reform. americans have had trouble giving access to covid 19 testing are told bill be able t get free rapid test on it federal website starting next wednesday, but why you could en up leading weeks for those test to actually show up very to shocking video that shows trash the remnants of thousands of packages strewn across train tracks in downtown los angeles as thieves target cargo containers making off with a lo of merchandise including things that people are so desperate fo including covid test freight we begin with the president s terrible horrible no good very bad week. kevin, i m guessing they are waiting for this one to be overplayed. enough is enough for the white house eight in politics a in sports, they call it a good old-fashioned victory lap. a chance for the white house in this case to tout a win, any win , frankly following a week of devastating political losses. at the president s comments today about infrastructure did little to billowing heap that was the a
nearing a record number of children hospitalized with covid. green light for the red phone. right now president biden and russian president vladimir putin are talking on the phone ahead of a key meeting between the u.s. and russia. and going to extremes. alaska seeing record-breaking high temperatures this week as we come to the end of a horrific year of extreme weather fueled at least in part by man made climate change. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our health lead and encouraging news when it comes to protecting children against covid the u.s. food and drug administration expected to announce kids 12 to 15 will be eligible for pfizer booster shots in the coming days. a source confirms to cnn studies have already shown a third pfizer dose significantly increases protection against covid and, specifically, the omicron variant. in addition, brand new cdc data released this afternoon shows that the pfizer vaccine is 92% effective at preventing any covi
theish will be as it relates to covid. thank you, thank you. [ inaudible question ] no. look. i told you. when i speak to norse to try or house members or governors or any other elected official to try to convince them what i m proposing makes sense and is not inconsistent with who they believe, i do that and then i ll discuss it afterwards, okay? thank you. thanks for your time. thank you. hello, anicabrera in new york. you just heard there president biden address the relief efforts in kentucky and seven other states following that deadly outbreak of severe tornadoes and he just announced he ll be visiting kentucky on wednesday to survey the damage there and to date the scope of devastation is now emerging, the images and the stories just heartbreaking, a family clinging to a piece of plywood as the storm ravaged their home. a man tossed around in his work van as the factory next to him gets leveled. kentucky grandparents married for over 50 years holding each
with the case that undoubtedly dominated many discussions at the thanksgiving table this week. that s, of course, the guilty verdict for the murder of ahmaud aubrey. lawyers for travis and greg my mcmichael as well as william roddie brian plan to appeal the conviction. up next, a federal hate crime for intimidating aubrey because of his race and color. all this comes almost after a decade after the killing of trayvon martin. so these guilty verdicts are certainly a welcome change. but let s be honest, we have to remember all that it took to get here. the case faced an uphill battle to get to court. the when were not charged or arrested for month, until the video of the shooting was leevenlgd even the shoddy testimony by travis mcmichael and a strong presentation by the prosecution, this verdict was, quite honestly, still a question mark in a case that should have been opened and shut. and we have to remember, there are many more trials to go. joining me now to discuss them, m
today s censure vote. the video was deleted. but democrats won t listen because they will do anything to distract from the failures of one party rule in one year, destroying a nation. today we re critique s paul gosar s anime. next week we might be indicting the wile e. coyote for unex for an explosive ordnance against the roadrunner. the left has nothing else to do but troll the internet looking for ways to get offended. i m told if you stop it frame by frame you can see what democrat friends are talking about. i couldn t see it. democrats in congress later this week plan to spend 2 trillion more dollars which we all know will only exacerbate the already 30-year high inflation. and what are they doing today? censure s a member for a cartoon. it was every excuse. blame democrats. talk about immigration or inflation or, you know, they say so what, it s just a cartoon. anything but gosar. how does this sit with you, kirsten? well, i mean, the idea that it s just