about to announce his new strategy for tackling the pandemic in his speech at the national institutes of health. the white house white house says that the nine-point plan includes an extension of the existing mask mandates for air travel and other public transportation through at least march. and the biden administration will be announcing a new requirement that should offer every american free at-home testing. the white house says the plan they re rolling out will help battle against both the delta and omicron covid variants this winter. more on that plan in just a moment. let s start with natasha chen with the news of this new case of the over the counter. what are you learning? reporter: this latest case we re talking about is a man who is from the minneapolis area, the minnesota department of health saying that he traveled to new york for anime nyc at the javits center from november 19th to 21st, and this man had felt symptoms around the 22nd. we re talking about potent
conspeariracy theories. that could have been mickey mouse. lawsuits. they tried to not have your votes counted. they did not want your vote to count. topotentially illegal pressu campaigns. i want to find 11, 780 votes. what he was asking for was not supported by the facts, was not supported by the constitution. extraordinary scheming. let s talk about the easton memo. breath taking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that s so clearly violating the constitution. and all too many of the republican party. you believe it was a free and fair election? and maga media followed along. we will never give up. we will never concede. stop the steal! and it almighty have worked if not for a few people in key places. notably among them, brave represent are cans. in the moments of truth, you need the right people to pass the most difficult tests. we had just enough people on january 6th pass the test. pursuant to the constitution and the
to vet yet vote yes. you may think joe manchin shoulding up the party but he s never said anything in fact he didn t get a lot of push back from the president list zen. the president thinks he can get 51% for this bill, we re going to trust him, we re tired of waiting for one or two people, we trust the president will get 51 votes for this and we ll pass both bills through the house soon as we have these final negotiations wrapped up. i urge everybody to keep tempers down, sometimes this happens in final negotiate. not really. not within the same party. this is somewhat unique to the democrats. now, to be fair, once again, the media loves the lineup of deadlines, will it be now? will it be then? the democrats don t have to play into and they keep doing it. i see all this brinkmanship as hype, but the infrastructure and spending bills will pass. it s just about when and how it looks for the democrats. all this deadline drama is definitely bad for them. and it puts the pres
barriers but crossed partisan lines, always in pursuit of what he thought was best for the country according to those who knew him best. in a statement, president biden described powell as a dear friend who quote having fought in wars understood better than anyone that military might alone was not enough to maintain our peace and prosperity. and vice president harris said this in the last hour. he obviously served with dignity, he served with grace. he was the epitome of what it means to be strong but at the same time so modest in terms of everything that he did and said. cnn s wolf blitzer honors the general s lifetime of service that spanned four presidencies in more than four decades. i will never not be the soldier. colin powell, a soldier turned statesman made hit on many fronts. the first african-american and youngest chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and later the first african-american secretary of state. i ve always felt strongly that you should try t