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Major developments with the pandemic. new covid infections are rising sharply driven in part by the omicron variant. dr. anthony fauci clearly raising the level of concern this morning. >> certainly what it is showing us in other countries and i believe soon in our own country, george, is it has an extraordinary ability to transmit efficiently and spread. it has what we call a doubling time of about three days, and if you do the math on that, if you have just a couple of percentages of the isola...

The new strain. all of this prompting a number of colleges to move their final exams and even if final days of the semester online. >> omicron has been identified in 36 states. dr. anthony fauci says its a matter of time before it overtakes delta as the dominant variant in this country. >> it has an extraordinary ability to transmit efficiently and spread. it has what we call a doubling time of about three days, and if you do the math on that, if you have just a couple of percentage of the isola...

>> it has an extraordinary ability to transmit efficiently and spread. it has a doubling time of three days. if you do the math on that, if you have a couple percentage of the isolates, omicron will be the dominant variant. >> martha: thats the warning from dr. fauci about the rapidly spreading omicron variant. health experts maintain that illness from the variant appears to be more mild than previous variants and the original virus. president biden is getting his update from his medical team ri...

To larrys point they said the big government benefits. this question is very telling, have you been helped or hurt by joe bidens economic policies? only 17% say they have been helped. and 40% say they have been hurt. brian: joe manchin deserves a huge credit because joe biden was about to bury this country with his build back better plan another 2 trillion if you do the math and play it out over 10 years 4.4 trillion. made it clear using explicative and the word is from the hill and others that ...

Helping. that is pretty substantial. larry kudlow is really good at math. thats why donald trump hired him and then we hired him after that. >> beat inflation foferlts around the country, the best number one inflation forecast, senator joe manchin. numero uno. i dont even know if he talks to economists since last winter when the 2 trillion-dollar democrat so-called relief package was implemented joe manchin has been warning about inflation. and thats why he has argued consistently all year that ...

Senate. >> how many? >> 10. >> they want get home from christmas. >> is it sometimes near the end of december? >> the problem with my math is i dont know what today is. nine days. >> i think december 25th? >> i think again its not like those days move around like thanksgiving. chuck, just start it up. well start now. >> as you know better than this table, not gets people moving and not getting back for christmas and holiday. my question is to what ends to ted cruz? what are they holding this up

Because for a guy like jim jordan who is a hard-core homeboy to former president trump, this shows that he stood by him no matter what. it could help him in his next election? >> loyalty, fealty to former president trump is the currency in the republican party today. and so if you are a republican member of congress and youre trying to win reelection, and youre trying to fend off any kind of potential primary challenge in the republican primary next year standing with trump is the way to win. >>...

Time it is really quite low. it is somewhere around three days. which means that, if you do the math on that, and you have it in your community, pretty soon its going to be totally dominating. that is what happened in south africa. that is whats going on in the uk. and i think that we can expect the same thing to have been here in the united states over the next few weeks. no doubt, it is a highly transmissible virus. >> again, i dont want to freak anyone out. i think that people who are watchin...

Stretching to include a significant number of members of congress. >> clear and plain evidence of members of congress being completely complicit in an attempt to overturn a fair and free election, and undermine our entire electoral process and democracy, incredibly disturbing. >> you think once we get these names and the chairman of the committee bennie thompson says theyll make a decision in a week or so, that there will even be a consequence in this republican party for members who tried to st...

Chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is there with the president. what do we expect to hear from the president today? >> well, hes going to make remarks here, this comes after hes had several briefings today, including with the governor of kentucky, several local officials in addition to the administrator of fema, his dhs secretary, all of these officials talking about overall what the effort is going to look like. you saw just a few moments ago, president biden amended that disaster ...