the mother of fallen capitol police officer brian sicknick on the hill urging gop senators not to block a january commission her powerful plea, saying she couldn t stay quiet anymore tiger woods speaking out for the first time since his crash. the pain he suffered and what he said when asked about his future in golf. as the nation prepares to mark 100 years since the tulsa massacre my report on the new effort to shine a light on the city s dark past. and ahead of memorial day the man on a mission for families of fallen world war ii heroes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the santa monica pier in california. good evening millions of americans are on the move tonight, reclaiming the rites of summer s unofficial start after more than a year of covid. and we re on the road tonight too, coming to you from the world famous santa monica pier in california this evening, what travel looks like and how safe we are as we gather aga
new variant, and he urged americans to get that shot. the new variant will leave unvaccinated people even more vulnerable than they are a month ago or a month ago. this is a serious concern especially because of what experts are calling the delta variant. it s a variant that is more easily transmissible, potentially deadlier and particularly dangerous for young people. could the delta variant force us back into lockdown? i don t think so because so many people have already been vaccinated. world health organization says this delta variant is becoming the dominant covid strain across our world. cdc says it will likely become the dominant strain here within a few months. experts are particularly worried about what it could mean come fall, what it could mean in parts of the south where vaccination rates have lagged way behind the rest of our country. we re going to see regional surges in places like the south, the southeast of the united states. low vaccine uptake rate
trump administration. congressman brian mast pointed to political motivation. the biden administration had to move away from anything that was blaming china because they were on the xenophobe ic rant. they were trying to use it to hammer president trump even though he was right. we have spent more assets with our intelligence agencies to find the origins of this than we have anything and still not that much closer because they are doing everything to hide it. they wouldn t be doing that if it was an accident. harris: peter doocy with more. good morning. now that president biden has revealed one u.s. spy agency told him it s possible covid-19 leaked out of a lab in china, some lawmakers want to know did it come from a project there being funded with u.s. tax dollars there is no way of guaranteeing that but in our experience with grantees, including chinese grantees, which we ve had interactions with for a very long period of time, they are very competent and trustworth
of a nevada election official. on the eve of the big senate vote, the two democrats holding up the investigation. and today s remarkable statement from the white house about the two theories of the covid-19 origin story. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one true test of the nation s legal system is whether it can dispense impartial justice to the most powerful people in the country. often the people are former leaders facing charges for things they have done before, during or after office. they do successfully need out justice to those people. in france the former president is face being a year for corruption, trying to bribe a judge. in korea, serving a 20-year sentence for corruption and abuse of power. in 2019 the israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu was indicted. his trial is ongoing. his predecessor served 16 months in prison after conviction of bribery and obstruction of justice. the closest contemporary analogue to president d
need. good morning i m hallie jackson in washington with a busy wednesday morning for us here with her exclusive reporting on the trump grand jury. shannon pettypiece is outside of the white house, and we re joined by the federal prosecutor insore new york. the scoop that you have, the details you learned about the process that is technically we re not supposed to know about. i thought that was a tech issue on my end, i don t know if the viewers can hear you either. let me go to you, kahn, to set the scene here and shannon to you as well. we know at this point, let me just give a quick summary here. we may here this this special grand jury that is now empanelled. can you tell me how significant it is. first off it is significant but it s not. what i mean by that is the next logical step in the general investigation that the da is bringing now and the manhattan da is bringing. a special grand jury is sitting longer. it s more complexion, that s where the investigation lasts