Joe walsh is back with us this morning. Joe, aside from afghanistan this week which of course has been a massive story. There were also big developments involving the investigation into the attack on the capitol earlier this year in january. House Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy made that threat to Telecommunication Companies saying if they complied with Records Request from the committee doing the investigating when republicans are in the majority he said they would not forget. Joe, we have now learned hes among the lawmakers whose phone records the panel is requesting that these Telecommunications Companies reserve. Kaitlan, mccarthy is nervous. Jim jordan is nervous. These republicans are nervous. No doubt about that. But im struck again the Language Mccarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene and jordan and the rest of them used threatening these private companies. The government is going to come after you. Man, this is not the republican party i belonged to. This is trumps party, right . U
georgia and ohio activated the national guard, trying to help alleviate the growing pressure facing hospitals. we ll have more on that in a moment. also this just in to cnn, new weekly jobless claims are out. 198,000 claims were filed last week. that is 8,000 less than the week before. it is low, it is near a 52-year low, in fact, what it means for the broader economy. we ll talk about it. a critical conversation for president biden, he is going to have a phone call today with russian president vladimir putin that came specifically at putin s request. what will they talk about? let s begin with the omicron var variant, polo sandoval and elizabeth cohen joining me with the latest. elizabeth, let me start with you, first, the cdc director dr. rochelle walensky, what she said about vaccinated people that they may be more likely to develop a breakthrough infection with omicron than with delta. showing, again, just how much more contagious it is. what does this mean for the month
that we quite rightly do not fit in with our values. overnight police presence at a house in north london, beleieved to be related to the stabbing of sir david amess. a princely prize the duke of cambridge prepares to reveal the winners of a new environmental award. fans of newcastle united football club are gearing up their first game under new ownership against tottenham this afternoon. a saudi arabia backed consortium took control of the club earlier this month. good afternoon. the home secretary, priti patel, says mps may be offered police protection at constituency surgeries following the killing of sir david amess. a security review is already happening. it will consider whether these meetings should only take place with a pre booked appointment. the man arrested by police following the killing of the mp, sir david amess, has been named as ali harbi ali. the 25 year old is being held under the terrorism act and officers have until friday to question him. our political
actions he took as president to challenge the 2020 election results. how this impacts not just the federal election interference case, but also what it could mean for his prosecution and fulton county. and rudy giuliani, too little, too late. the former new york mayor filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy a day after he was ordered to immediately pay 100 and $48 million to ruby freeman and shaye moss, the election workers he vilified. see will they ever see a dime of that money? you are watching symone. we have a lot to get to. we begin this afternoon with more revelations on former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and crucial new developments on the efforts to hold him acuntable. the detroit news says it reviewed recordings of then president donald trump pressuring two republican members of the wayne county board of canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election. the outlet says that the recordings
and while all eyes have been on manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, as the nation s been watching literally his every move. special counsel, jack smith, appears to have reached a turning point. when it comes to his, investigation surrounding the former president. there are signs of the special counsel now four months into the job may get the testimony of two of the closest people to the former president. at the two people who knew presumably everything when it comes to trump. his attorney, evan corcoran, and his former number two in the white house. mike pence. today, recorder spotted attorneys for trump heading into the d. c. federal courthouse, where the grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago documents case and the january six riots, where they were meeting behind closed doors, one of the special counsel prosecutors investigating january six of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also spotted entering the building. you know who else was there? an attorney n