all in starts right now! good evening from new york and the bipartisan committee investigating the january 6th insurrection just released a report in the last hour, recommending that former department of justice official jeffrey clark, be held in contempt over his refusal to cooperate with dhs subpoena. caucus had lengthily career, a kind of archetypal in the government he worked with the prestigious law firm kirkland analysis. which is perfectly fine for judges and lawyers. he also worked for the george w. bush administration. honestly, kind of nondescript bureaucrat political appointee not a household name. washington ones on the people, more that. except this guy this under the radar guy, this man and we showed you on the screen, he s the single person when except for anyone other than donald trump himself comes closest to come polling off an actual coup this year. jeffrey clark. he served as the acting head of the civil division of donald trump, of positioning
like tiger woods to play on the pga tour. his legacy will not be forgotten and he s a true trail blazer in the game of golf. yeah, i tried to think about it like that, that is the connection in a way, right, so many people have stood on lee elder s shoulders including tiger woods and you see you can draw a line and it is really an amazing thing as we remember lee elder. dan, thank you for being with us. yep, thanks for having me. new day continues right now. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m brianna keilar with john berman. breaking overnight, the omicron variant is now on five continents, barely a week after it was first detected. it is still, though, too early to know what the impact here will be. japan just discovered its first case overnight. that means that 19 countries or territories have now diagnosed at least one case of omicron. there are no confirmed cases in the u.s. as of now. and the president is urging ev
21st. i m ali velshi. the bipartisan infrastructure bill has been signed into law by president biden and congressional democrats are optimistic about passing the build back better spending package before the end of the year. after passing the house entirely along party lines on friday, the transformative legislation is now headed to the senate for review this week, but it still has a difficult road ahead. its passage in the senate is not guaranteed. it will need all 50 democratic votes, and if it does pass, it might come out looking very different, based on the mercurial moods of joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, but at least it s moving. however, another crucial piece of the biden agenda, the agenda of anyone who cherishes democracy, by the way, has largely stalled, and i think it s voting rights. the washington post reports that kyrsten sinema, quote, remains firmly opposed to changing federal election laws on a partisan basis, signaling that a planned last-ditch voting rig
democrats. while the president s agenda is stalled, a growing supply chain problem is getting worse. jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening. good evening to you. another issue democrats are trying to get past tonight is raising the debt limit and it s not even done yet. they have a procedural maneuver to tuck that bow into another one, something congressional leaders do when they worry they don t have the votes. another snapshot of the division president biden is trying to smooth over. speak of the infighting continues ever president biden social spending bill over her ds wrestle over what to keep and what to cut. the white house is encouraging members to think of it this way. it s not a cut just because something wants to propose something bigger on paper. it s not a bill or policy that is going to change lives if nothing is passed. house speaker nancy pelosi told members that her supporters are for fully funding programs over tackling mor
now, the company is blaming air traffic control problems, staffing and weather. let s get straight to cnn aviation correspondent pete monteen, he s been following all of this. he s at reagan national airport today. what more are you learning about these cancellations and what s really behind them, pete? erica, this is a huge operational mess for southwest airlines and it s not like they can get back to normal with the flip of a switch. this is really more akin to unplugging something and plugging it back in again. these problems that southwest says started back on friday because of air traffic control and weather issues prompted a rare statement from the federal aviation administration saying there were no such issues on saturday and sunday when southwest experienced the lion s shares of its cancellations, 1,100 flights on sunday, about 30% of its total schedule. so far we ve seen about 348 cancellations today. that s about one in every ten flights. this is really caused by