contain this. the coronavirus tonight. the mandates kicking in across the country. in new york city tonight, amid the protests, authorities now pointing to the numbers. now 96% of teachers are vccinated. and the virus and christmas. what dr. fauci said today about christmas this year. the deadly shootout onboard an amtrak train. the suspects boarding the train, later one of them opening fire. president biden tonight accusing republicans of playing russian roulette with the debt ceiling after they voted to raise it several times in the trump years. a reported $7.8 trillion added to the debt under president trump. cecilia vega at the white house tonight. the woman known as baby rowe, roe, breaking her silence right here. how she learned who she was. who approached her at 18. and what she now says as the supreme court takes up a case that could affect the future of roe v. wade. linsey davis is here. the hospital shooting in philadelphia. the gunman wearing body armor a
disaster. it is not an overstatement and it is a generous assessment. our country has ever seen anything like joe biden has done. barely 15 months into his first term as president, joe biden has crash the stock market, provoked a food shortage, opened our borders to millions of illegal aliens, presided over historic rises in murder, inflation, and drug ods, as well as a corresponding plunge and overall life expectancy. and then because all of that wasn t punitive enough for a country as racist as ours, he dragged the united states into an entirely pointless war with a nuclear armed power on behalf of a corrupt foreign government that once bribed his drug addicted son. that s all real. joe biden did all of that. and those are just the big, easy to measure crimes he has committed. we spent virtually every night cataloguing some of the rest, shuttered schools, permanent looting, latin american levels of wealth inequality, tampons in the boys bathroom. $7 a gallon gasoline, un
and to build something more enduring. negotiators continue to work, the gaps are narrowing, and we are continuing to push for an agreement in doha. it is still difficult work to get there, but i continue to believe it s possible. the us says it will bring a draft resolution to the un security council on friday. of hostages held by hamas. our correspondent mark lowen is following efforts to stop the violence, and sent this report from jerusalem. the rules of diplomacy is still very much in motion, antony blinken believes torque is possible to end this war even if you will be difficult, in his words, and also talking about how this progress with talking with regional actors about who and what could run a reconstructed gaza after the guns fall silent. israel is sending a delegation back to doha tomorrow on friday led by mossad, who will be having talks with the head of the cia and mediators from qatar and egypt, suggesting there is possibly some prog
is injerusalem with more on what to expect from the talks. well, he s here on the last stop of his middle east tour. he ll be meeting the prime minister, also members of the war cabinet. we can expect to hear some more demands from the us, at this time when tensions are quite high with its ally israel, for more aid, more desperately needed aid to be allowed into gaza, where you have this threat looming of a manmade famine because of the very severe shortages of food. now, on top of that, mr blinken will be discussing, i m sure, the ongoing talks in qatar with mediators acting as go betweens for israel and hamas, trying to secure a new ceasefire deal in exchange for the release of some of the remaining israeli hostages who are held in the gaza strip. on top of that, we do expect mr blinken to talk to the israelis about their plans, their declared plans for an offensive in rafah in the very south of the gaza strip, on the border with egypt. they say that they have to act there
and that much profit, as well as so many customers, tends to attract the attention of government officials. and now the us department ofjustice, along with 16 different states, has filed a lawsuit against apple. apple charges as much as nearly $1600 for an iphone. but as our complaint alleges, apple has maintained monopoly power in the smartphone market not simply by staying ahead of the competition on the merits, but by violating federal anti trust law. it accuses the company of blocking rival tech firms from accessing hardware and software features on the iphone, thus gaining an unfair dominance of the smartphone market. apple denies the accusations, saying in a statement. leaving apple and the us government heading for a lengthy argument in court over whether the tech giant is protecting its customers or making it difficult for them to leave. even very popular companies that make stuff that we care about have to compete for that loyalty that we have, and apple isn t doing