given by two i.r.s. whistle blowers. they claim that the president s son received preferential treatment during the department s investigation. but what s got everyone talking is the bombshell whatsapp message they gave the committee. the one that implicates joe biden. the 2017 text has hunter biden invoking his father s name while pressuring a chinese business associate connected to the chinese communist party for payment. i am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. i will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction. the text completely blowing up joe biden s consistent claims he s never been involved in his son s business dealings. mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? i have never spoken to my son about his ov
weekend s deadly coup attempt and why are sceptical it was an attempt. this is what we can tell you this monday night about your government today. your government is corrupt. the d.o.j. is corrupt. it has been weaponized. your fbi is corrupt. nobody is above the law unless you re clinton or biden. despite evidence of bribery felony tax evasion crack tiering violations prostitution felony gun violation brandishing hunter is a free manned and will be and his father is facing no consequences at all, whatsoever. now they re rubbing it in your face because on friday night there s hunter celebrating a sweetheart plea deal attending state dinner with his father and attorney general garland. short time later joey and hunter flew to camp david together had a beautiful weekend retreat laughing smiling the whole way after text provided more evidence that pops may have been an integral part of his son s sketchy overseas business deals and the biden tamale syndicate in july 2017 hunter be
group s leader sent out a series of videos yesterday, blaming russia s military leadership for tricking russians into war. he s also blaming the military for killing thousands of his soldiers at field camps in ukraine. the private militia has been helping russia with its war efforts there. putin admits the situation in the rust abadan is complicated, but says the state will defend itself and repel the efforts. the russian government has already issued an arrest warrant for the group s leader . russia s military is also ramping up security in and around moscow. measures are said to include roadblocks and checkpoints. one of russia s top commanders is also telling the fighters to stop and obey the will of president putin again. if you are just now joining us, we are following breaking news out of moscow. we have been all night. that is where russian president vladimir putin is strongly condemning. the wagner groups apparent takeover of a city in the country s far west region. s
the strategy for trump supporters on capitol hill is simple. declare war on the department of justice. in a moment, i m going to speak to congressman jim himes, a member of the intelligence committee about what democrats can do to protect doj. we are also following some dangerous weather across this country right now. from a system that spawned deadly tornadoes in texas, to triple digit temperatures, millions are at risk this saturday. all of that, plus disturbing new video involving allegations of sexual assault against mma superstar, conor mcgregor. regan have that story for you later on this hour as well. we want to start with the president. wrapping up the first major rally of the 24 campaign season, with union workers in philadelphia. want to go right to nbc s standing by for us. in delaware where, the president is headed next to spend the rest of the weekend. what did we hear, gary, from the president as he s kicking off his campaign season, at a place he is most comf
and subway choking victim jordan neely s family calling the indictment of daniel penny, quote, the right result for the wrong he committed. what nbc news has learned about the charge he ll be facing coming up. but we ll start with new reporting that former president donald trump had multiple opportunities to resolve the standoff over classified documents amicably but opted out every time. according to the washington post trump time and time again rejected the advice of lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and repeatedly refused to give documents back, even when some of his longest-serving advisers warned of peril and some flew to mar-a-lago to beg him to return them. other advisers told the post that the fact that the fbi and national archives wanted the documents so badly made trump even less inclined to give them back. now the former president s lifelong penchant for digging in and doubling down isn t just putting hmm at legal risk, it s drawing republicans