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Outdoor celebration for judge ketanji brown jackson here at the white house. despite the spike in cases around the president, there are no plans to beef up mitigation measures. so those who will be close to him will be tested beforehand, but there is no mask mandate. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, weijia jiang at the white house. thank you. tonight, cbs news has confirmed the justice department is investigating former president donald trump's removal of presidential records to his mar-a-lago resort. trump took about 15 boxes of records to florida. the national archives says those boxes contai...

Who is the way to proceed. with the uptick in cases we reduced density of the crowd and we're also mandating that people wear masks. we've spoken with medical experts and have some heard from some medical experts that this is a safer way to proceed. >> one of the questions i think a lot of us have had is how do you enforce for 15,000 people the mitigation measures that i think you've put in place and that are critical here? >> so, the new york city police department has perfected a plan over the years of screening revelers as they enter times square. we've added one layer slightly upstream whe...

Isn't sufficient. wear a surgical mask and a cloth mask on top of it. as you point out in your opening, jonathan, we really can't afford to gather in groups of 50, 60 people indoors. that's just a recipe for disaster as far as the virus. avoid large crowds, practice safety, get tested and practice other mitigation measures including vaccinations and boosters, jonathan. >> brittny, let me end with you real quickly. is the wild spread of omicron more or less convincing your unvaccinated family to get vaccinated? >> yeah, i'm actually in palm desert now because my sister is getting her vaccine do...

Remarks today on the rapidly spreading omicron variant and the steps the white house is taking to address it. we'll hear the latest data on omicron as public health officials say it is unclear when it will peak. >> that is difficult to predict. we've seen the rise to the peak, it's been several weeks in south africa and united kingdom. we're cautious about printing what we will experience here in the united states. covid has made many predictions wrong. we focus on taking the mitigation measures. >> reporter: we're expecting an announcement whether the cdc will revise its quarantine guidelines...

States. >> what is important for people to understand is that there's some of this funding that hasn't been spent in certain states to put in place mitigation measures. now is the time for that. >> senator john barrasso says there has to be accountability for the money that was passed. he wants to know where the money has gone because most of it hasn't been spent. martha? >> martha: let's bring in ari fleischer and juan williams. good to have you here. you have 14% of the 5 trillion that has not been spent. 14% of $5 trillion, i can't do the math but that's a lot of money. why would we be cons...