refugees and asylum-seekers. cnn s paula hancocks is in melbourne to follow this story. it doesn t sound too bad for djokovic, but how s he doing in the court of public opinion right now? reporter: well, that s an interesting question, jim, because when it comes to many australians, they ve had strict covid and border controls the entire time. i know people who have suffered because of that, everybody does. one friend was unable to leave the country to attend his own mother s funeral. so there is many stories of heartbreak when it comes to the restrictions going in and out of australia during covid. so, sympathy, i should say, is fairly thin on the ground. but there are others who do believe that novak djokovic should not be in this detention facility behind me. there have certainly been supporters outside this facility protesting every single day.
party called johnson s excuse offensive and asked johnson to resign. back here in the u.s., the january 6th committee has now issued a new round of subpoenas. this time targeting a speechwriter who wrote trump s january 6th rally speech and two advisers in communication with donald trump jr. and kimberly guilfoyle. the committee wants both testimony and records from all three. more subpoenas could be on the way including one for the president s former personal attorney rudy giuliani. bennie thompson told cnn giuliani is an integral part of the ongoing investigation. they will seek information from him. thompson says, at some point. former president donald trump s stranglehold on the republican party appears to have at least one weak spot. that is mitch mcconnell. that s right. aides and allies say trump is coming to realize that he can t oust mcconnell despite recent calls to do that. republicans simply aren t willing to turn their back on the senate minority leader to
beforehand. cnn spoke with several doctors who say hospitals and health care workers are being overwhelmed by the omicron surge. to hear that omicron is different and is not cause being immense illness in people is not what we re seeing on the ground. we re seeing our e.r.s flooded with people who are looking for a test but are also sick and want to be evaluate and had find out what s going on so they can protect their family. inside the hospital we re seeing an increase in admissions that is startling. we ve more than doubled our admission since last week this time and people are sick. it is unlike anything we ve ever seen. even at the peak of the prior surges of covid. what we re experiencing right now is an absolute overwhelming of the emergency departments throughout washington, d.c. all our hospitals themselves, the inpatient wards seem to be maintaining. the emergency departments are being flooded with mostly mildly symptomatic patients who are coming in to get tested. and it
be focused on testing, we should also be focused on vaccinations because if we want to get back to that normal living with covid approach, it will take getting the community vaccinated. jim, bianna. thank you so much. jim, there seems to be a disconnect what we heard from the government and what we re hearing from healthcare officials and hospitals around the country. meantime, the biden administration is now announcing new initiatives this morning, aimed at keeping schools open as covid cases surge. the administration plans to distribute 10 million covid tests each month to schools as part of the department of health and human services expanded testing program. those only cover a fraction of the tens of millions of students enrolled in k through 12 public schools across the country. cnn medical analyst, former baltimore health commissioner dr. leana wen joins us now. dr. wen, i want to ask you a big picture question here. when you hear from public health
aggressive action against ukraine. reporter: secretary blinken also coming here in a show of symbolic support stressing again there will be crushing u.s. sanctions imposed on russia if it does decide to undertake some sort of invasion or incursion. the ukrainians have publicly welcomed that. behind the scenes, there s frustration there s not more military aid coming in from the u.s. to ukraine so it can battle and resist what they regard as an impending russian threat. matthew, thank you for that. let s go to cnn s fred pleitgen live in moscow with more on what the russians are saying this morning. fred. reporter: hi there, kate. the russians have a very different view of that. they also said they believe the situation down there in that part of europe is extremely dangerous at the moment. however, they also say they forces are on their territory as they put it. i was able to speak to the russian dechity foreign minister today and ask him how big the russians believe the threat o