school closures despite a covid surge driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant. he says we re better prepared now than in the army prevaccine days of the pandemic. we should all be concerned about omicron, but not panicked. and, no, this is not march of 2020. 200 million people are fully vaccinated. we re prepared. we know more. we just have to stay focused. as for the unvaccinated, the president says it is their patriotic duty to get the shot. and he had a stark warning for those who do not. almost every who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. and i honest to god believe it s your patriotic duty. the choice can be a difference between life or death. please, get vaccinated. so the white house planned to combat the virus includes expanding testing sites across the country, distributing 500 million free at-home tests to those who request them. estates that is righting next month. deploying 1,000 service members to strained hos
meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
the ukrainians. so far the ukrainians have not claimed responsibility. in fact, one senior adviser to the volodymyr zelenskiy, hinted he believes tf an inside job within the russian security services but unclear who is behind it. we can see on our screens that massive explosion that took place in the early morning hours. the russian investigative committee, the russians say is on the scene and has been working. they say that an explosion occurred at a truck, that a truck blew up and that that explosion sort of caused the chain reaction because there was a train carrying fuel going past that area of the bridge at that point in time. several fuel tanks catching fire, blowing up as well. that s what that big fire that we see now with that thick black smoke going out there for a very long period of time before the russians were able to put that out. the status right now seems to be it s quite interesting because you mentioned this, fredricka, that the russians are saying that t
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organization and two senior company officials related to the payments to stormy daniels. that s important because president trump has no power tos pardon individuals convicted of state crimes. joining me now to make sense of all this, chris hahn, radioow talk show host and former aide to senator chuck schumer. matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union, and david bossie, former deputy chairman of the trump campaign. thank you for joining us.ig david, i want to start with you. the attorney general went out of his way to say he was never influenced by any political consideration but i think, correct me if i m wrong, one of the first things he did was make a political consideration to recuse himself on a case that he really did need to do it because of political considerations. correct?o that s exactly right, jason. that b
Journey through the criminal justice system. reporting in the new york times that lays out the challenge for manhattan d.a. alvin bragg as he contemplates his sentencing recommendation for the ex-president. trump was convicted of class e felony, the lowest level in the state and could be sentenced to probation or up to four years in prison. alternately what is known as split sentence is possible with a relatively brief amount of time spent in the city jail in advance of a probationary determination. expected to be a factor in trump s sentencing, quote, the fact that michael cohen, one of the exto he can tors. he pointed out that trump s