hotels, escorts and cars, instead of paying his taxes. how he's responding. plus, police revealing that the professor behind a deadly nevada college shooting had a target list, along with 150 rounds of ammunition. what former students are sharing about his history of what they call peculiar behavior. we're now hearing from north dakota senator kevin cramer after his son was charged in a police chase that ended with the death of a sheriff's deputy. and the new information on why police say a man fired a shotgun and yelled free palestine outside a synagogue in upstate new york with a day care inside, and the terrifying moment that is put a nearby hospital into lockdown. we begin with news that president biden's son is facing an expansive new indictment on tax charges. nbc's tom winter is following this story for us. we heard from hunter biden, rare today, he basically says this is political, aimed at his father. tell us about the details in this indictment, and what else you've learned. >> yeah, i think it's a couple of different things that came up in the course of this indictment that are potentially relevant for folks who have been following this or haven't been following this. we think back to the plea agreement that did not go down in july. we have talked about on a number of occasions. that was focused on failure to file. now prosecutors are going a step further, bringing in felony counts, going to the behavior that they allege involving hunter ben and his taxes. specifically some allegations about what he was spending personally in categorizing his business expenses, but what he was spending his on when he could have been ping his taxes, and these are some of the things they outlined, direct fromhe indictment, $1.6 million in atm withdrawal payments to women coming close to or over $680,000, talking about restaurants and groceries, $200,000, and then adult entertainment, approaching $200,000, and they say all of that could have been used over a four-year timetable to pay the u.s. government what they say, prosecutors say we are all as taxpayers are rightfully owned. that's kind of the sense of this indictment. it's not just that he didn't file on time, they allege. it's that during the course of this, he took specific steps to evade taxes, calling personal expenses business expenses, and that he could have been paying those taxes if he wasn't paying out of his pocket for personal expenses, the ones that i just laid out. >> tom winter, thank you for that. let's go to las vegas now where we're learning more about the former college professor who shot and killed three people at the university of nevada. we're also learning about his behavior which former students describe as peculiar. nbc's steve patterson is live from vegas. what else can you tell us, steve? >> reporter: anthony polito, according to students was an eccentric guy. this was somebody who was, according to students, obsessed with las vegas and the culture here, but also somewhat of a hermit, according to neighbors. we're learning more because police want us to know more. the sole focus of this investigation is trying to nail down a motive. despite all we know about this guy, police say they have not assigned a motive. that is what they're working on to try to figure out what the connection was between somebody that maybe was just upset at certain educators here at unlv to somebody that would commit a mass shooting at the campus of unlv. we know part of that instituted what amounts to a hit list that he had literally written down several names according to the sheriff of people he was targeting, that he sent letters across the country to certain educators. this was a guy that was trying to apply for, as a career professor, apply for jobs in certain campuses throughout the state of nevada was rejected from all of them, including here at unlv, and then committed the shooting. police are trying to make that link, if it does exist. but they want to make sure that they're saying they have not connected those dots at this point. meanwhile, we're learning more about the victims. we just heard the name of the third victim now identified as nako takamoro, she joins jerry chang, and melissa valez. there's a four victim in stable condition. we're hearing the president making a trip to vegas to promote a transportation project will also talk to the president of unlv in a consultation to the students and the body here who is reeling and very upset after this horrific shooting. >> called on to be consoler in chief. steve patterson, thank you for that. north dakota senator kevin kramer is sharing details of what happens the night his son was charged with manslaughter after a deadly police chase. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles joins us now. >> reporter: what we know for sure is this is a horrific and tragic situation in every sense of the word. what the senator's office is saying is that his son who's 42 years old and has a history of mental health problems was with his mother at the time, and was grieving the loss of his brother who had died a couple of years ago, and took off in his mother's car. they ended up calling the police to inform them of the fact that he was on the run in a high speed situation, and police went to respond to that. it ended up being a police chase which led to the death of a sheriff's deputy. as a result, senator kevin cramer's son has been charged with manslaughter. the senator's office expressing grief and sorrow for the family of the deputy killed in the incident and his family members, but they're also asking for a degree of remorse for their son. he has a history of mental health problems, has dealt with paranoia and hallucinations. he rushed back to north dakota to be with his family in the wake of all of this, but the sum total of this is that a sheriff's deputy has lost his life and the senator's son is facing a very difficult legal road ahead as a result of this tragic incident. chris. >> ryan nobles, thank you. now to the first court appearance today for the suspect in a shooting outside a synagogue in new york. albany, new york. police are now investigating it as a hate crime. nbc correspondent emilie ikeda joins us now. what happened in court today? >> reporter: as detailed in the court appearance, mufid alkhader, a 28-year-old man, ira fu born, facing one charge of using an unlawful firearm, and possession of a controlled substance. he told them he was impacted by the events happening in middle east. to recap, it happened yesterday afternoon in albany. as you can see on the screen. police say he fired two rounds from a shotgun into the air sending a wave of fear over the area. he was taken into custody a short time later. on the premise at the time were two dozen preschoolers. here's more from governor kathy hochul reacting. take a listen. >> thankfully at this time, no one was injured in this incident. but the fear that it has reeked and the fear and anxiety it has caused, i know a lot of people are feeling shaken right now. >> we need light in darkness. >> that second person you heard from was the rabbi of temple israel, which a few months ago face add bombthreat. this comes at a time when so many jewish communities on edge. you look at hateme data for new york at for instance, in november, hate crimes, across the board, i should note, were up 90% compared to the last year, and then there were nearly 25,000 online threats of violence against jewish communities since early october. and then you think about the timing of this really striking a chord. the shooting happening just before the first night of hanukkah. >> emilie ikeda, sobering statistics, thank you. upenn's president is respond to go backlash over her testimony on campus. anti-semitism, is it enough to keep her job? 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(avo) this holiday turn any samsung phone, in any condition, into a galaxy s23+ on us. and now add netflix and max to your plan for just $10 a month. only on verizon. today some big jobs and some big money are on the line as the controversy continues to build over how college presidents handled protests related to the israel-hamas war. that pressure amping up on the presidents of the university of pennsylvania, harvard and m.i.t. after they refused to say before congress that calling for the genocide of jews would violate codes of conduct. the video went viral, racking up tens of millions of views. penn's board of trustees spent much of yesterday on an emergency conference call with president liz magill who posted a video in the fight to save her job. >> the call for genocide of jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. it's evil. plain and simple. >> nbc's george solis is on the ground at u penn for us. walk us through the latest on the threat to magill's job, but also what you're hearing there from folks on the ground? >> reporter: i can tell you a few days have passed have not made it any easier. still calls on liz magill to resign, and other presidents. we can play a little bit of some of that sound from some of the protesters outside of her office yesterday, but really what you're seeing is just a lot of backlash and anger. as you mentioned, there is some big money involved here from alum, and a major donor threatening to pull $100 million here from the wharton school of business, saying quote, absent a change of leadership and values in penn in the very near future i plan to rescind to prevent any further reputational and other damage. no official response from penn. as you were hearing a second ago, there have been protests on campus outside of the president's office calling for her resignation. >> i think that she should take responsibility for her own words. i think that in the past two months, she hasn't been leading by a good example. >> she should take responsibility. silence, and not being active and proactive triggers more violence, so this is something that definitely she needs to change. >> reporter: that pressure certainly mounting. i've talked to students on campus. they say the university is sending a flood of e-mails. a lot of students are in the midst of finals. they haven't seen anything addressing, besides the video, of some of her comments and the grilling on capitol hill. many wondering how this will play out in the next couple of days if not weeks. >> as we mentioned, m.i.t. is another school at the center of the turnovers. avi balsam is a student there, vice president of the student board, and on campus jewish organization. thank you so much for being with us. i want to play some of what the president of m.i.t. said during this week's congressional hearing. here it is. does calling for the genocide of jews, violate -- >> if targeted individuals not making public statement sgls yes or no? >> calling for the genocide of jews does not constitute bullying and harassment? >> i have not heard calling for the genocide of jews on our campus. >> you've heard chant. >> i wonder what the conversations have been like since then with your organization, friends on campus. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> thank you for having me here. obviously hearing that, all the jewish students at m.i.t. were quite disappointed by the fact that the president refused to condemn calls for genocide of jews on m.i.t.'s campus, and a part of me was shocked, but a part of me wasn't surprised because this didn't happen in a vacuum, and for the past while, m.i.t. has been dealing with this issue, the issue of anti-semitism, the issue of calls for genocide, calls for an intifada in a passive way, and they refuse to take direct action against anti-semitism on campus. a lot of students were not surprised by the fact that m.i.t.'s president refused to condemn calls for genocide of the jews. >> there are real security concerns, following the start of the war. i wonder, what is it like to be a jewish student on campus right now? >> it's hard. it's very hard. and there's this social movement which is kind of springing up on campus in which a lot of people are subscribing to not knowing the extent to which it dehumanizes jews and makes us feel unsafe. that kind of social pressure, that social alienation that we feel from some members of the community has led to real acts of anti-semitism on campus. just yesterday, sorry, two days ago, a couple of friends and i were sitting in the hill out building, the building in which jews go to find a safe space and to be in a place where jews are supposed to feel welcome, and a man came outside to the window of the building and he urinated on the window right in front of all of us with no shame, no care for the fact that we, i mean, obviously it was a hate crime, it was to offend us. it was to hurt us. and one of my friends went outside to confront him. he talked to him, and the man started saying he was from the mosad, asking him if he had nuclear weapons and verbally harassing him to the point where my friend felt compelled to go back inside. he didn't feel safe around the man, and we called the police, and we did whatever we could, but it was just extremely unsettling to see that happen on a college campus in 2023, and i just kind of want to emphasize that it's not just an isolated incident. this has been happening. this is the climate on campus. this is how jews feel, and the presidents of m.i.t. and of penn and harvard really need to take action to stop this. >> so it's important, first of all, for all of us to say that's appalling, unacceptable and potentially seems to me illegal behavior. what is the campus -- what are police not doing that you think could be done? you have a right to go to college and feel safe. >> yeah, i think it's above the level of just police. because there's just the physical safety of jewish students, which is important, but there's also our ability to feel psychologically and emotionally a part of the campus community and accepted and belonging. a sense of belonging and inclusivity. that's what's been missing in a lot of the legal and discussions about free speech, and the discussions about the nature of the constitution and the u.s. constitution and the laws. i think what's been lost is the fact that jewish students at m.i.t. are traumatized because of the incidents of anti-semitism, because of the social groups, study groups that have turned on them, expelled them, and made them feel unwelcome. i think that's a very important thing to think about, and i think that you can lose in a congressional hearing where the presidents are trying to discuss the legal implications of anti-semitism, the legal implications of free speech, and balance those two things. i think there's a third factor which has to be balanced, which is the safety of students, the psychological well being of jewish students on campus. >> avi balsam, well said. thank you so much for coming on the program. we really do appreciate it. and we have breaking news just in involving a gag order in former president trump's 2020 election interference case. i want to bring in nbc news justice and intel correspondent, ken dilanian. what just happened, ken? >> chris, a d.c. court of appeals has upheld significant portions of this gag order that mr. trump had opposed on first amendment grounds in the d.c. election suppression case. this is a significant ruling. 60 some pages. they went into detail in their reasoning. essentially what they said is parties in the case, and specifically donald trump cannot make public comments about known or foreseeable witnesses in the case, about court staff, except for the judge herself. they have exempted her, and he exempted herself from the original ruling if you'll recall. also staff of the prosecutor and the special counsel except for jack smith himself, and it does not preclude former president trump from criticizing obviously the biden administration, the justice department, the attorney general, or jack smith himself. but these judges, and remember we ran these oral arguments live on msnbc, and they were fascinating and they were lengthy, and there was a real push and pull about whether donald trump's first amendment rights as a presidential candidate were impinged by this gag order, and the other side, the special counsel presented all of the evidence of the threats that have emanated from some of donald trump's social media postings, and the potential witness intimidation. at the end of the day, this court said that they do not allow such an order lightly. i'm reading from the conclusion of the opinion. mr. trump is a former president and current candidate for the presidency, and there's a strong public interest in what he has to say. but they go on to say, mr. trump is also an indicted criminal defendant, and he must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures that govern all other criminal defendants. that is what the rule of law means. so, again, this appeals court upholding significant portions of the gag order imposed by the judge in this d.c. suppression case. we can expect mr. trump to appeal this to the supreme court. unclear how long that might take. this is a significant ruling today. chris. >> and we might expect to hear from him as well on social media, if nothing else. ken, thank you for that breaking news. today, powerful victim statements in michigan, can the oxford school shooter who was 15 at the time of the killings avoid life in prison? 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