Hardship its a crisis that is causing real Mental Stress for millions of people millions of people and its within our power to solve it. And to grow the economy at the same time and his vision for the countrys place in the world. Americas back. Were at the head of the table once again plus, new covid records and new restrictions here at home as millions ignore the Travel Warnings and food banks have trouble keeping up announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from wilmington, delaware good evening from wilmington, where a short time ago President Elect joe biden sat down with me for his first postelection interview where he discussed among other things the official president ial transition now finally under way tonight, whether he would support investigations of donald trump after he leaves office, and how his administration plans to distribute covid vaccines to millions of americans. We met at wilmingtons queen theater, where just an hour or so earlier the
Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
Dangerous storms moving east through louisiana after Bettering Texas and killing four people in houston. Ten people under Tornado Watches across the golf range and risk for severe Flash Flooding being described as a nightmare scenario. You are watching Fox Friends First on a friday morning, aimed todd piro. Carley on Carley Shimkus 1 million Power Outages across texas and louisiana. Widespread damage across houston. You can see the intense Rain Flooding into stores and blowing out windows. Looking at this looking through the retractable roof, the Houston Astros were playing. Todd fox news senior meteorologist Janice Dean Standing by to tell us where those storm is but the latest on Power Outages and storm damage. Todd, carley, the sun rises early in several cities and the storms path will begin to take stock of extensive damage caused by intense wind and rain overnight that tore through parts of texas before pushing into western louisiana here this is video from new orleans this mornin
A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Campaign, the reelection in november, and apparently, wolf, does not want to say anything that could infuriate the president. Perhaps one reason he did not want to answer that question. But no doubt about it, wolf, republicans did not want to embrace these concerns today perhaps because the president is so about the mueller probe. Manu raju on capitol hill. Joining us now, republican congressman chris stewart. Hes a member of the house Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Good afternoon. The president has told his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to stop the Russia Investigation right away. Is that in your opinion Obstruction Of Justice . I think it would be very, very difficult as a prosecutor to make the case. Im not an attorney but common sense would tell me its going to take much more than that to prove any kind of
if you are the federal judge in this instance, do you provide that opportunity? i will say this, neal, glenn and i have practiced in federal court for several years. federal court is not fake court. i have a lot of respect for state court judges it s where i cut my teeth but federal court has a level of decorum that has to be respected and the judges are not going to take any bleep from any criminal defendant, especially somebody like donald trump. i think we ve already seen that. we ve seen an admonishment from the magistrate judge saying you better mind your ps and qs, mr. trump, in terms of what you do, in terms of influencing witnessing, et cetera. i think they believe it, alicia, i think it s what their client wants and i think we all should have this opportunity to witness history in the making especially when you consider the fact that this was donald trump s attempt to steal the outcome of the 2020 presidential election from all of us. to invalidate what were legal votes that w