majority in the house. so, it s understandable that and almost justified that mccarthy is not wanting to ruffle any feathers before this important vote on january 3rd. all right. nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa thank you so much. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. and there it is, the u.s. capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 29th. and we re going to get right to the news. prosecutors are turning up the heat on congressman-elect george santos, after the revelations he lied about his resume. we re going to have more on the investigation by a fellow republican district attorney. plus, the very latest on the weather emergency in buffalo, new york. first, the snow, and now concerns about flooding and questions about the response to the deadly blizzard. and we re following the latest on the southwest airlines meltdown. more cancellations and delays
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rosa prince, editor of the political magazine, house and rachel cunliffe, deputy online editor at the new statesman. let s take a look at tomorrow s front pages. a tomorrow s front pages. few more titles have comt we a few more titles have come in since we last spoke, but let s kick off again. let s start with the telegraph, and it says there s chaos in the eu as several major european countries halted their roll outs of the oxford astrazeneca jab, over blood clot fears. the same story makes the front page of the daily mail. it says experts are furious at the decision to suspend the oxford covid jab, accusing european leaders of risking lives. the guardian reports that the european medicines regulator has moved to quash concerns about the oxford astrazeneca vaccine, saying the benefits outweigh the risks. british regulators have also rushed to the defence of the jab, as ha
from the january 6th select committee hearings. katty, we wish him the very best in his recovery. yeah. agency you say, he s had a tough few years and managing to be optimistic despite it all. our thoughts are with him. still ahead here on morning joe, our next guest says coronavirus isn t the only reason children s vaccination rates are falling. we ll talk to dr. zeke emanuel about that, and the new variants emerging this winter. plus, politico magazine editors have picked out some of the top stories that explained the year that was, 2022. we ll take a look at that list and what it means for next year. you re watching morning joe. and we ll be right back.
for disease control. but while the numbers of people testing positive are at all time highs the number of people needing hospital treatment for coronavirus isn t reaching record levels. peter chin hong is a professor of medicine at the university of california. he says that despite the high infection rates, authorities are determined not to impose onerous restrictions on daily life. the us is really marked by wanting to continue with the economy. full force forward and not imposing any lockdowns. i think they are trying a multimodal approach with vaccines, testing, masks and limiting gatherings, but on more of an honour system, optional encouragement, gentle persuasion. i think that traditionally speaking the biden administration was critiqued for putting all their eggs in the vaccine basket, so with not enough testing and not enough of this preparation,
launching soon, they re going to be next 45 days launching publicly after that, and it is going to be an actual place where americans can amazingly enough, where they can amazingly enough experience free speech. true social will be an american own and operated business where people can trust what they re seeing and we can have free speech it is going to be great. dan: don trump jr. thanks so much for taking the time we really appreciate it. thanks, dan. dan: i ve been saying all along coronavirus isn t going anywhere. i wish it were. we have to learn to live with it. media is starting to catch on now. i m so tired of being tired and afraid of this. i am. i think we all have got to figure out how we can live our lives and navigate it and that s where i am. we have to figure out how do we live with covid. 40% of the people who have covid don t necessarily have problem problematic covid they re being included as in the hospital with covid, that number seems kind of