Have seen in american politics. Expected it from matt gaetz but not the speaker of the house. We will talk about that and him on The Sunday Show tomorrow so i hope you dont beat me to it. Well talk about it a little bit because there is a lot to be said about it. But this was a low point i think for the republican party. But well see what happens next week. It could be lower than what we saw this week. Enjoy the rest of your night off. We wait to see if trump will take the stand in his own criminal trial. And a stunning new report shows the fall of roe has hit black women the hardest. Im ayman, lets go do it. This week, during two days of heated testimony in a new york courtroom, former President Trumps legal team followed a clear strategy. Attacking the credibility of the prosecutors star witness former President Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Attorney todd blanche repeatedly grilled cohen on a pivotal phone call he claimed he had on the hush money payment. He testified he got ahold of t
with covid. as for adults, hospitalizations are nearing the peaks we saw in september. the spike is in undating medical staff overwhelmed for months. now health officials fear that it will show up at new year s celebrations. tom foreman has the latest on how omicron is derailing holiday plans and travel and much more. reporter: the crowd in times square will be held to about a quarter of the usual. masks and proof of vaccination required. latest surge has new york city once again an epicenter of the pandemic. with statewide cases up more than 80% since monday. and the man who becomes mayor tomorrow is vowing to shut the surge down and keep the town open. we must learn to live with covid, adjust and pivot at the right times and we re doing that in new york and i m extremely optimistic on how the city is going to respond. clearly new york and washington, d.c. are ahead of the curve. but not by much.
there nine days. and then you go into the hospital and you take resources from people who are actually doing the right thing, who are getting the vaccine, and who are not in undating the hospitals. 90% of the people who are in that hospital of the patients there for covid, and that s most of the hospital now, they are there because they re unvaccinated. so you re selfish, you won t get the vaccine, you don t believe in the science, and then when you get the coronavirus, you rush to the hospital and you use the science, you take the resources which could be used for other things that you didn t have to be there for. so i just want people to keep that in mind as they are saying, i don t want to take this. i m nervous about it. this vaccine has been worked on for quite a long time. it s not just something that came in warp speed. and don t be selfish. think about others. especially for people who live in the south and the bible belt who say that they re christians and they believe in the
continues to burn across that region especially with again the triple digit heat. let s take you to san bernardino cou santa barbara county. some scary moments for campersb santa barbara county. some scary moments for campers, this is the whittier fire that started saturday. started saturday afternoon and within hours, it grew toefr 5,0 to over 5,000 acres. hundreds of homes have been evacuated. at least 2,000 people were evacuated on saturday alone including these 60 campers, most were are children attending the circle v ranch, a popular summer camp in the area. all the campers are safe. that is good news. but scary moments and you re watching some of the footage of t the whittier fire out side of santa barbara and you can see how the smoke is in-undating the roadways. so glad to hear that the campers are safe. all right. we ll keep in touch with you for
when i see him come out there. that is what he wants to convey to the american people and the people around the world, the number of media that have descended upon there is unprecedented for one individual to read a statement, no questionses and really not a press conference, a statement, reading more than anything else and we ve never seen anything like it but you are not a human being without having and in undating of your priv inundating of your privacy, all over the place. martha: and i agree with james rosen, it is indignant, for the people to say, how dare he not questions, he s a private individual, i don t agree with the way he s living his life but he doesn t have to apologize to me. the people he has to look in the eye are his family, his wife, when they get older, his children and he has to explain himself to them and his close friends and his mom and has to explain himself to then and doesn t necessarily owe the sport fans, the public at large, anything, really.