possible plot to breach the capitol by an identified militia group on march 4th. that date is when qanon believers think former president trump will return to office. earlier this evening house democrats changed their legislative schedule passing the george floyd police reform bill, scrapping tomorrow s house session because of security concerns. this new warning from the feds comes nearly 8 weeks after that january 6th insurrection and as we re learning an unbelievable delay of deployment of national guard troops on that day. the commanding general of the d.c. national guard testified before senators today that he had some 155 uniformed members of the guard ready to respond to the insurrection. he described the initial request for help at 1:49 p.m. that day from the former capitol police chief as rioters breached the complex. chief sund, his voice cracking with emotion, indicated that there was a dire emergency at the capitol. and he requested the immediate assistance of a
he described the initial request for help at 1:49 p.m. that day from the former capitol police chief as rioters breached the complex. chief sund, his voice cracking with emotion, indicated that there was a dire emergency at the capitol. and he requested the immediate assistance of as many available national guardsmen that i could muster. immediately after that 1:49 call i alerted the senior army leadership of the request. the approval for chief sund s request would eventually come from the acting secretary of defense and be relayed to me by army senior leaders at 5:08 p.m., about 3 hours, 19 minutes later. i already had guards on buses at the armory ready to move to the capitol. the secretary-general s january 5th letter to me withheld that authority for me to deploy a quick reaction force. i found that require to be unusual. i have 39 years in the national guard. i was in the florida guard, hurricane andrew. i ve been involved in civil disturbances, so i believe that numbe
and more states shattering records for new cases putting pressure on president biden to solve the testing shortage. meantime the president also faces big challenges on the global stage from china and russia. we have live team coverage of all of the stories rich edson is following the president and wilmington and charles watson in cdc headquarters. first we go to laura ingle working on the travel nightmare. we knew it was coming the inevitable travel trouble associated with the weekend before most people go back to work, you have the covid concerns and all of the staff shortages that go along with that and an extra dose of travel trouble going into the new year. let s take a look at where rat many spending the holiday weekend and airports trying to get on flights or schedule new ones. after thousands of flights nationwide canceled or delayed, several airlines blaming the flight issue on crew shortages driven by covid-19 on top of severe weather conditions coast to coast th
good afternoon this is president biden s last full day in delaware for the holiday week, tomorrow he returns to the white house and a host of challenges many of them are focused on testing coming off the holiday week couple of weeks of long lines americans waiting hours to get covid test. the administration is trying to buy 500 million of them to send out for free though it s unclear when adobe available doctor anthony fauci said the at-home antigen test are accurate especially more americans use them. the very good when they re given sequentially if you do them two or three times over a today. at the end of the day there is good as the pcr. president biden faces a series of covid related court challenges the supreme court friday will hear cases involving the administration mandate for employees at larger companies or healthcare workers to be vaccinated or tested. the federal judge also blocked a federal vaccine mandate for those involved in the headstart program in 24
tonight on one of the committee s revelations and all the text messages that meadows has provided. texts forwarded by a lawmaker to meadows on january 5th. outlining an unproven legal theory on throwing out votes in states the former president lost. i want to display just a few of the messages he received from people in congress. the committee is not naming these lawmakers at this time as our investigation is ongoing. if we could cue the first graphic. this one reads, on january 6th, 2021, vice president mike pence as president of the senate should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. you could see why this is so critical to ask mr. meadows about. congressman adam schiff read that, we did not know who sent that message to meadows. late today, wlaerned it was ohio republican congressman jim jordan. the one who downplays the insurrection and defends the big election lie. the result of the message cites federalist p