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Sailors were infected, just that all crew members were vaccinated they are working right now, kristen, to determine the variants sam brock starting us off from miami. sam, thank you to the white house now and that decision to lift the travel ban from those eight african countries. monica alba joins us monica, why did the cdc advise the president to lift those restrictions right now? reporter: well, kristen, president biden placed restrictions on those countries last month based on recommendations from his medical team to give the u.s. more time to figure out how omicron spreads. now that they understand the variant better, the cdc advised the president to end the travel pause since vaccines are considered the best protection and the strain is already so dominant around the globe. the temporary ban will be lifted december 31st, according to the white house. meanwhile, the president and first lady spent this christmas eve visiting patients at children s national hospital here in wa ....
Had the president has declared if it takes a shutdown to pay for the wall, there will be a shutdown. i think the president is frustrated. he came to washington with very ambitious agenda. he wants to do health care, infrastructure bill, and he had to do it all in his first year. everybody knows you get more in the first year than the second year. he went to put a travel pause in place from six countries that we don t have an adequate vetting process through. already, the courts haved him no only. congress didn t do anything on the health care. that failed. i think the president is getting frustrated. he is used to doing things quickly and he knows even in his four-year term. he is almost a quarter of the way through his term. whose fault is that? i ll not sure it is anyone s fault. i think congress runs slower than anyone anticipated. i ve been there two and a half years. ....
Had the president has declared if it takes a shutdown to pay for the wall, there will be a shutdown. i think the president is frustrated. he came to washington with very ambitious agenda. he wants to do health care, infrastructure bill, and he had to do it all in his first year. everybody knows you get more in the first year than the second year. he went to put a travel pause in place from six countries that we don t have an adequate vetting process through. already, the courts haved him no only. congress didn t do anything on the health care. that failed. i think the president is getting frustrated. he is used to doing things quickly and he knows even in his four-year term. he is almost a quarter of the way through his term. whose fault is that? i ll not sure it is anyone s fault. i think congress runs slower than anyone anticipated. i ve been there two and a half years. i hoped we on get it done. the president, he doesn t ....
Relationships are there. they re basically following american law on this, but they re not out in front of this once again, julie, because they have been distracted by this president s sticky twitter fingers. i think dhs probably is. the people in charge of implementing this travel pause are on top of it. a big win for the white house. unanimous support from the supreme court. julie: that s all the time we have, guys. thank you very much. we have an abridged verge of the show. thank you very much. richard fowler. appreciate. secretary mattis just met with nato pledging to increase defense spending by more than 4% this year. he also had this to say about the new plans to fight isis in afghanistan. listen. we may have pulled our troops out too rapidly, reduced the numbers a little too rapidly, but the difference today is that the afghan army is actually able to carry the fight. they ve been carrying the fight for sometime now. so there s always new ideas you ....
It seems it s constitutional. eboni: i don t know if i agree, eric. lisa boothe, your take on it. lisa: could move further to the right. that was the smartest thing president trump did in the election was released a list of potential supreme court nominees he would choose because this is what galvanized the republican base for him. if you look at the exit polling, one fifth of the voters had the supreme court was the number one issue. 57-40%, it s a huge issue during the campaign. in regard to the travel pause, it s a big win for the presiden president. eboni: i like that. travel pause. lisa: president trump has couched this as a national security issue and it seems that serene court agrees with him, in part the statement they said that tips in favor of the government compelling to provide for the nation s national security. seems like they agree with ....