Welcome, everybody. Thanks for joining us. One day after families gathered for thanksgiving and an increased number of travelers went to the airports. Theres concern about the staggering rate of coronavirus in the country. The cases in america may be an undercount. It may be eight times higher with many people experiencing no symptoms. This is happening as states, local governments and organizations like the ncaa are trying to stop the spread of covid. We are in los angeles at lax airport and dallas texas. Aaron, im going to start with you on this one. Lets talk about the new rules at lax, the new testing as well. What has been implement sod far there . Reporter thats right. Theyre introducing Rapid Testing next week here at lax. Anyone who wants to take the test will be allowed access to it with results in one or two hours. Just lack last week they implemented an interim testing site that gives results in one or two days for anyone traveling to location that requires the negative covi
Reminded me of a states i visited over the 100 countries i have gone to in third ten horn dictatorships. It just cannot be sustained. Has to be immediately, immediately investigated. In depth. People have to be held accountable. Do you think you need to change any of the planning for your inauguration as a result of this . Totally different entity is in charge of the inauguration than was in charge of protecting the capitol. The secret service. I have great confidence in the secret service. I have great confidence in their ability to make sure that the inauguration goes off, goes off safely and goes off without a hitch. So its a different so i have confidence in what is in the planning thats been under way before this and continues with the secret service as the main agency. Thank you. Thank you. President elect biden, Vice President elect harris, good to see you both. About President Trump actively encouraging the insurrection at the capitol. Given that, given the perceived threat he
pentagon for their update. that s set for about 30 minutes from now with a senior defense official telling nbc news today while the u.s. can t independently confirm the reports out of bucha, they have no reason to doubt ukraine s claims of what they call atrocities. we re also following two live meetings on capitol hill. the rules committee voting whether to recommend find two aides to former president trump in contempt of congress because they refused to go along with subpoenas of the january 6th committee. the senate judiciary committee about to returning from recess for a vote on the nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. we are watching all of it. we ve got our team here for it all. i m hallie jackson. good to be with you, along with kelly o donnell at the white house. ali arouzi is in ukraine. courtney kube is at the pentagon and we have the senior advisor to nato s supreme allied commander. here is what we are watching this hour. fury from the