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capitol hill fueled following a contentious phone call between scott member congresswoman ilhan omar and congresswoman laura. lawmakers demanding public apologies, plus, how employers could be using your stock to monitor your every move. we begin tonight with a cause for concern not for panic we are told kevin corke tracking the biden administration s response to the spread of the omicron variant. good evening. for skeptics, let s be honest, news about the new variant is another ploy by the white house to get people to take the shot despite the fact that by most accounts it s not as serious as it first appeared. the skeptics might say that, but for those of you unwilling to take a risk, any risk when it comes to covid-19, newsome and the new variant is precisely the sort of thing that can cause great anxiety dad s by the way something today president biden said he does not want to see. the variant s cause for concern but not of cause for panic. we are going fight th ....
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 ....
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 ....
the growing use of puberty blockers, cross section hormones and permanent surgeries for minors who want to change their sexual identity. bill: senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on the hill. this is a public policy issue to republicans and why they are having a hearing today and they also want to address this in the spending bills. we shouldn t be spending money for puberty blockers and transgender surgery and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. they say they re rare for people under 18. medicare only offers gender affirming care on a case-by-case basis. democrats say it is another battleground in the culture wars. the republicans have chosen to try and jam their extreme right wing thoughts down the throats of the american people and take us toward a nationwide ban on abortion care, bully the transgender community. republicans want to curb what they believe are left wing policies. democrats also believe this is a gop distraction. th ....
and that the claim that nato posed a threat was a beautiful story. the wagner leader goes on to say that the war has been a disaster, needlessly sacrificing tens of thousands of lives so that russian oligarchs could get even richer by seizing ukraine s resources. prigozhin announced what he called a march forjustice, saying anyone who stood in his way would be eliminated. but he says this is not a coup. translation: they have been shooting at us, we have been shooting at us, we have been shooting at us, we have been shooting at them and that has been going on these eight long years. from 2014 to 2022. sometimes the amount of shelling and exchange of fire has increased and sometimes it has increased and sometimes it has eased. 0n has increased and sometimes it has eased. on february 24 there was nothing extraordinary. now the russian defence ministry is trying to deceive the president and the public by claiming there was insane aggression on there was insane aggression on th ....