Lisa thank you for joining us for our newsmakers with margaret huang. To submit a question, please email headliners press. Org. This week, lawmakers are seeking to pass legislation to combat hate crimes against asian americans. Which has increased nearly 150 in the wake of covid19. And a white Police Officer stands trial for the murder of george floyd, a black man, in a horrific case of police misconduct. Earlier this year, the department of Homeland Security issued a rare national terrorism advisory System Bulletin Warning of the growing threat from homegrown antigovernment militias, far right Hate Groups and white supremacists. Hate of every type seems to assault our society daily. At the center they have fight center of the fight where it has stood since it was funned by civil rights leaders, joseph j. Levin jr. And Julian Bond in 1971 is the southern Poverty Law Center. Since its inception the splc, based in montgomery, alabama, has gone to the courts to challenge white supremacist
more fearful and fatter than they have been in generations. depression has skyrocketed. church attendance has dropped in half. cancer deaths are up dramatically. obesity, suicide, you name it, it is up. these in addition to countless other serious social issues, people are not having children, for example. maybe most depressingly, a new study from brown to find children, kids born during the pandemic have a lowered overall cognizance. a entire generation slower. that is a legitimate public health crisis. you never hear about them because the attention of our leaders is focused on covid. and particularly on the covid vaccines. more vaccines, jill biden has told us repeatedly, are the answer. the only answer. if i am large, americans have followed biden s lead. they believe the president. as of tonight s come about 82% of the entire adult population of the united states has received a covid shot. in total, more than 232 million americans have been vaccinated. the largest inocul
depression has skyrocketed. church attendance has dropped in half. cancer deaths are up dramatically. obesity, suicide, you name it, it is up. these in addition to countless other serious social issues, people are not having children, for example. maybe most depressingly, a new study from brown to find children, kids born during the pandemic have a lowered overall cognizance. a entire generation slower. that is a legitimate public health crisis. you never hear about them because the attention of our leaders is focused on covid. and particularly on the covid vaccines. more vaccines, jill biden has told us repeatedly, are the answer. the only answer. if i am large, americans have followed biden s lead. they believe the president. as of tonight s come about 82% of the entire adult population of the united states has received a covid shot. in total, more than 232 million americans have been vaccinated. the largest inoculation campaign and our history. we hear a lot of people who
too much room to sent the terms of debate. the first nine months he grunted about a dozen interviews. trump did more than 50 in the same time and barack obama or than 100. now, we get to the papers real gripe about biden, he s not set for interviews with the associated press, new york times , reuters, washington post, wall street journal or usa today , how day how dare he. biden doesn t stir things up on his twitter feed and the conventional wisdom is that his aides don t want the boss wandering off script or making mistakes. whether that is true or not his low-key approach , you know what dealing with the press is part of the job. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz . howard: ahead, kyle rittenhouse rips the media s sickening coverage of his trial we will talk to brian kiilmeade about that and abc jonathan karl on his interview with trump about the last year of his presidency. and the media complains about jen psaki says president biden takes more questions than
in our 4:00 p.m. hour, we are just days away from the case that could overturn roe v. wade. the supreme court about to take up a mississippi law that is a direct challenge on the very future of abortion rights. that s ahead. we want to start, though, with the breaking news on the new covid strain, omicron. with the last within the last two hours, germany and italy have confirmed they have new cases. this is coming just after the uk health secretary confirmed the variant is now in england as well. this means four european nations now have confirmed cases as well as asian and african nations. let s go talk about the latest countries to be added to the do not travel list from the state department. this is causing new restrictions and increased lockdowns around the world, including a u.s. travel ban from southern africa about to take effect as well. meantime, the white house says president biden is being briefed and is in touch with world leaders about this strain. i want to