presence remains in legal lingo, if not peril. trump s legal team announced a last-minute challenge to today s scheduled release of trump white house records. and the new york attorney general turning up the heat on the civil investigation of the trump organization, citing significant evidence, she says, of financial fraud, and she s asked a court now to compel donald trump and his children, don jr. and ivanka, to testify under oath. let s begin with the current administration, and cnn s jeff zeleny at the white house. jeff, president biden will no doubt field a lot of tough questions from reporters in this rare and consequential moment he s in. what should we expect? reporter: ana, there s no doubt this is the end of the first term that so many challenges and crises linger into the second term which begins tomorrow. the president, we are told, is going to tout those accomplishments. remember the infrastructure bill the bipartisan passed last year, the covid relief bill
week as part of a congressional delegation. and we begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. right now, the biden administration s website to request free at-home covid tests is up and running. americans can visit covidtest.gov to place an order for four tests to be delivered to their door by the united states postal service. the administration also says it will begin distributing 400 million n95 masks from the national stockpile to thousands of locations across the country. joining me now is nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla. also with us is dr. joseph varon, the chief of critical care at united memorial medical center in houston. thank you for being with me. heidi, you spoke exclusively with the new testing coordinator at the white house. what did he tell you about what he can expect from this new program? reporter: jose, i just wanted to point out that the reason why these new programs are so significant is that for the first time, the federal government i
understand that you had at least one, and possibly multiple communications with president trump on the 6th. we will like to discuss each such communication with you in detail. jordan was specifically asked about those communications in a local ohio tv interview back in the summer. if jordan ever does sit down in front of the 1/6 committee, he might want to make sure his answer is a little more polish than this. let s take a listen. on january 6th, did you speak with him before, during, or after the capitol was attacked? i would have to go i i i spoke with him that day after. i think after. i don t know if i spoke with him in the morning or not. i just don t know. i would have to go back and i mean, i don t know that, when those conversations happened, but what i know is i spoke with him all the time. let me translate that for you, hammina, hammina, hammina. like i said, practice that answer before you go before the committee, if you do. a federal judge in flor
jeopardy. this was a moment many on the left long feared and some warned of. the evenly divided senate means any single senate democrat can torpedo this bill. manchin dropping a bomb sunday telling fox news he is against the bill. today top democrats are trying to salvage some sort of deal and the white house is softening its tone after releasing a blistering statement accusing manchin of betraying the president and congress. white house press secretary jen psaki getting press today. senator manchin s version of events sort of differ from the white house version of events. you regard his $1.8 trillion proposal as a nonstarter given that it excludes the child tax credit? does the president think senator manchin has negotiated in good faith? he said that from the beginning, he continues to consider him a friend. new reporting late today that biden and manchin spoke last night. biden seeking to restart talks on the plan for climate, pre-k, family paid leave, child tax
we sit here and try to figure out how to do the news and it s kind of a tough job. watching him from before i ever looked in the business, that looks like how to do it, if you can do 10% of it. and he is funny. he is hilarious. we love him. thank you. were a wonderful evening. good evening, everybody. we have a lot to get to in the next hour, including two legal setbacks for donald trump. late today a federal appeals court ruled against his effort to withhold documents from the january 6 committee. the new york attorney general is seeking a deposition from trump early next month as part of her investigation into the trump organization. and we re going to get to beth of those stories shortly. but we begin the reidout tonight with something that s become abundantly clear. many the battle to save this american experiment with multiracial democracy, there is one party that is standing up for small d democracy, the government of the people by the people and for the people, a