election fraud delusions and drew the line at the coup attempt telling the associated press publicly what he told people privately that there was no widespread voter fraud that impacted the outcome of the 2020 election. committee charnl thompson confirmed sunday the committee is in talks with bill barr and looking at a draft executive order to allow the defense department to seize voting machines across the country. we had conversations with the former attorney general already. we have talked to department of defense individuals. we are concerned that our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false so if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines even though it s a discussion the public needs to know. we have never had that before and so any of these individuals who are participating in trying to stop the election, the duly election of a president, and if we can document it we will share it with the public. the spokesper
reports in washington. the omicron wave is putting pressure on hospitals, schools and businesses to stay open. with millions of new positive coronavirus cases in recent weeks, and the 7-day average for covid related deaths the highest in three months. the president making the case in georgia tomorrow in georgia on voting rights. i ll speak this hour with the president of the naacp. a new york city community is reeling after a devastating sunday fire in the bronx. killing at least 19 people including nine children and sending dozens more to the hospital. fdny officials believe a malfunctioning space heater was the cause of one of the city s worst fires in decades. a similar fire killed 12 people including eight children in philadelphia last week. and u.s. and russian diplomats have laid out the dramatically different positions. u.s. officials are openly skeptical of russia s desire to find compromises and russian officials are bristling at what they say is a lack of und
healthy at school. as israel begins giving people in certain groups a fourth vaccine dose, as the nation prepares the mark one year since the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. the house committee investigating the attacks revealing more about what it has learned so far. in colorado, the search continues for two people still missing after a powerful, fast-moving wildfire destroyed nearly a thousand homes. and any minute now, president biden will be returning to the white house after his holiday break. with one of his top priorities being trying to stop russia from invading ukraine once again. and we begin with our top story this morning. the pandemic causing travel nightmares and confusion for millions of students, returning to school today. already, at least 1,900 flights have been canceled in the u.s. hundreds of schools are going remote for at least the first week, following the holiday break. but others like new york, which is the nation s largest school distr
described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he gained eminence as one of the fathers of the soviet nuclear bomb.th he learned bodyguards and direct access to the pinnacle of the soviet system. this is where andre sakharov could have stayed in a very comfortable position, lived life in the upper echelons of the soviet system. but within a few years after he designed that giant hydrogen bomb, he instead started becoming a thorn in the side of the soviet leadership.in he urged the government to avoid a further arms race with the united states, fearing that it would lead to catastrophe. he argued publicly for political reforms and human rights and spoke out in defense of dissidents and even after he was arrested and sent into internal exile for years, he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1975. the soviet leadership, as you ts can imagine, they would not let him attend that ceremony. by the time mikhail gorbachev released him from exile, sakh
for this hour. rachel has the night off. we ll start off the night in classic rachel fashion. we go back to the archives here. it was october 30th, 1961. and on an island in the russian arctic sea, this happened. the soviet union detonated the most powerful nuclear device ever tested. it remains, believe it or not, til this day, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. i know this is going to sound almost impossible to comprehend. it was 3,333 times stronger, stronger, than the bomb that was actually dropped on hiroshima. because this was the height of the cold war, because it was at the height of the arms race between the soviet union and the united states, the men who designed this bomb, the men who brought the soviet union to this glory of having the strongest nuclear device in the world, as you can imagine, they were heroes. here is how one of those scientists, andre sakarov, was described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he g