shotting where is nancy when the speaker entered the house. she was not there. new video shows a smashed glass door. police responded to a wellness check. we re not sure if that is a home alarm or a call from paul pelosi. it happened around 2:30 a.m. when they encountered this. our officers observed mr. pelosi and the suspect both holding the hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from mr. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers tackled the suspect and disarmed him and took him in to custody and requested emergency backup and rendered medical aid. martha: so it s not clear from the chief s comments who was holding the hammer or whether the suspect brought it with him and used it to enter the home or whether mr. pelosi grabbed it after he heard somebody breaking in to his home. the a 82-year-old remains hospitalized. doctors are treating him and told he will make a full recovery. we don t have any updates. we know speaker pelosi is on her way to with
consider that a badge of honor. that s just some of what we have all heard from dr. fauci over the course of this pandemic and like it or not, much of it remains very relevant as people plan for a new year with the pandemic still a part of our daily lives. now we turn to another big story of 2021 which was the launch of a new presidency, a very familiar figure in joe biden, trying to turn the page. here on the beat, we went inside the biden white house, this is back when they were just getting started. it was a really interesting time to see new staff turn the page, new vibes. we had reporting inside the west wing because the president was preparing for his first address to congress. joe biden has given many speeches, this was his first as president in that forum. it is a process that will be coming again this january. president biden is about to deliver his first speech to congress and final preparations
is covid. 2021 began with a vaccine rollout, still has ended as the deadliest year of the pandemic and misinformation has proven dangerous to people s health. we have been talking to dr. fauci across the pandemic learning about his guidance and what to do if the facts change and new variants emerge. the best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating because it is an interesting tenet of virology. the only way a virus can mutate is if you allow it to replicate. so when you have a lot of infection in your country, when you re getting 3 to 400,000 new infections a day, the virus has an open playing field to replicate so much that it starts to mutate. that s when you get the dangerous mutations. so one of the best ways to prevent that from happening in
at. we have this ongoing now for a year and a half, killed more americans than any other infectious disease in such a very long period of time. sometimes you ve got to do more. well, doctor, when you put it like that, the answer sounds better than the question. it is no secret, dr. fauci has been at this work a long time across administrations in both parties, but it is his only in this divided particularly polarized era we have seen him become more attacked than any other time in his career. it may tell us more about the rest of us than him as some tried to make fauci the face of the controversy surrounding the virus and many on the right targeting him. i think he now is destructive. i think he is dishonest. he decided to unilaterally end christmas. we want to take fauci down, put him in an orange jumpsuit.
in a reasonable society, fauci would be gone. we ll give you the last word of any thoughts how you re playing across the internet again this year and i promised you, you had a question. go ahead as well. ari, i m not in it for a popularity contest. i devoted my entire professional career of 50 years to try and essentially safeguard and preserve the health and lives of the american people as an infectious disease doctor that deals with outbreak, that gets really extended to the rest of the world. that s what i do. the praise or the arrows and slings are really irrelevant. i do what science drives you to do and that s what i do. and you know, i m not in it for a popularity contest. i m trying to save lives. the people that recognize lies are killing people. the only question i have is when you show tucker carlson and peter navarro criticizing me, i