i am in the west. i m mehdi hassan filling in for my good friend ali velshi. i want to start this morning with a little bit of a quiz for you. do you know where and when he went to college? do you know if you attended college? do you know where he worked? do you know if you are jewish or not? of course, you know all the answers to those questions. for republican congressman elect george santos, there have been tough questions, we really tough questions. over the past couple of weeks, he s been caught lying in spectacular and fantastical fashion about each and every one of those things and more. george santos did not attend or graduate from any institute of higher education. he did not previously work for citigroup or goldman sachs. he did not found an animal rights charity. he tweeted that, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. five months later he, tweeted a conflicting statement saying his mother died only five years ago in 2016. we don t know when exactly george santos s m
fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re goin
and that is a good point. theres h there have been a lot of viruses hitting hard this season. which are you more concerned, this covid subvariant or the nasty wave of flu that people are dealing with in the united states. we re tracking them all very closely. and here is what we know. rsv is down. that is good. and flu looks like it is peaked in most parts of the country. that is good. so we ve been tracking those closely and now covid looks like it is on the way out. so in the short to medium term, i m concerned about covid, but we re looking at all of the viruses and thinking about all of the things that we could do to prevent people from getting sick and ending up in the hospital. but right now covid is a thing that is increasing that we need to pay most attention to. thank you so much for coming on. thank you. still ahead for us, vladimir putin ordered a temporary cease-fire in ukraine to coincide with the orthodox
about the burn on hospitals right now? thank you for having me. the burden on the hospitals already at record levels. there is the hospital capacity over 80%. this is high as it has been during the entire pandemic. there is the combination of flu, rsv, and covid. some people are saying that the flu looks like it is cooling down. at the same time, covid is seriously on the rise. hospitalizations in new york, massachusetts. many states have doubled with covid in the last month. there is this new super variant. it is likely to get even worse. in many ways, we have found the variant that is going to take over the world in the next two months. right now, hospitals are already on the brink. i think it will only get worse because winter is just starting.