0 that was mitch mcconnell last year and now mitch mcconnell is publicly pessimistic about republicans winning the senate because too many republican candidates support donald trump s attack on our democracy. that is tonight s last word 11th hour stephanie ruhle starts now. more than 300 classified documents at mar-a-lago. that is the breaking news from the new york times tonight. and the former president sues the department of justice for the mar-a-lago search. some of the presidents legal arguments likely questionable. and bill barr cleared president trump in the russia probe. now a federal probe says there was more to this that story. and there s more signs of known for democrats who heading into the midterms they re getting help from a one time adversary. the desantis dogma as he misquotes a bible gets underway on this monday night. good evening i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we have breaking news tonight the may offer new clues as to why the justice department moved
i think the muelle investigation is exactly what happened. i do think they already investigated the russians. you voted against it. there is consensus nato served in stabilizing europe which has prevented the united states to need to take military action and to check russian aggression. russia has continued in georgia.
but i can tell you at nbc news, we have a big team that will be ready to go on this. we expect it to go out to the public in the amp. and we will be going through every page of this report. it s going to be long. and a half. on this for a year and it s known that it could be pretty hard on james comey, especially focusing in on those decisions that you laid out, brian, to go public with his decision to not refer hillary clinton for charges in july of 2016, but them to reopen that investigation in october. and thenloset again just days before the election. they ll be looking into those decisions, and whether or not he may have been in violati something like the hatch act that prohibits government employees, particularly those in federal law enforcement from making any kind of statement, putting their thumbs on the scale in an election like this. i always ask you about what stage we re at in the muelle investigation. do you have any reaction or reporting having to do with the
press published scary details on the attacks. let me read to you straight from the a.p. story. yet, the blaring grinding noise jolted the american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. he moved just a few feet and there was silence. quote he climbed back into bed, the agonizing sound hit him again. it was as if he walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. quote in several episodes recounted by u.s. officials, victims knew it was happening in realtime and strong indications of a sonic attack. we really don t know what is going on. there is an aggressive investigation underway but offered no more information than a month ago. the state department s most recent line is the reality is we don t know who or what has caused this. we also now know the state department is not responding to the cuban government when they have been offering to buy latterly investigate what is
russian sanctions during the transition. despite the fact he said it very solemnly solemnly, that was not true and insisted, insisted there were no contacts at all between the trump campaign and russian officials during the campaign. that of course, was not true, either. vice president mike pence insisted that james comey was fired as fbi tie recolledirectof an internal process. had nothing at all to do with the white house s needs or desires and president s feelings about the russia investigation. although, that s what mike pence told the american people about the firing of james comey. we now know president trump gave pence a letter that outlined his rational for wanting to fire james comey the day before the department of justice ever produced their rational. so, mike pence s comey firing explanation was not only not true, we can tell based on the