tonight, chaos and confusion in russia as the leader of the wagner group accuses the military leadship of doing evil and fabricating the justification for the war in ukraine. what does this apparent escalation of infighting in russia mean for the war, and for putin? mark has been trying to make sense of the chaotic signals from russian media sources. also tonight, remember this? a nation of homeowners will be self reliant, independent and able to do what they want with their own lives in their own homes. 39 years on how s that going? we ll be hearing from ben as thousands who ve just had their mortgages hiked hear they might get some temporary relief from the banks? we ll speak to the ceo of a food distribution charity which is overwhelmed, and the chief economist at bloomberg. and a bit of glastonbury. #my # my bed is made of feathers. five times grammy winner jacob collier makes his glastonbury debut tomorrow, we ll be asking him what s in store. good evening. there are p
particularly on the left. the school board finally deciding to fire pete arredondo. they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 25, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and florida and we could see be learning more about why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the u.s. justice department is facing a noon deadline to finalize their redactions to the affidavit that led to that search. and then a judge will decide what parts of that document should be made public. evan perez explains the process. reporter: we don t know what the judge is going to do. we know he is obviously he knows what is in this affidavit. he is very familiar with it. and he said that he is very comfortable with what he approved. we ll see whether the justice department will at least perhaps unredact some of the things that have
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening there is significant movement to report tonight in the effort to bring home americans brittney griner and paul whelan, both separately imprisoned in russia. late today, secretary of state antony blinken acknowledging there was a substantial proposal on the table to facilitate their release. griner, the wnba star detained since february, who has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil whelan, a marine corps veteran, serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted of spying in 2020. both, the u.s. says, are wrongfully imprisoned blinken says the next step, a call with his russian counterpar sergey lavrov. believed to be on the table, a prisoner swap that could prove to be a bitter pill for the biden administration which has been under fire in its efforts to gain freedom for the americans. all this unfolding as griner told her story today inside a russian courtroom. andrea mitchell now
be the overall law of the land, it protects our individuality, freedom and civil society, in many ways we live in a post constitutional america, those waving the constitution today on january 6 committee have been major participants in its demise. let s say you go to a court of law, there is no judge. there is no jury. you don t have a lawyer. you can t call witnesses. you can t provide exculpatory evidence, you cannot be heard, you have to sit and watch. let s say jury was chosen by nancy pelosi, don t worry it is bipartisan. with 7 democrats, two republicans, the media taking pictures, rolling the cameras, taking notes. as scribes. for the prosecution. the prosecution, being the jury. then reporting, we have new finding, new information. not a perfect parallel, but good enough. that is what has been going on with the january 6 committee, nancy pelosi chose every member, they had to past her test,s which were loyalty to her. nancy pelosi has not been questioned once about he
also been a big story impacting as much as 5 million americans from the canadian border down toward seattle. temps have climbed up close to 90 degrees in the last couple of days. and one more day of it here and then we get more of and onshore component and then it cools off back down to room temperature come friday and saturday. portland going from the 90s to 80s and eventually down to the 70s. so again, a turn for more comfortable weather across that region of the pacific northwest. and we leave you with this, high temps around the u.s. 102 guy n phoenix, atlanta rain cooled 77 degrees. a police chief blamed for fumbling the response to the deadly school shooting in uvalde has been fired. on wednesday the school board voted unanimously to sack its police chief pete arredondo. officials said that he was in charge of the police response during the shooting.