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"the lead" starts right now. new witness tran scripts released from the january 6th committee, including one from donald trump's own son, and an unusual request from one sitting gop senator. then, officials are calling it the largest russian missile strike since the war began. ukrainians say it could have been so much worse. plus, some signs of relief on the horizon for tens of thousands of southwest pas passengers who have been stuck in the airline's meltdown for now eight days. welcome to "the lead," i'm phil mattingly. and we begin with our politics lead and new insight into...

Vaccination rates, that has to be the biggest concern to some degree. what level of concern do you have about new variants? >> well, the more virus we have circulating in this country and around the world, the more opportunity there is for the virus to mutate. it's important for people to understand that we actually have a program in this country to look for variants of concern entering the iunited states. we test about 10% of arriving passengers at seven airports around the united states, and this gives us actually some surveillance on the pattern of virus entering the united states. so, we h...