there is a real drama unfolding in europe. tensions between ukraine and russia are the highest they've been very long time. we get some sense that there are political elements, mostly the democratic party but not exclusively, who would like to see a war in europe. what is this how concerned should we be about it? tulsi gabbard paid a lot of attention to this. you're happy to have her on. congressman, thanks so much for coming on. is this moving towards war? is this conflict moving towards more? >> it's moving in a very dangerous direction and the question for the american people is, are we willing to go to war with russia on behalf of ukraine? we need to understand that such a war would come at a cost beyond anything we can really imagine. it's not a war that is just okay, it's going to be something happening to someone else somewhere else on the other side of the world. no, it will directly impact me and you, everything one of your viewers, and all of our loved ones. this is a war that's not a game. it's a war in which there

followed new york and california lead a year ago, america has economy would be in the dumps, just lik europe. this is a headline out of germany today where they are implementing once again more pandemic restrictions. meanwhile, our first real gdp number that just came out, 6.4 percent growth. that is truly astounding. and of course biden is trying t claim credit it's all his doing but he deserves exactly zero credit for today's booming economy. it was all the doing of donald trump, the red state governors, and the american people who rejected the doomsayers and stuck with first principles. they trusted their own constituents over the so-called experts who wanted us mask up and afraid for as long as possible. if biden had been president, just a year ago, if he had been president, all of america would look like michigan. feeling, miserable, and pessimistic. let's not forget how they saw this whole thing unfolding abou a year ago at this time. they were saying that we might not recover from this pandemic economically for decades. but what the story of the past year really reveals is that americ

and i'm the one that exposed russia for the biggest thing they've ever done, the pipeline to europe, i shut it down and out biden opens it up, they are going to make a fortune. but guys like andy and james comey and james clapper. remember the two lovers? all of the other perpetrators who have faced no consequences whatsoever, even though they knew it was a scam. they created a scam, and i must be honest with you, i never said this because i didn't want to, but i will, i'm very disappointed that bill barr was unable to hold anybody accountable for the countless abuses of power by the democrats . he did not hold the corrupt officials who spied on our campaign -- remember i said, they are spying on our campaign, and that was like a lightning rod went off. not the authors of the phony dossier. not the women who slandered and lied and defamed brett kavanaugh. they said brett kavanaugh had an affair. they did not go after them, they lied so badly. not any of the numerous criminal referrals for lying to congress over and over again. not any of the illegal leakers, not any of the people tha

look at europe. there is just free money being pumped into the system by the fed. people are just approaching economics different right now. and i think he's riding that wave. and the question is going to be at the end of the year are we healed, is the virus gone or is it basic live tempered. and are people working and is the economy growing without massive inflation. if the answer is yes, he is going to have a lot of leverage and power. if the answer is no, it will be a difficult presidency. and he knows that. he telegraphed very clearly exactly what he would do in the first 50 days, and he's done it. we always want to measure someone, successful or not, you might love the bill or hate the bill, but he had a 1.9 trillion bill aimed at these things. yes, he got it. nobody thought he would get more than a handful of republicans. he had power and he used it. he did what liberals and democrats wanted him to do. it will give him a lot more power when he goes to do infrastructure. we spent $5 trillion. they want another $3 trillion in infrastructure spending. that they

you see europe and other places where cases are going up, similar to what we are seeing now. it's the next few weeks where you are seeing not just omicron. the fact that it's winter season and hospitals are generally full by this time of the year anyway that we need to take extra measures to reduce transmission so the virus are not found. those who are not vaccinated and vulnerable, that's what is happening now. but to a greater degree for the more transmissible variant is the worry that's occurring. >> again, i am so glad you added in because i did not talk about that and of course if you got both vaccines and boosted, you should be in good shape. let's say if you are diabetic and other immune challenges, you have to take extra precautions. right now europe is shutdown for christmas for the year. a lot of celebrations are being shutdown. we are now and i know lemire is talking about what to do on new year's eve. based on what we know and my son asks me hey dad i want to go to new year's eve celebration outside. and he had both vaccines and been boosted and he wants to wear a

they're in europe. it helps them a lot more than it helps us. we're very far away. >> the abuse that was given to our country on nato where they wouldn't pay, and we were paying for everybody. >> rick, you worked at the state department. you don't need the reminder, but think about putin's wish list at the top of the trump presidency. get involved in an american presidential election. get involved in american social media trying to divide us, drive us apart. drive apart the atlantic alliance, and maybe someday a far off fever dream. get american troops out of germany. think of it this way. donald trump delivered. >> brian, you summarized it very well, better than i could have, and it was painful to watch those clips of trump talking about nato. i go back to the interview that keir did with putin today. putin said today nato was obsolete. why are they doing what they're doing? why are they adding countries? but i think what we're going to see in this summit is something which is kind of a return to normalcy. and if i were still editor of "time,"

. >> you're absolutely right, we fought side by side in the trenches in europe, on the beaches of normandy, all the way through the present day. our thanks to our starting line, phil rucker, rick stengel, dr. celine gounder, thanks for starting the week off with us. >>> coming up, what's the chance moderate democrats would want to sink their own president's congressional agenda? and why should you care? we'll put that question to our political experts. >>> and later, she warned that the internet is a petri dish for conspiracy theories and utter nonsense about the virus dressed up as news and information. she was right about that. and now people are dying from it. i'll ask the harvard expert who's got a plan to battle mask burning that's going on out there. all of it as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this monday night. ♪ ♪ [grunts] pnc bank believes that if a pair of goggles can help your backhand get better... yeah! ...then your bank should help you budget even better. (laughing) virtual wallet® is so much more than a checking account. its low cash mode feature gives you

and in europe and asia as well and globally. that is a concern. in the u.s., we have an advantage. a large advantage which is the number of vaccinations taking place. that number is accelerating. you know, in the u.s., a race between the vaccine and the coronavirus itself you know, because we're vaccinating so many people, we are going to come out of this sooner than else wwhere. when we look at the macro recovery, we will see the u.s. lead the world we expect the global recovery to be a tailwind. the u.s. will come out of this first. a lot of consumer savings and pent up and waiting to be spent. it is starting to come back. the trade deficit is expanding because the u.s. consumer is buying more. that is a natural outcome and a sign the u.s. is recovering more quickly. yes, it is concerning that cases are rising particularly globally here in the u.s., the vaccination pace is really ultimately going to win that race we could have some rough sledding ahead for the next few weeks. consumers have a lot of savings and starting to spend it already. in terms of sectors, frank, you asked s

austria has one of the lowest vaccination rates in western europe with only around 65% of the total population fully >>> backe at hom closing rittenhouse are set to get under way today with the case expected to be in the hands of the jury by the end of the day. meanwhile, authorities in kenosha, wisconsin, are preparing for the possibility of unrest after a verdict is announced. charlie de mar has the latest. >>> we would rest. >> reporter: after a two-week trial including an emotional day with kyle rittenhouse on the stand in his own defense, the jury will get the murder case monday. outside the courtroom, so many are putting lives back together. this furniture store in the family for four decades was burned to the ground during the unrest 15 months ago. >> that was one of the front doors -- >> at that point you do want to look at it and cry and say i'm not doing this again. you know in your heart that you got to.>> committed to helpd -- epte then-idt ur thelp rebuild. then-candidate joe biden came to kenosha, too. when the attention faded and the politicians left, the damage both physical an

eventually be their states left behind, we tried to warn red and blue states if they went the way of europe and slow roll their reopenings the free states would leave them all behind and sure enough it has all come to pass. democrat run states and cities that dragged their feet on reopening and continue to weigh down their businesses and schools with all these mandates are bringing down the economy for the rest of america. one bloomberg columnist looked at 7 metro regions, new york, la, san francisco, chicago, dc, boston, and philly. while all those places accounted for 20% of job losses at the beginning of the pandemic, they are not responsible for a staggering 44.8% of the job losses and when you break out further the picture looks even more grim, national average unemployment rate is 5.2% but for new york and la it is 10%, chicago still atrocious at 8%. so why is this happening. because not everyone has the luxury of working from home, many high skilled service workers started to work remotely, low skill service workers in big cities bore most of the recent pandemic economic impact. anyo

europe is cutting by 55%, u.k. is cutting by 78%. why? because the scientists made it clear to us that this is critical if we want to hold the earth's temperature increase to 1 1 1.5 degrees cenigrade. president biden getting all the country enlisted. 85% that create the problem, emissions, comes from other country. >> administrator mccarthy, do you see the president's announcement? >> i see this is beginning of investing america again and creating millions of good paying union jobs. i see this is america winning back the future. this is all about recognizing that the clean energy economy and our race to it has already started. it is our way of making sure that people can have jobs again and moving away from one of the worst years all of us experienced to a moment of hope and opportunity. this is all about investing in us again and about winning back the future. i don't see this as the beginning of the end, i see this is the beginning of our future. >> okay, let's get to the audience, secretary kerry, i want you to meet dennis chestnut. w

and its allies in europe respond? zanny minton beddoes is the editor and chief of "the economist" and david miliband is the president and ceo and formerly, of course, british foreign secretary. david, you have written about the age of impunity. it does seem to me vladimir putin's actions here almost define and illustrate exactly what you're saying because there's no kind of norm that has been more sacrosanct in the post military world you don't remove by force and yet putin has done it by premier and seems bent on making ukraine at the very least a failed state perpetually insecure about its future. what should the west do? >> yes, the idea of age of impunity were the laws of norm that were established after 1945 are somehow for suckers and real leaders, quote/unquote, are those who do what they like without consequence and without accountability. it seems clear there's the usual mixture of hubris and paranoia in the kremlin at the moment. hub russ because the gas prices are high so russian coffers are fuller than usu

we're seeing more and more tankers head toward europe rather than asia. asia seems to have the gas it needs for the time being. united states can potentially get some involved. the real question is what we're prepared to do in terms of standing up or by europe. there is the deterrent side, the military steps, prepared sanctions. i think the other interesting question is the diplomacy. okay. we're not going to let putin dictate where nato can go. we're not going to let him dictate where nato forces can go. where are we prepared to compromise? we can signal very clearly that any nato enlargement is not in the cards for the foreseeable future. we should be prepared to discuss what we used to call arms control. mutual forced pullbacks, certain limits on certain kinds of forces to be reciprocal. if putin is interested in stabilizing things, i think we should give him that opportunity. but, again, i simply don't think we know. all this reminds me of is saddam hussein in the summer of 1990. he built up all his forces against kuwait, and we were sitting at the wh

. >> yes, when i was commander, i commanded ramstein and all of the bases in europe, and we are lucky in the sense that we have a rich network of overseas bases. and geoff, people would say to me at times, when i was nato commander, and we don't need those bases anymore in europe, because that is the bases of the cold war, and wrong. those are the bases of the 21st century, and we have capacity in the system, and allies and partners and friends. when the qataris are pushed, they can move to others so we have options where there are allies as well. >> admiral james stavridis and dan ramoff and amra nazra, thank you. >>> i want to start off with numbers of the number of people who served in afghanistan. and 2,321 is the number of american personnel who died in afghanistan and including the 13 brave americans who died facilitating the evacuation of 121,000 people over the course of six days, and 61,000, the number of afghan security forces killed in the conflict, and 47,245 is the number of afghan civilians killed since 2001. 20, that is the number of years that we have been fighting in

people who are wanting to go to europe, eamon, will finally get on board and go next summer. >> i love this story i think it tells you everything you need to know about the economy. this is an industry that was absolutely clobbered last year. >> reporter: yeah. >> from trough to peak, i can't think of a time in economic history we've seen a turnaround that fast from being a total free fall last year, to this boom and optimism. >> reporter: you bet. >> that these guys are talking about when they talk to you. >> reporter: you see it in the fares. people are complaining my airfare is this month for august other september. that's a sign of how much demand is out there while nobody likes higher airfares, it is reflective of the demand and health of the airline industry. >> i've been traveling around the country and the world. i was in tampa, geneva, now here in new york. the airlines are full, the airports are full, people are traveling. a lot of it feels like tourist traveling, but a lot of business travelers are starting to get out there. i think it's starting to come back. >> reporter: a

late tuesday night here in europe after lawmakers on capitol hill hope to have a boat on both of his but spending bills. jon: we have mama ahead. thank you. fox news can confirm the house is working on a plan to vote on both president biden's infra structure package and larger social spending plan tuesday. correspondent chad program joins us live by phone with details on this. >> good evening. the boat on both social spending plan and infrastructure tuesday at the back to back boat would placate concerns with progressives on everything often and the bills moved in tandem. serious concern about letting the bills got too long. democrats have the possibility of support for both measures if republicans glenn youngkin wins the gubernatorial race tuesday. they want to be settled as soon as possible. the house rules committee would presume it's meeting monday which started thursday, the rules committee serves for bills to go to the floor. the progressives are starting to do some cleanup here, too hard on some issues and potentially jeopardize the demonstrative the senate to line up. all the

., my friends across europe and asia are posting >> i think part of it is it's the worst case scenario it's the bogey man it's the absolute fear that you could do everything right and still end up in the worst situation because a man perpetrated this violence on you. >> reporter: around the world six women are killed every hour by men and for women of color their cases rarely in the headlines. >> and it's not about what we do like women taking self-defense classes, what you're wearing, if you're drinking. it's we've got to teach boys and men not to attack. >> reporter: it happens everywhere but tonight on doorsteps in london candles to remember sarah. molly hunter, nbc news, london >>> still ahead, has the pandemic changed parenting forever? the lessons learned during a most challenging year. >>> an oklahoma high school >>> an oklahoma high school girls' basketball team is in the spotlight again tonight. this time for all the right reasons. today the norman high lady tigers won a state title game it comes after controversy at a game earlier in the week when an announcer made racist com

vladimir putin that president biden isn't walking into this meeting alone, that he has the backing of europe primary, which is important in a number of ways, especially after the four years of donald trump who did a good bit of work to divide the alliances and in some ways to strengthen putin's position which is essentially to destabilize the west to undermine alliances, to sort of, you know, cause disruption where he can. in the russian view, they had a help mate in that in trump and biden's main message going in was you don't have that same position now. he has the allies with him and he said at the beginning i has the wind at his back. >> anne, we have heard a lot about the word deliverable is being used and the diplomatic term what do we get out of this meeting. the white house and the president continue to insist that is not the goal here. my question is how will the white house and the president define success in the wake of this moment? >> yeah, that is an excellent question we don't have a clear answer to yet. when they say we are not getting any deliverables that is a low expectatio

claims he told her the house is being taken by the bank at the same time he told her he was going to europe on vacation. he strongly denies the allegations and released a statement on twitter to say unfortunately i like to address the completely false accusations my estranged wife and soon to be ex-wife has made against me. i have never gambled or bet on hockey or a sharks game and have never thrown a hockey game. he said he looks forward to cooperating with the nhl investigation. the nhl commented the integrity of our game is paramount and the league takes these allegations very seriously. we will conduct a full investigation at this time. november 2019 he was reportedly sued by a casino in las vegas for over half a million dollars in debt. in january he filed for bankruptcy according to the new york post. this happened just two years after he signed a seven-year 49 million-dollar contract with the san jose sharks but he denies the claims and the nhl investigation is underway. jillian: that is unbelievable. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. thank you. despite the concern ov

before we can stop wearing these, so please, please, don't let happen here what you see happening in europe happening on television. keep the faith, keep wearing your mask and keep washing your hands and keep socially distanced. we're going to beat this and we are way ahead of schedule and we have a long way to go. i wanted to bring you up-to-date and thank you very much, and may god bless america and god protect our troops. thank you very much. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> you see the headline on your screen there, tomorrow, which is day 58 of the biden administration they will meet the goal of 100 million vaccines. listen, obviously understandable a victory lap on the numbers and how ahead of the game they are, really, as he says in beating this thing, but he also reminded all of us, i jotted it down, it's time for optimism but not a time of relaxation. let's talk about all of this with cnn analyst, and dr. matthew. 17 states are seeing a rise in cases. can enough americans get vaccinated to prevent this fourth surge, this spring surge? >> listen, brooke, i was just excited to hear pres

tourists visit europe this summer. millions of americans, 8%, are skipping out on the second dose of the covid-19 vaccine. this warrants this reminder. both pfizer and moderna vaccines consider two doses to be fully effective. one dose gives some level of protection but medical experts say we don't know how long that protection will last. joining me now, the white house senior adviser for covid response. wel welcome back to the show. >> i want to get your reaction. the eu is set to let vaccinated tourists visit after shutting down nonessential travel for more than a year. what is your reaction? >> the key to getting back to life that we used to know is vaccination. so far we have more than half of the adults of americans have done vaccine shots, and that's great and we have near half of the americans that have not done that yet. we will see a world where people that have been vaccinated will enjoy a lot of freedoms, and they will feel like they can take on activities and risks and the cases will continue to be there fo

president biden is on his way back from europe as we speak. there's no rule that says he has to sign this newly passed bill as soon as he gets back. but there is some good timing coming up that would seem to indicate that he has reason to hurry. june 19th, juneteenth, is saturday. today is wednesday, the 16th. the 19th is this weekend. so if he signs this new law, this new bill into law on saturday or before, this year, 2021, will be the first year that we as a nation commemorate that day as a federal holiday. we will commemorate it together as a country. even including the 14 republican men who voted against it. it will be a holiday in their country, too. even if they don't like it. so we will see about the timing on when it gets signed into law. it's a big deal, a big vote, a big thing for our country and our history. it will also indelibly shine a nice, bright spotlight on the 14 republican men who stood against it. hi, guys, hope you enjoy this weekend in particular a lot. today at the summit in switzerland, president biden and president v

allowed him to build the pipeline that is literally the lifeblood of the economy of our allies in western europe while simultaneously cutting out the keystone exit -- xl pipeline for americans, and i have to ask because it was you or your sons, and let's see, what do they have in common? russia, hunter biden got a lot of money. china, they did not do a deal with goldman sachs or deutsche bank, they did a deal with hunter biden $1,000,000,000.05 with the bank of china, and to joe biden has said nothing to threats against the military or reunification threats with taiwan, or he must get permission to land an airplane in taiwan, which i never thought would happen or the question of human rights, if the last name was trump and your sons were making money in russia, china, kazakhstan, ukraine, if they saw that and through that gun in a garbage basket or wastebasket, if your sons were on video with smoking crack with, with the question not logically become, do you believe that these countries have compromising materials, as you can remember adam schiff ony did not have it and he was being scammed, do

but when covid came in, and came in obviously from china, china tried to blame italy and europe. if you remember, people tend to remember these things. but it hurt my relationship with president xi, because, maybe -- who wouldn't, who could speak to someone losing, the world is dying around you, not just the united states, places have been hit much harder. relatively. harder. you look at what we've done, despite all these things that happened. it is incredible. had covid not happened, we would have had the greatest 4 years of economic s success in history of the world, covid hit us. at the end of the third year, we did a great job, then really handed him a very beautiful pallet. to him. and every day they are destroying that pallet. we have a big problem. we'll have a big problem if it continues. i will say, israel was safe with me. iran would have made a deal with me. they were hurt badly by the sanctions, now most of those sanctions to been taken off. and you are right, china of buying very little, i was saying don't do it now they buy more than 500 thousand barrels a day, you

it's available i guess in europe at the pfizer vaccine available in u.s. is not fda approved it's that emergency use authorization. i wrote a letter to the fda on august 26th, they have still not given an answer of why didn't they approve it. why they basically lying to the american public? that's a serious question to be asking is we are destroying our health care system with these mandates. >> tucker: at some point we are going to learn the depth of the lies and it's going to be shock to everyone, even those of us will have a low opinion of the people making these decisions. senator johnson, thank you very much. >> have a good night. >> tucker: so if you want to know how little they actually care about the spread of covid they kept our southern border open throughout. many people coming across are infected with the virus. some remarkable footage showing where these migrants are winding up in this country and he joins us tonight. hey, bill. >> hey, tucker, good evening to you. so right now we are just on the street from a residential neighborhood and when

what about other people going overseas and what we can fear from europe? >> obviously we have seen austria impose its lockdown. when i was in scotland i think a week and a half ago, we were -- when we went to the climate conference we were tested every day to make sure we didn't have covid. mask wearing was i can tell you kind of haphazard but that's the thing to remember is that just because you have the vaccine and a booster you have to do all the other things to protect yourself. wear a mask in a crowded situation. practice social distancing and good hygiene. all of those are -- they still are very important things to do even if you have the vaccine and have gotten the booster. >> and doctor, what about masks and children and whether or not once children are vaccinated the benefit should be lift those masks because they need the interactions? big debate about that among educators. >> there is and i think it is also always important to say that getting the first couple doses of the vaccine is extraordinarily important why . the boosters help but the firs

it was an ideology that insisted it had to be in the vane of old europe. and had we think about the mid-20th century and dr. king's sacrifice and the sacrifice of everyday ordinary people to make good on the promises of reconstruction, this is why it is called the second reconstruction. how do we roll it back? it had everything to do with this consensus behind us. and what's so interesting about the recent moment is that we saw people in the capitol in defense of a world that dr. king sacrificed his life to destroy. those people were cleaving to a world that he tried to dismantle. it is up for me and you and others for imagining an america apart from this insidious view that some people out to be valued more because of the color of their skin. we have to finally uproot that so we can step into the promise of american life. >> and, you know, mika, there has been so much progress, so much racial progress in this country since 1963. since the year of my birth. just six years later i was playing on play grounds in rural mississippi with an integrated class of

why is it that there's so much vaccine skepticism in europe? i find that a little bit surprising. >> it's the same really in the states and it depends on the country. when i was in france last year, there was a period when 60% of french people responded to surveys and said they would not be getting any vaccine. there have been incidents in the past where government programs and doctors have tried to administer vaccines and there have been health problems, there have been scares. a lot of these things have never really turned into anything. and a lot of this was sort of innuendo and not to scientific. but at the end of the day, there is a lot of skepticism. there's a lot of worries about vaccines, just as there is in the states. it's part of an anti-vaxxer movement that really is global. >> remarkable. nbc's matt bradley, thanks so much for being here. really appreciate it. >>> just to underscore that point, ask your local doctor. these vaccines, we know, have been shown to be safe and effective and are going to get us thankfully out of this pan

when asked if she has gone to the border and she made a joke about europe. i don't know. she was assigned to be in charge of the immigration crisis, yet she hadn't been to the border in that interview which is embarrassing. that's the bottom line. it is an embarrassment when your elected leaders aren't doing the job they promised to do, david. >> you bring up a good point as the three of us talked earlier this week, when you think the biggest challenge to democracy around the world is voter i.d. and not having enough electric cars maybe we don't want her making a lot of national decisions. >> julie: all right. i've got to go. i ran out of time and getting a quick wrap. happy new year to you both. appreciate you coming on. >> trace: a truly apocalyptic scene in boulder county, colorado. 100 mile-per-hour winds fanned flames. tens of thousands of people forced to flee. a live report on this next. >> this is not something you see in town. this is something you see in the mountains. i've lived here for 28 years and never seen anything like it. it is crazy and scary. [upbeat a

for some perspective, that's more than we spent on the entire marshall plan in europe after the world was destroyed in 1945. you've got to ask yourself, where did all that money go? the pentagon of court is not really sure where all that money went. but it turns out internal documents suggest it was wasted. the afghan papers make it clear that a lot of the money went to the most corrupt people in they country. only about two in ten afghan security t forces could read or writee or reliably follow order. for years, afghan commanders have routinely pocketed taxpayer money from the united states with so-called ghost soldiers, those are troops who appeared in the payroll but didn't actually exist. one recentdn't assessment foundt between 50 and 70% of police positions and some afghan provinces weren't really alive, they were people who existed only on paper. k the troops who did exist use their weapons to commit crimes and few american troops or officials. one observer estimated that one and 30% of afghan police recruits would take their guns and "set up their own type ofto checkpoint to e

some 130 migrants bound for europe are feared dead after capsizing off libya. it happened wednesday, in the mediterranean sea, northeast of tripoli, the libyan capital city. a french rescue ship found an overturned rubber boat on thursday. rescue groups say that 350 migrants have drowned off libya since the year began. in jerusalem, israeli police arrested 44 people overnight in clashes with palestinians and jewish extremists. security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon at crowds protesting restrictions on their gathering during ramadan. nearby, far-right jewish nationalists fought with police at an anti-arab rally. russian dissident alexei navalny is ending a 24-day hunger strike in prison. in an online post today, he said that he has now received medical care from independent doctors, as he had demanded. his own doctors had warned that his health was failing, and they urged him to stop the hunger strike. back in this country, a pentagon panel recommended that independent authorities take over decisions about prosecuting troops for sexual assault. com

easily champion's europe. are ♪ i'm back ♪ back in the new york groove ♪ back ♪ groove. steve: i am back in the new york groove after taking a little time off. ainsley: how was it? steve: it was great. it was down in celebrating the 4th of july, can had a couple days off, then we got my oldest daughter mary married off. [cheers and applause] steve: three children off married off in the last calendar year. brian: that's impossible. is that a record? steve: could be. how crazy is that. ainsley: how was it? tell us about it. steve: it was lovely, down in palm beach, it was saturday night. and it all worked out. >> the weather held. it was beautiful. i'm going to have some pictures tomorrow. ainsley: did you still have to have a small amount of people there? steve: we had planned for the small because they had still had restrictions i think you can have as many people now in florida as you want and there was dancing. brian: were you able to go out after the wedding and party? it was over early you wanted to party? steve: tended about 10:00 and is the case for younger people,

. >>> swept away -- an inside look at the destruction caused by historic flooding in western europe. >> there is nothing to rebuild. >> entire towns gone, lives uprooted, and a desperate search under way for those still missing. we are live from germany. >>> stadium scare. >> please remain calm. and remain inside the stadium. >> gunfire outside a major league baseball game sends panicked fans running for cover, some even rushing into the dugouts. >> i thought i knew what it was, then a whole storm of people started running. >> inside those chaotic moments that left one fan shot and thousands more terrified. >>> all that, plus primed for takeoff. for the second time in a week, a billionaire is heading into space. we are talking with amazon founder jeff bezos and his crew about the historic launch and why this trip is very different than the last one. today monday, july 19th, 2021. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today," with savannah guthrie from tokyo, japan, and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hey, everybody. welcome to "today." it is a monday morning. craig

we have a major gas crisis with europe right now. putin has been trying to put pressure on europe to open up the nord stream 2 pipeline, which has created a lot of scandal and tension with the united states as well. you can see there's an awful lot going on. there's a lot of complexity here and all of these divisions between not just the europeans and united states but within europe itself. there's a fight with poland, germany is in the midst of a changeover from chancellor merkel to a new coalition government. this seems to be exactly the prime time for russia to stir up trouble with ukraine or put ukraine on the back foot. >> in your book you describe the kind of chaos of trump policy towards russia. do you think there is a smarter way to go in terms of deterring russia? what should the west, what should washington do? >> well, we have to be in lockstep with all of europe and we also have to speak with one voice ourselves in the united states, which seems to be a bit of a tall order right now. this is also a perfect time for putin

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if you mention the pipeline, i got the pipeline from russia to europe shut down. biden came in and one of the first things he did he opened up the pipeline. when he shut down our pipeline. which is the keystone xl pipeline. one of the biggest in the world. he shut that down and he allowed the biggest in the world from russia into europe and germany in particular. it's -- you can only ask him why. i can't tell you why, doesn't make sense. you can only ask him why. >> sean: well, i think the fact that maybe hunter made all this money, you know, we just saw they had a pretty good read on hunter biden. it knew about the drug addiction, they knew about his use of prostitutes. if they had his book. china did is $1.5 billion deal, i would imagine they are spy agencies if libya had it, they probably had a pretty good read on hunter biden. you probably have compromising details to use the roads that adam schiff made famous, on the bidens. is that a stretch on my part to suspect that what they know about hunter could in fact impact joe biden? >> mr. trump: not really my pos

south korea which did not lock down and they found the rate of spread similar to what they found in europe and the united states. that didn't surprise me because if you lockdown an area where there is already a lot of virus in the community, people stay at home but they spread it within households and that's what we are finding. and that's what we found in new york as well. if on the other hand you were to lock down well in advance of a problem and like we had a new zealand and like we have in australia outcome of those areas we dodged a bullet because they prevent the spread. if you do huge travel plans and you lockdown in advance of the virus spreading, you can get somewhere. in this case when it's already through community as it's way too late to lockdown. as you said you had a tremendous economic and physical and emotional cost. >> sandra: i can't help but wonder why we didn't get this right. we had dr. fauci at the home of the decisions, but we couldn't have taken the right cautions and not over did it as the stanford study suggests. >> i think we should have come we should have focus

is reviewing its europe travel ban and should have an update in the coming days. he was questioned on the issue at a news conference alongside the german chancellor angela merkel. travelers had been banned since march 2020. here is what he said. >> we brought in the head of our covid team because the chancellor brought that subject up. it is in the process of being how soon we can lift the ban, it is in process now and he'll be able to answer that question within the next several days what is likely to happen. i'm waiting to hear from our folks in our covid team as to when that should be done. >>> turning our attention to the olympics now, and a setback for team usa basketball. starting point guard bradley beal of the washington wizards will have to miss the tokyo games. the all-star was placed in health and safety protocols on wednesday. the team also announced their exhibition game later today against australia has been canceled due to health and safety concerns. team usa is set to have their first olympic game on july 25th. meanwhile many athletes have already

don't close it up to europe. you know, we have the problem of italy and france -- i did, i closed it up to europe very, very early. he said "don't wear masks, masks don't work, they are no good." think of, you look at -- the way i look at it, you saw him throw out the first pitch in washington, right? he is a better pitcher that he is at what he does, but i got along with him. i didn't really listen to him too much because i was doing the opposite of what he was saying. i mean, frankly, if he were known as somebody that was with me all the way, he would not be popular with the media. he is just a media creation. >> laura: and finally, i want to move on, final question, about biden's plans for the future. watch. >> have you decided whether you are going to run for reelection in 2024? you have not set up a reelection campaign, as her predecessor had by this time. >> my predecessor needed to. my predecessor. oh, god, i miss him. no, the answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection. that is my expectation. >> laur

>> and we al qaeda in middle east, and small cells of various islamist organizations, operating in europe. lara: what americans hear of a little group here and there, they don't identify that as a threat, if you know they are all -- understand they are working toward same goal, does the threat look different. >> multiple extremist groups are one single oh, one group does not make a difference, the fact is the magnitude of the problem is what it is. there are extremists, who can attack in different places. there are people who do not accept the values and they are willing to die for their belief including to the willingness to blow themselves up. have we accomplished a great deal since 9/11 in terms of building intelligence capability and understand, absolutely. have we eliminated the problem? no, we have not. [ nautical horn] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ with voltaren arthritis pain gel my hu

. >> profound energy crisis gripping europe, bret. we are going to see gas prices already up 600 percent. skyrocket next month. germany shutting down nuclear plants. france nuclear plants have pipe problems and a lack of energy everywhere on the continent. long dark winter ahead. >> bret: wow, merry christmas, happy holidays. all right. juan. >> i want to cheer you up. i will tell you. in fact, gas prices in this country are going down and we see airports are busy. the train stations are busy. the highways are busy. so i think tomorrow's headlines is america is on the move forever the holidays and santa's elves they have booster shots and they are ready to deliver for our children. >> bret: all right. there you go. morgan? >> all right. i'm going to read mine. biden executive order bars santa from distributing coal in final bid to pressure joe manchin. >> bret: there you go. he is always factoring into the story. all right, panel, thanks so much. have a good one. dome on "special report," the chairman of the national republican congre

look at europe. they're going in the exact opposite direction as the u.s. business is boocming. secondly, america is buying stuff at rates we've never seen. >> the savings rate, 20% or something. double digit for the savings rate, which means americans have taken the two stimulus checks and put some in their pocket and the rest in the economy. that speaks well for the rest of the year as americans have some savings to draw down on. one thing i'm interested in is a potential for a worker shortage. you're starting to see amazon raise wages for a whole bunch of people. costco did it last month. we know frontline companies are going to have to raise wages to get workers back into the game. we know some frontline workers are retraining for jobs in tech and finance because of the strain of the last year. so this will be a really important space to watch. we also know that the federal reserve is not worried about this economy running too hot. the fed chief this week said there's no move to taper all of this stimulus in the economy, john. >> christine romans, amazing times. good to see.

a group of people fleeing awful wars in europe came to the united states trying to go to the virginia colonies that were already settled. they ended up in massachusetts and became very good friends with the local indians in massachusetts who helped get them through the winter. a lot died in awful conditions and freezing cold. no time for a harvest and no colony there. they got through it. celebrated the friendship, the harvest and the first government in the entire world essentially that was made of the people for the people by the people at the mayflower compact. celebrated together with the indians. for the left to call that colonization and some kind of evil thing it shows i don't think they have a very good grasp of history and a good time to celebrate with your family and celebrate america and friendship and to celebrate the new world. >> there has to be something, some reason to celebrate especially after coming out of two years of a pandemic. we've got inflation to worry about, we have 14% increases on putting food on our table on this thanksgiving day holiday and of course you

has now recorded more than 3000000 cases of covert 19 the 1st country in western europe to do so more than 80000 of those have died is currently struggling to stop a rapid surge in cases with all 4 of the u.k.'s nations under tight restrictions. southern california is also seeing a surge it's overwhelming intensive care units and ambulance services in the states attended by more than 43000 cases of covert 19th in the past day and almost 22000 there in hospital the state has deployed refrigerated trailers to act as makeshift morgues polls opened in kurdistan's presidential election the front runner is a man who until last year was serving an 11 and a half year sentence for kidnapping so he had to part of was freed from jail by supporters during protests following a disputed parliamentary election in october the country's also holding a referendum those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after drug trafficking politics and power station times watching. this is a puppy failed. once cut the part of the plant secretes a miraculous milky fluid called latex base opium us

missile led defense component in eastern europe and increasingly frequent mission bias nato ships near russian waters near baltic and black seas. biotechnology company november x indonesia first emergency use authorization for its covid-19 vaccine. the two dose vaccine uses lab grown copies of the spike protein that coats the virus. that is a different technology than the vaccines used here in the u.s. and. world. australia opens its border for the first time in 20 months. thailand is also easing its strict quarantine regulations. countries in the asian pacific have had some of the toughest covid-19 lock down measures and travel restrictions. this comes as the world covid death total surpasses the 5 million mark. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back with laura ingraham after we hear from more voters here in the commonwealth of virginia in tomorrow's big election. >> what drove you in this race? >> really, just the critical race theory and honestly church. i'm a follow early of jesus, you know, i'm -- everything i do is faith-based. you know, i

they just removed the steel tariffs on europe. if it's just removing the tariffs on china we will get off easy. china will be able to grab whatever it wants and biden will cave. we have to hope that china doesn't grab taiwan and promise not to burn coal. >> laura: obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry in 2008. biden's personnel wants to take it further. >> i am thinking about the coal and oil and gas industry. a lot of the smaller players are going to go bankrupt in short order. we want them to go to bankrupt to tackle climate change. >> laura: here to respond from texas. lt. col. governor dan patrick. this woman is a complete radical. what does this mean for the price of oil and gas with someone like that with any influence in this administration? >> so, for the people who don't know. she was a graduate of moscow state university. her thesis was on carl marx economic analysis and the theory of revolution. 65 years ago next week, november 18th, is the anniversary of khruhchev saying we will bury you. if she gets the appoint

the president has enough time to go for europe what is a high-profile press conference but didn't have time to visit the southern border at a time of national crisis there focus on the economy, empty shelves, supply chain problems and hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs across the country. these are the sorts of things the people want the president to focus on. he is at cop 26 and they will not accomplish much. elizabeth: if it was so dire, why did the president fall asleep? it was not for a moment. it was off and on for a while, caught on camera? what do you say? >> if prince charles, john kerry speaking for that long you can't really blame the president for falling asleep. this whole conference is really nonsensical as you point out. this could have easily been done on a teleconference. next year's planned, cop 28, 2023 are already planned. huge global events that united states taxpayers and other citizens countries are footing the bill. they are staying at luxury hotels. they have huge motorcades. it is ridiculous with covid protocols and mandates, the elite never follow the rule

we'll go longer but one of the things that i'm going to doing is speaking with 27 heads of state in europe in very shortly. i think within the next hour or so i don't know the exact time. and earlier this month apparently got the chinese attention. that's not why i did it. i met with our allies and how we told china accountable in the region australia, india, japan and the united states, so-called quad. because we have to have democracies working together before too long i will have -- invite democracies to come here to discuss the future. so we'll make it clear that in order to deal with these things we are going to hold china accountable to follow the rules. follow the rules whether relates to the south china sea or the north china sea or the agreement on taiwan or a whole range of other things. the third thing and the thing that i admire about dealing with xi is he understands, he makes no pretense about not understanding what i'm saying to no leader can be sustained unless they remit the values of the country and i said as -- mr. president, as i've told you before, americans value the

what is happening now, the tension that is building up in europe, is their fault. >> the abm treaty, anti-ballistic missile treaties, signed back in the 1970s, wolf, left by the united states in 200 2 and that goes to the genuine fears about what an east ward expansion could mean. the placing of missiles that would be, for instance, on ukrainian soil just a few minutes from moscow, some that would clearly be unacceptable to russia. very close looking at what an eastward expansion of nato would mean, fears what would happen on ukrainian soil. some hope, however, despite all that fiery rhetoric we have heard, that there could be some hope of dialogue. dialogue conversation that could start as soon as january. >> we shall see. oren, how is the u.s. in the meantime responding to putin's latest demands? >> the biden administration has made it clear that russia can't make demands or compel or determine the foreign policy of another country, bl that be ukraine or somebody else. it's not up to russia, it's not up to putin whether ukraine joins anyway toe. that is up to ukraine as a sovereign