0 reports. andrea is on assignment. i m chris jansing. we re following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we don t know about this variant with the white house releasing a statement sunday saying dr. fauci believes it will take up to two weeks to get answers on omicron s transmissibility, severity and other characteristics. the big question for nearly 200 million fully vaccinated americans, will their vaccine hold up against this new strain. fauci this morning urging eligible americans to not let fears over omicron s impact stop them from getting their booster shots. i would strongly suggest you get boosted now and not w
in senate seats and house seats who are afraid of being on the other end of a trump tweet because they are afraid for their re-election. so at the end of the day, it s political cowardice and people putting politics over patriotism. all right. senator chris van hollen from the state of maryland. thank you so much for joining me, senator. thank you. we ve got any developments in the last few minutes regarding gilroy festival shooting in california. federal law enforcement officially i.d. d the suspected gunman. he was only 19 years old. he was shot dead at the scene by authorities after he killed three people including two children, ages 6 and 13 and injuring 12 hours. joining me nbc s ben collins. what have you learned? what we know there s an instagram tied to this shooter. that instagram is a white
agenda. but this morning, i spoke with senator richard blumenthal who said the findings may fuel ongoing investigations and that the president s legal troubles are far from over. the president still has to face those investigations, indictments are still very possible if not likely in donald trump s future or his family s future, in the southern district of new york. plus, i ask former trump campaign aid sam nunberg what he wants to know from the mueller report. i m interested to see when exactly the trump tower moscow negotiation started, the 2015 negotiations if it starred while i was there unknown to me. i m interested to see what the president s or what mueller has found in terms of the president thinking that he was talking to julian assange somehow through intermediaries. we have a lot of people to talk to. joining me nbc white house correspondent kelly o donnell, national security and justice report julia ansley,
and all the activities that have gotten us here today. then adding, i stand here today to assure the court that i am a different person than the person who stood before you in october of 2017. today s proceedings stems from manafort s guilty plea in september to conspiracy charges for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist for pro-russian ukrainian powers. brokers and witness tampering. before the sentence prosecutors and defense lawyers made starkly different arguments. prosecutors ps with a series of crimes, millions of dollars over years. defense arguing manafort being targeted for political reasons. joining me nbc intelligence and national security reporter outside the courthouse, justice and security analyst matt miller, atlantic staff writer and former u.s. attorney harry litman. welcome all. ken, as we await the sentencing, she s working her way through the different charges. she s given very stiff guidance
we ve seen so far, this is the first court appearance. the judge will read the charges and that she s likely to post bond. her fashion designer husband set a bond of a million dollars yesterday. as you mentioned felicity huffman setting and meeting a bond of $250,000 yesterday. we re told obviously these are just two cases, in a case of 50 families being charged in this conspiracy. obviously people are reacting very harshly to what they are hearing about all of this. back to you. they might be. thank you steve patterson. i know you ll be following this all day. more breaking news, we were just talking about this potentially with senator blumenthal. paul manafort has, indeed, been indicted by the manhattan district attorney s office. according to court documents by nbc news by d.a. vance s office. joining me now is nbc s tom winter.