of infrastructure, of voting, the kinds of things that are really of importance for america s security in the future. juliet, always great to have you. thanks very much. happy new year. happy new year to you. have a good one. let s hope. next, the woman who helped jeffrey epstein abuse young girls for years could now spend the rest of her life behind bars. what is next as ghislaine maxwell awaits her sentence. plus, stunning images out of china where the government has taken to publicly shaming people who break covid protocols, parading them around in hazmat suits with photos of their faces plastered on the front. (wife) hi, honey! (man) like what? (burke) well, you d get a discount for insuring your jet skis. and boat.rv.life. .home and more. you could save up to forty-five percent. (man) that s a whole lot of discounts. (burke) well, we offer coverage for a whole lot of things, and you
hospital beds, staffing shortages of tests, almost everything. it s tough for the system to handle this many cases at once but i think if there is a silver lining, it s when it comes down fast, it s likely to go down even more quickly. and we will what we will see is a, um, hopefully not nearly as severe. we will still see still see a lot of cases in hospitals. we will still see a lot of deaths but hopefully this will be much milder on a percentage basis than what we have seen with delta. let s hope. and as you know, president biden is revoking travel restrictions on southern african countries when the restriction wrs put in place late last month. as you know, the administration said at the time it was to buy time. but what do you think, andy? was that time wasted to some extent as far as ramping up testing capabilities? i mean, we are almost two years into this pandemic. isn t it a major problem that people are scrambling at drugstores and whatnot to find these tests?
affected by this. everybody had to scale back their christmas plans and their holiday plans. people not seeing each other that much. my mother s cousins, they didn t come. it s into the disrupted annoyingly christmas. let s hope next year is better. let s hope. and obviously you have the good news is and at least the people we spoken with are more inconvenience than anything else that not even it would not rise and all the people i have talked to a healthcare scare, it was sort of an annoyance, some sort of irritating for people vaccinated with the booster, just sort of irritated that they were locked on. we have dr. fauci today. yeah, i expect it s going to go down to five days.
minneapolis area with the concern that we could see more of that unrest right before christmas. mike: let s hope and pray the reaction is peaceful. garrett, thanks very much. jacqui: joining us now, thank you so much for joining us. they still been a question, are we going to hear that there is a hung jury? granted, we don t know if that is the outcome that we have been told about, but it does beg the question, if it is a hung jury, that we release the right charges and why? how can both be true, if so? that is a really interesting point. from the get-go i thought the prosecution in this case did overcharge kim potter. remember, they came out sort of after-the-fact and added and added the first-degree manslaughter charge. and they were allowed to do that. to me, they made a critical error when they did that. also it probably led to some juror confusion now, which is why we ve had four days of deliberation and we are still
to 49. 44 postponements over the last two weeks. two leagues scheduled for tonight are to play, let s hope. kansas city chiefs tight end travis kelce was placed on the covid list yesterday. other notables added to the list are charlie bosa, lions quarterbacker jared goff. the league s updated protocols have made it easier for players to return from the covid list if they re vaccinated. meanwhile in a game pushed back, the covid-depleted browns were missing several starters including quarterback baker mayfield and the head coach. cleveland still put up a good fight, leading by a point into