The brave men and women of the u. S. Cp protected you, the members. Those are the words of an anonymous Capitol Police Officer expressing profound disappointment with republican leadership for opposing an independent probe that would get to the bottom of happened on january 6th. At least 140 Police Officers were hurt that day, two later died, yet 175 republicans targeted themselves are looking the other way. Despite broad Gop Opposition the measure to form the commission passed In The House, 35 republicans voted in favor. Here is one of them. If it had not been for the brave capitol and metropolitan policemen and women that day, who knows how many of our heads would have been swinging on those gallows that were constructed on the east front of the capitol. The fbi releasing two new videos showing violent assaults on police by the capitol rioters. Now the senate will have to graham with this question, was the extraordinary violence and a near overthrow of the government enough to merit
recent day of the holiday season thanks to covid and bad weather. more than 13,000 flights have been canceled since christmas eve. many stranded travelers may have attended new year s eve gatherings like this one last night in times square. but experts warn it could lead to a tidal wave of hospital admissions as omicron surges. the nation has already smashed another daily case record, but mass gatherings aren t the only issue. we were all taught if you have a significant exposure to covid, you would have been within six feet of somebody for more than 15 minutes. while omicron is so contagious, it s changing the rules. you can have a very transient encounter with somebody. maybe your mask is a little bit loose, maybe they pulled their mask down a little bit, maybe you walked into an elevator or somebody has just coughed. this is how you can contract this virus. as those case numbers grow higher, one consequence is clear. right now more kids are hospitalized with covid-19 t
read a series of frantic text messages from january 6th aloud. messages pleading with meadows to convince his boss to do something about this. barricades, attacking officers, smashing through windows, and pushing through doors. as the violence continued, one of the president s sons texted mr. meadows. quote, he s got to condemn this shut asap. the capitol police is not enough, donald trump, jr., texted. meadows responded, quote, i m pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump, jr., texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. the texts show that the same fox news hosts and members of the trump inner circle who have now spent months downplaying the insurrection were, in fact, on january 6th begging the former president to call off the rioters. multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. they
probably helped fuel a subsequent covid surge in this country. this year americans are hitting the roads and the skies with travel expected to be way up from last year to near pre-pandemic levels. and gas prices are the highest they ve been, though, in years. on tuesday president biden announced the release of u.s. strategic oil reserves in a joint effort to ease gas prices along with china, india, japan, south korea and great britain. while our combined actions will not solve the problem of high gas prices overnight, it will make a difference. it will take time, but before long you should see the price of gas drop where you fill up your tank. and in the longer term, we will reduce our reliance on oil as we shift to clean energy. truly a unique holiday this is. vax-giving than thanksgiving. it is one of the busiest travel days of the year. the crowds will remind you of pre-pandemic times. preside aaa estimates travel will be up 80% over last year. it s a holiday t happe
united states and around the world. brand-new this morning, an urgent push to fix the tangled global supply chain, what the white house is calling a 90-day sprint to unchoke the bottlenecks that are feeding into inflation. a senior administration official said the port of los angeles would move to 24/7 service. the port of long beach has already been working around the clock. those two ports, they handle 40% of the container traffic in the u.s.. the white house also said walmart, fedex and ups, three the largest goods companies in the country will move to 24/7 operations. the supply chain nightmare is slowing the economic recovery. banks have been slashing their growth forecast and moody s analytics warns these disruptions will get worse before they get better. obviously it s a problem. it all goes back to the pandemic. i mean, the pandemic is disrupted all markets, you know. we can see in the global supply chains. it s not going to be next month, next quarter. i think this