his name is john the baptist. >> john the baptist is the first chapter to the long and amazing story of jesus. >> he tees it up for jesus to come and be the true maessiah. >> he comes with a fire and he wants people to feel it here. who are you? are you safe? why do you come here? he questions their motives. this is an intense figure out in the wilderness and the wilderness is where things really happen spiritually. >> he's a mysterious figure. he's strange and he's out there. >> he's dressed in this very, very old way and slightly dangerous and scary. today the unique appeal of this profit has been loss to history. who was this fiery creature who would har rold the coming of the messiah and what was it that drew jesus to it? now science joins history in a new quest in the future it may be possible to establish a blood link between john and jesus. today their mission is to test fragments of bones believed to be jonhn's. >> for the first time in history, we are able to place the relics of proper time and dates. palestine in the first century is buzzing with prophets. they follow in th

>> reporter: hi, john. well, for one thing, incoming mayor -- mayor-elect eric adams has decided to postpone his inauguration citing the serious public health threat of covid. of course, the transfer of power will still take place on january 1st. but they are going to postpone the -- the -- the -- the formal ceremony to a safer time. in a joint statement, the mayor-elect, along with the city's incoming controller and the public advocates saying health and safety must come first. and in another move today, the mayor of new york -- bill de blasio -- announced a $100 incentive for any city resident who goes and gets a covid-booster dose from a city-run vaccination site. this booster bonus program is in effect starting today and it runs until the end of the month. john? >> athena jones, thank you very much. >>> and joining me now, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky. dr. walensky, nice to see you. president biden said americans do not have to cancel their holiday plans. he says it's safe to gather, as long as al

john? >> leyla santiago live in miami, thank you very much. >>> joining us is infectious disease expert at loyola-chicago. this is a big concern to parents, seeing these numbers go up at the rate that they are. though we should note we haven't seen the cases be severe. that is good news for parents not to panic over this. what is your advice based on what you are seeing on the ground now? >> we are concerned as well. we are right now seeing more cases per day than at any point in the pandemic. our number of daily cases is now 70 per day over the last week. that's more than three times our previous peak a year ago. and so my advice is surely not to panic. importantly, the vast majority of children infected with covid have mild infection. but you do have to be aware that does put your child at risk for hospitalization and puts your child at risk for transmitting to other people in the classroom if measures aren't taking to prevent it, risk of spreading to other people in the home who may be a

that is the kind of guy john was. >> i love it. and you are so right about him being a great communicator. maybe the first time he's been compared to churchill. but he deserves it because there was that enthusiasm and the accessibility. i just wonder, given your close proximity, what are some of your favorite madden moments, the stories that really sum up the man? >> boy. well, i mean, one of the things that he said to me, i was at the masters in augusta, it was in the spring, it was in april. and he was at home in california. and we wanted to talk about how we were going to try to improve our coverage of the nfl the following fall. and he used this metaphor which i've never forgotten and i've used countless times. he said -- for him it was a metaphor that didn't make any sense. he was talking about climbing a rock, the surface of a rock. something that he wouldn't do to save his life. anyway, he said when you climb up a rock, you can't all of a sudden stop and say i'm good, this is where i want to be. you know, i'm fine. this is s

thanks so much. >> hopefully my podcast as well, john. i'll stay on this topic until we know for sure that peng shuai is safe, and is sound of mind, and can speak her mind. the wta has not gotten any assurances of that thus far. that is a huge problem. >> good for you. we appreciate you speaking up. thanks so much. >> thank you, john. >>> "new day" continues right now. >>> good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, december 2nd, and i'm brianna keilar with john berman. it was inevitable but very alarming this first confirmed

he has some major concerns here, john. he doesn't want this bill just to allow for temporary programs to be extended. he wants the bill to actually include what could be the full breadth of the spending package. he doesn't believe that the provisions in here that could be three or five years long will only last three or five years long because he argues that americans once they get these benefits they will want them for more years and that congress will come back and extend it, so suggesting that the proposal could cost $2 drill john what the house plan costs is just simply not enough for him, john, so he wants to actually change it significantly parts of this bill to see its true cost. >> here's the question. does he want to deal? this has been on the table now for month, months, the big picture and then the house passed the plan. it's been back and forth. if he wanted a deal he could hand the president or chuck schumer a piece of paper saying this is ail can vote for, take it or leave it and instead we keep doing it. >>

>> i think, john, they should be very concerned. i cannot imagine anything other than these prosecutors being emboldened. we know they've already said this investigation is ongoing. we know that there were, as you said, men who were a part of the sex ring who had sex apparently with these minor girls, you know, at various estates owned by epstein. the prosecutors know who these men are. i would suspect they're putting together cases against some of them and we may see some additional indictments and trials moving forward against some of these men. clearly, anyone involved in sexually abusing a minor, you know, causing young girls to give them massages, you know, have oral sex, engage in the kind of sexual acts we heard about in this trial should be held accountable and brought to justice. >> what we saw in this trial is that the women who testified, all from very different background, but gave similar accounts as to how they were recruited and groomed by maxwell. that seemed crucial in this conviction on sex trafficking charges and

thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure, john. thanks for having me on. >> the one thing we can say with omicron, a lot more people will be infected. and i want you to already to dr. jha. this is what he expects. >> people should just brace themselves for a month where lots of people are going to get infected, a lot of unvaccinated people are going to get pretty sick. and it's going to be pretty disr disruptive. my hope is by the time we get into february and march, infection numbers will come way down and spring things will get better. that combination means late winter, early spring should be much, much better. >> but the here and now, is it seems with this hospitalization rate because of omicron versus delta, we're in the calm before the storm. what are you expecting? >> john, some people think we're in the middle of the storm. the question is how long will the storm last? and will the winds wis pick up? it's like trying to fix the roof in the middle of a hurricane. in the west coast, where hospitalization is relatively lower s

and john madden led oakland to the playoffs eight times. madden covered 11 super bowls for four networks and we've got a lot more on this in a moment. but i want to begin with dana bash on the life and times of harry reid. >> reporter: he led democrats in the senate for a decade but harry reid called one of his proudest accomplishments the impact he had on presidential history, encouraging barack obama to run. >> i did call him into my office and tell him he should take a look at it. he was stunned because i was the first one who had suggested that to him. when he was re-elected, that was one of the most moving phone calls i've ever received because he said you're the reason i'm here. >> reporter: he spearheaded epic legislative battles like obama care with the skcrappy style he learned in childhood. he was born in essentially a truck stop outside las vegas, grew up in a shack with no running water where this trailer now sits. he took us there in 2006. his mother did laundry for the local brothels, his dad always looking for work at a miner

>> so, good morning, john. when we look at this, there is absolutely no data that i am aware about with the omicron variant. it's people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. my own work shows that when we look at people five, seven, eight days after they were first tested positive or first symptoms, they still have enough virus in their nose, in the back of their throat to be able to come up positive on these antigen tests. and antigen tests are a very good proxy for live virus and the ability to be able to infect others. so it seems they have made a decision without the data to actually support this change. . >> we have spoken to other doctors and researchers who said, look, the omicron in particular seems to be people are infectious before they show symptoms by 36 hours and for at least two days after. but you're disagreeing with that fundamentally. you are seeing it could increase the spread, even though there is an incentive to get more people to comply. >> yes.

john? >> a long road. the courage of those parents is remarkable. brynn gingras, grateful that you're there to help us understand the depths of this. let's go to bowling green and cnn's nick neri. the governor cellucci gave an up date just a short time ago. what did he tell us? >> yeah. he was very emotional in his press conference talking about all the devastation. he updated us on the numbers saying that the situation is fluid and that we should expect those numbers to change one way or the other. here in bowling green, there is devastation everywhere. it is expansive. hundreds of miles or hundreds of yards i should say of scattered debris in this immigrant community, very much so an international community, family members that we've started to see have started to come back and make their emotional return to salvage their belongings and for some that i've spoken to say it's almost retraumatizing having flashbacks of living through the storm that ripped through here, the ef-3 tornado that

>> good morning, john. my client turned over a wealth of documents, communications in the form of email correspondence, text messages and other modes of communication, this is a wealth of evidence that i think the committee found illuminating. i think it is going to assist them greatly in their ultimate quest to get to the bottom of who the true culprits were behind the awful, awful tragic events of january 6th. >> email and text messages with senior members of former president trump's orbit. who, from whom, exactly? >> i would tell you without sort of divulging too much because the committee does have a job to do and i respect their role and i should mention, by the way, they were incredibly professional, they were incredibly gracious with my client and i, and we commend them and respect the role they have to play here, which is such an important one. but i will tell you that mark meadows, for one, i believe, has reason to be concerned, not only for having been found in contempt and justifiably so for defy

john? >> jessica, let's walk through it, and i'll tell our viewers this is a 50-year political debate as well as a 50-year legal debate. you see the crowd gathered outside the court as jessica speaks to us. jess, let's go through this. one of the leading liberals, sonia sotomayor, says throwing this out will put them right in the middle of politics. >> will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts? i don't see how it is possible. it is what casey talked about when it talked about watershed decisions. if people actually believe thaits all poli-- that it's all political, how will we survive? how will the courts survive? >> she is outnumbered, right? >> she is outnumbered, john. interestingly, we heard three of those impassioned debates, soliloqu soliloquies -- if you will. this does seem this could come down 6-3, upholding that mississippi law. justice sotomayor is not the only one. he said any

let's begin with joe and john. you were nervous about the potential for more violence on the one-year mark of the capitol insurrection. the same day the president will hold the news conference and talking about discussing once again pushing the big lie and false claims of voter fraud in the last election. you said you think it is important for democrats to quote broadcast everything donald trump says. why? >> poppy, good to be with you. look, here we are a year removed from a violent attempt to overthrow the american election all incited by trump. it is important, poppy, for the american people to be reminded at every opportunity possible that donald trump is an enemy of demo democracy. he is an enemy of the country because he incited that attack. trump will run again, poppy. trump is the leader of the republican party. it is not even close. he is still a live threat to the democracy. so every time he speaks and every time he lies and every time he incites violence or amps up the big lie, it is important for americ

that's according to johns hopkins university. the centers for disease control and prevention report close to 450,000 cases on monday alone. and that tops the previous one-day high of almost 300,000 back in january. now, we should point out these latest figures could be the result of a lag in reporting over the holidays. nonetheless, the number of children now admitted to hospitals with covid is nearing a new record. the cdc reports nearly a 50% jump in just the past week. now, access to testing remains a problem, as you can see there, right around the country. home test kits, meantime, are hard to find online, and in stores and people are lining up for hours at drive-through testing sites right around the country. cnn's alexander field has more now on covid's record setting rampage through the united states. >> reporter: a new surge in covid cases is bringing wit another spike in pediatric hospitalizations, up nearly 50% in a week nationwide. children still make up a small percentage of people hospitalized for covid and are still

doctors describing pabgtd emergency rooms, john. dr. fauci is predicting it could peak by the end of january. the u.s. is hitting a seven-day average of 355,000 new cases with record cases in new york, arkansas, chicago. pediatric hospital admissions are soaring to a record high with on average 378 children being admitted daily with covid-19. >> when it comes to ralph, the cdc is warning vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers alike to stay away from cruise ships. the agency has elevated cruise ship travel risk to its highest level. this amid a growing number of outbreaks in recent weeks causing some ports to even turn them away. and this morning airline disruptions surging with more than 3,000 flight delays and 23 one cancellations. weekend trips home are in jeopardy as thousands attempt to rebook. they expect 10 million more people to pass through airport screening again now and end of damon. >>> in colorado, there is a state of emergency this morning. thousands have been forced from their homes and hundreds of structures have been burn

was set to expire, john, next month. now it's going to go through at least mid-march 2022 before they revisit that decision. a few other steps they're taking. they're going to talk about boosting vaccinations, having these family clinics where kids can go get their first shots, maybe grandparents can get their booster shot. maybe try to set up that situation. one other thing of note, they want to have private insurance companies pay for the at-home rapid testing. rapid is key to all of this. there are a few caveats with all of that. it's likely not to go into effect until mid-january. of course, the tests have not always been in an abundant supply here in the united states. it's part of this overall effort they're taking steps as they're trying to learn more about the new variant that is now in in t the united states. >> let's bring in the medical director at the baylor college of medicine. it's great to see you again. i want to put up the transmission map. red means you have a high incidence of covid transmission. we ha

john king, you and i spent years covering bob dole. we got to know him, truly amazing not only politician but a great american. >> i was looking through my office today to find this, a keepsake. this was my pass, my last campaign before i switched from print to television. respect and strength. bob dole kept running because he often thought he didn't get the respect he deserved in the republican party. ronald reagan, the bushes beat him. he said i'm doing the deals every day, i'm in the trenches. i should get respect for the work. i shouldn't need money or to be an actor. he did win the nomination in 1996. being the head of the republican party was the respect he thought he earned and deserved, strength, what suzanne was touching on. he was supposed to die on that hill in italy and he knew that. he could not put on his own shirt or tie his own tie. he understood struggle and so quietly, worked on the americans with disabilities act, helping people struggle through life. that defined him. he had this remarkable personal resilience. he w

. >> come on, john. this week we have been anchoring together three hours a day every day, and you're not going to root for alabama? >> this proves that good people can disagree. >> from a little bet here. if kaitlan team wins, you have to wear a bearcats shirt. if kaitlan wins, you have to shave your head. . >> and no mayonnaise bath. >> i did not consent to wearing a cincinnati shirt. "new day" continues right now. ♪ >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is friday, december 31st. i'm john avlon in with kaitlan collins. kaitlan, happy new year's eve. >> happy new year's eve. i can't wait to hear your resolution later in the show >> as we approach a new year, we are still dealing with the same pandemic. unprecedented spike in covid cases fueled by the omicron variant. enjoy new year's at home. doctors describing packed emergency rooms. dr. anthony fauci predicting omicron could peak by the end of january. meanwhile, the u.s. is hitting a seven-day average of more

>> that's right, john. what i was worried about as journalists who are under a lot of pressure to put out daily content, like you make this show for three hours every day, that's a lot of stuff and so it can pull us in the direction of covering the stories that we're familiar with, and in politics, that's often he said/she said, here is joe manchin and joe biden fighting over issues, and we can lose stigt of -- sight of the fact that the playing field under which this is happening is under attack and american democracy itself is not something that's going to continue, could be at risk at this moment. >> why do you think it's so important to change the way we focus as a society on what happened january 6th and continues to be happening? >> continues to be happening and that's the thing that we've learned since january 6th, that was not just an aberration, something that happened that day but we have political actors and even elected officials who are passing legislation that allows states for example to send

i'm kaitlan collins with john avlon this morning. john and brianna are off. good morning, john. >> good morning. >> this morning, we have the u.s. shattering its record of daily new coronavirus cases as thely contagious omicron variant is spreading. daily new cases hit a seven day average of more than 300,000 cases. the last time the number of cases hit a peak close to that was in january. dr. fauci says it is time to rsvp no to the giant new year's eve bashes you had planned. >> if your plans are to go to a 40 to 50-person new year's eve party, with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year, i would strongly recommend that this year we do not do that. >> yeah, so if that were your plans, sorry about that. there is also been growing pushback from frontline workers to new cdc guidelines cutting the amount of suggested days to isolate and quarantine in half. the american nurses association saying it is deeply concerned about the changes, citing insufficient evidence and concern for healthcare workers sa

i'm john vause. returning to the stunning surge of covid-19 cases, as two global figures concerns us all. global cases, averaging 1 million a day for the first time since the pandemic began. that's according to data from johns hopkins university. 5,400,000 people have lost their lives to the coronavirus in the last 21 months. several nations across europe, recording record highs of covid-19 infections. >> reporter: the omicron variant continues to drive unprecedented infection rates across europe. the french health minister saying he got vertigo looking at the latest figures. every second, two people in france were testing positive. it comes after the country recorded on tuesday, more than 200,000 positive cases in the 24-hour period, the highest number seen in france since the start of the pandemic. similar scenes here in the u.k., skyrocketing infection rates. but across the globe, these infection rates are not turning into the rate of hospitalizations and death that we've seen during previous wave

cops knock on my door, do you know john berman? not a crime to know john berman as far as i know. however, i could take the fifth there, because just by admitting i know you would tie us together, that could be used against me in a prosecution of the united states versus berman and honig for this robbery. it's wrong. >> but he can't claim the fifth on each and every thing we're asking him. >> that is true. you can't claim the fifth on everything. what's your name, where do you work? where did you go to college? where do you love. it's broad beyond that. if jamie raskin thinks it's only to admissions of guilt, it's broader. >> this is what donald trump says about people who take the fifth. listen. >> so there are five people taking the fifth amendment, like you see on the mob, right? you see the mob takes the fifth. if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? >> i had experience with mobsters taking the fifth. look, he's partially right, partially wrong there. it's not true only guilty people take the fifth. the fifth is a broad constitutional right we afford to gui

i'm brianna keilar with john berman. on this "new day", overknight a florida college student is in custody after allegedly plotting to shoot up his campus. we'll have the disturbing new details. >> former president trump souring on one of his closest international allies, telling one reporter f him. what's behind the fallout. >>> and begging congress for help as crime hits record levels across several cities. >>> chris christie said it's undeniable that trump gave him covid and mark meadows' silence was inexcusable. ♪ >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, december 10th. i'm brianna keilar with john berman. >> and it has been a roller coaster week for the group of lawmakers investigating the january 6th insurrection. new, donald trump's efforts to keep records secret involving his administration's response to the riots rejected by an appeals court. next stop, the supreme court. if the justices will take the case, more on that in just a moment. also this week, the committee ge

i'm john berman. brianna is off. erica hill with me this morning. >>> on this "new day", omicron in america. new york city seeing a huge spike in cases. but some hopeful signs as well. >>> senator manchin puts a nail in the build back better legislation. the white house with a new scathing response. >>> a republican plan to block president biden from seating a supreme court justice if they take back power in the midterms. the new cnn reporting ahead. >>> swinging into theater and the record books. spider-man shatters the pandemic-era slump at the box office. >>> all right. we do begin with breaking news. moderna announced just moments ago that its preliminary data suggests its covid-19 booster is effective against the omicron variant. this is welcomed news, as dr. anthony fauci warned omicron will become the dominant variant within a matter of weeks. >> this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time anywhere from two to three days. right now, in certain regions of the country, 50% of the isolates are omicron, wh

there will never be another john madden. we will be endebted to him for making football and the nfl what it is. the entire pro football hall of fame, our family mourns coach madden. few had the impact on professional football, on so many different levels, as coach madden. a coach on the field, a coach in the broadcast booth and a coach in life. >>> we'll take a break. when we come back, a coming new year will likely bring old pandemic restrictions for many parts of europe. >>> and coping with omicron. how health care workers in south africa are adapting to the variant of concern. what a glimpse into the future of many countries. 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 as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now. people say to me periodic

there will never be another john madden. we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the nfl what it is today. >>> paula, when i made it to the nfl, one of the first things i wanted to do was see if i made the madden game. that's what so many people do. he said it was like -- he had a degree in teaching, his love for football meshed with that so well. he was loved by so many and relatable to so many. >> that's how you know you've made it when you made it into the madden football game. thank you so much for that report on an incredible american life. >>> well, the clock is ticking for the house select committee investigating the attack on the capitol, but the biden white house is now pushing back on some of the panel's requests. we'll tell you why. e. (kate) better? (guy) better. (kate) hey. (kate) and up to $1,000 when you switch. (carolers) ♪better♪ (kate) because everyone deserves better. i lost 26 pounds and i feel incredible. with the new personalpoints program, i answer questions about my

. >> good morning, john. look, where you talk to america's ceos, business leaders, they are, drum roll, please, bullish. survey of executives from the prominent business roundtable, ceo's outlook the strongest in the 20-year history of the survey. the omicron factor could change that. if history is a guide, large companies have managed very well through every twist and turn of this pandemic. even with tangled supply khaepbs. the covid economy has been remarkably profitable for the big companies. profits for s&p 500 companies soared 37.5% in the year ending in june. according to bloomberg, they posted biggest profit margins in 70 years. let me say that again. biggest margins since 1950. the s&p is up 20% this year. even after that november wobble there. nearly half of ceos surveyed said worker pay was the greatest cost pressure. profit margins would suggest companies are paying people more and they're still making money. it is the goldilocks moment. just right for employees and pay. inflation eats into the wor

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john? >> that is interesting. adrienne broaddus, thank you very much. >>> joining us now, criminal defense attorney, sarah azari and mark o'mara. mark, last night, you predicted that especial glichb the holiday weekend coming up, that there would be a verdict or a hung jury today. that didn't happen so what do you think's going on? >> so, in true lawyer fashion, i am not wrong yet. um, they may well be hung. it really seems -- a couple of surprising points -- one, not a question today. not even the question of, judge, we have been trying and we really can't reach a verdict. that may have either caused a mistrial or that one additional charge we talked about that go back and try one last time charge. they didn't even ask for that. so if i had to read the tea leaves, now i'm thinking, one, again, they're -- they are hung. they are -- they are stuck. but it may be one juror. it may be 11-1 where the 11 are going to wear down or wear out the one juror to try and get consensus because i got to believe if it was 4-8 or

john kelly found himself marginalized quickly. mark meadows, because he took a different tack, he didn't try to keep people out, he didn't try to limit the flow of tract, he was very much in the loop. he had insights into exactly how sick trump was, and he probably had insights into exactly who was moving where and talking to whom on january 6 and the days leading up to it. i'm sure what he's turned over already is important to helping build that kind of timeline and then connection that's they're looking for. but that testimony would be important, and the kind of questions he would be asked could go -- >> before i bring the counselor in, let's go back through this. publicly, again, mark meadows is trying to sell books. publicly as like this on fox news last night, donald trump acted perfectly. >> not only did donald trump want to make sure the national guard was available, he repeated that a number of times. and i think that there are a number of people that he's communicated with that can back me up on that particular assessment

christine, so many fond memories of john madden. i grew up watching him call those washington football team games against the eagles and giants and the cowboys. he and pat summerall were just legends in the broadcast booth. but of course he had an amazing career in the nfl, as well, as a coach. what do you think his legacy is going to be? i mean, i should also mention i think i bought every one of those madden nfl games for my kids. you know, over the years, as well. >> sure. well, what you just said i think is really illustrative, jim, of -- of the impact of john madden. you asked what his legacy would -- will be or is -- is now even. it's -- it's the nfl, where it is. this is, of course, our national pastime. this is, you know, super bowl sunday is a national holiday. everyone watches the games. you turn it on, the tv ratings, you know, any other sport, it pales in comparison. and john madden really was the epitome of the nfl, and brought the nfl into everyone's home at the moment it was exploding in our consciousness. those raide

john, as they say, winter is coming. john. >> where have i heard that before? jacqueline howard, thank you very much for that. we will speak live with the surgeon general about what you should do and what reasonable reactions are to this. >> yeah. winter may be coming, but you wouldn't know it looking from some of the severe weather we're seeing. hurricane-force winds, fires in never-before-seen forecasts. a major cause is this record december heat. it is creating severe weather threats all across the central states. so let's check in with chad myers. this is highly unusual, and we're keeping our eye on it. >> there aren't tornados in nebraska in december. there's snow and ice storms. yesterday, nebraska, iowa, 20 reports of tornados and well over 300 reports of severe wind. more than 15 reports of hurricane-force gusts. colorado, kentucky, nebraska. and it's still blowing out there. 480,000 customers without power but mainly because of the wind gusts. we will still have wind gusts, maybe 60 or 70 miles per hour in the red zone. and then eventually we will star

. >> yes, john. for starters, it seems they may be having trouble getting to a consensus based on one of two questions they asked the judge today. the first question was simply if we can't reach a consensus what is the guidance on how long we should go and what steps should be taken? the judge simply referred them back to part of their jury instructions which said they should work toward agreement without violating any individual's judgment and that no one should sacrifice their honest opinion just to get to a verdict. as you mentioned, they are done deliberating for the day. they've gone more than 14 hours total over two days which is a little more than four hours more than it took to convict derek chauvin. but the second question they asked was less about their consensus but more about procedural stuff. a little more normal was they wanted to remove the zip ties from kim potter's gun. likely to compare it to the taser that they also have in evidence though prosecutors noted the wait will likely be

>> that makes me physically ill, john. january 6th was one of the darkest days in modern american history. people lost their lives that day for one reason and one reason only, donald trump refuses to accept the outcome of an election. he still refuses to accept that. he is still stoking that anger and that delusion. and the idea that he would hold any kind of propaganda event, let's be clear that's what it will be, where he takes another opportunity to spread more lies, which i presume he will, where he exploits a tragedy, which i presume he will. and where he potentially stokes more violence and encourages, tacitly or outright, makes me very nervous and afraid, for what that event is going to do. >> it also, i think, will be very interesting to see how republicans in congress respond to that. these are people who largely followed him over the last year. are they going to sing his praises on that day? >> undoubtedly. i have no doubt. john, i have long given up on the sort of pivot that republicans will see jesus and unders

i'm john berman. brianna is off today. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here with me in new york. >> happy to be here. glad you're back from kentucky. >> look, there's so much need down there, and we're going to focus on the need throughout the show. >>> there is other major news this morning as well. overnight, text messages revealed that refrain the january 6th investigation. text messages to mark meadows, former chief of staff, from donald trump jr., fox entertainers, even lawmakers, that all privately and, for a time, unsuccessfully beg to do something to stop the violence as the attack unfolded at the capitol. there's plenty of focus about people speaking out of pboth sides of their mouths on tv about this. while that is salacious, there are legal implications here. what could be a road map as to what the white house knew, what the white house did, what the white house didn't do, even what the white house may have coordinated before, during, and after the attack. it shows an acute, keen awareness the ca

i'm john berman. brianna is off. erica hill with me. great to have you here all week. >> nice to be with you, my friend. >> president biden says if you are vaccinated, and boosted, go ahead, spend the holidays with family and friends. the president says the rapidly spreading omicron variant is cause for concern, but not panic. the country is much better prepared now to tackle a covid resurgence than in the early prevaccine days. for the millions who remain unvaccinated, there was this stark warning. >> almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. i honest to god believe it is your patriotic duty, the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. >> the biden administration's response to skyrocketing omicron cases includes expanding test sites across the country, distributing at-home tests to those who request them, deploying a thousand service military members to help overburdened hospitals and adding new vaccination sites. elizabeth cohen joining us now. elizabet

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i'm kaitlan collins with john avlon this morning. john and brianna are off. good morning, john. >> good morning. >> this morning, we have the u.s. shattering its record of daily new coronavirus cases as thely contagious omicron variant is spreading. daily new cases hit a seven day average of more than 300,000 cases. the last time the number of cases hit a peak close to that was in january. dr. fauci says it is time to rsvp no to the giant new year's eve bashes you had planned. >> if your plans are to go to a 40 to 50-perso

does it sound like that's going to happen, john? >> reporter: doesn't sound like it is going to happen soon to me. the rational from the white house has been so far if you implement a vaccination requirement for domestic air travel, there is a potential for snarling the airports, if you snarl american airports, snarl domestic travel, you then create big economic problems, you disrupt people's lives, that threatens to have a lot more consequence than is worth it, given the limited amount of virus transmission that they believe occurs on airplanes. airplanes have good filtration systems. airports may be a different story. so i think the administration has been reluctant to take that step. fauci walked it back a little bit after he raised a possibility, the president saying, of course, if i get the medical advice i will go ahead and do it. but obviously these decisions, poppy, as you know, are not entirely medical or entirely scientific. they weigh other factors as well as dr. walensky conceded when talking to kaitlan collins on "new d

. >> thank you, john. >>> you bet. now to this. endemic flaws, human costs, polled resources that's how the biden administration views a controversial policy that is about to restart today. the president tried to scrap the trump administration's policy of forcing migrants to stay in mexico as they wait for their immigration court dates in the united states. it's known as the remain in mexico policy but a federal judge ordered the biden administration to restore it. priscilla alvarez has been covering this from the very beginning. pris priscilla, how is this going to work under the biden administration holding its nose. >> reporter: laura, the policy is going to operate largely the same way it did under the trump administration. it will become the second trump era border policy to be in effect under the biden administration. as you mentioned, it is a kourd order that required the biden administration to revise this policy. over the last several weeks the united states has been in ongoing discussions with mexico where the nonmexican

i am john berman in for anderson. and now, let's be clear. as negative as these headlines might sound, this is not like the darkest days of the pandemic. not at all. for one, hospitalizations do not appear, as of yet, to be closely tracking the rising case counts. that has been the case in new york city, according to top health officials and in new jersey according to the governor there. time will tell if the broader country will be able to say the same. another explanation is also a second reason for -- for hope and that's vaccines. moderna today announced a third shot of its vaccine significantly boosted the body's defense against the omicron variant. the normal booster dose which is 25% of the two-dose cycle increases antibodies by a factor of 37. but as dr. anthony fauci -- the president's chief medical adviser -- reminded us today, our fight against the virus is only as effective as the number of people taking these lifesaving drugs. >> when someone says, well, i am taking my own chances, it is my body, i will worry about it. nobody shou

joining us now is white house correspondent john harwood. this is welcome news for the biden administration, how are they responding? >> we're going to hear from the president later and we'll hear from the administration economists beginning at 9:30. i think there is -- there are disappointments and there are positive things in this report. of course, the positive things are the decline in the unemployment rate. and the increase in the labor participation rate, all that is good. that's from the household survey. there is a separate survey, of course, of businesses which shows only 210,000 jobs created, but we have to look at that little exskeptically because we saw it in this report, positive revisions up and we have seen that in previous reports. so the pandemic has created some real problems engaging at the particular time in a month how many jobs were added, so we're going to have to watch and see how that goes. but i think overall, the administration, despite the headline disappointment, you know, people talked about well, half a million

i'm john berman in for anderson. let's be clear. negative as these headlines might sound, this is not like the darkest days of the pandemic, not at all. for one, hospitalizations don't appear to be tracking the rising case counts in new york city according to top health officials and in new jersey according to the governor ther e moderna today announced a third shot of its vaccine significantly boosted the body's defense against the omicron variant. the normal booster dose which is 25% of the two-dose cycle increases antibodies by a factor of 37. but as dr. anthony fauci -- the president's chief medical adviser -- reminded us today, our fight against the virus is only as effective as the number of people taking these lifesaving drugs. >> when someone says, well, i am taking my own chances, it is my body, i will worry about it. nobody should tell me that i need to get vaccinated or that i should wear a mask in an indoor setting. well, that might be fine for you because you have confidence that you're not going to get seriously ill wh

>> reporter: yeah, good morning, john. we have been speaking a lot about mayfield where you are and the extent of the damage there. but here in bowling green, the damage and devastation is also quite extensive after an ef-3 tornado ripped through this community with 155-mile-per-hour winds. the governor said 500 homes were destroyed, along with about 100 businesses. and many of the homes in this sub division look a lot like what you are seeing behind me here. yesterday we spoke to the homeowner of this home. he said by the grace of god he was able to survive with a few minor scrapes and bruises. he said an object fell on top of him. his wife got out safe. he said there wasn't much time for shelter by the time he realized what was going on, the tornado coming from that direction, ripping through the community, it was already on top of him. after that tornado came through here, he described to me just hearing the screams and cries from those buried beneath the rubble. he was able, he says, to rescue an 8-year-old e or 9-year

john, the president facing enormous international challenges. in just hours biden will be on a call with the russian president vladimir putin, who right now is amissing russian troops on the ukraine border. the cia director saying that russia could act in a sweeping way. how high are the stakes for tomorrow's call? >> they're huge, don, for the reason that you just outlined. that is the threat of a russian invasion is very high. they've prepositioned assets in order to carry that out, and that's something that the united states and its western allies very much don't want to happen. that's why they're talking about extremely severe economic sanctions including unplugging russia from the global financial system, which would be a very serious step to take, and you don't know how russia would react to that. but we've seen that it's very difficult given the fact that the united states is not prepared to commit troops to resist russian aggression in ukraine. it's very difficult to stop. george w. bush couldn't stop it. barack obama couldn't stop t don

john, the president facing enormous international challenges. in just hours, biden will be on a call with the russian president, vladimir putin, who right now is amassing russian troops on the ukraine border. the cia director just tonight saying russia could act in a sweeping way. how high are the stakes for tomorrow's call. >> they're huge, don, for the reason you just outlined. that is the threat of a russian invasion is very high. they've pre-positioned assets in order to carry that out, and that's something that the united states and its western allies very much don't want to happen. that's why they're talking about extremely severe economic sanctions, including unplugging russia from the global financial system, which would be a very serious step to take, and you don't know how russia would react to that. but we've seen that it's very difficult given the fact that the united states is not prepared to commit troops to resist russian aggression in ukraine, it's very difficult to stop. george w. bush couldn't stop it. barack obama couldn't sto

i'm john berman in mayfield, kentucky. this is cnn's special live coverage of the aftermath of these terrible tornadoes. rescue is under way after the string of tornadoes destroyed so much of this town and so many others, in a 200-mile stretch across this state. i'm joined by cnn anchor and kentucky native, pamela brown. pam, you got here saturday night, after dark. but pretty quickly after it all happened. it's been amazing to see what's changed. >> it's been remarkable. as much heartbreak, i'm swelling with pride to help with the cleanup and start rebuilding so soon after the tornado swept through this community and decimated it. it's been remarkable to see the debris they've cleaned up so far. you look around us and you think, where do you even start? let me tell you something -- so many kentuckians have come out with their john deere machinery, whatever they had at their home to get to work in whatever way they can. it's been remarkable. i've been speaking with people. and incredible stories of sur survival, of heroism

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john berman here in for anderson. when indianapolis police officer kim potter shot and killed daunte wright in april, she had 26 years on the job. six years longer than wright lived to be. she had countless hours of training as any officer does on her duties, on the law, on when to use the taser she carried on the left side of her body and when, if ever, to use her handgun on the right. on the 11th of april, in the middle of a traffic stop, all that training broke down. this is what happened. >> taser, taser, taser. i shot him. oh, my god. >> kim, sit down. >> oh, my god. >> it was the worst mistake anyone entrusted with using deadly force can possibly make. during her cross c-examination potter admitted that wright never threatened her or the other officers. >> never saw a gun? >> no. >> he never threw a punch? >> no. >> never kicked anyone? >> no. >> never said, i'm going to kill you? >> no. >> never said, i'm going to shoot you? >> no. >> never said, there's a gun in the car and i'm coming after you? >> no. >> yet,