frontier announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone back to school jitters were never quite like this this morning the yellow buses lined up and school bells rang for a million children in the nation s largest school system, many walking inside a physical classroom for the first time in a very long time their first lesson, as it has been for kids across the country, science. understanding how to safely resume learning against the persistent backdrop of covid. tonight with over 243,000 child covid-19 cases reported last week, the second highest number since the pandemic began, there is growing impatience for vaccine approval for younger children tonight we ask when. and the answer is encouraging. also, a new study questions the need for booster shots. the covid battle being waged on new fronts this evening we begin with stephanie gosk in new york reporter: with excitement and some fanfare, new york city kicked off a new school year. des
i was already ready for a fun show but you were super charged. a few minutes ago i was listening to you and dan goldman have a conversation when you uttered the words, the my pillow guy s soliloquy, words i never thought i would hear in my life. i m deeply appreciative for you kicking it off for us. have yourself a great game and we ll talk about the bucs on monday. i will do, ali. thank you very much, my friend. thanks, friend. all right. well, tonight it is a tale of two parties. one is governing and the other it is not clear what the other party is doing. republicans are destroying themselves from the inside, consumed with feuds over how loyal they can be to a former president who incited an insurrection. and fighting over what actions to not take about the dangerous conspiracy-spewing congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. meanwhile, democrats want to pass laws and help americans who are hurting from the pandemic. today joe biden made it clear he will pass his co
news, the president is speaking out about trump s behavior, whether he should get intelligence briefings, whether he would vote to impeach if he were still in the senate. i ran like hell to defeat him because i thought he was unfit to be president. i watched what everybody else watched, what happened when that crew invaded the united states congress. but i m not in the senate now, i will let the senate make that decision. should former president trump still receive intelligence briefings? i think not. why not? because of his erratic related to the insurrection. what is your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings? i would rather not speculate out loud. i just think that there is no need for him to have that intelligence briefing. what value is giving him an intelligence briefing? what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something? tonight the latest reporting from the new york times says trump s defense
big deal. sorry we re not sharing the screen more today. i want your thoughts before we pick it up. fantastic, elie is pulling outlookers now because merrick garland has done his job and i hope this is the beginning of more prosecutions like that. if you try to take over the country, you should be held accountable. i agree. i ll pick it up from here now. good evening to everyone at home. i m tiffany cross in for joy reid tonight and we begin with the contempt of congress in a major breaking story late today a federal grand jury handed down criminal charges against steven k. bannon, the long time trump confident under investigation for his involvement in january 6th. nbc news reports the 67-year-old is expected to surrenderer to law enforcement of monday and set to appear in court that afternoon. you guys remember last month bannon willfully defied a subpoena from the select committee for douments and testify refusing to show up on the day of his scheduled deposition and h
accusing bannon for not producing documents and not appearing for a deposition. this indictment is a first of its kind. no one has ever been prosecuted for contempt of congress after exerting executive privilege. attorney general garland s justice department sending the clearest signal yet they will uphold congress s subpoena power, and it is not afraid to punish those who defy the orders. it is a major escalation, frankly, a necessary escalation, and a huge win against the maga terrorism attack of january 6th and the january 6th probe. the question is, what is bannon hiding? why doesn t he come in and talk? he was at the willard hotel insurrection headquarters on january 5th with rudy guiliani, bernard kerik and john eastman, the author of the now infamous manual for a coup. there was bannon on his podcast the day before the attempted coup. all hell is going to break louis tomorrow. just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it is going to be moving.