joe biden putting it all out there today, making a last ditch push for voting rights, telling the senate it s time to change the filibuster. it s a move against solid gop opposition, not to mention two members of his own party. today, we call on congress to get done what history will judge, pass the freedom to vote act. pass it now! also ahead, the january 6th committee saying it wants information from rudy giuliani at some point, as they release more subpoenas today. and was he lying? whether novak djokovic lied to enter the country. joining me now, jessica dean and john. we will talk about what the president did today, john. president biden making a major push for the two voting rights bills, comparing it to be on the side of dr. king, john lewis, he is putting it on the line now. what happens if it doesn t work? no voting rights? no build back better? well, that certainly could be one result, don. both are difficult. i think the white house is more confident that a
detailed today to fight this highly mutated variant. scientists are racing to determine if the current vaccines protect against this variant and if it spreads more easily. experts hope to have answers in about a week. in the meantime, markets continue to be rattled and the travel bans continue to multiply. more than 70 countries now including the u.s. have issued travel bans against southern african nations. omicron was first detected in south africa, and now has been confirmed in 20 countries. still not the u.s. though. and the cdc director says the u.s. now has far more tools today to fight variants than this time last year. compared to earlier this year when we were sequencing about 8,000 samples per week, we have increased our genomic sequencing capability, and we are now sequencing approximately 80,000 samples per week, about one in every seven pcr positive cases and that s more than any other country. our correspondents are following omicron s impact around the wo
rachel will be back on monday. now it s time for the last word with my friend jonathan capeheart in for lawrence tonight. good evening, jonathan. good evening, ali. what a great way to end the show. i didn t know that story. how fantastic. we talk about plessy vs. ferguson all the time, the idea plessy never got his justice until today is a we don t often get to end the show on nice things but that was a good one to do it on. yeah, and it s a reminder that justice might take a while but eventually justice does happen. ali, thank you very, very much. i ll see you on sunday. have a great show. all right. breaking tonight a federal grand jury has indicted former trump advisor steve bannon on two counts of contempt of congress. the indictment comes 22 days after the house of representatives voted to send a criminal contempt referral to the justice department after bannon refused to comply with subpoenas from the house select committee investigating the january 6th a
burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. a major development in the search for brian laundrie. the fbi just confirming that they have found what appear to be human remains along with items they say belong to laundrie at a florida nature reserve. earlier today, investigators found what appears to be human remains along with personal items such as a backpack and notebook belonging to brian laundrie. officials are now working to formally identify the remains with dna. laundrie has not been seen since around the time his fiancee, gabby petito, was reported missing last month. and his disappearance sparked a massive nationwide manhunt. meanwhile, petito s body was discovered in wyoming where the two had been together during a road trip over the summer. medical examiner ruled last week that she died by strangulation. le leyla santiago is outfront live in north port, florida. and leyla, fast-developing story at this hour. they had been combing this nature reserve to the ext
the justice department asking the supreme court to block the restrictive law as the court signals it could hear arguments over the controversial ban faster than expected. plus, the latest on the race to rescue 17 american missionaries kidnapped in haiti. a ransom demand. pushback over vaccines. cops from coast to coast skipping vaccine requirements despite more police officers dying from covid over the course of the pandemic than any other cause combined. and one private school in the state of florida asking students to wait 30 days after receiving a vaccine shot to come back to school, citing concerns over the widely debunked conspiracy theory of vaccine shedding. we have what you need the know. we ll start with the january 6th committee finally moving ahead with a vote tonight to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt for defying his subpoena. it comes as former president trump turns to one of his favorite tactics to try to hold things up. he s filed his own lawsuit,