of everybody who in the west who hates htyrants, hates peopl who want to rule by savagery and i hope it s been a blunder, but at the same time we ve seen we re not going to confront him militarily. so this dual impulse on the american people to me is politically really interesting to me. you ve heard senator portman who joined me from poland where he is visiting a refugee camp, and he is not alone, it s not just republicans, some of your fellow democrats are saying we need to be more aggressive by helping or at least facilitating the ukrainians get the aircraft that they re asking for. i think this is kind of a classic washington conundrum where we re focusing on this one thing which really militarily is not that useful for the ukrainian military. they are not flying them, we ve asked for it. for us to find a way to do it but if it s not going to precipitate world war iii.
the age of aquarius and i say this is the dawning of the age of the variants. delta, omicron, i don t know what s next. but we have to be honest with the public and say we are learning every day about this virus and the fact of the matter is i can t with any honesty say to you, well, it s over with after omicron. i don t know. and no one, i think, could provide any data to say it will be over with after omicron. professor, thank you for being here. appreciate it. thank you. thank you. coming up for us, the white house blind sided. senator joe manchin announcing he s a hard no on president biden s social spending plan, but in classic washington fashion, everyone is left wondering if that s really his final answer. welcome to allstate. where everything just seems to go your way. you re in good hands with allstate. click or call for a lower auto rate today.
the wide-ranging scope of the january 6th panel s work is really starting to take shape. mr. bannon s own public statements will paycheck clear he knew what was going to happen before it did. and thus, he must have been aware of and may well have been involved in the planning of everything that played out on that day. with steve bannon s contempt charge now in the hands of the justice department, a classic washington adage seems to be taking shape. follow the money. you don t knock over the u.s. capitol and wound 140 officers and storm the capitol and lay a state of siege to the congress without any money being behind it. this was an expensive operation. and lots of money was spent. lots of money was raised and we
remote area near joplin, montana, that is about 30 miles from the canadian border. let s get to cnn aviation and transportation correspondent pete munteen. a team of federal investigators headed to the scene to try to figure out what happened. what do we know so far? that s right. the ntsb dispatched a go team from here in washington. we re hearing from amtrak they have an incident response team now on the ground to kick off what will be a rigorous investigation into why this empire builder train derailed near joplin, montana. you mentioned 141 passengers and 16 crew on board. amtrak now says passengers and crew were among the injured. the real trick here is the location. joplin, montana, is in liberty county, population 150. right now, we are being told that passengers were being taken to a nearby senior center but amtrak, because of the location, is no the able to provide other
really are really playing their cards closely here. the house already passed its own legislation to avert a government shutdown and raise the debt limit, but republicans in the senate have mostly vowed to oppose any legislation that will raise the debt limit. so what we have here is a classic washington problem where both parties are staring at each other until one side blinks. whether that means the democrats will have to split up this government funding bill and the debt ceiling bill and go it alone or reach a compromise with republicans remains to be seen. i mean the main problem this week is just that everything is colliding at once on capitol hill. as a result, this means that we ll have an incredibly jam packed week for lawmakers. yeah. there s also the possibility of a series of continuing resolutions as we ve seen in previous instances. i do want to ask about the broader picture going into 2022.