that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant
. ,. ,. . . ,,,,,. ,. . ,,,,. . . ,. ,,, such an assault could only take place in broken third world country. sadly americas, now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. they even broke into my safe! what is the difference between this and watergate, or operatives broke into the democratic national committee? here in reverse, democrats broke into the home of the 45th president of the united states. as you just heard, trump himself admitted that he is corroborating with the relevant government agencies in this investigation. the ex president, right about one thing. this is a truly unprecedented event. ken delaney justice and news correspondent. he joins me now. this is developing story. what more do we? no elissa, we have new reporting in from my colleague colleague anna who was told by a source familiar with the matter saying that the president is in new york city today. he was not present for the search. secondly, she has learned that the fbi not
appointed christopher wray, before they got the okay from a federal judge. because of that, it certainly feels like we re on the cusp of something big. what that something is is unclear. is it a criminal indictment? legal experts say it is way too soon to say. is it a reinvigoration of president trump s political possibilities in 2024. there was a new york time polling that suggested that half of republican voters wanted someone else to run for president. someone new. is it the start of a series of wrenching politically motivated house investigations into the doj and the fbi? house republicans are promising it will be if they regain control in november. or is it the start of something ugly. something violent. in the hours after the news broke online, searches for civil war spiked. it could be all of these things and it could be none of these things. so let us sort out what we can. joining us now is nbc news correspondent vaughan hillyard who is across the lagoon in west palm
treat victims compared it to those sustained in a war zone. we heard gunshots people thought for five seconds that it was fireworks until people started screaming bodies down, bodies down and everyone started running. there were six people who i saw who were horribly, horribly injured from the gun shot, and the gunshot wounds that these people sustained are like war injuries. i ve never served, but i ve been in the emergency rooms and i ve seen horrific things. the bodies that i saw it was not an image that anyone who is not a physician would have an easy time processing. let s bring in nbc news correspondent rehema ellis who has been covering this story for us. rehema, what is the latest on the ground? the very latest on the ground is they are engaged in an intense man hunt for this suspect. hundreds of officers are blanketing the area trying to find the person responsible for this mayhem. authorities say that local, state and federal authorities are all working toge
banning sales of new gas powered cars by 2035. how that will work ahead. we begin this morning with our top story. at any moment a redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the fbi s august 8th search at former president trump s florida home will be unsealed to the american public. the new york times summarized the ruling as a significant legal mile post in an investigation that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to mr. trump, whose lawyers offered a confused and at times stumbling response. the judge s order to release the document comes after the doj submitted its proposed redactions in an effort to protect the safety and privacy of witnesses in the on going investigation. the doj has noon 9:00 eastern, noon pacific to unseal it. the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents, some labeled top secret. trump said he s as innocent as a person can be and slammed it as politically motivated. joining us is ken, phil rutter, deputy national editor and msnbc politic