The Trump Administration, the stock markets in turmoil, the generals are out, the government is about to shut down and be in a bit of a crisis mode. This is a presidency in crisis right now. Were going to stay on top of all of the Breaking News. Thanks so much for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, the Breaking News, Defense Secretary jim mattis quits. In a stunning letter to the president of the United States, the four Star General Calling Out President Trump for not backing American Allies, for supporting authoritarian regimes. I want to read the entire letter, because this is a Turning Point for this administration, for President Trump, and for this country. Here is the letter from Defense Secretary mattis to the president of the United States, which he handed him today, in which he quit. Dear mr. President , i have been privileged to serve as our
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former white house political director under george w. bush, sara fagen. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. as we ve said before, as covid goes, so goes joe biden s presidency. right now covid is a major health and political problem. a combination of new variants like delta and omicron and stubborn vaccine refusal among millions has led to an all-time high in cases. the seven-day average has blown past previous records. that doesn t begin to account for people who don t report results of at-home tests or who are asymptomatic. hospitalizations are spiking as well. but the death rate so far has ticked up much more slowly, owing in part to a less severe illness caused by omicron. the public is in a different place than it was a year ago, and the biden administration is desperately trying to catch up. the cdc has offered confusing
that kind of game where they just take a snapshot and say, okay, on january 6th, well, there s this independent force that s pushing for agitation and so on. therefore ignore everything in the proceeding. and this is what i think congress is looking at this committee is, you know, understanding the full narrative, which doesn t begin, of course, on january 6th. it begins earlier with trump, you know, saying stop the steal and all sorts of stuff, hiring john eastman, this law professor in quotes to write a memo saying, seven states can send a rival slate of electors. and then indeed it s come out just recently in the last week that there were actually seven fake slates of electors that were sent to washington. and then the justice department is part of this plot was supposed to come in and cast doubts on the election, all of this was just trying to create a house of cards that will last through january 6th and give
diplomatic boycott of the game, citing china s human rights abuses. meanwhile, the pandemic remains a major factor for the competition getting under way in beijing. three members of the u.s. men s hockey team have tested positive for coronavirus this morning. but as they isolate in the olympic vig, usa hockey still hopes to have all three available for the tournament which doesn t begin until the middle of next week. meanwhile, today s opening ceremony will be a little less grand than the last time china hosted the olympics, the summer game in 2008. this time only 3,000 performers will be there, compared to 15,000 in the last beijing games. the event is expected to last less than 100 minutes, making it the shortest opening ceremony in more than 30 years. of course, they will be showing it on nbc. and one other sports note, no real progress yet in the major league baseball labor strike. the league is asking for a mediator to be involved. it is unclear if the players union will go for th
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