but the legal problems for him beginning. according to our legal analyst we spoke to, on a scale of one to dten, he thinks the concern ask a ten. here in new york a scrutiny, a criminal investigation for his attempt to overturn the election in georgia. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, you heard madeleine dean unimpressed. he did say he gave a dereliction of duty. now a law maker who both parties are calling for a 9/11 commission to investigate the attacks. president biden squarely focused on the future. his 1.9 trillion relief package. of course, he wants to see a package bassed by the end of the month on the president s desk, before these unemployment benefits expire march 14th. all of this as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to decline, but new this morning, researchers identified seven new strains of coronavirus here in the united states and many of them have the same mutation as those fast-spreading variants first identified in the uk and south a
seditious conspiracy. what the fbi says it uncovered, cracking encrypted apps. the oathpe lder allegedly telling followers, we aren t getting through this without a civil war. federal authorities say they had quick reaction force teams prepared to transport weapons to d.c. we are also tracking a major winter storm tonight. the midwest, then the south, and then up the east coast, right into the northeast. on alert for snow and ice. dangerous driving ahead. and several inches of snow in some places. ginger zee times this out. tonight, britain s prince andrew stripped of his military titles just hours after a u.s. federal judge said the sex assault lawsuit against him can move forward. what buckingham palace is now saying tonight. the voting rights showdown on capitol hill. democratic senator kyrsten sinema and her words, just an hour before the president arrived on the hill to meet with democrats. did she, along with senator joe manchin, halt the president s efforts to pr
rhodes, the highest profile person charged in the january 6th investigation yet. president biden leaving the hill just a few minutes ago after trying to wrangle the votes for his voting rights push. he doesn t have the votes. here with us, dick durbin. we re live with him one on one to take us inside that meeting later in the show. it is going to be a rock and roll hour. i m going to call it now. i m hallie jackson in washington with pete williams joins us, peter alexander with us as well. pete, let me start with you. break down the supreme court ruling and what it means. two rulings, hallie. the first one by a vote of 6-3, the supreme court is blocking the biden administration from carrying out the business mandate, the one that said companies that employee more than 100 workers must assure they either get the covid vaccine or wear a mask and undergo weekly testing. that s the one that would apply to about 80 million workers. it had ogone into effect after a lower court
this breaking news, pete, but we re topping out the hour and i want to go back and lay out the the bare facts here. the arrest of the head of the oath keepers and a number of other rioters with seditious conspiracy, this suggests the doj is closing in on some of the people who they say were in fact organizing what happened on january ofth and leads us to suggest it was supposed to go even farther than it did. right, that s the key question after reading this indictment. it s one that we may have to wait for these trials to get an answer to, which is, was there a well-developed plan before these people came to washington to actually enter the capitol and try to stop the vote by intimidating members of congress right in the capitol while they were working. but the big news, as you say, stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, has been charged with seditious conspiracy. the interesting thing about that is that there were 19 other members of the accused members of the
continue to mask for five days to minimize the risk of infecting others. now, that new guidance is sparking relief for some, confusion for others as americans attempt to navigate how to manage the virus at this point and, of course, the new variant. these changes come as new cases are surging across the country right now. the us .s. is averaging more th 237,000 daily cases. for many americans, this holiday season may be remembered for hours spent in long testing lines or desperately searching pharmacy shelves for at-home tests. our team of reporters following all the latest developments this morning, but first, to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on this big shift in guidance from the cdc. good morning. explain it to all of us because it is coulnfusing, even the lite part where it says that the time. does that mean you need to be asymptomatic at the end of the five days or the whole time? it is so confusing, poppy. let s start with where we were before this.