trump s life going back decades. he has always said, i am doing a big deal, i m getting a lot of money. but it is not for me, i don t really want to be rich, i just want to give it away. that was the case with the apprentice, it was the case with trump vodka. and 1 million other things and part of our coverage before trump got elected was how often he made those promises to donate things and he did not follow through. this is just another example. we have thought in 2020 that it seemed like trump had started giving money away, by the trump was organization was so opaque that it is hard now to be sure. it is nice now to look and say, yes, now, indefinitely in 2020, as his business declined, he broke the promises that he made and started keeping the money that he said he john, let me ask you this about what i was talking to brendan boyle, earlier. they are going to lose their majority, the democrats in the house. the republicans are coming back. kevin brady is warning we ll, wait
there are new fears over the dreaded tripledemic. this week, the united states hit 100 million coronavirus cases. but the actual number of infections could be double that, as flu and rsv hospitalizations decline, covid-19 hospitalizations are on the rise again. and a new omicron subvariant x b b has become the dominant strain in the northeast of the u.s.. here we have with me now msnbc medical contributor dr. vin gupta, a critical care pulmonologist in seattle. he s also on fact at the university of washington s health institute for health metrics and evaluation. thanks so much for coming on the show tonight. let start with his newest subvariant. what do we need to know about that one? mehdi, good evening, happy early new year. what the public needs to know is that this new variant x b b dot one dot five, for those who want the actual digits, it is arguably the most contagious version of this virus that we faced, mehdi, in the last four years. what does that mean?
january six committee transcripts in which former white house communications director, donald trump, alyssa farah griffin, says jared kushner stopped the covid task force from cooperating with the biden transition team. he just said, no, absolutely not, is the exact quote. can there ever be accountability for trump and kushner and others in that administration who were what else do you call it? negligent, i think, is an understatement, in their handling of covid and they re allowing people to die. there can be, mehdi, if any of the prosecutors in any of the 50 states, the district of columbia or the territories choose to present to the grand jury a case of involuntary manslaughter, as you and i have discussed. all it takes is three things. three elements that trump, kushner and or others acted in a grossly negligent way, that they are gross negligence was reasonably likely to result in death or serious bodily injury to another.
plurality. so, we will see. intriguing times ahead. victoria defrancesco soto and tim miller, thank you both. coming up new year, new subvariant. the doctor is going to talk about new covid fares and what to look for for the virus in the year ahead. stay with us. stay with us how? the lower the temp, the lower your bill. tide cleans great in cold and saves money? i am so in. save $150 when you turn to cold with tide. as the year closes, as more
summer, to say that the pandemic is over? it s not a choice of words i would have utilized. and i think moving from a pandemic to an endemic, how do we talk about expectations here? i think there is another slide i would love to show, mehdi, you are viewers here, where we are headed with this pandemic. this is daily deaths forecast by the university of washington s what we are seeing there, to your point, is that the pandemic is not over. the loss of life that we are forecasting, it s 6 to 8000 deaths week over week, partly because of this variant that you just mentioned. that should be unacceptable. that is totally unavoidable. additional hundred thousand deaths by march. and that is going to get worse because republicans are taking over the house. and then kind of covid mitigation measures, even though the biden administration is considering, that is gone. and the new money to find, covid that is gone, that is a problem, is it not? that is absolutely correct. and what you h