Do you get to those folks still refusing to be vaccinated . What do we expect to hear from the President Today . Reporter jim, as you say, it is good news but it is not good enough to slow down the Delta Variant. Everything this administration wants to accomplish in terms of Public Health and economically and politically depending on getting this pandemic under control and the administration has hit a wall in terms of resistance both fueled by politics in some the red State And Concern among some members of other communities in big cities who are reluctant to get vaccinated. Well hear from the President Today to talk about efforts to vaccinated the rest of the world. 110 Million doses shipped overseas and looking to the private sector to galvanize Vaccine Requirements or very strong pushes to employees and to customers, were expecting to get some news from new York City mayor de blasio about requiring proof of vaccination to participate in some activities. The administration last week
criminal contempt of congress referral. bannon is refusing to comply because of trump s claim that he can assert executive privilege to block steve bannon s testimony. a reminder, steve bannon did not work for then-president trump on january 6th. he s a podcast correspondent. betsy, good morning, you have new reporting out about a capitol police whistle-blower who is calling out two of their senior leaders for how they handled the january 6th attack. you write the whistle-blower accuses sean gallagher, the capitol police aking chief and pittman, assistant chief of police of deliberately deciding not to help officers on january 6th and pittman lied to congress about an intelligence report they received about the day s riot. could the committee be considering hearing from those capitol police officials named in the letter? that s right. we ve reviewed a 16-page whistle-blower complaint that this whistle-blower shared with the top officials in congress. we ve confirmed that th
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening with the country barreling toward a financial cliff tonight, republicans may be blinking and ready to help avert catastrophe with a new offer to democrats providing an off-ramp in the showdown of raising the $28.4 trillion debt ceiling. tonight the clock is ticking. less than two weeks until the u.s. will either have to raise the borrowing limit to pay past bills or face the chilling prospect of default and potential economic disaster senate minority leader mitch mcconnell now saying he will support an extension of the debt ceiling to allow the country to pay its bills for now, a temporary solution at best. peter alexander now with late details. reporter: tonight, what could be a new short-term solution to the looming fiscal disaster top republican mitch mcconnell offering democrats a deal to allow the government to extend its ability to borrow money to pay its bills for an we view that as a victory. we view th
thursday. there is a deal in congress to avoid an economic calamity. but don t celebrate yet. the short term fix likely means a nightmare before christmas. also shocking new details about what sounds more and more like an attempted coup by donald trump at the department of justice as he desperately tried to cling to power after the election he lost. it comes as the clock ticks down on deadline day for trump aides to cooperate with subpoenas from the january 6 committee. meantime, pfizer officially asks the feds to approve its vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. how soon could we see kids getting shots in arms? we begin, though, with a striking order from a federal judge slamming that texas law that bans almost all abortions across the state. in a sharply-worded ruling, the judge ordered the law to be suspended, calling it, quote, an offensive deprivation of a constitutional right, and a, quote, contrived and unprecedented transparent statutory scheme by texas republicans. the
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday that settlements against two landlords and their property management company will resolve allegations that they violated the state’s Tenant Protection Act by unlawfully