increase in cases. not seeing as much increase in hospitalizations across the u.s. look closely at new york, maryland, d.c. we are seeing a steep rise in hospitalizations. we see that the sheer volume of cases is going to impact hospitalizations. so while it s milder overall, because it s so much more transmissible we are still going to see hospitalizations. we know what happened in a certain part of the country eventually impacts the rest of the country, unfortunately, if interventions are flot put in place. thank you both very much for your time. appreciate you being with us this afternoon. going to come back and talk more about the omicron variant and what it means for schools with an exclusive interview you will see first right here on msnbc with education secretary cardona. getting to other big headlines happening here in washington and behind me as d.c. gets ready to commemorate the insurrection
resistance it s also now facing a new legal challenge. cnn s jessica schneider has more now from washington. who won the election on the 3rd? who won the election on the 3rd? donald trump. i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea stop the steal. reporter: trump s allies have spent the past year repeatedly questioning the 2020 election, and the house select committee s investigation into the deadly insurrection january 6th. this actually exonerates me, and this evidence is actually going to exonerate president donald j. trump. reporter: and now they re taking another page from trump s play book. the former president has filed his own lawsuit now making its way through the courts trying to stop the national archives from handsing over hundreds of pages of documents including white house visitor and call logs and drafts and speeches and hand written notes. in recent weeks more lawsuits have poured in from trump s chief of staff mark meadows,
he s suing to challenge the panel investigation. jessica schneider has the details. who won the election on the 3rd? who won the election on the 3rd? donald trump. i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea. reporter: trump allies have repeatedly questioned the election and the investigation into the deadly insurrection january 6th. this evidence exonerates me and will exonerate president don t j. trump. reporter: now they re suing to stop the committee from getting access to their records and testimony. the former president has filed his own lawsuit, trying to stop the national archives from
insurrection january 6th. this evidence exonerates me and this evidence is going to exonerate president trump. reporter: they are taking another page from trump s playbook, suing from getting access. the former president filed a lawsuit making its way through the court trying to stop the national archives from handing over documents, including white house visitor and call logs and drafts and speeches and handwritten notes. in recent weeks, more lawsuits have poured in, from mark meadows, michael flynn, john eastman, alex jones, the far right wing media pundit, an election lawyer for trump, one of the planners of the stop the steal rally and a handful of other rally organizers. all have sued to stop the committee or to stop phone
putin s calculus on the largest offenive in europe since world war ii that s looming? i m not entirely sure. yesterday occurred as good as it needed to. what is going on in ukraine is the continuation of the war that started in 2014. putin wants to retain control of or keep ukraine in its sphere of influence. he sees it slipping through his fingers, so he is acting on that need and also on an opportunity. an opportunity is perceived weakness in the united states. really doesn t have that much to do with joe biden. he s testing joe biden to see if he is if president biden is going to stick to his guns and be firm and resolved and pushing back on russian aggression. right. he is looking at the underlying conditions. he s looking at insurrection. if we didn t have an insurrection january 6th, i don t think vladimir putin would see the same opportunities and same weakness. he sees gaps between the u.s. and europe. he s in a divide, too. i m not going to name any names,