accelerated psych and we re under all these pressures to come up with something new, and there s still a lag. there s still things sinking in outside in the real world. i always remember that whether i m home sick or get to sneak away. so shout-out to reality. is that what it is? yeah, because this is only a version of it in a box. but great to have you back, nicole. thank you very much. absolutely. nice to catch up with nicole. as she mentioned, sometimes inside the news it does seem like it s going really fast. well, that s the actual case today. so welcome to the beat. begins the congress building on the case that got a trump white house aide indicted friday. that s the news nicole was just referring to a liptically. there s also going to be the first primetime hearings andty january 6th this week, and they say there s sign of damning new evidence. the select committee has found evidence about a lot more than incitement here, and we are going to be laying out
our society they become in all corners. with the pandemic, with science, with education right now. where does it end? from the class ram to the ballot box, when do we say enough? it s why it s important to have voters to reject the politics of lies, because it does permeate all aspects of our society. people who are seeking to move the big lie into other areas need to do that, and they need to make it harder for people to vote, because that makes it easier for them to really perpetuate this kind of thinking. yeah, and i d say, erin, it s one thing to be amongst people privately, but to have it platformed publicly and in policy and platformed on social media and on television, that s where it really becomes dangerous. erin hanes, as always, i thank you for being here and sharing your insight. thank you. ahead, the biden doj sues texas governor greg abbott over a policy critics say is
officials? reporter: the prosecutor s been tight-lipped about any other potential charges that can be coming. she says the investigation is ongoing. she did say today the suspect should not have been sent back to the class ram on the day of the shooting, but whether that warrants criminal charges is a very different question. whit? we are thinking about the families impacted by this tragedy. trevor, thank you. we turn now to another major story we re following this friday night, cases of the new variant, omicron, confirm in the ten states, five more in just the past 24 hours, including nebraska, where cases are linked to a person who travelled to nigeria. early data suggesting the variant may be spreading twice as fast as the delta variant in south africa. omicron s concerning structure, more than 30 mutations on its spike protein, and news tonight on whether omicron is likely to cause reinfection for those who have had covid. here s matt gutman. reporter: tonight that fast-mov