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Booster. it gives it a sense that its kind of an add-on. all along, this should have been a three-dose regimen. that should be what fully vaccinated means and right now we have a lot of people in this country who have bought some protection but will it be enough to actually avoid serious illness with omicron? we dont know. >> professor michael osterholm, i do appreciate your time tonight. even if the warning you give does sound quite ominous. thank you. >> thank you. i am joined now by the may...

For example, attempt to impede or obstruct the counting of electoral votes which is an official proceeding of congress, the committee is looking at that, looking at whether what he did constitutes that kind of a crime. >> reporter: laura, chairman bennie thompson also said yesterday that trumps attempts to undermine the results of the 2020 election are a key part of this panels probe. and when he was asked whether he believed officials in trumps inner circle had conspired to undermine the electi...

January 6, who planted the pipe bombs at the rnc and the dnc? that person is still at large, still no information about them. we have now learned the vice president kamala harris was actually evacuated from dnc headquarters when all this was going on. what more do you know about that? >> reporter: thats right, laura. a white house official confirmed to me yesterday that the vice president, then vice president elect and sitting senator of california, she was actually the protectee named in this i...

Affected the person be having on the former president and how we should understand the status of that case. it seriousness and how far its progressed. given that those in-person meetings have started. but of course, this new news arrives at the time with the news gods are really shaking the trees. a whole bunch of new stuff is falling out along these lines. you may remember right before christmas, we reported here on the show on these documents. documents that were forged by trump supporting rep...

Encouraging sign given that this was once the pandemics epicenter. >> absolutely. and thats because new york is really well vaccinated. they can do better. every place in the country could do better. but new york is among the most vaccinated places in the country and they are starting to show this. i do expect some hospitalizations to happen in a few days or weeks more but nothing like what we would have seen a year ago. if you saw a spike of cases like this. so people have to pay less attention...

Thank you so much. two days left in the de blasio administration after turning the page to eric adams, how is he looking at the job and whats in front of him. >> the new mayor is not waiting to take office. hell indeed take the oath tomorrow night after midnight in times square which raised some eye brows. the mayor-elect hoped to do it in his home in brooklyn, that was an indoor event so that was cancelled because of the rise in covid cases so it will be outdoors at times square. hes going to g...

F-donald trump during an awards show and cathy griffin held up a severed head. >> i feel bad for all of the kids named brandon with his dad cheering him on. "lets go brandon." >> its like having a kid name alexa. how does that work out? >> glenn youngkin will be the governor elect of virginia. >> [gavel banging]. >> there are a record number of covid cases in new york state since the pandemic began. >> the no has been heard and senator joe manchin wont support the build back better plan. >> i ho...

This country to undermine our democracy. its perilous. whether its taking away independent elect -- which electors you sent to state, away from non partisan individuals, like georgia. putting it back in partisan legislator. so, when the president causes ply, and independent election official, and tries to pressure them, we see how many of my colleagues and others have been fold into that pressure. thats about undermining our democracy. the racial moves or clear. how can we have a nation, i reall...

No, were not reasonable men. were unreasonable. unreasonable men are those who change history. were unreasonable. >> some might be tempted not to take that seriously, and it has a certain style to it. but the man talking was indicted once and pardoned by the federal powers of the person he helped elect, donald trump. now hes indicted again and theyre saying in public, john, that their goals are to normalize this, to make this a prerequisite that you will do things that they say. unreasonable men...

Said, the person who put that pipe bomb there, the officials dont know who that is and no one has actually been charged for that action. but, listen, this was a question because i remember reporting on the vice president elect that day and asking her office where she was, where she was. it was clear she was not in the capitol, and her office would not say where she was, but they said that she was safe. yesterday the vice president said in her speech that she had left the capitol, but here we hav...