sean: will freeze over before those words come out of my mouth. i ve been to one washington correspondent s dinner i hope i die before i ever go beyond one. laura: great show as always, they ve missed you very much. i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle, lucky you, joining us tonight larry kudlow, alan dershowitz, raymond arroyo, and a surprise guest, tucker carlson will he stay awake? but first shutting down the covid crazies, that is the focus of tonight s angle. the cdc and nih are considered by many to be the gold standard for public health guidance and medical direction. as we ve seen throughout this pandemic on key issues, they have been either woefully wrong or pathetically late in their recommendations. to make matters worse, various made-for-tv doctors and analysts mindlessly repeat their drivel, few have actually treated covid patients or even remember their 11th grade biology. to this day, few have been held accountable for their mistakes. tonight
in 25 years i ve never gone to the correspondents dinner. they ve missed you very much. we will see you tomorrow a fabulous show as alwayss. we have a surprise guest tonight. tucker carlson is he going to stay awake? shutting down the crazies that is the focus of tonight s anglew they are considered to be the golden standard for medical directors. throughout this pandemic we see on key issues basically they ar pathetically late. to make matters worse various made-for-tv analystsor mindless repeat themselves. to this day if you have been held accountable. tonight all of this changes. they ve caused needless deaths and that caused social unrest.th of course they also helped brin out something far more dangerou than the future of america. the election of joe biden. the same people that helped exacerbate a difficult situatio are scrambling to help save a village. none of these people should eve be let near a public policy decision again. we re talking what the pre-existing condit
scientists looking to learn? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that wishes it asked for that telescope for christmas. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, december 27th, and we ll start with the news. the highly contagious omicron variant continues to fuel record-breaking surges in covid cases. increased testing over the holidays has uncovered about 200,000 new infections per day. in new york state alone, more than 400,000 people were tested on christmas eve, not including at-home rapid tests, and nearly one in eight of those came back positive. the state reported nearly 50,000 new cases sunday, breaking the record it had set the day before. florida reported nearly 33,000 new cases on christmas day, also breaking its record from the previous day. over the weekend public health expert dr. ashish jha said it may be time to change the way we track the pandemic. for two years the pandemic preceded hospitalizations. so you
address the nation. the president will be announcing his plan to tackle the winter surge of coronavirus as the omicron variant becomes the dominant strain in america. three weeks ago, omicron made up 1% of cases, and now the cdc says it is 73% of cases. we re learning of the first known u.s. death linked to this variant, a texas man who was unvaccinated. dr. anthony fauci is stressing this morning that people should not panic and can still celebrate the holidays as long as they re taking the right precautions. people are vaccinated and boosted and do the things that i said. you want to be prudent and always be extra special careful because you re dealing with an unprecedented situation of a virus with an extraordinary capability of transmitting. you want to make sure when you travel to see relatives who are vaccinated and boosted, that you don t get into a situation where you go to an airport, you don t have a mask on, you re in an indoor congregate setting. that s what i m