Im sandra smith. Hi, trace. Trace good morning, everyone. Im trace gallagher. Loeffler hammered home her opponent is a radical liberal. Warnock side stepped questions about Defunding Police and court packing. Democrat jon ossoff appeared alone on the debate stage after senator david perdue opted not to take part. Sandra President Trump rallied for loeffler and perdue over the weekend urging his supporters to turn out in droves. President trump if you dont vote, the socialists and communists win. They win. Georgia patriots must show up and vote for these two incredible people. Sandra fox team coverage. Brandnew analysis from byron york. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in decat you are, georgia, this morning. Last nights event drew a national audience. How did it influence the debates . Good morning. Good morning, sandra. Both candidates were keenly aware that much of their attention and much of their financial backing is coming from out of state and so this debate focused largely on
overcome and inspiring a new generation announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. for the defense, accused murderer alex murdaugh taking the witness stand today in south carolina dramatic and at times tearful testimony from the man at the center of the country s most closely followed criminal trial murdaugh under questioning from his lawyers saying i didn t shoot my wife or son and addressing what has appeared to be some of the prosecution s strongest evidence murdaugh from the witness box admitting he lied about his whereabouts the night his wife and 22-year-old son were shot to death. chalking up the lies to opioid addiction and paranoia under cross-examination, murdaugh, a former lawyer, also admitted to stealing from clients. the prosecution has maintained the murders were part of murdaugh s attempt to escape accountability for financial misdeeds we begin tonight with catie beck reporting from walterboro, south carolina. reporter: after ne
getting up way too early ton friday morning and all weekend long. morning joe starts now. aides found classified documents inside his delaware home. he has had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the louisiana purchase. the justice department is taking this seriously. today the attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate biden s handling of the documents. i m not saying biden is getting worried, but he just texted rudy giuliani, so you go, wow, that s not good. that s not good. all right. republicans get the special counsel they have been calling for to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. it comes as we are learning more about the files and where they were found. we ll also take a look at some of the hypocrisy inside the gop when it comes to the special counsels for trump and biden. meanwhile, a prominent republican says it is time for the party to move on from former president donald trump, calling him
been saying. this is an issue that most americans agree on, so why the holdup? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we have breaking news tonight. striking new signs that merrick garland s justice department has intensified its january 6th investigation, in a big way. nbc news has learned that the department of justice has issued about 40 subpoenas over the last week, related to the actions of the former president, his allies, and their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. one source says that has his phone seized as evidence last week. he all but admitted it to our colleague earlier tonight. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors to win the challenges would be heard, and would be successful. a lawyer for ex nypd commissioner, bernard kerik, confirmed that he received a subpoena last week. it s been confirmed that he worked on efforts to but of course, as we all know
we ve got it, we ve got it, it comes out tomorrow, but we ve got it here is how it starts. miley deputy, robert crews, army resolved in urgent phone call from the top of the u.s. services department. the midterm elections were less than two months ago weighing. house and senate, but the next two years of the trump investigations. he spoke with eduardo callahan, a high-level trump political appointees at the justice department his message to cause army was then ambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, time for me to take one for the home team. it came into my office, closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i had without callahan, he said. before sharing the details of the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against gregory craig, a private attorney who had lunched bennett council. they wanted me to bring those charges before election day i