books in school. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the third calendar year of the pandemic. take a look at this map put out by the centers for disease control and prevention. it shows the level of community transmission of covid in america right now. i m sorry i m laughing, it s sort of a dark joke. well, it s a pretty clear map. solid red in all 50 states, district of columbia and puerto rico experience lag cdc calls high transmission, which no kidding. new records at daily case counts across the country soar to the highest level we ve seen. on this chart is line is practically going straight up. as we assess where we are, it s important to understand the fact that omicron variant is just much more transmissible than the previous variants, particularly the early ones. just on a different quail. but professor of emerging infectious diseases at london school of hygiene and tropical medicine estimates what s called the r-naught of omicron
that could actually save my life from a deadly virus. it did not occurred to me, one year ago, that we would be having discussions like the one you just had. that people are actively working against getting a vaccine for a virus that is still active, and still killing people. to the point where a state s governor is putting on the line, the individual careers of all the guardsmen and women, to who he is giving advice about what is going to happen to them if they don t get the vaccine. which is in split stately discouraging them from doing it. it is just an astonishing thing. it is when you think about all the heroism that we ve seen from national guard members, from oklahoma, a national have stepped up to distribute vaccines, who have done so much on covid. for them to be road kill for this governor. they are the front line. thank you for bringing that story to our attention rachel. have a good moment will see you tomorrow. thanks. and of course tonight we begin with
do christopher steele family. steve hilton wants to talk about what joe biden is doing overseas. how his trip may go. james murray what he looks like without a shirt on. impractical joker take his shirt off all depends if we get to all the stories at the end of the show because he goes on the clock. meanwhile, this: we start in washington, d.c. where it s becoming increasingly clear that the democratic party doesn t give a damn about you. you got americans becoming increasingly concerned about education. their children, inflation. chaos at the border and gas prices. what is happening in washington? democrats aren t even listening or even pretending to. it doesn t look like their agenda matches up, to i don t know, anybody s agenda except theirs? massachusetts rep ayanna pressley s office phone has been sent to voice mail for the last 18 months. and one of the things she says as she listens to her constituents? i hope her constituents haven t needed anything for the last 18 mo
released an image of another man they are searching for seen walking through nearby pegler square. the finalfew hours of campaigning get under way ahead of sunday s german election, as angela merkel prepares to stand down after 16 years as chancellor. the committee investigating the capitol riot issues its first subpoenas of president trump s allies including his former chief strategist steve bannon. it could take more than a decade to clear the backlog of patients waiting for cancer treatment in england. that s the warning in a report by a think tank. restaurant, cafe and pub bosses in the uk will soon be banned from keeping customer tips left for staff, under new rules. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk s transport secretary has said the government will do whatever is required to tackle fuel supply problems. grant shapps said he wouldn t rule out changing visa rules to allow more foreign drivers to work in the uk or even aski
the new evidence that suggests that she was not honest under oath. then, neighbors in danger, fears are building that russia s war in ukraine could spill into bordering countries. we will tell you where and what to expect. let s get started. tonight is the night. after a two-year hiatus, the white house correspondents dinner is back. we have all the news on d.c. s big event. in the next hour, we will bring you the coverage of the roast and president biden speech live. first, we start tonight with some new developments from the january six committee. after nine months and more than 800 depositions and interviews, we have a date for when the public will finally get their first glimpse at the evidence. the committee is set to hold its first public hearing on june 9th. chairman bennie thompson also announced that the committee will send requests for testimony this week to several republican lawmakers. earlier, cnn obtained thousands of text messages from former trump chief staff,