two women ukrainian soldiers who are on the front line at the combat zone. good day. i m andrea mitchell in new york. a major win for the justice department last night after a appeals court ruled that president trump has no claim to the documents seized at mar-a-lago. two trump appointed judges and one obama appointee said that he had no claim to those documents clearing way for the investigation into the former president. trump on fox last night seemed that somehow he could magically declassify a document by thinking about it. as i understand it, it doesn t have to be, if you are the president of the united states, you can declassify by saying that it is declassified even by thinking about it. it does not have to be a process, and there can be a process and there doesn t have to be, but when you send it, it is declassified, and so i declassified everything. all of this after another stunning legal blow to former president, and another $250 million lawsuit brought again
got it back. and our nbc news exclusive inside nasa s historic apollo mission control as america prepares to return to the moon this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we are literally reading between the lines. the heavily redacted copy of the fbi s mar-a-lago search affidavit made public today, describing the whats but not the whos surrounding classified materials that were removed from the white house and taken to former president trump s florida estate, along with details of the fbi s month s long efforts to recover them and even references to information provided by a significant number of civilian witnesses. in its warrant application, the government saying it believed there were contraband, proofs of crime or other items illegally possessed at the trump estate after the fbi said after 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives earlier this year, it discovered 184 classified items, including 25 top secret documents peter alexander has m
four young children. our troops called him frank to preserve his identity. he worked as a translator for 12 years. had a state department badge. it took him nearly that year to get out. listen to him describing the journey, including a close call with the taliban. they stopped my car and said do you know frank? tell him, yes, i know him. i had no options. i told him this is his house. and sometimes he s going to the judgment and sometimes he s going to the cafe. then he said, thank you so much. get lost. doing that again would be easy for me because now i feel my family is safe here. but if i anticipated in that 12 years ago, i would never. we shot him in shadow because he still has relatives under threat from the taliban because of his work for 12 years. what can we do for theme these
desperate to escape in the final days of the withdrawal, people clinging to the wheels of a c-17 on the runway at the kabul airport and then the suicide bombing at the gate killing 13 u.s. troops, 11 marines, a soldier and a sailor also dead 170 afghan civilians. thousands of afghans got out, but tens of thousands more who worked for the u.s. and their families were left behind under taliban threat how did you feel when that last plane left and you hadn t gotten you and your family on heartbroken. reporter: we re hiding his face because this man still has relatives back home where he worked as the military as a translator for 12 years. was eligible for a special visa and had a state department badge. when i got to the airport, i showed my passport i showed my badge. they didn t accept they said no i was so close to burn the badge and just go to the taliban and tell them i was doing this
news a head of my competiters. i want report a head of my competiters on initiatives and shifts in u.s. policy and intelligence on the crime. if that is a crime, i don t know what is left to be protected by the first amendment if that is in furtherness. rosen has criminal written all over him. when you were the managing editer you would have had him in the news gathering and trying to beat your competiters. we did a to rough background check on him and he was clean. all of this was to do what they did do, the thing that is most disturbing is not the fact they tracked his movements by using the state department badge. they presumably looked at it and all of this what the source was doing. that is in their purview.