Welcome to thursday. It is mtp daily. Kasie hunt in for chuck todd. We begin with the latest revelations involving the former president s conduct in final weeks in office, what it says about the future of the republican party. Former President Trump is meeting today with House Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy, a meeting which will likely at least be in part about marshalling republicans to defend trump as the house select committee investigates the January 6th riot. That comes as excerpts from a Book Talk about the most alarming things around the president as he tried to overthrow election results. New excerpts published last hour with new details about Trumps Response or lack thereof during the January 6th insurrection as aides urged him to intervene. At one point, The Books authors say he stayed in the dining room, watching television. Nbc news obtained additional excerpts from The Book which reveal stunning levels of alarm among top military commanders leading to the January 6th siege
Plus the President Today sending his top diplomat to the Middle East, and the president making a promise to not put Israel And Gaza on the back burner, now that rockets and Air Strikes have stopped. More on the big political stakes on those stories ahead, covid numbers signal normal, or at least near normal, its close. The united States Today hitting a key milestone, 25 states in the district of columbia have fully vaccinated at least half of their Adult Populations. Important Signs Of The Times right there, take a look, weekend images of Fans Jamming Ballparks and arenas for baseball and the start of the nba playoffs. Another sign, new Yorks Mayor Pledges City schools will be fully open in the fall, no more remote learning, the trajectory is good, quite good. But the threat is by no means gone. Your choice about the Covid Vaccine is paramount. I think its an environment right now where were not going to be able to rely necessarily on Public Health ordinances and mandates from governor
tom, what does the white house want us to know? that they expect to sign a contract next week for these 500 million at-home tests. they ve been criticized for shortages of tests. they re hoping this will warm up what has been a really bitter winter in many american households and at the white house, too. as the pandemic blizzard sweeps the country with an average of more than a quarter million new cases a day, another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control. facing sharp questions over its new dpguidelines. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms then five days of masking, is aimed at people keeping working, but it s raising alarms, too. there is absolutely no data that i m aware about with the omicron that people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. nothing in t
and calling time on the wild west online british mps want big tech companies to be forced to take tougher action. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and midnight in geneva where the head of world health organisation has issued a new warning about the omicron variant of coronavirus. he said it was spreading far more quickly than any other variant. and he told countries around the world underestimate it at your peril. here s more from him just a few hours ago: omicron just a few hours ago: is spreading a rate we have not omicron is spreading a rate we have not seen with any other previous variant. we are concerned that people are dismissing omicron as mild. surely, we have learned by now that we underestimate this virus at our peril. even if omicron does cause less severe diseases, the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems. that s the warning from the world health organisation. and it comes against the backdrop of rapidly rising