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scaled back build back better bill but how much can you scale it back and have it be building back better? will democrats go along? let s go out fron. good evening. i m erin burnett. closing in on trump. big blows to the former president tonight. first closer to criminal charges in georgia. the fulton county da writing tonight her office found, quote, possible criminal disruptions and has opened an investigation into any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections. the operative word there, criminal. and tonight the georgia prosecutor requesting a special grand jury to force witnesses to testify. all of this investigation centers around the trump phone call with georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. and georgia just one of the hits trump is taking tonight. the january 6 committee taking a huge step today. they sent this eight-page l ....
and virgin galactic released a similar statement, saying he does not reflect that company. the u.s. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. it s a brand new hour. we are happy that you re with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. the u.s. is trying to deter russia from invading ukraine. cnn has learned that the biden administration is considering new military options to help ukraine defend itself from a possible russian invasion. secretary of state antony blinken will meet face-to-face with his russian counter part in geneva. in a few hours, he ll travel to kiev to meet with the ukrainian president tomorrow and on to germany in search of european allies to avoid war. world leaders are on edge because of increased military drills near the ukrainian border. frederik pleitgen is in moscow. what are the russians saying about all of this. reporter: the russianings continue to say they believe they are not the ones threatening anybody. ....
frustrated base voters, who feel the white house has done too little, too late on the issue. majority leader chuck schumer s political gambit puts senate republicans on the record to their unified opposition to major voting rights bills. and two moderate holdouts on the spot over their support for the filibuster. joining me now, ahead of the action on the senate floor, as you know, the chaplain is now reciting the prayer. nbc s senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake. nbc chief white house correspondent, and weekend today cohost, peter alexander, and ashley parker. garrett, expect to hear from both chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell momentarily, really. how is this debate going to play out today and through the week? well, we know how it s going to end, andrea, for democrats, the choice is, when do they want it to end and what do they want the message to be. the floor opens right now. we won t see any votes on this bill or these combined bills today. that wi ....
there s a large crowd and party in the backyard, we will utilize to check on the party to make sure we will be able to determine the many resources we need to send to that location. expected to be a record amount of people in the skies this holiday weekend but already a nightmare for travelers at airports across the country with about 2500 delays today alone but mayor pete says we are on an upward swing. most of the rough days we did have to do with storms that affected hugs which had cascading effects. we look at delays attributed to national aviation system which does not include things under airlines control. we see 2.6% of delays had to do with air traffic control staffing issues. i d like to see that number at zero but has improved substantially from what we saw a year ago. how big a problem are flight delays really? only september and 21% have been delayed so far this year, already more than the total for all of last year but not to worry, mayor pete is ....
there s a large crowd and party in the backyard, we will utilize to check on the party to make sure we will be able to determine the many resources we need to send to that location. expected to be a record amount of people in the skies this holiday weekend but already a nightmare for travelers at airports across the country with about 2500 delays today alone but mayor pete says we are on an upward swing. most of the rough days we did have to do with storms that affected hugs which had cascading effects. we look at delays attributed to national aviation system which does not include things under airlines control. we see 2.6% of delays had to do with air traffic control staffing issues. i d like to see that number at zero but has improved substantially from what we saw a year ago. how big a problem are flight delays really? only september and 21% have been delayed so far this year, already more than the total for all of last year but not to worry, mayor pete is ....