to denying all accusations against her. at its core, it is a sexual assault case and that s driven by the victim witnesses who get up on the stand, point at the defendant and say that s the person that did this to me. so ultimately, credibility is everything. reporter: the verdict could come before the christmas holiday, the same day as maxwell s 60th birthday. still ahead the check-in with the nation s doctor. surgeon general vie vehicle murthy is our guest to whether the united states has a plan to weather another covid winter, but even as new cases overtake the previous delta surge, many americans still plan to head home for the holidays. how airlines are handling what s shaping up to be the busiest travel week in two years. also ahead, nbc s garrett haake joins us with the latest
evolves. wow, some really important information in that piece that we are going to review. president biden is facing the collapse of the major portion of his legislative agenda, at the hands of joe manchin. garrett haake has the latest. reporter: president biden facing a duo nightmare before christmas, a new covid surge ripping the country and his domestic agenda derailed by democrats. he won t back the president s climate bill. manchin said the bill spends too much money too freely, including on a paid family program he
it s just a side show. jane, thank you for staying on top of it. do appreciate it. i want to read you this alarming new statement from democratic senator dick durbin. he said, quote, america was only a half step away from a full blown constitutional crisis. that is what the senator says he took away from the latest report on the 2020 election. it was released just this morning. it s a 394-page report, and it gives some new details on just how former president donald trump pressured the justice department to pursue unfounded reports of election fraud. nbc s garrett haake is on the hill following this part of the story. garrett, walk us through these new revelations from this report. what more do we know about what happened? this report from the senate judiciary committee focuses fairly narrowly on the
really alarmed by what they learned. here s richard blumenthal, the senator from connecticut i spoke to about this this morning describing what he took away from the report. this moment was spine tinglingly chillingly close to betraying the constitution because donald trump tried to subvert, corrupt the constitution and the department. reporter: this an interim report from the committee. we expect to learn more as they continue their investigation and already some lawmakers on the committee are talking about how to take the largely unwritten inform rules and formalize them in a way that no future president can lead on the department of justice officials in an election again. garrett haake, thank you. up next, nearly $137 million is what a jury says tesla must pay a former worker who claimed
the west side of the capitol saturday to support those arrested after the january 6th insurrection. nbc s garrett haake is on capitol hill. this time they say they re ready. they re not going to get it wrong. you have a new capitol police chief tom major and they have the national guard in standby mode. reporter: yeah. that s right, andrea. a lot of preparations being made for this rally which is expected to be much smaller. some of the preparations pretty obvious like the fence behind me that has gone up over the last couple of days surrounding the capitol and surrounding the supreme court. some of the preparations lesson obvious, they ve been hearing the online chatter seem to suggest that some of the people otherwise would be attending are scared away that is a honey pot operation that ends with detainees in handcuffs. d.c. police asked for them to be on a worst-case scenario ready standby. we now know from the pentagon,