i can see that i can see alexandria obviously talking there but we are having a bit of and adio issue, we will circle back and get back to her in a moment. in the mean time, i will take you out to the great state of florida where we have live pictures of mar-a-lago, the former president trump s beautiful estate. some have called it the southern white house. as for the former president he s pushing back against the fbi search of his home on social media saying the agency should return several boxes of privileged-attorney client material that they seized on monday and with the very latest on that we welcome good friend lucas tomlinson. lucas: good afternoon, lawmakers taking sunday talk shows, fallout across party lines, democratic chairman pushing back on former president trump s claims that he has the power to declassify any documents. the former president has no declassification authority and the idea that 18 months after the fact that donald trump could simply announce,
it for now they sent does not appear that man was targeting any members of congress. police are just released this man s name about an hour ago and are still investigating his a background in social media. lucas tomlinson is alive in washington with the very latest on this. lucas what can you tell us? we just learn the identity of that man who crash the car into a barricade, fired shots in the air to the u.s. capitol. please have identified 29 year old richard eight york the third from delaware but u.s. capitol police say his motives are still not clear. eight vehicle collided with a barricade on east capitol street at second street. the vehicle burst into flames. the driver exited the vehicle. the driver began walking down east capitol street towards the capitol. he took out a handgun, began firing back on indiscriminately. one of our officers observed him put the gun to his head and shoot himself. east capitol street second street is use the s capitol but a block was
welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon law enf
going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, don t even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. it s a problem. would isn t arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trump s final days and office led the fbi to his florida resort. trump was so convinced, so convinced he had won the 2020 election, they flat out refused to pack up the white house until the very last minute. one source tells us that everything in a box was dumped into a room at mar-a-lago. security video of that room eventually obtained by the doj through subpoena. a person familiar told the new york times the footage showed boxes moving in and out after the doj had been in touch. as for trump himself, he
soon they ll have no choice but to start shutting down the vaccination vaccine delivery operations. that means more mutations, more variants, more infections, more deaths abroad and at home. keep in mind what we re doing with a.i.d. is trying to stop this pandemic outside our borders. it s because we realize that every single one of these variants is one airplane trip away from crossing our borders. even as we have to do things to stop it within our borders. finally, i want to make clear that we don t have time to say what we can to say well, we can act later on. this is not a problem that can be solved by flipping a switch. nor does it produce the tens of millions of doses of vaccines and therapeutics necessary to prepare for a fall surge. the government and biotech companies need to begin purchasing supplies now. they can t say, oh, we have an pandemic? golly, go out and buy some supplies. but we have to make them first. come back to us in a few months. that doesn t do an