president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today. we don t know the timing. that s what i m trying to say here. we do know it s expect
this. it was essentially because donald trump went out and told the world that the fbi had done this search of his property in palm beach on monday. listen to him address exactly why he did this today. since i became attorney general i have made clear that the department of justice will speak through its court filings and its work. just now the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrants and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was of premises located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day of the search. the former president publicly confirmed the search that evening as is his right. copies of both the warrant and the fbi property receipt were provided on the former president s counsel who was on site during the search. the search warrant was authorized by a federal court upon the
watch from one the camera position changes. on january 20th, my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly seamless transition of power. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation. 2020 has been a challenging time for our people. a menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens. so how was the other 57 a menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens. so how was the other 57 minutes spent? what is in those optics? why was it so hard for him to condemn the violence? those outtakes, we are told, will be part of the committee s case that donald trump abandoned his duties as president. to stop his own supporters from attack in the u.s. capital for more than three hours, mind you. tonight, we have a former white house communications director in the administration, who very publicly pleaded with the ex president during the insurrection to call off them up. condemned us now, she begged on twitter, you are the only one they will listen to. for our cou
the text message purge. plus, rudy giuliani ordered to testify in georgia as we learn more about the targets and the investigation. some epic cringe from the republican senators forced to take a position on same-sex marriage. this is such a silly message he built, i m just not going to test that here. why one bad candidate can keep those republican senators from taking control. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris, hate tomorrow night at exactly this time the january six committee will convene its second primetime hearing. we will of course be airing it here live on msnbc including special coverage afterwards. this hearing is gonna focus on the one man responsible for the attempted coup and insurrection, donald trump. and as we head towards that hearing two things have never been clear in my mind. first, that it was trump s plan all along to overturn the will of the voters and the american public to fire a bullet into the heart of american d
nation is facing the most serious internal attacks on the frontal and institutional structures that define a democracy. since the pulitzer s were introduced a century ago. precisely to counteract problematic, authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the washington post in new york times for quote, relentlessly reporting coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election. and it s connections to the trump campaign, the president elect s transition team, and his eventual administration. that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually lead the pulitzer boards to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. this week, the pulitzer board announced the results of those investigations,