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You. i'm in for eric shawn. travel restrictions on eight african countries are set to take effect in the u.s. tomorrow, president biden announcing the move in an effort to prevent the variant from reaching our showers. the cdc says they haven't received confirmed reports of omicron cases in the u.s. but this morning the director of the national institutes of health saying this is about the president's move. >> given the current circumstance out of an abundance of caution, seeing this is the most serious new variant we've seen in several months it made sense for us at least for a temporary meas...

This basement in a war of words between the president and the speaker caps off a road show where the president oscillated between decorum and settling scores. he spoke at the commemoration of the anniversary of d-day after taping the interview where he called speaker pelosi a disaster. speaker pelosi declined to comment on the latest insults. joined by the senator from california, barbara boxer. white house reporter for the associated press and eugene scott, political reporter for "the washington post." i have to go to jonathan first. what did it smell like, this weird five days. >> we just la...

Like this. e.j., jonathan and tiffany are back with me. i'm going to go to jonathan first. this is a lot of people. there has to be a way to whittle this down. we have asked all of you guys to give us your top tier. give me your top five out of this list. >> okay. senator harris of california. the former governor of virginia, terry mcauliffe is my top five if former vice president joe biden doesn't get into the race, he would be the third one on my list. new orleans mayor mitch landru is on my list. he speaks in a way that i think would resonate with the democratic party, certainly with africa...

Dawson. i'm going to go to jonathan first. the strategy in 2004 was effective in using gay maishlg to win elections. do you think that's what donald trump was doing here? >> yes, if his goal is to distract from real problems in the west wing. it seems to come from completely out of the blue. i remember getting the news alert that he had done this via twitter, and gasping at the notion that the president of the united states announced a major policy change in three separate tweets and not only banning transgender americans from service in the military, those who would want to join, but also mak...

Strangely evasive. you know, i was just in moscow myself last week, and what's amazing to me about this whole story is, you know, you hear carter page kind of conveying his efforts to clarify things to the russian press. the russians are also kind of befuddled by what's going on. maybe someone at the very, very top knows what the whole story is. but most of the russians i talk to don't really have a clue. and i think most worrisome of all, if there was a plot to intervene in the u.s. election, what they're worried about is it's totally exploded in their faces now, and president trump is more h...