donald trump s tax and financial documents, something that former president trump had tried hard to prevent. i m hallie jackson in washington. joined by nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, paul rosen swag senior fellow at r street, melissa murray is a constitutional law professor at nyu and former law clerk to sonia sotomayor. pete, let me start with you and this new order from the supreme court. what does it mean? it s a one-line order and means it s the end of the road for the president s years long battle to keep his tax returns away from congress or have cyrus vance the new york prosecutor who has a grand jury looking at president trump s personal and corporate finances. you may remember the president initially fought this in round one by saying as sitting president he was immune from any part of the criminal justice system including grand jury subpoenas. the supreme court rejected that argument and, by the way, the trump justices also reject that had argumen
live as soon as it begins. at the very same time we are keeping a close eye on what s happening down in texas. the deep freeze there is over but you have still got 8 million people without power, people lining up to get food and that s not all their problems. some texans are now getting hit with massive electric bills. this woman s monthly bill was over $6,000. i ll explain why that is happening in just a minute. and finally, a new and terrible milestone, the number of covid deaths in the united states of america has now surpassed half a million. a figure equivalent to the total population of kansas city, or miami, florida. the president and first lady will hold a ceremony this evening to honor and remember those who lost their lives. but there is good covid news out there. coronavirus numbers keep coming down across the nation, new cases have fallen, more than 40% over the last two weeks, hospitalizations and deaths are down at least 30%. i want to start this very busy w
and republicans think less talk about trump is the path to more midterm election wins. we begin, though, with the coronavirus and what to many is a moment of frustrated covid confusion. the exploding case count is staggering and it is disruptive. yet the numbers also show hospitalizations and deaths are not climbing at the same rate of cases, proving omicron, for the most part, causes less severe illness. you can see that right here. this chart right here from dr. fauci, the yellow is omicron. smaller percentages of people admitted to the hospital, lower percentages of people who need oxygen, lower percentages of severe cases, lower percentages of death. the yellow is omicron. it is lower than delta or beta. get boosted, wear a masks indoors. while that advice is clear and it is constant, there is confusion for changed cdc guidance for those who do get infected. the isolation period is now cut to five days. they said, if you want to take a test after those five days, fine.
its power not by making its own products better but by making others worse. secretary of state blinken meeting with arab leaders in cairo, calling for an immediate cease-fire and hostage release before he heads to israel tomorrow and a possible showdown with prime minister netanyahu over his plans to invade rafah and his failure to grant more access to food for starving civilians in gaza. former president trump with four days to pay a nearly half billion dollar bond, or else some of his properties could be seized and sold. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. moments ago, the u.s. attorney announcing the department of justice is taking on one of the world s biggest tech companies. garland says the doj is suing apple for antitrust violations, alleging the tech giants is blocking its rivals from accessing critical hardware and software features within the widely popular phone. in effect, illegally maintaining its dominance of the market. apple has main
de oliveira. carlos de oliveira was added as a defendant in the case today in a superseding indictment which added nine new criminal charges, some of which apply only to one of the individual defendants, some of light all of them, and they re all now accused of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice directed by donald trump. the new defendant, carlos de oliveira, is a trump employee working in maintenance and on trump s florida residents. the three person conspiracy described in the superseding indictment tried to recruit a fourth person to the conspiracy. they failed. and because they failed, we now know what really happened in donald trump s criminal conspiracy to possess and conceal classified government documents. on page 38 of today s superseding indictment, the purpose of the conspiracy is described. quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was for trump to keep classified documents he had taken with him from the white house and to hide and conceal them from a fe