afternoon to you. i m yasmin vossoughian on a very big saturday afternoon. we are following some major breaking news this hour out of memphis. 24 people are dead or as tornadoes ripped through the states. we are live on the ground, a deadly scene in pennsylvania after an explosion at a chocolate factory. we are also following the developments in the strikes and counterstrikes between the u.s. and iranian-backed syria. and, we are just hours away from $1 trump rally in texas. that comes as a potential indictment hangs over his head and it is happening in a place that has become sacred ground for some of the worst extremists in the republican party, more on that. we want to begin in a state of emergency. the tornado break that has killed over 24 people. teams are working to look for survivors across multiple counties devastated. the town is getting particularly hard. dozens of buildings collapsed there. biden releasing a statement saying that he and the first lady are praying f
brian: that s what makes me different. one of the few things. i was known for a while as the sammy davis jr. of news. steve: the candy man? brian: the candy man can. ainsley: chose this song for a whe reason. will 21st floor where many of our offices are. brian: alexa. ainsley: the whole floor was listening to brian s music. alexa started of playing this sound loudly. i left the tv on. evidently i said something similar to alexa. ainsley: is that why it s turning on again? this is his office brian: everybody is going what is with brian? is he on the show? he thought i was blasting in evidently i triggered alexa and i said play freeway to love. big mystery in the 21st floor. steve: what channel was that? brian: our channel while we were talking i triggered alexa and somehow through our interpretation of our conversation. it played aretha franklin s freeway of love. it electrified the 21st floor. ainsley: then i understand when i went up to the 21st floor
here from our nbc team, with the department of justice saying to republicans on the hill, hey, bring it on. the new letter to house oversight. and what it said about any possible cooperate on new congressional investigations. plus the white house going public against a private group who they are now labelling a transnational criminal organization, we ll talk about the sanctions imposed today. and i m hallie jackson and i want to bring in senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell joining us live from outside of the white house. i want to start with you here. and what we ve just heard now, from president biden, as he is casting his eye toward 2024, although with no formal announcement. at least toward the next two years of his presidency. while also having to manage the political footballs that he s got on his plate right now. to mix a metaphor and i m sorry about that. the white house has just released a clip of a conversation between the president and his vp. i want
fellows, i need 11,000 votes, give me a break. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. there s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you ve recalculated. no, i mean, nothing wrong with it if you want to commit a federal crime and state crime. yeah, totally fine. donald trump made that phone call just over two years ago, and he could soon face criminal charges because of it. a special grand jury in georgia sent its final report on the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election to a judge in fulton county. we ll take you through what is next in that probe. also ahead, the department of justice is reviewing classified documents found at a personal office for president joe biden. this discovery appears to be very different from what happened at mar-a-lago. we ll explain. plus, after hundreds i m going to ask jonathan lemire, actually. we re going to go down this
guards will throw them out. i m the president. [ bleep ] you. i m challenging all of it and the judges we re going to are judges i appointed [ bleep ] you. you re not stealing the election. why was he so sure trump was going to lose? and here s roger stone after january 6th on plans for a pardon for himself and for others who were involved in plotting to overturn the election. talk b about how many i think 132 congressmen voted with trump. that s 132 right there. big or small as you want. it s a way of saying this is so you can t run your switch on two. i m going to deal with movie poster, witch hunt 2 with a big picture of merrick garland. has it been pitched to the president? yes, it has. i believe the president s for it. the obstacles are these lily livered, weak kneed bureaucrats in the white house counsel s office and now they must be crushed because they told the president something that s not true. lily livered, weak kneed. in a statement, stone says he t