the first dog is back in the white house after a biting incident and two weeks of intensive training. i m christian fraser in london. laura trevelyan is in new york city. the european commission has set out plans today on how it will deal with vaccine exports. it wants tougher controls though it hasn t yet called for an outright ban. the commission will meet leaders virtually on thursday to finalise plans. going forward, whether vaccines are allowed to leave the eu will depend on three measures the destination country s level of infection, its rate of vaccination and whether they themselves export vaccines or components. clearly, the rules have been drawn up in the shadow of the eu s ongoing row with astrazeneca and a feeling on the continent that the uk is getting more than its fair share. but tonight, amid rising fears of an export ban, the two sides issued a joint statement to say they will continue working together on specific steps they can tak to create a win win sit
republicans mount an unprecedented challenge to the electoral college vote the national guard called in as d.c. braces for protests. a fifth state confirming that new, more contagious covid strain from the uk as the u.s. struggles with the vaccine rollout. fewer than 300,000 americans getting their shots in the last 24 hours. it comes as hospitals are overwhelmed. one major city running out of oxygen for patients that massive hack. u.s. intelligence in a rebuke to president trump now officially accusing russia. and do you have your ticket? two jackpots, over 400 million up for grabs announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening there s breaking news tonight from wisconsin, where a prosecutor has announced there will be no charges filed against a white kenosha police officer who shot a black man in the back as he leaned into a car last august jacob blake was left paralyzed after the shooting that was captured on video and led to angry protests
burnett. out front tonight, i begin with breaking news. a chilling warning. cnn learning the january 6th select committee has obtained damning text messages between trump s white house and one of trump s closest tv confidants, sean hannity. one of the messages was a warning the day before the insurrection. hannity texting he was, quote, very worried about the next 48 hours. now, the messages we understand were all sent in the days and weeks leading up to january 6th and in the immediate days of its aftermath. and now, the committee wants to hear from hannity about these conversations. conversations that, obviously, are now key to what trump s white house knew about january 6th. so, according to the committee, the message hannity sent the one that said he was, quote, very worried about the next 48 hours, was one of a number of messages that he exchange ed with trump s inner circle on that evening of january 5th. again, right, just to make it clear, the night before everything
hannity asking for his voluntary cooperation in the investigation. and they released more text messages. many of these to former chief of staff mark meadows from hannity, that were written in the days before and after the attack. according to the committee s letter, they have quote dozens of these texts. many appearing to show the fox news host was worried about the former president s attempts to overturn the election results on january 6th. also, that he appeared to have a familiarity with what was going on behind the scenes, in the days leading up to the certification. we are going to show you those texts in just a moment. the committee previously released a text from hannity to m ma he doughs during the riot that asked thoim contact the then president. quote, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol? demon demonstrate awareness of who was attacking the capitol that day, at the very least, the former president s supporters. an awareness he didn t broadcast t
that followed a police shooting of jacob blake. the prosecution has argued rittenhouse was the aggressor. protests outside the courthouse got a bit tense yesterday and we ve been watching this build up. remember, there are 500 national guard men and women that the governor has called in with regard to what might happen after the verdict is read. they didn t do that the night of rioting going on august of 2020, just pointing that out. yesterday the defense made a second request for a mistrial after the jury asked to rewatch some key drone footage of the shootings. rittenhouse s attorney claim they received an inferior version of that video not high resolution that was shown during closing arguments only. watch. we didn t have the quality of evidence that the state had until the case had been closed and i think that is required in a case like this where he is looking at a life sentence potentially without parole if he is convicted. harris: that video is huge in this case ri