Former president trump s inaugural committee chair tom barrett in federal custody today come a sevencount indictment of acting and conspiring as agent of the united arab emirates without registering into the second year of the trump presidency. He was also charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the fbi, but first, our top story, the coronavirus. Joining us now nbc s gabe gutierrez in manhattan and stephanie gosk covering the olympics in tokyo. Gabe, you ve seen the worst of this down south in the southern states for a good part of the year and across the country, as well. Now there are local leaders from all parts of the nation including there in new york city taking action to stop the latest spike. Reporter: yeah. That s right, andrea. Mayor bill de blasio in new york city announced that all employees at cityrun hospitals like the one behind me, bellevue, will be required to be vaccinated or they ll have to submit a weekly covid test that goes into effect a
voting restrictions that are saying those ballots need to be rejected. half the ballots are being put away. in wisconsin, they are moving aggressively to restrict all sorts of voters. wisconsin can remove its drop boxes that people used to drop off the ballots for the election. the next election is less than a month from now. they are rushing to rip out the drop boxes and make it harder for people to vote. people found it very safe to vote that way, but as of the next election it must be stopped. today in washington d.c., conservative senator joe manchin appeared before reporters, wearing sort of a gym suit or tunic, they are charged by his appearance in this next clip, but he was wearing the sporty outfits and he told reporters, scornfully, that he and sinema are working with republicans to block federal voting rights restrictions that will not hinder people from voting in the next election. that won t happen because the government won t allow it. i know you don t know wha
reportedly spoke with trump on the morning of january 6th, about options to delay the certification of the 2020 election results. the panel says that he also reportedly attended meetings at the willard hotel, where trump allies reportedly led a war room. on efforts to overturn joe biden s win. now in case you have forgotten the baseless fraud allegations and conspiracy theories that the trump legal team put forward. as they try to keep biden from the presidency, here s a little reminder. there was a plan. from a centralized place, to execute these various acts of voter fraud. specifically focused on big cities. and specifically focused on, as you would imagine, big cities controlled by democrats. there are other aspects of this fraud, that at this point, i really cannot reveal. they conducted themselves in a way that suggests there was fraud. one of the things that does involve fraud, is not making it a possible for the people who are supposed to inspect, to inspect. that
have not yet gotten it. just the other day former president trump announced he got his booster shot. maybe one of the few things he and i agree on. tonight, we are learning about an exciting new development that may help point the way, to a post pandemic reality. defense one reports that scientists at the walter reed army institute of research, expect to announce in a few weeks, that they have developed, a single shot vaccine, that pretext against covid-19, in all of its variants, including omicron. even, so the cdc is forecasting a grim scenario for the coming. weeks of washington post of the agency today predicted a massive wave of omicron cases, by next month. when the new covid cases now well over 140,000 daily, federal officials are now focusing on moving as quickly as possible to turn things around. we have a lot of disease out there now. what we are working right now to do is to decrease the amount of severe disease, and death. if we can decrease the amount of ca
i think the most reasonable people, even those who believe that that was the correct legal, finding in that case. understand the key facts of what kyle rittenhouse did, in kenosha wisconsin last august. what s brought him to that moment. he was a minor. 17 years old at the time of the shooting. he took in a legally acquired semiautomatic rifle to another city, that he did not live in, and inserted himself in the midst of protests and chaos. and he then took the lives of two people. including robbing a young child of her father. his actions are not worthy of celebration, independent of that verdict. and yet kyle rittenhouse is being turned into a right-wing hero. you should see the moment that tucker carlson, was lucky enough to meet him. oh kyle rittenhouse. it s so nice to meet you. i can t believe you re here. where fans of yours as you know. you ll have to excuse tucker. he gets giddy in the presence of his heroes. we re big fans of you as you know. think about that se