he runs than what he is doing is making it appear as though he has given up a concession and he s going to demand something in return. the u.s. arms control negotiator, he is to describe how the soviets would put a boulder in the middle-of-the-road during nuclear arms discussions and negotiations, only to make us pay with concessions to remove the bolder they put there in the first place. that s what putin is doing in this case. gillian: as you say, no strategic retreats are free, so it is he going to demand an exchange? he has made it clear, and with a great sense of urgency that i think has to cause the biden administration great alarm, that what he wants is a guarantee that nato will not expand further to admit ukraine and georgia. he also wants the united states to remove deployments from central and eastern europe, including the ballistic missile defense systems in poland and romania. again, designed there come a
homicides have risen 60%. just because crime has spilled into the nice neighborhoods doesn t mean people in the troubled part of town get a break. the rate of crime is great on the sides of town. an 11-year-old was among those shot, and they should perhaps soon surpass 3700 shooting victims for the year. gillian: mike tobin live in chicago. mike: california is known for going all in on going green, yet the state still is making the cut of its own climate guidelines. kelly o grady s live in los angeles at the latest. hi, kelly. california isn t cutting its greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet its own deadlines. the aim was to reduce 90 levels by 40% in 2030, 80% in 2050. at the current rate, they are not going to set the deadline until next century, if you can believe that. from 2018-2019, california
teammates at alabama, by the way. tendons boiling over as washington fell behind against their archrival, the dallas cowboys. they went on to lose the game 56-14, the biggest blowout in the history of the entire rivalry, and as a giants fan, i don t take much comfort in this. it s been a very long season, gillian. gillian: to be honest with you, i know less about football than my 5-month-old daughter, but i will say that even i know that no matter how badly your team is playing, you should not be beating up other fans at the game. the one guy said, do you have a brother, do you fight with your brother connect these things happen, trying to put it aside, but it was an ugly game in an ugly incident. gillian: bad behavior all around. now for something to put different. a man and oregon says he s getting threats after saying let s go brandon to president biden as he was wrapping up his phone call on christmas eve. david spunt has all the details of what went down during and
having americans test for covid before they board domestic flights is the way to go moving forward. do you think that prescription could help curtail the spread? well, we don t really have a lot of data showing there s a lot of spread on airplanes right now. that s a combination of the robust hepa filters that circulate every couple minutes on airplanes, as well as people wearing masks, and the fact that a large amount of the population is either vaccinated, the state, or already recovered from covid with natural immunity. i think boarding a flight you should have a rapid test that is negative? i think that would be a good idea. if that means people can then get onto that airplane and take their masks off, i don t know if anybody else has tried to travel with children like i have, but it s really difficult and uncomfortable to have that mask on. i can tell you, those cloth masks are doing nothing at this point to decrease this highly transmissible variant. gillian: so the cloth mas
results eventually for my wife and my son, but not for our daughter. so what do you do? gillian: again, let are any americans having to wait 72 hours for the results, and does that do anybody any good? i don t know. mike: no. here we go. the travel nightmare that started on christmas eve, gillian, still playing out for thousands of frustrated flyers at airports coast-to-coast. flight aware counts close to 1,000 canceled flights nationwide, along with more than 2,000 flights delayed. headaches started with staff shortages due to covid, but no winter weather is making matters even worse. madison always is standing by at laguardia airport in queens, new york. hello, madison. hi, mike. yeah, it was a weekend of holiday travel mess. things not that much better. like he said, over a thousand flights canceled across the u.s. here at laguardia, over 30 flights canceled today alone and it s only midday. we still have a long day of travel ahead of us. let s take a look at where