campaigning, elections set to show much of a grip donald trump still has on the gop. our correspondents are standing by live later on in the show. i m hallie jackson with you on this monday afternoon in washington. so let s get right to ken delainian and danny. ken, we haven t heard from guy during the trial. he didn t testify on his own behalf. he wasn t expected to make a statement today, but that has changed and he s now going to speak, we understand. reporter: yeah, the latest twist in a day that s been full of them here, hallie. earlier, guy reffett was trying at the defense table as his daughter was testifying in his defense and talking about his mental health issues and trying to blame what happened on donald trump. and after that, the justice department suffered a major setback when the judge ruled against imposing a so-called domestic terrorism enhancement on the sentence, which is the first time the doj tried to do that, saying that this conduct was domestic terro
with 740 deaths, and more than 41,000 hospitalizations, which is a significant reduction from peaks two months ago. but it s still far too high say health policy experts trying to prevent another surge. 11 states are reporting an uptick in new infections compared to last week. vaccinations are the bright spot here, the nation is averaging 2.4 million actual shots a day. with more than 11% of the country fully inoculated against coronavirus through the vaccine. then s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us now. i feel like this uk variant has been the tsunami we see coming at us. where is at this point in time? that s for sure. remember, brianna, when we were counting cases by variant, one by one, but now there are thousands. what we know about this uk variant, it s been spotted in 48 out of 50 states. the vaccine seems to work pretty well against it but it seems to spread more easily. and according to a new study just out, the risk of death when you get