Trump organization. This grand jury is not solely dedicated to the trump investigation. This does, though, suggest this is a new development in this investigation that s been going on for some time and that the d. A. s office believes it may have some evidence that a crime was committed wha. What crimes could they be looking for? reporter: this investigation has been so wideranging. They re looking into everything from potential tax fraud, whether the trump organization mislead lenders, whether they committed insurance fraud. They re looking at certain properties and the tax treatment they have taken on those, including this family estate known as seven springs. They re also looking into hush money payments made to stormy daniels, the adult firm star who alleged he had an affair with the president, something he denied, but something michael cohen went to jail for. Cohen, of course, is cooperating with the district attorney s investigation. A wide range of topics they re investigating
offered a ride on air force one? let s go out front. a major blow for trump. trump tonight lashing out of the supreme court after justices said the former president must turn over his tax returns to manhattan prosecutors. help has hidden his taxes for years, and trump issuing a statement packed with lies and grievances that i wonlt repeat but he concludes with a slam of the supreme court, saying, the supreme court never should have left this phishing expedition happen but they did. look, the former president is nervous. he is angry at a supreme court that he put all the justices on. but there is reason. right now, we know few details of what the attorney is investigating. his only response today, a tweet, the work continues. and it is good he is silent. he should be until mes had something to say. and when americas see what they need to see. what he is refusing to do show his taxes. trump kept saying one thing about his taxes and doing another. maybe i m going to do the tax
this morning s first congressional hearing on the capitol insurrection, key testimony from officials who have not spoken publicly until now. but first, our conversation with dr. anthony fauci this morning. we began by talking about the incredible loss of life from the pandemic. as you look back over this year, have you concluded that it was our political positions and political division that led to this death toll? i certainly think that that s part of it. it was very complicated situation. and one we re dealing with a very formidable virus to begin with. so anything that s not at its top peak in addressing it in the most appropriate way is going to lead to the kinds of things, the experience. so i have said i believe it s the case when you have a common enemy, you ve got to pull together in the same way. it s like people on a crew team rowing in the same direction. you can t have disparate responses. and unfortunately, there s a lot of good about the differences in state
expected to green light a new-coronavirus vaccine. a panel, strongly, endorsed the johnson & johnson version, last night. paving the way for final approval, this weekend. the j&j shot will be the first to require just one dose. meantime, in orlando, giving you a live look right now at cpac. oh, there we see mike pompeo. in just about 24 hours, you will be seeing donald trump who is set to make his first-public appearance since leaving the white house. we are going to expand on those headlines now with nbc reporters in the nation s capitol, wilmington, delaware, as well as orlando, florida. shannon pettypiece, in delaware. shannon, welcome to you. so what s the message president biden is sending to capitol hill, as the covid-relief bill moves there you the senate? well, he is looking to keep the pressure on congress to get the bill over the finish line. there is definitely no spiking of the football, yet. they have still got to get this passed in the senate. there is a lot
2021 has, for many people, been a long and difficult year. a year of change and uncertainty. and worry about lives and livelihoods and jobs and prospects. and early hopes of a return to something more normal have been replaced by a realisation that covid will be around for much longer than we first thought. its impact on how we live and how we work has been far more significant than feared. our social lives, shopping habits and our travel plans all changed by this pandemic. and now, we are learning to live with this virus, but learning to live with its consequences will be harder the lostjobs and the rising prices, and a big covid bill still to pay. getting back to where we were will take time but the question is, just how long will it take? since the pandemic began last year, the whole uk. the start of 2021 was not a happy new year. but we now have a new variant of the virus. we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. that