Reporters in the room about Joint Chiefs Of Staff about General Milley. I have great confidence in General Milley. Thank you, thank you, clear the room, clear the room. Thank you. Momentarily in the meantime, lets bring in Nbcs Monica Alba in the control room, and are we playing back the video, and monica, it is good to see you, friend. Help us to understand why there is so much Attention Today on the president s perspective and his views on the Joint Chiefs Of Staff . Well, that is a very, very brief spray, geoff, and those are the only words that the president uttered on the situation, and he did not say anything else, and he wanted to say i have great confidence in General Milley were his only words, and Jen Psaki offered more comments, and she was pressed on whether the president has confidence, and then she called the man who the president respects very much, and working closely with, and when asked whether the White House would like to see more information perhaps further the inv
This step, and Corporate America also really stepping up here, ramping up its approach. Google, facebook, netflix, lyft. So many others you see listed there among dozens of companies now requiring employees to get vaccinated. Right now cases are surging among the unvaccinated, so thats the reason for this. The u. S. Is averaging more than 63,000 cases per day. Thats a 59 increase over last weeks sevenday average. Restrictions are being put back in place. Masks are making a comeback. And yes, the unvaccinated are to blame. This morning the president again making that very clear. So lets begin with our chief Business Correspondent Christine romans, because, romans, it is really the private sector in conjunction with now this federal requirement from biden that i think is really going to make or has the opportunity to make a world of difference here. Youre seeing leadership from Corporate America on this in a way we havent yet. Theyve been strongly encouraging vaccinations for sometime. N
Spreading this kind of hate. The investigation into Donald Trumps finances heating up. His former personal Attorney Michael Cohen telling msnbc he expects indictments, quote, very soon. They are drilling down more and more and more. You are going to see very soon, in my opinion, indictments start flying. That exclusive interview on Rachel Maddows show last night. New signs of a fourth wave in certain states as parts of the nation relax restrictions. The cdc shortening social distancing guidelines for students. Saturday, march 20th on this first hour and a half of spring, im kendis gibson. Im lindsey reiser. We have a team of reporters and analysts following the latest this morning. We begin with new developments in atlanta and amanda golden on capitol hill with the latest on what lawmakers are doing to address antiasian hate. First, President Biden and Vice President harris were serving as consolers in chief to a grieving community. Walk us through that. Absolutely, lindsey. Heartbreak
And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it
Winter olympics, which start exactly one year from today. The ioc president thomas bach says its almost a miracle china has managed to prepare for a winter games through the pandemic, but Sophie Richardson of human rights watch, says the Olympic Movement needs to rethink. This would be a miracle. Ending mass arbitrary detention, ending the devastation of cultural property, ensuring that decent human rights environments exist before a warning that government, really the propaganda of posting. This is not a rights friendly of environment, and i think commitments of the con john of the Chinese Government made is clearly not worth the paper they were written on. Its certainly going to be a controversial games those allegations and questions over the Environmental Impact of the games but preparations are continuing. Among those hoping to compete are british mogul skiers the gerken schofields. Tom and leonie could become the first british twins to compete at a winter olympics, and younger si