show tonight. bob kemp is creditable. listen, yes, with that story i would like to proceed with caution. believe innocent until proven guilty. the investigation of what gaetz did, you got to wait for the facts. we don t know them. the whole thing of extortion thing. one may be fact. well, we ll see on that one. listen, i think that should he just shut up right now? he has. i reached out to him and i wanted him to come on the show and answer questions if he wants credibility. the lawyer says he s not going to talk to anybody. he s not going to do that. by the way he went on. we cdidn t get a chance to talk about that interview. chris, i ran into you at breakfast. i don t remember seeing you. it was tim and i at breakfast, you remember tim. no, i had no idea what you are talking about. signature face. i was watching that in my office, you have not seen it yet. i had a little treadmill at my desk. i almost fell off of it as i was watching that interview.
heavy rain and snow. millions are trying to head home today. we have your post-thanksgiving travel forecast. all right. the last day of the holiday weekend. sunday, november 28th. we re so grateful to have your company as all. good morning. nice to be back with you, on such a busy news day. yes. let s talk about it. let s get right to it. we begin with countries around the world locking down, scientists are racing to learn more about the new omicron covid variant. yeah. more countries confirmed cases of this new variant. u.s. health experts are warning the strain could already be in the u.s. there s no way that it s in this many countries across the world, and it has not made it here into our shores. now that we have our eyes open for it, it s probably going to be days until we find and confirm there are cases here in the u.s. but today, airline passengers around the world are rushing to make their flights before those travel restrictions go into effect. startin
health experts, meanwhile, are warning that omicron variant may already be here in the u.s. there s no way that it s in this many countries across the world, and it has not made it here into our shores. now that we have our eyes open for it, it s probably going to be days until we find it and confirm that there are cases here in the u.s. right now, there are studies to test how well covid vaccines work against this new strain, but with a high number of mutations the doctors say with the little we know about this variant is, quote, very worrying. we shouldn t panic just yet. the most important thing is to study the virus. just because this virus is more contagious, doesn t necessarily mean that it s more dangerous. now the cdc hasn t confirmed any cases of this new strain here in the u.s., but we know the delta variant is still out there and causing a lot of problems. we re covering every angle with our reporters around the globe. we start with cnn s polo sandoval at
county georgia. a grand jury bused in as prosecutors lay out their evidence that donald trump tried to steal the state s electoral votes. witness testimony moved up from tomorrow to today, the trump attacks on a key witness, and text messages that directly link the former president s legal team to a voting system breach. and hawaii wildfire aftermath with the death toll close to 100, we re hearing about government failures, failed fire hydrants, warning sirens that didn t go off, plus a claim that live power lines were not cut off. the raid on a small kansas newspaper, the editor targeted in the raid joins me this hour. welcome to the lead. i m jack tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. right now a grand jury is deciding whether to indict donald trump. it was expected to take at least two days for fulton county district attorney fani willis to produce her evidence. a number of key witnesses who had been told to show up tomorrow and testify have now been called
heads for boundaries of a protective order issued friday by the federal judge presiding over the julk by attacking the special counsel and judge over the weekend. but it was star treatment for the former president at the iowa state fair this weekend. upstaging ron desantis and the rest of the field. plus, hunter biden s attorney s main prosecutor and the plea deal. they say a trial for him could still be avoided as controversy grows over why the attorney general grows. and the overwhelming tragedy in maui has victims furious with the rescue and recovery as the death toll nears 100 in the deadliest wildfire in a century. where were you guys? no. where were you guys to try and get us out, evacuate us? no. we re mad. we re mad. we lost homes, towns. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where former president trump is already testing u.s. district judge protective order against him, lashing out on sunday in a string of social media post, slamming jack smi