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We may get more answers tonight as republicans and democrats return to the house of representatives for votes. but making it very clear tonight, ilhan omar, the congresswoman from minnesota saying shes received hundreds of threats since 2019 and the kind of rhetoric that her republican colleague, lauren boebert, is spewing now is only adding fuel to that fire and it is part of this toxic environment thats starting to overtake the house of representatives. there are concerns about the fact that t...

Four major airports across the united states, theyre ramping up surveillance. san francisco, jfk, newark and atlanta. in addition to that, theyre conducting samples, testing new samples to see if they can find the variant. >> we have increased our genomic sequencing capability and we are sequencing approximately 80,000 samples per week. one in every seven pcr positive cases. we are actively looking for the omicron variant right here in the united states. right now, theres no evidence of omicron ...

And the prosecution is currently moving forward with their opening statements, and they said they have to prove two things. that jesse smollett actually reported to the chicago police department that a hate crime occurred. and that he knew there was no real hate crime. defense will be up next, wolf. >> all right, omar, thank you very much. and to our viewers, thanks for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. outfront next. u.s. health officials bracing for a new coronavirus varian...

Congress might be a suicide bomber and might -- and shes joking about that as if thats a fun joke. >> look, i dont -- i havent heard congresswoman boeberts comments so i dont know how to evaluate them and whether it was just ill-timed joke or something worse. but i have had the opportunity to hear congresswoman omar over a long period of time, wolf, and im very disturbed by it. as the former governor of a state that has a very large jewish population in our state. i understand and saw on a regul...

The determining factors around this variant, if it causes more severe disease if it can evade vaccines. both big questions that we still dont have the answers to and could take several days and potentially weeks to find out. so the white house says they want to try to use this time wisely. the time they believe the travel restrictions for instance that they put in place are buying them. and we should also note just in, wolf, there are new developments in the u.s. about whats going on in the figh...

A womans rights group has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the California Department of Corrections in response to the states transfer of male inmates to womens prisons.

Cant do your job here because this is not who we are. and we havent heard that. >> governor kasich, the congresswoman omar responded, saying this part, and i am quoting now, this is not about one hateful statement or one politician. it is about a party that has main streamed bigotry and hatred. the house minority leader has repeatedly refused so far publicly to condemn this. is he essentially saying the gop stands by these racist remarks from boebert? >> you know, wolf, we know that they dont. w...

That mccarthy is losing the support of the moderates. ive been saying, wolf, on this show for a long time but at some point people are going to stand up, adults are going to stand up and say, enough. and his playing it fast and loose is simply not working. at the end of the day for her and this apology that then turned into another whatever it is, people need to recognize one anothers humanity. it goes for everybody in that place down there. when you refuse to recognize the other sides humanity,...

Omicron variant, and quoting him now, the midterm election variant. how hypocritical is it for so many in the gop right now to hit president biden for his handling of the pandemic while actively spreading covid conspiracies? >> wolf, it is nonsensical. it is ridiculous. i dont know how many times we can say this. he tweets this because maybe he thinks itll help him with his base or donald trump will be happy with him and maybe give him a little phone call and give him an atta boy. it is just abs...

Very disturbing rise in so-called smash-and-grab robberies all across the united states. cnns brian todd is working the story for us. so, brian, all types of retailers are being targeted. >> there is a real range of thefts here, wolf. tonight, we have new information on what police across the country are doing to try to stop this disturbing pattern. police in chicago today warning thieves they are ramping up efforts to stop so-called smash-and-grab robberies. often, involving large gangs of perp...