now impacting the federal investigation into classified materials. seized from mar-a-lago last month. a trump appointed florida judge ruling in favor this week on his legal team s request for an independent, special master to review just what the fbi retrieved. and now that relationship between the judge and maga is under a spotlight. while the justice department prepares to appeal the decision. of, course we will be looking at all of that. along with the investigations impact on midterms less than eight weeks away. that is tonight on politicsnation. plus, as memorials for queen elizabeth continue and england this weekend, i will talk to a block british civil rights activists. about what the queens deaf means for a black countries, that gained independence from britain while she was on the throne. what is her legacy to the black and what does the future of britain literally look like? i will ask that shortly. but first, let s go to london, england for a quick update on the
other militaries could exploit the security vacuum to stage their own jailbreak. that is what people in iraq and jordan and all throughout the region is the caliphate reconstitutesing itself. well, that is not sounding sexist, matt, but realist, and thank you for the assessment. we go do hans nichols, and we know that the president is monitoring this situation, but what is he saying about all of this? well, last night he gave the explanation of why he is withdrawing the troops and why he wanted to get back to the middle east and going back to the core campaign promises. this morning we are hearing two things from the administration, an articulation and enunciation of the new policy in syria, and esper said they are withdrawing from north syria, and also a justification for the old policy, and that is that you had a ribbon of u.s. troops along the northern border of syria and
border, and hundreds are escaping under similar circumstances. hans nichols and matt bradley is standing by. matt bradley in irbil capital of curd sta kurdistan, and what more are you learning about the isis prison breakouts? well, there is something like 750 to 900 women and children mostly, alex, who have managed to make some kind of jailbreak from what is one of the major camps holding them up in the northeastern syria. this is troubling for a lot of reason, because it is going to put pay to all of the critics of the drutrump administration say this is what is going to happen. and the isis and some 12,000 hardened jihadis held in camps throughout northern syria, and along with some 58,000 family members who escaped today that are threatening to possibly
that the attack took place in three locations within the synagogue that s just one block behind me here in squirrel hill, in pittsburgh, of pennsylvania. some more detail on the man who conducted this, on robert bowers. there have been two searches. one underway this morning of the suspect s vehicle. another took place last night in baldwin, pennsylvania, of the suspect s apartment. we heard there from the head of public safety for pittsburgh that the suspect is still in the hospital, under guard. he is in critical condition. nbc s matt bradley is standing by. he s at a hospital here in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. cal perry is with me, as well. he s in new york moderating the digital footprint that was left behind by the gunman, by the defendant named in that criminal complaint. matt, let me turn to you, first. just get your reaction from what we heard there from those members of law enforcement and the medical examiner, as well. the detail that we got here over these last few minutes.
and a lot of the medical people that we ve been talking to said that they re learning lessons from that war. and i spoke with the head trauma doctor here at pittsburgh medical center. and listen to what he had to sa say. not sure that we have that tape, matt. reporter: okay, anyway, the we re hearing again, this was a really interesting press conference. we heard that this assailant, david bowers, not only did he have that ar-15 rifle, he had three glock handguns. and the medical staff that we were talking to said that these massive weapons, because of the velocity of the bullets, the size of the cartridges, they had terrible wounds inflicted on these victims. david? and matt bradley, the medical examiner there declining to qualify how many of those shells they found in the synagogue behind me yesterday. let me turn to cal perry now. i was struck by something the u.s. attorney, scott brady, said