landra, what a life you turned together. until his last breath. l lana, leif, josh, and key. all the grandchildren. great grandchildren. hearing you talk about him today, it s clear. my dad used to have an expression. he d say you were blood of his blood, bone of his bone. you are a product of harry and landra reid. what a gift. what a gift god gave you. what a gift it was and is. elder, president obama, vice president harris, second gentleman, governor, thanks for passporting to the state and iris and chuck schumer and paul and nancy pelosi. members of the nevada congressional delegation. senator cortez and rosen and representatives, excuse me, lee and titus. members of congress, democrat and republican, past and present, distinguished guests. what a gift harry reid was to the state, to this nation, and to so many of us individually. i know he s smiling right now. only harry reid had his send off sandwich a speaker between former president of the united states, kyle king and
24 hours ago at this moment i told you who was going to no, you don t. 24 hours ago was too long ago. anyway, let me remind you, 24 hours ago at this moment i told you that cher was going to be on the show last flight, and she was. and you, you gave me an order for cher. i want to show you, if you have 20 seconds, how that played out. take a look. please do. she left a message for you at the beginning of this hour. she told me, she gave me this order, to tell you, please tell you, and these are her exact words, hello, and i love you. that s from rachelle maddow. i don t drink, but i would have a cocktail with her. when should i schedule that, rachel? so, here s how this played out in my life. so i am going about my business taking the dogs on a late night walk, and i get because, you know, the dogs need to go out when the dogs need to go out. i get a call from my mother. now, usually you get a text. my mom is a good texter. you get a call, that means somebody in
when she was. and you, you gave me an order for cher. [laughs] i want to show you, if you have 20 seconds, how that played out. take a look. please do. she left a message for you at the beginning of this hour and she gave me disorder, to please tell you, and these are her exact words, hello and i love you. that s from rachel maddow. well, i don t drink but i would have a cocktail with her. [laughs] when should i schedule that, rachel? so here s how this played out in my life. i m going about my business, taking the dogs on a late night walk. and i get a because, you know, the dogs need to go out i was taking the dogs on a late night walk and i get a call from my mother. now usually i get a text, my mom is a big text or. you get a call, that means someone has died or someone needs rescuing or this is urgent. my mom calls me and says, when are you having cocktails with cher? to which i say, i can t believe lawrence did it! did? what didn t you just say, yo
dollars so that they could stay open, be prepared, open safely, all of that. no many of them are saying we ll have to go virtual again. so the president criticized specifically some of the states and he s asking where did the money go? we also back then included an $10 billion for testing for schools. that money went out to the states. states and the school districts have spent the money well. many of them. unfortunately some haven t. martha: unfortunately some haven t. there s the podium. we re waiting for jen psaki that will probably get questions about this in terms of the accountability. where does the money go? if the money is supposed to be for testing and safe open schools, we don t we have that in some cases? we ll dig into that. that money was allocated for those specific things. why are we still seeing challenges? $72.8 billion allocated to testing and detecting the virus in an ample fashion over the course of 2020 and 2021. edward lawrence digging into this. he
we are waiting right now for a news conference with outgoing new york city mayor, bill de blasio, and actually, his incoming mayor, eric adams. we ll bring that to you as soon as it gets underway. meantime this morning, dr. anthony fauci telling nbc s chuck todd that omicron is raging through the world and could possibly replace the delta variant as the dominant strain. right now, omicron makes up about 3% or so of u.s. cases. and with hospitals already at their breaking point, the rise of omicron is fueling worries about another covid winter. the cdc predicts cases could spike by 55%. so we re going to get all the latest from reuters white house correspondent jeffrey mason, but first to my colleague kathy park who s here in the studio with me, with the very latest happening around the globe, including here in new york city. as you know, the second day in a row that the city has broken its record for positive cases, so what s the latest beyond even just that? a lot of chan