here. stick around to see meaningful space speak mode to learn everything you need to know about the artemis 1 launch. then, for decades, the antiabortion movement had most of us convinced we were living in a so-called pro-life country. let s just marketing. a fall, overall americans are learning the truth about abortion. spoiler, alert abortion rights are popular. how we got to where we are and what it means for this year s elections, ahead. velshi starts now. good morning, it is sunday august 29th. i am ali velshi. for about a full year after donald trump left the white house, 184 unique classified documents totaling more than 700 pages of valuable intelligence reflectivity u.s. government was sitting at his palm beach resort in mar-a-lago. that batch was recovered in january of this year. since, then the national archives in the justice department have received even more classified material from trump this state. including, during a search of mar-a-lago three weeks ago. so
as trump ally push to release surveillance of the search. and mike pence today doubling down on defending the fbi. the emotional day in court. vanessa bryant, the wife of kobe bryant, breaking down on stand, describing her pain after first responders leaked photos of the helicopter crash that killed the nba legend and their daughter. reporter: after a summer of travel chaos, the department of transportation cracking down. our exclusive with secretary pete buttigieg, the ultimatum he s giving the airlines ahead of labor day. danger in the water. two shark attacks at the same beach on the same day. and uniting for ukraine. the music with a message inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we are reminded again tonight just how high the stakes are in the war in ukraine as focus turns to the state of the ukrainian nuclear power plant now in the hands of russian forces. ukraine official making some pretty disturbing claims
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trump s legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news that the investigation is related to the transfer of class fy classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago when trump left office, in february it was reported that 15 boxes were taken improperly to the president s estate. and at the time, the department of justice was asked to investigate. a source familiar with the investigation tells nbc news that boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. the for
attested to the fbi that all the records that he had were being kept in a storage room in mar-a-lago. now ourably the most alarming detail in this newly released inventory list. a box found in his office contains, quote, 43 empty folders with classified banners raising big questions about what happened to the classified documents that were at one time inside those folders. in a notice filed with the inventory the justice department says it has already reviewed every item. they add this, quote, all evidence pertaining to the seized items including, but not limited to the nature and manner in which they were stored as well as any evidence with respect to particular documents or items of interest will inform the government s investigation. another key focus today of the investigation how these records which include more than 10,000 non-classified government documents ended up at mar-a-lago, and why these particular records were kept by trump. some of them for more than a year an
foreign minister sergey lavrov, urging russia to accept the deal to release americans brittney griner and paul whelan. and tonight, how the white house is responding to a new prisoner swap idea from a russian official. back here at home, pfizer and moderna reformulating their covid vaccines, targeting the highly transmissible omicron subvariants. the biden administration securing millions of doses which could be available in september. what we re learning about when adults under 50 could get their next booster shot. actor will smith breaking his silence, speaking on camera for the first time about slapping chris rock in front of the world on oscar night. there is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave. former president trump igniting a new firestorm. 9/11 families protesting his hosting of a saudi-backed tournament at his golf club in bedminster, new jersey, and his claim that, quote, nobody s gotten to the bottom of 9/11. and the mega millions j