The Vice President Harris and I in our entire administration will always be honest and transparent

with you about both the good news and the bad. We will level with you when we make a mistake.

We'll straight up say what happened. And I said at the outset, the honest truth is, we're still in a dark winter of this pandemic.

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

It's going to take many months to get where we need to be.

President Biden unveils his national strategy against COVID as the administration works to fight the virus. The question is

whether Republicans in Congress will support his economic rescue plan, plus new developments

in the Trump impeachment trial as Mitch McConnell seeks a delay. The question this morning,

has the former president finally found a lawyer who's willing

to defend him? And capital security, with Democrats concerned their colleagues on the other side

of the aisle may try to hurt them. The question, did a Republican congressman try to bring a gun

onto the House floor? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is perfectly fine with leaving

weapons out of politics. I am Casey Hunt on this Friday,

January 22nd. We'll start with the news. President Biden laid out a comprehensive strategy

against coronavirus yesterday and called on Congress to get behind the rescue plan that he

intends to unveil soon. predicting the U.S. death toll will likely reach half a million by next month.

The president framed his plan as a wartime effort that demands a wartime strategy.

Our national plan launches a full-scale wartime effort to address the supply shortages

by ramping up production and protective equipment,

syringes, needles, you name it. And when I say wartime, people kind of look at me like

war time. Well, as I said last night, 400,000 Americans have died. That's more than have died

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