CHUCK TODD:
This Sunday: Covid fallout. Vaccination frustration.
NEW YORK RESIDENT:
Refresh, refresh, refresh, and then you have to go back to through the form again and again.
CHUCK TODD:
Those new variants.
DR. ROCHELLE WALENSKY:
The continued spread of variants that are more transmissible could jeopardize the progress we have made.
CHUCK TODD:
And getting kids back to school.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:
I think to say that you’re not going to open up schools until every single one of the teachers get vaccinated — I don’t think that we can go there.
CHUCK TODD:
My guests this morning: Dr. Anthony Fauci and teachers union president Randi Weingarten. Also, the trouble in Texas.
TEXAS RESIDENT:
We need our power out here.
TEXAS RESIDENT:
Our heat went out. We also have pipes that busted.
TEXAS RESIDENT:
It’s freezing. It’s a blackout. No electricity.
CHUCK TODD:
Blackouts, water shortages, freezing temperature and the hot debate over how everything went so wrong.
ART ACEVEDO:
The state didn’t didn’t prepare for the worst-case scenario and now we’re paying the price.
CHUCK TODD:
Plus: the Republican civil war. Days after Mitch McConnell’s broadside against Donald Trump —
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL:
President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the event of the day.
CHUCK TODD:
— the former president strikes back, with a little help from his friends.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:
President Trump is the most consequential Republican in the party. If Mitch McConnell doesn’t understand that, he’s…
