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The committee talking to former attorney general bill barr. what we know about that conversation. plus anti-vax advocates march on washington to protest covid mandates and spread their misinformation as health officials say the omicron spread could hit its peak by next month. and would former president trump hang his own kids out to dry to save himself? the pressure is mounting as multiple investigations close in. we're just getting started here on "american voices." getting s on "american voices. your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown...

Challenges that have fallen, you know, over the last few months in terms of the federal mandate and the business mandate are really quite unfortunate because they're going to lead to the pandemic being prolonged. >> well, to that point, earlier dr. fauci expressed optimism about omicron cases peaking in the u.s. take a listen. >> but if the pattern follows the trend that we're seeing in other places, such as the northeast, i believe that you will start to see a turnaround throughout the entire country. we don't want to get overconfident, but they all look like they're going in the right direct...

Of omicron spread through the united states, it is probably not going to evade the immunity we acquired and not going to cause a second wave of infection like delta caused a wave of infection or ba.1.1.7 did, it could set up a longer tail where it gets in and starts to spread. you don't see a sharp decline on the back end. i believe we are going to see cases come down pretty sharply, but they could get extended out a longer period of time than what we perceive and certainly longer than what we saw on the way up. >> we've been talking a lot this week, there's an idea of being done with covid. i...

And to talk about how we can protect society's most vulnerable as we had seen them so devastated during the first couple of variants from covid. so we always think about them and how we can protect them the most. so december 10th came around. we were watching what was happening around the world. we saw what had happened in south africa. we saw how quickly omicron spread. we saw what was happening in england, the u.k. we were studying what was happening around the globe and saying this is coming our way. we know this is coming to new york and we need to be prepared for that. so literally on dec...

In january. the strong numbers come despite last month's omicron surge that saw 3.6 million workers out sick. the highest amount since the start of the pandemic. some good news on the covid front. the omicron spread is slowing and new cases are falling in 49 of 50 states. the only state that's actually still seeing an increase is alabama, but in the rest of the country cases are down nearly 30%. with that positive development comes some sad news. the death toll in the u.s. just passed 900,000 fatalities and, unfortunately, the number of people dying every day is increasing. all right, in minne...