discuss what this could mean for transmissibility and vaccine efficacy. and dr. anthony fauci weighed in just a short time ago. well, certainly, there is a new variant that is now in south africa, that has some mutations that are raising some concern, particularly with regard to possibly transmissibility increase, and possibly evasion of immune response. we don t know that for sure right now. this is really something that is in motion, and we just arranged right now a discussion between our scientists and the south african scientists a little bit later in the morning. so a lot we don t know. but this news is making the markets nervous, dow futures are down 800 points, with travel business being especially hard hit. with me, more on this. nbc news foreign correspondent, and gary joins us live from a testing site in pennsylvania, and also with us dr. peter hotez, co-director for the center for vaccine development at texas children s hospital, and dean of the national school
new and important developments from the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. tonight, the select committee is expected to vote to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress for failing to comply with a subpoena. and former president trump is taking legal action of his own to try to block the committee from getting the information it wants. with me now, ali vitale, pete williams and kristin welker. ali, what should we expect and what does it mean for bannon in practical terms? what this really kicks off is the beginning of the process for the committee to lend some teeth to their investigatory power. they are allowed to subpoena people to come before them. they knew they were not likely to see cooperation from a lot of these trump allies, especially in this first batch of subpoenas. knowing that, they wanted to start the process as soon as they could, because they knew that this was going to end up mired in the courts, answering questions about execu
pentagon document with plans to attack iran and admitting he didn t declassify it. plus, we heard from vp in a life speech after russia dropped charges against the wagner mercenary group for the weekend rebellion. we will hear from ukraine ace foreign minister. bank of america s ceo will join us to weigh in on the economy of the chances of a recession. cnn this morning starts right now. this is where we begin. major developments in moscow. vladimir putin making a live appearance after russia asnounsed it was dropping charges against the wagner group. vladimir putin personally thanking russian security forces for defending the country against the revolt. translator: you defended the constitution, the lives, the security and the freedom of our citizens. you saved our homeland from being shaken up in actual fact. you stopped a civil war. that s worth noting we don t know where the wagner group s leader is. yevgeny prigozhin supposedly struck a deal to go in exile i
then we were divided in 2020. so, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple. that there is no bad opinion. you want to express your opinion in this country, express it i want to hear. and then everybody gets a round table and resolve our issues. one of the time. the same way we used to do at dinner parties for the last eight or ten years. it wasn t like there weren t political differences to discuss. it s just that people did not start throwing their cutlery and it was a little more civilized. and it was not as if our democracy was at stake. see, in the end if you make everything a crisis, and it will be. and i heard the president today, joe biden earlier today talking about how he was concerned about democracy of donald trump getting elected again. and then i heard donald trump yelling and screaming about how badly he s been treated, these two guys need to stop worrying so much about themselves and start worrying about you. my approach to being president wou