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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2022 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Today we take a closer look at a bipartisan group of senators' determination to protect the integrity of the presidential electoral process. Plus, we get a peek inside the "closed loop" at the Beijing Winter Olympics and have the latest results from the Games.
Here's what we're watching this Monday morning. 
More than a year after he tried to exploit the system, former President Donald Trump has continued to claim that Vice President Mike Pence could have overturned his election defeat. The effort culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob stormed the Capitol, disrupting what had traditionally been a rote and uneventful procedure.
While Pence had previously resisted calling out his former boss by name, he took direct aim at Trump's interpretation of the law on Friday. "Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong," Pence said during a speech in Orlando, Florida.
Despite ongoing attacks from Trump, a bipartisan group of senators are busy working away on a plan to update the Electoral Count Act, the 1887 federal law that established the convoluted process by which Congress certifies the presidential election result. Read the full story here.
2022 Winter Olympics
The athletes have arrived, competition has begun and Friday’s spectacular ceremony opened the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
But for the athletes and the others attending, this year’s Games are like no other.
Participants and foreign visitors are being kept inside what organizers call the "closed loop."
Designed to prevent Covid from spreading, it keeps residents far apart from visitors, so China can host the Olympics and still pursue its “zero-Covid” strategy, which has been in place since the pandemic first broke out in Wuhan in 2019.
The strategy presents unique challenges for teams and athletes, as they navigate all the Covid-related rules and regulations on top of the usual stress of international competition.
"This year, it’s been an absolute nightmare," American snowboarder Jamie Anderson told a news conference Wednesday. "It’s definitely a more complicated Olympics." Read the full story here.
More headlines from the Games:
Monday's Top Stories
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