governor whitmer: i ran on fixing the roads in michigan. i think we will fix the dams and roads this year. we have work to do together. i appreciate the way governors and the nga worked together to secure more resources so we can fix our roadways and build a more resilient and equitable infrastructure system. sec. buttigieg, i would like to get things started by asking how the administration plans to help states and territories and get the ball rolling on these important infrastructure investments and give you an opportunity to get us started. please, take away secretary. thank you --sec. buttigieg: thank you governor whitmer i am honored to be with all of you. i want to thank the nj for having me -- the in j a -- nga for having me. first, i want to thank and applaud work that nga did and so many of you did individually. as you shared in our opening remarks, both shaping the dying -- designed for the presidents historic law and of the advocacy that made it a reality. we saw governors from red states and blue states alike calling for investm

whitmer: good evening, michigan. today is our state's 100 85th birthday. to celebrate, we are at detroit diesel. bill in 1938 to help us when world war ii peered a lifetime later, it is on the cutting edge of electric vehicle technology built by the hard-working men and women of uaw 163. places like this are where michigan's future will be forged. i am thrilled to be here to deliver my state of the state address. before we begin, let's take a moment to honor those who are not with us. let's remember the four young michiganders we lost in oxford. madison, kate, hannah, justin. those living with lifelong injuries and carrying the weight from that horrific day. the oxford community is in all of our hearts. michiganders, if you want to help, please go to oxford to nudity victims fund.com -- oxford community victims fund.com. let's remember the 30,000 michiganders we have lost to covid-19 and think the first responders, health care professionals, michigan national guard for everything they do to keep us safe. michigan's national guard is the best in the country

gretchen whitmer was out there saying, i did this. you should be proud of me for doing this.the rules of the game? of course, that's always what democrats do. when she did this back in 2012, she proved she was a radical activist and wasn't a leader. she has continued to say, i'm going to shirk the democrat is process. throughout all of 2020, she was a dictator. she wouldn't work with the ledges lay or or bring them into the decision-making process. the person she was in 2012 continues to be the person she is in 2020. she cannot be reelected for our state. she is bad for michigan. >> you guys are seeing an exodus, i believe, of residents. people are going for more hospitable climates. we are going to be watching this primary on the gop side. michigan needs relief. thank you so much. final thoughts when we return. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old. i do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my calling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or

whitmer: good evening, michigan. today is our state's 185th birthday. to celebrate, we are at detroit diesel. >> let's remember the young michiganders we lost in oxford. and those living with lifelong injuries and caring --member thg michiganders we lost in oxford. madison, kate, hannah, justin. those living with lifelong injuries and carrying the weight from that horrific day. the oxford community is in all of our hearts. michiganders, if you want to oxfordcommunityvictimsfund.com. let's remember the 30,000 michiganders we have lost to covid-19 and thank the first responders, health care professionals, michigan national guard for everything they do to keep us safe. michigan's national guard is the best in the country. they go above and beyond at home and oceans away. recently, i had the honor of pinning purple hearts onto three guard members who were injured during a ballistic missile attack in iraq. michiganders salute their sacrifices. they represent the best of us. i also want to acknowledge my partner in governance. lieutenant governor garland gilc

you know the situation, we have the governor cuomo here in whitmer.be accurate. this is incompetence, people lost loved ones because policies held during covid were the wrong policies and dangerous. she was told in march of 2020, it was most dangerous thing she could do to put covid-19 patients into nursing homes and she did it anyway, now the numbers look fishy. >> griff: the auditor's office had a different math way of doing it, i don't know, see if we hear more about it. it is a big issue in new york and looks like it will be in michigan. have a great wednesday. >> thank you. >> griff: carley. >> carley: senior meteorologist janice dean is here with the fox weather forecast. good morning, janice. >> janice: good morning, carley and griff. let's get to it. cold air pouring in across the northern plains and upper midwest. look at wind chills minus 25 in fargo, minus 30 in bis mark, this is dangerous and it will sink further south. we have wind chill alerts and advisories and warnings. this is the area, stay indoors and take care of elderly and pets.

heil hitler to whitmer!r up! lock her up!recursor to what would happen at the u.s. capitol. armed protestors made it into the legislators' gallery and disrupted the session. representative sarah anthony was there that day. >> april 30th, when, you know, armed gunmen stormed the capitol building, is probably the most terrifying thing that i've ever experienced in my life. filled, this lobby was filled. all around. up these steps. this is where, you know, we had hundreds of people. >> thompson: and most of them were armed? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely armed. when we got word that they were coming into the building, you know, just sheer fear went through my body and i can tell you that other legislators on both sides of the aisle were very fearful as well. i was on the floor and i missed three calls from my mom. she was not sure if her daughter was going to make it home alive. >> thompson: when we spoke, the attack in washington d.c. was still months away, but anthony was already worried where things might be heading next. >> 2

remember governor whitmer's kidnapping plot? i can tell you we know there were 12 fbi informants involved in that group. we don't know how many federal agents were involved. don't forget about the bundy ranch affair. there were 15 fbi informants involved. we don't know how many actual agents. but we can go back further. another example would be 1968, the democratic national convention, there were 10,000 protesters, and one out of six were federal undercover agents. you do the math and that is approximately 1600 federal agents at this protest in 1968 at the democratic national convention. here at the capitol security breach, we don't know how many federal informants, fbi agents, agents of other agencies, we don't know those numbers because we have the january 6 committee that is refusing to ask those serious questions. now, what is our fbi doing? why is the department of justice going along with it? i think the question that really should be asked is -- is an informant also involved in making the plans for these types of things a

the message is at awkward time for governor gretchen whitmer, who is facing tough re-election year.andidate for governor, james craig, issuing blistering rebuke saying some in gretchen whitmer's party are continuing democrats across country who want parents taken out of the equation and educating their own children. craig, calling it disgraceful and saying it shows aa genda of indoctrination, not education. this after parents rallied behind glenn youngkin after mcauliffe said parents should not have a say in their children's education. new leadership is ready to tackle education head on banning critical race theory and moving to give parents a greater say in what their kids learn. >> todd: thank you very much. >> griff: republican attorney general announcing an investigation into the loudoun county school district within hours of taking office. in a statement, jason miyares writing, one reason virginiians get fed up with government is lack of transparency and that is a big issue here. loudoun county public school covered up a sexual assault on school grounds leading to an additional

whitmer: good evening, michigan. today is our state's 185th birthday.lebrate, we are at detroit diesel. il

eliminate -- who they love also personally, governor whitmer eliminated that law. i cannot stress how much you are inspiring so many that are incredibly excited that you are testifying before our committee. i wanted to leave some time for you as well as others on the panel to really talk about things, the trauma that comes with living as you are in our country and how you think we should be addressing. >> if,, i went to lift up two things. thank you for those comments , representativetlaib. maxine waters, thank you for your leadership. i went to highlight we a section describing the violence trans are facing which is often hidden in the shadows. i have already reached out to further that discussion as well. previous conversation about the challenges with shelters, i want to offer up a few remedies that will prevent people from needing shelters and one is to criminalizing sex work. it is also the case that black trans are forced into sex work as a result not being able to show up and are offered job interviews or promotion opportunities or support a more traditional

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what cuomo did, whitmer followed real quick. right. someme proportion.new york's got twenty million people. michigan's got ten millionn people. t new york's got sixty thousand covid debts. michigan's got thirty covid debts. new york lied about itsut nursig home numbers. it n really has sixteen thousand debts. we lied. it's really eight r thousand. we're just half the size of new york . by forty twoed percent. new york undercounted by forty six percent. y we have thousands of dead people. numbers represent people and we did not f account for them. and brother, letbr me go on here because now i'm really starting to feel this . we shut down schoolsls, we shut down business, we shut down sports , we ruin the economy. to do what ? to stop death of whom? the elderly.ld you know, the one that we alls knew was the most vulnerable and we lied about it. we made this disease covid seem more virulent to the general society and more benign toal people who live in these facilities. and it turns out 40% of all the deaths in michigan are in these facilities we blew look

. >> michigan governor gretchen whitmer delivers her state of the state address from the state capitol in lansing. watch live coverage today at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or watchful coverage on our new video app, c-span now. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer released a statement on the retirement of supreme court justice stephen breyer, saying in part, "his work and decisions as an associate justice on the biggest issues of our time, including voting rights, the environment, reproductive freedom and most recently, health care and the affordable care act, were hugely consequential. america owes justice breyer and norma's debt of gratitude." senator schumer's statement went on to say president biden's nominee will receive a prompt hearing and will receive confirmation from the full senate with all deliberate speed, something confirmed by judiciary chair dick durbin. >> this weekend, the 100 14th annual meeting in washington dc. coverage starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern with an opening news conference and discussions on infrastructure, education, cybersecurity an

someone is facing charges of being involved in the plot to kidnap the michigan governor gretchen whitmer. it is often very hard to even locate federal prisoners awaiting trial. there's not a transparent system to do that. unlike local prisoners, you can't even figure out where these guys are. with the d.c. prisoners from january 6 they are not getting video visits, you cannot communicate with them through video. there's a lot of different issues. if i'm going to be sympathetic to the human rights concerns of prisoners it's going to extend january 6 prisoners, prisoners accused of basic run of the mill crimes. all of them have human rights that need to be per -- respected. host: todd in massachusetts on our republican line. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking the call. the only comment i would make, it sounds to me like the gentleman on has a pretty good heart and he looks like he is trying to follow things, trying to share time on both sides of the issue. i guess what i would like to point out is he indicated, i don't know if that's the producers or where it came from that he wasn't a

. >> next, michigan governor gretchen whitmer delivers the 2022 state of the state address from lansi.

the democrats message comes at awkward time for gretchen whitmer who is facing tough re-election year. candidate for governor, former police chief james craig issuing blistering revoke saying this continues the trend of democrats across the country who want parents taken out of the equation in educating their own children. saying it demonstrates democrats have agenda of indoctrination not education. democrat mcauliffe -- ready to tackle education head on banning far left teaching like critical race theory and moving to give parents greater say in what their kids learn. todd, griff. >> todd: thank you. virginia new tough on crime attorney general announcing investigation into the loudoun within hours of taking office. there is lack of transparency, a big issue here. how did loud county public school covered up a sexual assault leading to an additional assault of another girl. it will be investigated on allegations of releasing violent criminals early without notifying victims. mayorkis will join us live later on in our show. >> and welcome to the nfl playoffs. kyler murray, los angeles

gretchen whitmer said not to go to florida because of vaccine nonmandates.thee, not for d's, standing for democrats. >> ashley: this was one of the ladies from "the view," whoopi golberg, she was stunned after she tested positive for covid. we will get your reaction on the other side. >> i've done everything i am supposed to do, it doesn't stop omicron, that is the problem with a variant, it gets stronger and does different stuff to you. >> ashley: two things. i don't want to take medical advice from whoopi golberg, can we stop calling this pandemic of the unvaccinated. if you don't realize this is affecting the vaccinated and unvaccinated, you have been living under a rock. >> todd: yeah and whoopi said this variant is stronger, the data shows it is weaker as far as ability to kill people or hospitalize people. it is more contagious than delta, but certainly not something stronger in terms of ability to make you sick. maybe whoopi took the president at his word when he told cnn town hall last year, "you are not going to get covid if you have vaccinations,"

we have pritzker, whitmer, jared polis in colorado. you had cuomo. but what about all of the democratic bench at the gubernatorial level. they did such a great job of handling covid. >> it doesn't look to me and i think you'd agree that we have that deep a bench. while some of those governors have done some things right and had other challenges, i think it's fair to say none of them are ready for national leadership in the way bill clinton was in 1992. so if we have to go back to the '90s or the 2000s and have secretary clinton repositioned and reinvigorated for the 2024 election, so be it. >> laura: doug, last month hillary hit biden and said this. >> it means nothing if we don't have a congress that will get things done and we don't have a white house that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive. >> laura: doug, maybe she is gearing up to take biden out. do you think she's going to do it? trump maybe wants to run again to show everyone what he can do and that he has the answers. hillary never thought she really lost, so maybe

gretchen whitmer went to florida. regulatory states. you know what it feels like de? people are sick of being bullied, rioters go on the streets, shoplifters with smash-and-grab looting, let criminals out on the street. so unfair to law-abiding americans. your word on that? >> double standard. again, i think it would be a lot easier to put up with this if people had masks on all the time and they were following the advice or many cases, orders mandates they inflict on us. they gone to live as we wish. most dramatic example is governor newsom in california. maskless hanging out at french laundrie restaurant in sonoma county, enjoying a fabulous dinner with 1000-dollar or more bottles of wine with a bunch of lobbyists. does it get hypocritical than tha. he faced a recall. he survived the recall. people are upset about that. people signed a petition to get him out of there. i wish they had done so? elizabeth: florida governor saying you're bashing us, right? because of our policies, not, you know, you had draconian polic

take a close look at crimes like the plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer.lot that helped her political fortunes considerably. what did it consist of? that conspiracy in the end turned out to have more fbi agents and informants involved than would-be kidnappers. k the guys the feds said were running it turnedd out to be homeless living in the basement of a vacuum repair shop. his friends called him captain autism. he wasn't the ring leader of anything. he couldn't have been. the whole thing was ridiculous. but it stoked the story line. it was politically expedient. the media's job is to push back against government statements to find out if they're actually true. it turns out politicians may say things for political reasons.ua it's the media's job to discern truth from spin. the media's job is not to act as spokesmen for the people in power. and yet that's what they're doing. now the doj has decided the january 6th protesters are the real terrorists. they're the insurrectionists you keep hearing about. just as of two days ago, not one american citizen had be

it turns out gretchen whitmer, the disgraced governor of michigan, killed more elderly people in nursingpolicies did. a new report found that the statements are presented covid deaths in long-term care facilities. we know this because one reporter in michigan push to find out, his name is charlie liddle, he us next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: when you think of bad government policy, you think of the state of new york and the former governor who left his job not because of what he did nursing homes, but he said something naughty to someone one time may be. it turns out it was michigan, even worse than new york. they've been misreported in the number deaths in lawn care -- long-term care facilities for the covid death count in those facilities is 42% higher than the state reported. why do we know this? nobody seemed interested in these numbers. they covered michigan independently for years peered one of the only reporters pushing to get to the truth of the story. he joins us tonight. charlie, congrats on getting to the bottom of this finally. what we know now? >> let's see, and a nutshell, we know thi

and it would not be subject to the veto of the governor who, here in michigan, is democrat gretchen whitmer. take a listen to my conversation with mark brewer, a lawyer here representing a pro-voting-rights group here. set up for me what your outlook here is in 2022 and its significance to voting rights in michigan. >> i think we'll see the same type of effort we saw in 2020. we claim close in local counties of not having our elections certified in 2020. all these maneuvers, new laws, election officials, et cetera, republicans are setting the stage to do the same thing again. they learned their lesson in 2020 and now they're manipulating and subverting the system, attempting to do the same thing. >> furthermore, katy, legislators including in michigan are going into session around the country and we can expect bills, voting restrictive measures, to be put forward in the winter and the spring. i was at the rally at which former president trump spoke in arizona, he was explicit that he was pushing republicans to ban ballot dropboxes and call for an end to absentee or mail-in voting unless you

or regional violence -- which was already trajectory we are saying with the plot to kidn gretchen whitmerovernor of michigan last year. so that is really where the kind of threat is now, i think, for right-wing violence. i think it is also important to remember, think of these things as a far right social movement. so you have groups inside it, small committed militia groups like lifelong white supremacist organizations or militias committed to catalyzing a civil. yet those groups at are pushing the envelope. they are swimming in a sea of a much larger group of people. millions of people to in the words of the national security analysts are vulnerable to radicalization. acf people who are on the edge and could be recruited into violence by these groups. that pool of people radicalizing vulnerable people is growing bigger and bigger and bigger. more people today believe that the election was stolen and believed it on the morning of january 6. more people today believe violence might be necessary to defend america and believed it on the morning of january 6. that is broader kind of milieu t

re-election themselves this year, and that's why republicans are targeting both of them because governor whitmer secretary of state benson are standing in the way of the republican plans to restrict voting in michigan and undermine our democracy. michigan senator debbie stabenow made the case this week that the attack on the capitol and the ongoing attack on elections both demand a rsponse from us. >> the january 6th insurrectionists tried to overthrow our capitol, and their sidekicks in suits and ties are trying to overthrow our elections, and just as we shored up our security here to protect the people's house, we need to upgrade our election laws to protect people's freedom to vote. >> starting us off tonight is senator debbie stabenow. senator, thank you so much for being here tonight. >> absolutely, zerlina. i really -- i love your work. i'm a fan. >> thank you so much. so you're calling for congress to pass new protections for voting rights, and the steam, and i think the momentum for this is picking up, but it also picks up on the two senators we talk a lot about, senators joe manchin and

comes just three to four months after the wolverine militia plot was interrupted to kidnap governor whitmer what it would've looked like if they had taken over that day, they might've taken over that day. tell me how that would have played out potentially. how do you envision that playing out potentially? >> what i'm curious about is had they gone in and actually seized the ballots or what if they had taken vice president pence or speaker of the house nancy pelosi? we heard them chanting these things when they were going in. i say that with this group and with others, a mob that was there. and i've also heard many say, oh well, most of the people there were just there because of president trump and the rally. but the problem is a small number of extremists can hijack an event like this. we talked about the proud boys and the oath keepers. both of them were the first to breach into the kul capitol grounds. and this sent off a flood of other people. what if they had called the qrf in? it would've been an absolute catastrophe in our nation's capitol. >> how concerned should law enforcement be

example michigan where republicans are circulating a petition that would allow them to by pass governor whitmerlaws and here is something far worse. the maga cult is determined to control election results from within playing the long game with eyes on 2024 but electing anti democratic secretaries of state, boards of election and other election related offices. with me is founder of democracy docket and partner at elias law group and a bogeyman for republicans trying to do this. i want to start with the good news. i feel like we don't talk about it enough, on the ground in courts, democrats are actually winning in some of these key attempts to, you know, act even under the kind of muted and hobbled voting rights act. talk a little bit about restricting and how important that is. >> sure, so look, redistricts is central to democracy because republicans unable to win the popular vote have turned to the rules of elections to rig the outcomes and one of the ways they do that is by drawing districts where they choose voters rather than the other way around and joy, you're exactly right. the fact is w

fox 17 in grand rapids, michigan as governor whitmer's administration disputes the methodology and conclusions in a pending report expected to say there were nearly 30% more coronavirus related deaths tied to long-term care fiflghtses in michigan than reported by the state. state government is citing what it calls serious concerns in the auditor's cawngzs. fox 26 in fresno, california as hundreds of employees at a hospital are in self-isolation following covid-19 exposure. the community medical center in fresno announced 717 employees would remain in their homes following the coronavirus protocols to self-isolate. it says 690 of those staff members have tested positive for covid. and this is a live look at new york. one of the big stories there tonight from fox 5, our affiliate, major league baseball and its players hold their first bargaining session since a lockout began december 2nd. the owners were expected to make a new proposal regarding core economic and competitive issues. we will follow that. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪

elizabeth: it is democrat michigan governor gretchen whitmer, new jersey governor phil murphy, even cnnlexandria ocasio-cortez vacationing in florida after criticizing the state. let's lessen to the governor on this and more about what is going on in florida. watch this. >> okay. >> florida has become the escape hatch for chafing under authoritarian, arbitrary, seemingly never ending mandates and restrictions. they are grounded more in blind adherence to fauci and declarations than they are in the constitutional traditions that are the foundation of free nations. elizabeth: listen, people, it is important to get vaccinated because this is a dangerous virus, congressman. we lost 22 million jobs that were destroyed because of shutdowns and lockdowns, right? now the president tomorrow is going to tout his jobs record when that is really opening up the economy. we're still nearly four million jobs short. your final word, congressman? >> right. look it is pretty easy to have good numbers on the economy when the economy has been shut down for 18 months or two years. i think florida has the ri

and it's the latest example of hour michigan hospitals and the mha working closely with governor whitmer and her administration. they have been great partners. this is the greatest example where we look at emerging policy, legal policy and really try to get on the same page and be consistent with the federal guidelines really with a very diverse membership in rural michigan, urban michigan. we work with hospital health systems throughout the state to make sure we are doing everything we possibly can to protect the welfare of our front line employees but patients and visitors as well. we think we can accomplish that through this new guidance. >> in addition to being in line with federal guidelines, you would like people to be on the same page. why do you think, in and of itself, five days is the right decision? >> well, we certainly know that from the very beginning of the pandemic our hospital employees in particular have been following very, very strict protocols in terms of masking and personal protective equipment, testing, to make sure that we have the safest possible environment for

now, the efforts may succeed, despite any objections by governor gretchen whitmer.now by someone else who can probably tell us exactly what congress can and should do, it's jocelyn benson, michigan's secretary of state. madam secretary of state, i want to start with this, because i think one of the critiques that many of us have had about the current push for voting rights is that it's been very -- you have not heard the direct correlation between what we've seen take place in the states, between essentially january 2021 through essentially october 2021 and what it is that congress is trying to do. so when you look at the situation you're facing, we have to figure out how to protect election workers, we have to figure out how to protect the integrity of the vote counting process. what does federal legislation look like that does those two things in your view? >> well, we also need to protect the ability for voters to have access to their democracy, which is really -- when you look at the 19 states that have passed over 33 laws in the months that you talked about tha

fortunately governor whitmer eliminated that gross civil rights violation but shows how prevalent these discriminatory law remain in modern times. >> you know, i think ms. walker first of all, i can not stress to you how much you are inspiring so many that are so incredibly exciting that you are testifying before our committee. and so i wanted to leave some time for you as well as others on the panel to really talk about things that we -- ask you about. really the trauma that comes with living as you are in our country and how -- how do you think we should be addressing it in congress? >> if i may, i want to look up two things. and thank you for those comments representative tlaib. one is to my congresswoman maxine waters, thank you for your leadership. i want to highlight that we include a section in our written testimony describing the silent epidemic of violence our trans siblings are facing which is often hiddenen in the shadows black people are facing more generally. aye will ever reached out to chaszdy to welcome the opportunity to further that discussion and very much related to

fortunately, governor whitmer eliminated that gross civil rights violation, but it shows how predatory these discriminatory laws remain in modern times. and so i wanted to leave some time for you as well as others on the panel to really talk about things that comes with living as you are in our country and how do you think we should be addressing it in congress. >> if i may, i thank you for those comments, representative tlaib. one is congresswoman, maxine waters, thank you for your leadership. we include a section in the testimony describing the epidemic of violence our trans community members are facing and very much related to the previous conversation about the challenges with shelters, i want to offer up two things that are potential remedies that would prevent people from needing shelter and one is decriminalizing sex work. it is often the case black trans women are -- and so we should have more meaningful conversations at the federal level about decriminalizing that work. and very much related to that there are a number of black lgbtq plus folks who also face economic hardship a