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Protected at the pump. speed went the president of the american energy alliance and he joins me now, thomas, thank you for being here. obviously your ad out the white house talking out of both sides of its mouth. how naive do they think the american people really are? >> well, if you look at every single thing the administration has done since the day joe biden was sworn into office, it points to higher gas prices, why? we compiled over 70 actions of this administration has done to make it diffi...

>> reporter: jeff spring of aaa says holiday travel is at near pre-pandemic levels. from 2020 it jumped 28 percent, even as packed roads and dangerous wet and icey conditions slow many down. >> reporter: are people hitting the roads like you expected them to. >> it was one of the busiest travel holidays on record. nationwide not just hitting the roads but all over different kinds of travel formats and that is the most in nearly 20 years since triple a did the tracking. >> reporter: those record ...

Teachers in federal head start early education programs to be vaccinated against covid. the ruling is considered a victory for the 24 states that sued the biden administration. meanwhile the surge in the omicron variant of the coronavirus shows no signs of slowing down. cbs mark strassmann has more. >> reporter: a new year in our covid chronicles, welcomed by super-spreader jamboree. risky behavior, even reckless -- reckless, like many new years resolutions, covid records get broken daily. the s...

Before they go home for christmas? >> well peter, what we have been doing over the course of last four months, even before the presidents announcement, is massively increasing our testing capacity, quadrupling since the summer. >> biden officials insist this is not like march of 2020 because we have vaccines now. there are still tens of millions and of unvaccinated adults and republican lawmakers are saying biden cannot blame him for that anymore. >> now it got joe biden joe biden and tony fauci...

Right now for the minority. they want to make sure that biden cannot govern and show that he has a governing majority. and so that is what were watching unfortunately. >> charlie, i want to get your thoughts on vaccine mandates because i know that youre not a fan. so i want what your thoughts are on that. but in terms of the federal mandate since it has been implemented, for federal employees, the compliance rate of getting vaccinated is upwards of something like 95%. so it is effective. i get t...

Down to 4.2% and that is the lowest since march 2020 and it is way down from the pandemic peak of nearly 15% in april of last year. >> now president biden focused on the 6 million jobs that have been created since he took office. cnns senior white house correspondent phil mattingly joins us now. tell us how the president is framing the jobs numbers. >> reporter: the president was focused on the drop of the unemployment rate than the lower top line number significantly from the economists and wha...

With a 2-year price guarantee. give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. the omicron variant has now been detected in five u.s. states and experts anticipate that that number will grow. health officials say there is no cause for panic here. cdc director dr. rochelle walensky said 99.9% of covid cases are still of the delta variant. >> president biden emphasize the importance of boosters for all adults and implemented stricter testing for travelers ...

A problem is it that the world looks in and realises that there is a distinct possibility that donald trump could be back in power in 2024-25? that gets back to your whole point about the national security risk for everyone else because if people are looking for leadership from the united states on a global scale, they know they wont get it if trump comes back again, and that risk, i think, is also causing constraints for biden because biden cannot guarantee either, you know, an outcome that is ...

Looks in and realises that there is a distinct possibility that donald trump could be back in power in 2024-25? that gets back to your whole point about the national security risk for everyone else because if people are looking for leadership from the united states on a global scale, they know they wont get it if trump comes back again, and that risk, i think, is also causing constraints for biden because biden cannot guarantee either, you know, an outcome that is favourable for his party in the...

And there will always make sure that we have to pay attention to them. china as well as can be very difficult because we have to basically find some way of moving forward with china on the same issues, the pandemic getting global vaccinations, climate change. theres going to be limits to how much the united states can do in terms of sharing these relationships because we have to do some of the trade—offs and opportunity costs. the trade-offs and opportunity costs. , , , ., . costs. very briefl...