Along with a powerful and heartwarming stadium tradition. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening im tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that Breaking News on this labor day. The Surprise Holiday Ruling a judge handing former President Trump a legal victory, appointing whats called a Special Master to oversee the documents seized from his home that ruling essentially removing the files from the Justice Departments possession the move could slow down any further investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents. The doj now has to decide whether it wants to fight that decision and it comes as mr. Trump blasts the fbi in his first rally since the search for his part President Biden was on the Campaign Trail today as both ramp up their roles in the final sprint to the midterm elections. Kelly odonnell starts us off tonight reporter tonight the criminal investigation into those classified documents found at maralago is tempo
which hasn t seen this type of attack since the early stages of the war. civilians were forced to move underground of local subway stations as they await incoming strikes. kyiv s mayor says there will be emergency power outages across the city. russia s vladimir putin says this morning s barrage was direct retaliation for that attack on a critical bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. putin blaming ukraine for the aing ta. ukraine has not taken responsibility. this morning, president zelenskyy saying russia is trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. the general assembly will begin over the illegal annexation over ukrainian territories. caliperry live in kyiv, general mcofry. cal. let me start with you. it was a very, very intense couple of hours. what s the latest on the ground there? reporter: so it was the height of rush hour. 8:15 in the morning, eight hours ago, when we heard a series of explosions. you couldn t mistake them for anything
along with a powerful and heartwarming stadium tradition. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that breaking news on this labor day. the surprise holiday ruling a judge handing former president trump a legal victory, appointing what s called a special master to oversee the documents seized from his home that ruling essentially removing the files from the justice department s possession the move could slow down any further investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents. the doj now has to decide whether it wants to fight that decision and it comes as mr. trump blasts the fbi in his first rally since the search for his part president biden was on the campaign trail today as both ramp up their roles in the final sprint to the midterm elections. kelly o donnell starts us off tonight reporter: tonight the criminal investigation into those classified documents fo
contempt of congress charges were politically motivated. proceedings began after the judge denied a defense request for a delay. last week he rejected executive privilege leading one defense attorney to ask, what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses, to which the judge replied, agreed. this is the same steve bannon who promised as he made his first court appearance to make this the misdemeanor from hell. the same steve bannon who as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee expressed contempt for the members and tried to set conditions for his testimony. here is what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a bible that i can take the oath on. deliver that. we will see how good you are, raskin and cheney. serve it up. surprised he isn t speaking about himself in the third person. when people view themselves as important, they reach peak pomposity and do that. to get a subpoena means you appear. there s no optio
believes you have to basically burn the system down to rebuild it and fix it. steve bannon on trial in the first of several major developments this week related to the capitol insurrection. right now the secret service is getting ready to hand over subpoenaed text messages as the january 6th committee gets red for thursday s primetime hearing on the 187 minutes when trump did nothing to quell the violence. in uvalde, texas it was 77 minutes that police, hundreds of them, did nothing has children were being murdered. what a damning report reveals about policing in uvalde and beyond. we begin with a day in court for steve bannonch the right wing podcaster and one-time adviser to the twice-impeached former president. his trial for contempt of congress got under way today. jury selection wrapped just a short time ago after two last-minute attempts by bannon s team to delay the trial, including an offer to testify before the january 1th committee. narrowing the jury pool from