a.m. pacific on this thursday, december 23rd. we begin with breaking news. doctors have two new weapons at their disposal to help treat patients at high risk with covid-19. moments ago the fda granted an emergency use authorization for a drug made by merck designed to keep people with mild to moderate symptoms out of the hospital, just one day after it granted similar approval for a drug produced by fiz per. pfizer. two days before christmas the omicron variant is responsible for almostfections with the u.s. seeing more than 200,000 cases a day since september. one in eight comes from new york and this is new video of another day of long, long lines in new york city as people wait in the cold for hours just to get tested. with omicron surge, isn t stopping tens of millions of americans from traveling to visit friends and families this holiday. so if you are deciding to stick with your holiday plans, health officials are urging you to be responsible. get vaccinated. get boos
done before the mid elections. and then desantis may care a little bit about 2022. we ll head west as well. we ll head west as well. welcome to meet the press daily. i am chuck todd in washington, and the white house, this morning president biden requested $33 billion in supplemental aid, money he will be able to drawdown on in deciding how much to turn over to ukraine, and it asked $8.5 billion in economic assistance and $3 billion in humanitarian assistance. the white house now requested more than $50 billion in total for ukraine. to put that level of u.s. involvement in context, that s more than we spent in afghanistan each of the last five years of our involvement there. we are financing this war, folks. today president biden defended this latest request while also once again labeling vladimir putin a dictator. investing in ukraine s freedom and security is a small price to pay to punish russian aggression to lesson the risk for future conflict. you know, througho
first major announcement since then, forgiving student loan debt for millions of americans up to $20,000 per borrower. and it s angering republicans and some democrats. hello, welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith. another busy news day. john: i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports. we ll have the president s remarks as they happen during the next hour. republicans say the move will cost taxpayers billions of dollars and worsen an already historic inflation crisis. democrats say, though, that the plan does not go nearly far enough. calling for thousands more in loan forgiveness. reaction already mixed. the government shouldn t pay for it. if you go to school, you pay for it yourself. if you can t, get a scholarship. i think we can live with it. why not give the students a break, that s our future. if you go to school, you should probably pay for it. sandra: a california congressman will react in just moments. john: peter doocy on the north lawn. y
the most attention for critical elections that could reshape some of the most powerful roles in congress. hello, everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, hello to you. john: sandra, great to see on this tuesday. i m john roberts, this is america reports. maloney and time to an end. new york democrats facing off in the newly redrawn 12th congressional district. one of the most hostile races of the year, with maloney questioning nadler s capacity to serve another term. sandra: and john, in florida, matt gaetz goes up against two challenges in another test of the former president s influence. and marco rubio will see who he will face in november. john: and aishah hasnie is in clearwater, florida. sandra: bryan in new york city, 17th congressional district received the attention of democratic party superstars. yes, good afternoon, it has. the one hand, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez endorsing the progressive candidate, state senator alexandria biagi, an
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