welcome to in inside politics. i m john king in washington. releasing right now, a brand new snapshot of the republican presidential race. our new poll finds donald trump up big, but it s an important but. voters say they are open to supp supporting ron desantis, who presses the start button on his campaign tonight. the former lawyers want an audience with the attorney general to complain about the special counsel and his investigation. and just moments ago, the house speaker saud he s sending negotiators to the white house. he insists he s conceded a lot. this happening as they pull back the curtain on how the former chief of staff is steering hard right conservatives in this fight over whether they pay their bills. we begin with a big day in the republican 2024 nomination chase. the florida governor ron desantis officially enters the fray tonight. anunsing his run in a conversation with the elon musk. it s a big play on the social media platform critical to donald trump
moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates aren t exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that country s south. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 30th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recovered during the fbi search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort potentially contain attorney-client privileged information. according to a court filing yesterday, the team used by the justice department has finished its examination of the possibly privileged documents, sorting through them and reviewing any material that could be part of congressional investigators and it would undermine trump s efforts to have a special master over the files. over the weekend a federal judge i
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today. we don t know the timing. that s what i m trying to say here. we do know it s expect
i would suspect there is more than one person involved in this. based on the law enforcement response that i saw that look like they had prepared to engage in more than one suspect at a time. molly: christina pullman as the latest on this case, christina. moment we learn disturbing details of investigation newly released desk rest affidavit on the case but here s what we know now. memphis police say the abduction of transport was violent and caught on surveillance video early friday morning for police believe the suspect 34-year-old rust and forced her into a black gmc terrain and there appears to be a struggle. several witnesses including his own brother reported he tried to clean out his suv floor cleaner and wash his clothes in the house sink. investigators believe cleotha abston was try to clean up blood out of his suv and fletcher was seriously injured in the attack. cleotha abston try to get away from u.s. marshals yesterday found him in his suv. but he was taken in
astonishing. it s unprecedented. but don t take my word for it. listen to the former attorney general, bill barr, who was on fox news today. that s right, fox. let me just say, i think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. well, it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? you know, they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that, they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. so, you know, how long do they wait? i mean, that s a good question. and it s probably one that was asked before they went for that search warrant. and also found in the search of mar-a-lago, dozens of empty folders with classified bands. that s right, e