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on this call. why did this interaction have the committee so concerned? >> don, witness tampering is serious. its a crime, and as ms. cheney stated during the hearing, we passed along this information to the department of justice to look into it further. we take very seriously. the safety of any witnesses, anyone who comes forward to the committee, and like wise their privacy. in this case any speculation who this person might have been and a lot of people trying to tie it together the...

So he has shown himself willing to say basically anything. look, this past november he called omicron a -- basically a democratic, you know, mid-term election trick. so he is showing himself willing, basically, to throw away any ethic that he might have had when he was a physician in order to achieve some sort of a political goal. >> yeah, well, look this has been the era of the opportunist and the grifter, and there are a lot of them out there. thank you very much. >> thanks, don. the mid-ter...

Booster because that will protect you. even a weakened virus can still put you in the hospital and kill you if you are unprotected so i want to make sure people get vaccinated and the booster. but yes, um, this virus -- this strain of the virus, this variant of the virus is less serious to most people than the delta virus or the native strains. but its still a very serious condition, and we cant take it lightly. and i want to emphasize that vaccination has to be the basis, the foundation of the ...

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You layer testing, oral antivirals, monoclonals, and masks on top of that but we need to do all of it. this is not a joke. omicron is still dangerous, and we have to employ all those strategies and techniques. >> i mean, sanjay, i guess my question is and -- and it was partly asked. but i mean, just overall, one day -- i mean, is that what happens to viruses? that they -- they gradually weaken over time, and is omicron a sign of that weakening? or is it just a -- this one happens to be a weaker ...

Several games this weekend, and update safety measures. >> its smart to go back to the strict protocols, masks in the building, no eating indoors, take out service only from the cafeteria. >> nationwide fully vaccinated make up over 60% of the population, medical experts besides the vaccine is still the strongest defense. >> weve seen cases of omicron a month those vaccinated boosted. we believe these cases are milder or a symptomatically because of vaccine protection. what we do know is we have...

Vaccination, mask mandates their case totals and the way they dealt with covid is the same or worse than those states like florida, tennessee or texas that chose freedom. so if what you are doing and these man tates if theyre working so well, your state should be performing better than everyone, but its not. so when are they going to wisen up and realize theyre hemorrhaging residents. they are coming to all the free states because people are done living in fear of covid. they want to move on. th...

>> we have to understand as ukraine goes, next will be the politics which our nato allies, next could be -- its a slippery slope. if it could the balkans, and again, no coincidence that putin went after the ukraine and crimea under obama. they can fracture nato. they can also star the u.k. of gas. a happening in the context after afghanistan and we know the russians watch it closely and te chinese are watching what were doing in response to ukraine. it can begin falling in a way that is detrimen...

The patient was identified only as someone between 18 and 49 who landed in the u.s. three days before thanksgiving, developed mild symptoms on thanksgiving day, and tested positive four days later. the sample was then genetically sequenced overnight at a university of california san francisco lab and was confirmed to contain the omicron variant. >> they had received a full dose of the moderna vaccine but no booster. >> reporter: five days after the world health organization declared omicron a va...

On the ground. what you need to know, and what you are still figuring out. the world health organization has designated omicron a variant of concern. it was first reported in south africa, where covid infections have increased sharply over the last few weeks. today, president biden has said, quote, sooner or later it will be detected in the united states, its probably here already, and he provided this perspective. >> this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. >> a cause for con...