the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they re telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge s jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to spea
thomas webster perhaps going behind bars for any other january 6th defendant. nbc news confirming a court appearance for pat cipollone and pat philbin set to go in front of the grand jury in washington. the mississippi water crisis bad to worse, telling people to shower with their mouths closed. businesses still closed. students still learning remotely. the fema administrator will join us live later in the show about what is being done on the federal level to fix it. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me nbc news correspondent vaughn hill lard in west palm beach, ken dilanian, washington correspondent for the new york times and msnbc contributor charlie savage and former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade is joining us too. vaughn, start with you on the ground there outside the building where all the action is going down. bring us up to speed on what we need to know and what happens next? hallie, i was talking with our colleagues maria and mar
his planned trip to the middle east including saudi arabia. on capitol hill lawmakers are racing to put together a new bill that addresses rising gun violence and pass it all before the july 4th recess. we ll discuss with congressman salud car ba hall. we ll highlight the key races to watch with steve kornacki at the big board. we ll bring you an update on the fight for ukraine s donbas region which ukrainian president zelenskyy says will go down as one of the most brutal battles in and for europe. we begin with the growing unease over the state of the american economy. right now the dow jones industrial average is 141 points 140 points up. you see the index at 30,654. this is one day after it fell nearly 900 points yesterday on worries about inflation and what the federal reserve will do when it comes to interest rates at its next meeting which gets under way today. at the same time the s&p 500 which retirement funds are pegged to entered bear market territory, having
lawrence. good evening, ali. good moving, alex, thank you, and we should talk next week, have a good weekend. sure. well ek have a a washington d.c. appes court issued a stay on a gag order placed on donald trump in the 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith. a three judge panel made up of two trump appointees and a biden appointee scheduled oral arguments on a gag order on november 20th. until then, trump remains free to her verbal attacks against the special counsel and a. federal judge tanya chutkan found that the gag order is necessary because trump s verbal attack on witnesses and others could inspire violence from his supporters, which is exactly what happened on january six. we are so accustomed to following the day-to-day legal action in trump s constant unhinged social media grants about being persecuted by the justice system and biden administration, that we have become numb to just how abnormal this really is. ranting by fringe characters is
maga extremism versus mainstream, or just a record that president biden brought, grew the economy of covid, being strong in the world, and bringing decency back. at the end of the day, it will be a head to head contest, and we need to inspire young people, gen z and millennials, bringing them up to the levels that they re at in 22 and 20, and when. confidence begets confidence. pessimism but has pessimism. we had a big sure that we are the right side of this. congressman eric swalwell, the optimism for the end of the week. thank you, sir. that is our show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. good evening, ali. good moving, alex, thank you, and we should talk next week, have a good weekend. sure. well a washington d. c. appeals court issued a stay on a gag order placed on donald trump in the 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith. a three judge panel made up of two trump appointees and a biden appointee schedul