originating. we begin with the latest from atlanta and correspondent jonathaner isry. the world health organization identified the threat and gave it the name omicron and identified ate as variant of concern. what we do know is this has a large number of mutations and the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves. both mutations include multiple changes to the spike protein, the part of the virus that penetrates human cells. researchers are still determining the threat, omicron s threat through southern africa concerns the british health minister. the indication we have is it may be more transmiss than the delta variant and the vaccines that we had may be less effective against it. officials are redoubling the efforts to get most of the world vaccinated. they face challenges, increasing supply in the poor countries and encouraging demand in rich ones. nevertheless, health experts say vaccination is key to control
worthless. actually, as a relative measure over time, polls could provide a lot of historical context. joe biden s polls are in the toilet right now. everyone knows that. the question is why? here a lot of people say it was afghanistan, the true debacle that biden oversaw in afghanistan. the question is that really it, however? is a foreign policy disaster enough to knock a president off his game in his first year in office? well, here are some comparisons. gerald ford s approval ratings after the fall of saigon are worth looking at. the fall of saigon was the most humiliating moment in this country s history up until that time. the entire world watched as americans ran from a peasant army. civilians dangled from helicopters taking off from the roof of the u.s. embassy in saigon. it was a catastrophe when it became an enduring symbol of the confidence of our foreign policy establishment. the u.s. spent more than a decade in vietnam, lost close to 60,000 men and after all of t
Bless you. all in a holiday week here in washington. monday on special report, the travel restrictions for the new coronavirus variant take effect. thank you for watching special report, i m mike emanuel in washington. see you back here 1:00 p.m. eastern sunday. have a great weekend. good evening. welcome to a special edition of tucker carlson tonight. it s hard to have a lot of faith in political polling, obviously especially after the last couple of presidential elections. the polls were just wrong in those elections. they were insane. they told us thing like, oh no, hillary could take texas and joe biden is a lock to win florida. in the end, the predictions weren t reality. doesn t mean all polling is