adding the recommended isolation time and have for infected americans. that s feeling a public debate about whether a negative test should be required. trace: getting that test is easier said than done. americans are standing in line for hours and of the time for results as long as four days. dana: we have team box coverage for you. i know max like cancellations. mark has reactions. let s first go to washington where kevin is standing by. great to see you. lots of moving parts in this story and from the white house perspective, probably not necessarily a good thing. you may recall the president said back in april of last year that covid deaths and cases were way down, and we are making great strides in the fighting as the pandemic. now several months later, cases continue to surge. there is growing frustration over what appeared at least to some to be a lack of messaging consistency with respect to retesting recommendations. even as the country struggles with testing
outfront tonight. who is afraid of donald trump? well, apparently, i guess, obviously, most elected republicans. even the senior ones who once took a stand against trump. let me quote one of them tonight. this person said, quote, trump has a very little opportunity to lead the republican party. and from the same individual, quote, history is going to judge what trump has done. those are the words of republican senator chuck grassley and that was right after the deadly insurrection. but of course, that s ancient history now for some republicans, nine whole months have passed and it s a whole different story. i m thrilled to announce tonight that senator chuck grassley has my complete and total endorsement for re-election. i was born at night but not last night. so if i didn t accept the endorsement of a person that s got 91% of the republican voters in iowa, i wouldn t be too smart. i m smart enough to accept that endorsement. chuck grassley now putting political expedie
top of a brand new hour. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota, thank you for joining us on this special holiday edition of cnn newsroom. we begin with the ongoing threat to democracy unfolding in realtime. donald trump still trying to sell his big lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from him thousand he was defeated by joe biden. it s not just his rabid supporters going along with this lie, it s also top establishment republicans. seven-term senator chuck grassley standing side by side with the losing ex-president on stage at a des moines rally on saturday. and trump s former chief strategist steve bannon is defying the house select committee investigating the january 6th election. he says he won t cooperate. just how aggressive will the committee be in his search for the truth. here s one of the two gop members on the panel. it gets to a point we re stone walling, and we re not serious. there s contempt things you can file. you can do it through congres
domestic catastrophes threatening to overw em the president s team. there is a crisis everywhere. critics calling their performance as a national face plant. bill: 30 minutes ago prices are rising at the fastest rate we ve seen in four decades. that after a gdp report that shocked analysts. showed the economy actually shrinking for the first time since before the pandemic. dana: the border crisis looming large. federal judge ruling against the president on his plan to repeal 42. that set back comes as republicans threaten to dhs secretary mayorkas. bill: the president is bracing for a long way in ukraine asking congress for $33 billion additional, $20 billion of that in military aid. moments later russia bombarded kyiv with missiles. the first major attack oon the capital in weeks. live to the white house we begin with alexandria hoff, big job there today. good morning. plenty of issues at home, too. if americans are traig to gauge how concerned they should be about a
kills at least three. a little scary. norah: and parts of florida underwater after torrential rain. jurors have reached a guilty verdict in the synagogue shooting trial. i am feeling a sense of relief. the shooter is being held accountable for those awful acts. norah: attorney general merrick garland releases a scatt on the minneapolis police department following the death of george floyd. it is patterns and practices, investigation found the police department has a history of using excessive force and violating citizens and civil rights. norah: ups union workers got into strike. what it could mean for your packages. hundreds of thousands of ups union workers could walk off the job, making it the largest strike in u.s. history. norah: the whistle-blower who beat the pentagon papers exposing secrets about the vietnam war dies. tonight, a look at daniel ellsberg s legacy. at gm s milford proving ground outside detroit, the screens replace