professor at the university of michigan and msnbc legal analyst, yamiche alcindor, nbc news washington correspondent. dasha, we re waiting, we re watching this historic moment. set the stage for us outside of trump tower. well, we have got a calm before the storm here yesterday. we had a massive crowd, a lot of noise today. it has been fairly quiet this is a business district, a tourist district, a lot of curiosity, a lot of onlookers. we have choppers overhead. we have got some anticipation building there are officers, heavy police presence here, some officers directing traffic right now, getting ready for the motorcade to make its way downtown and, look, this is a building, this is a residence that was the center of gravity for the trump campaign back in 2016, the center of his power. now, the place where he begins to make a journey that is unlike a journey that he has made in new york city before now to downtown to the courthouse where he will be arraigned, where he will
this ruling by the 11th circuit court of appeals. anderson, this is exactly what the justice department has been fighting for weeks. they tried to get this result in the district court from judge eileen canon. they didn t get it. now they ve had the victory from the 11th circuit. notably this is from a panel of two judges, two of them trump appointees, one obama appointee. and what the 11th circuit is saying tonight the justice department can go back to using the classified documents they d been restricted from using in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. and the appeals court is saying here they re really agreeing with the justice department saying that, yes, in fact national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they said that, you know, the doj has argued it s a criminal investigation, and the national security assessment is inextricably linked. the appeals c
days have just been released. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin threatening nuclear war amid humiliating losses in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin today ordering a military draft and warning that he could use nuclear weapons against west. during a rare televised address to the russian nation, the russian president summoned 300,000 more troops to fight and threatened nuclear retaliation. translator: mobilization will begin today, september 21st. i am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of the military recruitment offices. this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. i emphasize this again with all the means at our disposal. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the prevailing winds c
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim scuitto, live from the united nations, where minutes from now president biden will deliver his global address. hanging over this assembly are new and alarming threa from russia. a major public escalation in the war in ukraine, as world leaders meet here at the u.n. this is a harrowing time for ukraine, for europe and the wo world. president putin announced he s calling up 300,000 reservists. he also said he s not bluffing. let s begin on the ground in ukraine. nick paton walsh is in the eastern ukraine. this is not the first time the russian president has threatened nuclear weapons. ukraine would be the center of this, what s the reaction. reporter: there always have deep concerns, but also a reality is setting in, possibly a leader in defeat and possibly using rhetoric where he doesn t have capacity, but it doesn t reduce the fear this was essentially response there have been none, but also key one of the words he said was using the
a grand jury from getting information from his inner circle. what the high-stakes legal dispute could mean for trump s legal troubles. and the countdown is on, 45 days to go until midterms. house republicans rallying around kevin mccarthy as he lays out his blueprint for a political win. the latest on the gop s strategy next. good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. it is saturday, september 24th, a little more than 30 days away from halloween. i m so excited, boris, you have no idea. that s right do. you have a costume picked out? i do. i ll be mia belle from inconto. do you know it? oh, yes. i m just getting started. i love that holiday. i do too. we ll chat about that more during the breaks, but we ve got no shortage of news and no shortage of storms apparently either. watching two major storms. first hurricane fiona a post-tropical cyclone that s making landfall in eastern canada as we speak, and then hurricane warnings are in place as damaging