A new covid test may have the answer. The crisis within the pandemic with so many struggling financially, heartbreaking scenes at food banks facing almost unprecedented demand. Holiday Shopping Reimagined what stores are doing to make shoppers feel safe trying to preserve a little holiday magic. Meghan markles deeply personal revelation about her Pregnancy Loss her message to so many families who have been through the same experience and remembering a soccer legend, Diego Maradona one of the greatest players of all time. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight President Trump announced today he will grant what he called a full president ial pardon to his former National Security adviser michael flynn. Flynn was the only white house official to be convicted as part of the russia Investigation Led by Robert Mueller he was also an early supporter of mr. Trumps president ial campaign the move ending a long, drawn out legal battle and comi
second time around? i really want to defer to what makes biden comfortable on his team. i have known kamala a long time, i like kamala, we go way back, but they have to be a team, and my sense is there, i don t mean that by suggesting i think there may be problems, i think they are. greg: no problems at all that i just bring up. warren walked back that comment but kamala has not been able to laugh it off. the senator has reportedly been trying to get hold of the vp to bury the hatchet. [laughs] but over a month later, harris is refusing to budge. but don t worry, kamala, you will always have the view to tout your accomplishments. i think there is some concern about just the lack of policy accomplishments that she has made as vice president. i am surprised there is concern. i think it has a lot to do what she has a black woman. black women get everything done. we have saved this country, democracy, for centuries. but what specifically? while code well, where
the actual ability for the borrower to pay the loans back. now the question is, do we really have a limit on fdic insurance? if you don t, it becomes a moral hazard and a perverse incentive for executives to take more risks because there s a lot of reward and no downside. emily: that s exactly what i was going to say. greg, your thoughts? greg: well, i am not a banking expert. everything they just said could be right, that these are woke investors, people on the board don t have the expertise, they searched out the right virtue signal and the right box to tick for identity, instead of economic competence, which lets everybody down, but i don t think it is a bailout to give relief to depositors. i think and i don t like the set up of this team sport politics, welcome if it was a trump bank, it would be this w way. that is completely fabricated and you don t know. you should try to stave off the idea of people running to the banks, right?
politicians and sheriff. heating up again as the la county board of supervisors voted to advance a motion to allow the county to supersede department heads and fire any employee. it means up to 4,000 sheriff s workers could be fired for not complying with the county s vaccine mandate. the sheriff calls the move morally repulsive amid the crime surge and he will fight to keep his staff. they will not lose their jobs this way. it will be a long legal battle which i warned the board don t even start it and how dumb the situation is. we have roughly 10,000 people who are vaccinated and their positivity rate now is 3.4%. the unvaccinated their positivity rate is 3.8. we are talking about a difference of 0.4% in positivity rates. part of this battle is because of his concerns that the county s contracted lab has ties to china. it s a claim the county denies.
that will let americans breathe free air. shannon: you mentioned china so we want to talk about that. there s a lot of controversy about the sponsors. we re talked about that, and the ratings a lot of people saying they don t want to be a part of this or support what is going on over there if there s any question about genocide and torture and human rights abuses going on against the wiecker population uyghur population. putting aside the human rights violations, espionage and censorship, there s no. [indiscernible] on the mountains. why are the winter olympics in beijing? he raises a lot of points there. whether you re mad about the snow or the economic espionage as he calls t the censorship, the human rights, what about our athletes? so many of them have said we trained our whole lives to get here. we can t help that it s carefully beijing. don t expect us to go there and protest. house speaker nanci pelosi told them not to. what do you make of what is going on with the olympic