11 women in uniform working in baseball this upcoming season. seems awesome. i love her attitude and wish her best of luck, except when she plays the red sox. andy scholes, thank you very much. new day continues, right now. welcome to viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, january 13th. i m john berman with brianna keilar, and this morning the top republican in the house is joining the growing number of trump loyalists defying the january 6th select committee. the panel says it wants inferring from house minority leader kevin mccarthy, but he is refusing to cooperate claiming the investigation is illegitimate. he calls it an abuse of power. now, you can bet the committee knew what mccarthy would say. you can bet they didn t really expect him to show up, but the real news might be not in what they re asking of mccarthy, but what they re telling him, and what they re telling us about what they have in this investigation and where they r
knowledgeable actions and speed. not chaos and confusion. the omicron variant has now been found in more than a dozen countries including canada. the rapid spread is prompting the u.s. to restrict travel from southern africa. and now the u.k. has just recorded the first case the community transmission. that means the infected person did not travel to south africa so far no confirmed omicron infections in the u.s. but the president said today, that sooner ore later omicron will be here. nick valencia is at the international airport in atlanta. in a moment we talk about the travel ban but let s tart with kaitlan collins. kaitlan, tell us more about what the president said about omicron. reporter: well he was hoping to reassure the nation because he doesn t have a lot more specifics that what y all just laid out there and that is what his scientists are working on and dr. fauci has told him it will be about a week or to before they know more including if it is more transmi
united states has been arraigned on fell analyst charges. this time for alleged crimes against democracy itself. after pleading not guilty, i m told he was in a sour and dejected mood. this is a very sad day for america. this is the biden plolitical law fair. this is election interference at its finest. it feels like a great vindication of the rule of law. they turn. very concerned about the charges and privately he s been really frustrated. what it means for his legacy. this is going to be a threat to public trust in the justice system going forward. there s no question that donald trump. absolutely laughable. what s the fraud? tell me what the fraud is. you re entitled to raise a question. that s the uniqueness of the first amendment. that s the uniqueness of america. we re going to have to lose another psych toll figure you we have to pick somebody else other than donald trump. this could be an inflection point. demonstrating our commitment to the rule of
menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
achieve a, quote, major break through. they re building up an extensive system of trenches in the south. tell us what you re seeing. yeah, there has been an extraordinary network dug possibly according to this british intelligence report the largest we ve seen since world war ii across the southern area of vap wreegsa and we ve driven along the ucrayian side of it for quite a past number of weeks here. often these are deep trenches followed by a significant sand back backed up by razor wire and these dragons teeth peer med shaped pieces of concrete form a complex set of defenses but certainly a challenge. there ll be very much in the mind of ukrainian forces as they probably in the days ahead if not already in the days behind begin the counter offensive in these areas. we simply don t know the full details of their plan to be honest, and weather is potentially playing into it. there s been an extraordinary lack of videos from ukrainian military over the past weeks they norm