president s loss, instead of looking into election results in 2020 saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes, the former president and supporters decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your votes. it s wrong, it s undemocratic and it s frankly un-american. president biden marking the one year anniversary of the attack on the u.s. capitol. blaming donald trump for what happened that day. this morning we have complete analysis and historical significance of the address. we are also following the new advise about covid, why they re saying we can t beat it and we have to live with it. and desantis sits on up to 1 million covid-19 tests as they expire two weeks ago without use. we ll tell you why his administration did that. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s friday, january 7th, happy friday! willie, what a week? what a week it has been and what a week it was. it was the one year anniversary of the attack of the u.s. capitol as you
lines and in airports plagued by delays and cancellations from winter weather and staffing from covid issues. we have fox team coverage tonight. rich edson at reagan national international airport virginia where omicron surge and winter weather. a lot of snow in washington continued to cause chaos. jacqui heinrich at the white house where it appears the purchase of 500 million covid test kits has still not come to fruition. we begin with jonathan serrie in atlanta. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. for now it appears the expansion of the fda s emergency use authorization applies only to boosters manufactured by pfizer. the cdc director rochelle walensky is expected to sign off on the plan later this week. the fda s announcement comes as many students return to school from holiday break. under the plan everyone 12 and old we re qualify for fires booster as soon as five months after completing primary doses. some immunocompromised children would also qualify for
when they return to work. that s a change out of necessity that we ll probably see more cities and states follow. think about it. as hospitals fill up, what happens when so many doctors and nurses get infected themselves? there aren t enough health workers to keep up. in the same vein, airlines have had to cancel some 2 million flights worldwide because of shortages. the biden administration will lift restrictions on eight african countries on new year s eve, given that the variant has now spread around the world. omicron cases, numbers are blowing past anything the u.s. saw with delta, more than 250,000 cases yesterday alone. that number is sure to be higher today, and by some estimates, we could see a million u.s. cases every day before the end of the year. i m joined now by gadi schwartz at lax, kathy park in times square, and josh letterman at the white house in washington. gadi, dealing with holiday travel is stressful enough. now that people are dealing with fears aroun
a.m. pacific on this thursday, december 23rd. we begin with breaking news. doctors have two new weapons at their disposal to help treat patients at high risk with covid-19. moments ago the fda granted an emergency use authorization for a drug made by merck designed to keep people with mild to moderate symptoms out of the hospital, just one day after it granted similar approval for a drug produced by fiz per. pfizer. two days before christmas the omicron variant is responsible for almostfections with the u.s. seeing more than 200,000 cases a day since september. one in eight comes from new york and this is new video of another day of long, long lines in new york city as people wait in the cold for hours just to get tested. with omicron surge, isn t stopping tens of millions of americans from traveling to visit friends and families this holiday. so if you are deciding to stick with your holiday plans, health officials are urging you to be responsible. get vaccinated. get boos
ukraine. welcome to meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. you can sum up the current state of the pandemic in three phrases record cases, holiday travel, not enough testing. it all adds up to a bit of confusion and lots of it. the u.s. has seen more than 200,000 confirmed cases every day so far this week. cases are skyrocketing in new york and washington, d.c. we re also seeing spikes in texas and florida. another member of congress has tested positive, the tenth member of congress announcing testing positive in the past week. seven people on a trip have tested positive. the vice president and vice president have had recently had close contacts with someone who tested positive. thankfully neither of they have tested positive. as the lines show you, this virus has totally overwhelmed this country s testing capacity. the white house is once again scrambling with its strategy and messaging. we re nearly two years into this pandemic, you re a year into the presidency. emp