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full court press to try to get their economic message out in the 11th hour. there are still questions over how big of a campaign footprint president biden will make in the next 12 days. over house republicans weighing impeachment hearings if they retake the majority. former presidents obama and trump set to kick off a tour of dueling campaign rallies to try to help turnout ahead of election day. an update on the tripledemic fears, with rsv, covid and the flu surging at hospitals. good day. the white house is feeling a sense of urgency to remind voters of their legislative victories, as republican optimism over retaking the house and senate grows by the day. the administration's immediate answer, get cabinet officials into battleground states to try

to help candidates. mike memoli has been covering the story and joins us from syracuse, new york, ahead of the president's event there this afternoon. you write this is about reinforcing the president's economic message. it is being boosted by solid gdp numbers today. are voters feeling it's too late? >> reporter: there's no doubt that the number one issue facing this administration, the number one issue for the headwinds democrats are facing across the country is the concerns about the economy. it's an issue the president has been focused on repeatedly, as i have been traveling with him over the last few weeks, at events like the one he will hold here in syracuse today, talking about an economic expansion plan by a major tech giant that results from one of the legislative accomplishments from democrats, the chips and science act. according to officials, we will hear the president make a closing argument, tieing some of the themes that he has been talking about over the last few weeks, the last few days even, into a real argument to voters,

putting forth the case for why they should keep democrats in control of congress. the argument boils down to this, according to administration officials. we understand the concerns of the american people about the economy. costs are too high. they're going to make the point that this is what the administration has done working with democrats to address it. they will talk about things they want to do in the future if they keep control of congress. i think what's going to separate this speech from what we heard in the past is a sharp contrast with what they are arguing republicans are putting forward. the president is going to put forward the idea that if republicans follow through on their pledge to repeal one of the big legislative accomplishments, the inflation reduction act, you will see prescription costs go up, energy costs go up. it's an important opportunity that's going to be reinforced by more than a half dozen cabinet members today. but we have seen dozens over the last month all across the country, including at events with some of the democratic candidates that maybe don't watt the president coming. the location is also interesting here today.

we are in new york. obviously, thought of as a blue state. this congressional district where the president is going to speak today is one of only ten congressional districts, according to our friends at the cook political report, republican held and toss-up seats. democrats have been playing defense. this is an example where the president is actually trying to go on offense, winning a republican-held seat that really should be in democratic hands. this is a district the president won in 2020. we should note, there's defense happening here. governor kathy hochul of new york, she's running for her first full term in office. she's going to be in attendance. she's in a tougher race than any analysts were expecting a few weeks ago. that's one of the other headwinds, that is crime. we will see the president focus squarely on the economy today. >> mike memoli, thank you. want to bring in victoria defrancesco, brendon buck and

michael steele. hello to all of you. victoria, is it the right strategy right now to keep president biden mostly off the campaign trail and let others, like, for example, former president obama, take that spotlight? >> right. it depends. where are we talking about? are we talking about mobilizing a base that is deeply blue and deeply democratic? then in that case, yes, it does make sense to have president biden there. if we're talking about a district or a state that is swinging one way or the other, you want to get someone who is a little bit more removed from this current administration. in this case, barack obama. there is no generalized answer there. there is the issue, whoever is out speaking, it's about the economy. hindsight is 20/20. democrats should have spent more time talking about the economy than social issues or abortion during summer, something bernie sanders was sounding the alarm

about. it has to be about the economy. whoever that messenger is, that's the theme. >> some republican candidates in the battleground states are hitting the economy and crime on the campaign trail. it seems to be resonating. is it more policy or perception based? >> it's resonating because that's what people are seeing in their communities. they have seen upticks in crime across the country. they are seeing prices every single day, that's why republicans i think are in such good position. they have been so focused on this issue that's front and center to people's everyday lives. they have been like that all year long. democrats, particularly the white house, have been bouncing all over the place for a long time. they tried to make abortion the issue of the election. i understand why they needed to. they needed to turn out their base. even this last minute messaging, the 11th hour and throwing out talk about cutting social security and repealing the inflation reduction act. these are last minute changes to

your messaging. i'm glad they are focussed on the economy now. but it takes a while for a message to sink in. they have been so all over the place. they have not had a consistent message. republicans have been focused on the two issues that are front and center, they look and feel like they are more attune to people's everyday concerns and anxieties. >> michael, news just came to us. liz cheney has announced her first endorsement of a democrat, putting her support behind michigan democrat slotkin. no love lost between cheney and her party. does this surprise you? do you expect more democratic endorsements from liz cheney? >> it doesn't surprise me. 13 days out, okay. three months ago or six weeks ago or even a month ago, it would have been probably a little bit more impactful.

i understand it. for the benefit of this or any other endorsements that come from someone like liz cheney, it will be helpful. there's a great number of undecided voters out there who have been flipping back and forth, sort of going through the channels, as it were. they will settle at some point in the next 13 days. early voting is under way. 12 million plus americans having voted, a significant increase over prior elections. those votes are cast. to my colleagues, the democrats are trying to figure out how to get those remaining voters who are in that early bucket to sort of settle on a democratic choice and then sort of figure out how to pivot to a general election day strategy that will help. that's where something like what liz is saying and doing may be beneficial. i could not agree more, i don't

know what the hell they were sleepwalking through over the past spring and summer. republican circles, two things, crime and the economy. when you saw that there was no repost to that, there was no counter to that, okay, just keep drilling on crime and the economy until they catch up. they are just now beginning to catch up. they may pay a prize for it. >> i want to go to georgia. herschel walker is denying another allegation from a woman who claims he urged her to have an abortion. will this have an impact on election day? >> i tend not to think so in that these allegations and the ones preceded it are baked in at this point. you haven't seen a lot of republicans running away from him. this is very much the tribalism of politics today. shirts versus skins, republican versus democrat. herschel walker's one debate, he did a good job of trying to reset the race in those stark

terms. who will control the majority, republicans or democrats? that's not to say this doesn't matter. these issues have been dogging him for a long time. a lot of people in the swing parts of georgia understand that herschel walker is a very flawed candidate. i that i will probably keep him below 50%, even if he does somehow top warnock. in georgia we have run-offs. if you don't get 50%, there's a run-off. i think there's enough women voters in the atlanta suburbs, educated voters who say, i may be conservative, but herschel walker is a bridge too far for me. i think this race is probably going to end up carrying into december. we will have more fun after november 8. >> victoria, we heard them talk about the shifting message we heard on the democratic side. can the white house sell this strong gdp report as potentially a turning point here to the economy? we know a lot of the legislation, the long-term issues, there's a long way to get prices back to where they used to be, but how do they use

this? >> it comes down to the macro versus micro. we got good macro news. at the end of the day, when you go to the gas station, fill your tank, you are trying to make ends meet at the grocery store, those macro numbers don't have that same affect. i think the time that it takes for that to hit the microjust isn't there. i think this is what is especially going to be hurtful for those interest voters, those view voters that still exist that are switching back and forth the channels. had is not enough time to translate it into reality. >> if the economy and crime are really two of the top issues here that voters are using at the polls, what's the republican answer to those? what's their answer to how to make things better? >> some of it is based around traditional issues like tax cutting.

there have been floating of cutting social security which the democrats are trying to pick up and push that narrative out a little bit. there has not been a clarifying, give us the power, this is what we're going to do. mitch mcconnell said, give us the power and we will tell you what we will do afterwards. you know, the republicans caught the dog -- caught the car on abortion. they are likely to catch the car on this election, and come january, they have to start dealing with what happens in the economy. you are not going to be able to sit -- if you control the house -- and pretend you don't have a stake in this. both parties will find themselves in a ticklish position playing both defense and offense come january, because the american people -- this economy situation doesn't go away just because something happened on november 8th with an

election. it continues. there's going to have to be resolution through policy. we will see what happens. >> thank you all. breaking news. capitol riot defendant albuquerque copperhead sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for attacking a former metro police officer. ryan reilly joins us now. we know the officer spoke in court today. what did he say? >> reporter: that's right. he talked about the impact this had on his career. he would trade all of this fame and nooriety he gained in a moment for him to return to policing and talking about how he really -- this took away his policing career. a sentence of 90 months was handed out. ended up with 7 1/2 years.

a significant sentence handed down in the january 6 case as the court churns through a number of cases. we are waiting on a verdict in the case of a capitol police officer who tipped off another rioter to take down his facebook posts. that jury is still deliberating in the same courtroom that this albuquerque copperhead was sentenced to just under eight years now in the assault. >> quick, ryan, is this the longest sentence we have seen so far coming out of the capitol riot charges? >> reporter: it's among them. ten years is the longest we have seen in a separate case against a new york city police department officer, former new york city police department officer, but it's amongst the longest we have seen in a january 6 case. >> thank you. flashpoint. russia pushes unproven allegations that ukraine could use a dirty bomb as ukrainian forces work to loosen russia's grip. in iran, major protests mark 40 days since the death of mahsa

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russian president vladimir putin is blasting the west today saying that it is playing a dangerous, bloody and dirty game over ukraine. putin is accusing the west of seeking global domination and fuelling the war. matt bradley is in kyiv. more tough talk from putin here as russia claims that ukraine would use a so-called dirty bomb is the fear here that he would use this false flag premise as a justification for escalation? >> reporter: yeah, that's what the u.s. said, that's what ukraine said, that if putin is saying that ukraine is going to use a dirty bomb, that probably means that russia is going to be using a dirty bomb. we heard putin directly saying that he had heard about this dirty bomb talk and parroting what his defense minister had said earlier. just now, in the last couple of minutes, we heard vladimir putin

delivering yet another one of his greatest hits speeches. he was talking about how it was the u.s. and the west who incited the war in ukraine, not russia. he said that basically, russia is at war with not just the west but with western elites, the sort of decadent cosmopolitanism that you find in the west. this speech, it would have a pretty good home in a lot of cpac conferences or some right wing talk shops in europe or in the west where he complained about cancel culture. he brought up in the same discussion of the war in ukraine talk of transgender children and other issues that really have nothing to do with the geopolitical swirling interests going around in the region right here. nothing to do with the men that he is sending to die here in ukraine. it was a bit confused, more than a bit rambling. again, just the kind of thing we keep hearing clearly meant to

try to appeal to a certain sensibility in the west that really is leaning right wing. >> you have new reporting on kherson. what you can tell us? >> reporter: this southern city, there's a really a pregnant pause. it was taken early in the fighting by the russians. it has been occupied ever since. the people i am speaking to in kherson say the city has fallen very, very quiet. that's because a lot of the russian senior officers and their ukrainian collaborators, pro-russian ukrainians, of whom there are quite a few, have been evacuated from city. this if preparation for what the russians and the ukrainians are describing as a major battle to retake this city. the people i was speaking to say they are constantly being told, even by cars rolling down the street with loudspeakers on them and by text messages, that they need to leave the city immediately. that is an ominous warning,

especially when it comes on the heels of a dirty bomb and some of the statements from the state energy company saying they have seen movements around the nearby zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is occupied by the russians and which makes it seem as though the russians are looking at some of this spent nuclear fuel. we don't have any details what exactly that would mean. again, it's very hard to pin down exactly what the next move is going to be. it looks as though with ukrainians bearing down on kherson and the emptiness of the city, that we could see a blistering battle there that might not see the city survive. >> matt bradley, thank you. new unrest is rocking iran with protests across the country there after the death of mahsa amini. violence erupted overnight after huge crowds gathered at her grave. some of the protests turning deadly as demonstrators defied a government crackdown to mark 40 days since her death. look at this really powerful image of a young woman, not

wearing a head scarf, stand on the roof of a car with her hands in the air as crowds try to reach the grave. more from kier simmons. >> reporter: good day to you. we are getting more incredibly impactful images out of iran today. in northwestern iran, protesters apparently targeting buildings, throwing stones. there seems to be tear gas once again on those streets. those videos posted by a kurdish rights group that says a number of government buildings have been taken over and that all of this today surrounds the funeral of a man who was shot dead during the protests yesterday. a powerful image seen around the world. a young woman not wearing a head scarf stands on the roof of a car, hands in the air, as crowds attempt to reach the grave of mahsa amini. near the cemetery, this video from an independent kurdish human rights organization captioned, resistance is glorious.

huge numbers across iran determined to mourn and to protest the death of the 22-year-old. marking 40 days after she died in the hospital, the morality police targeting her for allegedly violating the country's strict clothing code. in the capital, clashes with the security forces and the sound of gunfire. in her hometown, they shouted women, life, freedom. these demonstrators daring to chant, freedom, freedom, enough of the despotism. then images like this, smoke rising, told of another violent crackdown there. reports say live rounds were used and tear gas. the iranian authorities switching off the internet in the city. a news agency reporting at least 10,000 demonstrated. thousands of miles away, the white house announcing sanctions targeting more than a dozen iranian officials. >> our message to iran is very, very clear.

stop killing your people and stop sending weapons to russia to kill ukrainians. >> reporter: a dramatic change from earlier this year, when the biden administration was trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with iran. this morning, there is no sign of compromising and no backing down by these young female protesters and the many men out on the streets in support. justunderscoring how tense it is in iran, 15 worshipers were killed at a mosque, a shooting unrelated to the protests. isis claiming responsibility for that. the government of iran blaming foreign terrorists. it emphasizes how extraordinarily brave these protests are going out on the streets day after day in support of mahsa amini. >> thank you. impeachment politics. republicans consider impeaching president biden if they take the house. on what grounds? you are watching "andrea

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a potential republican takeover of the house could put new pressure on the biden administration and on a republican speaker of the house to begin impeachment hearings against president biden. it names other top biden officials who could be under the gop impeachment microscope as well as the hurdles to reaching consensus on their way forward. joining me to discuss, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker and jonathan lemire. jonathan, even republicans who were interviewed mentioned the hunter issue, saying things got really vague when pressed for wrongdoing by the president. the article mentions border security, withdrawal from afghanistan. how much pressure is mccarthy under to potentially follow through with this? >> an extraordinary amount.

we hear frequently from members of the republican house who say that if they take back the majority, they want to begin investigations and impeachment proceedings immediately. there's never evidence of a link between president biden and any wrongdoing that hunter may have committed, nor has he been charged yet either. this is something that does loom over this white house. it's a growing anxiety. they say they have hope. privately, the white house and democratic allies think the house is slipping away. it will be very difficult to retain control of the body. there's a possibility the senate could as well. that's deemed as a coin flip right now. all it takes is the house. if republicans grab control of the body of congress, they will have subpoena power. they will carry out investigations. they could slow things down for this white house. the risk for republicans, it could be overreach.

it's possible the public would turn against them. >> peter, this of this is reminiscent of the impeachment proceedings against clinton. where do you see parallels? >> you know, obviously, one thing we learned about impeachments is that this is so far an inadequate measure to genuinely hold a president accountable if that's your goal. as long as you don't have two-thirds of your party in the senate, the notion you will convict a president and remove him from office, even under the most genuinely outrageous allegations is pretty minimal. it's a political way of attacking a president. it's no longer a tool of accountability, at least as long as the current system prevails the way it does. this would be a way of bringing things to light about president biden. it may even be a way of exposing wrongdoing if there's any.

the kinds of things they are talking about for the most part are policy differences or performances differences, not things that are thought of high crimes and misdemeanors. it would be a parliamentary system are where we have a vote of no confidence. they think the leader isn't doing a good job. that's not typically considered to be a high crime or misdemeanor. we may be evolving the system in that sense. if jonathan point is right, it's a challenge for kevin mccarthy. will he go along with the far right part of the caucus, even if most don't want to get involved in something like this? investigations are impeachment is another. that's a test for him. >> jonathan, we talked about lou much pressure mccarthy is under. what about former president trump? what kind of a player will he be, if the republicans get the house? how much of a player will he be to impeach basically as many biden officials as possible?

>> trump has signalled he would support impeachment of officials and biden himself. trump impeached twice. he was acquitted both times. there was not enough votes to send him out of office. he has declared both things were witch hunts, he did nothing wrong. we can point to january 6 and perhaps disagree with that. he believe because he had to deal with that, joe biden should as well. any number of things the republicans may toss out, few of which would rise to the historical standard of what would be impeachment. that may not matter. there's extraordinary pressure for the republicans to do so, whoever the speaker is. mccarthy not guaranteed to have the post. in fact, as a final point, there are some who suggested mccarthy might need to pledge to impeach biden as a way to garner trump's endorsement for speaker,

something he has yet to possess. >> jonathan mentioned this potential overreach, this risk that republicans face. what would be the threshold to cross for that in terms of going after impeachment proceedings based on maybe not enough evidence that would rise to a high crime or misdemeanor, what's the risk that they face with turning off the american people? >> the other lesson of the impeachments we have seen in modern times since the nixon case, not counting the nixon case, is it hasn't worked out well for the house majority that impeached a president of the other party. it didn't work out well for the democrats in the '90s politically. it didn't work -- excuse me, the republicans, they lost seats. didn't do -- didn't make the 200 2000 election turn on that. it didn't work out for the democrats following the impeachment of trump.

the democrats did defeat him in the presidential election. there's a risk here of overreach. there's a risk the public won't go along for it. there's a thirst for revenge on the part of trump and his base, that it doesn't matter that they succeed. it's worth doing it from their point of view to get tit for tat. we will do it to you. that's what politics has come to in america. >> peter, jonathan, thank you. growing tensions in the arizona race for governor after an alleged burglary this week at the campaign headquarters of democrat katie hobbs who is running for governor. her campaign says hobbs has received hundreds of death threats. phoenix police are investigating. her opponent is trump-backed lake. joining me is vaughan hillyard.

what do we know about this alleged break-in? any persons of interest or suspects? >> reporter: phoenix police tell me that this took place two nights ago. it was ultimately stemmed from a phone call from the katie hobbs campaign yesterday early afternoon upon seeing that there was an attempted burglary at their campaign headquarters. several items were stolen. it's not clear at this time exactly what was stolen from the campaign. there is camera footage that the hobbs campaign contends they believe to be a person of interest. we are choosing not to release those images at this time until we receive confirmation from the phoenix pd that that person is in fact the person of interest or a suspect. the phoenix pd have no information on whether this is politically motivated at this time. this is an active investigation. they are looking for any potential suspects. we are less than two weeks away from what is a neck and neck

governor race, which received heightened attention and scrutiny. look at a statement put out by hobbs' campaign. it said, kari lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation. the threat attempting to assert their lights is intimidation. the police don't have any information at this time that would suggest that this is politically motivated. however, you saw kari lake push back against the suggestion this was tied to anybody that was supporting her candidacy in an effort to push back here just less than two weeks until this major midterm election. >> vaughan hillyard, thanks. protecting the polls. law enforcement stepping in to stop screens of alleged voter intimidation from repeating across the country. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc.

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supreme court justice kagan has blocked the january 6 committee from getting the phone records of arizona republican party chair kelly ward. she was among the so-called alternate electors pushing for a trump victory. clarence thomas also delayed graham's testimony in the georgia election probe. the supreme court as a whole will have to decide how to proceed. joining me now is harry litman and kimberly atkins store. harry, kelly ward says that turning over her phone records would violate her first amendment rights. the january 6 committee has until tomorrow to respond. how do you think the supreme court will tackle this as well as the graham challenge? >> they will reject both of them. what kagan has done is just what thomas did last week. it's a routine thing. she is the circuit justice, the

person from the ninth circuit that you make application to. you enter this temporary stay so your colleagues can consider it. the committee that wants the records will respond by tomorrow, i believe. they will probably make quick work of it. the ninth circuit has held against kelly ward. she's seeking emergency relief from the supreme court. i don't expect she will get it. doing it the way kagan has done and thomas has done in the graham matter lets everybody have a couple days to take a breath and listen and look at the arguments of both sides. >> kimberly, former trump chief of staff mark meadows has been ordered to testify in the georgia investigation, after the midterm elections. i want to play for you part of meadows' call to georgia's secretary of state days before the january 6 attack. >> there are allegations where we believe not every vote or fair vote and legal vote was counted and that's at odds with

the representation from the secretary of state's office. what i'm hopeful for is there's some way that we can find some kind of an agreement to look at this a little bit more fully. >> meadows initially tried to claim executive privilege and can appeal to the supreme court. why is he a critical witness for the committee? >> he was at the center of it. you see him there using in different words, but essentially making the same request that donald trump did, it seems, to find more votes in order to change the result of the election. so we have to understand, was he doing this at the behest of donald trump? what else was involved? that makes him a key witness here, and that is why the judge ruled that he does need to testify in this case. look, the way privileges work -- i don't believe that the

privileges would apply in this case, because they don't apply, for example, ate ing aiding som krit committing a crime. once you are called to testify, you can assert privileges at that time. it doesn't make you immune to depositions. this is working exactly as intended. we have seen other witnesses compelled to testify over their connection in that georgia case. i think that this is consistent with that. >> the attorney general said doj will not permit voters to be intimidated. the sheriff in arizona is beefing up security around ballot boxes after vigilantes were seen, some of them armed. they have come out with a plan to prohibit voter intimidation. is enough being done by the doj and at the state level? >> yes and no. the doj -- it's a federal crime.

every year they assign in each office somebody to handle election security. the voter intimidation -- you have seen the thugs in the military gear and the person who beat up on someone because they tried to take their license plate. it's varying by state. in arizona, the secretary of state has referred six people to the fbi. in pennsylvania, my home state, not so much. in 50 of 67 counties there, the head election person quit because of intimidation. the short answer is, anyone who sees those kinds of goons there, know it's a federal crime, take a picture, call the fbi or call the u.s. attorney's office. it's illegal. they will respond. it begins on the ground. >> harry, thank you. kimberly, appreciate both of you. triple threat. hospitals across the nation bracing for a trifecta of outbreaks. how you can keep your tamfamily

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rsv. gabe gutierrez has the latest from arizona where rsv cases are soaring. >> reporter: the latest wave of child respiratory illnesses is spreading, prompting more concerns of a tripledemic this winter. in arizona, rsv cases are up 344% over a typical season. >> terrifying. it's a serious illness. with him being this young, he doesn't have an immune system to fight it off. >> reporter: this woman's 2-month-old son was in the hospital overnight. what would you tell parents? >> look up the symptoms. trust your gut. i was on the border about coming or not to the hospital. i feel like i probably should have come a little bit sooner. >> reporter: last year a little sooner. >> last year and this year phoenix children's hospital has been dealing with an unusually high number of rsv cases. though the facility is not at capacity, it's bracing for a rough winter. >> covid-19 combined with potentially bad influenza season

and seeing rsv going up at the same time, that obviously makes us concerned that we might get into this triple pandemic situation. >> this year even western and southern states with warmer temperatures are seeing a significant rise in rsv and flu cases. in arizona, 87% of pediatric hospital beds are occupied. in texas, 91%. seattle children's tells nbc news it's at 200% capacity in the er. >> under normal circumstances, 90% of kids get rsv by the time they're 2. because of the pandemic, standard patterns have been disrupted so we're seeing a lot of rsv at once. >> parents worried sick across the country from san diego where fernanda is caring for baby alejandra. >> she was struggling to breathe. we got scared because she had no color at all on her skin. >> reporter: to washington, d.c. where 3-year-old izzy is

recovering. >> nobody wants to hold their kid down and hold a mask on their face. she's screaming and trying to rip the breathing tubes out. that breaks your heart as a parent. >> our thanks to gabe gutierrez. joining me is dr. zeke emanuel vice president pro vest of global initiatives at the university of pennsylvania. i'm a new parent. the video of that little baby is heartbreaking to watch. what should parents be on the lookout for and how do the symptoms differ from a cold or covid? >> the big problem is children have small airways, hard to expand and they haven't seen a lot of viruses, especially now they haven't seen a lot of viruses because of covid being isolated at home for a number of years. so there's a lot of tinder. you've got to look for shortness of breath in kids, fever that they're running, but it's really a respiratory thing. it's how well are they breathing? are they struggling for air?

that's what you've got to look at. you heard that mother talk about the color of the baby. i think that's something parents are acutely aware of. are they the usual pink or dark color, or are they more faded, white color, because that's a sign that they're not getting enough oxygen. i think those are the main things you want parents to really be aware of. i think that woman is right. at this point since we know there's an early rise in rsv, more flu around, being more sensitive to this and having a lower threshold for calling your pediatrician, really important. >> what age are we talking about, doctor? also, do we need to check in on vulnerable adults in our lives? >> we always need to be checking in on vulnerable adults in our life, especially with this new covid variant, bq.1 and 1.1 which seem to be more

transmissible. we know the big bulk of hospitalizations and deaths are in people over 70. that's very, very important. >> doctor, with the news of new variants spreading, do you worry that could contribute here to some vaccine booster hesitancy that we're seeing? people think, well, if more variants are going to be emerging, we don't necessarily know the effectiveness of the vaccines, why bother? >> that would be a bad attitude. the right attitude, and we have a lot of data is get the bivalent booster. will it protect you from getting infection? probably not. may minimize it a little bit, but it will protect you from hospitalization, icu admission and death, and that's very important. you can minimize those burdens. it's a very, very good and safe vac seechblt it's really kind of upsetting to see that the boosters, this bivalent booster,

only about 7% of people in new york have gotten it who are eligible. frankly it's a bit ridiculous. it's free, still free. go out and get it. go to your pharmacy. it is your best bet against covid. does it protect you from everything? no. you can get the flu shot the same time you get your covid vaccine. that does also protect you from icu admission. there are things you can do. i would say the third thing, i know it's unpopular at the moment, but you're seeing a lot of people on your screen wearing masks. where a good n95, kn95 mask because during thanksgiving and christmas, every year so far we've had big upsurges. we'll have another big upsurge and you can do a little more to protect yourself, especially if you're going to travel. >> doctor, got to be brief with you, only about 30 seconds left. here is some people who say, man, i was sick for three weeks with x, y and z. is it possible to get covid and

a cold and rsv and then covid or get these back to back or even simultaneously? >> of course it's possible. they're separate infections. the immune response is different for each of them. even if you had an immune response from rsv, it's not going to protect you from covid. you can get multiple viruses. by the way, those three are not the only ones circulating. we're seeing para influenza, adenovirus. >> dr. zeke emanuel, good to see you thank you. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. you can follow me on twitter. "chris jansing reports" starts after this, joined by deputy white house chief of staff jen o'malley dillon. ♪

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