now. starting with acknowledgment of how serious the current situation is. today the leader of the current administration addressed the nation. emerging from the white house where he s been stewing for a week. and hiding from the shame of becoming a one term president. that acknowledgment that never happened. instead the antiscience president took credit for breakthrough therapy. making sure to dangle the vaccine before a democratic governor who didn t play nice. and something like this. we won t go to a lock down. i will not go. this add mirs will not go to lock down. hopefully the whatever happens in the future who knows, which administration it will be. time will tell. which administration do you mean, sir? 950,000 covid infections have been reported. 7,500 americans have died. look at this devastating map. covid is exploding. to new levels across the country. hospitals are again at full capacity. with schools and the economy in chaos. trump infected his own family. le
the president is blaming the violence that we saw here in washington last night on what he calls antifa scum, issuing several tweets in the last 12 hours or so, in which he seemed to encourage the police here to crack down violently on those demonstrators. president trump tweeting, d.c. police, get going, do your job and don t hold back. now, we should point out, of the arrests that we know about from last night, at least 20 arrests, we don t know yet whether those were people who were there supporting president trump or opposing him and supporting president-elect biden. so unclear whether the president s comments there are really accurate. but we ve seen the president want to use these rallies, despite the fact that some of them did turn violent, to try to be a demonstration of the fact that he still enjoys a really strong base of support, including people who want to cheer him on in this legal contest to try to overturn the results of the election, despite what has alread
extraordinary and so it requires extraordinary measures. nearly 250 lawmakers now calling for the president s removal. that line also get something traction among some republicans, including senator pat toomey who says the president has committed impeachable offenses. and investigators are making more arrests after that mob attack. among them, a west virginia state delegate. a new reporting from nbc news about vice president mike pence and where he stands on the issue of invoking the 25th amendment. good sunday morning, everybody. glad you re with us. i m lindsey reiser. i m kendis gibson. we have a team of nbc correspondents and experts following the very latest for you right now. josh lederman has new reporting from the white house. heidi przybyla has the latest on the impeachment efforts and monica alba is on capitol hill with the newest details on the arrests following wednesday s attack. let s start with josh right now. good morning. you first there. there are re
bolton releasing a statement, well-established russian saying, quote, the president interference, not just in america s democracy, but on all believes that the next bilateral western democracies, as a matter meeting with president putin should take place after the of fact. look, the indictments that the russia witch hunt is over. so we ve agreed that it will be special counsel, director after the first of the year. mueller, issued for the 12 uniformed members of the russian now, we don t know whether the russians have agreed to that or intelligence services is a master piece of criminal not, they haven t said. but after the first of the year investigation. and i confidently predicted it is a big change from this fall, will go down in the history which is what the white house books as such. announced on twitter. to be able to trace their names, so why is this meeting suddenly on ice? well, our jeff zeleny asked. recreate the paper trail, as it were, is brilliant detective mr