Brawl at a riverfront started by a group of white men shoving a Black Dockworker. Right now in ohio, a high stakes Special Election for a proposal to make it harder to change the states constitution. How that could have implications beyond the buckeye state. We begin this hour with the very latest on former President Trumps legal troubles. Trumps legal team and jack smiths office is locked in a battle over a protective order in the election interference case. That order is aimed at protecting the governments evidence before trial, and trump wants something much narrower. The judge over seeing the case is ordering both sides to come together for a hearing together. With us, msnbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. Lisa, lets start off by defining what a protective order is in this case. A protective order, jose, is something that governs discovery in a civil or criminal case. Discovery is essentially the evidence that the government would be relying on whether that is statements by witnesses, t
Also hearing testimony on that case before a Second Grand Jury in d. C. And this hour in ohio, voters are voting on a state constitutional amendment that could make it harder to pass ballot issues including the right to an abortion. A big test in a critical election state. And its too darn hot for millions of americans continuing to feel the impact of blazing summer heat causing severe summer storms, storm damage. Flight cancellations across the midwest and again on the east coast. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where u. S. District judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered a hearing no later than this friday on what is usually a standard order in the d. C. Circuit against the exposure of Grand Jury Testimony once they receive it from prosecutors. In a filing monday afternoon, attorneys for mr. Trump objecting to what as i say is usually a standard usually agreed upon agreement in the circuit. Writing the government requests the court assume the role of censor and impos
get way more into what your into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. there is no break from the severe weather gripping the nation. yesterday was the second most active day inform the year with more than 600 storm reports on the east coast, killing at least one person when officials say a falling tree killed a 15-year-old in south carolina. in new york state, incredible video of a likely tornado forming. in maryland, dozens of people including children were trapped in their cars when powerful winds took down a series of power lines. rescue teams eventually got everyone out safely. and this was the scene just moments before the storm struck right here in washington, d.c. that was 80-mile-per-hour winds. wind gusts hitting the capitol around 80 miles an hour.
overnight, russia fired a missile launched at an apartment building full of civilians in eastern ukraine and then struck it again in order to kill first responders. seven people were killed including rescue workers. joining me, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, great to see you. there s so many in washington, that the counteroffensive is bogged down. we re not take off. this is being discussed very openly in political sections. and now this suspected assassination of zelenskyy, who has been consistent about nightly addresses, going to the front lines what do you know about it? so, first about this assassination plot which was uncovered, revealed by ukrainian intelligence yesterday. so far, they re the only people talking about it. they re putting out some degree of detail. they put out a statement, they
he went too far. but not in this case. this will be really inflammatory on the campaign trail. we just saw how people in new hampshire collected people, people around the trump rally reacting to it. let me ask you about aileen cannon, there s conversation what she has done in the documents case. the prosecution filed a motion regarding conflict of interest among lawyers, just to get it on the record. because one lawyer was representing some some seven defendants, walt nauta and others. and they had to have an open hearing. i think that s called a garcia procedure, if my tv work is coming into play here. but as a part of that, they filed in that motion, that they do have a grand jury sitting here in d.c., also on the obstruction charges which were actually raised in the superseding indictment. that said off her wanting them to respond, not just to the