Lady paying their respects and today the moving tribute. The president s strongest comments on the impeachment of donald trump why he says the trial must move forward as trumps legal team arrives at the capitol. The house is set to vote disciplining republican congresswoman spreading Conspiracy Theories. Nearly a year into the pandemic, the shortages of everything from cars to frozen pizzas. What to know before you shop the lifechanging medical miracle. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening everyone, some welcome findings tonight that vaccinations are in fact putting us in the right track to get ahead of the coronavirus. The encouraging headlines came from astrazeneca, its vaccine reduces its ability to spread tonight as the pace of Mass Vaccinations pick up across the country with the strongest efforts on minority communities, we are getting a jarring look of how our first line of defense mask wearing is still being rejected in parts of our country. What our sam broc
Formalized a deal that cements their control of the United States senate. President biden and his colleagues have made it clear that on covid relief, they have zero interest in waiting on republicans. Yesterday democrats pushed forward with a motion to pass bidens 1. 9 trillion covid package with or without republican support. Mitch mcconnell called the move totally partisan. Which is rich coming from a guy who used the exact same tool to pass a 1. 5 trillion tax cut for the rich. Youll notice that republicans love to wave the word unity like a bloody shirt when they criticize democrats. You know whats better than fake unity, action, action that helps people. Thats the job of governing. In many ways, were now down to just one governing party. This morning speak nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer led a congressional tribute to Brian Sicknick who died during the insurrection last month. Each day when members enter the capitol hill, this temple of democracy, we will rem
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at this place shutdown so-called scorpion unit whose members included arbiters charged in the death of tyre nichols. is this a move in the right direction? plus donald trump hits the campaign trail for the first time since announcing his 2024 presidential bid. he says he is more committed than ever. will republican voters be just as committed to him? later, backlash continues to grow against ron desantis for his decision to block courts on african american studies. some students are ready to take it to the courts. all of that and more is coming up. a good sunday morning to you. i m katie thing. thanks for starting your day with us. there s new fallout in some major changes at the memphis police department after friday nights like the videos showed five former officers beating, kicking, tasing and pepper spraying tyre nichols, who died just a few days ago. the department has permanently deactivated what it called its scorpion unit. that included all of those officers we saw