welcome to wednesday, it is meet the press daily, and i m chuck todd on a busy afternoon as always here in washington. we re going to begin today with an urgent and immediate threat facing this country, it s the economy and it s national security. i m of course talking about russian cyber attacks. the white house says it is engaging directly with the russian government after a cyberattack on the world s largest meat supplier shut down nine meat plants in the united states. jen psaki told reporters she expects president biden to address the issue when he meets with putin in two weeks. the company which was targeted jbs told white house that a ransom demand likely came from cyber criminals based in russia, raising the question of just how much involvement the russian government has had in these things. the company s plants are starting to come back online but the disruption has raised potential concerns of shortages and price hikes. it would send uncomfortable signals to t
massacre. a white mob killed a thriving black community. they said that two of the last living survivors and to make a new push to try to narrow the racial wealth divide in the country. a vote other voting rights governor greg abbot threatening to cut off paychecks if they keep blocking a voting restrictions bill. so what happens next? i m hallie jackson. shannon pettypiece is outside of the white house. antonia, you re there in tulsa. talk to us about what s happening where you are. what is happening at oak lawn cemetery which i think is behind you. we re going to see researchers and archaeologists go to a back corner and begin a highly amendmented archaeological dig where they re going to excavate human remains they believe may be victims of the 1921 race massacre. they re going to bring the bodies up to study and identify and potentially connect them to family members. so what that looks like is bringing heavy machinery, a backhoe that is already on site, bring it on to
in covid infections. but it comes as deaths hit the highest number nationwide in a year and those free at-home covid tests from the government have started to arrive in the mail. city on edge after two police officers are shot, one killed, in new york. arnold schwarzenegger involved in a major accident his suv ending up on top of another car who s to blame for the skyrocketing price of meat? the president accuses four big companies of driving up the costs we investigate. and turning the tables the woman who refused to become a victim and took down a phone scam grandma 1, bad guy 0. this is nbc night lie news good evening millions are battling two very different weather extremes tonight. some meteorologists are calling what s happening down south a once in a decade ice storm. thousands temporarily lost power state troopers are warning residents to stay off roads out west, another unusual weather event, a major wildfire in january. this is just outside big sur,
reporters and from the president, of course. this will be just the second formal white house press conference. he s held a handful of others on foreign trips. compared to his predecessors, he s governed largely as he campaigned, which is hunkered down in general posture. you can see compared to other presidents, this president has done nine of these opportunities and one of them is like what we re getting today, a form natural news conference at the white house. other presidents at this point in their presidencies gave many more opportunities for the press. we ll bring all of this to you live and special coverage and analysis. karl rove, mercedes schlapp and juan williams will kick us off. fox team coverage, edward lawrence, mark meredith and we begin with peter doocy who has had a front row for this presidency and the canadasy. he will be in the room this afternoon ready to ask his questions. he s no stranger to pressing president biden. here s a look back at some of the mom
police chief testifies about conducting the seat of the democracy. welcome to meet the press daily i m chuck todd on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the capitol incited by then president trump. even if there is disagreement on how it got that way and how to fix it. over the last 24 hours, we ve seen plenty of alarm bells sounding from the halls of congress to the white house briefing room. and so the defining question this week and this year is, are we willing to face the challenge in front of us? yes, there is covid. yes, there is climate. but democracy itself is at risk in a way that we haven t seen in centuries. the biggest threat to our capitol, our capitol police and our democracy is the insidious motives stemming from the big lie. propagated by the former president and many of his republican allies across the country. on thursday the president is going to speak to the truth of what happened. not the lies that some have spread since a