Coming together and part of it has to do with Chuck Schumer and Mitch Mcconnell who have yet to reach a power sharing agreement in this evenly split senate. We will explain why that is slowing things down. Plus ahead, our new reporting that mcconnell wants to delay the former president s second impeachment trial, pushing for a start by midfebruary. The majority leader Chuck Schumer might talk about all of this and more when he speaks on the senate floor any minute. We will bring that to you live when it happens. Plus, the u. S. Capitol police under fire again after thousands of National Guardsmen had to leave the capitol and post up in a parking garage nearby. This morning the cap police say they didnt have anything to do with it so how did this happen in the first place . We will ask senator dick durbin a member of the Democratic Leadership Team about that and the days other big stories, there are plenty of them, as we kick off this friday morning in washington. Im Hallie Jackson alon
Seriousness of the actual infection. Plus an executive order that could drop really any minute. The latest on President Biden set to lift a ban former President Trump put in place on transgender troops. Weve got a lot going on on this monday morning. Good morning to you. Im Hallie Jackson in washington. Along with our nbc news team, Garrett Haake is on capitol hill, tom costello is here in d. C. As well, carol lee is covering the white house. Garrett, let me start with you here. For just the second time in just over a year you have House Democrats set to deliver an article of impeachment to the senate, right . Talk about how this plays out in the next couple of weeks and what youre hearing now from sources about the outcome potentially of where this trial might go. Reporter the next 24 hours will be busy as aerns the impeachment trial. The article will be brought from the house to the senate and accepted here tonight. Tomorrow we will see the senators sworn in. For the next two weeks t
Priority, fighting the covid pandemic, and bringing our economy back. On the covid front it looks like things are going to get worse before they get better. Over the weekend we hit a new covid milestone, 25 million cases, at the same time 420,000 americans have lost their lives. More than 20,000 died in the last week alone. Now, vaccines are out there, but things are moving slowly. Only about half of the total number of vaccines that have been distributed have actually made it into peoples arms. Some states are actually running out of doses completely. At the very same time President Biden is trying to deal with the economic side of the crisis. Today he will sign a new executive order focused on boosting american manufacturing, a made in america pledge followed by actual policy and then later tonight the house will deliver that single article of impeachment to the senate, the one accusing former President Trump of inciting an insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. The trial itself will not
The president now raising his goal for getting more vaccines out there. But lets be honest, right now the system for getting shots in arms in this country is a complete mess. Were going to try to get some answers. Weve got reporters spread out across the country covering all the angles of todays news, and i want to start on capitol hill with garrett haake. Garrett, we saw the dramatic pictures last night, the article of impeachment being walked over to the senate. What happens now . Reporter yeah, steph, that was a dramatic moment last night, the article making it a few hundred yards across the capitol, across what is essentially a crime scene through the same hallways where rioters looted the capitol on january 6th. Today well see those 100 senators sworn in as jurors, that summons will be issued. And those are basically the last public actions of this impeachment trial for the next few weeks. The president s trial, the former president s trial not expected to begin in earnest on the
We count this hour as the revelation of a vote like this tonight for the nation . I think, yeah, look, Kevin Mccarthys speech erased the element of suspense. He is all in with Marjorie Taylor greene, who as 10 steny hoyer just showed what she is all about. She is about a powerful weapon being pointed at her colleagues. I worked for a president who was loathed by democrats, but nothing like that was ever created about him. Politics is rough and tumble. That is our countrys history, for better or for worse. But Marjorie Taylor greene is in a class of her own. She is an avowed conspiracy theorist who talked about assassinating former president obama, hillary clinton, and nancy pelosi. And i hadnt seen this image before, but steny hoyer shows it. Its a pattern, not a blip or something she can apologize for. Yeah, i hear you on all of that. And it comes at a time when the tensions are high, when the capitol is still in a partial siege mode because of other Political Violence. So its obvious