next step, a showdown in the senate. jack smith now challenging former president trump s efforts to delay his criminal trial on the classified documents until after next year s election. raising the possibility he could pardon himself. jared kushner has spoken to prosecutors about trump s alleged attempts to overturn the election. we will check in on trump s republican rivals without him in iowa for the informal launch of the republican caucus campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. hollywood comes to a standstill for the first time in more than six decades. sag-aftra, the union representing film and tv actors is now on strike after talks with studios collapsed following four weeks of negotiations. in a blow to the $134 billion industry, of course, the two sides clashing over residual payments in the age of streaming and the usual of artificial intelligence to replace actors. the union president blasting the studios yesterday. i am shocked by
By the use of atomic bombs in a single night. I am afraid that the answer to that question is yes. Clock Ticking jon else Robert Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb. He was this complex ball of contradictions. Oppenheimer they are weapons of aggression, of surprise and of terror. Richard rhodes oppenheimer wanted the bomb to be used. How else would the world know what it was . Eleanor roosevelt dr. Oppenheimer, are we creating something we may not be able to control . Oppenheimer in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. ticking Newsreel Narrator it is dminus one for the test of the worlds first atomic device. Else this cultured, nonviolent man was responsible for birthing the most violent weapon in human history. And he devoted the rest of his life to trying to control the monster that he had unleashed. Oppenheimer if there is another world war. This civilization may go under. Kai bird he became a political pariah. Edward r. Murrow is it true that humans have already di
now, we do have new reporting on where yevgeny prigozhin was shortly after. the story keeps getting weirder. the only sort of bright spot for vladimir putin is ukraine s counter offensive has been slow. will cluster munitions change that, and how much blow back will president biden get for that. one nation against it is the uk, we have the latest on the president s stop in london this morning. there s a lot to get to. let us start with the reporting. joining me now, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and from kyiv, nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella. let s get to lithuania, the president has just gotten there. what s the agenda for tomorrow? what s on the table? reporter: well, the summit really kicks off in earnest tomorrow, and president biden will be meeting other leaders of nato countries. he ll be very various bilaterals. there will be a nato family photo, and then a dinner at the presidential palace, where they will be able to discuss various issues that th
migrant shelter in boston. lawrence jones is live there this morning. ainsley: plus, all new video this morning showing the kansas city chiefs party host in handcuffs after three of his friends were found frozen to death in his backyard as we learn he has now checked himself into rehab. steve: so much news about that. plus, the house of representatives passing a bill to ban hamas terrorists from entering our country. but two members of the squad voted against it. ainsley: what? steve: those two. fox & friends starts right now for the first day of february and, remember, mornings are better with friends. brian: hashtag. ainsley: we begin with a fox news alert. three people are dead and nine others were hurt in a construction site clasp last night in idaho boise airport. a hangar being built suddenly buckled sending a crane crashing down. steve: five of the injured people. the fire department called it a catastrophic incident. listen to this. we have account
so who s behind it? it comes as russia vows revenge for the cluster munitions the united states is now sending to ukraine. plus, trump running out the clock. why getting elected could be his best legal defense strategy. former trump white house attorney ty cobb is outfront. and if you can t beat him, join him. hear pga golf tour executives explain why they sold out to the saudis. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the two russian military giants dead tonight. one of them the most senior general to die in ukraine since the war began. lieutenant general oleg sokov killed on a strike on a russian military base in berdyansk. he was a rising star inside putin s military. back in 2021 picked to speak at a cadet ceremony that was attended by putin himself. and tonight it s not just him, the mystery is growing over why another top russian military figure was murdered, and this in broad daylight. this is a submarine commander shot multip