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this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone over 60 million of us woke up this morning to windchills at or below zero this evening, two-thirds of the country suffering beneath an arctic air mass and heading into a brutal night, including rare ice storm warnings this evening in parts of the eastern carolinas. places that rarely see such a threat. the weather service pulling no punches widespread power outages likely further south, cities including baton rouge, new orleans and boloxie under freeze warnings our emilie ikeda has details. reporter: tonight another winter wall line up pummelling the northeast. a january freeze in half the country sends temperatures plummeting 20 degrees below this time of year s average. i need all of my layers up, even the mouth and nose. reporter: 12 million are under winter alerts. a rare ice storm taking aim at weather weary residents in the carolinas, with dozens of utility crews preparing for the wors ....
aimed to diffuse the border at ukraine s border. blinken warned russia if it invades it will pay a heavy price. wechb clear. if any russian mill tash forces move it will be met with swift, severe and a united response from the united states and partners and allies. the house minority leader laying down the law with tough talk for conservative hardliner trying to become the house speaker. new cnn reporting reeventualing rudy giuliani and other trump campaign officials were far more involved in efforts to install illegitimate elect terrors to seven state that is trump lost. we have reporters covering the news. let s begin with fred pleitgen in geneva. fred, it struck me that perhaps the biggest news out of the comments were that the u.s. will provide written answers to russia s demands. do we know what those written answers will entail? reporter: yeah. i do think you re right that s a bigger thing to come out of this and the u.s. apparently remains steadfast on ....
plunging ball numbers out friday . former president trump weighing in tonight on hannity. president trump: everything having to do with russia, really what he said las night when he said they may go in, they will go in, and he talked about the minor incursio and i said i don t believe he said that because that s like giving him the use they turned green light, but he was greenlighted. in our nations capital you now need to show proof of a photo id and vaccination to go to a gym or restaurant, but scores of lawmakers on capitol hill argue you shouldn t have t show one to vote. why some republicans are teaching the hypocrisy when it comes to vaccine mandate spraye the chaotic u.s. withdraw from afghanistan left in its wake thousands of christians who hav now fallen to the taliban door-to-door campaign to wipe them out. fox news it might investigate some of the most dangerous countries and the world s. we begin with the first anniversary of the biden administration and ....
on to the national stage a little more than a year ago and flirtation before and since with one of this country s two mainstream political parties. first, though, all we learned since last night, which is a lot. some of which, helps further bury false notions about the insurrection that we have all the been literally hearing since day one. for starters, remember the initial refrain subsequently amplified that these weren t really trump supporters but were antifa? in fact, a lot of former president s supporters still seem to make that argument. well, according to page 22 of the indictment, rhodes responded on on his signal chat channel to a claim that antifa broached the capitol according to the indictment, rhodes replied nope, i m right here, these are patriots. keep that in mind as you think back to how many times over the last year, you heard lawmakers try to whitewash the insurrection with variations on the theme that the people who stormed the capitol weren t real ....
we played for you this sound last night. here it is again, manu raju asking about his flip flop about the january 67th committee that wants to question him. regarding the creation of an outside commission, you also oppose the select committee. that s not true. go ahead and ask your question. reporter: you said, sure, you d be able to testify. what was the date of that? reporter: that was last year. now you re saying you won t voluntarily cooperate. why should thepublic not conclude that that you re hiding something? great question. i hope everything gets corrected at cnn. one of the reasons they want to talk to the congressman is they want to know his state of mind at the time, talk to people who were talking to the former president has the capitol was being assaulted. here s part of the q & a yesterday. you a unique window into that day. you were one of the few people who spoke to him that day. doesn t the american public have a right to know what the p ....