congress proceedings against this man. former trump doj official. jeffrey clark. he refuses to answer questioning about the attempts to use the doj to push the big lie. a senate judiciary report, clark was instrumental in that effort. a contempt referral would make him the second person after steve bannon to potentially face criminal charges for defying congressional investigators. one member of the house leadership says the committee has no choice but to move against witnesses. who themselves refuse to cooperate. you have to use every tool we can to get to the truth. there has to be a consequence. to the failure to follow the law. the committee has yet to announce action against former trump chief of staff. for that matter. mark meadows who failed to comply. however one of the two republicans serving on the panel predicts he may not have to wait long to find out where the members stand. i expect there is going to be movement particularly on mark meadows that we ll know
it is part of the $1 billion grant from the department of transportation that will bolster infrastructure projects in 47 states, d.c. and guam. mr. secretary, welcome to the sunday show. glad to be with you. so we re sitting here in liberty square in baltimore. you just announced a big project as a result of the bipartisan infrastructure law. why here? and what s the significance? several things made this one of the projects that made the cut for this year s round of raise grants, a program we can fund a lot more of thanks to this new law. we re looking for projects that bring together a lot of our top priorities. that includes safety, economic opportunity, equity and climate. and a great transit vision can do all of that. baltimore is an area where there has been a long-standing need for east/west connection and where sometimes in the past transportation decisions actually cut people off from opportunity. so what they re going to do, adding bus lanes, creating safer
accountability in this country. let s get started. america, the land of the free and home of the brave. is it also now the home of a backsliding democracy? a report this week labeled the united states as undergoing a severe and deliberate form of democratic erosion. in joins countries like india and brazil and a quarter of the world s population that fall under the backsliding category. the democracy report says they are seeing an increasing number of democratically elected with tactics. some think the pandemic has made it easier to take this course of restricting civil liberties. and the partisan politics crippling our country. the republican controlled gerrymandering puts them in position to win big in 2022. and president trump is looking like he will be running with a new list the ability to overturn election results. only 35% of democrats say they feel democracy in america is facing a major threat. how can that be possible? maybe they are exhausted from everything we have
originating. we begin with the latest from atlanta and correspondent jonathaner isry. the world health organization identified the threat and gave it the name omicron and identified ate as variant of concern. what we do know is this has a large number of mutations and the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves. both mutations include multiple changes to the spike protein, the part of the virus that penetrates human cells. researchers are still determining the threat, omicron s threat through southern africa concerns the british health minister. the indication we have is it may be more transmiss than the delta variant and the vaccines that we had may be less effective against it. officials are redoubling the efforts to get most of the world vaccinated. they face challenges, increasing supply in the poor countries and encouraging demand in rich ones. nevertheless, health experts say vaccination is key to control
american and we ll celebrate in our own way over there. i give thanks to them on the other side of the atlantic on this day. thanksgiving is back but it will cost you. meals expected to be the most expensive on record and surging gas prices are hurting americans where it hurts. one of the busiest travel days of the year. all of this spelling major trouble for president biden. he is struggling to address american s concerns and the polls have responded accordingly. the president and his family are spending the holiday in nantucket and that s where we find jackie heinrich. good to see you both. the president s 45th year on nantucket. a tradition that politico reports he only broke for the pandemic and the death of his son, beau. it started when joe and jill first got together trying to find a way to avoid competing family holiday invitations as many people are familiar with. if you walk around the island and look at local newspapers a lot of stories about the bidens on