plus, clock ticking. the economic impact we are already seeing as the president and house speaker try to avoid a historic default with just days to go. and former president trump set to appear via video today in the manhattan hush money probe. but is he already facing more trouble in another case? this is a fake story and you don t want to give it credibility. one thing you i have no idea who the hell she s a whack job. e. jean carroll seeking more damages after those comments made during a town hall. ahead, the legal peril piling up for trump. we re going to begin with the breaking news in washington. a driver is under arrest and a nazi flag seized after a u-haul truck crashed into the white house security barriers. a law enforcement official tells nbc news that the suspect made threatening statements about the white house. joining us now, nbc s ryan nobles and jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge. ryan, what exactly happened, what are you learn
not oppose it. as we continue to await a decision from the judge as to whether or not she will grant trump s request for a third party independent review that special master there are two big headlines emerging from today s filing. the first, again, is over 10,000 documents were found at mar-a-lago. that is big early. the second found 48 folders classified and 42 more empty folders marked return to staff secretary slash military aid. doing the math here, that is 90 folders that were empty and almost certainly had some important stuff in them. so, the first question here is, why were they empty? where are the documents that belong in those folders? does the justice department have them and we just don t know that yet? are they still sitting at trump s home? with a ripped up and flushed down the toilet? he does like to do that, you know. why were they separated from their folders in the first place? we are going to try to get answers in just a moment with our next guest, as
democratic right. happy labor day weekend, chris. happy holiday weekend, again there is no such thing as a summer friday anymore. so we are just want to jump right in. over 10,000 documents. that is the number of documents that the fbi retrieved from trump s beach club in august alone. today we got a clear picture for the first time of the sheer volume of documents that traveled nearly 1000 miles from the white house to trump s palm beach club, when a federal judge unsealed a previously unseen and detailed inventory of what the fbi retrieved during its search last month. as a reminder here, trump s team wanted this to come out. and the justice department did not oppose it. as we continue to await a decision from the judge as to whether or not she will grant trump s request for a third party independent review that special master they are two big headlines emerging from today s filing. the first, again, is over 10,000 documents were found at mar-a-lago. that is big e
and the justice department did not oppose it. as we continue to await a decision from the judge as to whether or not she will grant trump s request for a third party independent review that special master they are two big headlines emerging from today s filing. the first, again, is over 10,000 documents were found at mar-a-lago. that is bigly then they found 48 documents mark classified. and 42 more empty folders marked return to staff secretary slash military aid. doing the math here, that is 90 folders that were empty and almost certainly had some important stuff in them. so, the first question here is, why were they empty? where are the documents that belong in those folders? does the justice department have them and we just don t know that yet? are they still sitting at trump s home? with a ripped up and flushed down the toilet? he does like to do that, you know. why were they separated from their folders in the first place? we are going to try to get answers in jus
the united states successfully concluded an air strike in kabul, afghanistan that killed the immere of al qaeda. ayman al zawahiri. he was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11. let me make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. and good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, august 2nd. i m brianna keilar. john berman is off. john avlon is with us this morning. and president biden delivering that message to the nation, that justice has been delivered. ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al qaeda, and the world s most wanted terrorist killed in a precision u.s. drone strike. zal zawahiri was bin laden s leader and the leader of the terrorist attack of 9/11, his death coming after the u.s. took out bin laden. these are image of the neighborhood where the taliban said the strike was carried out. mission was the