variant as they are to older strains. this, as hospitals, schools, transportation networks, and other institutions are scrambling to cope with all of it. a lot to talk about tonight. cnn s tom foreman starts us off. reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up. on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. they are unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are going to see is once children go b
indictment of donald trump on thursday donald trump became the first former commander in chief in history to face a criminal indictment. that s after a grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president as part of manhattan district attorney s alvin bragg s investigation into a hush money payment made into adult film star stormy daniels back in 2016 now that indictment is currently sealed, and that means we and a whole lot of people do not know the specific charges or charge that have been levied against donald trump we do know bragg has been focused on a felony charge of falsifying business records which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years donald trump denies any wrongdoing, denies having an affair with stormy daniels, and he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law that trial has not yet occurred. bragg s investigation is one of many against the ex-president. back in 2018 cohen, trump s former lawyer and fixer, was ntenced t
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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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potential payment to kathleen mcdougal before it took place. so that is obviously at odds with the president saying that he learned about it later. still lots of questions here, lots of unresolved issues, and the white house, a stressful day at the lectern for sarah sanders, i think, given the number of questions which she really did not have anything that she could go to beyond the prepared statement of he has done nothing wrong, there are no charges against him. kelly, thanks very much for that. kelly o donnell at the white house. michael cohen s guilty plea sheds light on the timeline of hush money payments made to women who president trump is accused of having affairs with before the campaign. this isn t the salacious gossip it once was, this is part of a pattern of trump. according to the new yorker, playboy model karen mcdougal signed a nondisclosure agreement with american media incorporated, the paren
Get him. he believes he s being attacked and he believes the democrats in this case he says are the ones trying to get to his supporters, he s just standing in the way. if you talk to his supporters down here, ali, donald trump can do no wrong, and they ll be lined up as he goes past them on tuesday, thousands of them will likely be lined up on the bridge that connects west palm beach to palm beach and he ll likely make some sort of show whether a wave or something more than that as he moves past them vaughn is sticking with me. we re going to bring in charles coleman, a former brooklyn prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. thanks to all of you for being here i want to go back to after donald trump did put this post out he was going to be arrested this past tuesday and that didn t come to pass, that all sorts of things had happened there were pictures of donald trump that he reposted on truth social and took down of him with a baseball bat and alvin bragg,