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i'm ali velshi. new covid variant is causing global alarm as countries enact travel restrictions in the attempt to contain the latest coronavirus threat. the w.h.o. classified the omicron as a highly transmissible virus of concern. that includes the delta that it includes to drive up the hospitalizations and deaths in europe and u.s. many mutations found within the omicron variant are linked to increased antibody resistance which affects how the virus behaves. scientists in south africa first discovered it was driving a spike in cases there on thursday. so far, omicron has been detected in belgium, botswana, hong kong and israel. the u.s. is moving to restrict travel from south africa and several other countries in the region, including botswana, mozambique and zimbabwe and eswatini. those restrictions will go into effect on monday for non-u.s. citizens. dr. fauci joined peter alexander and kristen welker on "weekend today" to discuss the omicron variant. fauci says there are no cases identified in t

i'm maria teresa kumar in for ali velshi. tomorrow, president biden is set to make history. he'll be signing into law the largest federal investment into infrastructure in more than a decade, according to the white house. the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill contains billions of funds that will go towards things like roads and bridges, public transportation and expanding broadband internet access. although one would think that democrats and republicans would want to take victory lap for this transformative bill, some gop lawmakers are actually try to distance themselves from it. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is set to be a no-show, even though she was among the 19 republicans who supported the bill. he said, i have other things to do. what is clear is if mcconnell is hoping to get back in the good graces of the failed former president by snubbing biden's ceremony, his effort may have backfired. in one of those statements twice-impeached former president had to put out since he's not on twitter, he said he should go to the signing. in addition to the infras

i'm ali velshi. it has been exactly ten months to the day since the violent mob of the ex-president supporters attacked the capitol. just look at how difficult it is to hold any one related to the plot to overthrow democracy accountable. take jeffrey clark. the former senior doj official to validate the twice impeached ex-president's lies about the election results. making him someone who congressional investigators want to hear from. he did show up for his scheduled deposition before the house select committee but did not offer up helpful information. the panel says he refused to answer questions during the deposition. instead, clark delivered a letter from his attorney defending his refusal to testify citing potential executive privilege. the select committee is threatening to take strong measures against clark, his shaky defense is working for now. it prevented him from being held being accountable. almost none of the ex-president's cronies have been dealing with the consequences. some republicans

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i'm ali velshi. the bipartisan infrastructure bill has been signed into law by president biden and congressional democrats are optimistic about passing the build back better spending package before the end of the year. after passing the house entirely along party lines on friday, the transformative legislation is now headed to the senate for review this week, but it still has a difficult road ahead. its passage in the senate is not guaranteed. it will need all 50 democratic votes, and if it does pass, it might come out looking very different, based on the mercurial moods of joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, but at least it's moving. however, another crucial piece of the biden agenda, the agenda of anyone who cherishes democracy, by the way, has largely stalled, and i think it's voting rights. "the washington post" reports that kyrsten sinema, quote, remains firmly opposed to changing federal election laws on a partisan basis, signaling that a planned last-ditch voting rights push that party leaders and

i'm ali velshi. a new rapidly spreading variant of covid-19 is reminding the nation that this pandemic isn't over. 13 new cases of the omnicron variant now being confirmed in the netherlands this morning. that spike is connected to two flights that came in from south africa on friday, and that's in addition to detections in italy, austria, belgium, germany, australia, israel, hong kong, the united kidnapping come, and of course, south africa, where the variant was first identified on thursday. the czech republic is investigating suspected cases now. and starting tomorrow, the united states will join a number of other nations in restricting travel for non-citizens coming from several countries in southern africa, including botswana, zimbabwe, botswana and others. both pfizer and biontech say they expect to be able to ship out new vaccines tailored to fight off the new omnicron variant in about 100 days, if necessary. moderna says it's already considering doubling the dose of its current vaccine booste

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi who is in for rachel. end. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. she'll be back on monday, however. here is something that is worth watching if you didn't see it today. i'm going to tell you, this is not an exciting piece of tape. in fact it's so bland and normal that if we were living at any other time, we wouldn't bother to play it for you. but today it's worth seeing. this is the republican candidate for governor of new jersey today conceding last week's election which he lost to new jersey's incumbent democratic governor. >> to those who are disappointed that i'm conceding, to those whose faith in our election system is shaken, to those who are angry that i'm not asking for a recount today, let me say this. i've worked every day and night for 22 months to become new jersey's governor. if you think

of course, steve kornacki, i'm ali velshi. coverage continues right after this break. ♪ ♪ ♪ aloha! isn't this a cozy little room? sorry your vacation request took so long to get approved, so you missed out on the suite special. but lucky for you, they had this. when employees are forced to wait for vacation request approvals,it can really cramp their style. i'm gonna leave you to it. um, just— with paycom, employees enter and manage their own hr data in a single, easy-to-use software. visit paycom.com and schedule a demo today. >>> nbc news projects republican glenn youngkin as the winner of virginia's governor's race. the question was it a referendum on the current commander in chief. we'll be listening to what president biden has to say about that as he returns to washington from overseas with democrats feeling the pinch at the ballot box and capitol hill. and the question is what could this mean for next year's midterms? >>> and after defeating the houston astros, the atlanta braves for the first time since 1985. the questi

i'm ali velshi. police in portland, oregon declared a riot when a crowd gathered to protest kyle rittenhouse's acquittal. protests also in brooklyn outside barkley center, and outside the courthouse in kenosha. the nation is bracing for more potential unrest. after deliberations, the jury found kyle rittenhouse not guilty on all five charges he faced for fatally shooting two and injuring a third during anti-racism protests in wisconsin. parents of one of the men killed by rittenhouse released a statement reading today's verdict means there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son. it sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street. justin blake, the uncle of jacob blake, who was left paralyzed after the kenosha police shot him in the back several times igniting a wave of protests against police brutality had this to say about rittenhouse's claims he acted in

i'm ali velshi.learning how that insurrection came to be. there are so many things we still don't know. we still don't know to what extent the white house or members of congress coordinated with january 6th rally organizers. we still don't know who erected these gallows on capitol hill and don't know who planted pipe bombs around d.c. that day. the house select committee is trying to get to the bottom of as many of these possible. we spoke first how trump associates turned their willard hotel into sort of a command center, a war room. this weekend "the guardian" said the committee is targeting about 20 individuals connected to the trump command center at the willard, among them john eastman. 20 individuals the article says. it an interesting number because before congress shifted the focus to passing president biden's agenda late last week, the committee chair bennie thompson revealed he had signed about 20 subpoenas that that could go out soon. a retiring republican congressman is warning of the tox

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi who is in for rachel. good evening, ali. >> chris, good evening you to, have yourself a great weekend. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. she'll be back on monday, however. here is something that is worth watching if you didn't see it today. i'm going to tell you, this is not an exciting piece of tape. in fact it's so bland and normal that if we were living at any other time, we wouldn't bother to play it for you. but today it's worth seeing. this is the republican candidate for governor of new jersey today conceding last week's election which he lost to new jersey's incumbent democratic governor. >> to those who are disappointed that i'm conceding, to those whose faith in our election system is shaken, to those who are angry that i'm not asking for a recount today, let me say this. i've worked every day and night for 22 months to become new jersey's governor. if you think i would be standing here today conceding if i thought i won this election, you couldn't b

i have run into the words real estate, and now it's time for lawrence o'donnell, with ali velshi in for lawrence o'donnell. >> this conversation you were having about the national guard in oklahoma. a year ago we were 13 months away from having a vaccine. it was some time from when i qualified to get one. i remember the day i qualified, i had like nine websites open, and i'm trying to get an appointment. i remember thinking to myself, wow, there is this free vaccine that could save my life from a deadly virus. it did not occur to me a year ago that we could be having discussions you had, that people are still hesitant about a vaccine that is still killing people. >> and the governor of oklahoma is giving wrong advice to people if they don't get it and what he is discouraging them from getting. when you think of all the heroism from national guard members who have stepped up to distribute the vaccine, to do so much on covid, for them to be roadkill for this governor. >> thank you for bringing this story to our attention. we'll see you tomorrow. >> thanks. >>> tonight we begin with the ne

i'm ali velshi.ams around the world are on high alert amid growing concern of the new strain of the coronavirus. the world health organization has named it omicron and classified it as a variant of concern. omicron was first reported to the world health organization by south africa where the new variant, quote, appears to be increasing in almost all provinces. fears of another deadly wave of the coronavirus has forced some countries to act swiftly on friday. several nations including japan, canada and the united kingdom announced travel restrictions for people coming from the southern region of africa. the biden administration decided to do the same. beginning monday november 29th the united states will restrict travel from botswana, eswatini, former swaziland and mozambique, namibia and zimbabwe. belgium, israel and hong kong have had one case of the omicron variant within their borders and you know there is never just one. no cases have been identified in the u.s. to date. we expect omicron to be i

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he had a chance to speak to our colleague ali velshi this morning. >> clearly one verdict doesn't change the issue our country faces. there's a tremendous problem in our criminal justice system. this was, in fact, a victory, but it was so outlandish, it was so clear. the evidence was so clear that it would have been very difficult to come back with anything but a guilty verdict. however, we've seen this before, which denotes that we still have a very long way to go. we should pause on this victory but recognize that there's so many others, the rittenhouse and others that still require the kind of careful attention and recognition that our criminal justice system is severely flawed. >> reporter: you know, that word outlandish certainly applicable to this case when you look at how the crime scene was handled. there really was no crime scene the day that ahmaud arbery was killed. those pickup trucks that were central to this case were allowed to be let home. february when we have this federal trial kick in, what else the department of justice is able to do, what they look at as this is our

i'm into for ali velshi. the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack just got more powerful thanks to the justice department. a federal grand jury has indicted steve bannon on two counts of contempt of congress. the indictment stems from bannon's refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the january 6 xpe himself over to law enforcement monday and scheduled to appear in court that afternoon. he now faces up to one year in prison and $100,000 fine if convicted. chair than bennie thompson and liz cheney issued this statement reading that the indictment should send a clear message to anyone who thinks that they can ignore the select committee or try to stone wall our investigation. no one is above the law. bannon has a lot of information that committee would find useful. here is a reminder of why the january 6 committee is so interested in talking to him. investigators have pointed to a conversation bannon had with trump on december 30th where bannon reportedly urged him

i'm ali velshi. on monday biden signed into law a trillion dollars infrastructure bill and on friday his second signature spending package, the build back better cleared a major hurdle by passing the house and saturday, yesterday he turned 79 and according to brand-new reporting by "the washington post" began reassuring political allies he will be running for reelection in 2024. we'll have much more on that later on this hour. but democrats emerged from the house floor calling the president's agenda historic and transformative and joe mansion remains a wild card there is a sense of unity within the democratic party and dare i say optimism about the success of the bill. here is what the illinois congressman told my colleague alex witt yesterday about the prospects of the bill. >> i think a lot of it has actually been if you will preconference or negotiated in advance before it got sent to the senate and so i'm very hopeful the vast majority of it will remain. maybe there might be some revisions but th

i'm maria teresa kumar in for ali velshi. tomorrow, president biden is set to make history.hite house. the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill contains billions of funds that will go towards things like roads and bridges, public transportation and expanding broadband internet access. although one would think that democrats and republicans would want to take victory lap for this transformative bill, some gop lawmakers are actually try to distance themselves from it. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is set to be a no-show, even though she was among the 19 republicans who supported the bill. he said, i have other things to do. what is clear is if mcconnell is hoping to get back in the good graces of the failed former president by snubbing biden's ceremony, his effort may have backfired. in one of those statements

i'm ali velshi. ten months ago today a wayward mob of the former president supporters carried out a deadly insurrection at the united states capitol and the committee tasked with investigating those attacks is pressing on. the january 6th committee has issued 19 subpoenas and that number is about to double. on thursday committee chairman representative betty thompson told reporters he's already signed about 20 more subpoenas. another committee member, liz cheney also acknowledged this week that they've interviewed more than 150 people across the country. that list now includes the former justice department official jeffrey clark, this man, sort of. yesterday clark appeared for a deposition, but in a statement released after ward, chairman thompson remarked mr. clark's complete failure to cooperate is unacceptable. the disgraced former president himself donald trump and his team have been trying to block the january 6th committee from obtaining more than 750 pages of documents from the national archiv

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raffensperger, i want to play for you something that you said on -- with ali velshi yesterday that piqued it on the other side. let's have a watch. >> if you look at what stacey abrams did, she lost the state of georgia in 2018, 55,000 votes. she questioned the legitimacy of our elections. she actually set the table along with all the leaders, national democrat leaders that supported staey abrams in her big lie and set the table for president trump to ramp it up and take it to the next level. voter suppression and voter fraud, they're both sides of that coin, different sides, but stolen election claims undermine people's confidence in the elections. >> now, to be clear, stacey abrams did say that brian kemp would be certified the winner of the election and did decry what she views and a lot of people view as voter suppression efforts in georgia. is it not dangerous and disingenuous to equate questioning legitimate voter suppression with false claims of voter fraud? and couldn't you be doing more to convince voters that our elections are safe and secure? >> well, that's the point. election

thanks for watching "velshi." ali will be back next weekend. ay show" with my friend jonathan capehart starts right now. >>> one win down, one to go. president biden signs the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law tomorrow. but will his build back better human infrastructure plan get across the finish line? congresswoman pramila jayapal, chair of the congressional progressive caucus, joins me live to discuss. >>> also happening tomorrow, steve bannon is expected to turn himself in on contempt of congress charges as the january 6th committee ponders what to do about mark meadows, another trumper who deied their subpoena. >>> and the high price of everything. >> restaurants too. they have gone through the roof. i think that's another 15, 20%. groceries and going out to eat is really expensive. >> why inflation is at a 30-year high, even with a booming economy. i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday, lawmakers a