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page with chilling revelations come out, top republicans today showing they still cannot quit him. house minority leader kevin mccarthy called on him at his new jersey golf club, this kevin mccarthy. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. that was a week after the insurrection. days later, of course, he walked it back and flying down to mar-a-lago to show his loyalty not to the truth, but instead to the man who incited a mob that sent him fleeing for his leitch and begging that same man that day to call off the rioters. quoting from a newly released excerpt from the books, quote, kevin mccarthy, who had been trying to reach trump at the white house, finally succeeded and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the rioters. trump falsely claimed the rioters were members of antifa. other advisers who were away from the white house tried to call trump, but he didn t answer. they figured he knew what they were going to say and ....
voting rights measure that they want to undertake in texas. here s the problem. they don t have a quorum to do that. that s because the democrats have all left or most of them. we hope to be speaking to one of them inside the u.s. capitol. they ve been meeting with democratic leaders that are praising their move here and saying it was brave and forceful and clear. we ll be speaking to democratic congressman james clyburn, what he makes of this. first to mike emanuel. what s going on in the capitol and how long it could go on. mike? neil, good afternoon. democrats from the texas legislature making their biggest stops so far in the past hour. meeting with senate majority leader chuck schumer. a photo op was held a short time ago. he praised the texas democrats calling them courageous and saying they re fighting for every right for every texan that have the right to vote. these folks will be remembered on the right side of history. the republican and the legislators wi ....
jessica schneider. we re learning more and more right now about former attorney general barr s role in the trump administration s targeting of democratic lawmakers. reporter: we are. my colleagues are hearing from people familiar with barr s role in these investigations and they re stressing that this probe targeting democratic lawmakers, it was more than a year old when barr became attorney general. they say that barr came in urging prosecutors to complete investigations quickly, but that barr does not recall the specifics of this probe involving democrats adam schiff and eric swalwell. tonight, though, lawmakers want answers directly from barr as several investigations are being launched. tonight, democrats are demanding former attorneys general jeff sessions and bill barr testify under oath after revelations of secret subpoenas served on apple to obtain meta data. the justice department s inspector general issuing its own review of records of two of former presiden ....
in a moment, the ceo of pfizer joins us to talk boosters, possible new versions of the vaccines, and a pill the company has been testing to treat covid. first, cnn s athena jones on why this variant has become so troubling so quickly. reporter: tonight, the president calling for calm. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. reporter: as omicron, a new coronavirus variant, first detected in south africa, spreads around the world. this is a new wrench that s been thrown into the fight against covid. it s certainly not good news. reporter: raising new, urgent questions. we don t know everything we need to know about this new variant, yet. we don t know, yet, what the level of severity will be. reporter: omicron has at least 50 mutations, including some shared with the highly contagious delta variant. that drove a deadly-summer surge in the united states. the new variant has become the most dominant strain in south africa less than two ....
potential threat. there is a lot we don t know. the cdc amped up its advice on vaccine boosters. the old world is that anyone 18 and older may get a booster. joins us to talk boosters, possible new versions of the vaccines, and a pill the company has been testing to treat covid. first, cnn s athena jones on why this variant has become so troubling so quickly. reporter: tonight, the president calling for calm. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. reporter: as omicron, a new coronavirus variant, first detected in south africa, spreads around the world. this is a new wrench that s been thrown into the fight against covid. it s certainly not good news. reporter: raising new, urgent questions. we don t know everything we need to know about this new variant, yet. we don t know, yet, what the level of severity will be. reporter: omicron has at least 50 mutations, including some shared with the highly contagious delta variant. that drove ....