Too early for us. And former aid to the george w. Bush white house, elise jordan and also katty kay on the way this morning. In the united states covid cases are on the rise again driven up in increases in places with low vaccination rates. And now the former surgeon general is suggesting the cdc should once again ask everyone to mask up indoors. Nbc news correspondent kathy park explains. Reporter: no signs of covid backing down. In los angeles county a 700% increase in positive cases in just the last month as masks go back on while indoors. I think better safe than sorry for sure. Reporter: former surgeon general on mask weighing, the premature guidance was wrong. The cdc should be advising to vax it and mask it. The current surgeon general defended the cdc s decision on masks for the fully vaccinated. They gave communities and individuals a flexibility to make decisions about what to do with masks. Reporter: across america, cases rising in all 50 states some hit harder than others.
Officer thomas webster who is facing several federal charges including assaulting police, unlawfully entering capitol ground with a dangerous weapon and civil disorder. You ll see webster in red carrying a flagpole and this video is disturbing. [ bleep ]! [ bleep ]! hey! hey! [ bleep ]! [ bleep ]! get over! [ bleep ]! no, no, no! stop! stop! okay, ron johnson and others, for months you guys accused the left of hysteria over claims that what happened on january 6 was dangerous. And that protesters weren t armed. Now more proof that the right continues to lie about what actually happened. Another one of their arguments is handicapped overnight. The justice department is charged a january 6 defendant, 48yearold guy wesley with bringing firearms to the capitol which our own scott mcfarland described as a tough break for the not an armed insurrection crowd. That s the late ers evidence emerged in the last 24 hours. In today s the washington post there s the case that the longstanding attemp
Less, trump s blog or trump s national security briefs. Trump s $10 trillion hot take wasn t posted on instagram or facebook, because he is banned from those platforms and will remain so until january of 2023, that s according to a new decision from facebook which revealed a new policy with heightened penalties for public figures during times of civil unrest and ongoing violence. Trump s twoyear facebook ban which began on january 7th due to trump s role in the events of january 6th is part of the new policy. Responding via statement, trump called the decision an insult while whining without any irony whatsoever that america can t take this abuse anymore. Two hours after the ban was announced, federal prosecutors announced they expect to charge 550 people in the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. Nbc news tallies 490 rioters charged so far and more than 130 charged with assaulting or interfering with police officers. 40 of whom are accused of using weapons. While the janu
rittenhouse had no valid self-defense claim. you cannot hide behind self-defense if you provoked the incident. if you created the danger, you forfeit the right to self-defense. the response from the defense was that there was reasonable concern of danger for rittenhouse. every person who was shot was attacking kyle, one with a skateboard, one with his hands, one with his feet, one with a gun. hands and feet can cause great bodily harm. cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is outside the courthouse in kenosha. shimon, first step narrowing the panel of 18 zwjurors to 12. how does that happen, and then what next? reporter: yeah. that s supposed to take place any moment now. we expect the jurors to arriving to come down from their room into the courtroom, all 18 of them, and then what we re told is the judge is going to use a tumbler, kind of what you see in a bingo, and he s going to spin it and pull out cards with perhaps numbers on them and that is ho
counts of contempt of congress and the department of justice issuing a release saying that those two counts stem from his failure to appear for a deposition and also his failure to produce documents for the house select committee. obviously, this has been a several week-long process. people around washington, around the country wondering what the department of justice would do. all along the attorney general has been saying that they would follow the facts and the law to possibly prosecute this case. i was inside the magistrate judge s courtroom this afternoon when two attorneys from the u.s. attorney s office here in washington presented that grand jury indictment to the magistrate judge. the foreperson of the jury was also in the courtroom. and the judge, the magistrate judge here said that she would also be signing an arrest warrant here. the release from the department of justice has said that an arraignment date has not yet been set, but this is significant. we know the