released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
there are new fears over the dreaded tripledemic. this week, the united states hit 100 million coronavirus cases. but the actual number of infections could be double that, as flu and rsv hospitalizations decline, covid-19 hospitalizations are on the rise again. and a new omicron subvariant x b b has become the dominant strain in the northeast of the u.s.. here we have with me now msnbc medical contributor dr. vin gupta, a critical care pulmonologist in seattle. he s also on fact at the university of washington s health institute for health metrics and evaluation. thanks so much for coming on the show tonight. let start with his newest subvariant. what do we need to know about that one? mehdi, good evening, happy early new year. what the public needs to know is that this new variant x b b dot one dot five, for those who want the actual digits, it is arguably the most contagious version of this virus that we faced, mehdi, in the last four years. what does that mean?