latest wave really had hospitals untiljust after christmas. until ust after christmas. thank ou untiljust after christmas. thank ou ve untiljust after christmas. thank you very much- untiljust after christmas. thank you very much. that s untiljust after christmas. thank you very much. that s an - untiljust after christmas. thank| you very much. that s an update untiljust after christmas. thank - you very much. that s an update from westminster. we ve also heard from the president of the european commission ursula von der leyen. (sot) if you look at the time it takes from your to double in number, omicron seems to be doubling every two or three days. and that is massive. they are told that by mid january we should expect omicron to be the a new dominant variant in europe. so cases of 0micron are doubling every two to three days in the eu. but ms von der leyen said the eu was in a good position to fight off the variant with 80.6% of its adult population double jabbed. but just how e
now you see that count has tightened a little bit. right outside of washington, d.c., this is one of the core democratic counties in the state. this is arlington county. it s geographically small, but this produces joe biden got 80.6% of the vote here last year. and since this isn t quite functional yet, adam, do you know what type of vote we re looking at in arlington county here? this is key. this looks like we re getting the early vote reported out in arlington county. and i do have a point of comparison here for 2020. the absentee early vote okay. it was 85% for joe biden. the early absentee vote in 2020 was 85% and it looks like mcauliffe is running a couple
only 6,700. i was looking at scott county. 7,300. 86.6 is just dominating. wise county as well. 80.6%. youngkin has been in this part of the state over the past week. he spent almost two entire days there. why do you do that? you want to make sure that those people come out and vote. that was a big part of his intent. sandra and i earlier were talking about trying to match some of these trump numbers down here. he didn t admit to it but i ll tell you, john, if you re analyzing this race he has to come very close to that 80% number that i showed you a moment ago in that part of the state. as we bring sandra back in here, bill, one of the big unknowns is, it s rainy and cool across the commonwealth and how will that affect voter turnout on the day? fair enough. i think all the prognosticators will talk about the weather. we ll see if that matters but john, remember the fox poll from two weeks ago about enthusiasm, youngkin had a 10-point edge on
cuts in spending caps again and again while leaving many other pieces of the budget essentially untouched. reporter: now republicans worry as many defense analysts do about any further cuts to defense and the co-chair, jeb hensarling pointed to massive growth in government over last two years even as the recession dragged on. epa has grown 130.8%. the energy department has grown 170.7%. with the stimulus. education has grown 180.6% at a time when the economy has actually seen negative economic growth and family paychecks have shrunk. reporter: now cbo director elmendorf made clear whatever the committee does to cut defense or non-defense spending the bigger threat is unsustainable spending in the entitlements such as medicare. listen. entitlement programs, mandatory spending as a
epa has grown 130.8%, the energy department has grown 170.7% with the stimulus, education has grown 180.6% at a time when the economy has actually seen negative economic growth, and family paychecks have shrunk. reporter: and republicans along with many democrats argue defense cannot bear any more cuts. director elmendorf made clear whatever the committee does to cut defense or nondefense spending, the bigger threat is unsustainable spending in into it elements such as medicare. mandatory spending is a growing share of federal outlays, in some cases growing rather rapidly. and without addressing that path to spending, it would be extremely difficult to put the budget on a sustainable path. reporter: but liberal democrats held a rally today, megyn, to say they won t support any plan that includes any cuts in entitlements whether they