guidance according to admiral giroir. we know cases are going down. vaccinations going up. cdc made the right play call but fumbled the ball at the one-yard line. the communication was a business mall. dana: when you have a former cdc director saying it was abyss mall. it continues to be reported the white house, the president specifically, was not informed about this guidance change until thursday morning of last week which is the same time we all found out about it. so is that how it went down? there is a new channel of communication at the cdc as a result. dana: a big resignation we ll find out more in a moment. former coronavirus testing czar admiral giroir will join us in a moment. peter doocy will join us from the white house. very interesting here at the white house. the guidance keeps evolving. president biden started out by saying people need to be either vaccinated or masked. but now he is saying the va x is much better against covid. president biden: sc
chanting: fight for trump! fight for trump! much of this impeachment trial has turned on one section of donald trump s speech before an angry crowd onjanuary 6. we fight like hell. and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country any more. begin the presentation of the case for the former president. the trump defence team, though, aren t in the least bit defensive. good afternoon, senators. this is ordinary political knock about, they say, and produced their own campaign style video to highlight how democrats use the exact same language. does one of us have to come out alive? fight that fight! we have been fighting. i was fighting very hard. time is of the essence, both in terms of the fight. i think we should be fighting. fighting for a policy, though, isn t quite the same as urging your supporters to go and march on the capitol, with the consequences that followed. and over the course of this week, we ve seen new and disturbing video the then vice pr
launching a final ground assault on the factory, they should instead blockade it. so severely that, quote, not even a fly comes through. willie, we talked about it in the past couple hour, and what putin is claiming as a success is actually putin stepping back. we ll talk to clint watts in a couple minutes. we were discussing the fact that morale is so low with the russian army that the last thing they re going to do is go down in there and try to root out people in this complex well of underground tunnels in this steel factory that is really just a fortress. they will get chewed up and spit out. and you get the sense that putin and this retreat, putin understands that. absolutely. and he doesn t want to go in and tangle with these regiments that remain inside protecting civilians. the question remains houngs with can the civilians hold out, food, water, medicine still a concern. putin calling this a success, also saying he has liberated the people of mariupol. tens of th
bit of a different sort of day. we will see the arrival of spells of rain for some southern areas where we haven t seen rain for a while. further showers to come particularly across scotland, but in between some sunshine here and there. the reasonably light winds for most of us on thursday. still warm in the south east but high teens elsewhere and it looks like the cooling trend will continue through the end of the week and into the weekend. thanks, sarah. and that s it from us. newsnight with kirsty wark is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as it s time to join our teams as many as 1,500 artefects worth millions, and calls for the director to resign. how did the thefts happen again and again? this is not a good night at the museum. how could theft on such a scale happen? do you think their position is untenable? not really, ithink do you think their position is untenable? not really, i think if i had been untenable? not really, i think i
the room, knows how to hold the line and how to defend america first. we haven t heard from anyone all week long do not break the 72 hour role, he heard from all of us, we are going to have to do it because the country is in crisis. john: here we go again are we on a collision course for yet another house speaker boat? georgia republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene filing the motion to oust mike johnson the speaker as congress scrambles to avoid a government shutdown. study news around here we call it friday, john roberts i m here with you. i m gillian turner in for a sander today this is america reports, greene made that announcement after they passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill, quite a few republicans tell us they are not happy with the plan, greene s plan to vacate could have us feeling deja vu, just this past fall they went through the whole rigmarole that got johnson elected speaker. john: we will get congressman michael lawlor s reaction ahead. gil