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this kind of language, this kind of hate cannot be condoned. i m phil mattingly in for pamela brown. you re in the cnn newsroom. travelers coming to the united states about to run into a list of tighter restrictions and that takes effect in just a few hours at the stroke of midnight. it s an effort to limit the spread of the omicron variant. all in bound travelers must test negative for covid-19 and for the past day before they are allowed to enter the u.s. including vaccinated and american citizens. nadya has more. these stricter travel rules come as u.s. covid-19 cases are absolutely on the rise again now averaging more than 100,000 cases per day, the highest in two months. what does this mean for the landscape? this is what the biden administration was trying to prevent, the winter surge. we hit a pandemic record of thanksgiving travelers going through airports according to tsa. we have a new variant omicron that s showing up here in the u.s. and dozens of othe ....
committee will decide whether to hold trump ally steve bannon in contempt for defying its subpoena and refer the matter this sets in motion a process which really hasn t been used in decades. now, bannon is hanging his defiance on a claim of executive privilege, but that s something the current white house vigorously opposes. cnn has obtained a letter from white house deputy counsel that states the biden administration will not support any attempt by bannon to refuse cooperation with the house committee. this issue took on more urgency last night. former president trump suing the january 6th committee and the national archives in a bid to keep documents under wraps. the committee calls it a stall tactic. the white house is doubling down on its position, claiming trump abused the office of the presidency and attempted to subvert a peaceful transfer of power. the national archives will turn over documents early next month if the courts do not intervene. so what happen ....
your mom s a star this week. he is usually the main star. she didn t care. this is cameos. no respect for what we do. so here is the thing. my mom has been on my other podcast, silence is not an option. and she takes over. and when she s on the podcast everybody loves her. oh, my gosh, don. i think your mom and my mom should do a podcast. forget about us. they re way more interesting than we are. chris, your mom chris mom turned 90, by the way. she looks fantastic. she looks younger than you. oh, she turned 60, i m sorry. 60. the 90 upside down. yes, i screwed up. here s the funny part. my mother wasn t supposed to be on the podcast. she heard me talking about her and came down to where i was because she wanted to make sure if i was going to be talking about her i would push her program, and she came down with a business card and gave it to me and said read this. anyway, it s one of those nice surprises. honestly, we talk about the times, what s hap ....
in terms of their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win, we believe that they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support. and we re going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we can to ensure that that gets there. we re seeing that when it comes to russia s war aims, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. the british ministry of defense said that russia has made minor advances in its push to take over the east. the uk also found that russia has, quote, yet to achieve a significant breakthrough. but if vladimir putin s forces continue to destroy more ukrainian buildings and lives. cnn just learning of a gas explosion in a government building in the luhansk region. officials say no one there su ....
reporter: yeah, we do. this is from a spokesperson, he says this is nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt from the biden crime family and their department of justice to harass president trump and those around him. he goes on to say deranged jack smith knows they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and get someone other than donald trump to run against crooked joe biden. i want to give a little bit of context here. obviously they are saying that this is an attempt to get donald trump. we have heard all of these words time and time again. they are calling jack smith deranged even though lawyers have asked donald trump not to do that, not to speak out about the special counsel. however, there was a lot of conversation going on for months about whether or not carlos was going to be charged inside of trump s circle. they were under the impression that they believe that he could be a defendant months ago w ....