consortium of news organizations. ukraine s president zelenskyy is on the verge of disaster with ukrainian and russian forces saying the other is about to stage a nuclear incident at zaporizhzhia with russia telling its operators today not to report to work. and we ll look at the surprising senate race in pennsylvania. one of a handful of match-ups, key match-ups where democrat candidates are beating expectations in recent polls and republican leaders suggesting it s donald trump s fault for backing unqualified contenders. i think there s there s probably a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. the senate races are just different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. we begin with nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and david loftman, chief of counterintelligence at the justice department s national security department. many legal experts were quite surprised by the judge s ruling and that tru
declassified, and consider whether to criminally charge mr. trump or people close to him. though the two potential crimes cited in the search warrant, the three actually, do not require the documents to be classified, what his broad claim that he had a standing order to declassify documents when he went upstairs at night and bringing papers with him? that s just nutty. first of all, we know that s a complete post hoc fabrication. this president is accustomed to fabrication. and a bevy of officials around him had no contemporaneous knowledge of such things. there are customs and practices about how executive branch officials declassify documents. it s true he had declassify authority, but he had to take real action memorialized in writing. nothing like that will exist.
our guess is it s in the cia and intelligence community and the inspector general for the justice department can t get into that stuff and huber may not be able to get into it and the only person to unlock that would be someone with declassify authority over it, and that s barr. so there were things outside the justice department that barr wanted to see or have access to that he may have been impeded. and that is why he has these new authorities. that sort of is our best guess at this point, because there s no other you know, explanation, i guess. there is no other explanation, joyce vance. there is no other explanation than what has been articulated in the last ten minutes. this is a political power grab, norms of law enforcement and intelligence. and i think one of the most alarming things the only people jumping up and down in opposition are peoct office. what strikes you, joyce, about
which the intelligence community which the intelligence community is directed to quickly and fully is directed to quickly and fully cooperate with the attorney cooperate with the attorney general s investigation into general s investigation into surveillance activities during surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election. the 2016 presidential election. the attorney general also the attorney general also delegated full and complete delegated full and complete authority to declassify authority to declassify information pertaining to this information pertaining to this investigation. investigation. we assume this is whatever we assume this is whatever william barr was talking about william b when he testified before the senate recently. and said that he s looking into the origins of mueller s inquiry. i don t know what this new i don t know what this new directive from the white house directive from the white house is meant to signal tonight or if is meant to signal tonig