Quarters. Did you hear president biden s promise? he said the people like you have a home in the u. S. , they can come and live in the u. S. , the door is open. I got a lot of news, a lot of announcements, but there is no action. Reporter: tom put in his visa application four years ago. You helped the u. S. , now the u. S. Needs to help you, simple as that. Yeah, yeah. The u. S. Army has to help us. Reporter: seems reasonable. That was nbc s richard engel reporting. It is the top of the hour and it is very good to be with you tonight. The delta variant of covid has been detected in every state. So why are so many of us still not vaccinated? we will dig into the misinformation campaign that could be holding some people back. Plus more than a half million people have signed a petition to let sha carri richardson run in the tokyo olympics. Our panel will dive into the changing debate over cannabis in sports. And when it comes to spelling, america has a new queen be. Zaila avant garde, the
Welcome to wednesday. It is meet the press daily and i m chuck todd. We ve been watching a fullcourt press from the white house to address this panic at the pump, which now resulted in some 12,000plus gas station as cross the southeast reportedly running out of fuel. All of this comes after that cyberattack which temporarily shut down a major fuel pipeline. We ve seen a vicious cycle of panicked buying, alarm, mixed messages and, yes, mixed information. Just moments ago president biden delivered remarks about the situation, assuring americans the colonial pipeline operations have been restored and it will will be reaching full capacity soon, but he also warned this is going to take time. I want to be clear, we will not feel the effects at the pumps immediately. This is not like flicking on a light switch. This pipeline is 5,500 miles long. It had never been fully shut down in its entire history. So fully and we have to now they have to safely and fully return to normal operations, and
his supervisor at the minneapolis testifying that there was no reason to use force on george floyd after he stopped resisting officers. so why did chauvin keep his knee on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds? also we re learning about the justice investigation into congressman matt gaetz. there are now questions whether he used cash and drugs with young women. and there is another problem. sources tell cnn, gaetz showed other lawmakers nude pictures of women he said he slept with, showing the photos while on the house floor. i want to get right to the dramatic testimony today in the trial of derek chauvin. sara sidner was in minneapolis. yeah. i was going to call and have you come out to the scene here. reporter: the jury heard newly released audio. officer derek chauvin talking online to his supervisor to explain his version of events on may 25, 2020. we had to hold the guy down. he was going crazy. it wasn t going reporter: from the witness stand, chauvin s s
damning testimony today in derek chauvin s murder trial. his supervisor at the minneapolis police department testifying that there was no reason to use force on george floyd after he stopped resisting officers. so why did chauvin keep his knee on floyd s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds? also tonight we re learning new details about the justice department s investigation into congressman matt gaetz. there are now questions into whether he used cash and drugs with young women. and there s another problem. sources tell cnn gaetz showed other lawmakers nude pictures of women he says he slept with, showing the photos while on the house floor. i want to get right to the dramatic testimony, though, today in the trial of derek chauvin. cnn s sara sidner was in the courtroom today in minneapolis. yeah. i was just going to call you and have you come out to our scene here. reporter: the jury heard newly recommended audio of officer derek chauvin talking the phone with his superv
from the tech platform from the streaming verse to the meta goal. but first the new year brings an anniversary that some are trying to forget, others actively denying and others determining to remember. the one-year anniversary of the trump riot is coming up on thursday. in the words of cnn s analyst, there are exceedingly stunning numbers of people who don t re-louise how close we came to cataclysmic and constitutional or democratic crisis on january 6th. or how alarming it is some nates are trying to make such a coup easier to pull off next time. yeah, the story of january 6th just keeps getting bigger and bigger, even though it keeps shrinking and shrinking at pro-trump media outlets. their line started right away, minimizing, denying, blame shifting. and their fictions have made it harder to stay focused on the facts. so we re going to devote a good time of time this morning to the facts to remembering, to the role of the media and to making sense of aftermath. 1/6 is p