gone before the grand jury. a dam in ukraine is breached at a key point in the war with accusations flying about who did it and a retired fbi spy catcher, remember s the spy he caught, robert hanssen who sold secrets to moscow and died in prison yesterday. we begin with a previously unknown second grand jury in the documents case and word late today that former trump chief of staff mark meadows has, in fact, testified before a grand jury unclear which one. also unclear when he testified or which line of inquiry the special counsel is pursuing. the documents for january 6th or perhaps both and kaitlan collins is here. what have you learned? a lot of questions about this especially when it comes to the mark meadows investigation, of course, that s or the mark meadows testimony. we knew he was going to have to testify because they subpoenaed him, the trump team tried to fight it citing executive privilege. they lost that, so we knew it was going to happen. we just didn t k
processing another act of political violence in this country. and we still do not know an exact motive. we do not know the power of lies and how they spread in our political discourse. no further than the general sixth attack at the u.s. capitol, that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott cohn. scott, where is the investigation at this hour? and what are you learning about the attacker? reporter: yeah, alicia, this is a widespread investigation. it includes, of course, the san francisco police department and the district attorney. also, the capitol police and the fbi. and a lot of it really focusing on the alleged attacker, david depape, 42 years old, who we know has led an unusual life for certain. and it s culminated in recent months, apparently, with a lot of blog posts and social media posts that are really kind of going through a potpourri of hate, and conspiracy theories and t
planting evidence at mar-a-lago. then, after it was revealed the documents were classified, trump s team said he had taken them home to work on them, falsely claiming that president obama had done the same. then, this third reason why it was okay from trump s team, quote, he had a standing order that documents were moved from the oval office, taken to the residence, were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. former national security adviser john bolton told nbc news this. i think that claim is almost certainly a lie. i was never aware of anything even remotely approximaing that policy and haven t heard anything of it since i left. so i think this is made up. and i think a key point here is when somebody is making up stories like that, i think it indicates a level of desperation. as we try to figure out why and how those classified documents ended up at mar-a-lago, nbc news has uncovered new details about the final days of the trump presidency and the last-
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least three of them were executed, others were imprisoned. and these are not just critical national security resources, our vision into what russian espionage and intelligence is doing but, you know, also human beings. it was quite callous to sell thousands of documents for more than a million dollars but send people to their certain death. eric, based on your time with him, you said he was a narcissist, was that part of the reason he was spying for the soviet union? was it solely about money? did he like the feeling of importance? it was a combination of thing, first of all, he had asked for a transfer to the new york field office which is the most expensive fbi office in terms of quality of life and living on an fbi salary. so he needed money. he was having children. he couldn t support his life. at the same time, he was a disgruntled employee. he wanted to be a field operative. he wanted to do the sort of things i was doing as an fbi ghost undercover chasing targets, using disgu