>> reporter: he stoked false election fraud claims and the fervor among trump supporters. >> help us pay for the staging, the transportation and, most importantly, the security of our peaceful protesters. >> reporter: he raised millions of dollars. he was among the speakers at rallies in d.c., leading up to january 6th. >> and now they seek nothing less than the heist of the 2020 election, and we say no way! >> reporter: while the interview with stone was short and likely did not yield much information, the committee may have had more luck with caroline wren, another organizer who met with the committee for several hours. multiple sources previously told cnn investigators are interested in wren's role as a frazer for various pro-trump rallies, including the one on january 6th. they also want to hear from phil waldren, a man behind a powerpoint filled with plns to overturn the election results that the committee said mark meadows was in receipt of. committee members say they've issued him a subpoena because they want to know more about the document. >> who did you talk to? when did you talk to them? why? where did you get this information from? >> reporter: the committee furiously wrapping up a hectic week of work. they referred meadows for possible criminal contempt of congress charges. keith kellogg, then-national security adviser to the vice president and ken klukowski. while most republicans continue to cast doubt on the committee, one very prominent republican seems open to what they are discovering. >> well, i'm like you. i read the reports every day, and it will be interesting to see what they conclude. >> while roger stone showed up for his deposition today but likely did not say very much, another right wing conspiracy theorist seems to be taking a bit of a different tact. alex jones who is scheduled to hold a deposition with the committee tomorrow. he is no longer showing up. the committee saying that they are granting him a short postponement because, jake, he is engaging with the committee's work. >> all right. ryan nobles, thanks. joining me to discuss, zoe lofgren of california. a member of the january 6th house select committee. congresswoman, so we just reported that the aggressive strategy text message calling for just the day after the election, the white house or others to push three states, pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina, to have their legislatures, which are republican, just convene and send a different slate of electors than thus kicking a constitutional crisis and sending this to the supreme court, that the author of that, members of your committee believe, was former governor rick perry and the text message came from a phone number that we have corroborated is governor rick perry. so what's your response? >> well, i am not in a position to confirm who was the author at this point. ultimately, the -- that information, all the information will be released by the committee. i want to commend you for being good reporters and tracking down leads but the real, you know, concern is this text really proposes overturning the constitution. the votes hadn't even all been counted yet when this text was send, essentially saying, ignore what the voters did. republicans, send whoever you want. as electors and rig the election. i think president trump, former president trump, is known for projecting. he is saying, you know, it's stop the steal. well, actually it looks like he was being urged to steal the election. >> yeah. and just to note, of the three states that rick perry was pushing in that text message, one of them was north carolina. the votes were still being counted and ultimately trump won that state. >> right. you know, the text says, you know, and other republican states. and clearly it outlines a coup. >> the committee has now spoken with around 300 people, witnesses. you've reviewed troves of documents. how has your thinking evolved about the attack and the larger attempt to undermine democracy since you began investigating? >> well, we've uncovered a lot of information. obviously, there's more to look at. more to learn, but we are seeing with the mark meadows information really some lines of communication between the thought and riot and the white house. we have more to ask mr. meadows about this, and we have other witnesses to talk to as well. but as senator mitch mcconnell said, this is pretty interesting stuff, huh? >> it sure is. the conspiracy to overthrow the results of the election now includes a former governor, officials in the cabinet, officials from the pentagon, from the justice department, and the trump white house. we should just note this wasn't just a sweaty rudy giuliani holding deranged press conferences at four seasons total landscaping. this was a wide and deep and vast conspiracy. this is alarming and frightening. >> it is. and we need to get the entire picture and we also need to see what steps we can take not only to fully inform the american people but to change processes so that we're not vulnerable to this kind of plotting in the future. >> a lot of the conspiracy theorists and a lot of the plotters were pushing vice president mike pence to do something that he didn't even have the constitutional power to do. as we know, the crowd was chanting "hang mike pence" because they were so insensed because of what president trump and others had told them. why hasn't vice president pence spoken with the committee yet? >> well, i don't want to get into that, but we are certainly learning more about the vice president's actions and views. i will say this, that the role of the vice president is and has always been really ceremonial. there's really not a lot of ambiguity, but some ambiguity was attempted to be created about that. and in the end, vice president pence understood that that was a role that he legally could play. so we're lucky for that. but i think, you know, if we can tighten up so there's absolutely no way to ever suggest that there's an ambiguity about that might be something we should look at doing. >> "the new york times" published an op-ed called how to tell when your country is past the point of no return. listen to this quote from cornell professor michael macy. if the water temperature increases only 1 degree per hour it may take awhile before you notice it's too hot. by that time it's too late. we might be better off if we faced an armed insurrection which might be the exoshock needed to get the gop establishment to wake up, unquote. i mean, where are we in terms of the threat to democracy? should we as americans start brushing up on how democracies end? i mean, it has happened. one look no further than some countries in south america that had thriving democracies and ultimately they don't anymore. >> well, i believe that the vast majority of americans are in favor of our constitutional republic. not everyone may understand the threats that have been posed and are being created even as we speak now. so i think those of us who are studying this have an opportunity to make that information well known to the american public, and i think the vast number of americans don't want to turn in our democracy for a different form of government. so we have a lot of work to do. those of us who are working on this committee, and i would say, other parts of our fabric of america, people like yourself and the faith community and others to say what the stakes are and how important our democratic form of government is. i know that all of us in school, we pledge allegiance to the flag in school. the flag is a symbol, but, really, what's important is our constitutional democratic form of government. >> pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which is stands. zoe lofgren, thank you. covid spiking just before holiday gatherings. we'll talk to an expert who said the u.s. is about to experience a viral blizzard. plus, tiger woods' first tournament since his car crash. that's ahead. is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? 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>> yes. >> reporter: in the real world, new infections of omicron are doubling in as little as two days in some parts of the uk. >> there is a tidal wave of omicron coming. >> reporter: the government thinks that every infected person infected 3 to 5 others. one yet not peer reviewed model suggests in the worst case scenario more than half of the english population could be infected with the omicron variant over the winter months. >> it's probably the most significant threat we've had since the start of the pandemic. >> reporter: in a response, prime minister boris johnson is resorting to plan b. reviving the indoor mask mandate and introducing a covid passport for nightclubs and large events. but a vote this week to confirm the measure provoked a mutiny from within johnson's own conservative party. passing only thanks to votes from the opposition. >> so the ayes have it. the ayes have it. >> if you are segregating society, based on an unacceptable thing. we are not a pay per please soc society. >> reporter: italy, france, germany and austria, they're now required for evident things like restaurants, public transit, going to work or even leaving your house. austria is making adult vaccinations mandatory. the new german chancellor is pushing for the same but when johnson suggested even a conversation about that in the future, it was publicly shot down by his own health secretary. >> although we've seen plans for universal mandatory vaccination in some countries in europe, i will never support them in this country. >> reporter: instead, the government is resorting to a familiar approach. personal responsibility. >> i think people should prioritize what matters to them and cut down on the things that don't. >> but with another record high of new infections friday and the threat of rising hospitalizations, johnson may soon need to convince a weary public to go along with even more restrictions. unless some good news is discovered inside labs like this one. and because of the surging omicron variant in about 40 minutes from now, france is officially closing its border to british tourists and business travelers, even if they're vaccinated. not that they'd have that much fun there anyways, jake. the french of also banning public gathering and parties on new year's eve to keep it under control. >> let's discuss all of this with michael osterholm, director for the center for research. the u.s. is about to experience a, quote, viral blizzard in the next three to eight weeks. millions of americans are going to get infected. when you look at what's happening in the uk, which is usually ahead of us by a few weeks when it comes to this pandemic, what lessons can the u.s. learn? >> one is that we still have to deal with the delta epidemic. or pandemic as worldwide issues and that isn't done yet. that's what's stressing our hospitals yet. the question will be how will omicron replace that, or will it? so that will then add an additional burden onto it. so we still have a real question about that. the second thing is the seriousness of the illness. we're already reporting how much more infectious it is which omicron is but the challenge will be, is it going to increase the number of hospitalizations, serious illnesses and deaths. that's what we don't really understand yet. >> we're seeing testing lines reminiscent of last year when the number of americans vaccinated were minuscule. how much of the surge we're seeing now is about the omicron variant or is it more that not enough people have gotten vaccinated, not enough people have gotten the booster? >> well, not enough people have gotten vaccinated for sure. and in this country only one-third of individuals who should have that third dose. a dose i don't like to call a booster. i think it's part of a three prime series, something we should have been promoting for months that we needed three doses. that's there. the question right now is, as you're asking about what is omicron doing, that's what's coming down the pike. the cases, as we've seen it will take several weeks before they turn into severe illnesses, result potentially in hospitalizations and deaths. right now if we didn't have another delta virus transmission in the country the next three weeks are already in the books. meaning that the people who have gotten faectsed will go on and develop symptoms. then with time become more seriously ill, be hospitalized and some of those will die. that's a fact for right now. so what we're really looking for is what will happen in three to five weeks from now. and i think that's why when i talked about the viral blizzard, i think we'll see lots of transmission of the virus well into the middle of january. and that's when we'll know the impact of omicron. >> this new op-ed from former fda officials in "the washington post." and they say the biden administration has been making important vaccine decisions without consulting independent panels of experts. they cite three decisions in particular. the fda authorizing boosters for all adults, the cdc announcing everyone 18 n older should get the booster and the fda authorizing boosters for 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds. what do you make of their charges? do you agree the biden administration is not listening to the scientists enough? >> there is a division right now. we just have to acknowledge that. some don't think the booster is that important. i do believe it. i wrote an op-ed several weeks ago urging that we no longer think of boosters as that but to be fully vaccinated you need all three doses. i think the data are clear and compelling, and we don't have time to wait. this is like a john snow moment. john no is the famous englishman who pulled the pump handle off a contaminated well in england in the 1860s to stop a cholera outbreak long before the bacteria was discovered. we need to pull pump handles and do things where we have enough data to support something may work and then do it because what we're facing otherwise is, in fact, this viral blizzard and the impact that it will have on us. >> i'm glad you explained who john snow was. i thought you were making a reference to "game of thrones." >> dr. oester holme, thank you. next automatic going to talk to the head of the antidefamation league who said trump just used classic anti-semitic stereotypes. , new- did you just spike the footlong? 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look, the bottom line is jews -- he is not the one to tell jewish people about their feelings for israel but there's widespread, overwhelming positive feelings among the jewish community for the jewish state and that's just the start as you point out of what he said. tropes about greed, power, loyalty, clannishness, like literally, you wonder how low he's going to go. >> and then he said, israel, i'm going to quote this. israel had absolute power over congress and today i think it's the exact opposite. i mean, the idea that israel had absolute control over congress or absolute power over congress, that's the antiof antisemitism you hear from members of the clan. >> that's right. this sound like richard spencer or this sound like some of the most radical people on the left or lyndon larouche. that's what we're talking about here. israel doesn't have absolute power over anything, even its own electorate, for goodness sakes. but this plays into these longstanding tropes, jake, that have led to jewish people being harassed, suffering from violence, and literally being killed. so it's not something we can take lightly, especially when it's coming from a former commander in chief. it's really quite distauurbdist. >> trump claimed evangelical christians love israel more than jewish americans. obviously a lot of evangelical christians are supportive of israel. there's a theological reason behind that. what is he talking about? >> it's true there are many people of the christian faith, evangelicals, catholics, other denominations within protestantism of the church of latter day saints that feel very strongly about the jewish state of israel. that could be for biblical or political reasons but to say this group loves israel more than that group. like that's the kind of analysis we don't really need because at the bottom line, jake, it's anti-semitism to play into these tropes and myths about who feels more strongly about the jewish state, helps no one, particularly the jewish people. >> yeah, i mean, also you don't have -- it's not a contest. he seems to be judging -- the way he seems to look at this is like support for israel is measured by how much people voted for me, for donald trump. evangelical christians overwhelmingly vote forward me so, therefore, they love israel more than jewish americans who did not vote for me. >> yeah, look, the bottom line is president trump's yardstick as always is his ego. because that's what seems to be the measure that he uses to determine someone's value, someone's patriotism or in this case, someone's zionism. but none of it works. and again, we have seen time and again, whether it's people who belong to different organizations or extremist movements, employ the same myths, jake, and use it to justify the marginalization and persecution of jewish people. it's flat-out wrong. >> of course, he went after "the new york times" claiming the newspaper hates israel and is run by jews. he goes on to talk about the salzburger families who have run the paper for decades. but still, to say "the new york times" is run -- he says jewish people run "the new york times." >> again, like this plays into this trope about jews controlling the media and we know the myths of jews controlling hollywood, wall street, silicon valley, you name it. antisemitism is a conspiracy theory. and it adopts and it morphs and it shapes to the times. and to the particular, you know, pathologies of the person pushing out the prejudice. that's what we have here. the bottom line is all of these myths have been used to justify violence against the jewish people and the people who push out such myths, jake, they aren't our friends. they don't align with our values. i say our friends. they don't align with the american values of decency and humanism and tolerance. and that's why they're so problematic. >> jonathan, thank you so much. vladimir putin ignores president biden's warning as russia continues to build up its troops near ukraine. that's next. superpowers from a spider bite? 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>> it's well over 100,000 troops. and the latest u.s. intelligence assessments put the number of battalion tactical groups, units of about 900 personnel each typically, at about 50. so there's upwards of 50 of those massive groups kind of stationed at the border with six more on the way. that's according to u.s. officials who spoke to us. and there's a lot of concern here, obviously, over what russia's plans are. which the u.s. is still trying to determine. they do not know whether or not vladimir putin has actually made the decision to invade but they warn that he could do so at a moment's notice, essentially, if he decided to because of all this equipment and because of all these troops that are currently stationed at the border. some as close as about 30 miles away from ukraine. so the ukrainians obviously getting a bit nervous about this. they are asking the u.s. for more weapons. they are asking for more support. the u.s. says, look, we provided over $400 million in security assistance already. we are trying to de-escalate the situation, not escalate it further by putting more weapons into the conflict. so, obviously, all sides are very tense right now. the russians are not backing down. they are demanding more security guarantees that the united states is saying are pretty much nonstarters. >> and how is the biden administration responding? >> well, they put out a draft proposal today of what they are demanding from the u.s. and the west, putting that out in public. the administration has told supporters today that moscow knows that a lot of those bullet points on their list, a lot of those demands are not going to happen. so things, for example, like a guarantee that ukraine will not be allowed to join nato. that the u.s. will not be conducting any kind of military cooperation with ukraine. these are things the administration knows or feels that moscow knows but is putting out there because it wants a pretext for conflict. a lot of analysts, u.s. officials saying that moscow is provoking here because they know they're not going to get what they want. when they don't they can then say, well, we tried. now we're going to launch this attack. the administration is -- has a very delicate dance going on with the russians. they believe there's a window here for diplomacy but they're willing to take much further action than they did in 2014, for example, if russia does move to invade. >> natasha bertrand, thank you. coming up, it was a $4 billion settlement that gave the powerful sackler family broad protection from opioid lawsuits. now that settlement has just been overturned. what does that all mean? 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>> the perfect spot to do this. it's called a hit-and-giggle. it doesn't count in the standings. it's family members. one woman's professional player playing with her dad, and it's perfect. young charlie, 12 years old is the spitting image of his dad, a mini me. it's just fun to watch that, to see that. tiger is so proud of his son. for tiger to get out there and hit shots, and be able to, as he said, feel the sun, step on the grass, it's been not even ten months sin ce the horrific accident. his leg was shattered. he did use a cart a bit, which is a very big deal. walking is an essential part of a pga tour player's life, so to use a cart, of course, signifies he, of course at this point could not walk a golf course. this is just a start. when and if he comes back, he will mark time from this moment, this weekend. >> as you note, it's only been ten months. rehab requires pacing yourself. so golf superstar justin thomas said this about tigers and charlie's chances. take a listen. >> in terms of the competing, i think his expectations are very low, but at the same times he is who he is for a reason. i'm sure he'll be pissed off if he doesn't play well. >> how good is it if him tosh an family faces even if he -- >> tiger is the mo competitive person i have ever met and ever dealt with. this is why he's so great. all this talent and this ability to practice, he puts it teague, he's the hardest worker, and he just obviously the greatest golfer ever. jack nicklaus, tiger woods, whatever, it's right up there. yeah, he wants to play well. there's real pride there for tiger woods. even though he was in the hospital bed a few months ago and couldn't walk for several months, you know, now he's on a golf course again. that tiger kind of just clicks in. no surprise at all that he would like to ballet well, his fellow players expect him to do okay. yes, today he hit some really good shots. so, yeah, he's going to work his way back and be as competitive as ever, understanding that 46-year-old tiger woods is very different, and his leg, of course, will certainly hamper him. he will never be the same again. >> a quick pivot to the broader subject of covid -- just between two more nhl teams had to shut down. two nfl games postponed. one doctor from john hopkins said there will never be a time whether any organization has zero cases. are professional teams grasping that reality? >> slowly, but surely. a moment today reminded me of march 11, 2020, where the nba announced it was suspending operations, tom hanks and rita wilson tested positive, and the sports world showed us how serious it was. it's a different situation now. of course we have vaccines. of course, we have so much more, but three nfl games, 100 players in the nfl that are in the protocol. of course, the nba, nhl, college basketball. you know, you almost feel like here we go again. i hope that's not the case. it will be different, but i think these leagues are grasping the reality that covid is here, delta and omicron are with us, and it will not be business as usual as much as they hoped it would be. christine brennan, thank you so much. in the tech lead, ultimate kronos group, one of the largest -- have been hit with a cri crippling ransomware. effective employers are scrambling to pay workers in other ways, like shifting to paper checks. the company says it could be weeks before they're able to restore normal operations. be sure to tune into "the state of the union" on sunday. that's at 9:00 and noon eastern, only on cnn. you can follow me on twitter, facebook, instagram and tiktok. our coverage continues right next door with one mr. wolf blitzer, in a place i like to call "the situation room." see you sunday morning. happening now, dr. anthony foiism warns americans they have virtually no protection from the omicron variant unless they get a booster shot. the expert now warns a viral blizzard is about to slam the united states. we're also following breaking news of the january 6th investigation. committee members believe that rick perry was the author of a text pushing mark meadows to undermine the election just after the polls closed. former secretary

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