with her. i think it would be helpful if you could hear what she said to all of us, denouncing qanon. i don t know if i said it right. i don t even know what it is. look at that image and tell me what image you think it sends. my guest, republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana and congressman adam schiff, the democrats lead manager from the last impeachment. plus, covid cases dropping. numbers have stabilized. we re holding our breath a little bit, hoping it stays that way. the lowest totals in months. when can we open school? and how much of a threat are those new variants? if they do become dominant, we may need to upgrade the vaccine. that s exactly the direction we re going right now. i ll talk to dr. anthony fauci this morning. and democrats decide to go it alone on covid relief. i m not cutting the size of the checks. they re going to be $1,400, period. joining me for insight and analysis are anna palmer, founder of punch bowl news, former rnc
hello and welcome to the programme. a long running cyber attack targeting government departments in the united states has now affected the two agencies managing the country s nuclear stockpile. investigations into the hack are continuing, but some analysts and politicians have blamed it on russian intelligence. our washington correspondent, lebo disekojoins us now. good to see you. so, we know that a number of government agencies have been affected, but this could go even further than we think right now, couldn t it? yes, the part of the department of homeland security that deals with cyber security said that the hackers did notjust use one method of gaining access, and therefore it could be much larger than we think and as you said, this list of agencies that has been affected, from the pentagon to the treasury too, as you said, probably the agencies you would least wa nt probably the agencies you would least want to be impact said by something like this, those in charge of
cult? it s all on tape. you see, his confession is all on tape. everything. how deadly the disease was. how it wasn t the flu. i know some of you said, hey, it s no different than no. your hero said it was five times worse than the flu, said that it impacted everybody. said it was really, really bad and that it was airborne. then he lied for the next six, seven, eight months. he was lying during the presidential debate. how many times did he tell you, starting in march that it was this is about to go away? how many times? so he lied to you dozens of times about this disease going away. and then finally, in the end, he just it s called the freudian slip in the business. he started to talk about herd immunity which of course he dismissed in march because it would kill 2, 3, 4, 5 million americans. so mika, the lies they continued throughout the campaign and there s the president again saying it s going to go away and here we are at this stage, after all the times he sai
talks to secure a trade deal between the uk and the european union are resuming later on monday. they broke up last night with the trickiest areas of disagreement like fishing richts, competition rules and enforcement of the deal remaining unresolved. if there s going to be a deal, it needs to be done by december 31st. our political correspondent chris mason reports. last night in brussels, the lights on, the talks ongoing. huge amount at stake. it is serious. it s at 50 50 right now and i don t think one can be optimistic about resolution emerging. speaking to some of the key principles here, this isa the key principles here, this is a very challenging issue to resolve, and particularly around the level playing field. there are three main sticking point, the so called level playing field, how any deal is enforced and fishing rights. eu sources suggest a deal on fish is close. the british sources say it isn t. it seems the two sides can t even agree on what they disagree on.
through sag after. hello, everyone, i am chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle. it s friday, february 5th. what a week it s been. breaking news, the first jobs report of the biden administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. the unemployment rate came down to 6.3% from last month s 6.7%. but, and this is important, both november and december s jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and there s still a ton of economic pain that s devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. but help may be on the way after working through the night and into the early morning the senate just passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. the vote was 51-50. all democrats on one side. all republicans on the other. vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. we