Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of the government has used its power to silence the opposition. Opposition covid19 vaccine, opposite to the Lab Leak Theory of covid19. Opposition to the validity of the 2020 election. President bidens policies that the hunter biden laptop was true. And opposition to policies of the government officials in power. All were suppressed. It was quite telling that each example of category of suppress speech was conservative in nature. The court for the rights the United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian Ministry of truth. Specific to the fbi, the court said this. The fbis failure to alert social Media Companies that the biden laptop story was real, and not russian disinformation is particularly troubling. The fbi had the laptop in the possession since 2019, and had warned social Media Companies repeatedly for hack and dump operations from rugs from the russians. Even after facebook, specifically asked whethe
florida governor ron desantis and other possible republican presidential contenders should he choose to jump in the 2024 presidential race. as one gop strategist put it nbc news recently quote, the rally around trump effect israel. if you couldn t tell already, donald trump is a competitive man who seems to enjoy and even seems to thrive on chaos and he s not ready to walk away from this manner with the fbi play it. on friday, he posted on social media platform of truth social that quote a major motion pertaining to the fourth amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal break in of my home, mar-a-lago, right before the midterm elections. i ve got my constitution here. i just want to read to the fourth amendment in the constitution is what protects americans from unreasonable searches and seizures by the u.s. government. reads in part, no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searche
declining to answer more than 440 questions during a civil deposition in new york on wednesday. i will be joined by former national security advisor and u.n. ambassador john bolton to talk about the iranian plots to kill him and four other top trump national security officials and to get his reaction to the new legal troubles surrounding his former boss. and i will speak to chef and global humanitarian jose andres from ukraine to update the work by his non-profit to keep communities fed after more than five months of war. he met with president zelenskyy today. let s talk about the internal deliberations within the justice department. barbara, we understand that there are concerns inside the fbi and others that the fbi chief chris wray was so careful about the justice department guidance that he did not push back when he was in nebraska yesterday against the false claims by the president and others the fbi could have planted information there. yeah. that is a baseless piece
and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, ken, what do we know? reporter: chris, this happened at 9 a 15 a.m., two law enforcement officials told nbc news that a man entered an fbi field office in cincinnati, ohio, and fired a nail gun at law enforcement personnel. the man then held up an ar-15 style rifle before fleeing in a vehicle, we re today, and then a pursuit occurred on highway 71. the suspect then got out of the car. and there is a standoff. the fbi, cincinnati field office, confirmed in a statement that an armed subject had attempted to breach their visitor screening facility. they said they activated an alarm. and armed special agents responded and that the subject fled northbound on interstate 71. the clinton county emergency management agency said recently in a facebook post that the suspect has not yet taken into custody but is contained. they say he s wearing a gray shirt and body armor and is armed. chris, obviously, this comes amid a big uptick in threat
election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they