tom, what does the white house want us to know? >> that they expect to sign a contract next week for these 500 million at-home tests. they've been criticized for shortages of tests. they're hoping this will warm up what has been a really bitter winter in many american households and at the white house, too. as the pandemic blizzard sweeps the country with an average of more than a quarter million new cases a day, another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control. facing sharp questions over its new dpguidelines. >> it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. >> the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms then five days of masking, is aimed at people keeping working, but it's raising alarms, too. >> there is absolutely no data that i'm aware about with the omicron that -- people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. >> nothing in the guidelines mandates testing for these people and the biden administration, which is promising to distribute a half billion tests beginning in january, has been harshly criticized for a shortage of tests now. so the lack of testing is also drawing fire. even as top health officials push back. >> it has nothing to do with a lack of tests. that is not the reason why. >> adding in u questions about the effectiveness of some at-home tests in detecting the omicron variant, it is all becoming a muddle at a terrible time. >> we're right now, seeing more cases per day than at any point in the pandemic. >> infections among children are rising rapidly in many places. >> we're seeing here even in new jersey a four fold increase in pediatric hospitalizations. we're seeing our daily cases skyrocket. >> in connecticut, the national guard has been called up to help with testing. in new york city, 70% of the uniformed officers called in sick yesterday. in washington, the pentagon is tig tightening its covid safety protocols. along the coast, 86 cruise ships are being investigated for outbreaks and with talk of a mandate for domestic air travel swirling, the questions about what comes next seem endless. >> when might you make a decision on domestic vaccine travel requirements? >> that's the president's assessment. as you can tell, keeping track of all this, even for those of us who do it for a living, is getting really complicated. don't forget one really positive part of all this. hospitalizations, the really severe cases, have not been rising nearly as fast as simply new cases. that is a bit of a silver lining and maybe it means as many people have been getting infected, maybe not so many of them will be so badly hit by this wave of the virus. >> that is reason for optimism. thank you very much for that. so this just in. washington, d.c.'s mayor just announced all students and staff must show proof of negative test, a negative test, before returning to school on january 5th. that's the first time that we're hearing that kind of mandate in washington. let's turn now to pediatrician and vaccine researcher, dr. hotez. let's start with testing. so many people are desperate for reliable, at-home tests. that's where i need your help understanding what dr. fauci said about these at-home tests yesterday. >> the test is still worthwhile. don't let anybody think that the fda was saying the tests are no longer good. they say they're less sensitive now. they never were 100% sensitive. some of the tests have a diminution further of the sensitivity, but they still say the tests are useful and should be used. >> okay, a diminution of the sensitivity. does that mean that the at-home rapid tests work to detect omicron or not? >> well, they do and they don't in the sense that if you are symptomatic, most of the antigen tests are pretty good. if you're having covid symptoms, cold, headache, et cetera, the sensitivity for picking that up on an at-home test is about 70%, which is reasonable. but where it breaks down is if you're having no symptoms and you just do a random test. there, the sensitivity does go way down. so you could still be shedding virus without symptoms and have a negative test. that's what makes it tricky. >> and i guess there's nothing to do about that. you just wear your mask. there's no other solution to that one, right? >> that's right. then you have to make a judgment call about who you're interacting with et cetera. so and so i think what you're seeing now is both the white house and cdc are kind of drawing a balance. they're trying to give a realistic assessment of these antigen tests, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, but not throwing too much cold water on them because they just announced they're going to buy and sign contracts for half a billion of them. so if they are too dismissive of them, when what's the point of that? so i think they're trying to walk that tight rope. and it is tough. especially with this omicron variant. it's so highly transmissible and so disruptive. even if the hospitalizations are not going up, you're knocking out a significant chunk of the healthcare workforce. so it doesn't take a lot of increase in hospitalizations because that kind of disruption and breakdown. >> and that leads us to schools. schools across the country are reopening five days from now. many are opening on january 3rd. and you don't like this idea. so what's wrong with it? >> well, you know, first of all, you know, i understand the importance of bringing back kids to school. i was, i'm a parent of now they're four adult kids, but when they were little, we understood the importance as well as anyone of that. we just had a pretty serious report from the surgeon general about the mental health aspects of children on this pandemic. it's just what i call screaming level of transmission, but what friend calls a virus blizzard, it's going to be pretty tough to get, to do this over the next couple of weeks. and so if we had a crystal ball and we knew that the level of transmission was going to go way down like it's doing in the uk and south africa, we could take a step back and say maybe we'll delay things a couple of weeks then add it on in the summer, but of course we don't know that for certain, but it is going to be a real challenge and you know, the other problem are state and local health departments across the country have been so depleted. we're actually balancing it on the back of teachers and superintendents and principals and school nurses. we're asking them to become mini public health departments and do the testing and algorithms and that's really unfair as well. so we're just kicking the can down the road a lot. >> let's talk about this. let's talk about what the future looks like because if they were to, if schools were to delay say for two weeks, let's look at what happened in south africa and if that gives us any roadmap for what the next two to three weeks would look like here. in south africa, i think the cases of omicron started to spike around november 23rd. where you start to see that uptake there. then three weeks later, it started to fall. now when you look at the map, i mean, the graph on the right hand side, the u.s., i'm not sure that we're following exactly that same model, but can we look to south africa for what our next three weeks look like? >> we might, but remember because we're such a huge country that the country doesn't behave in all of one fashion. so what you're seeing now is it's really peaking in new york, new jersey, and across the northeast to pennsylvania, ohio, indiana, illinois. but the worst part of omicron has not hit yet where i am in texas and in the south and the west. so the decisions may have to be made on a regional basis about when to reopen. so the tough part might be coming now for new york and new jersey, maybe better in a couple of weeks, then you're going to see this go up in the country. we saw this with delta. we had a terrible delta wave in the south and texas, in the southern states, not so much in the northern states and now it's the inverse. >> okay. thank you for all the information. we'll talk again soon. >> thank you. so for the first time, the jury in the maxwell trial has asked for transcripts from defense witnesses. what does that tell us about which direction they're heading? and next, the life of harry reid. >> how do you hope you'll be remembered? 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the reason i'm here. >> he spearheaded ledge es lative battles like obama care with the scrappy style he developed in his childhood. he was born in nevada, essentially a truck stop outside las vegas. he grew up in a shack with no running water. he took us there in 2006. his mother did laundry for the local brothels. his dad always looking for work as a miner. both drank heavily. during that 2006 visit, he casually pointed out where his father took his own life at 58 years old. >> this house right here, the last bedroom. that's where he killed himself. >> he clawed his way out of poverty as a boxer. as a politician, he was never afraid to punch below the belt. he even took on the mob as a young politician in las vegas. a wide variety of adjectives have been written about you. >> some good, some bad. >> let me read a few. scrappy, tough, blunt, behind the scenes master mind. ruthless. all those fair? >> well, that's what people think. if that's what they think, they're entitled to their opinion. >> as senate democratic leader, he was a polarizing figure. republicans argued a lot of congressional gridlock stemmed from his hardball tactics. but he revelled in playing the political bad guy, calling then president bush a loser and a liar well before politicians used those l words. >> i don't really care. i don't want to be somebody i'm not. >> during the trump presidency, however, reid changed his tune about bush. >> in hindsight, i wish every day for a george bush again. i think that he and i had our differences, but no one questioned his patriotism. no question in my mind that george bush would be babe ruth in this league that he's in with donald trump. donald trump wouldn't make the team. >> in 2012, he used the senate floor to accuse mitt romney of not paying his taxes even though he had no evidence. >> he's refused to release his tax returns as we know. let him prove he has paid taxes because he hasn't. no, i don't regret that. >> some people called it mccarthy. >> well, they can call it whatever they want. didn't win, did he. >> years later, reid did ask to meet with romney to make amends. >> shook hands, put stuff behind us. >> why was it so important for you to tie up that loose end? >> i try to do that with everybody. >> reid also inspired fierce loyalty from many of his long time aides as well as fellow senators. he often told colleagues he loved them, even in public. >> i love you, john kerry. >> he had a storybook romance with his high school sweetheart. the two converted to mormonism when they married. >> said, man, looks so good. >> that's amazing. >> but it's true. >> in january 2015, reid, a workout addict who ran numerous marathons, had a brutal exercise accident that left him severely bruised and blind in one eye. a few years later, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. the effects of chemo made it hard for him to walk. we went to see him in las vegas. >> one of my keepsakes from donald trump. >> never any complaints. >> i'm doing fine. i'm busy. i work quite hard. >> reid was an unlikely political leader in today's mode area age. soft spoken and gaffe prone, but played the game like anybody. >> i didn't make it in life because of my ethnic prowess, my good looks. i didn't make it because i'm a genius. i made it because of i have worked hard. one of the things i hope that people look back at me and say, if harry reid can make it, i can. >> and dana joins me now. what a fascinating look back at his life and his career and reid strikes me from watching your piece, as really a study in contrast in so many ways. he was in some ways, old fashioned, and i think some of his gaffes fell into that category. and then yet he was also ahead of his time in so many ways. >> so well said. ahead of his time, just for example, on mental health. you saw in the piece, his father committed suicide and he didn't talk about it for decades. didn't do so until mike wallace was testifying before congress and he talked about his own mental health issues and suddenly, senator reid starting talking about what happened in his own family and really spearheaded the notion of having a public debate in congress about mental health. but for sure, his legislative legacy is obama care. it wasn't easy. i was in many a hallway waiting for them to after months and months and months, come up with a deal, but he didn't do it by strong arming. i went and talked to him before he became majority leader and asked him if lbj was going to be one of his role models. didn't even let me finish the answer. he said, no way, i don't like lbj. i don't like the way he treated people. it was a very different kind of approach he took. he treated people well by making them promises, but also keeping his own promises. >> and you say that also extended to the people who worked for him in his office and particularly how he treated women. >> that was another area where he was so far ahead of his time. i just know because i have friends who, female friends, who worked for him for years and they stayed in his office largely because they liked their jobs, but they were able to stay even after having families because he really allowed for a family friendly office. when i talked to him in february of 2019, i asked him about that. >> i think what i did, i'm very satisfied, i feel really good about what i did with women in my office. before it was a thing to do, i started bringing women to my office and instructed my chief of staff, you tell them if they have a child, if they want to have a child, that's good for me and if that baby is stick, let them stay home. if the babysitter isn't available, they can stay home. everybody thought it was very generous. it was very selfish because i knew it would benefit me because that's what it did. those women became very, because i was the only senator who did that originally. >> and he really was. he did that really frankly before a lot of the female senators did it and he wanted to really lead by example. he said it was selfish and in some ways, it was. it allowed him to keep talent. now in workplaces across the country, good ones, they recognize this. but he did it really early on and it did help to solidify the loyalty again and the talent in his office. the female talent. he likes strong women. >> sounds like it. and also the love affair he had with his wife for so many decades. that was interesting. since they were teenagers. >> it was incredible to hear. so that was great. >> thank you very much for that look back. >> thanks. well, some january 6th defendants tried to compare the attack on democracy to the unrest in portland in 2020. a pair of trump appointed judges are not buying that argument so we have more on that coming up. and the jury in the maxwell sex trafficking case requests testimony from five witnesses. we'll tell you what that might mean. we are live at the courthouse. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn 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transcript request. this time for a former pilot for epstein who testified. so today in all, six requests for transcripts of testimony and this is just you know, adding on to the requests they've put in in the past six days. so they've requested testimony from more than a third of the witnesses who have testified in this trial and it's hard to know what they're thinking, but it appears this jury is taking its job seriously. they are combing through this testimony. they are asking lots of questions and they're hard at work. now, earlier today, the federal judge overseeing this trial let the jury know if they don't reach a verdict today, they'll likely need to continue to deliberate tomorrow and friday, which were supposed to be days off, and even potentially on new year's day, which is supposed to be a holiday. she's concerned about coronavirus here in new york city. there's a 20% positivity rate. she's concerned a juror will test positive. having to isolate and send this whole process into a tail spin. >> thank you very much for the update. let's wrbring in former federal prosecutor. what clues are you picking up from these questions the jurors are asking? >> first of all, i agree with the reporter that the jury is taking its job seriously and we want juries to do that when there are serious crimes that have been alleged, but i think the defense has to be pretty happy with where they're at now because the jurors are asking for example for the transcripts of defense witnesses. they asked for a transcript of a expert who testified for the defense about potential you know, issues with memory. things like that. so i think the fact that the jurors are really puzzling through this has got to be encouraging for the defense. >> but why does that tell you what the defense is maybe on the winning side here? >> i don't know if they're on the winning side, but they were facing i think a pretty serious problem here. there's a lot of juries that might look at this case and say, oh, deliberate. this defendant is obviously guilty. and you know, they'll spend an hour eating their lunch then come back with a verdict. now, it's good that the jury's taking a lot of time with this, but what it tells me is that there's one or two jurors in particular who have some doubts, concerns, who want to be satisfied. they may be satisfied at returning a guilty verdict, but i think the defense may pull out a hung jury or may pull out a mistrial for example if the jury takes too long and one gets covid. that's what i think is judge is concerned about. >> in terms of the timing, the judge saying they would have to work through new year's eve day, then through new year's day, then through this coming sunday. isn't that powerful incentive for them to wrap this up before friday? >> exactly. part of the reason why judge nathan's done that. she wants the jury to wrap this up because if there's a mistrial here, she's got to do this all over again. she's going to have to deal with the circus in her courtroom which is going to set her behind on the rest of her cases. she wants the jury to make up its mind, but doesn't want to tell them they can't deliberate. they are obligated to deliberate until they reach a verdict they can all agree on. >> at the heart of this, is it trying to figure out if ghislaine maxwell knowingly led underage women to jeffrey epstein to be sexually abused or if she herself was a victim somehow? >> they're trying to decide was she in on it. did she know what a heinous thing she was doing to these girls? is defense in part is going to be she was duped to an extent by epstein herself, didn't really know. she suggested she was victimized to an extent. the defense is trying to paint her in a sympathetic light, which is what they have to do. it's their job. i think what the jury is tried to do is was she in on this or not? because they're considering some very, very serious crimes here. >> from where we sit from the outside in the media world, how 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get to see those bank records? >> well, we don't actually know the answer to that yet. it looks like he may have missed a deadline that the bank needed him to go to court and get an order that was an emergency to stop this subpoena from the house. this was significant. the first one we knew about, bank records. and this denial we saw today, we don't have a lot of information about it. there was a non-public hearing that the judge had. but it denied his request for emergency intervention. the judge said it was because his request was moot at this time. >> our law enforcement correspondent has been working the phones and joins us now as well. so, whitney, tell us what the committee is actually doing now. >> well, right now, they're still, they're trying to collect as much information as they can. so they want to try to get these records from taylor, but they know well they're going to have to work through these systems. there are people on the committee who understand that people are going to be reluctant to give up sensitive information. they're working through the system now, but some of the news now is that the committee is acknowledging and accepting some boundaries when it comes to the immense amount of records they'd like to get out of the trump white house. what we've learn is that this month, the biden administration took a look, as we knew they would, at the vast amount of records the house select committee wanted to get. for a subset of national security documents, the house select committee and biden administration came to an agreement that some of these records would not go to the house select committee at this time. what this shows is a couple of things. if there was a criticism that this investigation is just limitless and it is just an effort to try to collect as much information as possible in order to weaponize that information for political gain, what this s shows is that both the biden administration and house select committee acknowledge is there are some boundaries and further, the biden administration which has been criticized for being too open, willing to just release this vast amount of documents, also acknowledging there's a boundary here, so we may see how this plays out. at this point, this is just a deferral for some of these documents. always a chance they might go back to the drawing board and try to get these records, but for now, there are some records they acknowledge they're not getting at the outset. >> let's talk about this. how some of the rioters and their media apoll gists have been trying to compare what happened on january 6th with interrupting democracy and trying to hang the vice president with the riots and protest and unrest in portland, oregon, in the summer of 2020. so now these two trump appointed judges as i understand it, are rejecting that comparison. >> that's right. so there is, there were two rioters that went to court. they're accused of crimes related to january 6th. one is accused of throwing a lit fire cracker into a line of cop tall police officers during this brutal riot when trump supporters were trying to overtake the capitol. this rioter went to court and tried to make the argument that he was being persecuted politically because the portland rioters were charged with a crime similar to his then they were dropped by the justice department. so he and another rioter went to two different judges. both trump appointees. they were trying to get more information about the justice department's decision on prosecuting and both these judges rejecting those attempts. i can't put it better than judge mcfadden said it better. he laid out exactly why the portland riots are not the same as the january 6th insurrection. he wrote although both portland and january 6 rioters attacked federal buildings, portland attacked at night meaning they raged against a largely vacant courthouse. members of congress coward under chairs while staffers blockades themselves in offices. so both of these cases from the defendants related to january 6th are ongoing. they're pleading not guilty, but they're not going to get the evidence they wanted to get as they're preparing for trial. >> we'll see if that judge's reasoning quiets any of the false equivalency. thank you both very much for your reporting. he was a legend on the football field. in the broadcast both and for video gamers around the world. nfl icon, john madden, has passed away. we reflect on his life and legacy, next. sleep better and longer when you need it most. it's non habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil. new zzzquil ultra. when you really really need to sleep. we're having a baby, so the new law came at a perfect time. for less than 30 a month, the whole family is covered. i love my job and it pays really well. there's just no health coverage. for $182 a month, i found the perfect plan. all that stress about coverage just went away. for $14 a month, my plan covers my meds, vision and 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never worked a day in mai life. i went from player to coach to broadcaster and i am the luckiest guy in the world. >> reporter: super bowl winning coach. pioneering broadcaster, video game icon. a larger than life personality, john madden was by any definition a true original. during his 30-year broadcasting career, madden was widely considered the voice of the national football league. >> you have to attack them with the pass and you have to attack them deep with the pass. >> reporter: his passionate way of unique catchphrases. >> boom, they got ten points. >> reporter: he loved using a telestrator, helped explaining the game to hardcore fans. announcing 11 super bowls and earning 16 sports emmys during his time in the broadcast booth. madden's playing career was short lived. he was drafted in 1958 by the philadelphia eagles but an injury cut it all short. that's when he decided to try his hand at coaching becoming the youngest coach in football history at the age of 33. in 1977, he 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depressed and desperate after fleeing afghanistan earlier this year. in fact, one afghan that we spoke with says he's been waiting at a transit country that is a location where the u.s. sent afghans to be vetted and processed. he's been waiting there three months with his family. he told us prior to leaving afghanistan, he had turned in his passport to the u.s. embassy in kabul. but that was before the taliban took over. after that, he didn't get this paperwork back. that is the type of documentation that is lacking in these cases and can make it more difficult. now, the state department says they're trying to facilitate afghans without documentation but it's challenging both abroad and at home. tens of thousands of afghans still on domestic military bases. the u.s. has located 40,000 afghan families and many more are waiting and one of the challenges there is the housing crunch. there's just not enough housing options for many of these afghans. the administration is targeting mid-february to start to clear out the domestic bases, but it's still a long road ahead. >> priscilla, there were fears that women primarily would be thrust back in the dark ages, so what is happening now with women? >> well, another example of that, the taliban is now putting restrictions on solo travel of women, long-distance travel. and the state department has said that they are going to continue to push for women's rights. in fact today, secretary of state tony blinken said, or announced two officials to lead efforts to support women and girls in a statement. he said, quote, we desire a peaceful, stable and secure afghanistan where all afghans can live and thrive in political, economic and social inclusivity. but still, as you mentioned, the taliban putting out restrictions that are of issue to women today and administration looking into that. >> priscilla alvarez, thank you very much for the update. it's the start of a brand-new hour, i'm alisyn camerota, thanks for joining me. nearly two years into the pandemic, the use is seeing more coronavirus infections. the seven-day average hit 267,000 a day, mostly fueled by the omicron variant. but omicron has proven it's unlike past peaks. the last time the u.s. saw this number this high, last january, the average death toll is nearly twice what it is today. today, the white house gave more detail on when relief is coming and when more tests are available. the white house team also outlined federal support heading to these states on your screen which are getting more medical staffing and testing sites. there's also a