every minutes. exactly that. so who are the people in charge of them in the white house that ever let them out the door? donald trump wouldn t know where to find them or how to read them? yeah we re learning of course as we ve learned over the last four or five years, stephanie, the rules seem to have not applied to donald trump. so even in office, we see reporting, from multiple outlets that he would occasionally, or actually more than occasionally 15 boxes perhaps, stuff things in his hope, go stairs to the residents, kash patel claims there s a standing order whenever he left the oval residence, everything was declassify s i don t buy that of course i don t buy that particularly where nuclear material is concerned. i think we may be talking about things that fall under the atomic energy act, which i don t believe he has any authority to declassify. but the rules seem not to have applied, that s part of the damage and risk assessment that the dni has been permitted to conduct by ju
0 what s the next step? tonight, documents at visit findahandspecialist.com today to get started. mar-a-lago included information on a foreign country s nuclear weapons, so says breaking news from the washington post. only the president and a few others would ever be able to see these documents. damage to national security could be severe. then, nbc news reports on a scandal. millions of dollars in federal tax money intended to help poor people, re-directed to fund speeches by a former football star. those speeches never even happened. plus, an emotional day in uvalde, texas, as students return to school for the first time since the massacre, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin with major breaking news in the justice departments investigation into those documents seized at former presidents florida club. the washington post reports, they included highly classified information about a foreign government s nuclear
he says he s finding a solution. he ll say this is the art of successful negotiation but clearly is reversing course from the rhetoric he was in. when it comes to russia we saw him in helsinki side with vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence community. it caused complete havoc inside the white house because of the back slash they were receiving. what does he do? he gets back home. he s sitting there with scripted copy saying i meant to say why wouldn t it have been russia that was in charge of the meddling. he thought that clarified everything. i m not sure that it did, actually, brooke. there are a lot of questions still. the president tried to clarify it and then finally he issues this surprise announcement, blind sides his director of national intelligence, dan coates, that he has invited
reporter: this was his doing. this started at the beginning of a conversation when he called putin to congratulate him and used that word congratulate him when his advisers asked him not to. he wanted to have a one-on-one meeting. his advisers were saying that he wanted to have a meeting like his with kim jong-un last month in singapore. one key difference, vladimir putin has been around the block with four american presidents, 18 years, two decades of this. he was not the new kid on the block today. this summit was done on putin time. he made the president wait. he controlled this entire event today. erin, it seemed to show. all right. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. we re going to have much more on that, by the way, putin showing up 40 minutes late and more on that in just a moment. there is, though, more breaking news this hour as the president codesies to putin and enrages his intelligence chiefs in his own party. the justice department charging a russian national tonight
president be as o to sell out his own justice department, his own law enforcement, his own national defense director, dni, it is embarrassing by name. by name. dan coats. he is taking vladimir putin s word over his own director of national intelligence. that is an abdication of responsibility. julie, in that interview putin also came out and dismissed the criticism against trump. let me just play that clip. why did we talk about, like, polite people? why should this come as a surprise? was it worth going all the way to helsinki, going through the atlantic to just insult one another and well, it s not exactly the diplomatic standard in the world. i mean, julie, defending president trump and, of course, you know, also admitting in the press conference, right, that he did want trump to win. he seemed eager to defend trump.