it just doesn t have to be this way. leaders like the former president and many members of congress who refuse to disclose their vaccine status continue to perpetuate this, i think, great hazard for their constituents. dr. reiner, we appreciate you being with us this morning. thanks so much. thanks for having me. so we re going to speak to dr. anthony fauci next hour, just before the white house reveals its next steps in the covid fight. strong words from senator joe manchin on his rejection of the administration s build back better plan. guess what? i m from west virginia. i m not from where they re from. they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they ll be submissive. period. plus, the january 6th committee for the first time requesting cooperation from a sitting member of congress involved in the effort to overturn the election. will he comply? and the bidens moving one four-legged family member out of the white house, welcoming
vaccinated, doctors, they re struggling still to keep up. our whole team is exhausted. us nurses, other co-workers, respiratory therapists, we are tired. it s so frustrating when you have this continuing to occur when it s really self-inflicted. meanwhile president biden is set to hold another high stakes call. this time with the ukrainian president, days after his call with russian president vladimir putin. and this morning we are learning of the unprecedented sanctions, the biden administration is weighing against russia. plus new fireworks between former president trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, and the house committee investigating january 6th. meadows is now suing the committee. but the committee making it clear they re not going to back down. want to get right to the latest in the covid fight as cases and hospitalizations are once again on the rise. nbc s antonia hilton is at a vaccination site in stanford,
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about it again. good to see you for now. see you soon. thank you so much for having me, fredricka. appreciate it. still to come, more countries reporting the new omicron variant, and as the covid fight continues, strict restrictions return where a vaccine mandate could be on the way for early next year.
congress, the justice department intervening the tried of stop some of the worst and most severe voting restrictions in our country. and a lawsuit filed today, doj is arguing the new texas law is unconstitutional. saying if i let the voting and civil rights act. we ll have more on that a little bit later. and in the covid fight, the president making good on the vaccine mandate announced back in september, the administration today sitting a january four deadline for private businesses to comply. that covers about 84 million americans, private employers with over hundred workers will need to make sure that their employees are vaccinated or else be tested weekly. notably, employees are not required to split the bill for those tests. we will have more in our discussion on this later on in the broadcast. but with that, let s bring in our starting line on this thursday night, sam stein, veteran journalist white house editor at politico.