There was a lot of feedback going on about who is essential and who is not. Artists are not essential. When you think about what those people ended up doing while being stuck at home during this pandemic is they watched, they listened. You can ask anybody what would their life be without art . And they might not realize it would be very hard and empty for them to survive without it. The arts are different. Its a different form of necessity. Its one that you have to use your imagination a little bit to see what youre getting back from it. If we are listening to music together, our hearts are going to start to beat in sync. The arts do that better than anything else. They help us find each other. Cancellations have taken place at virtually every single Arts Organization in this country. Artists and creative workers are among the most severely affected by the pandemic. If you just look at the financial losses of Arts Organizations themselves, we are estimating them to be 13. 8 billion to
appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
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next on behind the series. let me tell you about the greatest roster ever assembled. the monster, the outlaw. and you can t forget about the boss. it wasn t just a roster. it was a menu. the subway series. the greatest menu of all time. house republican leaders giving freshman new york congressman george santos not one, but two committee assignments, despite the countless lies he told during his campaign. he joins other controversial colleagues as well who also have new committee assignments tonight. we ll talk about all that and what it tells us about speaker mccarthy s hold on the gop, or maybe their hold on him. but i want to bring in democratic congressman ritchie torres of new york. he is one who has been calling on the federal election commission to launch an investigation into santos over allegations that he broke campaign finance laws. congressman, thank you for being here this evening. this is certainly a congressman, a colleague who has a lot of questions surroundin
the daily death toll falling to a four month low on monday. at the very same time roughly 10% of the population has now been fully vaccinated, while nearly 20% have gotten at least one shot. an average of 2.2 million vaccinations are being given out every single day in this country. and we ve got to remember, all of this is happening just a year after the country first shut down. i want to start with my colleague peter alexander at the white house. peter, what is the administration doing to mark this one-year anniversary? yeah, that anniversary, of course, a somber one this thursday, now 48 hours away, and we at nbc news can now confirm president biden will be delivering his first primetime address at 8:00 p.m. eastern time this thursday to commemorate the day that the outbreak, the coronavirus outbreak was first declared a pandemic. jen psaki the press secretary detailing the tremendous loss, more than 525,000 americans who have now lost their lives in the course of that t