six fold increase in omicron s share of infections in only one week. it s responsible for an estimated 90% of new infections in the new york area, the southeast, the industrial midwest and the pacific northwest. president biden met with this covid response team and has a major address planned for tomorrow. the white house today revealing that biden himself has tested negative after coming into contact with the stuff member who contracted the virus. in the statement, the white house said on friday, that staff member had spent approximately 30 minutes in proximity to the president on air force one. the staff member is fully vaccinated and boosted and tested negative prior to boarding. the statement went on to say that the staff member didn t experience symptoms until sunday. he was tested on monday. we reminiscent of the early 2020, east our s long lines are forming in new york city as people prepare for the holiday gatherings. they are bracing for a heavy travel season. passen
zikomo! [applause] welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a big show for you tonight, prosecutor ronaldo murat he will join me as we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump, which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw on his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough prosecutor with a long record. he s led difficult and victorious cases, including, the prosecution of new york police officer, justin vulpy, who tortured abner lima, a notorious case, which resulted in a 30-year prison sentence, unheard of for a prosecutor at the time. he was unknown prosecutor at the time. he went on to develop and expertise that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful and government, police senators, heads of states. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific cases and something of a repetition of a prosecutor that you can pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did a stint at the
by the way, little justin, thanks a lot. now, congresswoman, aoc is now blaming climate change and now demanding that the green new deal be passed without any further delay, even though that deal has little to nothing to do with environmental issues. it is about socialism. we ll have more on that in a moment. also, one of our favorite senators we love john kennedy of louisiana. he will be here tonight with reaction to his latest attempt to ban yet another anothe o fav e love johana. r popular kitchen appliance. they want my stove, my air y st conditioner, i m telling you right now, over my dead body, i m going to hold on to like anyway. also tonight, new evidence that democratic voters are ready to move on from joey and aren nofromw seriously weighing other options. but we begin tonight we from ell new report just the news.com editor in chief john solomon. now, confirmed by fox news, quote, that federal prosecutors have notified donald trump thate he is a criminal target and
tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. lawrence, i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and while he
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