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A wait-and-see moment in the covid pandemic. any minute now the president of the united states addresses the nation and details what we know and don't know about the new omicron variants. scientists caution against panic. it will take weeks, they say, before they know if the world again is in big trouble. >> we're on high alert. the cdc who does that kind of surveillance is very, very on top of this, looking for this. there are a lot of things about it that we do not know but that we'll be able to be ascertained in the next week or two i believe. plus, a character crossroads for republicans....

Tests available, determine if this variant is already here? can they detect this variant effectively? >> some of the rapid antigen tests can do that and pcr tests can detect the presence of an abnormality that would be a signal of this variant. it is a long way of saying, yes. it is not directly finding omicron but finding a signature if you will of this particular variant that would lead people to believe that is what it is. so the antigen tests are a little more iffy. >> as usual, thank you very much. dr. sanjay gupta helping us appreciate what is going on. coming up i'll speak live with t...

Test new or in the future. the flu shot is not good at preventing a positive test. it is great at keeping you out of the hospital. >> right. anyone that takes their kids in understands that's the case. you protecting them from getting are really sick with the flu. dr. gupta, i really, really always appreciate you, especially today. thank you very much for that reality check. michael shearer thank you so much for starting us off. claire sticks around. when we come back, as we have been discussing, covid politics again taking over the place of science in the gop. a former white house doctor, now...

Over the past couple months. it's been over two months since first subpoenas were issued for him, and they haven't had a whole lot to show for it. his lawyer had offered to do some sort of written answers to questions for the committee, but the committee has signaled that would not be sufficient for them, so, you know, they're inching closer towards a contempt referral, but as we heard from congressman aguilar just now, no final decisions have been made on that. >> what do we know about what the committee is hoping to get from meadows? we know that chairman bennie thompson has written a letter...

The trump team keeps arguing executive privilege. courts have said that only the current executive has the power to invoke that, and the current executive, president biden, has said he's not going to invoke that in regards to these documents, these emails and these memos. does the trump team have a plan "b"? >> no. i think it's just stonewall, stonewall, stonewall. and you really could see a situation, katy, where this not only ends in a contempt charge but in an escalation, a legal escalation, i think as you referred to earlier, where this goes all the way to the supreme court. the people aro...