let s check. and it should know no price. hold them accountable. boycott the pga. put the criminals in jail. investigate who needs to be investigated. bring back integrity and celebrate leaders and empower leaders who are willing to carry the voice forward. thank you. thank you all so much for starting us off this hour. basil is around the whole hour. when we come back, we have another reminder that the justices on the u.s. supreme court are left to police themselves almost entirely. and as the drip, drip, drip about clarence thomas has shown, it isn t exactly working out for anyone xems clarence thomas. we ll explain after a quick break. and later, the house democrat who forcefully blew the whistle on the right wing s demonization of trans kids and their families. one of the thing you said in your information here that you provided was that the dangers at
with that and the last time was with george w. bush and republicans in congress undermined it. democrats are ready to work in a bipartisan practice and all we re seeing are stunts on the other side of the aisle. griff: and you re seeing some on your side of the aisle, henry cuellar saying that vice-president and others are not being honest about whether the border is closed. and i talk with someone who came on the bus, and he says that the border is open and that s why he s coming. does the administration need to be more honest, the border, they have not want today talk about, to open the door for republicans to come in and try and work with them? after four years of nonstop lies, this president, i m proud to say, has brought back integrity to the white house. nobody thinks that our immigration system in the united states is working well. we understand that we have a
get boosted now and not wait for the next iteration of it, which we might not even need, we re preparing the pharmaceutical companies are preparing to make a specific booster for this, but we may not need that. we ll find out reasonably soon whether higher levels of antibody against the original vaccines we ve used, whether or not that can spill over in protection against this. joining me now nbc white house correspondent mike memoli, nbc s matt bradley in london, dr. peter hotez, director of vaccine development at texas children s hospital. we re waiting for the president, so i might have to interrupt you, mike, but take us through what we re expecting here. well, chris, in some ways this is a back to basics moment for this white house. remember, a year ago at this time as president-elect joe biden was preparing to take over the presidency, he talked about how he would always give it straight to the american people as it relates to the pandemic. we re vowing to bring back integrit
0 reports. andrea is on assignment. i m chris jansing. we re following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we don t know about this variant with the white house releasing a statement sunday saying dr. fauci believes it will take up to two weeks to get answers on omicron s transmissibility, severity and other characteristics. the big question for nearly 200 million fully vaccinated americans, will their vaccine hold up against this new strain. fauci this morning urging eligible americans to not let fears over omicron s impact stop them from getting their booster shots. i would strongly suggest you get boosted now and not w
new polling shows republicans are driving a major drop in overall election trust in the u.s. the latest nbc news polls say they believe their votes will be counted accurately, 66%. while democrats views are on change, only 5% fewer in independents believe their votes will be counted accurately. joining us now is brad raffensperger, his new book, integrity counts is out today. boy, do we need a book like this from a guy like you. you went through this firsthand. yes, i did. how do we begin to bring back integrity and trust?