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Solid evidence on omicron and what it means. >> i think two weeks. ironically the dash should be doing the experiment right now to give us the answer in 24 hours but i think in two weeks will have a good feel. >> shannon: doctor, guy, great to see you both. thank you. and breaking tonight, congress is once again narrowly avoided a government shutdown. passing a stop gap built upon the government through february 18th. earlier tonight, the senate ejected a g.o.p. amendment that would have blocked...

News in washington. president bidens fortunes seem to be going from bad to worse. disappointing jobs numbers on friday were just the latest problem for an administration already dealing with a crisis at the border, persistent inflation, growing supply chain backups, and a pandemic that wont go away. while the threat of defaulting on our debt was pushed off for two months, democrats are still dead locked over the presidents domestic agenda. in a moment, well speak with the number two republican i...

News in washington. president bidens fortunes seem to be going from bad to worse. disappointing jobs numbers on friday were just the latest problem for an administration already dealing with a crisis at the border, persistent inflation, growing supply chain backups, and a pandemic that wont go away. while the threat of defaulting on our debt was pushed off for two months, democrats are still dead locked over the presidents domestic agenda. in a moment, well speak with the number two republican i...

Country from defaulting just until december. schumer struck a deal with minority leader mitch mcconnell to avoid the tricky process of reconciliation. in the end, 11 republicans joined democrats to pass the stop gap, including senator lisa murkowski who told fox republicans were angry with schumer. >> there is a fair amount of frustration, yes. >> drama aside, the temporary fix has major political ramifications. many republicans following former president trumps lead see this as caving to democr...

Book where you correctly chronicle what may have been the most patronizing, insulting and disastrous campaign outing by hillary clinton in the 16 campaign, and that is you know it already, west virginia. go ahead tell the coal miners you want to take their jobs away but further insult them by promising mythical green jobs theyre still waiting for today. my question goes to messaging because the three words today from democrats are stop gap, top line and reconciliation. when did they lose that fi...

Needed. in our last hour, i spoke with the chair of the congressional domestic caucus, who was pleased by tonights outcome. >> we are doing the work we need to do to go back and look at our priorities and make sure that we are really thinking through what we need to have in this bill and how we can come to agreement. that is the negotiating process and im thrilled that it is really happening. look, i think that we will do the work we need to do and im confident that were going it get there. >> s...

The final deal. >> not entirely an artificial deadline because you just heard congressman dean phillips there of minnesota say that -- he called it bif which stands for bipartisan infrastructure. if infrastructure doesnt pass, 4200 employees of the department of transportation who dont get the funding to come in are going to have to be furloughed. so if that were to happen and then all of a sudden you have local news teams and cnn and others profiling these people who dont have paychecks coming ...

Bystanders to know that youre doing that and people known to have the phones out. so i think the glasses are quite a bit more overt than that. you have the led, an audio sound and have to take an explicit action so i have to move my hand on my temple and press the button or have to use my voice to say, take a picture. so i think there is a lot more opportunities really for bystanders to know, and this isnt something we left to chance. we knew this was one of the most important thing is to get ri...

Back on. we have talked to two parish officials in two southeast louisiana counties in the past couple nights on this show both from st. johns parish and jefferson parish, louisiana told us their parishes right now are bluntly uninhabitable. without power, fuel has become all the more important. even hospitals are still relying on generators for power. that is not a long term solution. that is a stop-gap. nearly two-thirds of gas stations in baton rouge and new orleans were out of fuel today. yo...

From st. johns parish and jefferson parish, louisiana, told us their parishes right now are, bluntly, uninhabitable. without power, fuel has become all the more important. even hospitals are still relying on generators for power. that is not a long-term solution. that is a stop-gap. nearly two-thirds of gas stations in baton rouge and new orleans were out of fuel today. you need fuel to power your generator. the line at one costco in new orleans where they did still have fuel today, that line wa...