prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
and we also are learning of chilling new details of alleged plans by members of the oath keepers to prepare for violence in washington on january 6th. a new justice department filing says at least one member of the far right extremist group transported explosives to the dc area and another member had a death list that included the name of a georgia election official and their family member. for more on these stunning new allegations, let s bring back marshall cohen. marshall, what more can you tell us about this court filing? reporter: hey, fred. it was a significant filing from the justice department in what very well might be the most important criminal case that has been brought so far related to january 6th. we re talking about the seditious conspiracy case against several members of the oath keepers, that s the far right extremist group that supported donald trump s efforts to overturn the results and had many of its members storming the capitol that day, on january 6t
what the judge is now saying. our pierre thomas at the courthouse in florid>ideo of a over the orlando airport. a small plane suddenly flying in the path of a passenger jet. two planes just hundreds of feet apart. the quick move to avert a disaster. as millions of americans held out for labor day weekend, the pilot protests at airports around the country. what does it mean for your travel plans? the record heat wave in the west. eight states under heat and fire alerts. california tonight in a state of emergency. and firefighters treated for heat-related injuries. reco rob marciano standing by. the cdc recommending two new boogsers from pfizer and moderna. the vaccines revised to target the omicron strain and subvariants. how long before the new boosters are available? and how to make sure you get the new vaccine. overseas tonight, alarming news and u.n. inspectors reach the nuclear power plant caught in the crossfire between ukraine and russia. the new message just in
diana. the tribute 25 years after her tragic death announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening an otherwise tight-lipped department of justice is speaking loudly through its court filings. overnight shedding glaring new light on its search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and revealing why it believes that trump team has intentionally misled the government about the whereabouts of the items recovered during its search government lawyers releasing a redacted photo showing documents and classified cover sheets they said were recovered in mr. trump s mar-a-lago office. investigators tonight leaning into the possibility there was obstruction of justice the court filing, a response to mr. trump s request for a court ordered independent review of the items, riling up the former president who mocked the fbi and the photo online posting, thought they wanted them kept secret lucky i declassified, a claim that has not been established. k
firefighters that are fighting this blaze and then, of course, battling this heat. we re talking about a country that is not prepared for heat like this. the infrastructure is breaking down in certain locations, we re seeing that, where there s damage to runways at airports, seeing train tracks buckling. remember a lot of people in this country live without air conditioning which is why there s been such a concern for the public s health and safety. you can see people here doing everything they can to try and escape the heat, going to lakes, going to ponds, buying fans. but we know that not everybody is able to afford that and to do that which is why we saw top government officials meeting over the weekend for an emergency meeting to make sure ducks were in a row to care for schools, for example, that are still in session and without air conditioning. the elderly, nursing homes. but this is an issue that we re seeing all across southern europe, this heat wave that is just gri