new york i m emit in for chris hayes. there is a new coronavirus variant raising questions and concerns around the globe. while scientists and public health experts are helping to answer questions and ease those concerns, the pro curled white in this country is meeting this challenge with the same old mix of misinformation and conspiracy theories. world health organization naming the new covid variant omicron. last week the south african government warned that the world should be aware of this variant. it was first detected there earlier this month. of course, this is far from the first variant we have seen emerge. quite honestly, it is not unexpected. this is what viruses do. they mutate. we have already cycled through the alpha variant that came out of the united kingdom late last year. beta first detected in south africa. gamma emerging from brazil. and of course delta, first documented in india. which has become the dominant strain worldwide. now we do not know yet how mu
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any moment now, president biden will pledge to add american battle tanks too. that prompts a dramatic warning from russia. red lines are a thing of the past. plus, he did it too. the president s allies see a classified discovery at mike pence s house as a political gift to defuse a three-week-long white house crisis. and retribution on capitol hill. the house speaker kevin mccarthy refuses to seat a pair of democrats on the house intelligence committee. next up an attempt to remove another democratic lightning rod from the panel that oversees foreign policy. eric swalwell would be in the private sector and can t get a security clearance there, we are not going to provide him with the secrets to america. hakeem jeffries has 200 other straight to the white house and the president of the united states. yesterday marked 11 months since russia s brutal full-scale invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of th
katy tur. we re learning more about the shooting attack at the star ballroom dance studio in monterey park, california, including two of the victims identities. we ll bring you the latest from our own jose diaz balart there on the scene. today the community is mourning the massive loss of life, seven survivors remain hospitalized and a second possible shooting was stopped bay bystander. more on that in a minute. police have not released a motive for the shooting. nbc s kate snow spoke with the mayor of monterey park who had this to say. he may have come because his ex-wife was reveling, celebrating the new year, and you know, just sounded like a history of domestic violence, which is unfortunate, and he essentially, you know, committed to violence, and it cast a fog on a celebratory evening. was it your understanding his ex-wife was here that night? i believe so. so perhaps he was targeting her? possibly, yes. that suspect fled in a white van leading police on a