9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we have a lot to cover this hour including the latest on the investigation into the scores of documents recovered at former president trump s mar-a-lago resort and how the justice departments findings may undercut calls from team trump for an outside evaluation. also why didn t they ask for this a long time ago. this is been going on a long time. i know. also president biden will deliver a prime time address on the continued battle for the soul of the nation. this thursday we ll get a live report from the white house on what is in store. and, has the next race for the white house begins to heat up, author david priess has a reminder, that not everyone needs to run for president. that conversation is ahead. as we talk about joe biden having a speech about the soul of the nation. and we talk about donald trump and overshadowing this and talking about this, this hour, overshadowing are republican senators who are threatening
mar-a-lago home, also a, with the justice department revealing it has now completed the initial review of the documents it recovered. nbc news senior washington correspondent hallie jackson has the latest. reporter: a new phase this morning in the justice department s investigation into classified documents former president trump had at his mar-a-lago home. with doj lawyers confirming they ve done an initial review of what was there and have identified some material that could be considered protected under attorney/client privilege. that could undermine the trump team s request to have a so-called special master do a kind of third-party review of the hundreds of pages of sensitive documents. there is still a need for a judge to get involved on every aspect of this. checking their assertions of privilege but also giving us fair timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was not only essentially morally wrong but legally wrong. reporter: some legal experts
law enforcement community wolves that want to devour americans. it is absolute chaos for the republican party right now and for people like mitch mcconnell, it is all bad news. because he s trying to win elections in the senate. and that is not going to happen as long as this chaos continues. let s bring in right now nyu law prefer and former special council for the department of defense, ryan is a coeditior of the national security online forum just security. would you love to ask you first of all, what do you think about the timing, the belated request for a special master by the trump legal team? so i do this it is part of what you said, that it is a level of incompetence. it is two weeks after the search that they finally got around to filing a motion and it was so bad that federal district judge had to ask them to redo it. so that demonstrated
i m not calling for violence. violence is not the answer. just threatening it could happen. thanks. nbc s hallie jackson with that report. joe, curious, this special master potentially trump s team claiming attorney/client privilege on some of these documents, they had a long time to do this, why now? why now make those claims and it almost seems like possibly they re just trying to slow things down. well there is certainly nothing wrong with a special master to come in, certainly nothing wrong but why now. this is been going on a long time. because donald trump has not surrounded himself with good lawyers. i think early on, in the process, immediately after the search, chances are good somebody from a top flight criminal law firm would immediately call for a special master. they ve given the doj time to
megan fitzgerald has the latest. reporter: this morning, ukrainian troops are on the attack. launching a new counter offensive now underway in the south. a mission to take back the russian occupied region of kherson. which was seized at the start of the war. and new signs the operation may be working. the biden administration said russia is already being forced to redirect troops from the east to try and respond to the attacks. but russia said that the counter attack failed miserably. in his overnight address to the nation, president zelenskyy said we will drive them out to the border. if they want to survive, this is time for the russian military to flee. go home. meanwhile, that urgent mission to prevent a nuclear disaster at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is underway. scientists from the international atomic energy agency arrived in kyiv overnight and are expected at the power plant tomorrow. the agency said that the team will undertake urgent safeguard activities and determine if