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originating. we begin with the latest from atlanta and correspondent jonathaner isry. the world health organization identified the threat and gave it the name omicron and identified ate as variant of concern. what we do know is this has a large number of mutations and the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves. both mutations include multiple changes to the spike protein, the part of the virus that penetrates human cells. researchers are still determining the threat, omicron s threat through southern africa concerns the british health minister. the indication we have is it may be more transmiss than the delta variant and the vaccines that we had may be less effective against it. officials are redoubling the efforts to get most of the world vaccinated. they face challenges, increasing supply in the poor countries and encouraging demand in rich ones. nevertheless, health experts say vaccination is key to c ....
alan dershowitz joins us shortly. but first, a sidebar that shouldn t be lost. i m talking about msnbc being banned from the courtroom. as the jurors were leaving after a day of deliberations, police stopped a man who identified himself as an msnbc price. and as judge bruce schrader explained, he said his bosses in new york had given him an assignment. he gave that information and stated that he had been instructed by ms. ryland in new york to follow the jury bus. i have instructed that no one from msnbc will be permitted in this building until duration of this trial. this is a are serious matter. howard: nbc claims this was a freelancer who just happened to be near the bus and had no intention of photographing the jurors. if he was trying to do that, it would be monumentally dumb given the tense situation in the wisconsin town. was msnbc actually thinking of putting out pictures of the jurors and putting them in danger? i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. ....
for doubling down on our investment in our focus on clean energy options. maria: coming out, texas senator ted cruz on where the multi trillion dollar spending tax package stands now as bernie sanders pushes for a vote before thanksgiving. working against america, first the transportation secretary skips out for two months during the worst a supply crisis we have ever seen with the store shelves bear and then the energy secretary laughs at us over the soaring prices of gasoline and no plans to fix it and now this, joe biden s nominee for bank regulator admits she wants american companies to go bankrupt. going to probably go bankrupt in short order at least we want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change maria: coming up ohio congressman jim jordan is here on how much more damage the democrats can do as they ignore their own self-made crises over and over again. is it a dereliction of duty or simply delusional? i understand that voters are frustrated. ....
your mouth and pull the trigger if you re in part of this [bleep] fraud. howie: reuters tracked down nine people who left such messages. this is the incredible part. they admitted to it. they thought it was fine to curse and threaten people who were doing their jobs. one man left a message with arizona secretary of state katie holmes office saying she would hang, quote, from an f dashing-e tree. most of the cases don t get prosecuted. while the press is starting to pay attention, there should be a much bigger story. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. howie: ahead of the media totally botched the kyle rittenhouse homicide case, the media hadn t been all that concerned with rising prices, not the world s sexiest topic but when the biden administration announced the annual inflation topped 6%, even some pundits sympathetic to the president acknowledged he faces a major political problem. everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more and it s worr ....
heard from the biden administration, and food, gas and household goods continue to soar. we are going to see ease, yes i say ease lower inflationary pressures on our economy. and we will be carrying this out, what i call blue collar blue print for america. the white house says the hard infrastructure bill the president will sign will eventually be supply chain issue and more big spending democrats want to pass in the social infrastructure package will eventually get americans back to work. it was specifically designed to bring down the costs of child care. but even democrats are urging the white house to pull other levers now. i have said let s have the president tap the strategic petroleum reserve that would bring down the cost of gas. administration says there is nothing to preview on that front. also challenging the assertion there is no relief in sight by touting the coming end to their own programs. democrats passed along party lines in march. but these ....