on january 3rd hoping to shoot down trump s plan to replace the acting attorney general with a doj lawyer. cipollone repeatedly warned about the legal pitfalls of trump going to the capitol with his supporters. on january 6th, two sources say he was with trump watching the riot unfold on television. he demanded the chief of staff mark meadows intervene, and the next day the white house counsel told trump to call for the prosecution of the rioters. trump of course never did that, still referring to them as, quote, peaceful. cnn s ryan nobles is on capitol hill. pat cipollone may be the most important witness that has come before the january 6th select committee up until this point, and he spent a lot of time with the committee on friday, gave testimony for more than seven hours, and according to committee sources, they asked him a lot of very specific questions about his view of how the former president conducted himself on january 6th and the decisions that were made on tha
congresswoman cheney is the last of the so-called impeachment ten, those are the ten house republicans who voted to impeach president trump after the insurrection. seven of them have either lost their primaries or chosen not to run for re-election. two of them won, and then there s cheney. you may remember congresswoman cheney was booted from her leadership post in the republican conference more than a year ago after trying to warn the country about the threat she believes donald trump poses to democracy. since then, she s continued to try to sound the alarm and call out her colleagues. to my republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible, there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. none if she manages to pull off a win tonight against her trump backed challenger, hater hageman, she will defy long odds. but cnn learned congresswoman cheney intends to make a speech tonight saying her battle has just begun. she started talking a
welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon law enf
Continues to rail against his indictments and the prosecutors involved in each case. Senate republicans meeting Behind Closed Doors on capitol hill with minority leader Mitch Mcconnells Health Issues in the spotlight. We may expect Mitch Mcconnell will check out for 20 seconds a day. The other 86,380 he does a darn good job. It looks like a neurologic event. It doesnt mean he cant serve. It means that somebody should wake up and say, wow, this looks like a seizure. A report from nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel who is in kyiv where Secretary Of State tony blinken arrived after a surprise overnight trip to meet with president zelenskyy there. Hi, everybody. Andrea is on assignment overseas. We will have more on her reporting in moments. We begin at the Fulton County courthouse where the cameras will be live inside that courtroom during a hearing that could be a major step toward showing us how future cases, including by the way the former president s, is actually going to
On the east coast, 8 00 here in los angeles and this is americas late news fox news and ip are two jordanian nationals tried to breach one of the nations most sensitive Military Bases but getting information from the administration is proving very difficult we are getting startling information about the number of chinese nationals crossing the southern border even some who appeared to be well off thats on top of the exclusive numbers fox news is getting about the number of got a ways who got in under the bite administration. We begin with the Senior National correspondent kevin corke. He is lie with more on the attempted breach at quantico. Quantico as you know is one of the nations most secure and sensitive bases and not only houses the u. S. Marines combat Development Command but also the fbi academy, ncis and various Defence Intelligence agencies. The idea that there was this effort to try to penetrate the campus is certainly noteworthy. Heres what we have confirmed so far. Two jord