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Awaiting trial in 2019. so now, it is ghislaine maxwell s turn to answer for the crimes and having just celebrated her 60th birthday in prison, she could spend the rest of her life behind bars. randi, it seems the jury really took their time to get this right but they did reach that verdict just before the new year. reporter: yeah, jim. it was a long deliberation. 40 hours over a six-day span. and she now faces up to 65 years in prison. she could have faced more, had she not been found not guilty of that one count she was not guilty of enticing a minor to travel to engage in criminal sexual activity. that charge was related to the victim known as jane in court. no sentencing date has been set, yet. but her attorneys the defense attorneys are already talking they spoke after court today they said that they believe they believe in her innocence. they are already working on her appeal. they are confident that she will be vindicated. but they are they spent really the most of ....
Pediatric cases of covid. hopefully, it s mostly omicron which has as secretary sebelius said, this is a completely different disease. there are two pandemics now. and hopefully, all those cases are omicron because they do seem to automatic to little more than an upper-respiratory infection for healthy people. secretary sebelius, the cdc new guideline reeducing isolatin and quarantine times to five days but not recommending a negative test before seeing people again. what do you make of that? do you think that was based solely on science? or were there some practical, pragmatic considerations, you know, being taken into consideration there? i mean, is that the kind of policy you would have pursued as the secretary of health and human services? well, let me just start, jim, by saying none of us have ever been through this kind of situation where we have a global pandemic and variations of the global pandemic presenting themselves across this country. ....
World of hurt as we see this very transmissible, um, variation begin to sweep the country. yeah, it s the wild west in many cases. depending on which part of the country you re in. it s not a a coordinated response, unfortunately. and, dr. phillips, as tom foreman was just mentioning in his piece earlier, all students and staff attending d.c. public schools will have to show proof of a negative test before returning to the classroom next wednesday. i mean, january 5th, it s coming up fact. despite that, do you think students and staff in d.c., other cities like new york with skyrocketing transmission rates should be returning to in-person school? i mean, what do you think based on what you are seeing? jim, there is no right answer. um, both both answers have consequences. if we shut everything down again, um, and go back to virtual, that is going to pull parents out of the workforce. and um, for my personal standpoint, we are in the middle ....
Over january 6th. is this all just another loyalty test for trump? i mean, you know, the loyalty test for him is, of course, the loyalty goes in one direction and that s towards him. yeah, look, trump has made a lot of endorsements so far. about 50. and murkowski is probably the one that is the most important to him because as you pointed out, jim, it s the one senator who voted to convict him in the impeachment trial earlier-this year, who is actually up for re-election so he is trying to find every lever he can in alaska poll tilitics and he is the governor in a very strange position. as you pointed out jim, this is usually the kind of thing that happens behind the scenes, right? that happens quietly and classic trump, um, he s, you know, saying it out loud. it s all out in public and now dunleavy s got to make a decision does he address this? does he say no that is not the way we do politics in alaska? ....
reporter: well first of all, jim, there is that critical piece of information that this call was requested by the russian president. and it comes just three weeks after president biden and president putin held that video conference together and less than two weeks before the next round of talks are expected between u.s. and russian officials. a senior administration official said they don t know exactly why the russian president requested this call. but at a moment of crisis, which are the words that this senior official used to describe the current situation, they said they didn t see any downside to having this conversation. and crucially, we know that president biden sees a lot of value and a lot of importance that he places in these leader-to-leader conversations. he often says that there is no substitute for those kinds of conversations, particularly when it comes to autocratic countries, like russia and china. and what s the goal for the biden administration going into this c ....