greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. he blames candidate quality. but who s to blame for that? we re going to look at the key races where warning signs are flashing for the gop. plus, when americans think of the irs, accountants come to mind, but some republicans are now portraying the agency as an armed strike force. the potentially dangerous implications of the party s escalating rhetoric. we re going to start, though, with that affidavit and the doj s investigation. joining me right now, nbc news correspondent sam brock in west palm beach, florida. nbc s julia ainsley in washington. also with me is kyle cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for politico, and harry litman, former u.s. attorney and host of the talking feds podcast. thank you all for being with me. sam, first, we want to go to you. the government has until thursday to submit the redactions it wants to this affidavit. what will this process look like and what else did the judge say? re
headquarters in new york city, a huge turnaround, the cook political report has new analysis showing it s a toss-up. that s a pretty stunning shift from months ago, where headline after headline predicted a republican wave. thanks to a string of legislative wins and galvanizing issues like abortion, democrats now have motivation and momentum on their side. on the other side, many far-right republicans are struggling, unable to connect with moderate i m at wegner s. my wife wants some vegetables for crudite. this is $20, and we have joe biden to thank for this. john fetterman has been fund-raising off that video all week. this is the kind of thing that mitch mcconnell to admit he has concerns. i think there s a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. senate races are different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. looking at various numbers, you can see the shift happening in real time. politico shows democrats up fo
severe storms slamming parts of the northeast. nearly 14 million on alert for powerful thunderstorms. rob marciano timing it all out. also developing tonight, the plunge on wall street. investors reacting to tough words from the fed chair. the dow dropping more than 1,000 points. jerome powell saying more pain and rate hikes are ahead to bring down inflation and hold back a possible recession. rebecca jarvis breaking it down. the battle of the drug giants over the covid vaccine. moderna suing pfizer, saying its rival copied its technology. how pfizer is responding tonight, and what this could mean for the future of the covid shot. the dire warning from ukraine. the head of the country s nuclear agency telling abc news just how dangerously close the country s largest nuclear plant was to catastrophe and how it could happen again. one louisiana mother s personal struggle for an abortion. doctors recommending she terminate her nonviable pregnancy, but she says she was de
donald trump. he didn t sound like someone ready to take any legal risks for donald trump. not anymore. not now that he has been formally declared a target of the grand jury s criminal investigation of exactly what rudy giuliani did for donald trump in georgia. the rudy giuliani you are about to see is truly shocking now. but it is the way rudy giuliani often handled press questions when he was a federal prosecutor in manhattan in the 1980s. today, with rudy giuliani clinging to the wreckage of his legal career with his law license suspended, pending possible permanent disbarment, rudy giuliani found his lawyerly voice once again. [inaudible] we ll not talk about this, until the grand jury, and the grand jury s [inaudible] secret. do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation. [inaudible] no more about it. they asked the questions [inaudible] will you be cooperative? you ar
expected to plead guilty to tax evasion. as we wait for a judge to determine whether to unseal the raid on mar-a-lago. lawmakers are calling on the white house to appoint a special envoy to haiti as the humanitarian crisis grows. out west, the urgent actions being taken to prevent what officials warn could be a catastrophic collapse of the colorado river system. we begin with the latest on the legal troubles for former president donald trump and his close associates. any minute now, former trump organization chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to charges of not paying taxes on more than $1.7 million in perks, such as rent, car payments and school tuition. the plea deal calls for him to testify against the trump organization at trial. this comes just hours before a federal judge in west palm beach, florida, will be hearing arguments on whether to unseal the affidavit used to justify the fbi s search of the former president s mar-a-lago r