The northern California city of Oroville has declared itself a "constitutional republic" to protest COVID mandates, and the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro asks if actions like this help heal a divided nation or hurt it? Also, Oakland Mayor asks to reinstate police funding because violent crime rates are rising

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The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro says new texts are being made public suggesting CNN anchor Chris Cuomo may have been more involved in his brother Andrew's sexual misconduct defense than he has admitted. As Chris Cuomo faces possible termination from his employer, Nikki and Bret talk about other famous people deciding to leave their jobs.

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ABC Washington Correspondent Elizabeth Schulze joins the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro to update us on how economic experts are speculating on how the new Covid variant will affect the financial world. Also, ABC News Correspondent Jim Ryan reports how the growth of cryptocurrency are straining the Texas energy grid.

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Should Joe Biden and/or Donald Trump be running for president in 2024? The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro speaks with FiveThirtyEight.com's political podcast producer Galen Druke to share his insight and invites callers to weigh in as well.

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News from Tiger Woods saying his full-time golf career is over sparks a discussion on the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro about the difficulty of leaving a successful career, whether you're physically forced or people want you out. Also, Walmart is forced to pull a singing cactus toy from their shelves because the song is about cocaine use.

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Pat is joined by Lamar Waldron, author of "The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination"

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Allegedly coordinated on social media, last weekend’s wave of smash-and-grabs at high-end retail stores set the Bay Area on edge. But what officials describe as organized retail crime sprees aren’t the only orchestrated attacks taking place.

GOP politicians opened up the opportunist playbook and started their favorite attack: California is under siege and the left is to blame, partly because of Proposition 47, which voters approved in 2014. The initiative raised the dollar amount by which theft could be prosecuted as a felony from $400 to $950.

So what does a 7-year-old initiative have to do with allegedly coordinated retail thefts in the Bay Area? The right is using it as a smokescreen for a power grab, one that seeks to regress California to a Reagan-era police state. The first step is to take people’s rational fears about public safety and inflame them beyond reason.

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Representative Lauren Boebert made an overture to Representative Ilhan Omar after suggesting that the Muslim lawmaker was a terrorism threat. The call did not go well.

Ms. Boebert, a freshman who has built her brief political career on incendiary comments and right-wing provocations, angered Democrats over the Thanksgiving break when a video surfaced of her suggesting that Ms. Omar, a Muslim who wears a hijab, could be a suicide bomber, and bragging to constituents about confronting Ms. Omar on an elevator with an Islamophobic epithet.

“Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Representative Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments,” Ms. Omar said in a statement after the brief call. “She instead doubled down on her rhetoric, and I decided to end the unproductive call.”

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The White House is reviewing options to deter a feared Russian invasion of Ukraine, including providing more military aid to Kyiv and threatening sanctions, to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from escalating the simmering conflict into a full-blown transatlantic crisis.

The deliberations come as President Biden and his aides prepare for a virtual call with Putin next month, a moment that analysts see as an opportunity to signal the costs of an invasion to the Kremlin but also present a path for reducing tension.

Amid spiking U.S. concern over unusual movement by Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarked Monday on a trip to Europe, where Washington is looking to consolidate a position among allies at a summit with NATO foreign ministers in Latvia. Blinken will then go to Sweden for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also scheduled to be attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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President Biden on Monday said he will unveil his plan Thursday to tackle the new omicron variant of COVID-19, saying the strategy will not include more lockdowns. Instead, Biden plans to rely on vaccinations to combat the latest version of the virus to pose a serious threat.

Speaking during a meeting with CEOs of various companies to discuss the holiday shopping season and his administration’s work to address the supply chain crisis, Biden also said that Americans who are eligible for a booster shot have "no excuse" for not getting one.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the start of a hybrid virtual roundtable with CEOs and leaders of retail, consumer products firms, and grocery store chains in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on November 29, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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