Accomplished more than in two years you will be a laughing stock in the United Nation and Around The World. That was back in 2018. Today Joe Biden is going to be addressing the u. N. General assembly for the first time since taking office. Mika, lets just say it right here. He does not do it in a particularly good time coming off of whats happening in afghanistan and also whats happening in france over the past week. It comes amid of whats happening. With Ambassador Etienne who was recalled from Washington And Hell be on the show this morning. Donald trump is calling on Georgias Secretary of state to decertify the election. Brad Ralph Raffensperger is joining us and we got Bob Woodward and Robert Costa is joining us on the former President S democracy. Thats going to be interesting willie, i am going to enjoy talking to our friends Woodward And Robert costa. A couple parts of that book i would have to ask him about. I would love to know the forcing for William Barr saying to Donald Tru
didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually heard fr
voluntarily and turn over information. and we re awaiting a possible decision by the australian government on the fate of the tennis star novak djokovic. will he be able to stay in the country after he admitted to violating covid protocols. there is growing pressure for an answer as player match-ups before the australian open will be drawn just a few hours from now. we want to welcome our viewers hire in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the changing tone among u.s. health officials and covid experts. they re sounding more and more resigned to the idea that almost every american will be exposed to or infected with the omicron variant. cnn s nick watt has our report. omicron, when it is extraordinarily unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility will ultimately find everybody. it is finding an infecting nearly three quarters of a million americans on average every day. we preparing an upd
chemical riot. we want to welcome our viewer here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin with the breaking news. on the fda s authorization of the first pill to treat covid-19. let s go straight to our athena jones in new york. top health officials say this could be a game changer as the omicron variant rips through the country right now. reporter: that is right. a potential game-changer in this new pill that is highly effective against hospitalization and death. the key thing here is that you have to take it within the first five days of having symptoms so ma means focusing on tests and getting tests back to people. in a season of setbacks, a glimmer of hope. the pfizer team has a v promising and now authorized tempe treatment for those at risk. reporter: the fda granting pfizer s new anti-viral pill paxlovid. folks who tax paxlovid early, within three days of
the omicron variant, now, now is dominant here in the united states. let s go right to our national correspondent athena jones in new york for us. omicron appears to be spreading even so much faster than what the experts were predicting. it was 2% three days ago, now 70% of all the new cases. what are you learning? reporter: hi, wolf. is that right. this is sign of just how quickly this can spread and how much things can spread with the new variant just over a matter of days. the latest that we had was that omicron represented 3% of cases. now we learned it represents 73% of all new cases. officials in new york believe that omicron is driving a big spread here. this as people here and across the country prepare for a brutal third covid winter. it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter. america bracing for a tough winter that s beginning to look a lot like last winter. already in the midst oh of a delta surge, the omicron varmt acc