How typical this set of charges is. A practical legal matter he could face over a decade in prison and if convicted those are numbers that could get anyones attention. Trumps children are speaking out about the indictment. Donald Trump Jr. Posted a 13minute Video on facebook discussing of the intent, tried to defend the company where he works and his family business. Some of what he said may have made matters worse. My father after almost 50 years of employment paid for his Grand Kids Private School in the city and their employees. My dad did that because hes a good guy. Well, that may not be helpful. Hes linking his father and hes providing a testimony and admitting it was trump who personally paid for weisselbergs kids. Now, for school i should say. I want to be clear with you, as a logical matter, there is no defense to Tax Evasion that you did it to help someone. By definition if you evade taxes, extra money, if you give that money to someone else or give it to charity, for example
biden returned to the white house with one item at the top of his list getting his covid relief bill through congress. it s urgent that we get a lot of the current relief will expire the middle of march. the american people want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. it is popular. it is what justice demands. here in texas, residents are experiencing some of the worst winter weather of their lives. i m not going to sugar coat it. the next few days are going to be very tough. we did not make it through almost a year of a pandemic to lose people to a snow or an ice storm. announcer: this is new day with alliisyn camerota and john berman. look at that video of what people are experiencing through much of the country. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. president joe bide listen take part in the first presidential town hall tonight with cnn live from milwaukee. the president will make his case directly to the american peopl
stage tonight. even as we do see some good news, jim, some good news in this fight against the pandemic. yeah, it s significant. the u.s. reported fewer than 53,000 new infections on monday. that s about a quarter of where it was at the peak. and the country s lowest mark since last october. the timing of tonight s town hall comes just days after the end of former president donald trump s second impeachment trial. but the fallout of the deadly insurrection on january 6th still hangs over washington. the house speaker announced a 9/11-style investigation will begin even as the divide within the gop deepens. the north carolina gop has censured senator burr over his decision to convict president trump. jeff zeleny is in milwaukee. do we know what the president s message will be tonight? well, jim, good morning. no question president biden, as he wraps up the first month of his presidency, suddenly has the spotlight all to himself. and he is going to be talking, selling to th
new president, joe biden, is trying to turn the focus away from the former president and on to his agenda. especially his efforts to tackle the health and economic crises brought on by the pandemic. president biden is meeting with voters today during his first trip as president. he s headed to wisconsin where he s taking part in his first presidential town hall in milwaukee hosted by cnn and it begins tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. we ll have much more on the town hall and more in a moment. but first the new lawsuit and the legal troubles now for donald trump. joining me now is jessica schneider. what is the congressman and the naacp accusing the president of here? reporter: they re accusing him and rudy giuliani of conspiracy. they re suing the former president along with rudy giuliani, accusing them of conspiring with far right groups to incite this insurrection at the u.s. capitol and this lawsuit really traces trump s words and actions in the months leading up to the ins
students may be on vacation today, but mounting confusion and frustration from parents and teachers isn t taking a day off. after the cdc rolled out its new guidelines for reopening schools friday, which focused on five strategies for in-person learning, including universal mask wearing, physical distancing, hand washing, cleaning and contact tracing. but the cdc also recommended full in-person learning only in places where levels of community transmission are low. the problem, according to a cnn analysis of federal data, almost 90% of american children attend schools in high community spread areas, located in so-called red zones. as that transmission comes d down, we ll be able to relax some of these measures. the issue has become a political land mine for the biden administration, try ing t get kids back into classrooms while also appeasing teachers unions and parents in hard-hit areas, many of which have demanded vaccinations and other measures before going back to i