January 20, 2022

1/20: Pres. Biden strikes defiant tone at news conference marking one year in office. CDC says about one in four COVID tests are coming back positive.

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President Biden took questions on COVID, his stalled agenda and Russian forces along the Ukrainian border in a nearly two hour press conference marking his first year in office. The Democrats landmark voting rights bill failed by 52 votes to 48 in the senate last night. Two Democrats joined all 50 Republicans in opposing a rules change to push it through. We are in Geneva following U.S. efforts to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The CIA now says that most cases of the neurological illness known as "Havana syndrome" were not caused by a foreign adversary. The U.S. Supreme Court says President Trump's presidential documents linked to the assault on the Capitol can be turned over to the House committee investigating the attack. We're inside an overwhelmed hospital in Missouri -- a state where the vaccination rate is low, and COVID cases are skyrocketing. All 50 states are reporting a high level of community transmission. Jury selection begins this morning in the federal trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers, facing civil rights charges in the George Floyd case.

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