virus. i have said before, i m not going to shut down the economy. i m going to shut down the virus. lawrence: good job with that one, joe. nearly a full year into new administration and things are only getting worse. under biden s daily covid cases are surged among their highest levels in the pandemic with nearly 500,000 cases a day. so, what is the administration plan to combat the surge? to push more of the same failed policies? more masks? more mandates? how about more vaccines? the biden team is already floating the idea of a fourth shot saying quote it is conceivable in the future we may need an additional shot but right now we already we are hoping that we will get a greater degree of durability of protection from that booster shot. they are hoping that. they don t know if the science supports that and while the biden white house is focused on vaccines, americans are asking where are our tests joe? this weekend thousands of people across the country waited in lon
the white house had been told to do something. we want to verify all of it. so that when we produce our report and we have the hearings, the public will have an opportunity to see for themselves. cnn capitol hill reporter melanie zunona joins me now. what do we know about the testimony? reporter: well investigators really zeroed in on the 187 minutes trump was publicly silent while supporters stormed the capitol building and learned a number of people from republican lawmakers, white house staffers, to trump s own family members were trying to get through to the former president and begging to call him off and he didn t, at least for those 187 minutes. liz cheney, the vice chair of the select committee asked what trump did or didn t do during that critical time period. take a listen what she had to say. committee has firsthand testimony now he was sitting in the dining room next to the oval office watching the attack on television as the assault on the capitol occurred.
received this statement from the white house 68-year-old secretary of defense lloyd austin did test positive for the virus this morning. he received his test after exhibiting symptoms, got tested and found out he was in fact infected but he says his symptoms are mild. he s following his physician s directions and will quarantine for five days at home. key to note, he will remain retain all duties over the coming days and he says that he will attend meetings virtually in the interim as he recovers. also key in the statement, my last hmeeting with president biden occurred tuesday, december 21st a week before i began to experience symptoms. i tested negative that very morning. i have not been in the pentagon since thursday where i met briefly and only with a few members of my staff. but secretary austin did have the vaccine and the booster imploring everyone in the military to continue to get that vaccine and booster describing it as a readiness issue. breaking news this eveni
rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london from an overdose of drugs. janice joplin was found dead last night. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. the early years of the 70s in music was sad because you lose people and you lose the beatles. this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. there will never be another beatles, never. i wonder what i m doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. imagine there s no heaven it s easy if you try for so long you waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the music t
holidays. one of the latest reported cases, u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin said he was last at the pentagon on thursday but he hasn t seen president biden in almost two weeks. hospitalizations are really the thing to watch here. those numbers are climbing at a slower pace. that means vaccines are working despite the faster spread of omicron. and more data coming in from the u.k. in south africa shows omicron infection may not be as severe. that s a good thing, but the problem, of course, is more infections in more people gives more chances for the virus to mutate again. only 62% of americans are fully vaccinated right now. that means more than 1/3 of the population is essentially a breeding ground for a new variant and many of those americans are in less populated states with fewer health care facilities. yeah. the crush here for the health care workers is just really important to note. another question, why is omicron affecting children more than other variants