moscow next. happening right now, historic winter storm is pummeling bringing heavy winds snow and ice after slamming the rockies. we ll take you live to minneapolis. also this morning, the epa has now ordered norfolk southern to play for all cleanup operations related to the toxic chemical spill triggered by a train derailment in ohio earlier this month. we ll tell you which major political figures are heading to east palestine today. president biden is wrapping up a high stakes trip to europe as tensions continue to escalate between the u.s. and russia. this morning the president reacted to vladimir putin s decision to suspend participation in the last remaining arms control agreement between the u.s. and russia, calling it a big mistake. his response came hours after sharp new rhetoric from one of putin s top allies who told a russian news agency, quote, if the u.s. wants to defeat russia, we have the right to defend ourselves with any weapon, including the nuclear k
i want to bring in justice department ken dilanian, meredith mcgraw, and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. ken, let me start you with. because the special mast ser out with a brand new filing laying out a fairly strict schedule and the process that he wants both parties to come to grips on basically. talk to us about what we re learning. that s right, hallie. first, he s giving, he s asking the fbi to certify that what they say they seized, that they re standing by that. it was a detail and exact list. and they are giving the trump team a chance to challenge items on the list that are inaccurate or things they say that were seized that aren t on the list. and then he is sending out a bunch of different categories of records that he is asking the trump folks to decide whether they re going to challenge on the grounds of attorney-client communication, and executive privilege, and whether the document is a presidential record, or whether it is a personal record. but hallie,
to work in washington for the first time in a month. we ll look at their fall agenda agenda. we are live in georgia with brand new reporting on possible election interference. what this surveillance video shows and maybe more importantly who it appears to show walking into a county election office weeks after the 2020 election. how it all fits into the fulton county criminal problem. i m joe fryer in for hallie jackson. we start with the latest fall out from the judge s ruling granting trump s request for a special master. i m joined by caroline wedding and former fbi consultant andrew wiseman. ken, we re learning more about what this doj ruling means and doesn t mean at least at this point right now. what can you tell us? i m being told this ruling does not put a stop entirely to the fbi investigation into the mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. there are lots of classified documents that came out of mar-a-lago in january and another batch was handed over in june.
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
powerful rocket has been scrubbed. technical issues delaying the historic liftoff until at least friday. we will get an update from the launch site and i ll get an update on nasa protocols for missions like this one. and nuclear fears out of ukraine. after weeks of delays, united nations inspectors are headed to europe s largest nuclear power plant now under russian control. ukrainian authorities are so worried after several days of shelling around the plant, they started giving out iodine tablets. the latest from the region. and new fallout over the former president s handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago. what we know about the intelligence community s review of the materials and how they will assess potential risks to our national security. that s precisely where we start this morning. the director of national intelligence, avril haines, says her office will launch a damage assessment into the potential risk to national security posed by those documents. that