reporter: yeah, i mean, the uk is doing similar to what the united states is doing, blocking travel to and from south africa and its neighbors, and that is, of course, the first step. the nuclear option being taken by japan and israel, that s something that the world health organization and others is probably going to be shaking their fist at. countries should be taking a risk-based approach to implementing these travel bans. that s a big change from a year ago when the world health organization was taking the lead on pouring cold water on these travel bans saying they wouldn t work. well, now we re hearing that they ve kind of softened that stance and they do think that travel balance can work in certain cases. but the fact is here in britain, there are already 11 recorded cases. nobody believes that there s only 11 and immunologists believe this has definitely already insinuated itself, this new variant into the population here in the uk. but one thing that the uk is doing, they ar
0 reports. andrea is on assignment. i m chris jansing. we re following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we don t know about this variant with the white house releasing a statement sunday saying dr. fauci believes it will take up to two weeks to get answers on omicron s transmissibility, severity and other characteristics. the big question for nearly 200 million fully vaccinated americans, will their vaccine hold up against this new strain. fauci this morning urging eligible americans to not let fears over omicron s impact stop them from getting their booster shots. i would strongly suggest you get boosted now and not w
what are we to make of the relationship now between russia and china, this new you agreement that they signed, is that anything we should truly be worried about? yeah, thank you, jason, for having me this morning. look, the agreement itself, i would say no. this is kind of like normal procedure, this is the way it kind of goes forward with those two nations working side-by-side with authoritarian leaders. it shows a complete lack of respect for the president of the united states and the united states of america and they re trolling the president of the united states. that s what this should concern everybody about. the president set patterns of decision making and how they cree act to crisis situations. the president showed what he did with afghanistan, what they did with criteria crimea, when he that was the situation room with president obama, look, he set a pattern of indecision or no decision at all and they re
saying this pandemic will not end until we have global vaccinations. the united states has already donated more vaccines to other countries than every other country combined. it is time for other countries match america s speed and generosity. joining us now is south carolina republican congresswoman, nancy mace. congresswoman, welcome to sunday morning futures. appreciate it. thank you. good morning, jason, thanks for having me on. jason: what president trump tried to put in a travel ban he was widely criticized, saying it was all these different phobias and it wouldn t work. now that joe biden is doing it as president, is that the right public policy and will it make a difference? right, the crazy part is when president trump did this he was labeled as racist but when president biden does it it s seemingly entirely okay. that is the problem with politics and a lot of the mainstream media coverage today, on social media, they don t
saying this pandemic will not end until we have global vaccinations. the united states has already donated more vaccines to other countries than every other country combined. it is time for other countries match america s speed and generosity. joining us now is south carolina republican congresswoman, nancy mace. congresswoman, welcome to sunday morning futures. appreciate it. thank you. good morning, jason, thanks for having me on. jason: what president trump tried to put in a travel ban he was widely criticized, saying it was all these different phobias and it wouldn t work. now that joe biden is doing it as president, is that the right public policy and will it make a difference? right, the crazy part is when president trump did this he was labeled as racist but when president biden does it it s seemingly entirely okay. that is the problem with politics and a lot of the mainstream media coverage today, on social media, they don t