maybe whoopi took the president at his word when he told cnn town hall last year, "you are not going you have vaccinations," and whoopi getting covid shows no person should claim again as mr. biden did again this virus can be stopped or contained. new york city, for example, remarkable number, they are averaging 40,000 positive cases per day despite the fact 85% of the city population received one dose of the vaccine, highly vaccinated city. 40,000 cases per day. do you know what new york was averaging a year ago when no one was vaccinated outside of healthcare worker? 7500 cases per day, six times less. this variant is highly contagious, we need to talk less about vaccine mandates and staying home and more about therapeutics and living with covid through treatment and going about our daily lives particularly when it comes to schools. i hope people in chicago are watching now. >> todd: sounds like somebody is married to a doctor. joe concha, thanks for being with us, give our best to your wife. >> joe: and don't drink coffee out of your -- >> todd: yeah, you got your tie. return to a

whoopi goldberg and cnn's jim acosta saying how dare you, grow up. come on, man.ng our third year of the pandemic. bill maher and barry white are right here, can we please stop, start living our life? i hope so and i don't think the establishment is waking up, the regime that's greatly benefited them and they have high hopes will push through, a lot of policies with nothing to do with covid. they are not getting enough, they followed a on the and they might not going to product spaces so you still have people deranged about this but i do think it represents the middle of america waking up turning to pushback a breath of fresh air and a comedian can actually be funny and not just drunk, drunk narrative i appreciate him giving best but i think he speaks for a lot of people who are maybe not super political that up pushed on them and ready to rise up against it. >> blame the people fascinated and don't follow the rules, yes, it would happen overhead everybody got the vaccine. it would have been over. kennedy: you are over your skis. >> we are not asking people to sto

you have people like whoopi and neil young and whoopi -- well, i got only two examples.ing one out. >> you need to use three or you don't have a point. >> greg: i know. >> everybody knows that. >> greg: springsteen. there you go. i don't know. >> with neil young particularly, i'm confused. who do you think his fans are? i don't think it's purple-haired socialists bumping buffalo springfield. i don't think -- every neil young fan that i know has at least seven guns. >> right. >> but, again, it's open letter. it's not -- oh, everyone can read this. an open letter is everyone please read this. look at me. >> greg: yes. >> so in general, there might be exceptions, um, if you ever -- if there's an open letter, i'll be like, nah, i already know. >> greg: it paints people into a corner because you're doing it publicly as opposed to a private letter, tyrus. neil young is now like mr. roper. >> you know what happened to mr. roper, we got mr. furley. >> greg: that's right! >> i hope they have an open response that says, fine, because i can't remember the last time i was like onlin

no shortage of kind words from john stewart, whoopi goldberg. gilbert god free -- godfrey. bob saget was 65 years old >>> returning to the bronx where a fire killed 19 people. the investigation is under way right now they say it was space heater that started the whole thing. >> officials say it all likely stemmed from a malfunctioning space heater >> the five-alarm fire ripped through this bronx high-rise flames shooting out on the second and third floor >> karen making breakfast when it started >> i heard people screaming, help, help, help >> in this 19-story building >> damage was found throughout the building in every floor and stair well taking them out in cardiac and respiratory arrest >> the response was massive. roughly 200 firefighters, some pulling residents down ladders others tending to the injuried >> new york city's mayor calling it one of the worst fires in new york history >> the impact of this fire is going to really bring a level of pain and despair in our city the numbers are horrific >> dozens injured and transferred to five hospitals. the second fire wit

man, i was on "the view" talking to whoopi goldberg. but by lunchtime the news alerts on my phone began to buzz. something was happening in the capitol, and we all know the rest of that sad and tragic story. a violent assault on our nation's capitol, driven by the big lie. ugly words, signs and symbols of racism and anti-semitism, an effort to stop the legal certification of an election and, in spite of those who want to hide, sadly january 6 really did happen. and we must face up to it. we cannot hide from history. january 6 happened, but here's the thing, january 5 also happened. georgia, a state in the old confederacy, sent a black man and a jewish man to the senate in one fell swoop. our nation has always had a complicated history, and i submit to you that here's where we are -- we're swinging from a moral dilemma. we are caught somewhere between january 5 and january 6. between our hopes and our fears. between bigotry and beloved community. and in each moment we the people have to decide which way are we going to go, and what are w

passing the two remembering him as a lovely human there was no shortage of kind words from jon stewart, whoopioldberg, and steve martin gilbert godfried shared a photo of the two of them as well he loved his fans, performing live, and bringing people from all walks of life together with laughter he was 65 years old. >>> a tragic scene in the bronx after an apartment fire killed at least 19 people, nine of them children 30 more were hospitalized. a malfunctioning electric space heater started the blaze around 200 firefighters responded. >> and to say thank you to the men and women who went in this building some of these firefighters, their -- their oxygen -- their oxygen tanks were empty and they still pushed through the smoke >> nbc's kathy park has details from the scene >> reporter: officials say that this is one of the deadliest fires in new york city history it happened just before 11:00 in this 19 story apartment building behind me. at one point 200 firefighters were on the scene. at this time we can tell you 19 people are confirmed dead, nine children, ten adults dozens also suffering fr

as you can see, what back in boxes and doing the show remotely even whoopi goldberg called out from ther testing positive for covid. we've heard about all the call out of the big companies, but often times it hurts the most at smaller businesses like supermarket in miami, where today the owner was running a cash register. if someone calls out, do you then have to fill in. i'm have another person to fit in. i have to do it. >> how often does that happen this week the last 3 weeks, every every day. yes, >> this is where all the shipping jamie mcdonnell is having the same problem. he owns an environmental testing company and landscaping service with about a 1000 employees. have there been a lot of people calling out sick. a lot of people mcdonnell encourages its employees who are really sick to stay home but says some have taken advantage. one person. >> try to tell h r that they had covid and they sent him a copy of a report and when hr zoomed into the report through the text message. it actually was even that same person with someone else's result. i try to make intelligent decisions and

two, remembering him as a lovely human and there was no shortage of kind words from jon stewart, whoopi goldberg, and gilbert godfried in a statement, his family said he loved his fans, performing live, and bringing people from all walks of life together with laughter bob saget was 65 years old >>> breaking overnight, novak djokovich is staying in australia for now after a successful appeal of his visa being cancelled. a federal judge ordered djokovich passport be returned and the tennis star be allowed to leave the hotel where he was being obtained the judge declared he was present with his lawyers at the time of the ruling djokovich was unvaccinated, and his lawyers argued positive test result last month led to the australian open's organizing group, tennis australia, giving him a medical exemption. >>> u.s. diplomats are holding high stakes talks with russia today with the threat of a russian invasion ukraine has been sidelined from conversations this week. monica alba is at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: ukraine on edge ahead of major talks between the u.s. and russia

even the "view" whoopi goldberg who is a friend of mine, she has covid-19 and she did everything they told her to do. take a look. >> it was like wait, what? it was a shock. i am triple vaxxed. i have not been anywhere. that's the thing about omicron. you don't know where it is. it's one of those things, you think i have done everything i am supposed to do. it doesn't stop omicron. that's the problem with a variant. it gets stronger and does different stuff to you. unless everybody gets vaccinated this is what we will be facing for the next little while. >> sean: we are praying for a speedy recovery for you. they told us if you got vaccinated you will never get covid. we played that tape over and over. yesterday joe biden again is telling us that we are experiencing a pandemic of the unvaccinated. joe, you are lying or weak. you went from promising to shut down the virus now telling us it's not your problem and there is no federal solution and biden's right-hand man ron klain one of the dumbest people in washington. in 2020 check out his tweet. testing is still isn't fixed. most peopl

whoopi goldburg was positively boosted, jimmy fallon and seth meyers admitted they were positively boostedember this big broadway style number from the late, late show? ♪♪ ♪ no lockdowns anymore ♪ ♪ we can finally walk out the door ♪ ♪ anthony fauci ♪♪ >> james corden has announced he too is covid positive. his show will be on hiatus for a bit and we hope he will return to life in the streets soon. >> that could be my most favorite feature on "the ingraham angle." we want everyone to be healthy and happy and recover. stop doing the goofy things to sell the vaccines. people will get them if they want them and they won't if they don't. it's ridiculous. what if i told you a sitting blue state governor who has crowed about january 6th once led a little insurrection of her own. the video in moments. stay there. (swords clashing) -had enough? -no... arthritis. here. aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don't thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. >>> there were protesters storming the capitol, chanting, screaming, cursing at and taunt

tone which means in order to be understood, you slowly will out every word, a lot like talking to whoopio one day help people with issues like parkinson's, have conversations about needing to use their hands, it will will probably be used by kardashian fans, a reminder about oreos one 20th birthday thanks, chloe. topic number three, 55-year-old new york man suing his mother for possession of us childhood favorite baseball card. no word if you will speak damages of the chewing gum missing from the pack. controversy is over rare collectible cards with estimated $25000 thanks to joe biden, effects of the value of the paper it's printed on. 1963 ralph in the 1953 special page from his mother but them as a gift for him in the mid 80s but never actually handed them over instead, she just left them he looked up from time to time, technically makes him the first ever owner of an nft 53 for possession or cash value you know he's serious about the lawsuit because he came up from the basement to serve her with papers from effective big deal. topic number four group of him and repairs are up in arms

something comes along that does hitch you in the heart you read these tweets from oprah winfrey, whoopio something deep about the loss was sidney poitier even though he has not made a movie in over 20 years he retired in 2001. he is with us and this is the immortality of film and everything he represented, but he represented so much in hollywood and he was such a legend in that word is used so much but in his case it is so true. this is really hitting hollywood hard.— so true. this is really hitting hollywood hard. so true. this is really hitting holl ood hard. , hollywood hard. those three films that we already _ hollywood hard. those three films that we already name _ hollywood hard. those three films that we already name checked - hollywood hard. those three films that we already name checked all| that we already name checked all were released in the space of about a year. and they are all impressive performances in very different characters. the school teacher, the angry, controlled anger of in the heat of the night, there was never any doubt of his range as an actor. it was incredi

whoopi goldburg was positively boosted, jimmy fallon and seth meyers admitted they were positively boosted. g do you remember this big broadway style number from theal late, late show? \m\m \m no lockdowns anymore \m \m we can finally walk out the door \m \m anthony fauci \m\m >> james corden has announced he too is covid positive. his show will be on hiatus for a bit and we hope he will return to life in the streets soon. >> that could be my mostil favorite feature on "the ingraham angle." we want everyone to be healthy and happy and recover. stop doing the goofy things to sell the vaccines. people will get them if they want them and they won't if they don't. it's ridiculous. what if i told you a sitting t blue state governor who has crowed about january 6th once led a little insurrection of her own. the video in moments. stay there. led a l l cancer research requires bold and innovative thinking. you may be able to help science uncover the next breakthrough by sharing your patient data and unique experience with researchers. join stand up to cancer and count me in at standuptocancer.org/

>> you know i've known whoopi goldberg for decades but i have to say or position on this is absolutely has nothing to do with the emancipation proclamation of 1863 when they were still slavery in the country. what this is about his unregulated unregulated mail-in voting which was a function of the covert crisis and the voter i.d. what is the big deal about having a voter i.d.? as i said yesterday, everyone in this country should have a voter i.d. why is that such a big deal? are puerto ricans inherently incapable of getting a voter i.d.? i think the federal government should issue ids to every american. i know a lot of conservatives don't like that, too bad. everyone should have the same i.d. at the very least it's nothing -- everybody has a social security card and there should be some easy way to prove who you are so it's not just, as if there was a car wash coupon and you receive ballots in the mail, you get three it also think it's bogus, i really do and it is an insult, the democrats are insulting me. this has nothing to do with bull connor or strom thurmond, nothing to do with ge

. >> including whoopi goldberg on the view.nd i had this idea that we have no say over what is happening like it is already done and we shouldn't give -- >> it's disrespectful to vice president harris. people would say to me, when you retire or when you leave the show, who do you want to fill in for you. and when they go, it's a young joy behar. these are very insulting things to say to people. >> i mean, kamala harris is even making that crowd happy. >> joy is worried about herself. no one else. i have a theory. just hang with me here, i have a theory. i don't believe that kamala harris got to where she is being this bad of a liar. she has to be able to bowl for a better than this. she is a lawyer and a politician, the two top career choices for charlatans. so this has to be on purpose, this performance. let that go, jesse. [laughter] she has to be doing this on purpose to spotlight how bad it is inside the biden administration. it's like she's sandbagging for her own preservation to highlight how bad it is inside of this whit

whoopi goldberg said he showed us how to reach for the stars.ing sidney poitier epitomized dignity and grace, revealing the power of movies to bring us closer together. i watched one of poitier's acceptance speeches for an image award he received in 2001 and something he said then really spoke to me. he said that in his teens, he says each time i thought of myself as being no less than any man and my dreams were as valid as i was prepared to make them, fred. >> wow, yeah. he was poignant and really powerful. natasha chen, he touched so many of us in so many different ways. thank you so much for bringing those perspectives to us. >>> right now in las vegas, family, friends and politicians are gathering to honor the man from the tiny town of search light who became a titan of the u.s. senate. we'll take you live to the memorial of the late senator harry reid. orrr... you could use slack. and work faster with everyone you work with, together in one place. slack. where the future works. some of my best memories growing up, were cooking with mom. she

people with all of these varying conditions, they are all getting sick they even "the view" 'whoopi goldberg, we got along, and her own words she did everything they told her to do. take a look. >> it was like, wait, what? it was a shock. because i am triple vaxxed, haven't been anywhere, haven't done anything. that's the thing about the yuma cron. you just don't know where it is. who has got it, it's one of those things were i've done everything i'm supposed to do -- it doesn't stop omicron. get stronger and it's different stuff. unless everybody gets vaccinated this is what we'll be facing for the next little while. >> sean: by the way, will be, praying for a speedy recovery for you. they told us that if you get vaccinated you'll never get covid but that's how they sold it to you for the american people. we played that tape over and over. joe biden again is telling us that we are experiencing a pandemic of the unvaccinated. what happened? joe, you're either lying or you just don't know, you are so cognitively weak. in this band from one year we went from promising, you went from promising

but i am -- i like barry weiss and bill maher, but i'm with whoopi goldberg.e you be so flippant. as you know, i lost my beloved nephew bobby reid, 868,000 americans have died. it's a number that you have to go, 868,000 americans have died. it will come, it is happening. why rush it? and in terms of those virginia parents, they send the unvaccinated kid to a school requiring vaccinations, they have to get ready for that child to be isolated in the auditorium, because that's the rule, and you are exposing even if you think the risk is minuscule, and your own heart, that's the rule, you follow the rule, you know, the reason the disease is so worrisome is that it is infectious and you can give it to someone else that it is not you. you are making the choice not to be vaccinated, you get the disease to someone who has not made that choice, a kid under five years old. i think that just calm down, it's coming. week come in two weeks, a month, six months, some people forever, look at the japanese, that's okay, not me. but that's the way it is. >> jeanine: okay, so gr

this halloween we were with whoopi and joy from "the view." >> i saw that.i want that. >> you have to get the hoop. >> how do i do the hoop? >> can we look at this for a second? >> look at the glasses. >> that's remarkable. >> that's glasses right there. >> she's been doing a lot of contortions and they're fantastic. >> of course. that's upper body strength. that's core. you understand? >> that is. >> did you guys save some lemon beads? my mom will kill me if i don't get her one. >> you have to. >> she can also have this beautiful lemon cake. >> oh, yeah? >> we can turn this into -- >> our producer is talking to us, all i hear is charlie brown's mom. womp-womp-womp! >> that is the worst. >> oh, the -- is he saying to say good-bye? >> i don't know. i have no -- >> saying good-bye? >> are we saying good-bye? i'm trying to find a comfortable place to sit on this lemon cake. >> good luck. >> going all the wrong places right now. >> does anybody else have a contact high? >> i have a contact high. >> okay, look. all right, look. we're going to -- we're at a street

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whoopi goldberg is blasting bill maher. what do you say to all this?k into the oval val, go back to find the clips at very beginning i was at the white house, i was waving a mask on tv the reason as a economist maybe it has a benefit. it doesn't really have much of a cost. easy enough to put a mask on. let's try it for now. but back then fauci told president trump, i was in the oval office, for the love of god, let's not recommend masks because people will touch them and get germs all over their face. they will be overconfident, it will make it worse. so president trump came out and said that. the media starting beating him up for it and fauci switched to beat up the president as well. this has been a partisan move by fauci to help the democrats defeat donald trump. he keeps changing his tune. americans are really tired of losing their freedoms. they need to be cautious. i would definitely if i were going to a hospital i would want to be wearing an n95 mask or something like that but, get my friend to be vaccinated. it is different to mandate it. eliza

whoopi goldberg saying to sir with love, he showed us how to reach for the stars. sidney poitier epitomized dignity and grace, reveealing te power of movies to bring us closer together. a lot of people talking about how he laid the ground work, opened doors for future generations of black artists. i talked to the senior vice president of the naacp hollywood bureau who told me about his favorite film movement, he played a detective, slapped by a white man, and without missing a beat, slaps him right back. he'll talk about that here in a moment, but first from poitier himself, from the naacp. >> that same encouragement resounded but the years and was always on hand to inspire us all, to stand firm, hold our ground and refuse to be moved whenever the question of survival was at stake. >> when sidney poitier gets slapped by a white man on camera and within a millisecond he turns and slaps that white man back, as a young man growing up black in america, that was like someone turned a light on in a dark room. it was a moment where black americans can say, okay, we're rea

whoopi goldberg, jimmy fallon, geraldo rivera and dana perino. >> i have two vaccines, i was boosted,n be. two negative rapid tests, one positive tests and then a negative test in order to come back to work. howard: steve doocy told viewers what happened to him over the holidays. >> we gathered together as a family and then we -- a lot of people trade gifts. we traded only omicron. it pretty much tore through our whole family. i got it, my wife got it, peter got it. howard: peter doocy's expected to return to the white house beat shortly. steve doocy talked about how incred by frustrating it was to be told he couldn't get a test for seven days and then the results would take another seven days. he managed to get a test and thanks to the administration, so many people are going through this infuriating experience. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." read my columns on either of those venues, and check out my pod podcast, "mediabuzz" meter. we deal with the buzziest stories of the day. lots covered today, we'll do it again next week. back here on sunday with the latest buzz. ♪ ♪

i mean, so many actors from denzel washington, tyler perry, whoopi goldberg, halle berry, they explain screen. he led the way on so much, didn't he? >> he sure did. and when you think about his acting, look at those thes beans of the thirs order, the magnitude of stars that have congregated so to speak to testify to sidney poitier's meaning. here was a man who broke barriers, challenged obstacles, overcame, you know, the kinds of dichlgts and conflicts that lay before him for no other reason than he was a black man and yet he did so with profound grace and tremendous elegance and cool. so he was able to embody the quest for black excellence, the demand for black humanity, to treatise with great respect. he refused to take roles that would demean him, diminish him. once having played in "porgy and bess" because he had to work out a deal that if he didn't play in this film he wouldn't be allowed to do "in the heat of the night" or another film and he regretted that, but he said he would never compromise the integrity of his art and craft to get ahead to make money or to -- in any other w

i was talking to whoopi goldberg. [laughter] by lunchtime, the news alert on my phone began to buzz. something was happening in the capital. we all know the rest of that sad and tragic story. a violent assault on our nation's capital. driven by the big lie. signs and symbols of racism and anti-semitism. never stop illegal certification of an election. despite those that wanted to hide, sadly, january 6 really did happen. we cannot hide from history. january 6 happened. here is the thing. january 5 also happened. georgia, a state in the old confederacy sent a black man and jewish man to the senate in one swoop. our nation has always had a complicated history and i submit to you that here is where we are we are swinging from a moral dilemma. we are caught somewhere between january 5 and january 6. between our hopes and our fears. between bigotry and beloved community. and in each moment, we the people have to decide which way are we going to go and what are we willing to sacrifice in order to get there. the question tod

as you can see, what back in boxes and doing the show remotely even whoopi goldberg called out from theday after testing positive for covid. we've heard about all the call out of the big companies, but often times it hurts the most at smaller businesses like supermarket in miami, where today the owner was running a cash register. if someone calls out, do you then have to fill in. i'm i'll have another person to fit in. i have to do it. >> how often does that happen this week the last 3 weeks, every every day. yes, >> this is where all the shipping jamie mcdonnell is having the same problem. he owns an environmental testing company and landscaping service with about a 1000 employees. have there been a lot of people calling out sick. a lot of people mcdonnell encourages employees who are really sick to stay home but says some have taken advantage. one person. >> try to tell h r that they had covid and they sent him a copy of a report and when a charge zoomed into the report through the text message. it actually was even that same person with someone else's result. i try to make intelligen

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it is also daytime television, "the view" which tapes on the upper west side of manhattan, whoopi goldbergid her husband had covid during the holiday break, and they had to quarantine separately. and, you know this is something that is affecting new york, but everywhere across the country, but everyone is saying that having their vaccine and their booster made it a little bit easier to bear with. brianna? >> as i'm coughing through your live shot, chloe, which says something. chloe, thank you very much for that report. >> thank you. >>> so a number of republican senators remain maskless on capitol hill despite rising cases. more than a dozen lawmakers announced breakthrough cases in recent weeks. unlike the house, the senate has not imposed mask mandates. cnn's sunlen serfaty live on the capitol, you look around, you see people walking around without masks. >> reporter: that's right, john. it is very alarming, you know. d.c. has seen a huge surge in positive cases as well as up here on capitol hill. dozens of members and staffers testing positive. and we have observed numerous senate repub

credibility with republicans who still support donald trump, and the person can't be too friendly with the whoopiords, a unicorn. maybe this theoretical woman would be put off by complaints of others who have held that seat. >>> dr. oz running for the senate in pennsylvania, did not want to talk to a new york magazine reporter. but the house was called and accidentally switched the call to another device, so she heard mrs. oz call her this f-ing girl reporter and said one of their friends should not have talked to her. if you want to blow off a reporter, make sure the phone's hung up. >>> bbc news is apologizing for its handling of story of ghislaine maxwell who was found guilty. the network didn't bother or to mention alan dershowitz that she's a former epstein lawyer who's been alleged of sexual misconduct. the move did not meet the bbc's standards as mr. dershowitz was not a suitable person to interview as an impartial analyst. but dershowitz told viewers that the government's failure to cale made full disclosure. >>> cnn senior producer has resigned the network confirmed after project veritas

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fully vaccinated and got the virus anyway and whoopi goldberg and dana perino?m a sports guy. i will bring kyrie everybodying in as an example. he can play any nba renallens september in new york state. the fact if i can go to a different college and texas or florida and they don't require any sort of vaccine just proves it's a political reason that is being pushed by the states that the college is located in. >> brian: alex, you approached siena. are they going to listen or might they back off this? what will you do if they don't. >> unfortunately, i think i would have to get the booster if they don't change the mandate into an option to get the for the semester. students did create a petition over the weekend, brian. this morning i checked it and close to 250 signatures of student, staff and faculty and parents around the siena community urging the college to turn the mandate and make it optional for all students. >> brian: right, if you are a basketball player not going to have a choice in the middle of the season. same thing lacrosse and spring sports and ba

man, i was on "the view" talking to whoopi goldberg. but by lunchtime the news alerts on my phone began to buzz. something was happening in the capitol, and we all know the rest of that sad and tragic story. a violent assault on our nation's capitol, driven by the big lie. ugly words, signs and symbols of racism and anti-semitism, an effort to stop the legal certification of an election and, in spite of those who want to hide, sadly january 6 really did happen. and we must face up to it. we cannot hide from history. january 6 happened, but here's the thing, january 5 also happened. georgia, a state in the old confederacy, sent a black man and a jewish man to the senate in one fell swoop. our nation has always had a complicated history, and i submit to you that here's where we are -- we're swinging from a moral dilemma. we are caught somewhere between january 5 and january 6. between our hopes and our fears. between bigotry and beloved community. and in each moment we the people have to decide which way are we going to go, and what are w