another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trump s attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. talk about this letter and what changed between january when some of these docs were recovered to this summer and this past month? just how long the justice department has known that very sensitive, highly classified documents have been stored at mar-a-lago. this letter was written in may, is that the national archives found documents marked sensitive compartmented information and sap, special access programs, among the 15 boxes of documents that trump folks turned over in january whe
statement some lines mentioning that the department has looked into this incident to make sure they are prepared for this and i should also add, that the special prosecutor who spoke today, peter scandalakis said bronson and rolfe commit nod crimes and acted as reasonable officers would under the facts and circumstances. live for us on that story, thank you very much. here are new developments on the monkeypox emergency with today the u.s. hitting more than 15,000 confirmed cases. this is more than any other country by far. it comes one day after the white house released nearly 2 million monkeypox doses. i want to bring in now the white house national monkeypox response deputy coordinator. thank you for being with us on the show. important story and a big week for us. i m sorry. couldn t hear you, one more time. i was saying hello and checking if you could hear me.