now the cdc has dramatically reduced its estimate for how prevalent the omicron variant actually is in the united states. but the president says more covid-related mandates are still possible. watch. will you make a decision? many republican governors say mandates are the wrong way to handle covid. south dakota governor says she will continue to fight them. he doesn t have the authority to put the mandates in place and why south dakota and many other states and governors and attorney generals have challenged the federal government on this authority in court. it will be heard in january. and we ll win because this president has taken unprecedented action to impose on the liberties and freedoms of the american people and sometimes the only ones that are left to fight are the governors. either owe update the breaking news with steve harrigan. home of the cdc in atlanta. this white house covid response team meeting comes at a critical time when it comes to numbers. seve
not to enforce its mandate. in seattle, hundreds of officers could be fired without proof of vaccination. plus, the push to vaccinate children. and the warnings tonight about flu season. what experts say you should do right now. tonight, the congressional investigation into former president trump s actions during the capitol insurrection. what sources say he and his aides were doing during the january 6th riot. exclusive new reporting from abc s chief washington correspondent jonathan karl. tonight, the arrest video that the local mayor calls concerning. the paraplegic man pulled from his car during that traffic stop. the response from the naacp. and what police say they found inside the vehicle. tonight, the legal whiplash surrounding the strictest abortion law in our country. most abortions in texas now halted again. patients and providers left reeling. the next steps in the court battle. plus tonight, that missing 3-year-old boy found safe. the emotional reunion wi
actually a felony. we ll get to all of that in a moment. but first we want to start with the bond. a new york appeals court knocked it down from $450 million and counting to 175 million. donald trump says he will pay it quickly within the ten-day extension. but more importantly, what does that decision mean for an appeal of the judgment itself? joining us now, nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter, msnbc legal correspondent, lisa rubin, former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock, and nbc news business and data correspondent, brian cheung. everybody, welcome. lisa, let s talk about knocking down this bond. it s a really big deal. clearly what donald trump was hoping would happen. absolutely what he was hoping would happen, and assuming, katy, that he posts this bond within the next ten days, it will prevent the attorney general from taking any enforcement efforts. i want to make one thing really clear. while we are talking about this as a major victor
the prosecutors with the manhattan d.a. s office gathered in court on the very same day that the trial over concealing hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels was originally supposed to begin. but instead of what was supposed to be the first day of jury selection, team trump and the manhattan d.a. tangled over a sudden twist in the case that led to the trial being delayed. that last minute release of nearly 100,000 pages of evidence provided by the justice department in its investigation of witness michael cohen. at stake in today s hearing, whether trump would be able to delay accountability in this case as well as he hassaged to do in the federal documents case, but the judge did not buy what team trump was selling. the judge accusing trump s defense lawyers in bringing up the issue of delay in getting documents only to derail the trial. the judge asking why the attorneys didn t mention the issue in february. the judge said this, quote, why didn t you bring any of