they want information as a witness. the daughter of the former president also famously a senior adviser and apparently heard trump and pence talk on that morning of january 6. it s a request for voluntarily cooperation to learn key details of how pence responded to help trump and try to stay in power. investigators noted that his white house lawyers may have concluded the plot to abuse executive power is criminal or illegal. congress knows the attempted coup would fail even had pence joined in. the administration cannot override the election and they do not support that illegal ploy. in fact if you want to do the thought experiment if it came to it the evidence suggests that the u.s. government and the military would back a court s rulings that the transfer of power to then president-elect biden was the lawful outcome. no chicanery from the vice president to change that. there were people in the white house serious about this very plot. trump aide navarro said with plan was t
measures. they wanted to go online. but now with no remote learning, hundreds of thousands of children are caught in the middle just hours after president biden said this. we provided the states with 130 billion, with a billion, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems in the schools, social distancing in classrooms, even larger classrooms, on buses. everything from bus drivers to buses. so i encourage the states and cool districts to use the funding, but you still have to protect your children and keep the schools open. chicago had actually resumed in-person classes on monday, but school officials insist it is safe for in-person learning in class. the standoff could last foreweeks. cnn s omar jimenez starts us off in chicago. reporter: this vote from the chicago teachers union triggers a cancellation of class, which is what the school district warned would happen if this vote went through. in
police chief testifies about conducting the seat of the democracy. welcome to meet the press daily i m chuck todd on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the capitol incited by then president trump. even if there is disagreement on how it got that way and how to fix it. over the last 24 hours, we ve seen plenty of alarm bells sounding from the halls of congress to the white house briefing room. and so the defining question this week and this year is, are we willing to face the challenge in front of us? yes, there is covid. yes, there is climate. but democracy itself is at risk in a way that we haven t seen in centuries. the biggest threat to our capitol, our capitol police and our democracy is the insidious motives stemming from the big lie. propagated by the former president and many of his republican allies across the country. on thursday the president is going to speak to the truth of what happened. not the lies that some have spread since a
understand that you had at least one, and possibly multiple communications with president trump on the 6th. we will like to discuss each such communication with you in detail. jordan was specifically asked about those communications in a local ohio tv interview back in the summer. if jordan ever does sit down in front of the 1/6 committee, he might want to make sure his answer is a little more polish than this. let s take a listen. on january 6th, did you speak with him before, during, or after the capitol was attacked? i would have to go i i i spoke with him that day after. i think after. i don t know if i spoke with him in the morning or not. i just don t know. i would have to go back and i mean, i don t know that, when those conversations happened, but what i know is i spoke with him all the time. let me translate that for you, hammina, hammina, hammina. like i said, practice that answer before you go before the committee, if you do. a federal judge in flor
americans has received that shot worrying health officials. nbc s steve patterson has the latest on all of this. hey to you, steve. hey, alex, yeah, experts are warning all of the conditions that were in place for what some are now calling a potential viral blizzard, the more transmissible omicron variant is projected to become the dominant strain within just weeks as cases spike, as hospitals fill up in these marquee events now shutting down. covid whiplash, as the nation teeters once again on the edge of a winter free fall, long lines at testing centers across the country, families hoping for negative test results ahead of the holidays. health officials once again pleading with the public. for the unvaccinated, you re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm. reporter: with cases up more than 24% over the last two weeks and deaths now averaging 1,300 a day, hospitals are bracing for a hard