fox business network and i will join you. trace: the world health organization is warning that omicron is spreading faster than any covid variant and elected officials are cracking down with mask mandates in new york and california but so far omicron cases appear to be mild and 70% of adults are vaccinated. critics say the panic is overblown. here is a doctor from john hopkins school of public health and the smartest guy we know. thanks for joining us. we don t have any deaths from the u.s. from omicron but they are trying to scare the daylights out of us. the nih director said there is a great concern about omicron because it has over 50 mutations and 30 in the spike proteins.
the mandate came along, now it is over 97%. i m sorry to see challenges being placed, if you re just interested in public health and recognize that freedom is not just about liberties, it is also about responsibles, these mandates make total sense. they re the historically the way we got through things like smallpox. dr. francis collins, we are very pleased that you took some of your closing minutes as the nih director to speak with us and our viewers and we wish you a wonderful holiday and another act whatever that might be. thank you so much for your service. we appreciate it. thanks, a lot, chris. get your boosters, everybody. coming up, how soon the justice department could decide whether to pursue criminal contempt charges against former trump chief of staff mark meadows.
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now we know that was likely a live. for more on the breaking developments we go to matt finn in the west coast newsroom. the national institutes of health admits us tax dollars were used to fund a limited experiment to test spike proteins from that coronavirus is in china capable of binding to humans. and the letters representative james comeer, lab mice with a modified that virus became sicker than mice that were given an unmodified that virus with the nih claims these particular bat viruses tested in wuhan lab could not have become the covid virus and the nih director claims the nih grant funds to new york city-based funds called eco-health which sub granted money to the wuhan lab without being transparent about the testing taking place. this comes after doctor fauci denied us dollars were funding
we ll see how this stakes shape, but it won t be my call. nih director, i have to ask. dr. collins, thank you for coming on the show. big day. important to have your perspective, thank you. as reported earlier this hour, the justice department intending to take this to the supreme court. the law, most restrictive in the country, still in effect forcing people to make very difficult choices over unplanned or unintended pregnancies. the fallout, felt most by women of color in communities of fewer economic resources to be able to navigate this new law. i want to bring in our msnbc reporter. tremaine, glad to have you on. i appreciate you having me on. you mentioned, sb8 only law the