campaign. the coronavirus existed because joe biden was president. vote for me and i will shut down covid. i will put in place a plan to deal with the pandemic. i don t shut down the economy. but i will shut down the virus. i am going to shut down the virus! i will put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly bringing this country together with testing, tracing and masking. i won t shut down the country. i will shut down the virus. will: a year into his first turn joe biden haernt done any of that. as of yesterday according to the cdc there are over 816,000 americans who decide of the coronavirus. in 2021 under joe biden more americans have died of covid than did in all of 2020 when donald trump was president. joe biden can t shut down covid. neither can the federal government. no one can. the coronavirus is here to stay. no amount of boosters will stop the spread. omicron is proof. no lockdown will prevent another variant from emerging. yesterday the presid
christmas and i wish you a happy new year in 2022. but before we turn the page on the year of our lord 2021, it is time in this closing week to take stock what we learned this year. the frauds that were exposed. the evils we learned to hate, and the truths we woke up to who we are and who we hope to be. tonight and in the coming days, i will be talking very wise and knowledgeable people who are reckoning with the lesson of the year of chaos and crime. a year that began with a promise that now we could return to normal and ended with a horrifying possibility that this, all of this terrible this is normal now. the images of 2021 that will stick in our minds are many. the footage of brutal criminality in american cities. taking place in broad daylight. our fellow citizens, arrested, not because they stole or ransacked but because they tried to buy a burger without showing their papers. the image of afghanning dropping through the sky as they clung desperately to american planes.
his storied career. welcome, everyone. this is the first time i ve been on an airplane. i used to tell the team to worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. also breaking tonight, former senate majority leader, harry reid is dead at the age of 82. he s remembered as one of the most powerful figures in washington during the obama administration. president biden calling him a dear friend. we will have more ahead with our panel. and as america prepares to bring in the new here, a new milestone hits a single day record of buyers the convictions this is the cdc great confusion tonight. now saying that only 22.5% of new cases the week of december 18 were omicron, down more than 50 points from its original markup 73%. and now the pentagon has jumped into the booster debate. that is where we begin tonight from our west coast newsroom in los angeles. good evening. the pentagon is issued new guidelines strongly encouraging all eligible employees to get that booster
donald trump was president. vote for me, joe biden told us, and i will shut down covid. i will put in place a plan to deal with the pandemic. i don t shut down the economy. but i will shut down the virus. i am going to shut down the virus! pa i am going to shut down the virus. i will put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly bringing this country together with testing, tracing, and masking. i mn not going to shut down the country. i will shut down the virus. will: it would be a bit of an understatement to say a yer into his first term, joe biden has not done any of that. as of yesterday, according to the cdc, there have been over 816,000 americans who have died of the coronavirus. at the start of the year, that number was more than 364,000. that means in 2021, under joe biden, more americans have died of covid banded and all of 2022, when donald trump was president. joe biden has not shut down covid because he cannot shut down covid. neither can