the house committee investigating the insurrection now says it wants to interview the former vice president about the january 6th ininsurrection. we begin this story in chicago where the nation s third largest school district canceled classes after the teachers union voted to refuse in-person work. they voted to switch to remote learning due to a surge in covid cases, the move leaving tens of thousands of students ca it comes as the rapid spread of omicron shows no sign of slowing down. the united states now averaging more than 550,000 cases per day. that s an increase of 358% since last month. about 113,000 americans, and it s important to stress nearly all unvaccinated are currently hospitalized with covid, up 90% over the last month. we expect to hear from the white house pandemic response team in just moments. let s start with cnn s omar jimenez live in chicago for the latest on the showdown between the teachers union and the district. we re hearing teachers are bein
across america. new cases are now topping a record 400,000 a day and hospitalizations, which i want to note consist of mostly the unvaccinated according to the cdc, have crossed the 100,000 mark for the first time in yearly four months. just a few moments ago, a doctor at texas children s hospital calling the number of kids admitted to there staggering, adding the main reason for the admissions is because of omicron. so we are not talking about kids who happen to have omicron, and are tested when they show up at a hospital for something else. he is saying, no, the staggering, use of that word staggering, applies to kids who are coming to the hospital because of omicron. but as those cases hit epic levels across the country, vaccinated people are mostly not getting sick. and that has changed the game. florida s governor, a champion of individual freedoms who, of course, has strongly opposed both covid masking and vaccine mandates is now on the same page as the mayor of new yor
kara skinnel and cnn legal analyst and former legal prosecutor elie hopig. you re been following all the ins and outs of this investigation. so what s new today? we over just learned today through a court file that the new york attorney general james has subpoenaed for pm and for documents donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. now, this is part of her civil investigation looking into whether the trump organization and any of its executives have ma nip late the values of its condo and golf courses and other properties. james office had previously subpoenaed former president donald trump for his testimony. now trump s attorneys have said that they will file a motion to quash that subpoena. in this court filing today we learned that the children of donald trump ivanka and don jr. are also likely to fight this. ivanka trump before she went into the administration was a top executive at the company. donald trump jr. is still one of the top executives. now james office had previou
after writing a best-selling memoir called hillbilly ellergy, he feared donald trump, and j.d. vance told a slate reporter that donald trump was, quote, leading the white working class to a very dark place. again, those are direct quotes from a man named jd vance. now jd vance is now after last night the republican candidate for senate in ohio thanks almost entirely to an endorsement from the ex-president that propelled him from also-ran third place in some polls to the top of of a very crowded field as the bull work told me in the ohio times, at this time, there s no moving past trump. he s re-made the republican party in his image and many republican voters now crave his particular brand of combative politics described again by j.d. vance, as, quote, cultural heroin by, quote, america s hitler. that particular brand of combative politics fueled by disinformation and paranoia and now best embodied by one jd vance has nothing but contempt for our democracy. vance has peddle
ex-president accountable for trying to end american democracy as we know it on january 6, a moment mccarthy desperately denies took place at all is at tape. release of audio obtained by msnbc reported originally by the new york times. journalist martin and burns, it is a snippet of a 2021 phone call during which mccarthy tills the house republican caucus that trump admitted responsibility for the attack on the capitol. let me be clear to all of you and i am very clear to the president. he bears responsibilities for his words and actions. i asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened. does he feel bad about what happened? he told me does have some responsibility for what happened. and he needed to acknowledge that. the gulf between the republican party s 24/7 disinformation fueled whitewash campaign of the insurrection. remember the reasons calling it legitimate political discourse and tourists? what republican officials actually thought and