the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they re telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge s jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to spea
white house events in their states but most would prefer that president not come and do political events for them. this is not the only stop that president is going to be making before the midterms. you talked about what else he s going to do this week, the prime time speech, but even in the next few days, we have a map on screen, we know that the president is going to be stepping up his road game, if you will. yeah. hallie, we ve been talking about that promise the uptick in his travel and starting to see it. the president today making his 12th trip to pennsylvania. it s the state he s visited most other than delaware, of course, since becoming president. he spend a lot of time at home there. but this is the state that made him president. it was the last one that put him over 270 electoral votes. this is going to be following his 12th visit by the 13th visit on thursday in philadelphia. the 14th visit next monday labor day in pittsburgh a favorite place for this president and we a
those conditions. the key to victory, the gop s belief, is by turning out people, like the people who are listening to the president. if they can turn out the rural base, if they can turn out these areas that are outside of clark county, where arlette saenz was, then the gop says, the numbers are in their favor. in the midterms historically, democratic turnout has dropped. so the republicans are feeling bullish about the president coming here. this is his 12th visit to nevada. underscoring all of the support that the president has for the senator. dean heller flew to phoenix last night, according to his team, flew with the president, here to this rally, where the two men will be standing side by side, saying that they are part of the agenda moving forward, to 2020. the republicans here feeling very positive about this crowd that they have out here. they believe this is the path to victory. so could you get a handle as
find new roads at your local chevy dealer. we re talking with senator chris coons. stand bit. there s another development unfolding right now. experts say north korea s latest missile launch is its most successful test yet, and kim jong-un s regime warns its new missile can threaten the united states with a heavy nuclear warhead. let s go straight to cnn s will ripley who is joining us from tokyo right now. he s just back from his 12th visit to north korea. will, what s north korea saying about this missile? reporter: you know, i was there during two failed missile
unusual times. thank you. we re live in north korea where officials tell our correspondent will ripley the threat of war with the united states is imminent. will is on his 12th visit to north korea. he s joining us live from pyongyang, the capital. president trump also says a major conflict is possible. update us on the latest information you re getting there. reporter: well, north korea certainly responding to the comments from president trump, everything from the military parade to the exercises we saw this week, the prop gra propaganda video. we re on the ground watching very closely what north korea s next move will be. north korea putting its fire power on full display, facing mounting international pressure.