a lot of people in my world are asking why is he even going to trial? i will tell you why. two types of people who go to trial. the first camp are people who have an abiding belief in their innocence and want vindication and the only way to do it is go to trial and gate not guilty verdict. the other camp is exactly the opposite. those people really don t have a legal leg to stand on. prosecutor isn t making any offers and if they go to trial they have nothing to lose but maybe they can get one juror out of 12 to feel a little sorry and come back with a mistrial or something better than that. jussie smollett falls into the second camp. bill: uh-huh. so that would explain why he doesn t cut a deal with prosecutors. that would seem kind of logical when you consider it s 20 below, it is late january, it is 2:00 a.m. on the streets of chicago and apparently he was on his way to get a sandwich at subway. i don t think prosecutors
american people are continuing to listen at this point. yeah. it was kamala harris saying she had great hesitancy to take the vaccine because donald trump was involved. the number one thing joe biden talks about is the vaccine. donald trump opened the way to create that public/private partnership to make the vaccines possible. look, when you are talking about people s health we have to be very, very careful. i took the vaccine, my wife took the vaccine. we re fully vaccinated but i have to tell you every single time we listen to this administration, it is flip and flop. they come out with a policy and scramble to find the signs instead of leading with the science and then coming out with the policy. bill: we have an explanation from the world health organization why we re using the greek alphabet and on that for some time now. they will skip two letters and here is the explanation for why. nu is too easily confounded
the president can could do more than firing dr. fauci if he wants credibility of this issue. we have heard this administration and dr. fauci way too many times misdirect us. tell us one thing, do another thing. i don t think he has the credibility to lead this nation in terms of his scientific response to this pandemic. dana: the white house is asking for patience because they say we have to follow the signs and this is a virus. but they didn t extend that when he was a candidate, when president biden was a candidate. he said this in a tweet in february of 2020. we are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. we need to lead the way with signs, not donald trump s record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear mongering. the worst possible person to lead our country through the global health emergency. yet this continued virus forces the president to come out again today at 11:45. you point out some great hypocrisy about masks and about the southern border and it is hard to imagine tha
eight countries in africa starting today. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. nice to see you again. missed you for five days, right? we re back at it. dana: we re at it. bill: we are. dana: here we go. bill: you have several countries around the world and high alert for the new strain of covid as it remains unclear what it means for handling the pandemic. president biden will once again be urging americans to get vaccinated and get the booster shot if you haven t yet when he speaks to the country next hour. his chief medical officer says it is too early to tell if there will be any need for additional restrictions. it s really too early to say. people talking about lockdowns, people talking about that. let s see what the information that we are getting in realtime tells us and we ll make decisions based on the science and the evidence the way we always do. bill: team fox coverage begins a new hour. rich edson in washingt