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omicron and the good news on the so-called winter surge that may be ebbing in some areas. some are asking where the line is when the goalpost keeps moving. so many people feel two years to the day when covid first formally hit the u.s. there is now a report from the center for disease control that they have the first u.s. case of that coronavirus. now to growing concerns about the deadly coronavirus officially hitting the u.s. this is patient one, the first known covid case in the country. patient one-two years ago today. we now know the grim toll. the numbers can not capture the humanity of 860,000 americans dead. health experts say omicron could hit half of our population. if you assume that we re only diagnosing one in five cases, probably upwards of 23%, 25% of americans have been infected and that many may be infected on the back end. we may get 40%, 50% of americans infected with this by mid-february. about 9 million workers called out sick from covid ....
acknowledging the stalemate that some of his top priorities and offering a warning about russian president putin s next moves. it s been a year of challenges, but it s also been a year of enormous progress. we went from 2 million people being vaccinated at the moment i was sworn in to 210 million americans being fully vaccinated today. we created 6 million new jobs. for all this progress i know there s a lot of frustration and fatigue in this country. did you overpromise to the american public what you could achieve in your first year in office? i didn t overpromise, but i have probably outperformed anybody thought would happen. i did not anticipate that there d be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. is there anything that you are confident you can get signed into law before the mid-term elections? yes. i m confident we can get pieces, big chunks of the build back better law signe ....
her full response in just a moment. meantime, the committee has a lot more on their hands. a trove of trump white house documents surrounding the attack. the national archives began turning over those records just hours after the supreme court rejected donald trump s claim that they were protected under executive privilege. and that is not all. there is fresh reporting from the washington post about a coordinated effort led by rudy giuliani to overturn the election results in five key states by helping to justify alternate electors that would cast a state s electoral college votes for trump, not biden. one of the reporters on that piece will tell us how far giuliani went and about the trump electors who refused to go along with him. on that same subject of alternate electors, more breaking news, this out of georgia. the fulton county district attorney has now asked for a special grand jury to investigate any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of th ....
schumer is expected to have or begin debating two bills already passed by the house, the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. schumer is going ahead over almost sure to be defeated manchin, neither of them are agreeing to the filibuster to make those bills law. martin luther king jr. s family led a voting rights march and afterward his son called the white house asking them to act. our democracy stands on the brink of serious trouble. history will be watching what happens tomorrow. black and brown americans will be watching what happens tomorrow. in 50 years, students will read about what happens tomorrow and know whether our leaders have the integrity to do the right thing. earlier today president biden also renewed his call for senators to pass voting rights legislation. it s no longer just about who gets to vote, it s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. it s about two insidious things, voter sup ....
passed in 19 states and after months of pressure and pleading from activists on democrats to do something, to do anything to stop this wave of voters suppression and nullification laws, the united states senate has now taken up a last ditch effort to try to pass federal voting rights legislation. debate on a sweeping bill that combines the two key voting proposals, the jon lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act, began just a few hours ago. democrats are pressing ahead even though the bill is doomed to ultimately fail. given the plans by the gop to filibuster and the fact that senators joe manchin and sinema and perhaps others are unwilling to reform the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. senate democrats took to the floor to send the message that the fight for federal voting rights legislation is still a necessary effort. that will ultimately reveal who s on the side of democracy and who s not. win, lose, our draw, members of this chamber were ....