hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kezia dugdale who is the director ofjohn smith centre, glasgow university & former scottish labour leader and lucy fisher who is the deputy political editor at the telegraph. the telegraph leads on calls from some of the prime minister s own mps for him to resign in the wake of the downing street lockdown drinks party it was the paymaster general michael ellis, pictured on the front page, who was put forward by the government to mop up labour s urgent question over the affair. mounting pressure on borisjohnson from tory mps to come clean over whether he was at that event in may 2020 is the headline for the guardian. a similar warning on the front of the times say sorry, or doom us all , ministers tell borisjohnson. the i has been speaking to some mps who believe there will be further revelations about downing street lockdown law breaking. the ft looks ahead to tomorrow s sh
evidence that it seems all the scientific evidence points to a milder variant in europe evidence points to a milder variant in europe being mainly made up of weatthier in europe being mainly made up of wealthier nations is in the lucky situation wealthier nations is in the lucky situation of having brought out vaccine situation of having brought out vaccine programmes and so, and has better vaccine programmes and so, and has better immunity and protection for populations begins covid 19 and we have not populations begins covid 19 and we have not so populations begins covid 19 and we have not so far seen health services being have not so far seen health services being overwhelmed in the way that they were being overwhelmed in the way that they were threatened to have been with earlier variance like the delta variant. but still, but to speaks to the transmissibility of omicron that half the the transmissibility of omicron that half the population to be infecte
jussie smollett found guilty of staging a fake hate crime and lying to police. we say good morning friday. feels like christmas almost. dana: almost there. bill: we have had so much going on this week. we had our show party yesterday for america s newsroom, thanking our team. dana: we relit all american christmas tree and went back in to do the five and jussie smollett verdict came in. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it was early 2019 in january when smollett told police she was attacked by trump supporters in chicago. it prompted a flurry of outrage and finger pointing on the left. bill: those hot takes haven t met well. it was meant with deafening silence yesterday. dana: police spent 3,000 hours investigating a fake crime that never happened. the cover-up today s new york post just this. bill: matt finn is covering the story from the beginning to begin our hour today in chicago. good morning, bill and dana. jussie smollett s lead attorney
crumbling. you could have the rich getting richer through the status quo. that s what this is all about. that s what this clash is about. in fa, think about it like this. twice in just the last 24 hours nate republicans have been blocng the congress from going forward on simply payin for the bills they already ran up in the trump era through this process that we ve been covering for you that s called raising the debt ceiling. this is stuff the government already bought. republican party is saying, its position, they call it a negotiating position but it s so very real, it s all coming to a head right now. their position is they don t want to pay f the things they already bought. it is obviously not fiscally responsible. then today mitch mcconnell getting into what heikes to do at times like this, other people are hot and bothered but he s just trolling and saying it s the other folks being obstructionists. so, look, time for our democratic colleagues to stop dragging their