and a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarter here's in new york. welcome, everyone, to "alex witt reports." new reaction this hour to president biden's build back better act and the ongoing negotiations to move it through the senate. >> having been in conversation with senator manchin and senator sinema over the last couple days, my strong view is that everybody is trying to find a path forward. you can always tell when people are trying to get to "yes" or whether to trying to find an excuse to say "no." i have a strong feeling democrats in the senate want to get to "yes." >> $1.6 trillion act includes

free universal pre-k and subsidies for day care and provided $555 billion to combat climate change, decreasing state and local taxes, expands child tax credits for a year can and allows four weeks of paid family leave. >> now i'm home and going to be talking with thousands of parents who every single day in my district worry they're going to pay for khiel care and be able to make sure they can go to work and not figure how they're going to pay for grocery bills and their rent. that's what the child tax credit being extend willed do for them. >> democrats may still find it a hard sell for their own colleagues in the senate who previously opposed paid family leave, higher s.a.l.t. deductions and immigration reform. some already pushing back on those who see it as socialism. >> no. it's not a government takeover.

it is actually a government really enabling people to work and have a decent standard of living. it's very exciting. >> so the president says he is continuing negotiations with senators and also celebrating his 79th birthday today making him the oldest sitting president in u.s. history. we're going to go first to capitol hill right now. nbc julie tsirkin there for us. facing challenges in the senate. how does this play out? >> reporter: alex, remember all of those things that the senate punted to end of the year? government funding, defense spending. well, it's end of the year bp so they're going to have a lot of work to do when they come back from thanksgiving recess that doesn't revolve around build back better, but that's okay, because they have time. that bill, the $1.6 trillion social safety net and climate plan that just passed the house yesterday, boy, it's got a lot of work in the senate before

they're ready to consider it. let's take a listen to what congressman jamaal bowman said on msnbc earlier this morning. >> all eyes are now on the senate right now, and all eyes are on manchin and sinema. the last leg of the president's agenda passed infrastructure framework and house passed build back better. final leg is the senate. all eyes are on the senate. >> reporter: alex what the progressive democrat from new york said is really important because it brings me back to something that jayapal, chairman of the congress' caucus said a couple weeks ago. remember when progressives in the house led by democratic leadership wanted both bills, that signed by president biden into law earlier and his build back better plan. overnight seemed things changed,

okay with the two bills going separate ways because they don't want to be the hurdle getting it over the finish line. procedural hurdles revenue concerns. trying to work through all of those things between senator manchin, senator sinema, other moderates concerned not only over the price tag but what's actually in the bill. things they may or may not support. over the next couple of weeks we'll see if the senate can produce a bill that goes back to the house and big and bold enough for house progressives to consider and to pass before heading to president biden's desk, and majority leader schumer in the senate told reporters this week he hopes that process can finish up by christmas. >> yep. let's hope. it's ready to go before 2022. thank you so much, julie tsirkin. let's go from there now to nbc's mike memoli. welcome. what is the president's reaction neglect step tore the build back better plan? what's he doing this weekend?

making calls? >> reporter: well, alex, you mentioned it. today is the president's 79th birthday. celebraing a personal milestone and tremendous week for his administration. monday, south lawn infrastructure plan, big vote in the house. something that we've been talking about every week, alex. never certain they'd even get that far for the reconciliation plan. in between saw the president out traveling the country on tuesday in new hampshire talking about bridges in that infrastructure plan. wednesday celebrating the new opening of a gm factory benefiting from investments in infrastructure and reconciliation plan. moving forward, the president knows there's a long way to go. we heard from him yesterday talking about the hope this will get done by end. year. let's listen. >> passed the house, when do you expect it to land on your desk? >> i don't know. a while to get through the

senate, i think. probably after thanksgiving. >> and -- >> i will sign it. period. >> reporter: now as you've been laying out we know this comes down to two senators. arizona's kyrsten sinema and west vap joe manchin. interesting to see the white house approach to both this week. saw senator sinema getting a prime speaking role at that bill signing ceremony at the white house and monday and saw pete buttigieg at her state doubling down, congratulating her. a big part of negotiating that. with joe manchin, quieter, behind the scenes. seen a shift in messaging around the white house to emphasize the fact in their view this will actually not only deal with inflation, actually brings down costs for millions of americans, eve than cbo score, white house putting spin on it despite ma the cbo found economists say this will reduce the deficit. a message aimed squarely at joe

manchin. expect the white house and top officials and perhaps the president himself to be in touch with both of those senators as we move ahead, but obviously taking a bit of a breath to celebrate his birthday, the holiday, before they get back to worth. >> could use his birthday as a strategy. call both saying it's my birthday today. what i'd really like as a gift from you? go from there. that's just -- my advice. pass it on. you always have the inside track with that. thank you so much, mike memoli. joining me now, congressman conor lamb. congressman, a big welcome to you. you're joining me from a microbrewery there in erie, pennsylvania. so you're out and about on this saturday. talk about the house passing the build back better act. what part of that benefits your constituents the most? and what do you expect to the hear from them where are you right now? or when you are home during the

thanksgiving recess overall? >> so many good things. it's almost hard to choose. i would say that in my congressional district, we are much older than the nation as a whole. so the fact that we have finally allowed medicare to bargain over the price of prescription drugs is really huge, and particularly in thes $35 cap on insulin is going to mean a lot. the jobs in the infrastructure bill means so much to us in western pennsylvania, almost all of our infrastructure is getting close to 100 years old. and then i would say the child care provisions in this are revolutionary. if you could only pick one thing, pulling half a million children out of poverty is as good a thing to be involved in in public life. a great achievement for us. >> 100%. everall americans dealing with inflation and higher prices with just about everything. what is your response to constituents worried that

increased government spending could then drive up inflation? is there a cause effect there? >> there is absolutely nothing inflationary about preschool, about making sure that people can pay their hospital bills, about making sure that people can pay for insulin. the republicans just oppose these things, because we're for them. and they use the word "inflationary" to try to scare people. inflation is real. americans are struggling with it. the difference between the two parties i say is we know the cause of it. cause is the pandemic. ultimately the cause of this is the pandemic and we are the party at every level of government is working hard every day to try to end the pandemic. we also are trying to work to get people back in the workforce by taking care of their children. one cause of inflation is there aren't enough workers, companies have to pay more to hire people to work at places like this one i am now and biggest category of worker not back in the workforce

are people with kids age 5 and younger. our bill will start to change that. no silver bullet but trying things every day to try to help people and all i hear from the other side, attacks, hysteria, criticisms with no real idea of their own. >> get to the price. the cost. cbo said that even with the revenue from the irs, that the build back better bill could add at minimum, $160 billion to the deficit. why are democrats confident this bill will be fully paid for? why rely on the cbo score for built but reject its estimate for the irs part of the analysis? >> well, nobody's perfect, including the cbo. it's important always to get their advice, which is what it is. just advice. and i take their advice seriously. i don't happen to agree with them on the irs portion. even if it's $160 billion out of, you know, $2 trillion worth of spending that means we got almost all the way there, and

during kevin mccarthy's 8.5 hour unhinged diatribe the other night i had time to look things up and one of the things i looked up was that americans will spend more than $160 billion on candy in the next decade. on candy alone. so this is something our society is able to afford. and the value of what we're getting at from it is what is so important. kids that are 3 and 4 years old will be able to go to school no matter how much money they're parents make. seniors will no longer have to choose between their food and medicine. in a lot of cases. people who otherwise couldn't afford to go to a doctor will get to go, because the affordable care act subsidies stay in place. the list goes on and on and on. this is a great value. it's an investment. not just government spending. it's government investment and going to give working-plass people and middle-class people a shot like they never had before. that's why it's build back better. making things better than before the pandemic. what we ran on and what people

asked us to do. >> curious. how long did you stay for the unhinged diatribe? there until 5:10 a.m.? >> no. i stayed for about half of it and then when it became clear it wasn't ending i went home and got some sleep. i wanted to take their arguments seriously. the problem is they don't have an argument. they have complaints. i kept looking for the answer to a simple question, which was, why is it too much money now and it wasn't too much money four years ago when they passed the tax cut for millionaires and billionaires and they never answered why we could afford it in that case and not this one. fact is, there is no answer. taking a different group of people to help than we are. we're trying to help average people. they were trying to help the wealthy. >> you, sir, are running for pennsylvania's u.s. senate seat trying to replace outgoing republican pat toomey. how much do you think the build back better and infrastructure bills will help democrat, help you potentially flip this seat?

>> i think they're going to help a lot. you know, in different communities, they have different priorities, within our state. but just the infrastructure piece. it is what comes up in so much of our state. that you have towns that were doing better 40 years ago than today. they need new investment. you know? that's in all different forms. road and bridges but also internet. water systems. power plants. it's putting local people to work on those local projects. because pennsylvanians are proud where they live and want to stay there generation after generation, but you need jobs for that. trump talk and all of this, promised all of it delivered none of it. we're delivering it and we delivered it, by the way, with votes from both parties. two things people want. bringing jobs to our state and also working together across the aisle, but it took democrats getting into power in governments to make it happen and convince the other the to work with us even though a small number, still there. i think it all delivers on the

promises that we've made and the things that people tell me they want. >> okay. pennsylvania congressman conor lamb, sure you have your track shoes on for the run ahead of you. we'll be watching closely and look forward to speaking with you along the way. thanks so much. acquitted on all charges. protesters took to the streets in brooklyn, new york, portland, oregon as well as kenosha, wisconsin last night after the jury handed down its verdicts in the trial of kyle rittenhouse. that after 25 hours of deliberations. rittenhouse charged with fatally shooting two men and injuring another during unrest in wisconsin last sur. now the loved ones of the victims are saying it's time to reform the justice system. >> every day i wish that i could come home to him, but i can't. because he's dead. and now the system is telling me that nobody needs to answer for that. >> nbc's liz mclaughlin joins me

from outside that courthouse in kenosha. one response, certainly. a very personal and poignant one. what about others? how are they responding to the verdict? >> reporter: alex, many legal experts weren't necessarily surprised by the outcome of the verdict because of the way wisconsin self-defense laws and many other states' self-defense laws are written but it sparked a wider debate about the defense of self-defense and what that should include. in this case, soon as kyle rittenhouse said he acted in self-defense, the burden rested on the prosecution to disprove that. one pivotal moment in the case, rittenhouse himself took the stand and we heard more from the defense attorney mark richards, or one of his defense attorneys, about the decision to put him on that stand. >> had to put him on. there wasn't a close call. at certain points we wondered whether we would put him on. we did -- we had a mock jury,

and we did two different juries. one with him testifying. one without him testifying. it was substantially bet whir he testified to a marked degree. >> reporter: and the perception of kyle rittenhouse largely was him, you know, an 18-year-old man now, but that he was a boy, and would a person of color be perceived differently is a wider conversation about the inequities in the justice system. race certainly not a consider in this trial. the victims and defendants both white, but compare and contrasting other cases, would a person of color have had this same outcome? and that's really sparking discussion about the way our laws are written, and that perception from the jury and -- well-funded defense team here, when he took the stand very well

rehearsed, well prepared. very careful with his words and emotional breakdown at one point that could have a factor here. biden saying the jury system works, and we have to stand behind this decision. kamala harris had a bit of a different take. she said in a tweet yesterday, today's verdict speaks for itself. i've spent a majority of my career working to make our criminal justice system more equitable. it's three there's still a lot more work to do, and there's a lot of outrage from some people about that and looking forward at some reforms that may need to take place or may take place because of this verdict. alex? >> okay. liz mclaughlin in kenosha, thank you for that. an ed terrill no today's "wisconsin journal" sending a chilling message to wisconsin and the rest of the country. goes on to say the disappointing verdict is sure to embolden militant people who seek to take the law into their own hands. speaking with reverend al sharpton an potential for a rise

in vigilantes in just a few minutes. meantime, breaking news and a statistic in the coronavirus pandemic. number of covid deaths in this year surpazzed total from all of 2020. according to federal data and johns hopkins university. total number reported deaths from both years combined has topped 773,000 today. cdc also says there was a higher undercount of covid deaths last year. this very grim news comes as cases are again rising in several u.s. states. more on the pandemic and the expanded booster eligibility ahead for you. meantime, coronavirus is not the only concern for americans this holiday. millions closely watching the weather and bracing for the possible impact. starting sunday and going into monday, you can expect strong winds from the midwest to the atlantic al with areas of heavy lake-effect snow and the coldest air and windchills of the season. there could be delays on several

interstates including parts of icht-80, i-90 and i-95 and the airports could get hit hardest include cincinnati, cleveland and boston. so heads up travelers. people looking to get a head start on holiday travel to avoid the weather as number of people flying for thanksgiving this year expected to break pandemic records. we're at laguardia airport. hello to you. how's it looking? >> reporter: alex, things starting to pick unhere at laguardia and what you see now is beginning of the holiday getaway. the tsa estimates screening approximately 20 million americans now through next weekend. officials say they're prepared to handle the surge. holiday travel is kicking into high gear with millions getting a jump-start at airports. >> going to chicago. for thanksgiving. to see my mom. >> reporter: and on the roads. >> coming from baltimore. on the road three hours now. trying to avoid the traffic as

much as possible. >> reporter: aaa estimates more than 53 million thanksgiving travelers this year. a 13% increase from 2020 and the highest single-year jump since 2005. even with gas prices averaging $3.41 a gallon over $1 more than last year, the vast majority of americans will be driving to their destinations. with wednesday afternoon expected to hit peak congestion. but friday marked one of the busiest days for passenger traffic at l.a.x. with air travel approaching pre-pandemic levels airport officials say arrive early and be patient. >> the level of unruly behavior is much higher than i've ever seen it. >> unruly passenger needs to get off the airplane. >> reporter: more than 5,200 incidents reported to the faa this year. they're cracking down with hefty fines. up to $37,000 per violation. >> don't ruin your travel plans. don't ruin holiday plans,

because you couldn't behave for a few hours and couldn't control your temp control your alcohol. >> reporter: right in the middle of a bustling travel week, bad weather could be to blame for delays. and this week since a lot of folks will travel first time since the pandemic, probably a good idea to do some early planning. familiarize yourself with your airline. check in process also covid requirements, like wearing a mask which is still required at airports and on flights. and then remember to arrive at the airport early. at least two hours for domestic flights, and at least three hours for international travel. alex? >> thank you so much for the reminder on all that. a self-defense claim won an acquittal in wisconsin. is is that verdict a harbinger of what could come in the ahmaud arbery case? reverend al sharpton's thoughts coming your way, next. thought coming your way, next. customers on magenta max can get the new iphone 13 pro— and t-mobile will pay for it!

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new fierce today over whether the kyle rittenhouse verdict will lead to a rise in vigilante activity. the teenager cleared on all five counts related to killing two protesters and wounding of a third man during a demonstration over a wisconsin police shooting in the summer of 2020. today the editorial board of the wisconsin state journal says the verdict sends a chilling message to the country. joining me now to discuss, the reverend al sharpton president and ceo of the national action network and host of "politicsnation" right here on msnbc. good friend. rev, when i look what you do, you made marches and demonstrations all over the united states. you're looking at situations like this and civil rights of all people. what does this verdict mean for the future of, first of all, protests? >> it is a very chilling and startling acquittal, in the sense that now it really gives

license to people that are opposed to a protest to feel they can come in with a notion that they are going to do damage, and use as a defense if they do that damage, that they felt threatened and, therefore, it was self-defense, and cite the rittenhouse verdict as a legal basis for them to argue self-defense. this is frightening for those of us that are engaged in protests, and we've been saying all day today, in the action network we have to be alert at demonstrations because this gives a real opening. remember, in the same year as january 6th. you have the book end of the capitol insurrection in january and now the rittenhouse verdict to say that you can do violence and get away with it. >> another thing that comes to mind, which is the trayvon

martin verdict and how that played out. so are you worried that there is precedence being set? >> i'm worried that precedence is being set which is why the legislature must on a federal level put a clear definition around what is self-defense, what is allowable to supersede state law, because the wisconsin law was a bar so high they could argue self-defense and leave room for doubt. because you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt. obviously it is not reasonable what she have in the lawbooks there so that the lawyers for rittenhouse was able to argue that. we must change the laws, but we must change them federal so we're not dealing state by state. >> so the rittenhouse case is in the books but as you know monday the closing arguments are set to begin in the trial for the killing of ahmaud arbery. those defendants they're also claiming self-defense but let's watch together a little part of

testimony from travis mcmichael. he's the man who fired the shot that killed arbery. >> hasn't said ning r anything to you? >> not said anything. >> hasn't verbally threatened you. >> verbally, no. >> still running with hands at his sides. >> directly fords me, yes, ma'am. >> hasn't pull out ought gun. >> i hadn't seen a weapon. >> and hasn't shown you a weapon the entire time? >> he hasn't. >> hasn't says a word the entire tommy. >> the entire time. >> just run away from you. >> run past mere, yes, ma'am. >> and you pulled out a shotgun and pointed it at him? >> so that line of questioning, will that hold up in court? >> it certainly should. when you, unlike rittenhouse, there is wa no weapon, no gun, no back and forward argument at all, and the defendant admitted this on the stand, that he was

never threatened, never saw a weapon, and he had the only weapon that was visible. how would you argue? this would be worse than rittenhouse. the makeup of the jury was disturbing to us in a city that a 55% black. you have 11 whites and only 1 black on the jury, but even that jury must be able to say, how were you defending yourself, defending yourself against what? in order to have a defense you need an offense. what was the offense? no gun. no verbal threat. there was nothing that was threatening you, and had a gun. what were you defending yourself from when, in fact, the only one that had deadly force was you? >> well, i mean, you can speculate what he was defending himself from, and i'm recalling something said early on the broadcast here that stuck with me. that is that mr. mcmichael, he never said that he was making a citizen's arrest. that is the law.

that he was following allegedly when he went after ahmaud arbery. he never communicated that with him. here you have men in a truck, some standing in the back of a pick-up truck, with guns running after him without saying we're making a citizen's arrest. i mean -- what could possibly be going through his mind? >> ahmaud arbery was not defying the citizen's arrest, if that's the citizen's arrest because he never announced it. a black man in rural georgia, deep south and three white guys cut knee often and their statement by police had him trapped like a rat. why would you think they were making a citizen's arrest? why wouldn't you think these were whites getting ready to lynch me? even then he kept running everywhere card cordoned him off never saying i'm making a citizen's arrest what is that in

anyone's mind but a mob determined to do you harm. >> you mentioned makeup of the jury. there are 14 whites, 1 black. closing arguments, they get the case. you led a march of 100 black pasters on thursday outside the courthouse, rev. in response to racially charged comments from one of the defense lawyers. the jury was not present for those remarks, and the prosecution has not really brought up race, but what role do you think race will ultimately play? >> well, i think that race is whether, whether brought up or not, compelling if you look at the fact what was the reason they felt this young man was, in fact, doing something wrong? other than he was a black guy that had gone and looked at a house that was being constructed and we have seen during the trial that there were whites that went and looked at the house being constructed. so they weren't chasing them.

they had not went and hunted them down. so clearly, race is a factor. then when you have a defense lawyer says after i went in last wednesday and sat with the family at the family's invitation, no more black pastors, and then when others came in, we don't need civil rights icons. he has brought race in. to say black pastors. he didn't even say pastors or ministers. he said black pastors. how do we know they're not sitting in the defendant's family? they're sitting in the courtroom? does anyone know who the defendants had in the courtroom? no. the issue, they did not want black pastors there because we're there to comfort the family, there to give them solace in a time that they're looking at the killers of their son. why wouldn't they want some people that would be there to give them spiritual counsel and to give them encouragement when that mother and that father has to sit there every day and look at the people that killed their

son? >> yeah, yeah. totally brutal. let me ask you quickly. only a couple seconds. malcolmxexoneration of two men that spent decades behind bars for the killing exonerated this week. what does that mean for their families? >> it is devastating, because they lost their lives on something that, well, the evidence did not hold up at all and, in fact, evidence was withheld, and ironically, this is what malcolm x preached about in his life. he became a victim of it in death and these two men living became a victim of that. in many ways it showed what malcolm talked about has now become the issue of this nation and the issue of this day. >> thank you, my friend. what everyone know what you're going. 5:00, reverend is interviewing father of jacob blake, jacob blake sr. as well as the mother of ahmaud arbery, wanda

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well, this weekend all american adults are lmgts to get their coronavirus booster shots. that's if they had their last dose six months ago or longer. this as only 59% of people in the u.s. are fully vaccinated and as cases are rising in at least 17 u.s. states. joining me now to talk about this, dr. blackstock, msnbc medical contributor and founder of advancing health equity. welcome back, doctor. get into this. now that all adults are eligible long as you've had your second shot or one j&j shot six months

or longer ago. why should younger people get getting that? >> thank you for having me back on. that's the question. the reason why is because the studies have shown there is waning immunity against infection, meaning that if people are more than two months out from their johnson & johnson, more than six months out from an mrna vaccine they are more likely to get infections. we're concerned the breakthrough infections could be contributing to the cases we are seeing. that is why young people even though healthy should get vaccinated. >> okay. so, then, by that explanation, do you think that booster shots might be an annual thing like the flu shot? can we booster ow way out of this pandemic? >> to be honest, a-of-i do think at the very least we will be boosting yearly. for covid. because we are seeing that after a certain number of months, there is decreased effectiveness of the vaccine against

infection. i want to point out that the vaccine still holds up against the most severe outcome, disease, hospitalizations and deaths, but we are seeing those breakthrough infections months after people get fully vaccinated. there is a chance we are probably going to see yearly boosters. we should set up that expectation to the general public. whether we can boost ourselves out of this next surge, i don't think mainly we should rely on boosting. we have to also focus on vaccinating the unvaccinated and also continuing those met gatien measures like mask wearing indoors that we know also prevent the spread of coronavirus. >> uh-huh. you mentioned next serge. in fact, there is an uptick is case ace cross country. what about the winter months? what do you foresee for the pandemic, and how much will be long overdue, family gathering, challenge how we're going to deal with the virus? >> right. i will say i'm definitely concerned wa we're seeing

especially over the last week in terms of uptick in cases and hospitalizations. we know death also could be a lagging indicator and heading into the cold weather as you mentioned. holiday season. people socializing indoors. i think that we can actually look to what's going on in europe as a harbinger of things to come. usually what happens in europe eventually happens here. i think we are going to have to be incredibly cautious over the next few weeks. have to make sure there are policies in place and to protect people. that means testing, mask wearing, you know, making sure you're indoors you're venlating. the layers we know are incredibly effective and synergistic when used together. >> you mentioned the masks. in fact, this week michigan issued a face masked a visery, but you have washington, d.c. which is easing its mask requirements, still recommending it, though. is it time to ease up on wearing them?

>> alex, to be totally honest, i was shocked when i heard d.c. was rescinding their mask mandate. couldn't happen at a worse time especially as cases are increasing. i'm not sure of the reasoning behind that but i think it is incredibly ill-advised. iky think of a better time as people head indoors, cold weather, socializing more because of the holidays to wear a mask. we know masks, it has a moest effect on the spread of coronavirus. also i do think localities in states should seriously consider reinstituted think mask mandates over the next few weeks to months heading into the cold weather. >> let me ask you quick about the flu. the cdc sin vest gating a flu outbreak in michigan, florida, new jersey and rhode island colleges. are fewer folks gettingly in shots this fall and if so, why? >> i think that what we're

seeing, a slight uptick in flu for several reasons. i think because restrictions have been dropped. people are not wearing masks as often. not home. socializing more, and why we're seeing increase in flu we didn't see last winter because most people were still at home wearing masks. remote learning was happening. we have to be even more cautious. i think inners it of the flu shot the messages should be important in terms of communicating that flu is still quite dangerous. even though covid is ten times more deadly than the flu, people still need vaccinated. seeing people in my practice coming in to get vaccinated but not as many as i hoped. >> hmm. okay. sobering that is certainly. doctor, thank you so much for your insight. always appreciate them. a top chinese tennis star has seemingly disappeared after openly accusing a retired communist party leader of sexual assault. is she in hiding or did

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one of the world's top tennis stars is still missing and hasn't been heard from or seen for weeks. now the biden administration is joining the calls for answers to where is peng shuai? in beijing we have more. what's the latest? >> reporter: alex, far more

questions than credible answers about peng shuai, her whereabouts and well-being as chinese officials and state media try to dispel anything is wrong. the world wants to know where is peng shuai? not seen or heard from in public for weeks since an accusing a senior official of sexual assault. even the biden administration getting involved. >> we are deeply concerned about reports peng shuai appears to be missing. >> reporter: circulating evidence that peng is okay including undated photos of her and email to the women's tennis association that the wta doesn't believe peng wrote or sent. editor of a state-run tabloid says peng will make an appearance soon. rallying behing peng, former number one doubles champion,

women's tennis association what's a full investigation. >> this can thought be swept under the rug. it can't be condoned. >> reporter: if authorities don't act, wta says it will pull its tournaments and boycott 100. it's important, because this is horrifying. i mean, to -- a person is missing. >> earlier this month, peng alleged on social media that she had an affair with an ex-vice premier and included a claim that he forced her into sex. the post vanished, and peng shuai's accounts are no longer searchable. chinese officials refuse to address it, saying it's, quote, not a foreign affairs matter. >> you have to know that she is free and safe to speak and certainly the wta officials would like to speak to her directly. >> reporter: with the winter olympics coming up, the mystery around peng shuai and her claim are inviting new scrutiny for china as well as talk of a diplomatic boycott. we have made multiple requests

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