back to normal. sometime we can venture beyond it, to leave the known and take the first steps. so let us not return to what was normal, but reach toward what is next. what was cursed, we will cure. what was plagued, we will prove pure. what we tend to argue, we will try to agree. those fortunes were forsworn, now the future we foresee. where we weren t aware, we re now awake. and those moments we missed are now these moments we make, these moments we meet. and our hearts once all together beating, now all together beat. come, look up with kindness yet, for even solace can be sourced from sorrow. we remember not for the sake of yesterday, but to take on tomorrow. we heed this old spirit in a new day s lyric. in our hearts we hear it, for auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne. be bold same time this year, be bold same time. for when you honor yesterday, tomorrow ye will find. know what we fought for, not to be forgot, no for none. it defines us, binds us as one. come ove
desmond tutu. we either are going to survive together or going to be end together. a towering figure in the fight for human rights. i m amira walker, pamela brown has the evening off, you are live in the cnn news room. millions around the country spending this christmas week end with friends and family, but, you know, the coronavirus is not taking a holiday, in fact we re seeing new covid cases racing toward record highs now, daily infections now surpass the summer surge sparked by the delta variant and hospitalizations are trending up as well. we are in the thick of the holiday season, and vaccinated or not, triple a estimates more than 109 million people will travel between christmas and new years day. and that increased movement sparking a lot of concerns about this highly transmissible variant. americans are lining up for hours at testing sites, at cities across the nation, something dr. anthony fauci believes is critical right now. we should be using testing much
it can literally take your breath away and hits randomly. some suffer barely any effects, and some wind up on a ventilator or dead and the other virus is not people are acquiring from breathing in but taking in ignoant garbage on their tv or social media and that virus may make you sick from covid or ingesting horse medicine but most definitely makes you stupid and right now in america, ignorance and stupidity feel like they have taken over. stupid is on a rampage worldwide. remember brexit? the american variant turned stupid into art. albeit, low art, like the one in the mall with the dogs playing poker. i m talking about the full embrace at every turn. you know the party that pumped itself up on the ideas of family values and fiscal property for mitch mcconnell and his army to play a game of chicken with the debt ceiling and nearly tanking the economy and country with it with 1 1 republicans willing to vote to let the republicans fix it. the party of owning the libs is choo
that biden is declining trump s request to withhold records from the january 6th committee. nbc obtained a letter saying, quote, an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the united states. trump is now formally exerting executive privilege over the documents. biden is expected to reject it setting up what could be a legal showdown. trump could sue biden or congress or both and try to keep those records hidden. remember, trump and his allies tried to bury this probe and the question is why? why are they hiding from fact finding if they didn t do anything wrong? after he told them to defy the speems, it appears one lawyer is listening. steve bannon saying he won t comply with the request. his lawyer writing, we must semitrump s direction and honor his invocation of executive privilege. committee responding, they will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. bannon calling the committee a, quote, charade today. the democra
to a 3 0 victory at everton. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has said there will be no increase in vat if the conservatives win the general election. however the prime minister has given her clearest signal yet that her party will abandon its promise not to raise income tax or national insurance contributions. labour has also promised not to raise vat, with leaderjeremy corbyn saying any other tax rises will fall on what he calls the top end and not on low and middle earners. our political correspondent leila nathoo reports. in the swing of an election campaign, there is, for some, an unmentionable word. so far, theresa may has skirted around the issue of whether her government would increase taxes, but this morning she gave the strongest indication yet that she will drop a previous tory commitment not to raise national insurance, income tax or vat. we have no plans to increase the level of tax, but i am also very clear i don t want to make specific prop