Parkland School Shooting. Oh, and shes also said that democrats should be executed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is very concerned about the ongoing threats to members of congress and she says now the enemy is coming from within the house of representatives. There are new developments this morning in the effectiveness of vaccines against new coronavirus strains. Earlier results from Drugmaker Novavax show it is 89 effective against the regular strain, but only 60 effective against the variant that we are seeing in south africa. That is worrying health officials. Whats more, people in the trial who had been previously infected with the first strain are getting infected again with the new strain. So this really has the potential to change some of the framing in the battle in this pandemic. The first cases of that strain were now found in the united states. That happened for the first time yesterday. It happened in individuals who had not traveled and have no connection to each oth
Plus dennis quaid. Im a football player. Theyre going to pump up the volume here. What happened yesterday . A former president being prosecuted by the sitting president will leave a blackco stain on the fabric of this country. But lets not forget whose move this was. The New York Times reported that joe biden directed his Attorney General to prosecute his rival prosecu. Quote, mr. Biden privately told his close circl e of advisers that mr. Trump posed a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted for his role in the events of june 6th. Of according to two people familiar with his comments. He also told confidence that he wanted Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop acting like the Attneral To A Ponderoud to take decisive action. Dent this is not an independent justice department. This is not an indepen stice ded. Special counsel. This prosecution is being directedecutio by the commander in chief and now the Corporate Media is engaged in Aengage Bloodthirsty and libelous wad r again
Brian its 8 00 a. M. On the east coast, it is friday, march 1, no longer leaping into the new year. This is fox. The funeral for Alexei Navalny is underway as Vladamir Putin threatens Nuclear Action in the west. Ainsley two border visits with the current president slamming the former one. Come to to being and this is a war zone, they view it as a war zone and mexico is doing nothing to help us. Ainsley lawrence is live in brownsville, after President Biden visited that area. Steve and Hunter Bidens transcript has been released. He admits he put his dad on Speaker Phone. Mark levine will join us by satellite. Brian remember for the last time, i cant keep telling you this, your mornings are better because you are with friends. Ance start with a fox news alert. The funeral for Alexei Navalny just concluded. Brian the russian Opposition Leader is being laid to rest. Heavy Police Presence in the area. Steve alex hogan is live in our european newsroom with the latest. There is a lot of quest
of their son. we re going to talk to evan gershkovich s freshman year college roommate in just a few minutes. we ll talk about the person he calls a, quote, exceptional friend and journalist. plus, we have breaking news to share. the man accused of shooting and killing 23 people at an el paso, texas, walmart in 2019 has just been sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences on federal charges and that is just his first round of sentencing. we re going to have the very latest for you any moment when we get our nbc news reporter who s there on site for us. we begin this hour at the site where republican primary race begins, that being iowa. right now former president donald trump is hitting the campaign trail in council bluffs as he continues to campaign and fund-raise. the republican leader writing in a lengthy statement last night that the doj is going after him and claiming that special counsel jack smith, quote, purposefully omitted the presidential records act. are quote,
andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020