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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Despite claims that the coronavirus Omicron variant may cause 'less severe' disease than the Delta variant, the U.S. just broke its all-time COVID hospitalization record since the beginning of the pandemic, with hospitals once again becoming overwhelmed by the Omicron surge.\xa0 The last seven years were the hottest on record globally, with 2021 coming in as the fifth warmest year ever recorded. U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked 6.2 percent in 2021 as the economy rebounded from the pandemic, threatening President Biden's targets of cutting U.S. emissions in half by 2030, and reaching net-zero by 2050 to save humanity. But historic climate investments in Biden's Build Back Better Act are stalled in the Senate thanks almost entirely to obstructionist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-coal industry). Congressional Democrats are pivoting to voting rights and election protection legislation, which Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) are also obstructing.\xa0 The Republicans who tried to steal the 2020 Presidential election in broad daylight have not been held accountable and are likely try again in the near future, but so far only low-level insurrectionists have been charged by the Justice Department. Independent investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler explains how the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack is working 'from the top-down' and DOJ is working 'from the bottom-up,' and details that both probes are proceeding, albeit slowly. US Attorney General Merrick Garland vows DOJ will follow the facts, wherever they lead,' no matter how long it takes.\xa0 Callers weigh in on all of the above.