please join me tomorrow morning and every saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern for smerconish right here on cnn. don lemon starts right now. hey, don. you certainly had a week, my friend. is this your oldest son? i forget his name but who was a baby when i you yeah, i know, man. they have all grown. like, none none are babies, anymore. i wish they were. nice full head of hair. good-looking, young man. obviously, he looks like your wife. that is the one i am talking about. i forget his name. that is true. the crew is laughing over here. michael, have a good show tomorrow, have a great weekend and i won t wont be here next week so have a merry christmas to you and your family. merry christmas to you. thank you. this is don lemon tonight and i need everybody to pay, um, close attention. okay? this is serious. because we don t you think that we have seen this movie before? right? i feel like i am i am just i keep reporting the same thing that i have
for children with autism. it s his sixth installment in the series. and if you miss 360, you can go to our podcast and search for anderson cooper 360. the news continues with michael smerconish. i am michael smerconish. welcome to cnn tonight. we have breaking news this friday evening in the omicron fight, but it may only add to the confusion and contradictions that we re seeing all over the country. a study from the u.k. finds no evidence in england that omicron is any less severe than the delta variant. remember that experts have been saying many cases around the world are mild or at least for the vaccinated and the boosted. the study also finds the risk of getting reinfected is five times higher with omicron and delta and the cdc director made clear omicron is about to take over the conversation in this country. although delta continues to circulate widely in the united states, omicron is increasing rapidly and we expect it to become the dominant strain in the united
antib antibody, peak following the second dose of a two-dose mrna, it s like at this level. if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here and people ask, why is that important? because our experience with variants such as the delta variant is that even though the vaccine isn t specifically targeted to the delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection even against a variant that the vaccine wasn t specifically directed at and that s the reason why we feel even though we don t have a lot of data on it, there s every reason to believe that that kind of increase that you get with the boost would be helpful at least in preventing severe disease of a variant like omicron. as you know, a lot of americans right now are shopping for the best booster or whatever they can get and given the fact that manufacturers and scientists are learning more about this variant and then to mod di a vaccine that woul
finalized, he will reinstate trump s account. he was permanently banned after the january 6th insurrection for inciting violence. musk said this earlier. i do think that it was not correct to ban donald trump. i think that was a mistake. because it it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in donald trump not having a voice. i would reverse the ban. i think it was a morally bad decision, to be clear, and foolish in the extreme. yeah, so a few things first, musk s purchase is expected to go through some time this year. he doesn t take over the platform until then, but it s unclear if that will be before or after the midterms. second, donald trump claim he is won t rejoin twitter, but nobody believes what donald trump says any way. and third, this is unfortunately a big deal. trump has been starved of that online narcotic since getting banned on major platforms. while it would be nice to think he spent the last year in attention rehab, i say
announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on