On Thursday, I'm going to be putting forward a detailed strategy in how to deal with this new variant,

and that is not shutdowns or lockdowns, more widespread vaccination, more boosters, testing, and more.

President Biden, what he will and will not do to protect Americans from the Omicron strain of COVID.

But with little information on the variant, the question is, how quick will he be able to adapt?

Plus, Senator Joe Manchin hits the brakes on his party's plan to get the president's massive spending

package through the Senate by Christmas.

The question is, would Mansion support it even after the holidays?

And the guardrails held, barely, in 2020, as Donald Trep tried to cling to power.

Now, there's new reporting on efforts to loosen that infrastructure.

The question is, will it work?

It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early. That hope, the show that hopes that you are giving

Tuesday is just as good as your Cyber Monday. I'm

Jonathan Lemire on this Tuesday, November 30th. We'll start with the news. As cases of the new

Omicron variant of COVID-19 pop up in countries around the world, President Biden is urging

Americans to remain calm. This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.

A year ago, America was floundering against the first variant of COVID.

We beat that variant significantly, and then we got hit by a far more powerful threat, the Delta variant.

But we took action, and now we're seeing deaths from Delta come down.

We'll fight the, you know, and look, we're going to fight and beat this new variant as well.

In remarks yesterday, the president said that although no cases of the new variant have been

reported in the U.S., its arrival here is inevitable. But unlike when the first COVID-19 strain arrived, the president stressed we now have

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