very good thursday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning and it s some good news, a second pill to treat covid-19, a pill the food and drug administration announcing they gave merck s antiviral pill the green light just one day after the pfizer pill was given the okay as well. all of this as new studies are showing that the omicron variant may be less likely to send you to the hospital, also less likely to cause severe illness than previous strains of the virus. that s good news. despite that, it is still spreading fast across the country. as expected, omicron has been detected in all 50 u.s. states and accounts for at least 90% of new infections here. it happened very quickly. last night president biden responded to questions as to whether he was prepared enough for this new wave. if you go to the pharmacy, we hear this over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure? no, i don t think it s a failure. i think it
election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country s economic stability and national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. the high stakes political scramble in britain to find yet another prime minister. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. liz truss stepping down after 45 days in office, her tenure the shortest at any prime minister in history. sending shock waves across britain and driving the tabloids into a dizzy. who will be the next prime minister? they expect to name a new prime minister by the end of next week. even the name of former prime ministers are being floated, remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone
of a football season with a military deployment. he address that at his press conference. earlier this week i made a statement about playing football and the military. it was a very poor choice of words. and i want to express that to any sentiments out there that people may have taken it in a certain way. so i apologize. didn t elaborate further than that. said he knows the difference between the two. smart to apologize. great to see you, carolin. new day continues right now. 19 days until the midterms i m john berman with brianna keilar. some democrats have been keeping their campaign distance from president biden but he traveled to battleground pennsylvania, touting his infrastructure law and raising money for democratic candidate john fetterman. fetterman is neck and neck with mehmet oz in a race that could determine control of the u.s. senate. today he ll be in delaware talking about the student loan relief program. another hotly contested senate race is in ge
with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, alex, i was listening to your coverage about the possibility of donald trump testifying to the january six committee, even after he gets a subpoena. and of course, he will fight it all the way. and we ll pretend though at the same time, through strategic legs, oh yeah, he s thinking about it, maybe he ll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. it s all a routine. it s all a hoax! don t believe it! i mean, the idea that he d been cooperative at the same time while he s throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. you know who s going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham s phone cal
about it, maybe he ll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. it s all a routine. it s all a hoax! don t believe it! i mean, the idea that he d been cooperative at the same time while he s throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. you know who s going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham s phone calls from the secretary of state about the presidential election along with donald trump s famous phone call. one of those striking things about the three judge panel 12 judges, appointed by donald trump. and of course, voted for by lindsey graham. the irony! the irony! the irony! lindsey grime has fought to do this with every out in his qu