joe biden and donald trump heading to a showdown, but traveling very different roads. new nbcs reporting on how biden is aiming to get under trump s skin, while team trump s wild pregame accusation may be revealing a case of nerves. we got details on what is happening behind the scenes leading up to thursday s big debate. plus, the debate in a florida courtroom over the raid at the center of the mar-a-lago documents case. eye opening new photos of exactly where classified documents were found in donald trump s home. the judge now makes a consequential decision. what can and cannot be used in court. and the end of the years long legal battle in the u.s. versus julian assange. after the wikileaks founder agreed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him more prison time. what this may mean for when something like this inevitably happens again. but we begin with new nbc reporting that president biden is in intense preparations for thursday s crucial debate. getting ready to f
his own government doesn t even support them, you now also have turkey which essentially has made an incursion into syria that has been very beneficial to russia, it s russia that has occupied those u.s. positions, it s turkey that that s been purchasing russian arms. so you also have emanuel macron criticizing nato on the one hand, on the other hand also saying it s time to rebalance with russia. so i think vladimir putin is smiling when he thinks about london this week. the president of course facing the continuation of the impeachment inquiry here in the u.s. while he is over in russia and u.s. allies will certainly be aware of that, a difficult election to come in 2020. does russia see weakness within nato, do america s allies see weakness with the american president at home? you know, look, they have been perplexed and confused by donald trump from the very beginning. you know, the niceties and the
i don t know what we ve managed to do in this process. there is great global irony in that right now president trump seems to be trust trust trusting kim jong-un at the same time as sowing distrust with some of america s greatest allies. he has written letters to nato leaders chiding them for not spending more in their defense budgets. that s not unusual. that s something we ve seen other presidents do as well. however, what is unusual is threatening to reduce u.s. military presence around the world if they don t start spending more. what do the united states, what do america s nato allies make of this? i was in europe last week, and i have to tell you i ve never quite seen the mood that i saw. more than anything else, what they are worried about is unless some of this kind of stuff that you mentioned, because as you say, other presidents have done it. they understand bargaining. it s the completely erratic, unpredictable nature of the trump administration, of the president in part
seriousness of this issue because if they did they would not do this. they don t understand this is a real epidemic problem. did you think it is okay no punishment? no i think someone should be punished. no body is as of now. why not? fire the guy responsible. he is a 26-year-old buzzfeed type intern who thought it would be funny. he is an idiot and should be canned. wow. you just throw everybody under the bus. i would definitely say there should be some sort of punishment. not just like the 26-year-old guy who is going to be down the street but his boss or supervisor who said be are going to play this. you have the guy who wrote it edit it and guys could be women. maybe women are responsible? do america s top universities
morning. ets it s going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. thank you. lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the defense secretary. the british soldier was also injured in that incident. leon panetta is in the capital and he s going to be meeting with the afghan president, harmid karzai and that comes days after a u.s. army sergeant apparently went on a violent attack and went door to door in the middle of the night killing 16 afghan civilians and most women and children. this morning, that suspect, a father of t