outstanding. so, let s get to it. i m hallie jackson, joining you this morning from st. louis on assignment on a story we will bring you soon. all the action is back home in washington where nbc news team is. leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and mark murray. we expect this news conference to begin any minute. it s slated to start at the top of the hour. we know sometimes house speaker pelosi runs late. we don t have any indication that will happen right now. as you and your team pointed out there s a couple of big questions for her as we come on the air. number one, specific reasons for booting jim jordan, congressman banks as well. and, second, is she going to fill those seats? and if so, with who? do you have any insights from your conversations with sources? reporter: that s right, speaker pelosi threw a bombshell in the process when she said she was not going to approve two of leader mccarthy s choices to serve on this select committee. speaker pelosi was mostly silen
and if he only had expressing their exquisite desire to cut money from the cops. i support the defund movement because this is about the investment in our community was has appeared we need to dismantle and start anew. many affluent suburbs have essentially already begun pursuing a defining of the police is that they fund school, housing. providing other safety. to mike what if we had the current vice president lending her support when she was a senator? we have to re-examine what we re doing with american taxpayer dollars and ask the question of getting the right return on our investment? are we creating healthy and safe communities? i applaud eric garcetti for doing what he s done. greg: trying to shift blame because crime is out of control. we see that crime is out of control in the city of oakland and our response was for less police resources pray that additional 17 million will have an impact. we already have a tough time responding to the high number of c
inviting a clear and stark contrast with the posture of his predecessor, who was famously resistance to article five. here was president biden just a few moments ago. the u.s. commitment to article five, the nato treaty, is rock solid and unshakable. it s a sacred commitment. nato nato stands together, that s how we met every other threat in the past. it s our greatest strength as we meet our challenges of the future, and there are many. and everyone everyone in that room today understood the shared appreciation, quite frankly, that america is back. president biden today also addressing news on the republican party back at home, calling it disappointing that so many republicans have been unwilling to advance an investigation into the january 6th insurrection. but among our allies who stood alongside president biden today, relief was palpable. president biden ushering in the end of the trump era of american isolationism and reasserting u.s. leadership on the world stag
their aides and family members including a minor were targeted, too. the records were sought as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information. let s just say trump was never shy about who he thought was spilling his business. schiff is a big leaker. we ll have a committee meeting and he ll leak all sorts of information. you know, he s a bad guy. i think adam schiff is the biggest leaker in washington. you know that. i know that. we all know that. i ve watched adam schiff leak. he is a corrupt politician. he s a leaker like nobody has ever seen before. they ought to stop the leaking from intelligence committee. if they don t stop it i can t imagine people aren t going to go after them and find out what s happening. this isn t the first time trump shredded our institutions in an attempt to hunt down his enemies and snuff them out. this was a thing with him as it is with all autocrats real and wanna-be. this is a big deal. unprecedented in this country and
i don t favor gain of function research in china. you re saying things that are not correct. you re fooling with mother nature here. you re allowing super viruses to be created with a 15% mortality. it s very dangerous. and is a huge mistake to share this with china and a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the united states. we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from. i fully agree you should investigate where the virus came from, but again we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the wuhan institute of virology no matter how many times you re parsing words. there was research ripped from the pages of qanon. why is he doing this to himself? i don t know why he does. it s really strange. it s more than strange. it s disturbing. it s part of a bigger picture. dr. anthony fauci pushing back on saturday rand paul s allegation that the national institutes of health had been funding the chinese lab in wuhan.