On Rising today, Robby Soave delivers his radar on President Biden's possible preemptive pardon of former chief of NIH'S National Institutes of Allergy And Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci. Joyce Karam, senior editor at Al-Monitor, weighs in on toppling of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. President-elect Donald Trump gives his first major sit down interview to "Meet The Press" host Kristen Welker. The Lever's David Sirota discusses the fraud and greed within the health insurance industry, and the reaction over murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A Manhattan jury acquits former marine Daniel Penny in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely. This and more.

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