they were just about ready to take her out, they said, you don t want to see this. she had been floating for three days. even to describe that, what does that feel like? it is horrible and i am an ex nurse. i don t want to see that. all right. let s cross over now to fort myers beach, where we are finding bring us up to speed on the latest. it is nighttime there. do these rescue and search efforts continue in the night even though there are challenges of working in the dark. no electricity and the perhaps the weather may not be cooperating. what is going on there? those search and rescue efforts are taking place 24 hours a day. we have been speaking with authorities who say they have people there during the day and at night. in fact, they have shared videos on social media, the sheriff s department, where you can see officers using lights. of course, it s not the same to do this at night as it is during the day. but the efforts do not stop. unfortunately, today,
biden s message to the american people. next hour he s expected to talk about the american rescue plan and what it means for local economies. msnbc will bring that to you live as reactions pour in after president biden delivered a blistering speech last night about what he calls maga republicans and called out former president trump by name. the president accused trump and his closest supporters of peddling lies about the 2020 election, an ideology he says that poses a threat to the foundations of our republic. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. you can t love your country only when you win. joining us now with more on this is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell. yamiche alcindor, an nbc news washington correspondent and eddie glaude is the chair of the department of african american studies at princeton university, he is also an nbc news political analyst.
this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv
these hearings. the select committee investigating the capitol riot hold its next public hearing tuesday at 1 pm eastern. it will focus on former president trump s efforts to push key officials in several states to change their 2020 election results. georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gave are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigati
georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gabriel sterling are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigation was over. on wednesday, doj ramped up the pressure with a letter warning that the delay was holding up criminal cases tied to the insurrection. the committee spent the past week tying trump and his team s actions to that very attack. on m