is. welcome to you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for christian sing live at msnbc headquarters. today authorities in a pair of texas towns are grappling with a ton of unanswered questions as they investigate the deaths of 16 people, half guild in a hail of gunfire in the city of allen, the other half killed when a vehicle drove into a crowd in brownsville. we got an update on the second incident near the border. we ll bring you that in just a moment. meanwhile, the attack at a mall in a dallas suburb underscoring this chilling reality, that we re seeing more americans every single day who have had to live through a mass shooting. in a minute i ll speak to one man whose decision to go shopping on a saturday afternoon nearly cost him his life. with a potentially historic default looming 3 1/2 weeks ag way, the president and kevin mccarthy brace for a meeting at the white house. what is the president s new plan to pressure republicans into cutting a deal? we ll get into that.
mode comb of honest, of truth, he doesn t tell you where the money went, the 3.8 million. he doesn t tell you how gloria died, and oh, by the way, everybody is saying let s exhume gloria. reporter: alex murdaugh is serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and son, and facing a hundred other charges related to financial crimes. his attorneys have said they filed a notice to appeal, and they plan to do so in coming months. back to you. nbc s catie beck with that reporting. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports , let s get right to it. hey, everybody. at this hour, texas governor greg abbott unveil ago new plan to send military muscle to the southern border just days before the title 42 policy is set to expire. what the situation looks like right now on the u.s./mexico border ahead of the expected surge. and the driver behind the fatal crash that killed eight people just outside a migrant shelter in brownsville has been charg
and it is also very windy which is pushing some of the flames. people are heating the nuclear power plant, and we are playing with fire. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, acceseptemb, 9:00 a.m. here this london and 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. and we re learning new details about what the fbi found at mar-a-lago. agents recovered a document on a foreign government defenses nuclear capabilities. the pain cites people familiar with the matter and the justice department has recovered horn 300 classified documents from mar-a-lago this year. you are talking about documents that should be stored in a scif, takes it is a gover acronym for a very secure room, and should have someone who is designated government official to keep very close tabs on those kinds of documents. that is another cause for concern because obviously when they conducted this search, they looked in a storage room, in the former president s office, and those aren
new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la
mar-a-lago. it s information so sensitive that many national security officials don t have access to it. also ahead, we have got new surveillance video that appears to show evidence of interference in the 2020 election as a fake elector is seen escorting several people into a county elections office in georgia. plus, there are urgent calls for action in ukraine to prevent a nuclear meltdown at europe s largest power plant. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with that new reporting from the washington post. people familiar with the matter tell the newspaper that a document describing a foreign government s nuclear secrets was among the top secret items seized from mar-a-lago a month ago. the post did not identify which government but there are only eight other countries with nuclear capabilities. the paper sources also didn t specify where inside the