maybe it was someone you captain kangaroo. captain kangaroo? captain kangaroo for sure. how old were you when you could say captain kangaroo, because that s a mouthful? my first word was donut. my aunt came over, she came over every sunday after church, she would bring us donuts. she walked in the door one day, and when i was like, zero, she walked in the door and i pointed at her and said donut. that was my first word. and i think fairly soon after that it was, captain kangaroo. my parents were very disappointed in my early language. so my daughter was born in 1994. and bob dole decided to run for president starting in 1995. and that campaign book came out. you know, the dole campaign book entitled, bob dole. with this picture on the cover. and so that means that for one little girl in america, the very first name that she knew, of a person she didn t know was bob dole. and she remembers that because we have the video. take a look at these fierce words of the n
this morning new york city mayor bill de blasio announced on nbc the city is implementing a sweeping set of vaccine mandates for all private sector employers as health officials try to limit the spread of the omicron variant. today marks the official start of sweeping new testing requirements for travelers. all air travelers are required to show proof of a negative test taken no more than one day before their flight. meanwhile, the spread of covid domestically is-esque mating. the 7-day average of daily new cases in the u.s. has jumped above 120,000. with more than 1300 deaths on average every single day. those numbers are a sober reminder that so much more work needs to be done to combat the current spread of delta. even as officials work to combat the future spread of omicron. and there are some potential signs of hopeful news on the omicron front with dr. fauci saying yesterday that there has been, quote, encouraging preliminary evidence that omicron infections aren t as s
reports from south africa are encouraging. those reports suggest that while omicron is spreading rapidly, hospitalizations have not increased at major levels. hospitals are not overwhelmed. so while it is highly contagious, it may be far less dangerous than delta. and that brings us to the alarm. delta is the immediate risk. and the tragic thing is there s a lot of people who will get infected with delta even still and they may find that that immunity that they ve acquired through that delta infection isn t going to be protective against omicron. i worry about states that have low vaccination rates, high delta exposure, and are confident right now and perhaps overconfident because their prevalence has declined. that describes a lot of states in the south right now. for the first time in two months the united states is averaging more than 100,000 new covid cases each day. some cities are seeing hospitals pushed to the brink. the worst all year. and the united states is rea
outcome as glorious as this picture of german chancellor angela merkel leaving public service basking in the glory of birds. that is it for this sunday and this weekend. thank you for being with us. i m alee, mendez. i m going to see you back here next weekend at 6:00 p.m. for more american voices. right now it is time for the mehdi hasan show. i know you didn t know how i was going to bring that all back to politics. but we did. i like the way you did. i m not going to talk about seat seal lion, but i m going the say isn t it amazing angela merkel leaves office after a decade in charge of germany and america has still never elected a woman leader. you know that is a note i can get behind. have a great show. deeply depressing. have a great rest of your sunday. tonight on the mehdi hasan show the fate of biden s agenda will be decided this week and decided in the senate by democrats. will they reach a deal with themselves? or throw it all away? i ll ask senator maz
appears to have bogged down into a protracted conflict. fighting intensified in the country s east. russian missile strikes and shells continuing to fall on ukrainian cities including the capital of kyiv. where the first u.s. congressional delegation to visit ukraine, met secretly with president zelenskyy in kyiv. this weekend. the group s leader our speaker nancy pelosi, with strong words for russia and its president putin. do not be bullied by bullies. if they are making threats, you can not back down. that is my view of it. we are there for the fight. and we cannot fold to a bully. the democrats will comes as congress considers president biden s request for 33 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. and russia suggests that shipments of western weapons streaming into ukraine are fair game for its military. the latest on russia s more that s coming up. and later, the emotional true story of our nation s first black secret service agent pardoned last week by president biden