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as early as this week. secretary of state blinken is meeting virtually with members of the european union right now as the united states is trying to coordinate its next move with our overseas allies. while all of that is going on, the administration is not taking any chances with the americans still inside ukraine ordering diplomats families to start leaving the embassy and giving the diplomats themselves the green light to come home. let s discuss and bring in nbc s josh letterman covering the white house, matt bradley inside ukraine, matt boughner covering the russian side and joe rubin, former assistant u.s. secretary of state. how close are we to sending real troops to eastern europe? closer than we were a few days ago, stephanie. president biden hovering over the weekend with his national security team. he was briefed via secure video conference by lloyd austin about potential options to shore up u.s. military resources in the region, including, according to ou ....
appearing in court to face the most serious charges yet in the insurrection investigation. ed lavandera joins us. what happened? reporter: stewart rhodes saying he s not guilty. federal prosecutors laying out a 48-page indictment where they accuse him of forcefully plotting to stop the peaceful transition of presidential power. he faces five different charges, including seditious criminal conspiracy. saying he text messaged and organized a plot to bring weaponry into the d.c. area. sa saying we will have to do a massively bloody revolution against them. that s what is going to have to happen. also going on to say, we aren t going through this without a civil war. prepare your body, mind, and spirit. prosecutors say rhodes and his count counterparts had weapons stashed in a hotel room in northern virginia. but his attorneys say this is being overblown. they were quite fixated that trump would activate them. but they left that in virginia. if they were going to do thi ....
with covid. as for adults, hospitalizations are nearing the peaks we saw in september. the spike is in undating medical staff overwhelmed for months. now health officials fear that it will show up at new year s celebrations. tom foreman has the latest on how omicron is derailing holiday plans and travel and much more. reporter: the crowd in times square will be held to about a quarter of the usual. masks and proof of vaccination required. latest surge has new york city once again an epicenter of the pandemic. with statewide cases up more than 80% since monday. and the man who becomes mayor tomorrow is vowing to shut the surge down and keep the town open. we must learn to live with covid, adjust and pivot at the right times and we re doing that in new york and i m extremely optimistic on how the city is going to respond. clearly new york and washington, d.c. are ahead of the curve. but not by much. and so expect that in the next three to four weeks we ll see everyo ....
for the james webb space telescope as it starts to unfold its tennis court sized sunshield. a woman who gave key evidence in the trial of ghislaine maxwell has spoken publicly today saying she hopes the guilty verdict will bring some solace to other survivors. annie farmer the only witness to use her real name during testimony said the case demonstrated that no one was above the law. maxwell was found guilty yesterday by a jury in new york of grooming underage girls to be abused by her friend jeffrey epstein. her lawyers say they will appeal against the verdict. this report by our correspondent, aleem maqbool, contains some flashing images. good morning america. guilty. good morning guilty, i a long awaited verdict. the downfall of the british formersocialite, now a convicted sex trafficker, has been headline news here. and one of the four women brave enough to testify to put her behind bars, who was abused as a teenager, has been giving her reaction. ....
expect some trans-atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? never. all the armies of europe, asia and transfer infantry can a combined with all the fresh of their earth in their military chest with a bone apart for a commander could not by force drink from the ohio or make a track on the blue ridge in a trial of a thousand years. if danger ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. it cannot come from abroad. if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be our author and finisher. as a nature of free men we must live through all time or die by suicide. he was just 28 years old when he said this. all things the great emancipator saw the truth, death by suicide was the catastrophe facing the republic then and it is sadly the same today. the enemies of the american way seek to stoke our divisions, schisms and sicknesses in pursuit of their own agenda. they use all the tools at their disposal, money, manipulation, and even open propaganda to weaken ....