expert about that development. we ll hear from a democratic senator in last night s meeting between senator manchin and the democratic colleagues and a progressive house member on what happens next. hello there, welcome to meet the press daily i m chuck todd. the biden administration trying to ramp up the testing capacity and tamp down the fears for vaccinated people as omicron sweeps across the country. long testing lines and in many places not enough testing the country was caught unprepared for this variant. the new strategy the white house rolled out yesterday includes making half a billion at-home tests available for free to any american who wants one. something people have called for since the start of this pandemic, but those tests won t be available until next month after holiday travel and after the worst of this current surge and comes a couple weeks after the white house downplayed the need for at-home testing. here was press secretary jen psaki less than two
to combat the surge fueled by the omicron variant. nbc news has just confirmed at least one case of omicron in all 50 states, all of them. that plan includes expanded testing to address scenes like this throughout the country, people waiting for hours in line to get tested. the spike in cases forced the nhl to announce this morning its players will not participate in the winter olympics in beijing. the league says it will need that time to make up the 50 games recently postponed because of covid. but potentially encouraging news from south africa, where omicron originated. there are signs new infections may have peaked. we ll ask our medical expert what that could mean for the united states. joining me is josh lederman from the white house, nbc news correspondent steve patterson from los angeles international airport, nbc news producer gary grumbach in washington, dc and the co-director for the center for vaccine development at texas children s hospital, dr. peter hotez. gent
really the founding personality s the cia. one of most powerful men in the cia from the founding in 1947 until his forced retirement in 1974. so, really a founding father of u.s. counterintelligence use what type of issues and areas did he work on? guest: angleton used his position as chief of counterintelligence staff to really create a kind of cia within the cia, and so he dabbled everywhere. he was very influential in u.s. policy toward israel. created programs of mass surveillance, opening the mail of americans. involved in the domestic surveillance schemes of the nixon white house, for example. involved in the early dives the mk up to mind experiment mck up to mind expert. very involved in u.s. policy toward cuba. so, this position a lot of cia officers rise through a geographical directorat. a division within the cia. angleton had his fingers in many things. was hey well-known personality during the years he was active. guest: he was not. in fact there are sto
michael swanson is the founder and editor of the website wall street window.com where he writes about the financial market. that site, heded commands the hedge fund from 2003 two 2006. he has written works of 20 century american history, including danville virginia and the coming of the moderate south. one of the greatest books that you will ever read, the cold war origins of the military-industrial complex in the power elite. he is working on the book covering the u.s. involvement in the vietnam war from 1945 to 1963. just a personal anecdote we get a lot of books that people send us to look at and review. when i got to mike swanson, i did not know who he was. i thought it was another one of those books. i was stunned. i start really looking through it and i take it home at night and i was just overwhelmed with the power of this book. i contacted him and we met at a conference on the jfk assassination and we have become good friends. i cannot recommend this book to highly.
i was seven when kennedy ran for president. was so excited. it was the eight sacrament to be for john f. kennedy. at passed out literature in my neighborhood about it. i remember a woman slamming the door and saying, i don t support papist to be added not know what that was. it was a big deal to us. there was a lot of anti-catholic prejudice. i was seven at the time, but i have a very vivid memory of our principal walking into our second grade class from at band nine school in silver crews, new york. only two things i remember after that was when i got home, standing on the coffee table and my father holding me while i was crying and the drums. and then on sunday, on the tv and watching live oslo being shot by ruby. what got you interested in politics? guest: honestly, john f. kennedy did. that is one reason why i did the book. i have always had it in the back of my mind. i wanted to write about this once the had the time and resources to do it. we tried, we are doing a b