announced his administration will distribute millions of covid-19 tests to schools across the country. and the cdc director reported that a new study out of california shows that omicron variant is less severe than other variants. that news left many people wondering if it s such a big deal if we get omicron? this morning the conservative opinion section of the wall street journal posted a piece suggesting we should speed up the spread by getting rid of masks and social distancing. to make some sense of it all, we re joined by msnbc medical contributor and affiliate professor at the health institute of evaluations. i have people around, you know, i heard people say this that i know that i think are smart. we re all going to get omicron anyway. it is the left severe one. maybe we should all get it and get it overwith. is that medically sound? joy, good evening. i don t believe it is. i do think that we still need to be careful with the virus that we have only known for six
woodward colin powell shared his thoughts on afghanistan, a few weeks before the final american evacuation from afghanistan. colin powell said i thought we had to get out of there eventually. we can t beat these guys. well, let s get it overwith. afghanistan, you re never going to win. afghans are going to win. that s why i don t have any problem with us getting out of there. we can t go from 100,000 u.s. troops down to a few hundred and think that will prevail. bob woodward s final question to colin powell was, who was the greatest man, woman, or person you have ever known? not a leader, not necessarily, but the inner person. you know, the moral come pass, the sense of propriety, the sense of the truth matters. who is that in all of your life? who? it s alma powell, he said. she was with me the whole time. we ve been married 58 years and
wo woods by any means. to follow up, pete, do we have any way of knowing if mueller is going to proceed and charge him again or prosecute him for some of the other charges that he had agreed to set aside as part of the plea deal? right. and of course, the charges on which the jury hung in virginia and in alexandria, and the answer is no. you asked if we know, and i say that we don t know, but i do belief they will go on the with sentencing and get it overwith. and now to the issue of julian assange, and harry litman, it is in the guardian newspaper, and our guidance is that from the team that we can reference this to the guardian and by a krcredible and well knn reporter in the guardian but we don t have independent information as to of course what happened there iny?
supremely well qualified on the position. on her letter, you are right. it does go a step further. she was careful not to criticize the administration in the process and not to criticize what people were trying to accomplish at the time, which is very important. some liberals are out trying to condemn the entire bush administration how they prosecuted the war on terror and she was careful not to do that. dana: i have 20 seconds left because of the senators that were talking so let me ask you. on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most, how much do the senators want to get this off the table to get back tom call paining on the issues campaigning on the issues? 10. they want it overwith to get it done. dana: i figured how out to get out of the segments quickly. josh and chris, thank you. primary elections in four states today including pennsylvania, where voters are going to the polls after the state s district maps were redrawn. how a republican who lost a special election is
stekt secretary of state and then approved a deal that benefited the person who got the deal and concerning a decision she can make, you d have to prove all that. that s a lot. that s a lot of heavy lifting. but, you know, what they really need to do if they want to disqualify hillary clinton is disqualify her with the democrats right? that s right. she is by far and away the leader of that pack. i mean if something like this even potentially going to bring her down? no. people are not focused on 2016. you know we love the stuff. we love to look at the stuff. viewers of fox news love all this stuff. many voters are not even thinking about 2016 yet. and they re throwing this stuff at her now which helps her. throw what you got, get it overwith and then by the time if she would only speak it to. if she doesn t speak it to weeks go on and then this is all the stuff they want to talk about. does she have to talk to every tease? every allegation? all we have is a tease. coming