days leading up to the maga invasion at the capital. the basis of the president s second impeachment trial starting next week. the genesis of the siege, revealing it wasn t an up rising but a coordinated campaign by the former president and his allies. that was rooted in a lie that was so convincing to some of his most devoted followers it made the assault on the capitol almost inevitable. and a growing list of people and organizations involved in planning, promoting and financing the rallies that precipitated the insurrection. alex jones, ali alexander, the pilly gee, mike lindell, and people who have been in the republican party, and establishment groups like the republican attorneys general association. the heiress to the publix supermarket fortune. her money paid for the lion s share of the $500,000 at the ellipse where the former president spoke. before they converged on washington, all the forces rallied around a single goal of stopping the so-called steal. and the time
averaging nearly 8 hup per day, fueling the debate playing out across the country when and how should students return to the classroom. right now sfunts in the third largest district are in limo. a zanl jaaf gone after the chicago teachers union voted to reach remotely and cancelling classes since wednesday. in georgia public school teachers and staff get this who test positive for covid no longer have to isolate before returning to work as long as they wear a mask. contact tracing is no longer required. meanwhile, the state the supreme court s conservative majority appears ready to block president biden s vaccine requirement aimed at large businesses. this effort hangs in the balance as the administration also deals with a messaging problem. white house a.i.d.s. and scientists are frustrated by communication missteps by dr. walensky, the cdc leader who vowed to restore trust in the agency. struggling to do that right now. let s go to ar let saenz at the white house. what i
talk us through what we have been hearing so far in memorializing, eulogizing the former senate majority leader. reporter: good afternoon, yasmin. yeah, so, i m outside the smith performing arts center. it s a beautiful performing arts center inside where there are hundreds of people who came to invite only, actually, to honor the late senator. many of these people have worked for him over his long career in washington, and many of them are friends or people who have been impacted by his life. now, the first hour of this service has been devoted to speeches from his children. he has a very large family, five children, and of course, they have been talking mostly about the person of senator reid, not the senator, but someone as a father, someone who they admired extremely deeply, someone who they were close with until his final days. of course, after he left washington, senator reid came back to las vegas to southern nevada. he grew up just about 45 miles outside of here in
even by the standards of the political profession where against the odds biographies are common, what mr. reid overcome was extraordinary. he was raised in kenzian circumstances, his home had no indoor plumbing. his father an alcoholic miner who died by suicide and his mother helped the family survive by taking in laundry from local brothels. here s what he said in his farewell speech in 2016. i didn t make it because of my good looks, because i am a genius. i made it because i worked hard. one of the longest serving senate majority leaders of all time, reid was one of the most powerful figures in washington during the president sees of george w. bush and barack obama. crafting a legislative legacy from obamacare to a mass live stimulus bill and new regulations for wall street in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis that is practically unmatched. from the washington post, acknowledged even by republican adversaries as a wiley tactician and master of the senate s archea
accounts today. nearly 10 million children are at risk of slipping back below the poverty line if payments are not extended. senator michael bennet will join us this hour. we ve got to start with the historic vote in the house to recommend criminal contempt charges against one of their own, former congressman and white house chief of staff mark meadows. just two, only two republicans, liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined 220 democrats in voting to hold meadows in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. it s the first time a former member of the house has been held in criminal contempt since 1832. i want to bring in nbc s ali vitali on capitol hill, scott mcfarlane, investigative reporter nor nbc 4 in washington. luke broadwater, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. ali you have to start on this vote because two, only two republicans voted for it. we all heard those text messages. those are republican members of