for president. daughter, in fact, leads the republican national committee. also this morning the highest ranking woman in the house, liz cheney, number three in the house republican leadership. the status of her leadership role is more in jeopardy. we ll have more on that in a moment. also in doubt, bipartisan support for at least president biden s broad ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan. both sides far apart on that, but there is talk of compromise on perhaps something smaller. first let s again with cnn s lauren fox on capitol hill. it was remarkable to see the cr crowd s reaction to senator romney in his own home state. we should make a distinction that that conference is different from the broader voting population in that red state, but tell us the significance of it. well, that s right. jim, remember, this is a republican conference where you re going to be attracting members of the base of your party, but it is still important because you have to have that
pitching a book deal at the same time his aide were editing a politically damaging health department report. opening day for the mlb. what do you think about the possibility that baseball decides to move their all star game out of atlanta because of this political issue? i would strongly support them doing that ain t no stopping us now we re on the move brian: take retribution on the baseball all star game to hurt georgia that gave you the senate. unbelievable that the president called for boycott on espn. that was president joe biden. yesterday, he also spoke in pittsburgh not about the pirates, but he spoke about infrastructure. which is a lot we are going to be talking about today, guys. steve: absolutely. welcome aboard, folks. it is thursday during holy week. it is the first day of april 2021. april fools day. ainsley: today is monday thursday and we have easter this coming thursday. steve: busy week. if you were watching the channel yesterday around 4:30 you
south africa where it first appeared, germany, the uk and canada. so it s just a matter of time before cases start to pop up in the u.s., and that s a reality underlying president biden s remarks on monday. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists. and we re learning more every single day. what we don t know yet, and this is crucial, is whether omicron will turnout to be any more dangerous than the delta variant. that s now the dominant strain in the u.s. it will be at least a week or two before scientists learn whether omicron will turnout to be more infectious or more deadly. meanwhile, experts say the vaccines we already have are likely to provide protection. we have every reason to believe, even though this is an extraordinary unusual variant because of the number of mutations, there s no reason to believe that it will not happen that if you get the level of antibody hi
contributor. pete, the news about this new hurdle potentially right for team trump as it relates to secret documents the committee investigators want to see that team trump doesn t want them to see. you talked about witnesses. this is about the documents they want from the national archives the january 6th committee. i don t know if i d describe this so much as a setback as a miniature review for the trump lawyers about how the law actually works. we re waiting for a district court judge here in washington to rule on the main question in this case, how much executive privilege does a former president like donald trump have and how much can he have if the current occupant in the white house decides not to exert it over the document. is it up to the former president, the current president? we re waiting for the judge to rule on that. late last night one of mr. trump s lawyers said okay, judge, while we re waiting for a ruling for you, we want you to give us a temporary injunc
southwest airlines cancelling thousands of flights, stranding tens of thousands of passengers. what caused this meltdown? and the spies next door. an fbi sting ensnaring two would-be spies. we ll tell you about a couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secrets in peanut butter sandwiches. we begin with encouraging developments on the pandemic as the u.s. appears to be turning a coroner the fight against coronavirus. the u.s. averaging about 93,000 new cases per day, the lowest daily average in more than two months. hospitalizations and deaths also down significantly. and there s promising news on the vaccine front as well. the u.s. now averaging a million doses administered a day. that s the first time the nation has hit that mark in weeks. and new this morning, merck asking the fda for emergency use authorization of its new antiviral pill, which the drugmaker says cuts hospitalizations and death by half in those with early symptoms. elizabeth cohen, a lot of signs for o