In court amid revelations the father gave his 14yearold son an Ar15style Rifle after both had been questioned about alleged threats the boy made to carry out a school shooting. The teenage suspect was in the same courtroom, shackled and tried as an adult. Its now a campaign issue. J. D. Vance on the defense after the Harris Campaign pounced on him saying he wishes School Shootings were not a fact of life. I dont like that this is a fact of life. If you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. We have to bolster security at our schools so that a person who walks through the front door good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington with Donald Trump speaking in new York City just at this hour. He has been lashing out at his multiple legal cases and at the judge overseeing them and at the Justice Department. The former president claiming again that he has no idea who e. Jean carroll is. The writer who won her sexual Assault And Defa
Voting later this month. It means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. Harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including Sun Belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks . Joining us now at the big board, Nbc News national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. So where are we today, steve . Look at it from two vantage points. Nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that Labor Day weekend. Harris, 48, trump, 45. Threepoint advantage for the democrats. Theyre happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when Joe Biden was their candidate. He was basically trailing Donald Trump all year. But for republicans, theres solace in these numbers, too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. Labor day. Being a little behind. T
Rhode of the new yorker and the investigative correspondent for National Public radio. I told david and dina, we were talking just before the session, that as a career diplomatic, Career Foreign Service officer when i hear the term deep state, and thats the title of our book today, when i hear that term, i think about some thuggish authoritarian regime, you know, turkey in its worst days, egypt under the dictators. I dont think of the United States of america. As we begin today, since david and dina are both really respected members of the American Press corps, i want to say how much we respect the press. The Aspen Security Forum would not work without journalism, nearly not all, but nearly all of our sessions are chaired by journalists. And i think of the citizen, one of the saving graces of the United States is the 1st amendment, the power of the press. I felt in government, as a state department spokesperson, that the press was doing its job to challenge me and challenge my colleagu
medals. republicans aren t the only ones out there who want to get rid of george santos. two democrats requested a house ethics investigation, and hand delivered a copy of the complaint to santos office, he wasn t there at the time, they had to give it to his assistant, admiral slorge santos. there are a lot of developments this morning with congressman george santos that we ll be updating you on. we re also learning a lot more this morning about the justice department s wide ranging investigation into january 6th. we re going to dig into new reporting on subpoenas sent to officials from former president donald trump s presidential campaign. which is significant, because, again, a lot of people have said, you can investigate a lot of different things, but at the end of the day, with everybody getting tried that was part of the riots and some people being charged with sedition, they re all pointing their finger at donald trump. most of them are saying he s the reason he
both the search warrant and the inventory receipt. the wall street journal appears to have already seen both. the paper is reporting the fbi took 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including one set of documents marked as tssci documents. that means top secret, sensitive, compartmented information. in other words, some of the most sensitive material the u.s. government says it has. stuff that is only meant to be seen in special government facilities. this would jibe with what multiple outlets have been reporting already, that the d.o.j. was looking for highly classified documents at mar-a-lago and potentially with what the washington post, citing sources familiar, with that knows documents were about nuclear weapons. if so, that would explain the urgency behind the search. nbc has not confirmed the washington post reporting and we have not confirmed the wall street journal reporting but we all could be about to. the warrant and inventory list could be un