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interior secretary, making her the first native american secretary. all of this as two men accused of attacking capitol police officer brian sicknick who later died from his injuries with bear spray during the january 6th riot make their first court appearance later this afternoon. joining us, correspondent kara lee, covering the white house, and nbc correspondent garrett haake in el paso, texas. and the co-author of the political play book. great to have you with us. the president saying they're hitting their goals in the pandemic. then there's this. a new poll finds 30% say they wi...

Morning on the airwaves, they are saying the data they have at the moment does not point towards the need for more restrictions. that is despite the record number of positive cases we've seen in the last few days, i million people in the uk testing positive for covid in the uk testing positive for covid in the last seven days and the fact that in scotland, wales and northern ireland, the devolved governments have gone further with more restrictions after christmas so the message this morning from ministers is that at the moment, for england, we don't think there is enough evidence to make them...

Other indoor setting. >> that got immediate pushback including from delta c.e.o. ed bastian. >> i don't know that i agree with gary's remarks. i think particularly as we see omicron continuing to, to enter into our country, masks are going to be important as a safeguard for awhile yet. >> and even more pushback from doctors. >> the data supports use of the mask, but use of masks -- but also why say this now when we have the most transmissible variant of all accelerating? i don't know. some of these c.e.o.s, they have the emotional intelligence of a doorknob. i don't know why they would say tha...

And nasa missions brings those things to the table. unfortunately in the facetime community it hasn't been as diverse as is should be. one of the things with exoplanets, it's newer. generally the newer science attract more diverse teams. yes, that really excites me. and we're scientist s and engineers. certainly we follow the data. all of the data supports -- supports that. that teams are far more successful and better when they're more diverse. so i always say now apes the time, and i think now's the time. >> nothing, okay. let's get started. any questions, guys? >> four more to go. >> we don...

>> so if i'm going to talk to a voter, i try to make sure what he's saying lines up with what polls say. >> yep. >> so if you're going to say, hey, it's cold today, and make that mean something, it should correlate with something. i think, look at chicago, for instance. nine of the ten coldest days in chicago history are in our lifetime, chris. >> right. >> only six of the ten hottest days in chicago are in our lifetime. the winters in chicago are getting colder since 1990. >> wait a second. >> a trend in chicago winters is cold, so to point out the cold is highlighting a trend that the data s...