ramping up. what our team is just hearing from the doj. plus, in memphis, a sixth officer has been put on leave at the horrific beating and death of tyre nichols, what s happening tonight, what s next in that investigation, and the new development this afternoon on the calls for more accountability on the federal level. we ll take you live to memphis and to capitol hill in just a minute. let s start here in washington. i m hallie jackson, with me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell who s with us. ryan noble, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and julia ainsley is joins us as well. let me start with you, president biden in baltimore, set to take other trips this week, clearly meant to be a run up to the state of the union. he has a lot he wants to sell. he s also got some that s sort of a shadow hanging over him at this point. we mentioned the classified documents investigation. yes, this is the president, at least today, in a very c
criminal defense attorney joey jackson and cai von shroff, who had was a digital organizer for hillary clinton. gentlemen thank you very much for being here. it s been described doug as a split screen day. so first we saw something we ve never seen before. in this country, a former u. s president being arrested and arraigned in a criminal court in manhattan and the hero. here s the split screen. basically, donald trump. in court. there are only still photos because that s all the judge allowed, but he looked deflated. frankly um, he looked sort of hunched. his facial expression was not kind of bright or, you know, ready to fight. um he said, in his own words not guilty, and that s all, he said. but he walked in very slowly to the courthouse, and then he was back in his element on the right side of the screen back at mar-a-lago and back to basically playing the hits. of his grievances and all the ways that he s been wronged. are republicans happy today or nervous today? they r
oh, man he kicked it down now. he kicked it down. there s two of them. there was a shot at that. yeah. they got it. they got it. did you hear the noise? they got it. did you hear that noise? that was a missile. wow. the balloon was first seen last week saturday over alaska, by wednesday it was over montana, by friday over missouri, and yesterday, over the carolinas. defense department officials told nbc news that it clearly crossed over sensitive sites, including military locations. a massive recovery operation is ongoing down here from myrtle beach, involving the navy, coast guard, national guard, and the fbi. in just the last hour, a police spokesperson said they are working to secure the area to help the federal government recover hardware that plunged into the ocean with the balloon deflated. we re preparing for if this washes up anywhere on the coastline in the city. so that s the big reason that we want to, we re speaking on behalf of all of our pa
good evening from washington. i m michael steele in for chris hayes and there s a lot to get to tonight. including some really big developments in the many criminal investigations into donald trump, but i need to start with a question for today s republican party. what the hell is wrong with you? today s house maga republicans took an official party leadership sanctions field trip to visit the january six insurrectionists who they call political prisoners. this is just one step and exposing what s going on, making sure that we have the right information and really listening to our constituents. we hear about the jails regularly when we go back home and the american people are very concerned about some of the folks who are here. so we re listening to them and hear on their behalf. congresswoman, i hate to break it to you, but you don t have the right information. if you think the american people want you to waste your energy on the violent insurrectionists mob. in fact,
that campaigns for equal representation in american politics. hello welcome to the programme. so here we are, election day 2022. post pandemic, postjanuary 6, the first real test of american democracy since that bitterly disputed election two years ago. the polls on the east coast start closing in two hours time. i hope you willjoin katty and i for our special programme through the night as we try and make sense of it all. these mid terms don t always attract the same attention as a presidential election, but early voting broke all records and it does feel more important. there are election deniers on the ballot, candidates refusing to say whether they will accept the results. this will set the stage for 202a. and if democrats lose control of the house or the senate tonight, joe bidens agenda will stall. in the end it will come down to turnout, it always does, and last night the two sides made their last appeal. today we face an inflection point, one of those moments that co