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very key house progressives. the marine posted outside the door is what tells us in washington speak, classic signals of this traditional white house, that the president remains in the west wing. this is the latest in a series of meetings the president has been holding. earlier we know he spoke with top democrats, schumer and pelosi and met with key senators who can sometimes be holdouts including sinema, manchin and moderates. joe biden is doing what he did before. he is doing what he said he would, being peace maker. now liberals are threatening to take the bipartisan infrastructure bill which the senate passed last month unless there is a wider impact on the $3.5 trillion impact on the economic agenda. as of tonight there is not a full agreement on that publicly. speaker pelosi saying this back on capitol hill. after your meeting with president biden are you still planning on holding a bipartisan infrastructure vote on monday? you expect me to be we re on sched ....
now. today i m making it clear, to protect our democracy i support changing the senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. when it comes to protecting majority rule in america, the majority should rule in the united states senate. that might look like just another address, but this white house says it was much more. the president putting this on moral terms as well, laying a wreath at martin luther king s grave. you see that there, dramatic moment today from this president. and linking all of this to the ongoing crackdown on voting rights, including those new laws in 19 different states just in the last year. biden also visiting the historic ebenezer baptist church where king was minister, arguing that ending the current gop filibuster against voting rights is not just about procedure or one more washington skirmish, but rather it connects with today s tests of our democracy itself. ....
again, happy new year. but there s also some good news here. i m going to get to that in a moment. first let me tell you the caseload as we begin our week. the u.s. now has more cases than ever before. you can see the peak. you can see how much higher it is than any other point. we re averaging 40,000 daily cases. covid spread continues to rattle public safety, daily life in the economy. just today over 2,000 flights canceled, most of them covid related and some weather. the persistence and exposure of covid is now as prevalent as ever. in most parts of the united states this is not a time for moving on or forgetting the virus and safety precautions we ve been living through for so long. i also want to tell you tonight, as we begin another night together thank you for being here. while covid don t care about our calendar and covid don t care about new year s. one thing covid does still care about is vaccines. the vaccines continue to work against covid and delta and t ....
it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that believes that 2022 has to be better than the last two years, right? i m jonathan lemire on this monday, january 3rd. the highly contagious omicron variant continues to fuel an unprecedented surge in this pandemic. according to data from the new york times , the average number of daily infections across the united states has doubled since christmas day. we re now at 400,000 new cases. hospitalizations are also rising, and while not at the same pace, the sheer number is enough to strain hospitals across the country, however, there s encouraging news out of south africa where this strain originated. the governments there said the surge in cases has peeked without a significant increase in deaths. there are also new developments in the controversial cdc guidelines that cut the isolation time in half for those who test positive but weren t showing any symptoms. there are questio ....
the palestinian-israeli conflict that we are experiencing today. you ever seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is a place where jesus was crucified. for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammad made the night journey. people are said to have conquered the world that have swept through this city. no other individual changed the landscape in the way that herod the great did. solomon was determined to take on the christians. at a time of ottoman islam rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. against british government policy in palestine. we are the only people in the world for israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. and of course, for the palestinians, it is a great disaster. the history of jerusalem. very complicated story, and if you don t know it in its complexity, it s very hard to understa ....