Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
inside the offices of a bank before the gunman was killed after a shootout with police. all the attention now turning to the victims as well as a possible motive. sandra: and we are expecting another news conference from investigators in louisville coming up, that is happening less than an hour from now. a lot we still don t know. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith and a big welcome to you, bill. bill: i m bill melugin in for john roberts today. the white house set to face a whole lot of important questions at the briefing, how the white house reacts to the china dress rehearsal of a threatened invasion of taiwan. sandra: a snub from america s oldest ally, france. french president the latest leader to cozy up to china as that country works to create a new world order. bill: and now china scoring another political win, president biden heads to ireland, expecting john kirby to join the white house press briefing to preview the p
u.s./mexico border and how it could work inside governor abbott s plan to pardon a man who was just convicted of murdering a black lives matter protester at a demonstration back in 2020 and we re watching for any new details coming out of kentucky as we wait for the police briefing in the next hour what we know right now about the horrific shooting at a louisville bank that left five dead, including the shooter. our nbc news reporters are covering all of the latest developments, but we want to begin in louisville and nbc s morgan chesky is there now morgan, what s the latest? what have we learned reporter: yeah, chris, very large footprint that s been established by law enforcement around old national bank that is the silver building behind me. that is where authorities say it was around 8:30 a.m. when this gunman that they believe either is a current or a former employee of the bank walked inside and started to open fire. as you mentioned now, four people have been kille
the removal of from fox news, days after the company settled with dominion voting systems with more than three quarters of a billion dollars. that case gone to trial, carlson, likely, would ve been gone to testify about how the 2020 election lies were spread on scene. where at odds with what he was saying. offscreen carlson texted other staffers, that he passionately, hated former president, donald trump and that is ten years in the white house was a quote, disaster. he also used misogynists terms for sidney paul and rejected her conspiracies about the 2020 election, even though the false claims got repeated on news. his text messages, after the election, released by dominion attorney, also showed him disparaging fox leadership. whether his southern departure connected to the dominion, case or other lawsuits facing, fox or other reasons as a topic. we ll get into an intimate. fox said that it and carlson have agreed to part, ways and we re thankful for a surface, and said h
staffer who was brutally stabbed on the streets in washington, d.c. and straight ahead, jim jordan will also join us on the very targeting a reporter who helped expose the far left political bias at twitter and of course the fbi s role in the 2020 election. but first, we turn to nashville, tennessee. where six innocent people, including three nine year old little kids were murdered by a christian at a christian elementary school by an evil 28 year old transgender person with a manifesto and a lot of plans made before the attack. our prayers are with all the victims, all the families, everyone at the covenant school tonight. we are also grateful for the quick, heroic, response from the nashville metropolitan police department, they eliminated the shooter in less than 15 minutes after receiving the 911 call. these guys were heros. let s go. i need three. one more. let s go! metro police. let s go. sean: now without this amazing response from law enforcement, do you know