hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
tornados tear through texas and louisiana, right now more than 60 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. ammunition on the agenda today. president biden meeting the german chancellor and sending more firepower to ukraine. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just hours from now, tau alex murdaugh will stand in a courtroom to learn his fate. a judge will issentence him for murdering his own wife and son. guilty verdict. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. verdict guilty. the jury heard six weeks of testimony but took less than three hours to convict him. murdaugh now facing a possible 30 years behind bars. justice was done today. it doesn t matter who your family is, it doesn t matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn t matter what you think how prominent you are, if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina.
rapid fire shots rang out. we have video from the scene but we warn you it is disturbing . investigators recovered firearm evidence from the rooftop of the nearby building. they believe the gunman climbed an unsecured ladder in an alley and opened fire from the roof. police say the gun was a high powered rifle. and the attack appears to be random and intentional. senator of illinois pledged to do whatever she can to help the community recover. the last time i heard a weapon with that capacity firing that rapidly on a fourth of july was iraq. it was not united states of america. we can and we should and we will do better. the suspect was arrested without incident. a few hours later. identified as robert crimo. third. he posted ominous music videos online. under the nakme awake the rappe. this individual is believed to have been responsible for what happened and the investigation will continue. charges haven t been approved yet at this time. we re a long way from that.
hearing is days away. federal grand jury indicted former trump advisor peter navarro for defying the january six committee. he was boarding a flight to nashville. they intercepted me getting on the plane, and they put me in handcuffs and brought me here. they put me in like irons. they stick me in a cell. by the, way i was in john hinckley cell. they thought that was an important historical note. and new responses today after the doj chose not to charge former trump chief of staff mark meadows, or his deputy scavino. that attorney for meadows told nbc, the results speak for itself. and the attorney for scavino said, we are grateful the doj exercised sound judgment and deciding not to prosecute this case given the substantial flaws in the legal basis of the committee s subpoena and the issues of executive privilege presented. now right now in texas, a uvalde rallies being held in san antonio, texas, this for the survive texas this is the same legislative body that
sense that right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the democratic party. it started minutes into the debate and it continues right now. it involves party strategists in evolves elected officials. it involves fundraisers and they re having conversations about the president s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket and they re having conversations about what they should do about it. some of those conversations include should we go to the white house and as the president step aside, others are other the conversations are about should prominent democrats go public with that call? because they feel this debate was so terrible. they do say, in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing. but then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting. the contrast between the two candidates. let me be clear. none of them and a lot of repub