entertainment industry and beyond. we have a powerhouse of folks here to help hash it all out with a new hour of american voices, live from pride begins now. we begin this hour honoring how far we have come in the 50 years since the stonewall riots here in this neighborhood. those riots opened the country s eyes to the demonization of gay people. it was at stonewall in 1969 that far goers refused to orders to leave their only safe haven in the city. the refusal led to them being beaten for a number of nights by police. spit upon by anti gay protesters. it was their bravery and belief and never sidelining their true selves that helped pave the way to the supreme court s ruling seven years ago. making same-sex marriage legal across all 50 states. it was that landmark case that fell on the right side of history. putting america on record as a country extending freedom even further, to love we love. but the question has quickly become for how long after the supreme court overtu
welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon law enf
going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, don t even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. it s a problem. would isn t arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trump s final days and office led the fbi to his florida resort. trump was so convinced, so convinced he had won the 2020 election, they flat out refused to pack up the white house until the very last minute. one source tells us that everything in a box was dumped into a room at mar-a-lago. security video of that room eventually obtained by the doj through subpoena. a person familiar told the new york times the footage showed boxes moving in and out after the doj had been in touch. as for trump himself, he
as the midterms approach. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. s get started. all right, some republicans aren t playing by the same senate rules that democrats are. we establish that already, you know when it comes to judicial nominations, not when it comes to gun control legislation, and definitely not when it comes to our elections. this week the new york times reported that at least 357 sitting republican legislators and closely contested battleground states have used the power of their office to discredit or try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. that tally, accounts for 44% in the nine states where the presidential race was mostly narrowly decided. we are afraid on election denying republicans being elected to office, there s no doubt about it. but some of these officials already have a sway in their legislators. just think that, what could happen in the next election, if it is too close to call in one of these states. i m not trying to fearmo
president biden signaling back, we will. ahead this hour, a firsthand account of what it was like to treat victims here in uvalde. as you will hear it, this mass shooting is sadly not the force they responded to. speaking of calls for action, we ll speak to someone who says solving gun violence could start by convincing a new generation that they are safer without guns. welcome to a new hour of american voices. this sunday the city of uvalde remains and shocked struggling to find a way forward after 19 students and two teachers were killed inside robb elementary behind me on tuesday. the president just boarding marine one after meeting with first responders. he is now heading back to san antonio before heading back to delaware. earlier today president biden and the first lady were in town doing what they can to let uvalde know the nation is with them. president biden took the time to take in each of the victims pictures after the memorial behind me. clearly emotional. touchin