There are voices that were waiting to be heard. Were going to make sure that every vote is counted. [ applause ] every single vote. And for so many other highprofile candidates, the emotional end of a long campaign. Tonights loss does nothing to diminish the way that i feel about texas or this country. Now the questions this morning. How do we move f split congress and a divided country . What does it mean for health care and immigration . The Trump Presidency . Our team spread out around the country after a night of history. Good morning, america. We appreciate you joining us on this wednesday morning. Yes, after that historymaking Midterm Election. A Record Number of americans voting, an estimated 113 million, and, george, you were up all night anchoring the coverage. I was, and theyre going to be counting those votes for days and weeks to come. A lot of dramatic swings, a lot of cliff hangers. One thing for sure, voters revealed a deeply divided country in so many ways, a passionate
Likely to send you to the hospital and it may cause less severe illness than previous strains of the virus. Right now omicron has been detected in all 50 u. S. States, as expected. It accounts now and very quickly for at least 90 of new Covid Infections in the u. S. Still, americans are keeping their Holiday Plans and the president and Public Health Officials Say that is safe for we should note the vaccinated. Today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the holiday season. We just learned the tsa screened more Air Travelers yesterday than at the same time in 2019. Of course before the pandemic. Were also seeing, though, big lines for covid tests across the country. Last night President Biden responded to criticism that the u. S. Did not get those tests out quickly enough, that it wasnt prepared. We hear this over and over again, empty shelves, no test kits. Is that a failure . No, i dont think its a failure. I think its a you could argue that we should have known a year a
Families. We begin with the stunning Transmissible Omicron variant now in all 50 states and accounting for 90 of the cases in many parts of the country. The u. S. Is averaging 146,000 new cases each day. Thats 36 higher than a week ago and just 4 below the peak of delta, of the delta surge in midseptember. While cases are surging, hospitalizations are not, leaving a lot of people to wonder what this means. Two new studies out of the uk and south africa suggest omicron may be less likely to cause severe disease compared to the delta variant. Well have more on that in just a second. Also this President Biden is again defending his administrations response to the now dominant omicron variant. How did you get it wrong . How did we get it wrong . Nobody saw it coming. Nobody in the whole world saw it coming. How could the administration not expect there could be moments like this one where you have a highly transmissible variant around the corner . Sure, it was possible. It was possible the
And i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just cant. I tried everything humanly possible. I cant get there. The white house says it was blindsided. Press secretary jen psaki releasing a statement sharply criticizing manchin saying, Senator Manchins comments this morning on fox are at odds with his discussions this week with the president , with white house staff, and with his own public utterances. Weeks ago Senator Manchin committed to the president at his home in wilmington to support the build back better framework that the president subsequently announced. Senator manchin pledged repeatedly to negotiate in good faith. Congresswoman cori bush, one of six house progressives who voted no on infrastructure despite assurances from biden that he would get all senators on board for build back better, says shes not surprised at manchins decision. So when i think about this no, this was a no all along. So what we had was a bit of leverage which was having the coupling
With john berman. Breaking overnight, an extraordinary moment in the insurrection probe. Former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows held in Criminal Contempt Of Congress from Defying A Subpoena. 222208, two republicans, Adam Kinzinger and liz cheney joining democrats there. It will be up to the Department Of Justice to decide to pursue criminal charges. House speaker p er nancy pelos adding, we will find the truth of that dark day. The vote came after meadows shared thousands of documents and texts with the committee, but declined to testify claiming courts need to decide whether the claims of Executive Privilege are valid. The committee released even more of his revealing Text Messages sent and received as the violence unfolded on january 6th. Here are a few others from republican members. Quote, it is really bad up here on the hill. Another one,s the president needs to stop this asap. Another one, fix this now. Harry dunn defended the capitol january 6th. He was there earlier thi