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sedition charge. two, it s a key charge going up the line. three, it shows an open probe escalating, not winding down, which is possibly bad news for other insurrectionists and co-plotters yet to be charged. it s big news. i m going to try to walk through it with you right now. beginning with point one. sedition. sedition makes for a significance escalation in the doj s criminal probe. over a year in, today marks the first such charge in this probe. related to sedition, a felony of acting against the united states. i m going to explain it exactly, but i can tell you how serious it is. it carries alone up to 20 years in prison. this is farther than the doj has gone against any of those several hundred january 6th defendants charged to date, and it s one of the first moves to go in the probes to go up the line to the plotters and heavy hitters. so what is this? well, let s go to it. under the law, seditious conspiracy is when people conspire to overthrow by force the gove ....
vaccine mandate for most health care workers to stand. that counts is the administration can seem to find its way out of covid testing fiasco. joe biden announcing that he is ordering 500 million more covid tests all americans are still waiting for the first batch he promised to arrive. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. i mean by this right now, the most vaccinated, and unvaccinated people are testing positive. as i ve said in the last two years, please wear a mask. his party are patriotic duty, it s not comfortable, next week we will announce how we are making high-quality mask available to american people for free. we have to work together. not against each other. we are americans. we can do this. dana: meanwhile vice president is being criticized for not inspiring too much confidence over an interview about the pandemic where she gave this was being called a word salad response. at what point does the administration say you know what, this strategy doesn ....
committee chair bennie thompson wants to know what mccarthy talked about with trump and trump s staffers as the riot was unfolding. there is a lot we don t know, but here is what we do know, mccarthy said himself that he spoke with trump on the phone during the riot and as nbc news reported last year, it did not go well. the sources telling us mccarthy was shaken up by what happened and the republican leader telling trump himself on the phone, who the f do you think you re talking to? well, things are changed. now mccarthy is slamming the committee s probe saying their probe is an abuse of power and do not forget exactly one year ago he publicly blamed the former president for the riot and he called on the house to censure trump. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action by president trump. accept his share of ....
you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the omicron surge taking a toll on school, hospitals and businesses. we re following it all. so many organizations and institutions are over burdened and in some places like chicago t situation is clearly boiling over. reporter: that s right. stress delays, frustration, cancellation it s all part of the omicron surge and all parts of the country. in chicago they are locked in debate. in so many places we re seeing a will we haven t seen before to keep moving forward through covid. parents are outraged and making their outrage known to the teachers union in is a very different dynamic than ever before. reporter: tensions mounting in chicago. more than 340,000 students missing school for a fourth day. teachers refusing to return to the classroom. we re very frustrated that there are no public health leaders standing up and saying we should be moving to remote learning environment especially for a district o ....
could get 32 free home covid tests per month. the problem is at least right now, you can t find the covid test for insurance to pick up. the administration promises they are coming. but this comes as there are increasing concerns about confusing pandemic messaging and the credibility of the policy coming from the white house and the centers for disease control. we ll talk live with former assistant health secretary admiral brett giroir in just a few minutes. now we go to white house correspondent peter doocy live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. soon insurance companies will have to pick up the cost of 8 covid tests per person up to 32 per family of four. but, separately, officials here are announcing they still haven t even signed the contract for all those 500 million free at home tests that they have been promising for weeks. which means that officials here missed the window to prepare for what they have been describing as a winter of sev ....