russia as the biden administration warns it will impose severe penalties if russia invades ukraine. we ll tell you how russia is now respond. we could learn soon whether tennis star novak djokovic will be allowed to stay in australia where he s being detained amid a fight over his visa. no red carpet, audience or tv coverage. why the golden globe awards will look very different tonight. sometimes we need a little help here. you re waking up on sunday, jan january 9th. good morning to you. great to be with you, christi. we start with the omicron variant surging rapidly across the united states. cases are rising at an alarming rate, as some of the nation s largest school districts fight to get student back into classrooms this week. in chicago, a standoff after the teachers union voted to teach remotely while the city wants in-person learning. chicago s mayor rejected a new proposal from the teachers union had virtual beginning wednesday and in-person classes starting
crisis. will omicron shut down more schools in the days ahead? i m feeling sad because i can t go to school today. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday i m phil mattingly. joe biden takes on donald trump. the president was at the capitol on thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the insurrection when hundreds of trump supporters stormed the building in an effort to keep him in power. biden accused his predecessor of attempting to end democracy itself. his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or constitution. he can t accept he lost. he s not just a former president, he s a defeated former president. i will defend this nation. i will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. most top republicans ignored thursday s anniversary all together and some mocked democrats in the media for even talking about it at all. you re going to see the d.c. new york media, i
merry christmas to you and your family. you, too. merry christmas to you. this is don lemon tonight and i need everybody to pay close attention. okay? this is serious. don t you think we ve seen this movie before? i keep reporting the same thing i ve been reporting for almost two years now. we re devoting a lot of attention to the growing covid crisis because it s really, really important. we want to help save lives and to make sure people don t become infected if you don t have to. what is so sad is those are almost the same words we were saying two years ago when the pandemic first took hold in the country, growing covid crisis. i thought i finished saying that. growing covid crisis. here we are again. we should be over this pandemic by now or have it somewhat under control. aren t you tired and fatigued? i know you ve got to be. the numbers don t lie. the average daily number of new cases was just under 120,000. today, the tracking data shows from john s hopkins univ
elections? do you believe that the 2020 election here in georgia was free and fair? i believe that a lot of georgians have concerns that there were issues with it. trump says republicans won t vote until laws are changed. our democracy is in danger. we are in peril right now. i fear 2020 was not the low point for democracy but a dress rehearsal for things to come. now a cnn special report. stop the vote: the big lies and s assault on democracy. lies are being used by gop legislators and governors to justify election laws that make it harder to vote, change who oversees the election process, threaten election workers with criminal penalties, and tear down guardrails in key states that kept doesn t s big lie from succeeding. over the next hour we re tell you what these voting changes are broadly and specifically in three key states, the direct impact on the 2022 midterm elections, and ultimately how america is governed and by whom. record voter turnout this year w
$200,000 bond and a promise to behave on social media. can he live up to it? what happens if he doesn t? employees at the fulton county sheriff s office are being threatened. details about the threats. eight republican presidential candidates will take the debate stage tomorrow for the first primary debate. is that enough to keep donald trump from grabbing the spotlight with his counterprogramming push. this is cnn news central. by this time on thursday, donald trump could be the only presidential candidate to be arrested, skip the debate and released on $200,000 bond, all in the same 24 hours. a lifetime of achievement in the snap of a finger. trump s legal team agreed to the bond deal in fulton county, georgia and including strict guidelines of what he can put on social media the. trump posted this. i ll be go to atlanta, georgia, on thursday, to be arrested. can you believe it? only because it s happened in new york, florida and washington, d.c. this year. trump to