The hunt for variants. The house Impeachment Managers laying out their case against former President Trump a week before his trial democrats saying he summoned a mob and aimed them like a Loaded Cannon at the capitol. How trumps legal team is responding. The 9yearold Pepper Sprayed by police her mother speaking out to us about the action shes now taking paying tribute to the 100yearold world war ii veteran who inspired the world announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone its not often we start the broadcast with news of a change in one of this countrys corporate suites but arguably no company has changed the way we live quite like amazon. And late today its Ceo Jeff Bezos delivered the surprising news hes stepping down from the helm of the Shopping Empire Formed in 1994 that Late Development just one of the major stories were covering tonight that includes a deadly day for the fbi. Two agents killed while trying to serve a criminal warrant in florida. Th
Thought surgery was my only option. Turns out i was wrong. So when a Hand Specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. Like you, my hands have a lot more to do. Learn more at factsonhand. Com today. President biden meeting in the oval Office Tonight with a group of republican senators, attempting to find Common Ground on a covid19 relief bill. The meeting was set for an hour, it lasted two. The president s plan called for spending 1. 9 trillion. Republicans want to spend a lot less, about 618 billion. Senate majority sorry, used to saying that. Senate minority leading Mitch Mcconnell taking a hard swipe at Marjorie Taylor greene calling her a cancer on the Republican Party. Also, investigators calling for no charges to be brought against a Police Officer who shot and killed a protrump rioter during the insurrection. Joining me, cnn correspondent john harwood and anthony sc scaramucci. Gentlemen, good evening from the snowy northeast. I hope you are hunk
Hours in the Oval Office Last night. The gop plan proposing 1 3 of the 1. 9 trillion democrats are looking for. It was a very Good Exchange of views. I wouldnt say we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a twohour meeting, but what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further. The devil of course is in the details. Theres plenty of kidisagreemen in the dollars in the plan. Its unclear how much republicans are willing to go up and biden willing to go down but a Top White House aide suggests not much. Everything here is to help people stop suffering from the pandemic. This will lift 4 million kids out of poverty this year. We are more than willing to keep engaging, but at the end of the day what the president and Vice President wont do is compromise their values or let the American People down. Democratic leaders in the house and senate have taken the first steps towards reconciliation, a Budget Maneuver that would allow the Biden Relief Act to pass with a s
Mayor cos will get a vote expected to happen shortly. A top priority remains covid relief. President biden held a meeting with ten republican senators looking for a bipartisan agreement, but theyre pitching a bill one third the size of President Bidens proposal. Ill ask democratic senator chris murphy if a way Forward Together is even possible at this point. What both sides do agree on, though, we need more money for the vaccine rollout. The hiccup to that rollout this morning, the weather. Coming up, how many east coast states are still trying to sidestep the snow and get back on track. Well get to that part of the story in a moment. Lets get to our reporters focused on the action in our nations capital. Shannon pettypiece at the white house, Garrett Haake at his post on capitol hill and jacob sober rof following the implications of this administrations Immigration Policy and miss petedy piece well start with you at 1600, walk us through the Executive Actions President Biden is expect
badly. governor jim justice is running for a senate seat with west virginia. i ask you to run right with me. democratic senator joe manchin is up for re-election. to the finish line together. lost four don t want to lose another. the 2023 nfl draft now officially open with the first pick the carolina panthers select bryce young, quarterback, alabama. it is a blessing to be here. all right. we begin with a fox news alert. it s not good news. three u.s. army pilots are dead. a fourth fighting for his life after a helicopter crash in central alaska. steve: officials say the helicopters collide on their way back home to the base. alexandria hoff joins us live with the breaking developments. good morning. good morning to you. the soldiers names have not been released. we are expecting that some time today. according to the army the soldiers were returning from a training mission when two h 64 apache helicopters collided in flight. two soldiers died at the sc