diplomacy, what was it mean? let's go out front. good evening. 340,000 students are waiting for word on whether they will be able to go back to class in the nation's third largest school district. chicago school officials are still negotiating and with a standoff in the second week, anger is boiling over. the attacks are incredibly personal. >> the mayor is relentless. she is being relentlessly stupid. she's being relentlessly stubborn. >> they abandoned their post and kids and families. >> this is raw emotion and anger. you don't usually see this, even when they feel that way. the standoff is in part because of confusing parameters by the federal government. the biden administration is clear they want schools open. >> we have been clear that we want to see schools open. >> and they have. but making -- saying you want schools open isn't the same thing as making a clear list of what is and what is not necessary to keep schools open, and that is giving oxygen to the disputes we are seeing, and in this void, cities and towns across the nation are doing their own thing. not because they are reveling in federalism. a lot would love to be told more clarity. in chicago, you have a st stalemate. in new york city, the schools are open but the city is disregarding the five-day isolations. there if, if your kid tests positive, they have to isolate for ten days, no ifs, ands and buts. now, they don't mention vaccination. they don't ask if your kid is vaccinated. the mayor of new york doesn't want universal she'sing. los a the 60,000 positive students and staff will miss five days and not ten like new york. 50,000. schools are navigating on their own. as we mentioned last week, in the void, one of the nation's most prominent children's hospital is promising to lead. they say keep schools open for community transmission. they suggest disconditioning weekly testing of asymptomatic students, teachers and staff and saying they should allow covid exposed to continue to attend in person. this is radical to many. agree or not, now is the time for radical thinking. remote learning is taking a terrible toll. remote learning is in a solution here. okay? the education research group found math and reading levels for kids grade 3 through 8 on lower than normal this fall. what is the latest? the night before, another day of who knows what for kids in school? >> erin, tonight, the battle continues. about an hour ago, the district published a tweet saying no decision has been made yet regarding school tomorrow. the district saying it continues negotiations at this hour, and they will update parents as soon as that's when the district issued a news release, saying the union had 11 fproposals on the table. there has been some agreement. let's start with the good news. in the win column for both sides, cps will provide kn-95 masks for staff and its students. cps will also reinstate health screeners on a school-by-school basis. and cps will continue to offer weekly covid-19 testing to all students and staff. but the city has fully rejected five proposals, including district-wide remote learning and an opt-out screening test program. the district also says teachers who haven't shown up will not be paid, despite the union's request to make up these missed days. the district is saying no, not budging on that. and here we are. the fourth day, not sure about what will happen tomorrow. tomorrow could be a fifth day where students aren't in the classroom, erin. >> adrienne, thank you very much. i want to go to chicago public school ceo pedro martinez. and i really appreciate your time, sir. and i know this is -- this is obviously minute by minute, right, we are awaiting a decision on tomorrow. where do things stand right now? and do you have an answer to what tomorrow's going to look like for kids in chicago? >> so, erin, you know, we have been working at this all weekend, all through today. um, i -- i feel cautiously optimistic that we can come to agreement on most things, including school-based metrics. you know, we -- it's never been an argument for us about investing more in pp and e. we always wanted to enhance more testing so i am going to be cautiously optimistic so there's discussions going on right now that are both sides want to make a deal. so, you know, i'm hoping we have news for parents very soon. >> and so, i know, you know, you are giving me this update now. an hour ago, chicago public schools tweeted no decision's been made yet, regarding school tomorrow. so, when will parents know whether they can go to work or have to arrange for childcare or what they are doing, you know, in 12 hours? >> so erin, i am hoping you know, we'll know whether there is a resolution or not tonight. you know, very soon. hopefully, within -- within a couple of hours, at the very latest. um, you know, one of the things that has made me very sad, you know, three months in the job is how parents have been, you know, really held hostage through all of this. and so, you know, we are going to continue to advocate because we know and you said it very clearly, erin, we know the negative consequences of remote learning. we know what is happened to our children with their social and mental health. we know that, frankly, when we opened our schools, you know, in person, we saw children that had not been engaged all of last year, you know, just come. i mean, they came to school every single day. we saw, you know, immediately, how different their attitudes were. how -- how much stronger their academics were, so that's the fight for us. but i am going to be cautiously optimistic that -- i'm hoping we are going to have some resolution very soon. >> all right. so i want to -- you go through some of the positives, things agreed to and not and adrienne was reporting on that, as well. but i just want to understand, at the heart of this, right, because you know, we are in a situation here where you have vaccines available to everyone in those schools. everyone's eligible. and the vaccines, you know -- the vaccines are incredibly effective at keeping people from getting very sick. i understand the vaccination rate among student -- teachers, i'm sorry, in chicago public schools, is 91%. students may be lower, and i know you are probably not allowed to, you know, ask by law whether they are ravaccinated o not. if not, please correct me. but what is the impasse here with a vaccination of 91% among teachers? >> yeah, actually, erin, it's actually even higher for teachers. 91% is our vaccination rate districtwide. we have challenges with support personnel, so it is actually higher for teachers and you know what it is, erin? that is eat challenge. there is a lot of anxiety. a lot of fear from both staff and parents. i understand that because cases are high. but we have shown clearly, the evidence has been clear, our schools have been safe. cases have been very low. very little evidence of transmission, so i think it's always the fear of the unknown because we are in this surge. but even the head of our department of health had said very clearly, this omicron is actually much milder, especially with vaccinated adults and even with unvaccinated children. >> so, the children's hospital of philadelphia brings me to this point because, you know, one of the challenges seems to be is there is a lot of confusion about who is giving guidance and who to follow, right? in new york before the holidays, um, if a child was vaccinated and asymptomatic, even if exposed in the classroom, they could go in. that's not the case, anymore. and now, vaccination's sort of even been taken off as if it is not relevant. think there is a lot of confusion. so children's hospital of philadelphia. they -- they obviously want to keep schools open. they go further than the cdc, pedro. they want to allow exposed but asymptomatic children and staff to return to school. and they recommend ending any required weekly testing of asymptomatic students and teachers, right? anyone who wanted to opt in could, but they would end required testing of asymptomatic people. is that something that makes sense to you? i -- i would imagine, that would not make sense to the union. >> yeah. so, erin, so -- but i think you are hitting the heart of the problem. you know, we can find, you know, like, for example, these recommendations, we can find recommendations that are the opposite, right? the extremes you are hearing in new york and even some other parts of the country and i think here is the crux of it and you said it. this should have been decided at the federal level. you know, whether there is a vaccine mandate. the actual guidelines for schools, because what's frustrating for me, erin, is the fact that everything else is open. you know? everything -- all the restaurants, all the sporting events, everything is open and, yet, there is this argument about schools, whether school should be open or not. and we know that schools should be the last institution to be closed and they should be the first ones to be opened if there was a lockdown. so we know vaccines are working. yes, is there fear? absolutely. and that's why we say we're committed to investing in pp and e. we are committed to strengthening safety procedures be but again we should be handling things at a community level and school level because what is happening in chicago is vaccination rates vary significantly across my city. i asked my union let me deal with it at a school level. vaccination events, more testing. but to do it at a district level, it is just unfair. i have over 100,000 children, erin, that are full vaccinated. and more. and so, those families did everything right and some even went and got negative covid tests before we came back from break. >> yeah. and -- and they should be in school, and they are fully-vaccinated children are in classrooms with fully-vaccinated teachers. yes. all right, pedro, thank you very much. i hope -- hope that there will be good news coming out of chicago tonight. i want to go now to the parent of a 2nd grader at a chicago public school. i know, you know, you are hoping to hear good news, lori. i can imagine, as a parent, how incredibly frustrating this is for you. four days of no school for your child, and you still don't know what it's gonna be tomorrow morning. what is your reaction to all of this? >> hi, erin, thanks for having me. um, you know, day to day, i'm pretty -- i feel pretty angry and pretty frustrated. the uncertainty of not knowing how to plan, day to day, um, is -- is so hard and on top of that, i don't know what to tell my son. every day, he says am i going to be in school tomorrow? i don't have an answer for him. and then, his -- and then, i have to give him an answer why, right? so, you know, i have to explain to him the reasons that he is not in school, and i personally don't have a good answer because we have done everything right. you know, really echoing what ceo martinez said. you know, my son is fully vaccinated. he wears a mask every day. um, i got him tested when we -- when he went back from the holidays. his school has, i believe, over 75% vaccination rate for the students and 100% for teachers. so we have done everything right, and i don't have those answers as to why my son can't be at school. >> i -- it's -- it's -- it's got to be incredibly frustrating. and i know, lori, you know, the context for you, your mom was a school teacher for 40 years. you, obviously, support teachers. everyone does. but how do you feel about the union's demands right now? >> you know, i think the union is not listening to science, right? so, the union -- the -- the ctu is not the cdc. they don't get to decide what the thresholds are. you know, we have -- we have the cdc and the department -- the chicago department of public health -- they are both saying it is safe for students to go back to school. in fact, it is arguably the safest place for students to be, so it is extremely frustrating when you hear this -- that the union is not listening to science. they're not listening to the experts. and then, the rhetoric that's coming out of them toward the city and toward this -- toward cps. you know, for -- for jessie sharky to be name-calling the mayor. you know, there's -- you know, that -- that's pretty -- that's pretty difficult. you know, we are all adults here, right? um, so, i just -- it -- it just -- it feels like the union has their own agenda, and it's not reflective, um, of the whole city. >> well, lori, i really appreciate your time. and, you know, i -- i feel for you. thank you so much. >> thank you. and next, trash piling up. emts forced to turn down calls for help. tonight, a look at the devastating effect the record number of covid cases and quarantine requirements are having on essential services in the united states. plus, can trump be sued be by house democrats and police officers for inciting the deadly insurrection or not? 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well, alaska airlines has cut 10% of its flights through the end of january. now, some experts think that the omicron surge may have peaked in certain parts of the country. the northeast, for example. but that is far from a consensus opinion. it's going to be a few more weeks, at least, before it peaks nationally. and of course, we only really know through testing and the testing is a shambles because it's overwhelmed by omicron. here, in los angeles, they are talking about opening new testing centers in libraries, and activating what they call disaster service workers. erin? >> well, interesting to see what that actually means. all right. nick watt, thank you very much. and for more on this, i want to go straight to diane, labor market expert, and chief economist at grand thornton. so, anne, how much of a threat oh are these labor shortages that we're seeing right now to the u.s. economy? >> well, it's really, fairly large. what we are seeing is a mimicked, um, sort of mandated lockdown. it is mimicking that because we have such acute labor shortages, and so many people out sick, at the same time, that it's basically locking down the economy. we have seen restaurants shut down. we have seen theaters shut down. you noted all the disruptions you saw but what's so different about the original lockdowns is, of course, these aren't as targeted. and they are really hitting into essential services in a way that we have not seen before. the shortages of hospital staff coming on -- on the back of, already, record-high rates in the health-care sector. burnout is really high. and then, you add on top of it, as much as 15% at some hospitals that are out sick. this really is something that is disruptive to the entire economy, and could even give us a negative quarter in the first quarter because of the disruptions that we see. >> so, you know, diane, as an economist and you have covered so many different stories and cycles through your career, nobody would have thought that a year into having access to vaccines that prevent people from getting really sick, that we would be in a place where the economy is shutting down due to the vispreading rapidly, right? because we have vaccines that work. and everybody from 5 up is sell eligible to have them. so, it was psychology that has come into play here. how can you gage, at this point, what the impact of this will be, right? that they are just -- that psychology is -- it seems to be much more significant than -- than science or economics right now. >> well, and that's really been something we -- you know, if you study all pandemics, this is nothing new. and i guess, one of the things that strikes me even demonizing of the experts -- that happened in the 14th century in venice when they had the first quarantine a 40-day shutdown to try to stop the plague back then. the person who did that was blamed, much like dr. fauci is blamed today and demonized. you know, so, i think this is ti -- what bothers me the most is we haven't seen our public-health professionals really collaborate with psychologists, sociologists, historians, behavioral economists, to incent people and prepare for this pandemic in a better way. and that all the way into it, we still seem surprised by this. we shouldn't be surprised by it. and that's, you know, one of the most humbling things as an economist is because, you know, b we would like to predict we would maybe be out of this and we hope it gets us there but at the end of the day, this is like forecasting in quicksand. you get another wave that pulls you back in. >> diane, thank you so much. i always have appreciated your analysis. thanks. and next, tough questions from a judge who is now deciding whether trump can be sued for the siege on the capitol. plus, biden giving putin an ultimatum. back down from ukraine. or risk what the white house is causing -- calling an escalation. okay. so, what is an escalation? 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>> he didn't, erin. really, i mean, the judge pushed back considerably on this idea that trump is somehow shielded from these lawsuits. so, this was, you know, a nearly-five-hour hearing. and in this hearing, lawyers for trump and those other defendants -- they are urging this judge to toss out these lawsuits on multiple grounds but specifically when it came to trump, the judge here repeatedly pointed out that while trump asked the crowd to march to the capitol, he didn't bother speaking out as the violence was unfolding. so this is what the judge told trump's lawyers this afternoon. he said the words are hard to walk back. you have an almost two-hour window where the president does not say stop, get out of the capitol, this is not what i wanted you to do. what do i do about the fact the president didn't denounce the conduct immediately and sent a tweet that arguably compass bei exacerbated things? isn't that, from a plausibility standpoint the president agreed with the conduct of the the people in the capitol that day. whether trump as president should be shielded from a lawsuit that accuses him of inciting these rioters. if the judge does decide that trump should not be shielded because he was acting outside the scope of his presidential duties, that would be significant. trump bb deposed. he would final will have to answer questions about what he was doing on and before the 6th. but the judge did say this is not an easy case. he grappled with this over five hoursment surely, he will grapple with it for the coming days and then when he does issue that decision, erin, it will probably be appealed all the way to the supreme court so it could take a while here for this full issue to be resolved. >> thank you very much, jessica. i want to go now to dana bash, co-anchor of state of the union and norm eisen, who served as counsel to house democrats during trump's first impeachment trial. and i know, norm, you are also part of a team working with the d.c. attorney general in a separate january 6th case before this judge. so, let me start with you, norm, because we have got the -- this -- this -- this issue with the judge. and of course, this news from "the new york times." um, i -- i want to ask you about that, first. "the new york times'" reporting that the former-vice president -- um, you know, the committee sort of presented was likely to cooperate may now be -- is unsure about doing so and that he believes, according to "the new york times," he has told aides that the committee has taken a sharp partisan turn by openly considering the potential for criminal referrals to the justice department about mr. trump and others. what do you think about this, norm? this is pretty significant and could put the committee of having to make a decision about a subpoena for the former vice president. >> um, erin, thanks for having me back. i think the committee has been cautious about predicting who will and will not cooperate. but there is nothing partisan about a congressional committee making criminal referrals. it is a common practice and, erin, if the evidence indicates that crimes were committed, it's vitally important that the 1-6 committee send that evidence and its legal analysis to the justice department and we heard from the attorney general last week. he was care -- careful and he was measured that, um, he will not play any favorites, that he will do justice in this case. so, he's ready to receive. um, i think that it's mike pence who may be playing a little bit of politics here, getting a little bit of cold feet. but let's remember, we have seen this dance back and forth before. we need to see how it plays out. but the committee must make those referrals. >> and, dana, you know, it's interesting, of course, the vice president has been negotiating, right, his team with the committee since last summer, right? so, this isn't new. b but, you know, this coming out now, you know, they do say mr. pence, in his view, these -- these criminal referrals that norm is referring to appear designed to hurt republican' chances of winning control of congress in november. right? that -- that team pence is put out that they see the committee becoming partisan. is he playing politics here? or do you think he's made up his mind, already? >> there's so much politics going on here. i know that's shocking. uh, but because there are -- the word dance is one that norm used and i think that's a very important one. there is a lot of posturing happening. and there's a posturing happening on all sides and when it comes to mike pence and his world, there are multiple dynamics within that world, right? you have the former-vice president. what he may want to do when it comes to his legal and historical obligation. and then, you have the reality of the fact that he is, you know, 60, 61 years old and wants a political future in the republican party that is still totally dominated by his former boss, donald trump. so, there is a lot of posturing going on right now within and even among pence staffers and pence confidants. and also, erin, among members of the committee. i mean, how many times did we hear in and around the january 6th anniversary last week, senior members of the committee falling all over themselves to say how much of a hero and a patriot and -- and -- and a constitutional -- maybe not scholar but somebody who was -- who was following the constitution on january 6th, 2021. that was not an accident. so, there is a lot going on there, and -- and the public, in order to try to influence what's going on in private, and also, never mind, the former-president himself. >> and so, norm, let's talk about the former president and today's hearing because as i mentioned, you know the judge in this case. and, you know, you heard jessica talk about he is grappling over this, right? whether trump can be held liable for what he did not do on january 6th, right, in terms of calling his -- that crowd back, his supporters back. so, what do you think this judge ultimately does? does he allow the lawsuits to proceed against trump and his allies? or not? >> well, erin, 30 years at the bar has taught me that predictions of what judges will do even when i know them are perilous. but my takeaway from those five hours of very careful, um, argument and questioning and tough questioning from both sides for judge mata was that this case against the former president is going to make it past this stage of the litigation -- the motion to dismiss stage. you know, the -- among the legal issues, there is the question of were these duties within the president's official-job description? or is inciting an insurrection outside of the president's job description? i mean, come on. attacking your own government is not part of the job description. there are questions about whether or not a conspiracy was formed. by as you heard, uh, the judge said well for -- at least for purposes of this stage, the -- the ex-president's words could be construed as executing an agreement. and then, there is the failure to act that is so important to the committee's, um, decision of whether or not to take a criminal referral that we were just talking about. >> right. >> those now-infamous 187 minutes. so, i think they are going to make it through on the case against trump at this stage. >> so, dana, final question is why we believe the gop will shut down the committee if it regains control of the house in november? minority leader kevin mccarthy is now being very public about his intent to go even further, and to remove key democrats from important committees. here he is today. >> the democrats created a new thing where they are picking and choosing who can with on committee. never in the history have you had the majority tell the minority who could be on committee but this new standard, um, which these democrats have voted for. you look at, um, adam schiff. he should not be serving on intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the american public in the process. and um, doesn't doesn't have any ill will. >> he also said he would kick off ilhan omar and eric swalwell from their communities. is he right the democrats opened the door to this with marjorie taylor greene and others? >> he -- he is right, to a certain extent, except for a really important caveat here, erin. and that is, the reason democrats did what they did is because, historically speaking, each party handles its own when it comes to the committees. they reprimand and punish their own, when need be. and in this case, kevin mccarthy didn't do it. you go back in time, he did it with steve king when steve king made series of racial -- racially-insensitive remarks. but he didn't do it for this crowd, and that is the reason democrats say they -- they acted. and it's not as if they did it in a vacuum. >> thank you, both, very much. and next, the stakes could not be higher, as biden pressures putin to step back from what could turn into a potential war. and a court rules tennis star novak djokovic can compete in australia's open but that does not mean that he is actually going to compete. we will see. i will explain why. their car insurance.omizes ow! i'm ok! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ only in theaters december 17th. with age comes more... get more with neutrogena® retinol pro plus. a powerful .05% retinol that's also gentle on skin. for wrinkles results in one week. neutrogena®. for people with skin. realtor.com's draw a map feature helped us find what we wanted, where we wanted. so we could finally buy our first "big boi house." big boi house. big boi foyer! big boi marble. big boi quartz. word? 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this is russia's leverage in crucial negotiations with the united states and its allies. more than 100,000 troops massed near the ukrainian border, poised to invade if the kremlin doesn't get what it wants. but after seven and a half hours of difficult and straightforward talks with u.s. officials and geneva, there is still key differences on ukraine and its future. >> for us, it's absolutely mandatory to make sure that ukraine never, never, ever becomes member of nato. >> reporter: privately, diplomats admit there is little chance of that, anyway. but u.s. officials insist formally ruling out nato membership under russian pressure will not happen. >> however, in pushing back on security proposals that are simply nonstarters for the united states. we will not allow anyone to slam closed nato's open-door policy, which has always been central to the nato alliance. >> reporter: there have also been clear warnings from the u.s. of tough new sanctions if russia launches another invasion of ukraine. u.s. officials say the unspecified sanctions would go much further than previous ones imposed on russia after its annexation of crimea from ukraine in 2014. and would have an overwhelming impact on the russian economy. but there are areas of possible u.s. compromise. like, reviving a treaty on missile deployments in europe -- abandoned in 2019 amid signs of russian violations. u.s. officials have also suggested there is room to scale down nato exercises in eastern europe if russia starts to withdrawal the forces it's been building up for months never ukraine. but as ever, it may come down to how president putin of russia wants to proceed. on the one hand, he's been undeterred by sanctions in the past and may decide to press ahead in ukraine. on the other, he likes to be seen as the leader of a global power. on an equal footing with his u.s. counterpart. the fact russia and the u.s. are now holding "direct talk"s is, for his kremlin, already a dipl diplomatic win. >> well, erin, those talks will be continuing and broadening out throughout the course of this week. russian -- russian officials are meeting nato officials in brussels on wednesday. the day after, there will be meetings with the european security organization. only after that, by the end of the week, are we going to get a clearer picture of whether russia is determined to press ahead on ukraine, or whether it can be convinced to step back from the brink. >> matthew, thank you very much. reporting from the ground in moscow tonight. i want to go now to john cipher, former cia deputy chief of russian operations. so, john, i really appreciate your time. so the proposed sanctions that the biden administration is put out there they say are, quote, star high and stay high, very different than what they did in 2014. they targeted, you know, small banks and low-level military. now, they say big oligarchs, top military, and russian consumers -- everybody. is putin going to cave to this threat? >> no, putin's tnot going to gae to the threat. when you -- when you think about vladimir putin, you have to think about someone who is essentially operates with the mentality of an autocrat, a former-kgb officer, and an organized crime boss. and, you know, we have now seen for the last ten years he's been engaged in sort of an ongoing political warfare campaign against the west. and every time that he has taken action that we've been uncomfortable with and we have tried to sanction him or, in some way, push back, we -- we have never really pushed back hard. we have always tried to leave a little bit of room so that, you know, he could change course or that -- or accommodate him, maybe things will get better. listen, now we have 20 years with this man. i think we understand how he operates. it just doesn't work that way. we assume that he wants a stable and predictable situation -- security situation -- like we do and he doesn't. he wants to overturn the entire applecart. >> so 2014, biden, of course, was vice president when those much weaker sanctions went in place. biden pushed for stronger ones -- i think that's important to note. but putin did not do this -- right, putin invaded then and -- and now, he is massing on the border. didn't happen during the trump administration. and i am wondering why you think putin is choosing to do this now, to test no you? now. >> well, a couple reasons. one is, you know, he is essentially losing in ukraine. in 2014, he -- you know, people there wanted a democratic future. he pushed back, he invaded, he took crimea. teek the eastern part of the country. um, and since that time, he has tried to undermine their politics. he has tried subversion, he is tried cyberattacks, a number of all sorts of things and none of them seem to be working. ukraine is more western than it was at the beginning of the process. and for him, a problem with -- if you have a democratic successful ukraine on your border, it is a symbol to people, perhaps inside russia, of what a democratic country could be like and that's -- that's a danger to him. >> john, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> sure. glad to see you. >> you, too. and novak djokovic, next, back on the court after a victory in court one step choser to competing in australia's grand slam. however, he is not vaccinated and there is one man who could stop him. plus, the "full house" cast members remember the patriarch of the tanner family. >> vo: so when my windshield broke... i found the experts at safelite autoglass. they have exclusive technology and service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ some of my best memories growing up were cooking with mom. so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com this is your home. this is your family room slash gym. the guest bedroom slash music studio. the daybed slash dog bed. the living room slash yoga shanti slash 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spray on overzealous fans. djokovic's australian drama started fueling strong emotions last week when the unvaccinated player announced he'd been granted an exemption to play in the tournament. but when he arrived in australia wednesday, officials said his visa had been cancelled for failing to meet entry requirements. authorities moved him to his melbourne hotel, turned temporary immigration detention center, where he waited for days while his lawyers went to work. finally monday, a melbourne judge ordered djokovic's release, and overturned his visa cancellation. ruling border officials hadn't treated him fairly. djokovic's father hailed the ruling. >> translator: they waited for him at the airport. they have no right. they just took away all of his rights. >> this press conference is a joke. >> reporter: his brother dodged questions about djokovic's public appearances after testing positive for covid in december. social-media photos from the day and day after show him at three events, maskless and surrounded by people. a court affidavit reveals djokovic knew he was infected when he attended. it's that positive test result, his lawyers say, is the basis for a medical exemption he was granted to play in australia. but the australian government maintains a previous-covid infection isn't grounds for any exemption from its entry-vaccine requirements. now, the saga may continue. australia's immigration minister still has the power to cancel djokovic's visa. as serbia's tennis star fights to play for a record-21st grand slam, his legacy on and off the court hangs in the balance. so, erin, novak djokovic is free. free to prepare for next week's australian open. but he still can't be sure he is going to make it onto the court, not until the australian government confirms that it accepts this court decision because until then, it is possible, at any moment, t country's immigration minister could choose to use his personal power and cancel the visa again. he says he is considering it and if that happens, it will come with an extra penalty. he will not just be deported, he will also be banned from entering and, therefore, playing in australia for the next three years. erin. >> pretty stunning. and the whole decision-making process is pretty stunning. i guess, one thing is sure. nobody, other than him, would be even getting this kind of treatment. you know, being allowed to come in. all right. thanks so much, phil. and out front next. we remember one of the most familiar faces on television. bob saget. is the planning effect. this is how it feels to know you have a wealth plan that covers everything that's important to you. this is what it's like to have a dedicated fidelity advisor looking at your full financial picture. making sure you have the right balance of risk and reward. and helping you plan for future generations. this is "the planning effect" from fidelity. growing up in a little red house, on the edge of a forest in norway, there were three 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