the president who i understand has just been briefed on this? reporter: that s right. we heard from the white house that president joe biden once again today was briefed on the latest developments on the omicron variant. president biden on his last full day of vacation here in nantucket. a white house official also saying within the last hour that officials at the white house remain in constant contact with public health authorities, with officials in other countries who are closely tracking this variant. but the biggest move we ve seen so far from the biden administration in response to the variant is this travel ban now set to take effect on monday for eight nations in the southern part of africa, including south africa. that will affect non-u.s. citizens, citizens of the country as well as permanent residents will be exempt from that, although they still will have to get a covid-19 test to enter the u.s. the biden administration
restrictions. concerns over the variant also causing the stock market to plunge. plus congress is back in session this week, but lawmakers are coming back to washington with a long end of year to do list that includes preventing a government shutdown, raising the debt limit, passing biden s build back better act, and the ndaa all before december 31st. and it comes as another republican lawmaker is under fire. lauren boebert apologizing overnight after video surfaced of her making anti-muslim remarks about ilhan omar, suggesting her democratic colleague was mistaken for a terrorist. we re going to have her live report from capitol hill on that in just a moment. but first, let s go in depth with nbc s raf sanchez in tel aviv. raf, i ll start with you and this developing breaking news on the omicron variant. there is a new country involved. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, alex, there s actually two. in just the last hour or so, both germany and italy
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hearing aids or glasses. that s money in their pockets. so this is all about rebalancing this economic system that s been completely out of whack for 30 or 40 years. people are very i mnpatient, i inpatient, time to get it done. democrats are still hashing out the safety net package but what is in includes universal prek, climate tax credits and incentives, funding for affordable housing. it would benefit many ohioans of all ideologies, and all different backgrounds whether republican or democrat. will passing biden s agenda help del democrats win back working class voters that flipped to trump? 1,000%. the problem is i ve been doing this a little while in northwest ohio in cleveland and pittsburgh we ve seen a lot of promises made. tax cuts that will trickle down to the community and help us rebuild.
the time to be able to move the republicans and try to see if he can get any by. and in that s why we need president biden even more, to act. because alongside senator manchin, those two, if anybody, have the opportunity to move political will on the republican side. it s when it s all our viewers a little bit about what is in the freedom to vote act, the bill includes automatic voter registration, and online voter registration, makes election day a public holiday, and ensures voters have access to at least two weeks of early voting, for federal elections. including two weekends. and ensures every state offers same day registration, there s nothing in this list of things. that any american should have any issue. it s the idea that we re all supposed to vote, why don t we just make it standard. and simple to do so. yes. it s amazing, you can go into any mcdonald s throughout this country, and have the same order, and know what to expect. but you cannot do that in any state retry to