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Outdoor celebration for judge ketanji brown jackson here at the white house. despite the spike in cases around the president, there are no plans to beef up mitigation measures. so those who will be close to him will be tested beforehand, but there is no mask mandate. norah. >> odonnell: all right, weijia jiang at the white house. thank you. tonight, cbs news has confirmed the justice department is investigating former president donald trumps removal of presidential records to his mar-a-lago reso...

Who is the way to proceed. with the uptick in cases we reduced density of the crowd and were also mandating that people wear masks. weve spoken with medical experts and have some heard from some medical experts that this is a safer way to proceed. >> one of the questions i think a lot of us have had is how do you enforce for 15,000 people the mitigation measures that i think youve put in place and that are critical here? >> so, the new york city police department has perfected a plan over the ye...

Isnt sufficient. wear a surgical mask and a cloth mask on top of it. as you point out in your opening, jonathan, we really cant afford to gather in groups of 50, 60 people indoors. thats just a recipe for disaster as far as the virus. avoid large crowds, practice safety, get tested and practice other mitigation measures including vaccinations and boosters, jonathan. >> brittny, let me end with you real quickly. is the wild spread of omicron more or less convincing your unvaccinated family to get...

Remarks today on the rapidly spreading omicron variant and the steps the white house is taking to address it. well hear the latest data on omicron as public health officials say it is unclear when it will peak. >> that is difficult to predict. weve seen the rise to the peak, its been several weeks in south africa and united kingdom. were cautious about printing what we will experience here in the united states. covid has made many predictions wrong. we focus on taking the mitigation measures. >>...

States. >> what is important for people to understand is that theres some of this funding that hasnt been spent in certain states to put in place mitigation measures. now is the time for that. >> senator john barrasso says there has to be accountability for the money that was passed. he wants to know where the money has gone because most of it hasnt been spent. martha? >> martha: lets bring in ari fleischer and juan williams. good to have you here. you have 14% of the 5 trillion that has not bee...

Ultimate decision lies with our superintendent and our school board members and i know we did the right thing. >> i think the point that eric adams is making that a lot of parents feel, if you have mitigation efforts, the other mitigation efforts in place, like a vaccine mandate which i believe is going into place in detroit schools maybe next month for staffers -- >> 18th. >> if you have the mitigation measures in place like masking, and ventilation, and some -- and if you do all of these thing...

Point, alex. it is a big picture because its one thats different in different places. let me start by saying i think its important for kids to be in school. weve seen sort of the impact on this. we also have to weigh that against the surge that specifically is happening with omicron right now, and its lead leaving teachers sick at home, out of the educational classroom. how do we balance that increased number of cases with not enough staff. thats why i say the answer is probably not the same eve...

5 being eligible. >> well, look, it is a concern. partially, a result that they have small nasopharynx. so, small throat and a little inflammation from the virus probably closes them off, and makes breathing and other things hard. um, and the main thing that you have to do, again, is what do we have? by dont have a vaccine for them. so we have to rely on the public-health mitigation measures. we shouldnt take them into public places, like restaurants and grocery stores. um, you should wait for t...

Were still in crisis mode. so we need those individual behavior changes, but we also need to put policies in place, policies that are needed to implement these mitigation measures so that we can definitively head into that endemic phase. >> heres the thing, dr. blackstock, which is i am sure both of you already are doing those things. will those efforts work if you do not have people onboard at scale? >> thats such a great question, alicia. thats why we need policy. thats why policies are so inc...

If your visiting elderly relatives or immunocompromised people, wait three days and get tested and then see the vulnerable people. >> dont cancel everything fun. that is the headline i got there from you dr. wen. thank you so much for being with us. all right. to that point, the spike in cases is happening just as a lot of people are getting together for the holiday eecvents and pos shows that people are tired of mitigation measures. and this is bipartisan. 64% of republican, and 63% of democrat...