with him that day after. i think after. i don t know if i spoke with him in the morning or not. i just don t know. he just doesn t know. the committee is about to find out the facts. we don t know if jordan will comply with this request. they can issue a subpoena if he stonewalls. jordan also admitted sending a message to trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, on january 5th offering a legal theory on how trump could block biden s win. joining me now, former federal prosecutor joyce vance, juanita tolliver. trump is deeply unnerved by the january 6th committee. i wonder what you are now reporting given this jim jordan news? yeah, we reported early in the week that trump was reagitated by the amount of communications and documents that meadows had turned over to the select committee. i can only imagine that the former president is even more unnerved now because it appears that the committee is going to go after his biggest allies in congress, including jim jordan, who the c
melber. president biden speaking to an exhausted country, as covid cases explode, and americans worry about omicron. today, with omicron now the dominant strain and spreading fast, biden saying this is not like past surges. because now we have vaccines. i want to start by acknowledging how tired, worried, and frustrated you are. i know how you re feeling. for many, this will be the first or second christmas where you look across the table and there will be an empty chair there. this is not march 2020. 200 million people are vaccinated. we re prepared, we just need to stay focused. about 200 million are fully vaccinated, but about 40% of americans are not fully vaccinated. in his speech, biden laced into platforms and people he says are spreading dangerous misinformation. look, the unvaccinated are responsible for their own choices. but those choices have been fueled by dangerous misinformation on cable tv and social media. you know, these companies and personalities are
jeopardy. this was a moment many on the left long feared and some warned of. the evenly divided senate means any single senate democrat can torpedo this bill. manchin dropping a bomb sunday telling fox news he is against the bill. today top democrats are trying to salvage some sort of deal and the white house is softening its tone after releasing a blistering statement accusing manchin of betraying the president and congress. white house press secretary jen psaki getting press today. senator manchin s version of events sort of differ from the white house version of events. you regard his $1.8 trillion proposal as a nonstarter given that it excludes the child tax credit? does the president think senator manchin has negotiated in good faith? he said that from the beginning, he continues to consider him a friend. new reporting late today that biden and manchin spoke last night. biden seeking to restart talks on the plan for climate, pre-k, family paid leave, child tax
vice president pence to steal the election by simply miscounting the actual electors. now, they put it in writing. the investigation cares about that, because it may mark the line between the loose rhetoric you hear from all these folks appeared the active plotting that can be illegal. we reported on everything that was going on. we heard from and pressed members of trump s legal team. the lawyer in that hot seat right now, ms. elition, well, we spoke with her in our reporting. she insisted, long past the formal deadlines that the trump team had more fights left. our strategy is to make sure that we continue to challenge all of these false and fraudulent results. what is the point of this? to go to fair and accurate results. the president won by a landslide. no, he did not. that was a lie, which in the united states is something you can legally do, in public or or air. she can lie. the question here, though, is what they did beyond lies, if they do any illegal plotting,
why is matt gaetz hanging out with steve bannon? is it because they both have plenty of legal strategy to hash out? but we begin with the top story, the coronavirus pandemic, delta surging across america and the omicron variant now spreading in multiple american states. the variant has been confirmed in a total of six states. you see them here. health officials view community spread as inevitable in many dense places. and today the president urges patience plus resilience to defeat another round of this virus. whatever got to beat it back before we shut it down. look, it s going to take time worldwide. in order to beat covid, we have to shut it down worldwide. worldwide means, well, at least 40 countries and counting. you can see on this map just how fast this thing is spreading. and the first scientific data is coming out of south africa that shows omicron spreads twice as quickly as the delta variant. it is not yet the main problem in the united states, but boy, does it