training status of their personnel or command and control, there is a whole plethora of kinds of information pertaining to a nuclear offense or defense that could be revealed or information could be inferred by exposure of these documents. this is obviously very valuable top secret information. but what is the value of this top secret information to another country? because, you know, only a certain number of countries have nuclear capabilities. well, that s right. it is a fairly small club of nine or ten, depending on if you include north korea or not, i guess. and as i say, this goes to the very core of our nation s existence. and that is why nations pursue and acquire nuclear weapons. it s why we did. it s why russia has and china. it s why north korea has, because it gets to the very existence and how they deter foreign attacks. and so, this in turn is, as i say, the holiest of holy s of secrets. which nation strived very hard to protect and restrict access to, as we
and, or, importantly, the obverse of that is that it could also indicate what we do not know about a foreign nation. which could give them some form of reassurance, particularly if it s an adversary. so, nuclear capabilities, number of weapons, how many are on alert, maintenance status, training status of their personnel or command and control, there is a whole plethora of kinds of information pertaining to a nuclear offense or defense that could be revealed or information could be inferred by exposure of these documents. this is obviously very valuable top secret information. but what is the value of this top secret information to another country? because, you know, only a certain number of countries have nuclear capabilities. well, that s right. it is a fairly small club of nine or ten, depending on if you include north korea or not, i guess. and as i say, this goes to the very core of our nation s existence. and that is why nations pursue and acquire nuclear weapons. i
for the first time in more than 100 years in more than a century an official in the united states has been barred from holding office and barred under the constitution s ban for insurrections. the founder of the cowboys for trump, roy griffin to be removed from his position as county commission, he s been convicted of participating in the january 6th riot. the court concluded that january 6th, 2021, mr. griffin became disqualified under section 3 of the 14th amendment from serving. accord together the department of justice, griffin was there on the capitol steps, well within the restricted area on january 6th when he made this video. the people have shown that they ve had enough. the people are ready for fair and legal elections, or this is what you re going to get. you re going to get more of it. this is what you re going to get and you re going to get more of it. this is, though, a history making decision by this judge. the last time a public official was removed ba
i m jose diaz-balart. president biden addressing president putin s state of mind saying he completely misjudged his invasion of ukraine. plus we ll play for you what the president says about whether he thinks putin will use nuclear weapons. president biden also vowing consequences for saudi arabia after opec nations announced major oil production cuts. we ll be speaking with congressman khann, a about that. and we have an nbc news exclusive. pennsylvania senate candidate john fetterman giving an in-person interview for the first time since suffering a stroke in may. what we learned about his health and why he needs to use closed captioning. plus health officials are closely watching omicron sub variants as the white house pushes to get more people boosted heading into winter. dr. jha will be with us live. s. we begin this hour with a very latest on the war in ukraine, where we are following multiple new developments. right now, the united nations general assembly is hosti
witnesses from a criminal grand jury. and hurricane fiona takes aim at canada while another storm takes forms and could be headed for the united states. welcome to the lead, i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this day. we stop with a secret court battle be waged by donald trump s lawyers. sources are saying the attorneys for the former president are fighting to keep witnesses from testifying before a federal grand jury about trump s te tee attempts to overturn the election. our reporters, evan and caitlin, broke this story today. tell us more about this legal fight. what exactly are trump s lawyers arguing here? because it s secret right now, we don t know exactly what they re going to be arguing, but it is a fight that is before a judge in the federal court in d.c. it is because there are grand jury proceedings where they re trying to get information close to trump, things that happened in the white house, say, on january 6th or before them, maybe things that att