recounted to me, he touched his clavicle. plus the voter fraud stunt that is quickly imploding on the governor from florida what the governor is mississippi is ordering citizens not to order the water in the state capital. the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets and to meet other critical needs. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today president biden was in pennsylvania and in thursday s primetime speech to the public in what he is calling the continued battle for the soul of the nation. looks like he will be carrying that speech live right here in this hour. the address will take place in front of philadelphia s independence national historic park, a district that contains the liberty bell as well as independents all were both the declaration of independence and u.s. constitution were signed. the fitting location for the speech which will focus on the future of american democracy, and the acut
final tournament ever. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening those boxes of materials the fbi recovered from mar-a-lago are drawing broad scrutiny both inside and outside the government tonight for items that may not belong, as well as for signs of damage to national security. president trump s lawyers have asked a judge for a set of independent eyes, what s called a special master, to sift through the seized items government lawyers responded today, saying they have already reviewed the materials and separated out items that potentially contain attorney/client privileged information. a judge may decide if it s enough this week. but also tonight, the director of national intelligence has ordered a separate examination of the items identified as classified to determine what damage may have been inflicted by how they were stored and handled. it s where we start tonight with kelly o donnell. reporter: tonight, measuring the mar-a-lago search f
it says a filter team has already gone through the documents and pulled the ones that could potentially contain privileged information. and it says doj has already given back the private documents that are not a part of the investigation like the expired passports swept up in the shirt. legal analysts argue there isn t a need for a special master here. donald trump is not a lawyer. so discovering attorney-client privileged material is not an acute danger. donald trump is not the president of the united states any more, so economic tough privilege does not apply. and the volume of material all things considered isn t overly large for jauj to review themselves. still, judge cannon did wright she had a preliminary intent to grant trump s request. the question is both why and what will happen next if she does? so, as we await that unusual 40-page response from doj, let us understand the variables. julia ainsley, our homeland security correspondent, has also done extensive coverag
toward a civil war. president biden, meanwhile, is expected to address the threat of political violence head on as he hits the road today. the white house says the president will call out the far right for its dangerous rhetoric and challenge the republican claim that it is the party of law and order. we re also following major developments out of ukraine, where officials in kyiv say russian forces are in retreat as ukraine launches a counteroffensive in the south. president zelenskyy says, quote, we will chase them to the border. major news out of ukraine. we ll get to that in a moment. boy, it really is something. and you look at the poll numbers. first of all, fascinating it is joe biden s poll numbers that go up, willie, as democrats seem to be doing far better in the midterm elections than expected. the same group of people, donald trump, lindsey graham, those type of people, who challenged the 2020 election, or with lindsey, went back and forth, back and forth, th
as only donald trump can be. donald trump once told the lie that i immediately exposed, which made him immediately tell him to make him stop telling the lie, that he lost hundreds of friends on 9/11. that is possibly the most grotesque lie donald trump has ever told. about himself in a personal way. he lost tons of friends on 9/11. he lost zero friends, zero friends on 9/11. at the end of this hour, you re gonna hear what s 9/11 families are saying about donald trump hosting a saudi financed golf tournament at his golf club. donald trump, taking money from the saudis. and defending 9/11 families in the process. that s in the next hour. as 76 defendant donald trump looks at the final chapter of his life, he knows tonight that he is likely to spend the rest of his life as a defendant. he s already a defendant multiple times in different kinds of civil lawsuits, including, most importantly, and most dangerously, to donald trump, lawsuits brought against defendant trump by capito