do you shoot somebody if the gun is not pointed in her direction, how is it that bullet ended up striking her. howie: for my part there was no follow-up. howie: i thought stephanopoulos was pretty thorough. i thought baldwin looked devastated. next on media buzz, with omicron turning into a global story,s is the media coverage fueling here and descending into partisanship?
vaccine. if you had told me a year ago a year today that we would have 3 vaccines, two safe boosters and therapeutic in the works, 5 or ten of them in works and that only 60% of the country would be vaccinated and only 54 howie: right. we will come back to the subject including omicron. alec baldwin tearful interview with george stephanopoulos why are we now hearing the claim that he never pulled the trigger?
compelling, you shouldn t get it. if this is driven by something other than that, some in the media speculate that s part of it, i think that s driving some of the media coverage. i remember a time in politics when life and death was not a partisan issue, it was a life and death issue. i hope every american is doing it not in the political way. howie: anthony fauci says he doesn t know if the current vaccines work against omicron. he s not calling for new restrictions. why have the conservative media in particular made him such a target. anthony fauci made himself a target by saying conflicting things about the virus, by making a mess of everything, going involved in the gain of function research in china which has something to do possibly with what we re going through. i think what s more interesting is why are the media keeping fauci around, why is the democratic administration keeping fauci around, given that he is so bad at managing the public health crisis. howie: if he s the pr