last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel and i know you reported on this lawsuit that donald trump has filed today, i guess mary trump in the new york times. i m just looking at mary trump s comment, because the article reporting it says the times did not immediate response for comment, and right above it is mary trump s comment. and i can say it on tv. yet you can t say it on tv, there s part of it you can t say it on tv. i think he is an f and you lose or, he probably wants to say loser, i don t know, it won t be exactly the same words. lawrence can i just tell you one line i literally was just handed a lawsuit, i saw the daily beast report in, we reported on that, and i just got the lawsuit during the commercial break, but on page one, it says is offended s action were motivated by personal vendetta and their desire to gained fame notoriety and a claim and a financial windfall. and we re further intended to advance their political agenda. and it say
two technically. the president s lengthy news conference, the white house s scramble to clean up a few of his comments on the legitimacy of 2022 and russia. the new numbers from our nbc news poll, though, all point to the same predicament facing this administration, after 365 days in office the president is now having to try to regain his long-time political identity. his job approval stands at just 43%, it s the second worst of in i president in modern history at the one-year mark except for one, donald trump. the numbers are stark, the public doesn t believe that president biden has lived up to the promise of the biden presidency to candle covid, unite country, to in a phrase build back better. his approval ratings on the pandemic and the economy have fallen dramatically since the opening days of his presidency. far more voters are giving him low marks on his blt a to unite the country than when he first took office. and just 5% say his presidency has been better than expec
still going to get a lot of people who are going to get sick and be in the hospital. there may be less relatively speaking than with other variants, but that doesn t mean that you re completely exempt from getting serious illness, so it s ill-advised to be cavalier about it and say, well, who cares, if i get infected. we re also learning more about the omicron variant and how quickly it is spreading. it was just a traffic cases in america at the beginning of the month, and now it makes up 73% of all cases. let s start this hour with cnn s elizabeth cohen who is tracking all of this. owe lizabeth, what does the rapid spread of only crop mean? what should people take from this? well, people should take from this is very similar to what dr. fauci just said. this is spreading very quickly, and even if the disease is milder, it s going to reach more people. it s going to reach more elderly people, more immune-compromised people and we need to do our best to protect them as w
accusing a top chinese official after sexual assault. the head of the women s tennis association tonight demanding an investigation. he s my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight the breaking news. president biden s team meeting with key moderate democrats tonight trying to lock in the votes for their progressive bill to pass the house of representatives tonight. tonight finally passing the house this evening. their build back better act, finally. any moment now the house is expected to hold a procedural vote which would advance the so-called build back better act. for months of course democrats have been at a standstill over this bill, months. moderates most recently demanded a budget analysis by the cbo, the congressional budget office. tonight they have it. that report just came out late today. it found that the build back better act would add $367 billion to the deficit. now, that assumes there s no benefit from spending more money o
we do begin this hour with breaking news on the pandemic. at this hour, fda vaccine advisers are meeting to decide whether to recommend booster shots for millions more americans who got moderna and johnson & johnson covid vaccines. the these advisers will be weighing the safety of mix and matching booster shots. new data from the nih shows mixing boosters produces a strong immune response. let s begin with cnn s elizabeth cohen, who s following every development in today s hours-long booster shot meeting. elizabeth, walk us through what s going to happen, what s happening now, and what will happen in the next day. reporter: kate, this could affect the lives of hundreds of millions of americans. here it is in a nutshell. many of us who got our vaccines more than six months ago are wondering should we be getting a booster shot. so if you ve got pfizer, that decision was made last month, and yes, for some people, you should be getting booster shots if you got pfizer more than