repeatedly warmed the situation may worse and the 10s of millions of unvaccinated americans. daughter li roger, is executive vice chair at the department of emergency medicine, massachusetts general hospital. he says the us health care us health care system was already under pressure before on the con, emerged over the past 2 to 4 months, even before omicron. we had been seeing a surge of patients in emergency departments and hospitals around the country. patients who had put off care during covert, and unfortunately, patients who were dealing with the consequences of having put off that preventative care earlier, we're already filling our emergency departments and hospitals. and so now dealing with an oma, cron serge were stressing and already strained system. with these break through cases, what i'm seeing is when i bring a patient into the hospital for a heart attack stroke, a gunshot wound, something completely unrelated to cove it and they then test positive for coping because they've had a breakthrough case. even with the vaccination or because they didn't get the vaccine in one of the v

after all, rogers also lied about his vaccination status. world but not to his team or nfl. apparently they knew that rogers was not vaccinated. if you want to boil this down, i guess it means the nfl is fine if players lie to the world just don't lie to the nfl or your team about your vaccination status. let's get a quick reaction from our panel on this. dean and ida, what is your reaction. i'll start with you, ida. what is your reaction in the disparity in punishment? the players knew they had to be vaccinated. they know what the protocols are, both of them. i don't care if you're telling me are you did some cocktail drink that made you think you're vaccinated or faked a vaccine card, you both did not follow the protocols of being vaccinated. >> i'm thinking about this in terms of economics, right? aaron rogers is losing 13,000 and antonio is over 300,000. when we think about racism and oppression, the economic violence that is employed against people of color in this country, whether they're in the nfl or they work at a grocery store is o

most of the referrals we make our people who have come before congress, and we believe have lied to us, like roger stone, like mike flynn and others. not mike flynn terms of congress, but like roger stone, and so, we have all made those kind of referrals in the past, if we discover other criminal activity, we will discuss referring those as well. >> okay, congressman adam schiff who sits on that, committee thank you very much. thank you. up next, the head of the cdc is here to talk about the new covid variant. and the administration's plan to tackle. that's next. >> i know you're tired. i really mean, this i know you're frustrated, we all want this to be over. but we are still in it. but we are still in it but we are still in it or with vicks vaposhower. take a soothing vicks vapo moment wherever you chose. ♪ after a night like this, crest has you covered. crest, the official toothpaste of santa. follow us @crest to celebrate the 12 days of crest smiles. >> more than 200 million americans are fully vaccinated. in march of 2020, no one was fully vaccinated. what that means is today the cases of cov

most of the referrals we made, frankly, are people who come before congress we believe have lied to us like rogere flynn and others -- well, not mike flynn in terms of congress, but like roger stone. and so we've made those kind of referrals in the past, but if we discover other criminal activity we will discuss referring that as well. >> all right. congressman adam schiff who sits on that committee. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> up next, the head of the cdc is here to talk about the new covid variant and the administration's plan to tackle it. that's next. . >> i know you are tired. i really mean this. and i know you are frustrated. we all want this to be over, but we're still in it. we're still in it. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this. your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your sales rep lisa has to send some files, like asap! so basically i can pick the right plan for each employee. yeah i should've just led with that

lied to about the election. also today, longtime trump ally, roger stone, pled the fifth in response to every question asked by the january 6 select committee. all right, president biden is conceding that his $2 trillion "build back better" plan won't pass boy a year-end deadline. and now a key provision of the bill for working parents appears to be headed for the chopping block. cbs' nancy cordes has a look at the real-life concerns behind the issue of paid family leave. >> reporter: molly moon's is an ice cream chain in seattle. it's named after its founder, who had an epiphany after giving birth in 2013. >> oh, my gosh. i needed to stay home for about 12 or 13 weeks. >> reporter: it was then and there that molly decided to provide paid family leave to all 200 of her employees. >> the first person to take paid family leave to have a baby was my-- actually, my executive assistant. and i've retained her and so many other crew members for far longer than they thought they would stay at an ice cream company because of paid family leave. is far from the norm. just 23% of u.s. workers get paid leave from their employe

lies. a small group of conservative republican senators, roger marshall, ted cruz and mike lee have threatenedp this vote and shut down the government at the end of tomorrow. if they don't get an amendment to block funding for president biden's vaccine mandate. that's not something that's going to become law. biden is not going to sign a bill that defunds his own vaccine mandate. these conservative senators want to be seen as fighting for it. and roger marshall told our colleague moments ago he's willing to shut down the government over it. speaker pelosi condemned this possibility. let's listen to what she had to say. >> our men and uniform depend on nature our veterans depend on that. there's so much in the legislation that addresses our national security and, again, the sooner we can pass the full bill, the better. >> and there you see her talking about the stakes of a potential government shutdown which has happened several times in the previous administration and the trump administration. it could potentially happen again if there's no deal. senator chuck schumer, the majority leader spea

bus, which is going to be, you know, political death for him, or he lies for trump, which many other people have done -- mike flynn, roger stone. and he will pay a price for that because he will undoubtedly be prosecuted for lying to congress. and so for him, i think, you know, taking the chance on this contempt of congress charge, which as elie noted, you know, is not necessarily a slam dunk, is just a calculation for him, a risk/reward calculation because i think he has no wiggle room at all to fudge or obfuscate if he goes in and answers questions in front of this committee. >> if i could just build on that, we used to say as prosecutors, if someone was thinking about cooperating, you do not want to jump halfway across the ditch. you either want to stay over there and be a defendant or come all the way over here and cooperate. i want to know what happened to mark meadows. he went halfway across, gave over 6,000 incredibly damning documents and then said, hold on. now he's stuck in the middle. someday we're going to learn what happened, why he did that. it makes no sense. but he's already -- i don't know about may be i

lied and claimed he was immunized. >> i misled some people about my status which i take full responsibility of. >> reporter: rogers missedgame for the packers while battling covid. >> golf legend tiger woods hospitalized right now after a very serious rollover car crash. >> reporter: golf legend tieg words is in the hospital right now after having to be cut out of his vehicle. >> i am lucky to be alive but also still have the limb. um, that -- those are two crucial things. >> reporter: nearly ten months after the crash, tiger hosted his golf tournament in the bahamas and said he continues to make progress in his recovery. and in december, he surprised many by competing in a tournament with his 12-year-old son charlie. number three. despite the pandemic and calls to cancel the games, the tokyo 2020 olympics taking place without spectators in most venues and it was another historic games for team usa. >> the most decorated u.s. traj trak and field olympian ever. allyson felix secured that title at the tokyo summer games. >> it is an historic moment for team usa. >> suni lee wins gold. >> katie ledecky basking in the glory

roger stone, mike flynn, you name it. down to his paul manafort. he pardoned people who lied, who dealt with the russians, who were part of the conspiracy to take over the election by communicating with russia and getting information out there on the social media to beat hillary clinton and elect donald trump, the most disgusting presidency in the history of this country and that's why this bill is so important. to protect our democracy and save from us abuses by a future president whodunit have limitations on -- who doesn't have limitations on it. with that, i pledge allegiance to the flag and hope all of us do and support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady continues to reserve. mrs. maloney: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. comer: mr. speaker, they say this bill's not about president trump, but every speaker mentions president trump. multiple times. anyway. mr. speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. franklin.