as always, thank you for watching the katie phang show. i will be back tomorrow morning. chelsea is next velshi is next. good morning, i m ali velshi. it saturday, january the 28. another morning in america reporting of video footage of a brutal attack at the hands, the fists, the feet, the batons of police officers, leading to unnecessary death of a black man. whatever s alleged crime, and there s no clarity around that issue at all, tyre nichols died after a brutal beating by police. there was no trial, no conviction by a jury of his peers, there was no sentence
apart, and have access to a gun. so i think one of the things we can do and do it at a state and local level, even if washington s paralyzed, strengthen those red flag laws. train our police. i can say it as someone who had the largest police force in america reporting to me. train the police how to handle mental health conditions more, but also empower the police to implement those red flag laws. buffalo s an example. we had red flag laws in new york state but the police were not given the training and the support, and the incentive to actually see that shooter when they came in as a student, saying he wanted to commit a mass shooting, rather than, let s process the guy and send him out, no. we re going to do aggressive follow-up. make sure this guy never gets a gun. that didn t happen in the case of buffalo. we got a lot more to do to make these red flag laws come to life. bill, as we deal with the red flag laws and as we deal with
visit with the finally reunited right here in arizona. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. across america reporting tonight from phoenix. good evening from phoenix, the last stop in our journey across america. a city that sits on the cross roads of so many major issues impacting this country. we ll dig into that shortly. but, first, will they or won t they or maybe the better question is can they on this friday evening, speaker nancy pelosi s gambit to get a house vote on both president biden s two spending priorities, a bipartisan infrastructure deal and the social safety net and climate bill quickly threaten to spiral out of her control. pushback from moderate democrats forcing pelosi to retreat on the social spending vote for now while holding fast on the infrastructure vote. progressives ready to make their own statement. kristin welker standing by now with late details. reporter: tonight
wray. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. across america reporting tonight from nashville. good evening from one of the most legendary stages in all of music the ryman auditorium in nashville nashville is stop number four in our week long journey across america we will dive into the rich history of this place and have much more from nashville shortly. but our top story is one that will soon impact two-thirds of the american workforce. new federal regulations putting the onus on all but the smallest employers to see their workers are fully vaccinated against covid-19 or that they are tested weekly companies now given two months to comply or face heavy fines. the regulations a follow-on to an executive order issued by president biden in september. the white house tonight vowing to do everything it can to maximize compliance with the mandate
washington, d.c. for a game of checkers at the site of our nation s capital you rarely see on tv. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. across america reporting tonight from washington, d.c. good evening from washington, d.c. on day three of our journey across america where i spoke to the country s top military leader about a world growing more dangerous. we ll get to that in a few moments. but tonight we also happen to be standing in the shadow of our top story, the election for governor in neighboring virginia the win by republican glenn youngkin over democrat terry mcauliffe has democrats licking wounds and looking for something or someone to blame as president biden observes another political body blow. the president returning from europe overnight. his legislative priorities at home still in limbo and now facing his party s loss of a key state house with another that s been hanging by