with senator cornyn, with lindsay graham, trying to find a compromise that can get 60 votes in the senate. maybe this shooting will bring people back to the table, but we haven t taken a vote this year in part because i have asked senator schumer for the room to try to negotiate that compromise you re talking about. i wish my republican colleagues didn t sort of have epiphanies on this issue only after mass school shootings. plus, new reaction from congresswoman ilhan omar, speaking off after video surfaces showing her gop colleague lauren boebert making anti-muslim comments. slamming republican leadership and saying she expects decisive action from speaker pelosi. mccarthy is a liar and a coward. he doesn t have the ability to condemn the kind of bigoted islamophobia and anti-muslim rhetoric that are being trafficked by a member.
hall on the new variant and what it means for all of us. next up for us tonight, two republican congresswomen. new video surfaces of one s anti-muslim bigotry. new attacks from the other against a colleague for simply calling it out as bigotry. almost total silence, of course, from the republican leadership. there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark.
it s been in the past. probably ten times better than it was this time last year. some 80,000 genomic sequences, versus closer to 8,000. keep in mind, though, we are only doing about a million and a half tests per day. that, also, is better. but i remember dr. jha s previous home institution harvard, road to recovery talked about the necessity for tens of millions of tests per day. so even on the front end just in terms of the number of tests that we are doing in the first place is still too low. so that you know, the surveillance is improved but of a still small denominator, overall. that may be part of the reason why we haven t found omicron yet. it s almost certainly here in the united states. and no one should be surprised when we report that the first case has been officially found but that that may be driving why it s taking so long. sanjay, dr. jha, thanks so much. appreciate it. reminder join us tomorrow night for a special cnn town hall on the new variant and what it
people in the caucus, hey, go pound sand. if you don t shut up, i m going to strip you of your committee assignments. that s how this works. kevin is playing scared. when you play scared, nothing good happens. well, and, i mean, i know it is not lost on all of us here on the show this morning that it is not just a danger to the republican party. what s happening now, these comments we re talking about, are a danger to members of congress and to muslim americans. i mean, it s unspeakable, that these have gone unchecked. yet, minority leader mccarthy has yet to publicly condemn lauren boebert s islamaphobic remarks that sparked this all. even as another video surfaces of her implying ilhan omar was a terrorist. the latest video was from an event in september. watch. one of my staffers on his first day with me got into an
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