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welcome to viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, january 12th. i can say 12. brianna is off. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here who can count way higher than 12 thankfully. here to help with any dates, john, if you need help. let me know. and multiple numbers. this morning what feels like a shift in posture from the administration towards covid. most people are going to get it. that s from the acting head of the fda. most people are going to get it. now, it s the kind of language many people, many of us, have been using lately, but it was still notable to hear from a top official. dr. anthony fauci added to that when he noted omicron will find us. meaning, most of us will be exposed. most people are going to get
hill, phil, in recent days. the pundits on the sunday shows, a lot of people criticized john dowd saying, why are you being so quiet? then he called mueller a man with integrity, he is conducting this investigation to great ability. now we see chaos on the legal team. this is uncomfortable on capitol hill, as you know. he had a very clear point that he wanted to make. yes, he had been criticized for holding out for a couple days, but he also backchannels to the white house. he s also pretty close to mr. mcgahn, the white house counsel. it caused a lot of people to step back and say, whoa, but they also appreciated that because they would like things to be tamped down a little bit. it signals a shift in posture and a posture more on the lines of what we ve seen from the president on twitter in the last
sidelined. alex? okay. that is a new nugget there, thank you for that. let s also talk about secretary of state rex tillerson. as you know he heads to russia this week, makes him the first member of the trump cabinet to do so. what do we expect out of this? especially in the wake of this week s events. if you asked me a week ago, i think we would have had a different answer for you. no matter what, this was going to be a major trip for the secretary of state. we know he s wheels up for italy, expected to land there later on today and continue on with that overseas trip and head to moscow to meet with sergey lavrov. i will say, no matter what this was going to be interesting, given the constant discussion about russia s interference in the 2016 election, how the trump administration responded to that. now with the syrian strike and with what has been a shift in posture towards russia, tougher talk toward russia, you are hearing that from nikki haley, from rex tillerson. there s goin