football royalty. she was expecting their first child. the baby was moving she said come and feel my tommy. that a crime that stunned the city, the beaming mother to be gunned down in her own home bullet holes in the floor. my sister was murdered. it was terrible. so full of love and life, who would want her dead? her celebrity boyfriend? trying to say, they re naming me as a suspect? or maybe, one of his other girlfriends. she said, you don t know that he is seeing other girls? mysterious letters were spilling secrets. did someone want her out of the way? i don t wake. i had dark sunglasses this big covering my face. a mother to be, killed. and a mother of three, who was not what she seemed. now, an undercover plan to catch a killer. she opened up the door, she started screaming. i took the first shot. hello and welcome to dateline. she was a small town girl from rural wisconsin. he was a chicago superstar, a hometown hero with a legendary bears. toge
within, it s more questions he has to find answers for. confusion and uncertainty in russia this morning after a failed revolt by the head of the wagner mercenary group. this was the most significant challenge to vladimir putin s authority in decades. we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. plus, despite mounting legal challenges, new polling shows donald trump expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. we re breaking down the new numbers straight ahead. and special counsel jack smith asks a federal judge to delay trump s upcoming classified documents trial. what we re learning about the possible new timing for that. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with this weekend s developing news out of russia where the head of the mercenary wagner group launched the most
and this is dateline! this is a tragedy on top of a tragedy now. it happened so quickly. their parents in the backyard spa. their mom in trouble. my dad just panicked. a sudden slip. a fatal fall. you re losing your mother. you re watching her go right in front of you. someone else was watching her. a curious neighbor. it was scary. the look on his face was almost undescribable. what had she seen? was this drowning really an accident? she s got a huge gash on her head, something like that is not consistent with just falling down. a husband and father is suddenly under suspicion. he s crying and we re crying. he said, they think i hurt mom. three daughters stand by their dad, and one prosecutor stands firm. he s holding his wife of almost three decades under the water. my job is to get justice for cristi hall. was it murder? hello and welcome to dateline a young woman peers into her neighbor s yard and sees something for a few mysterious seconds, a
records? or as peter baker put it in the new york times, republican voters may be care if their leader slips money to a porn star to keep quiet, but will they be indifferent about impeding authorities seeking to recover clandestine materials? that s today s poll question which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most were quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis said the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department or if it s something different, he said. ditto for south carolina senator tim scott on the weaponization charge. another went further comparing pardoning trump immediately upon his own swearing-in. chris christie ke
bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g