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Janis mackey frayer is live in beijing with the latest on this. what's the takeaway on this speech and xi's tone admitting the toll covid has played there? we saw a lot of backlash. >> reporter: steven, as china begins to reopen, streets and cities like beijing are getting busy again, but sadly so too are the hospitals with china's own experts bracing for 800 million people to be infected with covid by spring. now, that speech by xi jingping also made a subtle reference to protests against the zero covid policy here when he talked of divergent opinions being normal in a big country. he's urged...

Within minutes of his opening statement in iowa, he mentioned ted cruz and fact that he's opposed to ethanol subsidies, a key initial iowa. >> with the ethanol, really he's got to come a long way because he's right now for the oil. i understand it. oil pays him a lot of money. he's got to be for oil, right? the oil companies give him a lot of money. but i'm with you. i'm with everybody. >> with trump saying that snared cruz is beholden to oil companies, it's clear that the republican race is entering a news phase. as republican candidates gather in las vegas next week for the final debate of t...

Enter this news phase apparently is because of the new phrase that we had heard from the administration over the course of the last ten days, an orderly transition. a great deal of concern about the structure that are or were in place in egypt, the lack of a viable opposition after 30 years of rule from hosni mubarak, the fact that the kpuconstitution o egypt at this point calls for elections within 60 days. secretary clinton was in munich, germany, for a security summit over the weekend. on the way back in an interview, she cited the fact that that 60 days was probably not adequate and very f...

Cover a couple of them now but overall in the hard news phase, it's been pretty good. >> that's good to hear. all right. let's talk about some of the blips, as you put them. it's interesting, over on another newschannel, fella by the name of chris matthews compared what is happening on the streets of cairo and the muslim brotherhood which has extremist ties to the tea party. here's a clip. >> so the muslim brotherhood has a parallel role here with the tea party. they're the ones that keep you honest and decide whether you've stayed too long, whether you've got a sell by date looming. >> there'...

Tans answer to, is it a personal scandal day or a disastrous news day, i think the answer is now, yes. every day. it's all of those things, all at once now. failure, scandal, chaos, it's all coming together, people. i don't think that's good, but i do think that we are in sort of a news phase when there's no point in distinguishing between those two different types of things going seriously wrong in our government. we have a bunch of things to get to tonight. it looks like the president may not be able to confirm his nominee to be secretary of state, which means he may have kicked mike pompeo ...