Scheme and Allen Weisselberg making it happen. This is a Pattern And Practice of the Trump Organization for numerous executives and employees over a decade and a half. So this is really serious stuff, much more expansive than i would have expected given whats been said over the last few days. Its real trouble for trump and his organization. The indictment, jennifer, repeatedly mentions other employees who also got benefits from the Trump Organization. Weisselberg was the only one charged. Do you think this is only going to get bigger . I think thats right. I still dont know whats going to happen, as i said, with kind of the other tentacles of the investigation as far as manipulating Asset Values for Bank Fraud and Tax Fraud and that side of things, the hush money payments, et cetera. As far as this particular scheme is concerned, the indictment was very careful to not only talk about weisselberg and his son, but to make clear that other people benefitted and other people were involved
enough day continues right now. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday, december 27th. i m kaitlan collins in with john avlon this morning. good morning. the extraordinarily contagious omicron variant is surging across the u.s. cases are likely to climb much higher. years into this pandemic, testing is still a major challenge. now with lines around the block at testing sites and shortages of at-home tests at drug stores. there is some promising news as dr. anthony fauci expects things will improve next month. testing much more extensively than we have. even in a situation where you have people who are vaccinated or boosted. we ve obviously got to do better. i think things will improve greatly as we get into john. that doesn t help us today and tomorrow. dr. fauci will join us here on new day in just a few minutes. as omicron cases are surging, health experts are waiting to see if hospitalizations will too. right now
he is ramping up his efforts to keep his white house records secret by asking the justices to step in. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the breaking news. the guilty verdicts in the trial of former police officer kim potter. we ll go to minneapolis tonight. potter has now been convicted on two counts of manslaughter in the shooting death of daunte wright. reporter: wolf, yes. when that guilty verdict was read, little emotion from the former brooklyn center police officer. after spending 26 years protecting and serving, she now will spend time behind bars. we the jury on the charge of manslaughter in the first degree find the defendant guilty. reporter: former brooklyn center police officer kimberly potter guilty on both counts of manslaughter tonight in minnesota. find the defendant guilty. reporter: potter said she meant to shoot her taser during a
authorized pill to treat the coronavirus, saying it dramatically reduces hospitalizations and deaths as omicron spreads. will the pills be available fast enough? also breaking, the january 6th committee is asking to talk to a top trump ally, republican representative jim jordan, demanding details about jordan s communications with the then-president. as democrats fume at joe manchin for tanking the president s bill, mitch mcconnell dangles a recruitment campaign. will it work? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking pandemic news. a promising new covid-19 treatment just authorized as the coronavirus omicron variant sweeps across the united states. cnn s amara walker is working the story for us. amara, we just heard the white house say this new pill by pfizer will dramatically reduce hospitalizations and deaths. reporter
from both kavanaugh and gorsuch that they respected precedent and that roe v. wade and casey were here to stay. and susan collins and lisa murkowski both were committed because of those statements that were made, but you still have to, then, get them to agree to do away with the filibuster as it relates to this specific law. this specific bill. and i just don t think that they will do that. so the next step is raising everyone s awareness about how diabolical this draft statement really is. because justice alito has every intention if this goes forward as drafted to do away with the right to abortion completely. it would be totally left up to the states. and all you have to do is look across this country, the states are made a majority of them are by men who make these decisions. and we basically have a situation where we will have government mandated pregnancies that women will have to endure, and it is something that we ve got to get our brains around because, in fact, it s