and, you know, ron johnson is very much a creature of shows like vicki mckenna's. you hear him say are set on shows like this and it is this feedback loop of doom but that moment that kinzinger described is really extraordinary because it was about five minutes after january 6th when republicans had the moment they say my gosh, it's gone too far. donald trump is reckless and dangerous and crazy and that lasted for about five minutes and of course, kevin mccarthy did what the rest of the party did was to go down and bow the knee and you see now they created this narrative, the narrative that it was january 6th was really no big deal. it was no different than other protests that were largely peaceful or, you know, compare it to riots took place elsewhere. obviously, it was a fact to overturn an election and stopping the counting of the electoral vote. to understand ron johnson you need to listen to people like vicki mckenna because that's who he listens to. >> for years and years and years i listened to rush limbaugh and glen beck because if you don't know what they'

on ron johnson.hink ron johnson wants to make this a referendum on what democrats have been doing in washington for the past year. so they will both see it as a referendum on where voters think the direction of the country, the direction of the state should be in 2022. and you know, knowing that in 2018 when you look at yes, we've had these close elections, but in 2018, a very progressive, liberal democrat named tammy baldwin won in 2018 by double digits. so go figure. but i do expect this race to be very close. >> any idea who is going to be on the democratic side of it? mark said it's pretty much wide open. is this mandela barns' race to lose? what's the state of the democratic primary? >> i hear a lot of people say it is lieutenant governor mandela barns' rice rais to lose. he's been active and very much so out there, but he's got some other opponents here who will make the challenge, and it is a wide open field right now in some of his own polling it suggests he's ahead. i think it's a lot of tim

we're fighting to deliver more opportunity for working families, and ron johnson is delivering opportunitiesbout the response to the pandemic. senator johnson as you said has downplayed the severity of the virus at times and certainly taken at times a skeptical stance on the covid-19 vaccinations. talk to us about why that's important, particularly since wisconsin is one of those states right now that's really seeing a surge in cases and hospitalizations? >> it's important because of how dangerous senator johnson's rhetoric has been. it's literally costing lives. we elect leaders in situations like this, in times like this, in times of crisis, and ron johnson has failed to answer the call every single step of the way. spent much of 20 going around the state making sure there was testing infrastructure, making sure we had vaccine clinics ready and available to people, but at the same time we had people like ron johnson who made not just our jobs difficult, but he made life difficult for a lot of people, people who unnecessarily had to struggle and deal with the impacts of the pandemic, people

because ron johnson is essentially in a category of his own.s positions are so odious he's so far-right and pro maga. he comes from a state that doesn't line up with all of that. he's not from a plus 30 trump state. wisconsin's voted democratic candidate for president eight of the past nine elections. in 2012 wisconsin voters elected progressive democrat tammy baldwin as their second senator. she serves the people of wisconsin as well. of course they narrowly flipped red in 2016 which helped ron johnson i think the same year that he won reelection. there's a real gap between ron johnson's politics in the way he performs those politics, and a huge part of the state, which is part of the reason why i think you could argue he's one of the worst republican senators. senator johnson's reaction to the 2020 election has been particularly bad he. amplified and promoted claims the election was fraudulent. he even held a hearing on irregularities last december. three weeks before the insurrection would. do you think that was doing to people to hear those

there's a real gap between ron johnson's politics and the way he performs those politics and a huge part of the worst republican senators. i mean senator johnson's reaction to the 2020 election has been particularly bad. he amplified and promoted claims the election was fraudulent. he even held a hearing on so-called irregulariies last december, three weeks before the insurrection. he was one of the people whipping up the frenzy ahead of january 6th announcing or leaking that he planned to object to the certification of electoral votes. he changed his mind at the last second after the violent insurrection at the capitol. but honestly, i think ron johnson has been the single worst republican on covid. right from the get-go when he downplayed the risks of this new disease, he told the milwaukee journal sentinel, we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on highways. johnson has since gone on to tout all sorts of unproven treatments. ivermectin and most recently mouthwash. he has been pushing an increasingly explicitly anti-vaccine message which puts him almost

i am back with senator ron johnson and dr.s pandemic. dr. kory, if someone out will there has covid, they got omicron, what are the best ways to treat this right now? we've been talking about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and i know you feel we need to take that early in the infection, but what else? i'm hearing about supplements, vitamin d, vitamin c. give us your sense of what we should be doing to protect ourselves. >> that's what my organization has done. from the beginning, we've put together protocols for the hospital, long haul and early treatment. early treatment avoids the need for the other protocols. if you go to flccc.necessary e -- net, we have first line, second line medications. some of them are prescription, almost all are generic, and as you just mentioned, quite a few are easily available with known efficacy. there are numerous trials supporting them. and we put together those protocols as a group of highly experienced specialists, and they're very effective. so, you know with, to give your listeners and

an articulation of ron johnson's views. if you have a kid it's your own fault. deal with it. every parent in wisconsin across lines of race and class who is struggling the difficulties of this pandemic, juggling everything, know that the message of your republican senator ron johnson, who's up for reelection, you are on your own. so suck it up, buttercup. suck it up, buttercup new vicks convenience pack. dayquil severe for you... and daily vicks super c for me. vicks super c is a daily supplement with vitamin c and b vitamins to help energize and replenish. dayquil severe is a max strength daytime, coughing, power through your day, medicine. new from vicks. maxlength=32> there was a time in modern american life that an accusation of a politician engaged in sexual acts to a minor would've been enough to end a career. never mind if there were accusations of payments for it. florida congressman matt gates is proving that time has passed. the three term congressman gaetz representing florida's district is facing accusations of having sex with a 17 year old girl and obstructing an

in wisconsin today, a big lie purveyor ron johnson announced he is running for reelection for his u.s. senate seat. oh joy. thin there is his republican colleague josh hawley. remember him? hawley has escaped any real consequences for trying to overturn the electoral college vote and supporting the insurrectionists, despite the blatant fist bump. i mean even his brother in arms ted cruz admitted that what happened on january 6 was domestic terrorism. until that is, tucker carlson on fox bullied him into back down live on air. >> it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol. where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage, incredible bravery, risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this capitol. >> you called this a terror attack when by no definition was it a terror attack.

ron johnson says he's a truth-teller.all kinds of crazy things about covid and the vaccine but he's a true trumper. i mean, when i saw this announcement that he was going to run for re-election, no real surprise there even though he said he wouldn't run. it makes sense. makes sense in the only for 2022, also for 2024. i mean, is he someone who sees himself when he looks in the mirror as someone who could run for president, particularly if donald trump doesn't run in 2024. there are all sorts of people, people like ron desantis and greg abbott who are trying to fill that void should there be one if trump doesn't want to run in 2024 so running in 2020 makes sense to set him up and possibly for 2024. >> if you look at the landscape here, the cook political report does it this way. 34 seats up, one leans dem. the wisconsin sit is a tossup and thune seat solid republicans but even if you're mitch mcconnell, even though ron johnson is a tossup state you don't like uncertainty so you hike your incumbents saying i'll go again. >>

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listen to senator ron johnson what is going on.'re completely, you know, not being transparent with congress, with the american public. so that just raises my suspicion. all we were trying to figure out is, to what extent does he have financial foreign entanglements, that could represent a national security risk to america. tony bobulinski said he joe biden was compromised. we've been trying to uncover this for year and this is the kind of crap we get from the secret service. elizabeth: how could the president be compromised? >> if he has a son engaged in deals across the world, involved with china, russia, ukraine. these are hot spots around the globe, it will impact decisions being made as it applies to foreign policy. senator johnson is absolutely right to make those demands and point that out. elizabeth: could. >> could potentially. he is right to make the demands. elizabeth: congressman risk crawford thanks for joining us come back soon. up next azonning new report the u.s. is track to have 700,000 illegal got-aways going into

he joins myself and senator ron johnson. dr. kory, thanks very much for being here.the product of a system, right? the system is entirely structured, and it's scary how structured. it's acting entirely within the interests of for-profit pharmaceutical corporations. there is no system for accepting and approving generic drugs and, in fact, it's almost like there's a blockade that's set up. they just don't approve them. they don't assess them. and in this pandemic, those drugs have actually shown to be the most effective. they're used all around the world. 25% of the planet is using abler member tin in covid, yet they're being ignored. the system will only listen to large, double blind, randomized controls done by big pharma, so these generic drugs get ignored and the tragedy is we have not had an early treatment recommended by the government. it's because they've been waiting for the approvals for novel, patented drugs. and the two that just got approval, one study, one and done with these pharmaceutical companies. and meanwhile, you have the generic drugs which have

someone send some money to ron johnson's mother, and pray that it works retroactively! eers and applause ) johnson doubled down on his tough-on-babies stance yesterday, tweeting: "the left wants the government to run the family. i believe the parents do." it's true. just like it says in ron johnson's campaign theme song. ( to the tune of "greatest love of all" ) ( cheering ) ♪ i believe the children are a my guests are kate and oliver hudson. ( cheers and applause ) but when we come back, an update on matt gaetz-gate! stick around! ( cheers and appla) ( band playing ) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. jon batiste and stay with us stn batiste and "stay human" right over there! there it is! ♪♪ ♪♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: john, we're going to be talking to kate and oliver hudson. they have a podcast called "sibling revelry with kate hudson and oliver hudson." they will be out to talk about their lives and careers add podcasts. we have a podcast, "the late show" pod "late show" available on spotify. i love going over there. i listen to joe rogen, hear him sing

. >> ron johnson, republican senator in wisconsin, announced he's going to run for reelection.t senate seat? because one of the things we looked at was maybe in the house, but the senate is not necessarily a done deal. for ron johnson, there is a lowlight deal of craziness from him over and over on covid and all these issues. are the republicans potentially putting that seat in jeopardy, do you think? >> i think from mitch mcconnell's perspective, they are keeping it in play. they hold the seat now so they're defending it. it's an incumbent seat. joe biden won wisconsin by about 20,000 votes, so it was a near tie, statistically. and it's a year that is purportedly going to be about joe biden and about the democratic rule of washington where republicans historically are going to have a leg up. so my bet is if i were in mitch mcconnell's head, mitch thinks it's a better play to keep ron johnson defending that seat than ride someone new and have it be an open seat. >> counterpoint? it's 100% rating. >> that's not a lot of cheese, as they might say in wisconsin. >> as they might sa

joining me, our reporter and what's a good way to look at ron johnson's chances for re-election?ut midterm elections? the presidential party is's often penalized during midterms and extreme correlation how they vote at the top, feel about the president, and how they vote for the senate. ron johnson and senate midterm since 1982 have won 86 out of 87 times in states where the opposition party outperformed the national vote share in the prior two presidential elections. 86 out of 87. that's pretty much complete. pretty much 100%. just south of it and wisconsin, of course a state even though joe biden won it in 2020, he did worse than nationally. wisconsin matches that. >> extrapolate that out to other key races for senate this year. >> reporter: sure. beyond just looking at incumbents. right? 86 our 87 times, that's all the gop incumbents running, we can look at open seats as well. where there's no elected incumbent running. that includes every retiring gop senator in 2022. won 32 out of 35 times in states where the opposition party outperformed national vote share in the the two p

you have people like senator ron johnson -- let's just play ron johnson. this is ron johnson what he's saying despite all that is going on. this is him. >> why do we assume that the body's natural immune system isn't the marvel it is? why do we think we can create something better than god in terms of combatting disease? now, there are certainly things we have to do but we just made so many assumptions and it's all pointed toward everybody getting a vaccine. >> i can't even imagine hearing those two pieces of sound back to back does to you, a doctor in this madness trying to fight this pandemic so your thoughts, dr. patel? >> joy, it's just -- we're trained as physicians and scientists to kind of try to actually tease out fact from fiction. that's the wholehypothesis. i'm a spiritual person. i believe it's the scientists who had decades of just not giving up in that spirit to fight that led them to develop these miraculous vaccines. i actually don't understand why people are not more inquisitive, ben and his colleague's reporting is excellent because it il

wisconsin senator ron johnson said this on wednesday. >> we've heard story after story.'re supposed to ignore that. nothing happening here. nothing to see. this is a travesty. this is a scandal. >> no, really. there is nothing to see. there's nothing to see. and here to fact-check this strange new covid conspiracy theory is reporter and editor-at-large chris cillizza. saying something totally verifiable, totally untrue and also dangerous. >> reporter: yeah, brianna. i went deep in terms of investigating this. i googled athletes dropping dead from covid-19. john stockton, former nba great who said 150 athletes have dropped dead. in december, gateway pun it did, which is a very pro-trump website that publishes lots of things that aren't true, winked to a study from a site called good sciencing, good sciencing, which said, oh, well, there's all these athletes with myocarditis and pericardia. the problem is, it's just not accurate. some of the people they said are hank aaron, who at 86 died in 2021. it was from natural causes, according to the fulton county medical examiner.

walk us through and i know you have breaking news having to do with potentially ron johnson. >> righteported that the self-funder alex lasry is a billionaire, he is the executive owner of the milwaukee bucks, the very successful milwaukee bucks, just put in a million dollars in a massive ad buy and we are told that's just the beginning here. it is going to keep growing exponentially from there. this ad buy will include in addition to television we're looking at a huge digital buy, lots of mailers. so he is really pumping in some serious money here and i think that really notches up the game. so what we're seeing is mandel barnes, yes, he is the front runner, has been getting the big endorsements but we're seeing somebody we were just talking about buying name recognition, i think alex is going to get out there pretty quickly and position himself as the businessman who is to the right of mandela barnes. of course, we have republicans, republican operative just told me today that he was going to -- he was very happy the republicans are happy that mandela barnes is the front runner becau

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senator ron johnson serves wisconsin is one of the very few people in the entire u.s. congress is willing to ask that question, organize these covid panel. f he joinsor us tonight. senator , thank you for coming on and for doing what you did today. what what stuck out what did you learn today? well, you know, i actually started a second opinion very early in the pandemic. so i've been connected to c this global network of eminently qualified doctors and medical researchers and scientists that have just had a different opinions, on the coronavirus, on the disease, on the vaccines ,on our response. and i'm hoping what the american public learnedbl, those that watched it is that these eminently qualified individuals havepp a different approach, different opinions. it's not as divisiveth, isn't as insane as our approach has been and quite honestly isn't as deadly as anybody that looks at our response driven mismanaged by anthony fauci . it's got t to take a look at the fact eight hundred eighty nine thousand americans are dead, but we rank twenty six in terms of deaths per

seuss book ever, the ron johnson from wisconsin.on was on a right-wing radio show, where he told folks interested in the vaccine to get a second opinion from god. >> why have we assumed the worst? why have we assumed that the body's natural immune system isn't the marvel that it really is? why do we think that we can create something better than god in terms of-- in terms of cmbating disease? >> stephen: okay, yes, god created our immune systems. but he also created ron johnsonn so he has been known to shank it. so-- so-- ( cheers and applause ) the ge-- he raises the question: does the lord want you to have the vaccine? i don't know. but take ron johnson's advice, and you might have the chance to ask god face-to-face. ( cheers and applause ) omicron-- ( laughter ) omicron is dominating the news right now, but trendspotters are already following a new thing to watch out for, because 2022's hottest new illness is the combo of the flu and covid called flurona. that's where we're at, people. we're describing our diseases like hot fashi

wisconsin senator ron johnson will run for a third term. has been a great senator. here with the reaction is kentucky senator rand paul. he announced he is running for reelection. i heard it your birthday, senator. is that true? >> yeah. what can i do better on my birthday then come on "hannity"? i haven't seen anything. >> all i wanted for my birthday was a betty crocker cake with the betty crocker canned white icing. happy birthday, senator. many more. what i would like to give you, cannot deliver. i would like to give you dr. fauci's ragged nation or him being fired. that would be the perfect birthday present. nobody has been more wrong throughout this entire pandemic than him. and more importantly you expose the great lie of dr. fauci. that is the knowledge and money from the nih going to fund the wuhan virology lab. how come nothing has happened with that? >> we passed an amendment in th senate that i sponsored to say no more money would go to the wuhan lab. he still continues to object to that. he said in committee that they are trustworthy and we should send

. >> wisconsin senator ron johnson decrying new economic numbers that show inflation hitting a nearlyar high in december. with consumer prices jumping 7%. specifically, food and clothing up over 6%. gas up 51% and the prices on used cars and trucks up 37% plus. let's dig into the economic numbers tonight with former biden campaign surrogate telling wally and former trump economic adviser steve moore. great to have you both back and happy new year to you. >> good to see you. >> shannon: we'll start with something from the president. he said today's report which shows a meaningful reduction in headline inflation over last month with gas prices and food prices falling demonstrates we're making progress in slowing the rate of price increases. steve? >> boy, talk about putting lipstick on a pig. this was a pretty devastating report. it comes only a few days after, shannon, president biden took a victory lap on the economy saying he had the best first year ever. i didn't know he was saying that first year meant the highest rise in prices. by the way, i remember, i'm old enough to remember 1

james, senator ron johnson was with me last week. they've got approved generic approved generic drugs that are safe. and yet they are censored by big tech and media. and in effect the american public you're not supposed to treat covid goat suck it up nicely for two weeks. cooks another example, maria right on that point is weaved into stories on pfizer in the last few months. one of which was a scientist at pfizer this is his words not mine saying the antibodies were stronger than their own vaccine. another whistleblower within pfizer came to us, melissa was her name she exposed documents from other senior directors telling people not to share certain information with audience. this within the pharmaceutical company. their band but does that mean exactly that they do not the people with the truth? or it will leaveop it there james to good to have it this morning thank you very much. james o'keefe joining us they'll do it for some sunday morning futures have a great sunday everybody you can watch us again today at 3:00 p.m. eastern lc

joining us tonight, senator ron johnson chief of staff mick mulvaney.ongressman pete sessions and dan bishop. former dhs adviser chuck moreno and texas attorney general ken paxton. the white house website to get covid tests is not not up. they are getting slammed for criticizing trump two years ago on getting testing all the way up through the summer, waiting months to ramp up tests on their own. the debate on the media, is it helping or hurting the pandemic. a lot of fear-mongering going on focusing on the negative. lawmakers talking about even more stimulus. we have new far left manhattan d.a. outraging voters in the middle of a soaring crime wave. he is telling prosecutors to drop prison sentences for crimes like armed robbery, armed robberies and drug dealing. how long can the criminals first mentality of the democrats last? how do you stop d.a.s from unilaterally changing the law, harming law-abiding americans? not just happening in new york. it is elsewhere too. plus republican governors accuse the white house of cornering the market, buying up in

maria: senator ron johnson talked about what is a real scandal in husband eyes, that you've got approvedd yes network -- generic drugs that are safe, and yet they are censored by big tech and media, and the american public believes you're not supposed to treat covid at all. just go and suck it up and isolate for two weeks. >> well, another example, maria, right on that point is that we've done two stories on pfizer in the last few months, one of which was a scientist the at pfizer, this is his words not mine, saying that the antibodies were stronger than their own vaccine. another whistleblower within pfizer came to us, melissa was her name, and she exposed documents from one of their senior directors telling people not to share certain information with the audience. these are statements from within the pharmaceutical company, and we were banned from twitter for, quote, misinformation to quote joe biden. so what does it mean exactly? what does that term mean anymore? it means we don't trust the people with the truth. maria: yeah. all right. we will leave it there. james, good to have you

senator ron johnson serves wisconsin, one of the very few people in the entire u.s.he joins us today. thank you for coming on and for doing what you did today. what stuck out? what did you learn today? >> well, i actually sought out a second opinion very early in the pandemic, so i've been connected to this global network of eminently qualified doctors and medical researchers and scientists that have just had a different opinion on the current virus, on the disease, on the vaccines, on our response, and i'm hoping what the american public learned, those that watched it, if that these eminently qualified individuals have a different approach, different opinion that's not as divisive, isn't as insane as our approach has been and quite honestly isn't as deadly. anybody that looks at our response, you know, mismanaged by anthony fauci, you look at the fact that 889,000 americans are dead. we ranked 22nd in terms of deaths per million, over 2600. sweden is i think in the 70s at 1500. so the fact of the matter is we should have been exploring and researching early treatmen

so, to win these races from ron johnson in wisconsin, all the way down to these mayorships in county court rattles. you are often writing about roads, bridges, local administration, the budget. it's not always about being engaged in a fight for democracy, it's being engaged in the small work, the small work of democracy now, ezra,. we learn something about you in the confessional section of this article. you present, as the dispassionate social scientists, always calmly and analyzing these things, but i discover in here that you are capable of fury. and you talk about how you, in fact, get as angry as everyone else about the latest range of the day. you make the point that, fury is useful only as fuel. what did you mean? >> the quote, the secrets is i'm always angry. but in this case, the one i'm making, which relates to javier's mom. is that it's really easy to sit around. it's really easy and i have to decide, i'm not telling people to sit around and be. angry but you have to decide between whether or not you engage in politics in the strategic actions for power. and that is on som

james, senator ron johnson was with me last week.ved generic drug that safe. it's remarkable on these drugs there is censored by big tech and media. in effect the american public believes you're not supposed to treat covid at all just go and suck it up and isolate for two weeks. >> another example, maria, right on the point is run two stories on pfizer in the last few months. one of which was a scientist at kaiser this is his words not mine. saying the antibodies were stronger than their own vaccine. and of that whistleblower within pfizer came with this, melissa was her name heard she exposed documents whether senior directors telling people not to share certain information with the audience these are certain statements within the pharmaceutical companies that we are banned from twitter for misinformation to quote joe biden buried what is it mean exactly what does the term meanan anymore? it means we don't trust the people with the truth. sweet alright will leave it there james good to have it this month thanks very much james o'kee

republican senators chuck grassley, ron johnson, saying the secret service is wrongfully censoring 260r force two for overseas business deals while his father was vice president. the senators say the foia act doesn't cover this here. is the secret service trying to basically protect itself? because hunter biden is known to have made 411 secret service protected trips, domestic, international to 29 countries including china and russia? >> yeah, that is certainly what it seems like. thanks to reporting by the "new york post" we know the chinese were paying hunter biden for government access and potentially paying millions to joe biden through his son but we really don't know the full scope of hunter biden's overseas business dealings with because his travel records during these years have been inappropriately redacted or withheld by the secret service and what is most amazing to me about this story is the media's refusal to cover it. i mean if you google this story or even just google about the letter that grassley and johnson sent today, you find almost no stories about it, in big outle

ron johnson, who's against child care legislation had one message for those parents, you're on your ownnts, that's something, you know, they need to consider when they make that choice. i've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children. >> okay. a little interesting note about him. first of all, he's been saying all types of crazy, suing, honey, iced tea for a long time. this is a same guy who said the riots seemed like a peaceful protest, and mouthwash has been proven to kill the coronavirus, just for our viewers at home, it doesn't. what is going to happen with ron johnson, he's being primaried, but challenged, the lieutenant governor mandela barnes is challenging him over this seat. does he survive? >> listen, i think that the numbers are bad for him. if i were any campaign, there are several candidates running in a primary right now, i would be gearing up and trying to take advantage of this. there are a lot of parents right now, who are struggling in the pandemic and, you know, a lot of parents who have kids who are unvaccinated currentl

and senator ron johnson as well, republican from wisconsin.iously, the speech yesterday was to invigorate his base because right now, you know, people are talking about joe just doesn't have it anymore. will it be kamala? no, the lead story right now on drudge is that hillary clinton is posed and opioidsed to pick up the mantle for the democratic party in 2024. buckle your seat belts, folks, it's getting crazy. >> brian: you know who i'm sure is high fiving donald trump and his family. he would love another shot of this. i think of the big picture of this: when hillary clinton, of course shoos she gave the concession speech and she never accepted the election loss we heard that four years. when stacey abrams said i didn't lose. it hurt the country. when president trump comes out and said it's a fraud, it's a fake. it hurts the country. this speech today continues that. whoever wins and whoever loses it's not legitimate. i think it hurts the country. >> ainsley: i don't think she can run. we already heard her acceptance speech. >> brian: good p

they include senator ron johnson, republican of wisconsin, a firm trump ally who initially planned ontion in texas but opted against it. what do you make of this bill particularly for those who promote trump's big lie? >> i have some concerns there because some of what we're talking about here is all dependent on goodwill, and who is in control, for example, in the house at the time when these things are challenged. so if you raise the standard for challenging the results from a state for a simple majority to being a super majority, what if they send us a false slate of electors? and we should challenge that slate of electors. and so i wonder when i see some of the folks who are supporting this if they're hoping that this is going to make it easier in some ways for them to do what they tried to do on january 6th. >> i have to say my eyebrow arched when i saw senator ron johnson saying, like, yeah, that sounds like a good idea. but we'll have to save that for another discussion. congressman collin allred, thank you as always for joining us tonight. >>> coming up, mitch mcconnell gave a

to win these races from ron johnson in wisconsin for senate, all the way down to mayorships and countyk levels, you're often fighting about just roads, bridges, local administration, the budget. so you're not always going to be engaged in the big fight for democracy, you're going to be engaged in the small work, the small "d" work of democracy. >> we learned something about you in the confessional section of this article. you present as the dispassionate social scientist, always calmly analyzing these things. i discover that you are capable of fury. and you talk about how you, in fact, get as angry as everyone else about the latest rage of the day. but you make the point that fury is useful only as fuel. what did you mean? >> the secret is, i'm always angry. but in this case, the point i'm making which relates to anton hirsch's points on hobbyism, it's easy to sit around being angry. it's really easy. i'm not telling people not to sit around being angry. but you have to decide whether or not you are engaging emotional hi in politics or whether or not you are engaged in strategic -- tak

senator ron johnson, tweeted that out a couple of days ago.er to take that down. this is real, it happens in the real world, and it's taking people's lives or making them extremely sick when they don't have to be. >> let me ask you something from a personal perspective but i think it really will help a lot of people as we see hundreds of thousands of people test positive for covid every day. i tested positive for covid in the week before christmas. and since then i have tested negative through a pcr test. i have been vaccinated, boosted since november, why do i still need to wear a mask? i don't have it. i'm not going to transmit it. is it just so other people are comfortable or is there some public health argument that i should still be wearing a mask? >> listen, for people who just were infected and really aren't carrying the virus, and aren't going to spread the virus, maybe the mask isn't really necessary. i don't know, i would argue that trying to figure out exactly where those people are in the disease, you know, progress as the patholog

. >> ron johnson republican senator wisconsin has announced he is going to run for another term.iden won wisconsin. wisconsin's other senator is a democrat. they can go democratic in wisconsin. >> wisconsin, you got the same situation in pennsylvania where, you know, joe biden won pennsylvania as much as donald trump doesn't want to admit it. and you know ron johnson, you know, i got to be careful here, because i really do try not to get down in the mud. but i got to tell you, this guy is such a political hack. he likes to pretend he is a manufacturer, a businessman. he promised the voters of wisconsin he would only do two terms. but he loves being a politician so much. he loves scratching donald trump's back so much, he is now going to say to the voters of wisconsin, yeah, well never mind what i told you. i'm a typical politician. i'm going to do what i feel like to hold on to power, not what i told you when i initially ran two terms ago. >> yeah, so he has to begin his campaign with, okay, i'm breaking my word. that's the first thing i'm doing is breaking my word, and then go o

. >>> "the washington post" reports wisconsin republican senator ron johnson says he will run for a third term despite a previous pledge to retire. in an opinion piece for the "wall street journal" yesterday, johnson said that he believes, quote, the country is in too much peril to leave office. the staunch ally of former president trump said that he had not anticipated the democrats would take over the government in 2020. >>> and "the athletic" says that new york yankees are promoting rachel balkovec to be the first female manager in the minor leagues. she will reportedly become the m tarpins. she joined the organization as a hitting coach in 2019. she took her first position in pro ball with the st. louis conditions as a minor league strength and continuing coach in 2012. >>> up next, thrilling finish. the raiders and the chargers make a push for the playoffs. the unlikely scenario that came down to the final seconds of that last game of the nfl regular season. oking to get bacn your type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ozempic® i

got exclusive interviews with house majority leader kevin mccarthy, south dakota governor senator ron johnson and doctor. corey. plus start smart every weekday from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. eastern with the mornings with maria right here on foxbusiness for that will door g and have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. gerry: this week on the wall street journal at large is american democracy in peril? if it is who is really to blame? we'll dig a little deeper by the grim theatrics of that generous sixth anniversary celebrations but while children ever be allowed a proper education urge americans teaching units at such a grip on the education system because we'll just have to learn whenever and whatever is convenient for the teachers? manhattan chief prosecutor thanks violent criminals should not have to go to jail. do democrats really want our cities to be playgrounds for armed robbers? and white democratic members of congress cannot seem to get enough of the freedom they can find only in the republican that is in florida. hello welcome to the wall street journal at large. this week complete with c

, mouth wash >> i want you to listen to republican senator ron johnson at a town hall just this week.dard gargle of mouthwash has been proven to kill the coronavirus. even if you get it, you may reduce the viral applications. why not try all these things >> seth: or even better, don't use mouthwash, and your bad breath will keep people 6 feet away at all times. listerine explicitly states on its website that its product it's not intended to prevent or treat covid-19, and should be only used as directed on the product label. i don't even want to imagine what's next. is titleist going to have to issue a statement that says, "contrary to republican statements, covering our golf balls in sudafed and eating them for dinner will not give you superman eyes" [ laughter ] we have proven tools at our disposal to help protect people from this virus, but right-wing politicians and media figures are intent on fearmongering and lying about it santa himself could get vaccinated, and they'd tell you he was forced by - >> an elf with a napoleonic complex >> seth: this has been "a closer look." [ cheer

got exclusive interviews with house majority leader kevin mccarthy, south dakota governor senator ron johnsonart every weekday from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. eastern with the mornings with maria right here on foxbusiness for that will door g and have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. gerry: this week on the wall street journal at large is american democracy in peril? if it is who is really to blame? we'll dig a little deeper by the grim theatrics of that generous sixth anniversary celebrations but while children ever be allowed a proper education urge americans teaching units at such a grip on the education system because we'll just have to learn whenever and

wisconsin republican senator ron johnson said today he will run for reelection, breaking his promisea third term. johnson is one of former president donald trump's staunchest supporters. he has downplayed the violence in the deadly january 6 attack on the capitol and promoted conspiracy theories. johnson contracted covid in 2020, but is not vaccinated and recently questioned vaccine science. in new york city today, one of the deadliest high rise fires in recent memory. at least 19 people, including nine children, died when a blaze swept through a 19 story apartment building in the bronx today. at least 60 people were injured, including 32 hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. >> the impact of this fire is really going to bring a level of just pain and despair in our city. the numbers are horrific. >> sreenivasan: as of latehis afternoon the cause was still under investigation. for more national and international news, visit pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: as of 2020, about 30% of families in the u.s. headed by black mothers lived in poverty. that's more than two and half tim