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his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair -- chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagons abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight w...

nbc "nightly news" with lester holt good evening and thank you for joining us we start off tonight with yet another late winter punch of severe weather across the country as we begin this week including multiple tornadoes confirmed today in illinois at least a dozen reported from the plains to midwest since yesterday. but we are also watching snow moving east tonight, potentially bringing new york city its first significant snow of the season. right now there are winter alerts affect...

both hypothesis including the lab leak they ended up hurting the credibility of science. >> dana: the debate over the origins of covid and credibility of our health officials leading the charge comes back today. dr. fauci is about to testify before a house panel on his response to the virus in his first public testimony in nearly two years. remarkable. it has been two years. welcome to a new hour of "americas newsroom," im dana perino. >> bill: good morning. i thought dr. redfield was ...

Doctors anthony fauci and francis collins to suppress the lab leak theory. >> there was not prompting to disprove or dismiss a potential lab leak. >> republicans pressed on a sudden change of theory following a conference call with doctors fauci and collins. >> what this committee is trying to get to the bottom of what happened within that three-day period between the conference call and the paper? >> well, we examined the genomes more closely, we looked at other coronavirus and there was some n...

Federal agencies may have made millions of dollars in double payments for research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)

>> people like me, we were completely shut down, called conspiracy theorists, and had our reputations attacked and savaged. >> reporter: late today republican lawmakers sent letters demanding information on covid origins and the chinese communist partys role in obscuring the truth. and separately demand the biden administration declassify all evidence related to a potential lab leak >> and kelly, its not lost on any of us all this comes as tensions with china are growing. >> reporter: thats righ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to double-cross himself during a Nov. 23 deposition by claiming that he is not involved in the release of sensitive records.

Dr. Anthony Fauci took a parting shot at former President Donald Trump during a Thursday "exit interview" with The Washington Post.

Nunes can move forward with part of his lawsuit against NBC Universal for alleged defamation, a federal judge ruled Monday.

>> im not sure they are entitled to a do over. the first investigation was to be kind incomplete, certainly conflicted researchers and perhaps even corrupt. >> bill: corrupt in what way? >> well, weve seen and talked extensively about chinese coercion, about the lack of transparency, about the process itself, where u.s. researchers that were chosen to participate in the w.h.o. lab were conflicted. they had already forwarded their view that it was called natural origin of the virus. that if a pot...