that she thinks she won in 2018 after losing a fight nearly two points in georgia s gubernatorial race. t never conceded claiming voter suppression despite new evidenc and now she s running for what she believes is her reelection and naturally, the democrats so-called voting rights legislation is one of her top issues, but today when joe bide and kamala harris made a specia trip to stacy abrams hometown t tout this new legislation, stac abrams was nowhere to be found. apparently, it was some kind of scheduling conflict, that s wha we ll call it very take a look. are you insulted that stacy abrams skipped your speech today ? i thought you had a question. and spoke to her this morning. we have a great relationship. we got our scheduling messed up hardware on the same page and everything is fine. pretty humiliating is scheduling conflict, is it perhaps that joe biden s full numbers are so bad that stacy abrams refused to appear with the president and vice presiden of the u
rightful governor of georgia my she thinks she won in 2018 after losing, well, by nearly two points in georgia s gubernatorial race. she never conceded, claiming voter suppression, and now she s running for what she believes is her reelection and naturally the democrats so-called voting rights legislation is one of her top issues. today, when joe biden kamala harris made a special trip to stacey abrams hometown to tout this new legislation, stacey abrams was nowhere to be found. apparently it was some kind of scheduling conflict. that s what we ll call it. take a look. are you insulted she s skipping the seat? i m insulted you ask this question. i spoke to stacey this morning. we have a great relationship. we got our scheduling mixed up. we are on the same page. everything s fine. sean: pretty humiliating. a scheduling conflict? is it perhaps that joe biden s poll numbers are so bad, stacey abrams refused to appear with the president and vice president of the united st
yes, absolutely. i think we all see the need for next generation vaccinations and anti-virals and therapeutics as well. we re in the process of working with dr. fauci s team to develop a uniied research agenda and budget to address these issues to identify candidates that might already be in the pipeline so we can accelerate the availability of next generation vaccines and therapeutics. thank you for that answer. dr. walensky, i d like to ask you a question about access to testing and in particular what is the cdc doing to make sure that testing capacity is robust in rural america and also among community health centers in disadvantaged parts of the country? we have this program increased community access to testing in collaboration with asper as well. this is a program that has collaborated with fema to increase surge testing. just over the holidays, we ve increased federal testing sites for pcrs, 12,000 testing sites doing thousands of tests over the holidays. we also
against the new coronavirus variant. the omicron. it is surging across the globe and that is not the greatest thing. it is also surging across america. you remember when it was a couple states then five or six. now 18 states. you can see the spread. more than 50 countries have recorded cases around the world. with everything that has been learned and applied there has been a quicker deployment than the initial reaction to covid to get international safety travel protocols into effect. the variant is believed already to be more transmissible than other variants so that s something that authorities are trying to deal with in real time. where s the good news? well, since last week, when the first case hit the united states, there are signs based on what they re learning that the worst possible thing that can happen in any illness may to the be happening much at all yet here and dr. fauci laying out a cautious optimism mixed with that evidence based good news. it is too early t
why is matt gaetz hanging out with steve bannon? is it because they both have plenty of legal strategy to hash out? but we begin with the top story, the coronavirus pandemic, delta surging across america and the omicron variant now spreading in multiple american states. the variant has been confirmed in a total of six states. you see them here. health officials view community spread as inevitable in many dense places. and today the president urges patience plus resilience to defeat another round of this virus. whatever got to beat it back before we shut it down. look, it s going to take time worldwide. in order to beat covid, we have to shut it down worldwide. worldwide means, well, at least 40 countries and counting. you can see on this map just how fast this thing is spreading. and the first scientific data is coming out of south africa that shows omicron spreads twice as quickly as the delta variant. it is not yet the main problem in the united states, but boy, does it