nichols says it didn't happen. >> i asked ron kuby about that. lying, he never gave him money. how do you respond to that? >> well, that friend also told ms. busby, be admitted on the stand, he told ms. busby he just didn't remember. >> he argued to the court that he was lying about something else. he says the escalator hincapie says he ran down was working just fine and it was moving up not down. >> he made the ridiculous claim he went down the up escalator. >> but perhaps the most dramatic part of the hearing was prosecutor hurley's cross-examination of johnny hincapie himself. hurley argued that hincapie was making up the whole story about falsely confessing. >> and it is the first time that you have ever alleged to a court that your confession was coerced by detective casey physically abusing you and making you memorize a story, is that correct? >> correct. >> the detective wasn't called to testify, but we tracked him down, and he denied ever abusing hincapie. hurley moved on to that letter. >> please believe me, please help me. >> the one hi

joining us now, white house correspondent jeff mason, pentagon correspondent, kourtney kubi, and two doctors. jeff, the president ramping up vaccination and hospital capacity. but testing is a major problem for americans. you can't find a test in new york and d.c. and other places. the president was pressed on that at the white house yesterday. >> what's your message to americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing? >> what took so long is it didn't take long at all. what happened was the omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought. >> jeff, you've also been reporting on this front recently. the administration underestimated the virus and the vaccine hesitancy. certainly did not anticipate the -- they anticipated variants but didn't know the transmissibility, the velocity, if you will, of this omicron. >> yeah. that's right. and my reporting since this summer really, has shown that critics of the administration while giving praise to the president for doing what he has done on v