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You. im in for eric shawn. travel restrictions on eight african countries are set to take effect in the u.s. tomorrow, president biden announcing the move in an effort to prevent the variant from reaching our showers. the cdc says they havent received confirmed reports of omicron cases in the u.s. but this morning the director of the national institutes of health saying this is about the presidents move. >> given the current circumstance out of an abundance of caution, seeing this is the most se...

This basement in a war of words between the president and the speaker caps off a road show where the president oscillated between decorum and settling scores. he spoke at the commemoration of the anniversary of d-day after taping the interview where he called speaker pelosi a disaster. speaker pelosi declined to comment on the latest insults. joined by the senator from california, barbara boxer. white house reporter for the associated press and eugene scott, political reporter for "the washingto...

Like this. e.j., jonathan and tiffany are back with me. im going to go to jonathan first. this is a lot of people. there has to be a way to whittle this down. we have asked all of you guys to give us your top tier. give me your top five out of this list. >> okay. senator harris of california. the former governor of virginia, terry mcauliffe is my top five if former vice president joe biden doesnt get into the race, he would be the third one on my list. new orleans mayor mitch landru is on my lis...

Dawson. im going to go to jonathan first. the strategy in 2004 was effective in using gay maishlg to win elections. do you think thats what donald trump was doing here? >> yes, if his goal is to distract from real problems in the west wing. it seems to come from completely out of the blue. i remember getting the news alert that he had done this via twitter, and gasping at the notion that the president of the united states announced a major policy change in three separate tweets and not only bann...

Strangely evasive. you know, i was just in moscow myself last week, and whats amazing to me about this whole story is, you know, you hear carter page kind of conveying his efforts to clarify things to the russian press. the russians are also kind of befuddled by whats going on. maybe someone at the very, very top knows what the whole story is. but most of the russians i talk to dont really have a clue. and i think most worrisome of all, if there was a plot to intervene in the u.s. election, what...

Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. there is breaking news in the russian hacking scandals. sources say they know who passed some e-mails to wikileaks and we have information that russian officials celebrated donald trumps victory. we have two gentlemen joining me. jonathan first, jump into the intelligence part of this. intelligence leaders testifying on capitol hill, certain that russia is behind the election hacking. listen to this. >> dir...

>> there is no spying on americans. we dont have a domestic spying program. >> has been anything but. >> go to jonathan first. a lot of money and taxpayer money spent on snooping on the taxpayer. >> yeah. the idea of spying against national security. this is a false choice. despite monitoring going on, we miss benghazi, we missed the boston bombing. jihad around the world continues to grow. spying does not keep americans space. its trying to win world war ii monitoring who will go to sushi resta...