press conference at the nato summit. his campaign dealt a devastating blow by george clooney and two governors are softening hard-line support. governor chris sununu will be here to respond. todd: and alec baldwin s latest on the case for the actor before testimony resumes. carley: and players jump into the stands and brawl with fans, we will tell you what led up that. you are watching fox and friends, i m carley shimkus. todd: was that video of the democratic party? i m todd piro. top story, president biden facing next political test this evening when he holds his nato news conference in washington. carol will he be able to calm the nerves of insiders who are increasingly bailing on his campaign? brooke singman is here to report details this morning. brooke: good morning. all eyes will be on president biden this evening as he looks to prove that he is still up to the job. the make or break press conference as top campaign officials will meet with senate democrats t
in response to the committee asking telecom companies to preserve the phone records of at least 11pro- trump lawmakers like marjorie taylor greene, kevin mccarthy released a statement warning the companies if they comply, quote, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the united states if companies choose to violate federal law a republican majority will not forget and will stand with americans to hold them fully accountable under the law. da-da-da. a fact check here, companies are not breaking the law by complying with a congressional request for records. the january 6 committee responded to mccarthy s attempt to bully private companies by saying this. quote, the select committee is investigating the violent attack on the capitol and attempts to overturn the results of last year s election. we have asked companies not to destroy records that may help answer questions for the american people. the committee s efforts won t be dete
it comes eight months after you got a second dose of moderna or pfizer. now what is clear is that the urgency is palpable as the pandemic intensifies at devastating speed. they could diminish in the months ahead. twice this month it took just eight days to notch one million new covid cases in the country. hospitals are filling up, the alabama association said there is more patients there than there are icu patients to treat them. texas requested five mortuary trailers in anticipation for an influx of bodies. we re also keeping a close watch on the rapidly developing situation in afghanistan. there is good news because planes full of people, mostly u.s. military and contractors have arrived back to the united states. just this morning, hour, up to 15,000 americans are still stuck in that taliban controlled country. first, booster shots coming for all americans. mike memoli is at the white house. kerry sanders is in tampa floor, both of them covering real problems that scho
at that airport after they fired on american troops. the u.s. believes it was an isolated incident. the situation in afghanistan spiraling so quickly that president biden deployed an additional 1,000 troops to help evacuate americans and others. the total number is about 6,000 troops and we just got word that president biden will speak this afternoon. the white house this morning defending the exit strategy from america s longest war. we went to afghanistan for one reason, which is to get the people who attacked us on 9/11. a decade ago we got osama bin laden. we degraded al qaeda. we stop terrorists attacked against the united states from afghanistan for 20 years. but what the president not prepared to do was enter a third decade of conflict with thousand more troops which was his only other choice to fight in the middle of a civil war that the afghan army wouldn t fight for itself. that is the president s national security adviser this morning and cnn has learned that p
expected to green light a third dose for immunocompromised americans. that means millions of people are potentially eligible. the question, will everyone else need one, too? vaccine, at least not within this category, is going to have an indefinite amount of protection. inevitably, there will be a time when we ll have to give boosts. more on that in a second. a first on nbc news, new incoming governor of new york exclusively with nbc news on the today show. what kathy hochul says about andrew cuomo, running for governor in her own right next year and masking in schools. growing concern inside the pentagon, u.s. officials watching al qaeda trying to come back with a vengeance as the taliban keeps picking up territory. security concerns both inside and outside afghanistan. we ve got a lot to get to. a lot of nbc news reporting this morning. i m hallie jackson with you on assignment this week. back home in washington, monica alba at the white house. john torres is join