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Omicron is already spreading wildly in the uk. cnns scott mcclain is in london for us. >> reporter: wolf, the uk just recorded its second highest number of new infections is, but the prime minister has decided not to put new restrictions in place before christmas. despite government scientists urging him to take action to prevent near record high hospital admissions. johnson met with his cabinet today and acknowledged that omicron is surging across the country and now hospitalizations are rising...

Not only short of the bed spaces, but those coming in are exhausting the medical staff there, and that is causing the burnout. listen to mayor of palm beach county. >> and the hospitals are very much full. there is increased demand for the health care professionals and the nurses and doctors and those in that profession, and burnout happening. so as the demand increases and the time is going on, the people are burnt out, and they leave the profession. >> and it is worth noting that those who are...

>> who dropped the ball? >> its congress. if you look at where we have to put these individuals, we just dont have the bed spaces to transfer them to ice. ice cant take them off our hands because they dont have the bed spaces. we have to hold them in our custody for a lot longer than what were supposed to hold them in our custody. there are certain things the administration needs to be taken to task on such as streamlining the processing. weve known this has been an issue for quite a while. ther...

This is interior detention. when we catch you inside the country. there is bed spaces for people caught at the border. but if we catch you inside the country, like in new york, the ms-13 gangs, this is where we catch most of the criminals. they get through the border, they get themselves integrated into the country. we have been deporting thousands of gang members.ep this would deny us the bed spacs to hold them until they are deported. its a dangerous concept. the president will not agreeee to ...

Space. this is interior detention. when we catch you inside the country. there is bed spaces for people caught at the border. but if we catch you inside the country like in new york, ms-13 gangs, this is where we catch most of the criminals. they get through the border. they get themselves integrated in the country. we have been deporting thousands of gang members. this would deny us the bed space to hold them until they are deported. its a dangerous concept. the president will not agree to it. ...

>> the president is going to build the wall. well take as much money as you can give us and well go off and find the money someplace else legally in order to secure that southern barrier. this is going to get built or without congress. >> basically this is nuts. the idea of reducing bed spaces available for violent offenders so they can be held and deported as they trade off for a wall incentivizes illegal immigration and they truly have lost their way. >> the goalposts has been moving from the ...

Future from u.s.-méxico border. heather: potential 2020 democratic candidate for president is joining the march for truth rally, community organizers and local officials organize the event to protest the presidents border wall, beto incumbent before lose to go ted cruz. any deal that involves defunding ice will never make it past the president. >> not only isnt enough they want to abolish ice but they want to abolish bed spaces to house violent offenders so the aoc wing of the party is taking o...

Emergency. if the congress comes up with nothing, he may be forced to. >> shepard: thanks, john roberts. to capitol hill now. mike emanuel is there this afternoon. a critical meeting this hour, right? >> thats right, shep. the top appropriations people here trying to get things back on track. the spending people in the capitol are due to meet this hour. its looking like they were zeroing in on a bipartisan deal with about $2 billion for border security. democrats said they want to cap the number...

Bill that reduces the number of bed spaces available to hold violent offenders, what kind of a trade-off is that? i would advice the president to take near 2 billion for the wall, sign a bill that would give you that much money as a down payment and find the rest of the money on your own, declare national emergency if necessary. i dont expect him to do that deal if you have to trade off bed spaces because that is incentivizing more illegal immigration by reducing bed spaces, its really making th...

Compromise. >> we cant definitively rule out a government shutdown at the end of this week. >> what you are hearing is 50/50. it is 50% hope and 50% not. we are at an impasse which is not unusual at this point. >> talk to stall right now hoping we can get off. >> the issue we have been raising is the number of beds available, enforcing the administration to prioritize the use of those beds. >> i promise you this, donald trump is not going to sign any bill that reduces the number of be bed spaces...