context of the world and i think that also gets at this final point which is government the most effective vehicle for change. and that seems to be something that romney doesn't believe anymore. other than the fact that his colleagues don't believe in the constitution. >> after the break we will talk to the washington post's david ignatius, out with a new piece entitled, president biden should not run again in 2024. you are watching morning joe weekend. weekend. p. morgan wealth management knows it's easy to get lost in investment research. get help with j.p morgan personal advisors. hey, david! ready to get started? work with advisors who create a plan with you, and help you find the right investments. so great getting to know you, let's take a look at your new investment plan. ok, great! this should have you moving in the right direction. thanks jen. get ongoing advice; and manage your investments in the chase mobile app. when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't

j.d. vanceins, ted cruz are in the wait and see chorus saying it's up to the courts and the new jersey voters to decide the lawmaker's fate. jen, the dam broke yesterday when cory booker, menendez's fellow senator -- >> a well written statement. >> we were on the air yesterday around this time, four, i think, democrats called for him to resign. stabenow wasn't there yet. the argument from tom cotton, democrats are worried about their grip on power and it could be they hold their colleagues to a different standard. >> it's a rare moment of consistency for republican senators. normally one set of rules for trump and say everything he does is fine, and one set of rules for democratic senators. they're being consistent. booker was the model, have public trust, just about the behavior and what it shows in terms of his judgment is enough to say that he should step aside. whether he -- he may never do that. i think that the only thing democrats can do is say what should happen here. that's enough to be

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