Gaza, the WhIte House, tokyo, and rome as only cnn can. This is early start. Its monday. Well begin wIth encouraging news on the Pandemic Front. The sevenday average of covid cases and deaths dropping to the lowest levels since early last summer. The number of americans hospItalized cut in half since february. That Number Hasnt been this low since september and Its trending down. Thats good news. The nation looks forward to The End of pandemic, there are new questions about the oorigins of the virus. A u. S. Intelligence report found several researchers at a lab in china had to be hospItalized in November Of 2019 right around the time covid began to circulate. Stephen is live in beijing for us. Good morning to you. We knew these workers were sick but we didnt know exactly how sick. Reporter thats right. Thats the most important new detail. In this report they were so sick they had to be hospItal lied. The China Government has responded to the latest report rejecting It wIth a foreign M
minimum rate hike will be included. we have energy s shannon pettypiece covering the white house and nbc s lee anne caldwell on capitol hill. shannon, we will start with you. the big focus from president biden is also on the economy. what can you tell us about this bipartisan meeting? second, about the executive order he is going to sign today. reporter: the meeting is intended to be focused on the supply chain issue, which this executive order relates to. of course, with everything you just mentioned going none washington, it would not be surprising if other topics happen to come up with a bipartisan group of members of congress. on the supply chain issue it s something members of congress have talked about bringing up legislation related to, the pandemic brought awareness to a lot of the weaknesses in the american manufacturing sector. everything from ppe to semiconductors have been in short supply at various points. this executive order would initiate a review. basical
in the january 6th insurrection if he were president again. tuning out spotify. the c the company responding to criticism with joe rogan and misinformation on his podcast. we begin this hour with the united states and russia facing off at the united nations. the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting on the crisis in ukraine. the u.s. requested the meeting in hopes of forcing russia to publicly explain why it is amassing tens of thousands of troops on the ukrainian border. u.s. ambassador laying out her case declaring moscow s recent actions poses a clear threat to international peace and security. while those talks play out in new york, the white house continues to look for ways to punish moscow if it does further invade ukraine, identifying several elite russian government officials and business leaders to hit with sanctions. and cnn is also learned that senior administration officials including secretary of state tony blinken will deliver a classified br
is he putting pride over party? and escalating tensions on the border between russia and ukraine. right now the u.n. security council is holding an urgent meeting at the request of the u.s. ambassador. the purpose publicly confront russia as they face, quote, the mother of all sanctions. and in just a few minutes we re going to share a message from former first lady michelle obama. the major announcement from her nonpartisan group when we all vote. you ll hear it first first. let s jump right into the search for the next supreme court justice. carol lee is covering the white house, ali vitale is at her post and i m joined by kimberly atkins-storr. carol, nbc news is learning new details about the president s list of candidates. what more can you tell us about that? that s right. two sources are telling us that the president is really widening the net when it comes to who he s looking at to potentially fill this vacancy. the white house is saying this is something that the
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