Of adjoining is, im sandra smith. John and john roberts, naydamac with martha starts right now. Martha thank you very much, good afternoon everybody, a Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Today as it continues to build at this Hour Cagle blonde new calls for President Biden to step aside from some of the most influential democrats of the obama era. Former House Speaker Nancy pelosi, who stresses to the current president of that time is Running Out for him to make a decision. We have a lot to get to, you will be joined in a moment by what has National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby as president Joe Biden meets with nato leaders In Washington and tries to prove to the world and to some members of his own party that he can continue to be Commander In Chief for another 4 years. [ ] all right, interesting a moment from this morning to John Kirby in just a moment about a said to bring in commanderinchief question, retired general jack keane, now chairman of the institute for
From the lab where chinese scientists have long been working with bats and coronaviruses. Even amping them up to make them more deadly. Dr. Robert redfield, the head of the cdc under President Trump was one of the first officials to support this theory. That perhaps covid did leak from the lab. He says that since coming out with that theory, he received Death Threats as a result and kept largely silent since until now in this exclusive interview with Fox News medical contributor, dr. Marc siegel. Here i think theres a few different hypotheses that are credible. One that this virus evolved from bats into some intermediate animal that is yet to be found and eventually evolved to humans. Basically became efficiently transmitted among humans. The other that this virus went from a bat into a laboratory where in the laboratory it gained the ability to become an efficient humantohuman transmitter. Those are two hypotheses. If im disappointed about the early scientific community, there was a l
A stone is no stranger to political chaos. Following this developing story for us as Moscow Bureau chief. Hear why these protests happening now. Well its all about actually about alleged manipulation on the one hand and corruption on the other hand in this very poor possible country and its also about a power struggle between the old president tom by it and the new president of who has been leading the country since 2 and 2019 the former president at time by was put in prison for 11 years after the new one the current president. Was elected bias relations with his successor just back up and with the biggest parliament every simply been tense and is those are the tensions that are bubbling to this sort of face after the recent parliamentary elections 16 parties participated only a small number of parties the received seats in the Parliament One of the main parties has close ties with the family of president can back off and the 2nd one is this is easier to do with it another influential
It is now 6 am. Lets go back to the desk. A busy day on the roads and in the airports as Holiday Travelers make the last minute dash to get out of town. Are spinning their Christmas Eve journeying to where they want to be for Christmas Day. Oh my goodness. Is only 6 am and look at the line to get through security here. We have all of these people waiting to get through the metal detectors. There also sleeping bags and look at the line as it continues here. There people still filing in with these long lines. Give yourself plenty of time to get through security here this morning. It will be taking a while. I did get a chance to speak with travelers and they were keeping their spirits high. And said they are quite excited to get out of town for the holidays. We are so excited. We are going to disney world. You know, ive been hesitant to book this trip. But you know what, we are just going to do it. Its going to be an adventure and their frontier right now. We have the ponchos and umbrella
On twitter. Com. Thanks so much for your time. At theve look now Brookings Institution in washington where in just a few minutes, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will be eating about threats to National Security. You can watch his remarks live over on our companion and online at cspan. Org. Here on cspan, we plan to bring you at 11 a. M. Eastern, the comments from robert mueller, the special counsel, a statement at 11 a. M. Eastern, reports from the Washington Post National Security group orders say that it will be a substantial statement of under 10 minutes. Whatever it is, we will have it for you live. Host as we come to the end of Mental Health awareness month, especially with the state of american Mental Health, we are joined by the acting ceo of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Remind viewers who the alliance is and what your mission is. Guest thanks for having me. The National Alliance for Mental Illness is the nations largest Grassroots Organization dedicated t