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>> yeah, christine, what they have signalled is that they also want to clarify that, again, the vice president's role is to -- is mostly ceremonial. it's just to reflect what the electoral college did. of course, there are a number of republicans, especially in the senate, who are really overtry willing to say they don't want to ever see a repeat of the efforts that the former president trump tried to mount even before january 6th itself. the question is, when they get to the debate about that, right, if democrats or republicans actually say, okay, we're going to reform the electoral count, is it only going to fall apart anyway because they disagree over -- i think there is some bipartisan type of reform. the question is, what will get across the finish line and will it actually protect any americans' right to vote in the next upcoming -- >> right, that's the question. margaret, cnn political analyst, thanks so much, appreciate it. on the foreign policy side in ukraine, a strong show of support as a group of u.s. senators met with president vladimir zelensky, with top officials with the threat of a potential russian invasion looming. four democrats and three republicans were there to reaffirm the u.s. commitment to the country. matthew chance joins us live in kiev. what is ukraine expecting from these senators, what do they want to see? 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are we essentially just going to have to get shots every five or six months? >> we may. this data is really new and really preliminary. it's out of israel. they looked at the pfizer vaccine. gave a fourth shot, and then looked at antibodies in 250 patients. they found the antibodies were higher after the third dose but not enough to prevent the spread of omicron. we were looking if it meant diff different masking or quarantining guidelines. that is not the case. we still need to do that even if we get a fourth dose. >> parrot of what's frustrating for people, israel are so out ahead of us, we end up following in their path a short time later. seems like -- i wish we could stay on top of it at the same time. i guess that's not how it works. christine, i didn't mean to cut you off. >> i wanted to ask practical advice here. the timing of the omicron surge comes after a bunch of teenagers basically were starting to get their shots, and then they're in line for boosters. so many of these kids racing through the high schools, middle schools, omicron is. you have kids with the virus. when should they get their boosters? 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wave will peak. christine, laura, back to you. >> all right, phil and everybody, thank you for those reports. to washington now. inflation and a stalled legislative agenda, you can see it in his falling approval ratings. still, in the white house there is hope that a covid recovery could fuel a fast comeback for the president. cnn's john harwood joins us this morning. nice to see you, john. is it reasonable to think the president's approval ratings can bounce back just as quickly as they think if we can get some progress on covid here? >> reporter: it's not unreasonable. the question is whether that scenario is reasonable. you know, the report that you just played with correspondents around the world shows how covid has turned the entire world upside down. the same thing is happening in the united states with significant related effects on the economy. those things, the persistence of those effects, inflation that we've seen, supply chain disruption, the disruption of normal day to day life that has occurred, first by delta, then by omicron in terms of extending the pandemic despite vaccinations. that has dragged joe biden down. faster than people like ronald regan, barack obama, bill clinton fell at similar points in their presidency. most presidents when they start have a difficult patch. the question is do we cross the wave, you know, the correspondent in australia talked about living with the virus. if we can cross over to the point where the pandemic becomes endemic and it's not disrupting schools, it's not disrupting workplaces, it's something that people accept and can manage, the health system can manage that's correct has the potential for lifting the public mood, helping the economy and having all sorts of effects that could help joe biden. long shot at the moment, not impossible. >> yeah, but that seems to be what the white house wants to do, and the hope is once the cases are not at this explosively high level, that's when they can start to work towards. the president is going to hold his first conference of the year tomorrow at the white house. john, what message does he need to send? he has so much on his plate now, so many arrows coming at him. what's the main driver tomorrow? >> reporter: i think for a president at the one-year mark who is in the situation joe biden's in, the most significant thing he needs to reflect to the american people is, i hear your discontent, i understand it, and i'm working on it. for the biden white house, that means after this voting rights push is over, we know that is now doomed because manchin and sinema are not willing to adjust the filibuster to move legislation that they support, that is something that the white house is going to see through to the end that effort, but it's going to fail. after that they want to get back to fundamentals. the covid pandemic, that means masks, testing, vaccination, and the economy, doing what they can on inflation, trying to help with supply chains, and then trying to pass that build back better agenda in some form. if they can negotiate with manchin, get that done, then democrats are going to have an array of concrete benefits they can tell the american people, this is what we've done for you. shift into campaign mode and see if they can hold onto the congress. right now republicans are strongly favored to win control of the congress, but democrats aren't ready to give up that fight. >> i would argue that's what they have been doing, right? they think that has been the message all along, but they've been stonewalled in congress, and voting rights as you said, seems dead on arrival as well which is going to be another loss to have to recover from in order to move on. but we will see where this goes. i'm sure a lot of good questions tomorrow from the white house press core. john, thank you. >> thanks, john. all right, the former top aide to britain's prime minister said boris johnson knew about the party at 10 downing street that's landed him in hot water recently. he said he had prior knowledge of the bring your own alcohol party during the covid lockdown in may of 2020 and brushed aside any concerns. cnn's salma abdelaziz joins us now. he said that's not true, that's not the case. what more are you learning? >> reporter: this is important because in this growing party gate scandal, in this list of allegations, partying it up at 10 downing street, from the start of the pandemic in the summer of 2020 all the which through the spring of 2021, out of all of those allegations, so far prime minister boris johnson has admitted to attending just one event. he stood up in parliament and said he was at that may 20th, 2020 event because he believed it was a work function. now one of his former top aides calling the prime minister a liar. he says not only did the prime minister know that event was a party, he was warned about it. he was told to cancel it. he was told that it broke rules. still, the prime minister dismissed all that and went ahead anyways. now, of course, 10 downing street denying this latest allegation, but again, it's just the latest chapter in a growing saga that paints the picture of a government and an administration that willfully broke covid rules. that brazenly partied it up during a pandemic. all of this is now under investigation. prime minister boris johnson waiting for the results of that in the coming days, but already preparing his defenses, trying to clear house, set out some populist policies to win back his approval rating, but it's hard to imagine how he can turn this, how he can escape this scandal, laura. >> all right. salma, thank you for your reporting. okay, to canada now, ottowa, canada, strangers helped save a woman whose car plunged into icy waters on the frozen river. what hasn't been explained, there's her yellow car. this photo showing the woman taking a selfie during the ordeal. residents say the driver flew across the ice, the ice cracked, the car began to sink. two men 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short-range ballistic missiles early monday morning. after one of these launches there was an alarm that went up where the faa actually grounded some planes on the west coast of the u.s., admittedly mistakenly as a response. this has alarmed neighbors like south korea and japan, close u.s. allies. the biden administration imposed sanctions last week after one of these launches. north korea says it has broken through with a new kind of dangerous missile, and it seems that its latest launches are in response to sanctions from the biden administration. so keep watching this space. >> yeah, i know you will, too. all right, ivan watson, thank you, in hong kong. let's get a check on cnn business. markets around the world, asian shares mixed. europe has opened lower here. and on wall street, stock index futures also leaning down here. u.s. markets were closed monday for the king holiday. the focus this week, corporate earnings and how well companies are weathering inflation and the omicron variant. today some big banks, including goldman sachs, will report their earnings. last week bank stocks fell. jpmorgan chase said its fourth quarter profits were 14% lower than the year before. that's largely because of a drop in trading revenue. it's been a rocky start to the year for stocks following a stellar 2021. volatile trading sent the nasdaq nearly 5% down from its high. the dow was down about 1%. the s&p just about 2% lower. all right. when times are tough, the rich get richer. when times are good, the rich get richer. sense the pattern? the pandemic, no exception. a new report from oxfam finds the billionaires have added $5 trillion with a t, trillion dollars to their fortunes since march 2020. a bigger jump than in the previous 14 years combined. and the wealth of the world's ten richest men more than doubles, climbing a collective $1.3 billion per day. central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial markets to save the economy. that set off a stock market boom lining the pockets of billionaires. oxfam said it's not by chance, it's by choice and governments should tax those gains and use the money to fund health care, vaccines and to address the climate crisis. >> that is revealing. all right, christine, get ready for this. an asteroid nearly missing the earth. it may sound like the plot of a farfetched movie from the late '90s. >> if this comet continues on this path around the sun and keeps its present course, sometime on august 16th, roughly a year from now, there is a chance that we might have impact. >> thankfully today, we won't see a real-life deep impact. an asteroid is expected to make a close encounter with earth, though we're told it will not hit. cnn's tyler malden is here to show us. all right, tyler, we're told it will not hit. help us calm down about this. >> yeah, you're right, guys. it's not going to hit us. everyone can calm down. asteroid 2k 22 continues t-minus 11 hours until it makes that close approach to earth. again, you don't have to worry about it, but if you do have a small telescope, you can peek this asteroid as it passes by earth. this is the closest it's been to earth since 1933, and it's not going to be this close until about 200 years from now. it is jetting through space. it is moving at about 44,000 miles per hour, and on this approach it's actually going to be -- it is going to be close, but it's actually going to be about 5 1/2 times the distance, the moon's distance from earth. so it's close relatively. now, this was discovered way back in 1994, and the reason we're able to know that it hasn't been this close since 1933 is because of the data that we've been able to pick up on this, on this asteroid. it's well established, this orbit. so we know the exact track it's going to go on, and we know that it won't be this close for another 200 years. look at how big this thing is. 5400 feet, that is nearly four times the size of the empire state building. >> wow. >> tyler, thanks for that. all right. let's bring in keith cowling, editor of space raft.com, nasa space biologist. keith, good morning. >> good morning. >> this is kind of amazing that we haven't seen anything this close since the 1930s. and we're not going to see it again for 200 years? >> well, we haven't seen this asteroid this close since the 1930s, but things like this zoom by all the time. >> gosh, so close. but not too close for comfort in your view? >> yeah, this is a don't look up. >> i saw that. >> look, nasa is testing a program called dartt, double asteroid dias detroit test. what can you tell us about that? do we have a handle on it, were it to get so close, we're going to do something about it? >> hopefully. it's going to hit an asteroid about the same size. it is a little moon. what they're going to do is hit it really hard and look very carefully at the moon. and if they've changed the course, even a little bit, you'll see the orbit change. if that happens, then you know that you can smack one of these things years before it becomes a problem. otherwise, you're getting into sci-fi and nuclear weapons and stuff like that. >> i'm all for smacking these things. if they can figure out the technical way to smack them, that's good. >> so, keith, is this the kind of thing you can go out in your backyard with your handy dandy telescope and see this with your naked eye? >> probably not with your naked eye. if you have a pretty small telescope you can buy or got for christmas and you know exactly where to look -- i hope nasa has something online about this -- you probably can see it. it's probably best to just wait for the internet to get the geeks to put the stuff up and you can get a better view. >> we love the geeks. >> all right, keith, editor of space.com, thank you. okay, what's your favorite, armageddon or deep impact? what's your favorite movie? >> deep impact. i do like armageddon. >> thank you so much. nice to see you. with the movie review and the science. >> anything morgan freeman plays the president. >> totally. got it. >> thanks for joining us. i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. 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