good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, december 31st. i m kaitlan collins in with john avlon. happy new year s eve. happy new year s eve to you. let s make it a great one. it is going to be a great one. new zealand already ringings in the new year, leading the world in welcoming 2022 with a light show. you notice there are no fireworks this year. we are approaching a new year b but still dealing with the same pandemic. a spike in coronavirus cases fueled bit omicron variant. doctors describing pabgtd emergency rooms, john. dr. fauci is predicting it could peak by the end of january. the u.s. is hitting a seven-day average of 355,000 new cases with record cases in new york, arkansas, chicago. pediatric hospital admissions are soaring to a record high with on average 378 children being admitted daily with covid-19. when it comes to ralph, the cdc is warning vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers alike to stay away from cruise s
the new covid variant omicron hit the u.s. with dr. fauci announcing the first detected case while speaking at the white house. this is the first confirmed case of covid-19 caused by the omicron variant detected in the united states. we knew it was just a matter of time before the first case of omicron would be detected in the united states. the first case showing up in san francisco according to the cdc. it got there through a person that travelled to america from south africa on november 22nd. the person was fully vaccinated and now has mild symptoms. officials tested their contacts and found no spreading. a doctor explains how they nailed this down quickly. we were able to confirm the detection of omicron within five hours and had most of the genome within eight hours. so, 4:00 a.m. last night we assembled most of the genome and were able to conclusively demonstrate this was indeed an infection from the omicron variant. as people brace for what will be a third year
but most republicans would not acknowledge reality, not wanting to poke the bear. that s partly because there were georgia senate runoff elections on january 5th that they needed trump to help them win. david fights for me. that i can tell you. and partly because they had giant spending bills they needed him to sign then. breaking news, biden has received the majority of electoral votes needed to win the presidency. on december 14th, 2020 the electoral college voted in all 50 states formalizing trump s loss. on january the 20th. on the 15th, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell finally publicly embraced the truth. today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden. republicans who had spent the previous weeks trying to placate donald trump found that the vacuum their silence left had been filled by trump s lies. trump lashed out at the few republicans that acknowledged his defeat tweeting too soon to give up, republican party must finally learn to fight.
for it. then they elect someone to dos it and then that person does it . so in virginia our system functioned perfectly. our democratic system. but there t are still people in the state of virginia who don t believe democracy and they re not kulen people, by the way. they re members of the democratic party . they ve no interest in what voters think they have contempt for electionn results. they do what they want. and it turns out a lot of these people are now running the public schools in virginia because they don t care aboutn the law or election outcomes. they ve refused tomes, lift the mask mandates for children so everyone can push back against this , of course.n and the standoff wound up in court yesterdayay. the judge in that case, luis de matteo, made a highly revealing statement, quote, i m not going to decide who sho right and who s wrong unmasking she said this is really about the hierarchy of authority will exactly. that really is what it sit about . after more tha
everyone, i am laura ingraham, and this is the the ingraham angle from washington tonight. china and the fanatics, this is the angle tonight. i wonder whaabt thoue leaders oe chinese party think about the theopagebate in united states? after brilliantly deploying propaganda and spying operation inside the u.s., they must be pleasantly surprised to see bipartisan support to help them protect it. yes, justrm, like avery st social media platform there isie privacy concerns and it is goi important we don t treat tiktok different than other platforms. if we address this issue, we have to take the same approach o see some media platforms. we can t just go out one periods be when we most certainly can and should. i when our national security and t our election integrity is at stake, we must act to protect our country.ensi for decades we are trying to c hiprevent this transfer of technology to our adversaries in china, iran, north korea, russia, so on. it is so bad with china t