washington. republicans are not opposed to any substance. i think it s a political move, and i think it s disgusting. it really is an ongoing crisis here at a scale that is almost unimaginable. you can see some of the garbage that is still over here. and you can actually see how high the water has come. this is what we do not want to see a flood watch. with more rain coming, we expect the water to rise even higher. you re live in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with the passing of two legends who were both game-changers in their respective fields. basketball great bill russell led the boston celtics to 11 nba championships. his final two titles as the first black head coach in a major american sports league. and he was also a tireless champion for racial justice and civil rights, working alongside dr. martin luther king jr. and muhammed ali. in 2011, he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. and we re also remembering nichelle nichols, who playe
you can t get much detail out of this. and it was approved by a judge. which does tell us something. although not what is under the redaction. so we have this unprecedented clash over federal powers, over the prerogatives of a former president. the suspicion about criminal evidence. all of this is here in the ballpark. and if you ve heard today or tonight, we know everything now and i could tell you, no we don t. we obviously have to be careful about what is redacted. we re learning new things. so i m going to go through the facts with you right now. the road map here that has been released, the affidavit, shows how agent recovered the highly classified documents and then based on that timeline and the information, they saw a grave need to go back into-n to do a search to get the rest of them. they found that the trump had, in the doj view, stolen material that involves secret clandestine human source and intelligence. that is the kind of material that is supposed to stay on
In new york. This as her campaign is touting 110 now retired generals and admirals backing her. Mean while, donald trump is taking his remarkable embrace of Vladimir Putin to russian owned air waves, declaring the russian leader is probably not meddling in the u. S. Election, contrary to what u. S. Intelligence conversation, contrary to what Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan says. I dont know i mean, ive been hearing about it. Ive been reading about it. I think its probably unlikely. I think maybe maybe the democrats are putting that out. Who knows. But i think that its pretty unlikely. But, you know, who knows. I hope that if they are doing something, i hope that somebodys going to find out so they can end it. Because that would not be appropriate at all. So the Trump Campaign now claims they did not know this interview was airing on a kremlinowned television network. They say they thought it was just a pod cost done as a favor for Donald Trumps friend larry king. Cnn washington corr
the country deserves to have a smooth transition and he ensured that to be the case. donald trump, i mean, you can t out nixon nixon very easily, but donald trump has. jennifer, according to the washington post, doug ducey said he is surprised he has not been counted by the special counsel jack smith. if that is the case, if smith hasn t confident him, can you explain that? i m at little surprised, to. previously it was reported that i had spoken. but apparently the content of the composition hasn t come out. it would be more surprising if now jack smith doesn t try to talk to doug ducey at this time, but it is true that they have been, from the very beginning, and this has changed in the last couple of months, we are a little bit behind the curve, doj lit georgia first in their investigation, they lit the january 6th committee go first with the broader plot. so before jacks mitt came in, there was a little bit of a lackadaisical attitude, it seems, which i think now has finally be
i will win again. i ve got less than 30 seconds left, very quickly, your advice to someone who is watching, a kid perhaps who hasn t come out, yet doesn t feel safe doing so in this moment. very quickly, what would you tell them? the joys of the internet that you can find out information. and they know what we are talking about, they know that we are talking, this whole movement right now against gay people who will end up hurting those who attack. us because the children will learn for themselves what they need to know to progress and thrive. art johnson, josé peña, thank you both so much, there is more american voices after this break. at the top of the, our colorado senator, john had been whooper, talks to talk about the effect to weaken child labor laws. that, and more ahead, on msnbc. that, and more ahead, on msnbc. with 20 grams of protein for muscle health