which will win out. breaking news tonight. president biden s on the defensive about the lack of a sufficient number of covid tests in the country. as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country, americans standing in line outside in the cold winter air or sitting in their cars. sometimes for hours. just trying to get tested as they prepare to spend the holidays with family and friends. and the president acknowledging his administration is struggling to meet the growing demand, but he is denying that it dropped the ball. no, i don t think it s a failure. i think it s a you could argue we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. excuse me. 5 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering half a billion pills two months ago b
just a short time ago president biden spoke at length about criticism of his administration s fight against covid, and specifically about what vice president harris said in a recent interview that the administration didn t see the omicron variant coming. here is the exchange with abc s david muir. reporter: the vice president said in recent days that that you didn t see delta coming. you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? how d we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration not expect that there could be moments like this one where you d have a highly transmissible variant? sure. it was possible. it was possible there could be other variants that come along. that s possible. but what do you plan for? you plan for what you think is available. that is, the most likely threat that s exists at the time and you respond to it. and i think that that s exactly what we ve done and that s for e
trump have over his time in office over the people who worked for him and the documents they were producing at that time? so far we have seen trump lose at the drill court level, lose at the appeals court level and they are rejecting literally almost every single argument he has brought before the courts. now it is in the hands of the supreme court. they really, because they are the supreme court, can do whatever they want to do on any of these arguments, and everything about this will have major implications about what happens as the house select committee continues to pursue information not just from the trump white house but from other witnesses, witnesses like the chief of staff mark meadows, his handwritten notes about january 6th are included in these records trump is trying to keep secret this. s other notes, schedules, call logs, all kinds of information about what was happening in the west wing up to january 6th and on january 6th are included in this, and everythin
nice to be with you, my friend. president biden says if you are vaccinated, and boosted, go ahead, spend the holidays with family and friends. the president says the rapidly spreading omicron variant is cause for concern, but not panic. the country is much better prepared now to tackle a covid resurgence than in the early prevaccine days. for the millions who remain unvaccinated, there was this stark warning. almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. i honest to god believe it is your patriotic duty, the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. the biden administration s response to skyrocketing omicron cases includes expanding test sites across the country, distributing at-home tests to those who request them, deploying a thousand service military members to help overburdened hospitals and adding new vaccination sites. elizabeth cohen joining us now. elizabeth, good morning. a lot of fo
their story about to release as a major film from denzel washington. we begin with the incredibly infectious omicron variant forcing many americans to rethink their holiday plans just three days before christmas. new numbers show just how fast this strain is spreading. the latest numbers showc cases n houston tripling in just days. washington, d.c. is seeing the highest infection numbers since the beginning of the pandemic. but while cases are skyrocketing, no question, hospitalizations are not. right now those numbers are rising steadily nationwide, but not speaking which is important to remember. and there are developments from overseas that could suggest where this is headed for all of us. israel now rolling out a fourth dose of the covid vaccine for people over 60 years old, medical workers and people with suppressed immune systems. the uk is cutting the self-isolation period from ten days to seven for vaccinated people who test positive for covid. back here president b