live to michigan for governor gretchen whitmer state of the state address. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer released a statement -- >> governor met -- governor whitmer deliver our state of the state address and lay out the agenda for the future. together, we are focused on putting michiganders first. good paying jobs, childcare, clean water and high-speed internet. if you believe we can get these things, i encourage you to listen to the governors vision. with that, i would like to introduce the 49th governor of the great state of michigan, my friend, gretchen whitmer. >> get things done. [indiscernible] >> put michigan first. [indiscernible] >> good paying jobs and great schools. [indiscernible] >> there is nothing michigan can't do. gov. 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 fo

the message is at awkward time for governor gretchen whitmer, who is facing tough re-election year. candidate 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 addition

governor gretchen whitmer went to campaign with terry mcauliffe and it didn't go well in virginia. >> griff: tudor, are we seeing what happened in -- play out in michigan? >> yes, and we are call og schools to be transparent. we want parents to know what is happening in schools. right to know act means there should be transparency, we are seeing things that are upsetting to parents. you see books that are porno graphic, we had a 21-day equity challenge in michigan in december in one school and they are teaching children that saying the land of opportunity is a micro-aggression. one lesson was to teach children what micro-aggressions were. people were telling us words can't hurt you when i was in school. now they are telling students these words can hurt you. >> griff: something happens in michigan, the general releasing january 1 2020-2021, number of covid deathss of patients in long-term care, here are numbers you can see. it is undercounted by 1511, it was 5675 reported by the state initially but yet this auditor's report shows 7010. what is going on? >> this is something so many pe

. >> next, michigan governor gretchen whitmer delivers the 2022 state of the state of dress. bases 25 minutes. of the state address from lansing. this is 25 minutes. 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 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 th

. >> next michigan governor gretchen whitmer delivers the 2020 to state of the state address from lansing. this is 25 minutes. gov. 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 b

. >> 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

. >> next, michigan governor gretchen whitmer delivers the 2022 state of the state address from lansing. this is 25 minutes. gov. whitmer: good evening, michigan. today is our state's 185th birthday. to celebrate, we are at detroit diesel. built 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 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 nat

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 ab

. >> 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 was out there saying, i did this. you should be proud of me for doing this. how are we suddenly changing 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

gretchen whitmer said not to go to florida because of vaccine nonmandates. it is rule for 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

gretchen whitmer was out there saying, i did this. you should be proud of me for doing this. how are we suddenly changing 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 s 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. michigan needs relief. doing errands earlier today >>> doing errands earlier today, i drove by three schools that were closed. some for the millimeter of snow we got here in the d.c. area. others for omicron reasons. me friends, this has

gretchen whitmer went to florida. eric swalwell goes to florida, running away from the high 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? becau

take a close look at crimes like the plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. a plot 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 ha

it turns out gretchen whitmer, the disgraced governor of michigan, killed more elderly people in nursing homes that her policies 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 n

whitmer, the governor 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 this violence has generated. ju

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'

take a close look at crimes like the plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. a plot 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. the guys the feds said were running it turned 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. 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 bee

elizabeth: it is democrat michigan governor gretchen whitmer, new jersey governor phil murphy, even cnn anchor don lemon and as you point out alexandria 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

now, the efforts may succeed, despite any objections by governor gretchen whitmer. joined 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 a

obviously, chris , you i give you so turns out gretchen whitmer, the disgraced governor of michigan, killed more elderly people in nursing homes. we really thought her policies es a new report found that the state misrepresented covid death in long termrese care as e know this in part because one reporter in michigan pushed to find out. his name is charlie leduff. us now. hey. hey. why do some some laundry in your room and delivery came ? oh , laundry. we can do that one to do texan . oh , hi, mr. keith. we have to go whatever you want to do it, be ready with rock and roll makes a simple inconvenient to take care. so when the moments right you're ready román ready care advanced is seriously effective. it soothes the uncomfortable swelling, itching and pain of your hemorrhoids. make your say get rescare advanced today leveled off the cooking competition like you've never seen before. so it makes no new hit so winning dish if you pull it off ,you're on fire right now. on wednesday weaponizes serving the medusa theory is not funny . anyone else has. gordon finally met his match. this i

i think that the michigan democratic party teachers unions and governor gretchen whitmer think they own our kids. i think that's especially disturbing considering they have been the people advocating for closed schools and governor gretchen whitmer herself scholarships for parents to hire reading tutors or send their children to open schools. >> ainsley: kaitlin, if you read it sit down mom and dad, we know better than you do. and if you can afford a private school you go. but, if you can't and you are working really hard like all moms and dads do but you can't afford private school, you need to sit in your chair, mom and dad stay home. don't come to school board meetings and just listen to us. we will teach your kids what you need to know. not you. >> yeah. i mean, i sat in on the michigan school board meeting the other night. that is absolutely how they feel. just listening to some of the mothers and fathers calling in to the michigan school board meeting. being able to see those board members livestream and seeing some of their behaviors and they got towards the end of the night, one

whitmer, try her in their own court, and potentially execute her for treason.ig probm with the young... a woman governor from... you know who i'm talking about, from michigan. >> thompson: for months trump had been railing against the governor and her covid restrictions. and even after the plot was revealed, his attacks continued. >> you got to get your governor to open up your state, okay? >> lock her up! lock her up! >> lock 'em all up. >> thompson: a kidnapping plot against a sitting governor. it was a shocking escalation in tactics. not long after the arrests, i went to michigan to investigate. the fbi identified the militia behind the plot as the wolverine watchmen. their social media is full of boogaloo iconography and law enforcement has connected them to militia members in at least four states. among the people arrested for the kidnapping plot were joe morrison and his father-in-law, pete musico-- the founders of the wolverine watchmen. also arrested was barry croft, who prosecutors call "probably the most committed violent extremist of the entire group." according to the fbi

whitmer, apparently hiding in her basement because we are not hearing her come out and stand up for students? griff: the governor's office want schools open as the president alluded to as well but my question is, we -- the year we went through last year with our kids in schools, are things headed for another difficult year there in michigan now? >> this is the fear and you have to remember that the data does show that we have higher suicide rates than we've ever had before. i heard you mention mental health. thank you so much for doing that because right now we are seeing the 3 and 5 students either know another student who has considered self-harm or suicide. we are in a situation where we are looking at life or death when it comes to keeping these schools open and flint, for example, they received the highest numbers of dollars from michigan government keeping schools open, over $155 million to that school to keep it open and now we are shutting it down. what were were the dollars going for and when are we going to say the future of michigan, our youth is the most important part o

we saw it with governor gretchen whitmer in the lead-up to election 2020. and so, this is a consistent thing where we have political leaders in this country who want to dehumanize targets but not just targets, government workers, appointed officials that are trying to work in the best interests of the country and are being put at risk by the thousands of people out there that hear that message, some, a very small minority out there, want to undertake violence and it's almost impossible to predict or prevent, creating an enormous law enforcement challenge, so i just don't know where this ends without someone being hurt or a major loss to this country in terms of human life. >> you know, donna, it's so chilling, listening to clint talk and then to remind myself he's talking about dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci was on the job when i worked in the government. he's someone who probably never thought he'd brush up against the most sort of extreme elements in this version of the most extreme version of the republican party in my lifetime, but -- and i felt this way

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 ab

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