meanwhile, tributes pouring in for bob dole, a tighttan of u.s politics passed away. in honolulu, viscitizens wa answer after water made them sick. representative omar, warning that republicans are tracking, quote, bigotry. in just a few hours, brand new covid testing requirements will go into effect for anyone coming into the united states, that includes u.s. citizens. it s part of an effort to curb the spread of the new and possibly more transmissible omicron variant. these new rules that start at midnight mean that all inbound international travelers to the u.s. must have a negative covid-19 test within one day of travel. nonu.s. citizens must also show proof of vaccination. cnn, nadia, why isn t the u.s. requiring domestic travelers to test if it s this big of a concern item? yeah, that is something many biden administration officials were asked today, trying to figure out limiting the spread of covid-19 and preventing this winter surge. we ve known that the omicr
this kind of language, this kind of hate cannot be condoned. i m phil mattingly in for pamela brown. you re in the cnn newsroom. travelers coming to the united states about to run into a list of tighter restrictions and that takes effect in just a few hours at the stroke of midnight. it s an effort to limit the spread of the omicron variant. all in bound travelers must test negative for covid-19 and for the past day before they are allowed to enter the u.s. including vaccinated and american citizens. nadya has more. these stricter travel rules come as u.s. covid-19 cases are absolutely on the rise again now averaging more than 100,000 cases per day, the highest in two months. what does this mean for the landscape? this is what the biden administration was trying to prevent, the winter surge. we hit a pandemic record of thanksgiving travelers going through airports according to tsa. we have a new variant omicron that s showing up here in the u.s. and dozens of other coun
Paying tribute to 20th sencentu politics. some might find this surprising congress has been my life but that is not so. with all due respect to congress, america has been my life. the michigan school district where four students were shot and killed now requesting its own independent investigation. we have a process if there is concerning behavior or threat that did not happen. the u.s. weighing what is next as the country grapples with a new variant, rising cases, hospitalizations and deaths. the next six months depend on how we mobilize together to do the things that we know work. ilhan omar is certain lauren boebert will face punishment for anti muslim remarks.
Congressional criticism over the last five years and bipartisanship are all by gone now. i don t want to be like everything was back better then and all those types of things. it s a very different moment now in politics. well, things are fluid back then at least. i mean, you can debate whether they were better but they were certainly more fluid. the lines between the parties were not as absolute or rigged in the regional divides weren t as rigged. there were democrats from north dakota and south dakota and nebraska and republicans from the coast and the ability to get things done particularly in this long era basically from the late 30s until the early 90s required a legislators who could build coalitions that did not exist without them and dole was brilliant at doing that and willing to do that on issues like the voting rights act, which he played a critical part working with joe biden in reauthorizing in the early 1980s. every republican has voted against in the senate reauthoriz