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Brady references Trump election lie at White House
Martin Pengelly
Slightly rueful laughter at the White House, as Tom Brady, the quarterback of the Super Bowl Tampa Bay Buccaneers, thanked Joe Biden for welcoming the team today.
“We were 7&5 struggling a little bit,” Brady said of his team’s season, “… but we found our rhythm, we got on a roll, not a lot of people, you know, think that we could have won.”
That might’ve described Biden’s surge to victory in the Democratic primary after a poor start. But Brady wasn’t finished.
“In fact,” he said, “I think, 40% of people still don’t think we won.”
“I understand that,” said Biden, who won the Super Bowl of politics, a presidential election, by a convincing margin only to find his opponent fuelling belief among a significant portion of Republicans in the lie that his defeat was the result of fraud.
“You understand that, Mr President?” said Brady.
Brady, as it happens, has been close to one Donald J Trump. On Tuesday he said it was “nice to be back” at the White House. But the great quarterback skipped visits after his New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2015 and 2017 before the whole team took a pass in 2019.
NEW: Tom Brady at the White House on the Bucs' Super Bowl run:
"Not a lot of people think that we could have won. In fact, I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won."
Last year, Brady discussed his friendship with Trump, which he said predated Trump’s entry to politics, and which he had worked hard to keep that way.
“Yeah well, [Trump] wanted me to speak at [the 2016] convention too,” Brady told Howard Stern. “And I wasn’t going to do anything political.”
He added: “I didn’t want to get into all the political, because 50% of the people feel … there’s zero win in anything with regard to that. It’s politics.”
About 40 Buccaneers players and staff made the trip to the White House on Tuesday, reporters said.
The House select committee looking into the 6 January attack on the US Capitol is set to have its first hearing next week. By now, we know that House minority leader Kevin McCarthy will appoint representative Jim Jordan and two other representatives who voted to overturn the presidential election to the select committee.
The question on Capitol Hill now is lawmakers who supported the baseless objections to the certification of the presidential election - the baseless objections that many who stormed the Capitol cited as their reason for doing so - can adequately serve on a committee investigating the attack.
Pelosi told me she’s “considering” Kevin McCarthy’s “proposals” to serve on Jan. 6 committee. But she said how people voted on Jan. 6 on whether to certify the results is “not a criterion for service.” She wouldn’t say what she is weighing or say when she should make a decision. pic.twitter.com/3AEPBnlbEe
Asked Rep. Aguilar whether Pelosi should reject McCarthy picks for 1/6 committee who didn’t certify election - he says they’ll accept “that everyone in that room will be guided by seeking the truth of what happened. That's my, my presumption until I'm proven otherwise.”
Jim Jordan, who was selected by McCarthy to serve on the Jan. 6 select committee, told me he’s willing to testify before panel about his conversations with Trump. “If they call me, I got nothing to hide.”
Jordan also suggested that Speaker Pelosi's actions are of interest to him.
"There's one question that needs to be answered, and that's why wasn't there proper security presence that day. And that's a question only the speaker can answer."
The staffer of House speaker Nancy Pelosi who tested positive for Covid-19 has not been in contact with Pelosi since exposure.
A senior aide in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office has tested positive for Covid after being in contact with Texas Democrats last week, @AnnieGrayerCNN confirms. The person has not been in contact w/Pelosi since exposure but Pelosi was seen earlier wearing a mask.
Report: White House official and Pelosi aide test positive for Covid
A White House official and an aide for House speaker Nancy Pelosi have tested positive for Covid-19, Axios is reporting.
The Pelosi staffer had escorted a delegation of Texas Democrats around the Capitol this week. Some of the Texas Democrats, who fled the state to Washington to prevent quorum on a restrictive voting bill, had tested positive over the weekend.
The staffer and the White House official then attended the same rooftop reception at the Hotel Eaton last Wednesday night.
Everyone involved had been vaccinated, highlighting once again that even vaccinated individuals can still contract and transmit the virus. However, as with the Texas Democrats, all reported symptoms have been mild.
Mandela Barnes, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, announced today that he was running for Senate, joining a crowded field of Democrats vying for the seat.
“Hard-working families deserve every opportunity, but politicians like senator Ron Johnson aren’t delivering,” Barnes tweeted. “Instead of changing our dreams, we need to change the game.”
I’m Mandela Barnes and I’m running to be Wisconsin’s next Senator.
Hard-working families deserve every opportunity, but politicians like Senator Ron Johnson aren’t delivering. Instead of changing our dreams, we need to change the game. Join us. pic.twitter.com/XzVS3WHqQf
Barnes, along with governor Tony Evers, narrowly defeated incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch in 2018, a significant victory for Democrats during a Donald Trump presidency.
While Republican Johnson has not said if he plans to seek reelection, this seat would be an important win in securing the majority in a 50-50 Senate for Democrats - especially given that Joe Biden won Wisconsin.
Following a plunge yesterday brought on by concerns about the spread of the Delta variant, stocks are opening higher on Wall Street today, the Associated Press is reporting:
The S&P 500 was up 0.4% in the early going, a day after its biggest drop since May
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.14%, its lowest level since February
Hospital operator HCA Healthcare jumped after reporting a solid quarter
IBM rose after reporting revenue that beat forecasts
US imposes sanctions against Honduran president and family
Secretary of state Antony Blinken has designated President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, former first lady Rosa Elena Bonilla Avilaand their immediate family ineligible for entry into the US for their alleged involvement in corruption.
The state department alleges that the president accepted bribes from the narco-trafficking organization Los Cachiros in exchange for political favors, while his former wife engaged in fraud and misappropriated funds for her benefit as first lady.
In case you missed it, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer filed cloture yesterday on the bipartisan infrastructure plan, meaning that the Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to begin debate on the deal negotiated between Republicans, Democrats and Joe Biden to bolster the country’s roads, bridges, public transit and broadband.
A quick recap because let’s face it, this is very confusing: we currently have two infrastructure bills before us: the bipartisan bill and the $3.5tn reconciliation bill that focuses on “human infrastructure” like social services and environmental measures.
Republicans are unhappy because they feel like after negotiating on the bipartisan bill, Democrats tacked on the reconciliation bill as a package deal. They’re also balking at the overall size of the reconciliation bill.
So something that was seemingly all negotiated out is now getting tied up once again in negotiations: the bipartisan group behind the bipartisan deal spent the weekend trying to plug a $100bn hole that arose after Republicans found another issue.
Thus, the cloture. Democrats would like to turn their attention to the reconciliation bill. Republicans, however, are not happy about getting rushed on the bipartisan bill.
GOP senators have appealed to WH to urge Schumer to back off his plans for Wednesday procedural vote on infrastructure, per source.
Others made clear they need more time to negotiate.
"We are going to be hard-pressed to be ready to vote," Murkowski said
Schumer takes steps to set up Wednesday procedural vote on bipartisan infrastructure deal, rejecting GOP pleas to delay vote. “If we don't have a bill agreed to, I have a hard time understanding why we would proceed to a bill,” Romney said
Schumer: “They will continue to have more time to debate, amend and perfect the bill once the Senate votes to take up this crucial issue. But they have been working on this bipartisan framework for more than a month already, and it's time to begin the debate.”
Schumer needs 60 votes to get cloture and begin debate. Senate minority whip John Thunetold Politico, “He’s not going to get 60, let’s put it that way. The legislation is not drafted, the pay-fors are a long ways away. Patience is going to be a virtue.”
Schumer, however, had the support of the White House.
We are grateful to @SenSchumer for continuing to push for progress in the Senate on bi-partisan legislation that will rebuild our nation's infrastructure
White House: social media companies 'should be held accountable' for Covid misinformation
Ahoy there, liveblog readers. Happy Tuesday.
Yesterday Joe Biden walked back some of his criticism of Facebook, saying he never meant to say “Facebook is killing people” when it came to the spread of misinformation around Covidvaccines.
President Biden clarifies his statement about Facebook: "My hope is, that Facebook instead of taking it personally, that somehow I'm saying 'Facebook is killing people', that they would do something about the misinformation." pic.twitter.com/GXfZOHxWKl
Later, White House press secretary Jen Psaki clarified a bit further, but did not quite let the social media giant off the hook: “Our fight is not with one social media platform. It is with the virus,” she said. “We have a role, everybody has a role, in combating misinformation...In terms of monitoring whether there have been steps that have been taken, there are all things you all can assess...do you have access from these companies on who is receiving misinformation? I don’t think that information has been released.”
Today, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield went on Morning Joe to speak more about the spread of misinformation on social media. “Right now this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated: 99.5% of people who are in the hospital or who have died from this virus are unvaccinated,” Bedingfield said in an interview with Mika Brzezinski.
.@morningmika: Should social media companies be legally "liable for publishing" misinformation about vaccines and "open to lawsuits?"
Brzezinski asked Bedingfield about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which exempts platforms from legal liability for content generated by its users.
“Shouldn’t (social media platforms) be held accountable in a real way, shouldn’t they be liable for publishing that information and open to lawsuits?” Brzezinski asked.
“We’re reviewing that, and certainly they should be held accountable, and I think you heard the president speak very aggressively about this,” Bedingfield said. “He understands that this is an important piece of the ecosystem.”
She continued: “It is also the responsibility of the people creating the content. There are conservative news outlets who are creating irresponsible content that is sharing misinformation about the virus that is getting shared on these platforms. It is a big and complicated ecosystem and everybody bears responsibility to ensure we are not providing people with bad information about a vaccine that will save their lives.”
