20th Olympics News Today

White supremacist group showed up outside the national archives and were surrounded by d.c. police to ensure there were no confrontations. the organizers of sundays protest called defeat the mandates say they have hired increased private security to work with government law enforcement officials and they also put out a statement saying here, we do not welcome extremist groups on any side that condone racism or bring violence of any kind to the thousands of americans that will be marching peacefu...

To take? i mean, that sounds like a nightmare. >> it does sound like a nightmare but of course its what we do as journalists and it will be an amazing story and thats, of course, why i want to go and this is my 20th olympics in a row so im not going to miss it unless -- if i can stay one step ahead of omicron, boris, i have a burner phone, burner laptop from "usa today," everyone, all the cnn people, of course, i will be working with cnn as well over there, every news organization i know is givi...

Example, they have said that face masks will remain mandatory on public transport. the uk is still seeing significant figures in terms of the new cases being reported on a daily basis but as you mentioned the government has said its in a position to lift these restrictions because of the success of the booster vaccine campaign, with more than 36 million booster doses already administered. boris, christi? >> and it comes at a time where there is a lot of anger toward the british government, so po...

One hopes the nbc news division will be able to exert some pressure and force into doing its job, which is to report the news. my goodness, if nbc is sugar coating this, well, that will be a real black mark, i think, on nbc news and their journalism. we have seen that before with other olympics as brian said, but this is the mother of all controversies within an olympic games. yes, as far as im planning to go, i have to take two covid tests this week, i leave over the weekend as brian said, as y...

Brian stelter and christine brennan is with us as well. brian, lets start with you, some big news from the network broadcasting the olympics, nbc, as christine this reported, nbc is not sending tv announcers to china because of key individual concerns and also say they will acknowledge the sri owe political context of the games in their coverage. that sounds like a really polite way to describe a genocide, doesnt it? >> yes, an attempt to be incredibly sensitive and try to be incredibly careful ...

Like this, and obviously as a journalist, i think its so important to bring them up, and so this grand glorious celebration of chinese culture, there are certainly many many questions that come with that. >> youre on the ground in beijing, christine. youve covered many olympics before this one. you cannot put the geopolitical issues aside, but im saying, you know, along with that, im curious what it is like being under these very severe covid restrictions there. >> yes, kate, we have never been ...