crime, terrorism and other threats to their safety while safeguarding our civil rights. they do so at great personal sacrifice and risk to themselves. just before midnight, mr. trump posting on his social media platform that he is encouraging the release of documents his own lawyers could make public ahead of the court s disclosure. the house of representatives is expected to pass a $430 legislation, including new climate and clean energy investments and some controls on drug prices. a minimum tax on large corporations. i will speak to john podesta, former senior white house advisor on the state of the biden presidency three months before voters are heading to the polls. i will be joined by deborah tyce on the efforts by the biden administration to free her son from the assad regime. we begin with former president trump and the justice department. joining me now, ken dilanian, phil rucker, paul charlton and michael beschloss. welcome all. ken, give us the latest this is
your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. right now, diplomatic and military gears are in overdrive around ukraine. the united nations general assembly is holding an emergency meeting after russia s newly intensified strikes. and defense secretary lloyd austin is in brussels meeting with counterparts about supporting ukraine with more weapons, sharing this message. the whole world as just seen yet again, the malice and cruelty of putin s war of choice. we remain resolute. concern is only growing this morning over what vladimir putin s next possible military moves could be as he lashes out at ukraine for a strike on his beloved crimea bridge. and president biden is painting this portrait of his russian counterpart. i think he is a rational actor who miscalculated significantly. what president biden is now saying about whether he believes putin will use a nuclear weapon. and in ukra
forces evacuations. multiple new threats in the tropics. rob marciano is timing it all out. plus, the climate catastrophe in pakistan. flooding kills more than a thousand people. buildings collapsing, and dangerous rescues by the military. disturbing new police body camera video of a deadly encounter between officers and a man believed to be experiencing mental health issues. did officers do all they could to de-escalate the situation? the buffalo bills release their rookie punter accused of sexually assaulting an underaged girl in a civil suit. that player claims he s innocent. tonight, the alleged victim s father is speaking out exclusively to abc news. the horrifying ambush attack in texas. multiple deaths reported. authorities believe a man set fire to an apartment building to lure tenants outside, and then opened fire. counting down, we re now just hours from launch. nasa hopes this rocket will make a giant leap back to the moon. gio benitez from florida toni
explaining what went wrong and what s next. ukraine says a counteroffensive is underway in its southern region as concerns continue over europe s largest nuclear power plant in the country. we re live in ukraine. intelligence officials will look into potential risks to national security from documents found at former president trump s mar-a-lago home. we ll have the latest ahead. it s the first day of school for many communities in kentucky after deadly floods ravaged the state. what students are facing when they go back to the classroom in a live report. and in mexico, 100,000 people have disappeared in the last couple of years. a growing number of those missing are women and girls. we ll speak with a journalist investigating what is going on. happening right now, nasa engineers are working to gather data on the technical issue that forced the scheduled artemis mission launch to be scrubbed. nasa said the delay was caused by a leak in the rocket s third engine and
powerful rocket has been scrubbed. technical issues delaying the historic liftoff until at least friday. we will get an update from the launch site and i ll get an update on nasa protocols for missions like this one. and nuclear fears out of ukraine. after weeks of delays, united nations inspectors are headed to europe s largest nuclear power plant now under russian control. ukrainian authorities are so worried after several days of shelling around the plant, they started giving out iodine tablets. the latest from the region. and new fallout over the former president s handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago. what we know about the intelligence community s review of the materials and how they will assess potential risks to our national security. that s precisely where we start this morning. the director of national intelligence, avril haines, says her office will launch a damage assessment into the potential risk to national security posed by those documents. that