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i'm geoff bennett joined by my friend ayman. and now, today, the president is getting an upclose look at the sheer horror and heartache of this sheer disaster. overnight, three more bodies pulled from the rubble, a mother and her two daughters ages 4 and 10. but shortly the rescue efforts halted over the stability of the rubble pile, and the part of the tower that is still standing. we will have much more throughout the hour on that, and now i want to kick it over to you, ayman with the breaking news in new york. >> yes, we as geoff reported moments away from the indictments unsealed against the trump organization, and the chief financial officer alan weisselberg, and as we learn what is happening with the indictments, we have a powerhouse panel to take you through every step of the process. we will bring in ken delainian, and daniel gold, attorney for the southern district of new york, and the lead counsel for democrats in the first impeachment trial for president trump in barbara quaid of the first district of new york, and th

here's nbc's geoff bennett. >> as the white house fights false information on social media about coviden is pointing the finger at facebook. in an exchange with nbc news. >> covid misinformation. what's your message to platforms like facebook? they're killing people. i mean, it really -- look, the only pandemic we have is the one among the unvaccinated. they're killing people. >> with a new surge in covid cases among the unvaccinated, the biden administration is blaming in part misinformation spreading on facebook and other social media about the safety and effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines. >> i believe that they have an obligation to inform users about what is true and what is clearly false. >> facebook firing back, telling nbc news in a statement, in private exchanges, the surgeon general has praised our work. including our efforts to inform people about covid-19. the white house is looking for scapegoats for missing their vaccine goals. facebook says it's purged millions of misleading posts about the pandemic, but the white house says that's not enough. >> it's clear there are mor

i'm geoff bennett and we are following several breaking stories out of the white house, and we just heard the president speak about the economy, and i believe that he is taking questions. >> the united states expects when operations are coming from the soil even though it is not, it is not sponsored by the state, we expected to have the information to act on who that is, and secondly, we have set up a communications for the regular basis for that to communicate to another country to affect the home country, and so i am optimistic. >> you said three weeks ago there would be consequences, will there be, sir? >> yes. >>> and so the president was speaking earlier about the american economy and the new executive order that he signed to encourage competition. and the bigger headline is what he is talking about with the phone call to vladimir putin. according to the callout, he urged vladimir putin to take urgent action against the hack attack, and something that jen psaki underscored in the briefing. >> if if russian government cannot or will not take action against the russian hackers, we will

white house correspondent geoff bennett and lee ann caldwell. ann, 11 republicans that helped structure this voted against it. why did they vote against it, since they did, why is there any optimism? you don't vote for your own thing, come on? >> reporter: they're saying they voted against it because the legislative text was not complete, congressional budget office hasn't given financial analysis of the legislation. they said they're not willing to start the process. there is precedent here. recent precedent. go back to 2020 with the first major coronavirus relief bill. democrats voted to block moving on to the legislation twice. ultimately, the big covid relief bill passed. this is not something that's unusual up here on capitol hill, this was a procedural vote. times of the essence. democrats have a lot on the agenda, things they want to get done. my sources on the bipartisan infrastructure committee tell me they're in the final stages. they are finalizing things with the white house, filling in final details of legislative text, waiting for

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i'm geoff bennett and we start on capitol hill where the democrats are undeterred by the republican opposition the committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection, and this afternoon the members of the select committee were seen huddling in house speaker nancy pelosi's office. she said that the house committee will move on in without the buy-in of house leader kevin mccarthy. >> we will mo on, and the committee is in the process of hiring staff to that end. it is my responsibility as speaker of the house to make sure that we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. >> now, mccarthy pulled the five appointees after pelosi rejected two of them, congressman jim jordan and congressman jim banks and both of them voted to overturn the 2020 election, and also the committee that speaker pelosi was nonqualifying, and also word on where they will take the election. and now liz cheney, the sole republican said that jordan was ineligible to serve, because he may be a material witness. for his part, mccartney accused the democrats for playing politics with

i'm geoff bennett. as we come on the air, president biden is meeting at the white house with the prime minister of iraq, and the two leaders are expected to announce the end of the u.s. combat mission in that country. as soon as we hear from them, we will bring that to you life. we start with busy day in washington, and dramatic moves ahead of the first public hearing ahead of the house select committee addressing the house attack on the u.s. capitol. it is expected to be emotional first round from the officers who faced the horrors of the front lines and the intensity of the violence coming into fresh focus with the release of each new video, and we are expecting the committee to play video that the public has not seen, but the standout of the hearing could be the member of the committee itself, congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming and one of two republicans of the panel appointed by speaker pelosi, and the newest member added is gop congressman adam kenzinger. >> come republicans are saying that the go

i'm geoff bennett. as we come on the air, federal health officials are sounding the alarm, using the type of language we haven't heard in months. and that's because after so much progress, covid is roaring back. 90,000 new cases in just 48 hours. 11 states seeing a 100% spike, mainly across the south, where hospitals are again packed to capacity. >> they're storing wheelchairs and other equipment in the hallways because there's no place else to put them. they're planning on bringing someone in from the er any minute now. >> our colleague gabe gutierrez there in little rock, arkansas. that scene may look and sound family. here's why this point in the pandemic is far different than anything we've seen before. >> this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. and communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well. if you're fully vaccinated, you are protected a

i'm geoff bennett, and we are following multiple breaking stories as we come on the air. at any moment pentagon officials are to speak after we woke up to a surprise, all of the u.s. troops have left bagram, the last active military base to be used in afghanistan, and few hundred troops in kabul, and we will bring you the headlines of the pentagon briefing as we get them. >>> meantime, incredible heartache of the scene where i was standing 24 hours ago. overnight, the officials say that searchers in surfside, florida, made a heart wrenching discovery. >> last night we did discover two additional victims. tragically, one of the victims was the 7-year-old daughter of a city of miami firefighter. and it goes without saying that every night since this last wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody, and in particular the families that have been impacted, but last night was uniquely different, it was truly different and more difficult for our first responders. >> she was just 7 years old. "the miami herald" is reporting that her father was there at the site supportin

. >> gabe gutierrez is in jacksonville, florida, stephanie gosk in tokyo, geoff bennett at the white house. dylan buyers is the media reporter. and also infectious disease doctor. good to see you all. stephanie, i have to start with you. what a shocker to wake up to. what do we know about the gymnast that tested positive. >> reporter: this is tough news for team usa to kickoff this week. the u.s. gymnastics women, six gymnasts selected to compete. an alternate tested positive. these are young women. we are told another athlete will have to go through additional quarantine measures as a result. the athlete that has covid needs to be isolated in a facility. usa gymnastics confirmed the news. and said the team moved to a separate facility to train and live. that was going to happen anyway, but gives you an idea of the measures they're taking to protect themselves. we saw a number of posts already from some team members, including simone biles on instagram. they are together but all masked. this comes on the heels of the announcement by 17-year-old coco goff that she would not be coming

i'm geoff bennett and as we come on the air, president biden is about to welcome to the oval office angela merkel who is long described as the de facto leader and in the trump administration, she is the defunct leader, and merkel is planning to step down after 16 year, and aides say that they will discuss everything from covid to china to climate change. and this meeting is to project stability between europe and the u.s. after trump berated the allies including merkel and threatened to pull out of nato. with that and the backdrop of nato, there are shocking comments attributed to the chief of staff mark milley in a book by "washington post" reporters. in the excerpts from "i, alone can fix it." obtained from nbc news, milley said that listening to trump was like reading orwell's 1884 that evil is good, and good is evil. but it was january 6th, he said, see you in d.c., he wrote to the followers, be there and it will be wild. but milley said that trump was stoking the unrest hoping to evoke the insurrectionist act, and then milley had a head's up from a former defense secretary that all te

remarks tomorrow afternoon as i know you know and it details according to the sources talking with geoff bennett, mike alba, what you laid out here, what that would look like. mike, can we be real for a second? requirement, right, that language, mandate, that language. is this not a matter of semantics at this point? is some of this clearly the optics and the messaging on the part of the white house as to what they want the federal workforce to do? >> reporter: well the difference as the white house officials lay this out is they're not saying you have to get the vaccine. that would be a mandate. they're giving you the option that if you choose not to get the vaccine, there is a different set of obligations that you will face. >> you go through the testing. >> that's where they get into the discussion about mandates, versus a requirement. it is, sounds like certainly a semantic discussion but one with significant impact politically as we know. the serious hostility, in fact part of the discussion that's happening behind closed doors is, is a vaccination mandate contrary to what the goal of the a

i'm geoff bennett and several headlines as we come on air this hour, including the shocking assassination of the haiti president inside of his home in the middle of the night. t in a moment, chilling details on the heavily armed attack including the report of an american accent heard on tape. also, the new threat from the tropical storm that has made landfall on florida's gulf coast. if you live in d.c., new york or boston or anywhere else in the northeast, get ready and why a new turn in the track could affect a lot more people in the storm. >>> and we begin in florida in surfside and the death toll now is 46. and ten more bodies found since yesterday, and major acceleration in the search since the remaining part of the tower was demolished late sunday. 94 people still unaccounted for, and our team is getting a much closer look at the search, and view that we have not seen until now at just how painstaking the search is now, and vaughan hillyard is there, and the teams are battling lightning and strong winds, and give us a sense of what you are seeing and hearing this hour. >> yeah, we a

i'm geoff bennett joined by my friend ayman. and now, today, the president is gettin

i'm geoff bennett in washington where president biden is locked in a delicate and high-balancing act on infrastructure. he is meeting behind closed doors with his party on capitol hill, and here is the monumental challenge. the senate democrats say they have reached a deal on themselves on a 3.5 trillion blueprint on the left side of the screen for what they call the human infrastructure plan to fight things like climate change, to prop up health care, and dramatically expand medicare and family service programs for child care, elder care, universal pre-k, and two years of free community college. >> we are going to get this done. >> we are getting this done. >> but getting all 50 senate democrats and independents from bernie sanders to joe manchin agreeing of what to agree on what needs to be included and the maneuver to bypass the republicans, there is no room for error and not a single defection of the dems and can they keep the house progressives on board, and at the same time, the president is trying to keep the ten senate republicans on board with the separate bipartisan hard in

i'm geoff bennett and as we come on the air, there is major breaking news from state of texas. my colleague jane tim reporting that democrats in the texas legislature are planning to leave the state in a last-ditch effort to stop republicans there from passing new voting restrictions. at least 58 statehouse democrats are involved in the plan to fly here to washington and paralyze the chamber in texas. stopping business until the lawmakers return to town or the special session ends. it is similar to the tactic that texas democrats used to block a redistricting proposal in 2003, but the latest move is not without risk as jane reports the lawmakers could be arrested. she writes this. under the texas legislature, the quorum of 2/3 is required for the legislature to conduct business and they could be compelled to report to capitol and they could be tracked down. the white house press secretary a short time ago teeing up the speech by calling the republican push for voting restrictions across the country, the worst challenge to democracy since the civil war. and with that, we will br

i'm geoff bennett. as we come on the air, we're following several breaking stories. right now at the white house, president joe biden is hosting the king and queen of jordan. the world leaders are expected to meet later this hour. we'll bring you any developments as we get them. >>> we start this hour with breaking news on the coronavirus pandemic. both at home and abroad, the virus is again casting a cloud of uncertainty over the upcoming tokyo olympics. a growing number of american athletes have now tested positive for the virus, including austenis star coco gauff who has withdrawn from the games as a result. and cara iker, an alternate on the high profile gymnastics team, according to our affiliate in kansas city. back in the u.s., cases are increasing in all 50 states, the virus once again taking hold with the more contagious delta strain spreading like wildfire across unvaccinated communities. and with that news, today the american academy of pediatrics came down with new guidance for schools this fall, recommending everyone older than 2 wear a mask. and that's

geoff bennett at the white house, heidi przybyla in d.c. and dr. tom fried en, former director of the cdc. tom, i didn't think i would see for a while. this cdc document says that the delta document is deadlier, more infectious and spreads a whole lot easier with vaccinated people. how serious is this? >> there are some things we know for sure and others that we don't. we know for sure delta is much more infectious. it's at least twice as infectious. there's also emerging evidence that it can be more likely to cause a breakthrough infection in people who are vaccinated than other variants. in terms of whether it's more severe, my read of the data there is that that's not clear. there are some studies that came out a few weeks ago that suggest that it might be, but there are problems with those studies. but the bottom line is if you've got more disease, you're going to have more people with severe disease. since delta doubles the infectivity, we have to double down on protections. i know that's really disappointing to people because we thought it wa

i'm geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, president biden is set to say that all civilian employees to be vaccinated or face repeated testing. it is an aggressive move that affects people far beyond washington, d.c., and it is coming as many of america's biggest companies are essentially telling the employees to get the shot or get out. there are also developments coming fast and furious on the bipartisan infrastructure plan and it has passed a critical vote with 17 republicans joining the democrats. senator mark warner, a democrat, joining us in five minutes with more on that. including $119 billion for roads and bridges and $66 billion for railways and $65 billion for broadband and $55 billion for water. >> it is a duty of government. >> and even faint praise by mitch mcconnell, the senate leader. but even still, it has to go through the house where they say it does not go enough, and the separate $3.5 trillion that the democrats will pass without the republican support. >> because of to vote last night, the senate is now moving forward with the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and

i'm geoff bennett and as we come on air, president biden is in pennsylvania delivering a speech about his buy american proposal. let's listen. >> people are not vaccinated. the pandemic that we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. so, please, please, please, please, if you are not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there. it is important. and carlo, having been a significant consumer of health care myself and my family, vi often said this, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart, thank your daughter for me. if if there are any angels in heaven, they are male and female nurses, and that the god's truth. doctors let you live, but nurses make you want to live. and tell her thank you, thank you, thank you, having spent time in icu, and i really mean it. i want to thank congresswoman wile for the support of her district. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] as they say up in scranton, she is bragging on y'all. they don't say y'all up there, but in delaware. you do, because you have family from alabama. and, you have been a tireless champion for the working men and wom

i'm geoff bennett and as we come on the air, the war has changed.t is the word from the cdc in an internal document obtained by nbc news that details alarming dangers of how contagious the delta variant really is. look at this chart contained in document showing that delta is more transmissible than the flu and the common cold and the smallpox and just as contagious as the chicken pox. this is key. vaccinated people may be just as likely to transmit the virus as the unvaccinated. that is what prompted the sudden reversal from the cdc about the masks, and the agency is now considering requiring vaccines for doctors and other health workers since a startling number of them refuse to still get the shot. and there is an unsettling question as all of this comes to light. why did we first learn about it from the once secret document and not from the health officials themselves? however, and this cannot be said enough, the vaccines are still working. 97, 98, 99, and in some places 100% of covid patients being hospitalized or who are dying are the unvaccina

i'm geoff bennett. cases of coronavirus are climbing once again both here at home and abroad, and just hours before the opening ceremony of the tokyo olympics, the organization announced record new cases. bloomberg is reporting that 19 new infection linked to the games were reported today alone. bringing the total to more than 100. now, here in the u.s., cases are on the rise in all 50 states and here in washington, d.c. and we are seeing significant spikes everywhere. now, three states, florida, missouri and texas now account for more than 40% of all new cases. and in florida, as cases surge, so are hospitalizations. south florida hospitals have more covid patients now than at any other point in this pandemic. a doctor in jacksonville told "the new york times," quote, if we were able to get more people vaccinated earlier than this, we probably wouldn't be here, and in texas, some counties are being forced to bring back the restrictions from the early dark days of the pandemic. the county judge in texas