postponing this infection doesn t mean you might not get it some day but it could mean the difference again between having a life threatening infection and one that basically is relatively mild. so very important point. i think people obviously in the urge and with their eagerness to return to whatever normal looked like once before, i find people may be flat footed or resting thinking you know what? we ve got vaccines. i ll hearing about the lack of severity and hospitalization not being its peak as it was a year ago but still it s not a time to relax. we re in the midst of a pandemic. glad you mentioned that. a cdc forecast is predicting 44 thousz new covid deaths over the next four weeks. i mean, 44,000 new deaths over a four-week period? i mean, this is two years into a pandemic where we have vaccines. this is astonishing to think about. well, first of all, let s remember the backdrop we re
lisa murkowski declared victory after the write-in ballots put her 2 thousz votes ahead of joe miller in the race for senate. i left washington, d.c. this morning and i wish that i could tell thaw the elections brought in a whole new wave of enthusiasm and cooperation and bipartisan spirit. i had to leave after two days. as for joe miller, he s not happy with the way the write in ballots were counted because minor misspellings of murkowski s name was allowed and he s seriously considering pushing for a recount. we re going to do it even if there is a significant amount of political pressure for us to pull back and say don t do this, you know, not good for your political future, joe, or this is a thing. that s not why we re doing it. coming up at 7:30 eastern time on this show, senator murkowski will join us live from anchorage. and those are your headlines. let s talk about what happened with the gitmo trial. the first gitmo trial in a civilian court here in new york