Measures. The new Field Hospital just opened as one city warns it will run out of beds within weeks. Rudy guiliani tests positive for the coronavirus as President Trump gives his first major speech since the election. Local republicans spent today refuting it. The government report first obtained by nbc news, was a foreign adversary hitting american diplomats with Microwave Radiation to make them sick . Plus, the show must go on. The nutcracker in the age of covid. The Sugar Plum Fairy Dancing under the stars. This is Nbc Nightly News with kate snow. Good evening. There is some hope on the horizon at the start of a new week. The first doses of the Pfizer Vaccine landing in british hospitals today. Here in the u. S. The fda set to meet this thursday to consider Emergency Authorization for the same vaccine. But that hope is over shadowed at the moment by far too many cases of coronavirus and deaths. California Just Announced they recorded 30,000 cases yesterday, a new record in that stat
including a husband. former president jimmy carter. and that is tonight s read out. inside with jen psaki starts now. i starts now. today something pretty extraordinary happened in the courtroom here in washington. lawyers for donald trump and lawyers from the special counsel s office former president should and should not be allowed to say what the criminal case against. the focus of this hearing was the limited gag order on trump. but when you take a step back, you can see that it was about much more than that. it was about how far the first amendment really should go. and how it should be applied to a former president who is also a criminal defendant, who is also a candidate for the presidency once again. the leading one at that. former general counselor for the arts stephensburg handled some very novel legal cases in his day. but never won like this. i am going to ask him all about it in just a moment. and as a new concerns about trump s ability to incite violence
100 representative American Kids entering high school. What does fate have in store for them . 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. A total of 50 wont go to college. Thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. Meanwhi meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. On a recent international test, u. S. Students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. Overall, the World Economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. Whats odd is that weve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. In 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the 7,400 average for rich countries. How can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it . Well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in American Education here on this special essay. Well examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. And we ask the man who spent
People do once they get here and people who are more likely to succeed will get preference and those who are less likely to succeed divulge. Whats wrong with that . Took a very important points. The first is that the United States is not a company, its not a school, its a nation. Second point, we want to make sure that we scrutinize every person coming here into the country, we want to make sure that they dont have any terrorist background, we want to make sure they dont have a violent criminal record. No one disputes that. Lets get to this point, very important, the United Nations ws created mainly in the declaration of independence because the kings restricted immigration, because the king of england said states, colonies, you can no longer bring people from other countries. What happened . American revolution, a beautiful idea of this nation came about. Tucker [laughs] the American Revolution was spurred okay. [laughs]
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Explains himself under bipartisan questioning. Although we should note he was not under oath. Still, theres one potential witness we wont be hearing from. To this date Jared Kushner had not agreed to meet with the Senate Judiciary committee and the panel now admits its given up trying to get him. Lets get to our team of reporters. First we have breaking news isolate the Justice Department. They say they the found missing texts between two fbi officials. Their disappearance has been labored a conspiracy by some republicans. Joining us is Pete Williams in our washington newsroom. Pete, are were they recovered . The Inspector General says it was using a forensic technique. Doesnt explain anything more than that. These are Text Messages that were sent between lisa page and peter strzok who were two people that had been working on the Mueller Investigation. And they were sent between december of last year and then
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