. >> what we have seen from the former occupant of the white house time and time again is delay. >> reporter: january 6 committee member california congressman peter agular said the documents could shet light on new reports mr. trump spent the hours before the capitol attack working the phones, talking to advisers about ways to stop the certification of president biden's election. >> this was a key focus on the president's mind at the time, and that he was working with his team in order to try to thwart the certification of the ballots. >> reporter: former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows agreed today to cooperate with the committee after snubbing the panel for months. >> no one in the west wing had any knowledge that anything like what happened on january 6 was going to happen. >> reporter: his change of heart comes after former trump adviser steve bannon was charged with criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate.n meadows' decision: tomorrow the committee is set to decide whether to seek a contempt charge against jeffrey clark. clark is a former d.o.j. official from the trum

. >> reporter: the white house today reassuring americans that if necessary, it would take about three months for vaccines makers to update the vaccine for omicron and get shots into arms. >> the estimate of a few months is all inclusive. >> reporter: just hours after moderna's ceo warned the vaccines will be less effective at tackling omicron, saying all the scientists i've talked to say this is not going to be good, the founder of pfizer's partner biontech said even if the variant brings more breakthrough infections, the vaccine should protect the vaccinated from severe illness. tonight authorities reminding americans a booster might be the best protection saying antibody levels are higher after the third shot. >> we know from every variant that we have dealt with that the more neutralizing antibodies you have on board, the more effective those vaccines are against variants. and we expect, even if it's not perfect, certainly the more neutralizing antibodies, the fact that you're boosted, the greater protection you can have. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci ecoing that point just today.

saying listen to us at the white house. don't listen to judges in whichever circuit are hearing these challenges, so, once the president lands back here in washington, and they start having briefing's again tomorrow and he has some events about the supply chain i would suspect if they continue talking like they have been to hear more of that just do what we have said with these vaccine requirements we think it's really important regardless of what a judge says, bret. >> bret: law factors in there. peter doocy live on the north lawn, thanks. stocks plummeted today. the dow sank 652. >> the s&p 500 lost 88, the nasdaq fell 245. major drug makers are testing to see if their covid-19 vaccines are being effective against the omicron variant. correspondent jonathan serrie tells us where things stand tonight from atlanta. >> it could take two weeks for laboratory tests in real world surveillance to determine whether the omicron variant is more resistant to current antibody treatments and vaccines. but researchers are concerned abo

let's go to chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. what is the administration doing to track down the variant to see if it is already in the u.s. >> they're trying to figure out if it is here. they have not detected it yet, that's the latest from the cdc director when she briefed reporters. they're trying to find the variant. they haven't found it yet. officials say if it is not here yet, it will be soon, given how fast it is spreading. you're seeing 20 countries and counting now identifying the variant in their nation. the cdc director said as part of that effort, wolf, they're in daily contact with labs across the united states. likely it could be one of those that find the variant and alert the cdc after that. on top of that, they're ramping up surveillance of airports. that's where a lot of travelers from international communities are coming through, international travelers as well. four major airports across the united states, they're ramping up surveillance. san francisco, jfk, newark and atlanta. in addition to that, they're co

the white house insists they were following public health officials' early recommendations and they're willing to adjust as they go. walk us through that. >> let's make three points. first, we should remember the influenza pandemic, it started in, probably, kansas, and that's a good example of what juanita was saying. that's one of the reasons we've gotten rid of calling it by a country and instead calling it by a greek alphabet letter because the actual facts may be different than the country that pipes up. second, we should be clear about what the travel ban can and cannot do. american citizens can come back and they could easily be infected. residents can come back, they could easily be infected. this is not a tight seal the way the chinese have or the australians or singapore has put in place. we just haven't done that. and therefore, at best, this travel ban is going to slow by a few days, maybe a few weeks, the arrival. i'm pretty sure it's already here, the omicron is already in this country. we just haven't detected it. as i've said before, absence of evidence is not evidence o

former president trump's lawyers former president trump's white house chief of staff, mark meadows, is now cooperating with the congressional probe of the capitol assault last january. the committee's chair said today that meadows has turned over records, and will give a deposition. for now, the committee has put off plans to hold him in contempt. in afghanistan, there is word that the taliban has killed or abducted more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since seizing power in august. human rights watch reports that taliban commanders have carried out night raids. they initially promised amnesty to those who are now being attacked-- or targeted. russian president vladimir putin issued a new warning to nato today over ukraine. he said that russia will have to act if the alliance places advanced missiles in ukraine. he spoke during an online forum in moscow. >> ( translated ):reating such threats in ukraine poses red lines for us. but, i hope it doesn't come to that. i hope that common sense, and a responsibility for both our countries and the world community, will prevail

the white house covid-19 response coordinator echoing president biden's comments this week on the new omicron variant that's rapidly spreading in other parts of the world, roughly 20 countries, including australia austria, belgium, canada and france. a dutch health agency is now reporting this concerning new strain that hasn't yet been detected here in the u.s. was already in europe. the netherlands a week before south africa disclosed its early cases. the u.s. has now restricted travel in 8 southern african countries with experts predicting that it's only a matter of time before the omicron variant services in the u.s. while it's still unclear if the strain is deadly and contagious as the delta variant, the nation's leading infectious disease expert doctor anthony fauci offered this guidance during this morning's white house covid-19 response team briefing. that is difficult to infer. but the relationship between this t is. >> and delta, although you can suggest that might be more. we do not know until we see the dynamics of how this evolves on the issue of vaccine effectiveness. as

house about another possible summit. the biden administration says it doesn't know of any plans, but it does say it's been holding talks with russian officials about you. cray, bernard smith, al jazeera moscow last spring, and marcus macowski. now to talk more about this, he is a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council joint council joining us via skype now from washington. thank you for being with us. let me ask you, 1st of all, what are the chances of this point based on what we know so far that russia is, will in fact invade ukraine? no, i think that the risk of crisis is real and it's growing. i think the scale of the russian escalation and mobile invasion of forces to the tune of over a 100000 with artillery intelligence enablers. logistics has surprise us officials and also has raised the concern that this is much more serious than the russian mobilizations in march. and april, so i still believe that present improvement seeking political concessions from ukraine and is frustrated with ukraine. but his w

house officials pushing for calm as markets plunge. >> the fed testimony on the

so the white house says they want to try to use this time wisely. the time they believe the travel restrictions for instance that they put in place are buying them. and we should also note just in, wolf, there are new developments in the u.s. about what's going on in the fight against covid-19 overall. not just related to the omicron variant. advisers to the fda have voted 13-10 to get an emergency authorization of that new anti-covid pill that's being made by merck. of course, this is something that still has to go to the fda and if they make a decision based on this recommendation from these advisers. this is something not just concerning to the scientists working on this but also look at stocks today. you saw them tumbling. the dow was down several points -- several hundred points because there are concerns about what this variant means for the united states in addition to those comments from the fed chair earlier today saying they can no longer really call inflation transitory. >> the dow down another 650 points just today. thank you very much.

then if there is the big problems with inflation and the supply chain crisis that the white house has repeatedly blamed on covid. jen psaki has some new spin to beth about. >> we are out there, democrats and others are out there, and taking steps to lower the costs. what is the republican plan for lowering costs, for addressing inflation? do something they were very concerned about that they don't seem to have any solutions for. >> jesse: are you buying that spin? >> dana: i would say the republicans are dumping a whole bunch more money into the government that will actually lead to inflation. that's a plan, the plan to not spend his still a plan. just because you are adding more money to the deficit or budget doesn't mean that you don't have a plan. actually think what president biden has done the past couple days is pretty good. he said we are not going back to lockdowns, i think he knows that that is number one not necessary but also politically untenable. he maxed out on his covid credit card and now he wants to continue to swipe it but everyone's like new, you are next out, you d

house about another possible summit. the bad not administration says it doesn't know of any plans, but it does say it's been holding talks with russian officials about you. cray, bernard smith, i'll just sarah moscow. a record number of children are living in the world's most gleeful war zones. that's according to a new report by save the children. it says many of them are already facing threats from climate change and unprecedented levels of hunger. if a 20 percent increase in the space of a year, bringing the total to almost $200000000.00 children in 13 countries, it highlights outbreaks of violence in mozambique as well as ongoing conflicts and canister on democrats, republic of congo, and nigeria in driving that shock. price, on top of that, it says 337000000 children are a risk of being recruited by all the groups and government forces that includes child soldiers as well as children being used, the spies, and as suicide bombers. the number of very tried cases of children being recruited by on groups rose 10 percent

if the white house came to you and said, here, mr. chairman, write this speech that you think delivers the best message to help you keep the majority in the house, what would it be? >> well, the reason i said free joe biden is that i think joe biden has the voice of the working and middle class families like the ones so many of us grew up in. he understands what it's like for a family to struggle to live the american dream if your country has the back. i want him to be the messenger and so my plan would be get the president out there. put him with hard hats on the factory floor. i love it when he's behind the wheel of a pickup truck or talking to families out there making ends meet. that's the voice of working middle class people that he's the heart and soul of the democratic agenda. we are accomplishing real things that will create jobs, grow our economy, end this pandemic and move us forward as one country again. and i want the president out there communicating with the american public. >> earlier this month i spoke with congressman

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. >> neil: thank you, peter doocy at the white house. we don't know a lot about omicron but we know it could be a startling development. these are like 50 variants tucked in to one. it became a big issue discussed on capitol hill because nobody knows how this plays out, including two big money people in this country, the chairman of the federal reserve and the treasury secretary. the read on how that went down with hillary vaughn on capitol hill. hi, hillary. >> hi, neil. the line that inflation is temporary, it's transitory is getting thrown out with the trash today. jerome powell admitted to lawmakers calling inflation transitory is not the best way to described the crazy high prices that americans are experiencing every single day. he also said inflation right now is close to checking off of the boxes the fed needs to see in order to hike interest rates in response. he admits calling it temporary isn't the best way to describe it. he probably said it's a good time to retire the word "transitory" instead. he painted an ominous picture

house. the seperate to that, a panel ofjudges in the court of appeal in washington is considering mr trumps attempt to block the release of records and conversations he had that day. three weeks ago a district court, ruled the document should be handed over to the commitee. let�*s speak to elizabeth wydra, president of the constitutional accountability center. elizabeth, let me tell you —— let me walk me to the programme. let�*s start with mark meadows. —— welcome you to the programme. see ban and relish the idea of going to cry to defy the committee. mark meadows, not so much. i defy the committee. mark meadows, not so much-— not so much. i think the indictment for a steve — not so much. i think the indictment for a steve bannon _ not so much. i think the indictment for a steve bannon for— not so much. i think the indictment for a steve bannon for contempt i not so much. i think the indictment for a steve bannon for contempt of| for a steve bannon for contempt of congress

distinguished career at the white house deputy for counterterrorism and msa. two time recipient of the broad star. west point graduate. she asked me to stop there because sheo doesn't want me t gogo through the whole list. i am only half way through so, again, two great speaker, two leaders ins the field. i think critical infrastructure protection has been highlighted by recent events we've all seen. more importantlyly by the activities not just of russia but china and iran. this is a very timely series to have a discussion of and representative, let me turn it over to you. >> well, thank you very much for that nice introduction and obviously jen is an amazing person and i am happy to be here with her. thanks for having me. i could pick no better way to close out national cyber securityty awareness month thano becl discussing this very issue with you all. a i am delighted to be here with my friends. i want to thank director easterly foror her service not only over the past 100 days in her new role butol in the cours of her 20 plus years in the military. i have

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this is one part of a plan the white house covid response team detailed today to fight this highly mutated variant. scientists are racing to determine if the current vaccines protect against this variant and if it spreads more easily. experts hope to have answers in about a week. in the meantime, markets continue to be rattled and the travel bans continue to multiply. >> more than 70 countries now including the u.s. have issued travel bans against southern african nations. omicron was first detected in south africa, and now has been confirmed in 20 countries. still not the u.s. though. and the cdc director says the u.s. now has far more tools today to fight variants than this time last year. >> compared to earlier this year when we were sequencing about 8,000 samples per week, we have increased our genomic sequencing capability, and we are now sequencing approximately 80,000 samples per week, about one in every seven pcr positive cases and that's more than any other country. >> our correspondents are following omicron's impact around the world. >> i'm frederik pleitgen in berlin, as german

reporter: and the white house is confident in two things in december. one, that they will raise the debt ceiling or suspend it and two, that the social spending package the president wants will be passed this month; however on that last point we've heard that from the white house over the summer and we heard it from the fall and now we're hear ing it in the winter. back to you. liz: edward hate to say it but we're one point away from session lows, session low down 679 for the dow jones industrial s and we are down, well there it goes, down 680, okay, we've now set a new low at the moment. the dow still standing at 34, 467 though, big banks are set to benefit with a possible interest rate liftoff for next year and maybe even earlier if you believe what fed chief jay powell said this morning, so why is sector trading in the red? we will ask our $40 billion countdown closer, next. ♪ ♪ remember when no dream was too big? ♪ ♪ and you could fearlessly face the unknown. (kids playing) you still can. ♪ ♪ (blowing dust) when you have a rock you can d

president biden announcing earlier this week, the white house will release a full plan on how it plans to come back covid-19 over the winter holidays. that plan is set to be unveiled thursday. i'm james torres, ktvu, fox two news. now to a selloff on wall street today following uncertainty surrounding the macron covid varied and how lawmakers might respond. the federal reserve chairman, jerome powell, was testifying on capitol hill about the state of the economy and the threat. this new varied could post to the ongoing recovery. madeline rivera picks it up from there. the market opening lower tuesday over fresh fears that the american variant could derail the economy. the recent rise in covid-19 cases and the emergence of the macron variante employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation. federal reserve chair jerome powell, raising concerns that the variant will discourage people from working and intensify snarls and the supply chain that have already driven up inflation. powell predicting that inflation could last well into next year, but he does expect thin

let's bring in the ceo josh silverman that met with president biden yesterdayal at h white house. good to have you. >> thank you for having me nice to see you. >> there was some hope going into yesterday's meeting of a peak in supply chain concerns. what was your conversation with the president like what did you share >> it was a good conversation with the president first, i was honored to be there and represent small businesses and in particular the 5 million etsy sellers and our message to the president is that etsy sellers are ready to step up this holiday season. their shelves are stocked and we feel and they tell us that they're ready for the season and the data seeing supports that. the president continued to be a strong and a vocal proponent of small businesses and does understand how important small businesses are for the economy and what i talked with him in particular is infrastructure that's important for small business to succeed in particular the u.s. postal service. 1 in 4 etsy sellers live in a rural area they can cherry pick the most profitable routes. the postal s

house to torment when now, 11 years on. and it's the time to actually start embracing it or why bottom, a tool to start actually showing some of the joy and spirits in what's happening in tone and the construction of it and the guy twice. but we haven't really seen over the, over the past few years, when the toner, we kicked off and i mean the well caught what the pay for our cult. it will be a success because that's what happened with well, and this is a compact told him that gender is well, i think appreciate 32 teams bill before the expansion to 48. but the next few months, there will be a lot of turbulent, there'll be a big spotlight and there's no agenda around the, the gold, it's only right. the in scandinavia are germany, the u. k. austria aware of the variable questions about this tony and, and i think those questions have to be accepted and answered honestly. i hope you know that many parts we've had a lot of football is obviously protesting from march, almost with vague human rights asia. but the government themse

as white extreme as white nationalists. all these things that again, if it's a certain narrative, but it to be honest, doesn't seem to add up to what you are. you actually saw what the facts are. so i see it as virtue signaling corporations basically trying to play this card like, you know, we're, you know, we're against the, we're against the dangers of gun violence where, you know, we're all in favor of, you know, the protest, things like this. so a really, it's, it's difficult to say exactly what motivates it beyond the idea of getting into a liberal narrative of reality at this point. well, it was interesting, you bring the idea of the narrative of reality because even over i heard over the weekend. so when talking about diversity and they made the kind of how the root of the word diversity is actually divide and how sadly situations which focus on crating diversity sometimes only make people in the present more divided. and this is not just about racial lines, is about other issues, males, females, young, old, rich, po

figuring out how to manage the white house, the state department nexus which kinzinger was pretty unique on and one way he did it was for the first two years he was national security advisor and secretary of state which is how it only happened it is head as opposed to the institutions. >> we will leave this event to take you live to the u.s. senate part of our over 40 year commitment to bring you live coverage of congress. live gavel to gavel coverage on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. a senator: madam president? the presidi i rise today with my friend and colleague from arkansas senator cotton to honor deputy sheriff frank ramirez, jr., deputy ramirez called batesville, arkansas home and was proud to help protect his community. sadly that service was required and this requirement was making the ultimate sacrifice when he died in the line of duty on thursday, november 18, in an early morning crash that occurred while he was responding to a call. mr. boozman: he leaves behind a wife and two children among many other loving family members as well as his broth

the white house covid response team says the u.s. has far more tools today to fight variants than this time last year and is urging everyone eligible to get a booster. >> so, when we say that although these mutations suggest a diminution of protection and a degree of immune evasion, you still, from experience that we have with delta, can make a reasonable conclusion that you would not eliminate all protection against this particular variant. and that's the reason why we don't know what that degree of diminution of protection is going to be, but we know that when you boost somebody, you elevate your level of protection very high, and we are hoping, and i think with good reason, to feel good that there will be some degree of protection. >> cnn international correspondent david mckenzie is tracking the many developments for us from south africa. what's happening there, david? >> reporter: alisyn, there is lots that is unknown about the virus, but here in south africa, they're very concerned about those many mutations and despite all the

kimberly how care with the latest they're from outside the white house. kimberly, thank you. officials in the netherlands have revealed at the macro covey 19 variant was present in europe for at least a week before flights from southern africa were band health authorities there say that they've detected the variance in 2 samples from november, the 19th one week later, the w h o labeled it a variant of concern and countries shut their borders to southern africa. domains incoming transfer. all of shots says mandatory vaccines are necessary to contain a 4th wave of the pandemic in the country. he will parliament to vote on the matter before the end of the year. dominic cane has more from the capital berlin. the seriousness of the coven situation. here in germany, his focus many mines, both medics and ministers. on what they can do to try to dampen down this wave of covert that has been washing across the states of germany for many weeks. now. in one sense, the politicians have decided to decide later many of the ministers who took part in the digital confere

kroger was at the white house yesterday, walmart was at the white house yesterday, there's going to be a 3:45 call, president biden was updating us on the great meeting and instead they canceled it until tomorrow, and now this ftc news and it doesn't feel right these folks went to perhaps try to solve the solution and now being investigated grady thank you so much my friend. you know, folks, friday market was dealt a shift in selling we saw a massive dull ping of names that have already been down, so we saw a whole bunch of 52 week lows and i've been talking about that but then, we saw a whole bunch of 52 week highs start to dwindle. i think people are selling their winners but thud she be riding them out in fact be looking to buy the dip? i want to bring in mark tepper and david nelson to help us round out this show. mark i'll start with you. it seems to me, if you're in a stock that's down you're probably down a lot, so now it feels like people might be panic king, selling their winners , even though probably they wanted to hold on to it two or three days ago. >> i wouldn't doubt tha

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one of the people closest to former president trump by his side in the white house is now cooperating, we're told, with former chief of staff mark meadows, set for a deposition at some point soon. with potentially bad news for the former p

he was dominant, he was very effective in operating and hostile white house and the president and the statehe department when he was pursuing pro-israel policy. he had a maneuver, he was very successful. he became secretary of state and he became dominant. part of the reason of the dominance was because nixon was preoccupied and he had to resign and during that period and once florida became president he was president for foreign policy. nate kinzinger was. florida did not have any experience in kinzinger became dominated because of those particular circumstances i think. none of those things really applied today and part of the reason for writing the book and a lot of the focus was on the middle east. i wanted to resurrect the rkinzinger in approach becausei think there's a lot that we can learn from it in era when geopolitics is returning and competition between simple powers is dominated the internationalis system again. >> i think you succeed in doing that. the irresponsibility that we had for 30 years and not having to think strategically because we were so dominant. whatever we

what's interesting is there is a choice the white house could make. essentially all of their current problems that they're trying to deal with in this country, inflation, it's about covid. covid itself, it's obvious. the supply chain. we can go on and on. it is all through the prism of covid. are we going to see more of that front-facing messaging out of the white house now considering with omicron on the horizon? >> reporter: i think, chuck. i think when you've heard from the president, from the white house officials since the emergence of the omicron variant just a few days ago, one of the real messages has been are you better off now than you were a year ago? it's been to try to say this is certainly a cause for concern but not a cause for panic, as the president himself said yesterday. they're pointing to all the ways in which they prepared for this moment, they have been closely tracking it. we're in a much different place as a country to be equipped to deal with whatever comes now than a year ago. the much better comparison is to what happened w

the white house covid response team says the u.s. has far more tools today to fight variants than this time last year and is urging everyone eligible to get a booster. >> so, when we say that although

our white house correspondent, kimberly hall, could explains why this decision was made. no. the u. s. made this announcement on the heels of a meeting between a national security council representative for latin america as well as officials in columbia. and part of the reason that this designation his being lifted now is the fact that the united states continues to conduct work in this area and is having difficulty doing so, given the fact that the designation of terror against the, the park organization was still in place despite that 2016 peace accord being signed and the more than 10000 members laying down their arms and particularly in some of those areas where those members are still living, that has made us peace efforts and aid efforts difficult. so that is one of the reasons that the other rationale behind the, by the ministrations lifting of this designation is the fact that it really is not a unified organization anymore in the eyes of the bite and white house. and so they felt that it was no longer appropriate to leave it in place. telephone go volunteer to has more from

and so the white house did admit -- they said only very briefly and for religious purposes. >> john: miranda, we've got just about 30 seconds left. within the intentions ratcheting up in this tangled web involving the bidens, what effect could this have on national security? >> well, i think it's very serious because there is definitely the potential that the biden family is compromised. joe biden, the present, is compromised in the eyes of china. and if there is the appearance of that, it weakens america's position on the international stage. i do think that joe biden should come clean about what his relationship was with hunter biden and his business partners and what his involvement was. >> john: the book is called "laptop from hell." miranda devine puts it all together in one place. randy, thanks for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> john: sandra, when you look at the relationship between president xi jinping where he says we are not friends, and xi jinping says oh, my good friend, joe biden. you've got to wonder how all of this fits together and how it is going to play out i

former white house chief of staff mark meadows agreed to be deposed by the congressional panel investigating the january 6th attacks on capitol hill. however, a lawyer for meadows says his client still believes executive privilege prevents him from having to answer some questions. the panel had threatened contempt of congress vote to force meadows to testify >>> freddie mac and fannie mae will soon back mortgages of nearly $1 million. they are raising loan limits by 18% next year, which means home buyers in high-cost markets can get federal backing for loans up to $970,000. most of the country, the limit will be up to nearly $650,000. >>> the world health organization is warning countries against blanket travel bans related to the omicron variant. it says the bans will not stop international spread and place heavy burdens on the targeted countries. >>> the senate commerce committee invited the ceos of seven major airlines to testify at a hearing ondecember 8th. the chairman of the committee wants them to explain why the airlines have worker shortages despite receiving billions of dollars in

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one year ago america was >> and live now to the white house covid-19 response team briefing. we are expecting to hear about the biden administration's approach to the omicron variant. jeff: this new variant is cause for concern but not panic because we now have the tools we need to confront this variant and continue to make proimpress in the war against the virus. we have vaccines for everyone ages 5 and up. boosters that provide the highest level of protection. significant genomic sequences and testing capacity to detect cases early. and lifesaving therapeutics. so we have more tools than ever before. we are prepared and will continue to be guided by science and stay vigilant to keep people safe. now over to you dr. fauci. dr. fauci: thank you very much, jeff. i want to talk a little bit about the details of this omicron variant. so if i could have the first slide, just to put it in some perspective, this is a list of the variants of concerns we had to deal with, what their designation is, and what the earliest documented samples were. and, of course, today, we'll be focusin

once more and always, the white house can shake covid-19. president biden was elected one year ago to managing out-of-control pandemic and he secured some undeniable early triumphs by -- steering a massive covid relief bill while monitoring in -- a vaccination program. as a president was celebrating progress, the pandemic -- the delta variant sent cases surging, rattling the nation's economy. sending the president's poll numbers tumbling. the sudden emergence of the omicron variant as far as fears of another devastating virus, one that could endanger the white house plans to focus on biden's legislative agenda and efforts to battle inflation and a bottleneck supply chain. the handling of the omicron variant, the covid response overall. 202-748-8000 for democrats, 202-748-8001 for republicans and 202-748-8002 for independents and others. we will get to your calls momentarily. comments from president biden yesterday at the white house. @cspanwj --[video clip] >> there are three messages i want the people to hear. this variance is a cause for c

is it the current occupant of the white house or the former? >> this is a key ruling we're waiting for now, laura, after the hearing and the arguments because if the d.c. appeals court says trump has no privilege or certainly has no blanket privilege, he might argument about this document or that document, then what right does any other witness have to say a then i have a privilege? >> absolutely. she's exactly right, the judge, to talk about the idea what it actually comes down to. remember, the executive privilege is not belonging to the incumbent. it's the person in the presidency. the former president can no longer veto, no longer the commander in team and their powers are limited even with regards to privilege asergsz so this judge on the three-judge panel know exactly the issue here. remember, there are going to be instances, john, where the assertion of the privilege might be more valid than others, but a blanket assertion that says you can't have any document even when there's an exception here which is valid, a potential criminal act,

there are so many challenging that face any white house, this white house in particular, and you have to be able to do this all at the same time and i think i'm glad to hear about a stepped up schedule. i think as i said before the process of the last several months really informed the substance. it is really an important time to show people the substance that he has been working on. and a quick follow for you bald you tried to do a lot at one time. you were there when health care passed and of course democrats lost the house after president balk was elected. what are the lessons there for president biden, do you think? >> i think the biggest difference is health care was set up to take place a few years later. we had not set up health care exchanges, that was yet to come. and i think that the advantage that this white house has over the one in 2009 and 2010 is immediate benefits, right? like when they get to messaging some of the specifics. they talk about making it more affordable. that is part of it that can help people's bottom line. we know they're worried about rising prices and

even in her white house portrait. melania was absolutely ripped apart for wearing her 10 year engagement ring in the photo which people essentially just criticized and said shouldn't have been there no matter what she did she couldn't do it right. here doing it again the attempts by the trump administration to honor those and to have a if he has been wonderful observant merry christmas was unfortunately laid at the feet of the grinch media. >> yeah the treatment of first lady melania trump was awful. she was amazing first lady. the best we had he told harris last hour. look at the christmas tree difference this year. east wing entry i'm not a huge fan of the gifts to the left the biden images to the left trump era images. >> harris: they are not experiencing a supply chain crisis. >> they are if you look at blue bubbles. maybe they're. >> that's all they could get? that's your point? >> i agree with you, i love christmas. and anything that you do that means that you got together and put something up, i think, is just

edward lawrence is out the white house. so far they are saying it isn't here yet, right? >> that's right. doctor anthony fauci gave an update on the team you referenced saying no, the virus is not in the u.s. yet. however, to confirmed cases in canada of the virus, the head of the cdc saying there may need to be testing closer to international flights, five coming into the united states. it's within two or three days and then coming back to the u.s. so the president is on his way to minnesota. the team is updating us on the omicron variance as we speak. the president will talk to the dakota county technical college which trains workers to talk about bridges and roads and other infrastructure projects the college closed the campus today and pushed all classes virtual because of this visit. students and teachers were hand selected to make the president. he wants to focus on the infrastructure plan and it will help the supply chain issues. the chairman points to that is one of the factors raising inflation. so far the white house is counting his plan, reports to cut 24 -- se

i want to flag something there is a white house briefing going on right now related to covid. our meg tirrell flagging a comment from dr. fauci who says there have been 226 cases of the omicron variant detected in 20 countries so far none yet in the united states, though i think you would have to assume that it's a matter of when, not if, so we'll wait for that and that's the latest coming out of the briefing according to meg tirrell who dweeted that a few seconds ago. doc, you have unusual activity >> indeed, scott and today is an unusual day, right 600 points in the dow and energy stocks are down. they are buying devin energy dvn today, scott the january 46 calls with the stock right just under $42 so these are $4 out of money calls and i'll probably be in those four weeks and the second one, kraft heinz, not as far out of the money just out of the money, but those 34s and the 10,000plus of those bought, scott. i'll be in those two to three weeks. lastly, and this was one that i just exited the other day, crm, sales force. i know they have earnings after the bell tonight crm

so go our web site like she said and we're taking you inside the white house doesn't look oh, my gosh. that's actually don't like can we do that with rudolph try. i don't know if you like i like that a lot. look at not even doing hair but you know, the first lady, jill biden, doctor biden did this and she did a beautiful job and while it looks like thick snow on the tree which i really loved. that's not she did ribbons. and so they don't have that technology. and a little lacking. they called but to get my tree came that way and that but they have all these different. they have public rooms with different different resident representation of of different themes. everything else you can see kindness is that sweet? i love it. weldon christmas right here. i am not to that level he bound to get around a of that front will bring you my tree tomorrow, this and that my little on my little one just for the set to be best if they they decorated and i'm going to do my job over here on yes, it will be sad. you know, the first really have a right. we haven't put anything up have 9 that the way al

white house. i mentioned full damage control today. >> you can get the sense of panic mode. we go back to what president biden and his administration said issuing the travel ban. it gives them time. they want to see more people vaccinated and want to come up with a strategy. today president biden is spending some of his time pushing his agenda in the midwest. he will head to minnesota this afternoon to shine a light on his trillion dollar infrastructure deal and tout the need for a $2 trillion spending bill which republicans fear will exacerbate inflation and supply chain issues. according to federal chairman powell. >> concerns with the virus could slow progress in the labor market and intensify supply chain disruptions. >> president biden says lockdowns are off the table for now. same goes for the vaccine mandate not by choice for the biden administration, fighting to reinstate it after the requirement was put on pause by a federal court. >> president biden: i expect this not to be the new norma

cnn's jeremy diamond is live at the white house with more on this. jeremy, what are you hearing from there today about all of it? because so much is still unknown. >> reporter: listen, coronavirus is right back at the center of activity here at the west wing of the white house. we know officials are working to put together the finishing touches on that strategy that we're expected to hear president biden outline on thursday for how the united states is going to fight the coronavirus this winter. listen to the president talking about that yesterday. >> thursday i'll be putting forward a detailed strategy outlining how we're going to fight covid this winter, not with shutdowns or lockdowns, but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing, and more. >> reporter: you hear the president there emphasizing the fact that he is not looking to do additional shutdowns or lockdowns. instead, it will be doubling down on what we've seen from this administration so far. vaccinations, boosters, testing. we heard the president talk about that yesterday. even

shannon pettypiece joins me from the white house. tell us what you can expect from the president's trip to the upper midwest this afternoon. >> reporter: it's part of this ongoing effort by the white house to try and get some public support and some credit, frankly, for the president from this big infrastructure bill that got passed, which so far is really one of the primary pieces of legislation the president has been able to get through. there's a lot of veterans of the obama administration in this white house. one of the big things a lot of folks say from the obama administration was not getting enough credit for the passage of obamacare. we see the white house getting the president out there now to show some specific examples of how this law is going to benefit people in specific communities. today he'll be in minnesota at a technical school and make the case that students being trained there will have jobs coming out because of this infrastructure bill and those will be high paying union jobs, is one message we expect to hear fr