that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t
there is more evidence that the uk variant is spread something widely in the u.s. beaches are full with few masks in sight. there won t reach immunity until people get shots. in a new cbc poll, a third of republicans say they would not get vaccinated while another 20% said they were not sure. yesterday president biden asked for help i discussed it with my team and they said things that would have more impact than anything trump would say the to the maga folks, would be what the local doctors say. today on morning joe, dr. fauci said he has not had contact to the former president. i have not reached out directly to him. but i do it so many ways indirectly including the conversation you and i are having right now about what the importance is of getting the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated. joining me now is kristen welker and jonathan. what is the president s strategy? he is heading to delaware county. those five counties around philadelphia were b
at a vaccination site. this, as europe grapples with new lockdowns amid a potential third wave of the virus. italy, france, and germany reporting spikes in the number of cases there. as case counts grow, so do questions about the astrazeneca vaccine. temporarily eliminating a big weapon against the virus. let s get to that breaking news right now. the office of the director of national intelligence just released an intelligence community report on foreign threats to the 2020 election. ken, what does this tell us about the roles of russia, china, and iran? ayman, the intelligence community is saying in this report what it said last fall. but in more detail, about russia, they extensively interfered, and that vladimir putin authorized this. it says, we assess that president putin authorized influence operations, supporting former president trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating political division in the united states. they did not find
misleading attacks on joe biden over to people in trump s circle. the report identifies them as people close to trump and his administration. just as in 2016, this new report out now documents how the democrats white house bid had to contend not only with its own campaign rival, like usual, but also fight on two fronts against a well-funded, armed, independent country with its own agenda. now, there are differences as well. this time many voters may be more on gourd against foreign prop ga da. the russians had a plan for that, too. they tried to get prominent u.s. persons and media conduits to launder their narratives against democrats so russia attacks on biden might seem more american by coming through u.s. officials and audiences. and then there is this. rudy giuliani debunks the impeachment hoax and exposes biden family corruption in ukraine. watch top ukrainian officials testify under oath. the side of the story schiff doesn t want you to hear. that heavy handed prom
legacies they leave behind. he really wanted to be instrumental in helping people s lives become better. tonight, we remember lives well lived. one year ago, a cruel and mysterious threat arrived on our soil. in the beginning, it was unclear how long covid would be here and how many people it would steal from us. but in the weeks and months that followed, covid moved ruthlessly through our biggest cities and eventually invaded even our smallest towns, leaving no part of our country untouched. covid took from us americans of every age, gender and race. ultimately, it would exact a far greater toll on communities of color, but no group of americans has been spared. hi, everyone. i m nicole wallace. over the past year we ve been honored to share with you the stories of some of those we ve lost and tell you about their lives, lives well lived. their stories were all so beautifully unique, but they were united by two undeniable truths. they all ended too soon, and they each